Can Earl lead his team to another upset win?

Night 27, and Stacy tells Dreamz they voted out Edgardo because they were afraid Alex was feeding Dreamz bad information. Dreamz buys it, even though it doesn’t explain why they didn’t let him in on the fact they were voting for Edgardo.

The Reward Challenge is another group affair. Yau-Man will be shooting balls into the air with a giant slingshot and Boo, Cassandra and Mookie will try to catch them with hand-held baskets. Stacy is the shooter for catchers Dreamz, Earl and Alex.

Boo collapses in agony and says, “I think my ACL is broken!” Then he gets up and keeps playing. The WWE would be proud.

Mookie starts yelling at Yau-Man like a 4th grader to pass him the ball. It’s close till the end but Dreamz snags the game-winner and his team gets a trip to a spa to clean up.

They send Boo to Exile Island. Will they now lose his vote? Boo’s clue (the next great children’s program?) says the Re-Hidden Immunity Idol is in a tree back at camp.

At the spa Alex tries to make new friends but Stacy isn’t buying it. He asks Earl what the voting order will be but he doesn’t give up the info.

Back at camp, Mookie and Alex go through Yau-Man’s bag and find the Idol. They go off to gloat and talk about it, but Cassandra and Stacy are hiding right there! These guys are the kings of stupidity. Moronic monarchs, if you will.

They finally realize they’re being watched so they decide to go and confront Yau-Man right now. They say he either has to tell everyone he has the Idol or they’ll do it.

Yau does go and tell everyone else, but he smoothly emphasizes how the other guys violated his stuff and threatened him with blackmail, so instead of dividing the tribe it brings them together out of sympathy for their teammate.

The Immunity Challenge is a sweet game of Battleship, complete with huge flames. Dreamz has the first shot…and he hits his own “boat.” Cassandra has the second shot, and she does the same thing! Stacy has the last shot of the entire game as she wins Immunity.

Boo tells his alliance that the new Idol is in camp (I guess they didn’t lose his vote) so it’s possible that Mookie and Alex stumbled onto it. This scares them into agreeing to split their vote 3-3 and force a tie. Earl doesn’t like that plan, and neither do I. What if Jeff whips out some crazy tiebreaker that puts someone else at risk?

Alex says he just wants to get another three days so he has to make his one vote count.

At Tribal Council Mookie admits they looked in Yau-Man’s bag for the Idol. Jeff calls that maneuver “snakey and ratty”. Yau-Man says he isn’t concerned because the Idol won’t come into play for another couple rounds. Jeff calls Yau on his boldness.

Mookie votes for Boo, and Alex votes for…Mookie!

The tally reads: Alex, Alex, Mookie, Boo, Mookie, Mookie, Alex and, sure enough, Mookie. Alex is deviously smooth.

Jeff plants the maybe-Alex-is-suddenly-valuable seed and sends them on their way.

Next time on…Survivor: Alex says he’s a ninja, Boo is annoying, and they eat hanging meat without using their hands.

Just to toot my own horn (toot toot!) I knew Alex was going to turn on Mookie as soon as he said the “I have to make my one vote count” line. The funny part is it took a questionable tactic by the majority to make that one vote truly count. Now we’ll see if Alex’s claims of instant karma apply to him.

So what is up with cocky Yau? He’s clearly getting comfortable with his status as he casually shares his strategy at Tribal Council. He’s sure giving the rest of alliance – Earl included – plenty of reason to dump him sooner rather than later.

It doesn’t take a bearded pro basketball player to see that.

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