Survivor

Idols, Idols, Everywhere

All Hell Breaks Loose - The merge finally happens and immunity necklaces abound.

Magic!

Houdini Magic - Despite electing Shambo as their new leader and being invisible, Galu continues to dominate. And despite the fact that we have 50% fewer Russells this week, Russell manages to get more camera time than ever.

Russell Dies

This Is The Man Test - No, not that Russell. The other Russell.

When It Rains, It Bores

Walking on Thin Ice - Foa Foa continues to lose, Shambo continues to be ostracized from her tribe, both Russells continue to be insufferable, and it rains so much that the rest of the contestants spend most of the episode huddled together in their shelters.

Meet Galu

Hungry For A Win - Foa Foa wins their first immunity challenge, so we finally get to spend some time the Galu tribe, who are just as good at finding immunity idols and screwing things up as Foa Foa is.

Do The Right Thing

It's Called A Russell Seed - Li'l Russell spends the entire episode trying to convince us of his supreme control over his tribe as he tries to convince them to get rid of Ashley. Instead, they unanimously vote Ben out after Jaison takes a stand against his racist comments.

Arrested Development

Taking Candy From A Baby - Jeffrey Tambor lookalike Mike has to leave the game for medical reasons, Ben is kicked out of a challenge and is almost definitely racist, and Betsy's cop skills can't save her from getting the boot. Apparently there is also a tribe named Galu somewhere around here.

Off To A Bad Start

The Puppet Master - Twenty new contestants arrive in Samoa to play the game, but we only really learn about six of them because a little man named Russell wants to take the show over with his water-dumping, sock-burning, false-Hurricane-Katrina-survival-story-telling ways.

The Real Douche is Probst

Reunion - Sara M recaps as fifteen contestants get three seconds of screen time so that we may spend way too much time with Taj's husband and, of course, Douche, who is not the most hateful person in the room for once. That honor goes to Probst.

Weak

I Trust You But I Trust Me More - Sara M recaps as the eighteenth season comes to a slow but predictable end, with J.T.'s immunity run taking him to a Final Two against Stephen, whose strategic mind finally fails him when he needs it the most.

Yul

Cook Islands Spoilers

Jonathan

Jeff Probst

Season 16: Fans vs. Favorites Spoilers

All-Stars in the Media

Ozzy

Survivor in the Media

Rob M.

13-11: "You're a Rat" 2006.11.30