But first, the inbox is bulging this week. Blondi writes in and says, "I can't believe you didn't comment on Shii Ann having the broad part of her oar in her hands, and using the handle to row with!"

Sad In Canada then piles on with: "I think the attitude on Rob M during the yacht reward was flabbergasting, but you didn't write nearly enough on the best part. Perhaps you missed the comment he made to the ship's steward while the clubs were being passed out. It was something along the lines of: 'I'm taking this one 'cause I was the captain of my high school golf team.' He then promptly missed the ball and fell. I was sure you would have a really great smart-assed remark about the connection, but you didn't."

What the heck is wrong with me? I'd better win Immunity this week or y'all might vote me off the Internet. Thanks for writing in and together we'll make sure all the deserved ridicule gets handed out.

On to the new episode. It's Day 20 and we get reactions to Colby's departure. "Ooo, don't I feel silly," Ethan says. He adds that he feels betrayed by Lex.

Rollin' above a river.

Jerri is just beside herself with self-righteous joy. "Yes, I feel like I'm being evil right now," she cackles, "but, boy, does it feel good." She finishes with, "Knock knock--you hear that, Colby? That's the bellboy and he just took all my baggage away." Honey, the entire National Guard would have trouble carting all your baggage.

Mail arrives for Chapera and they have to choose one person to visit Mogo Mogo. No one wants to go because they're afraid they'll have to stay there. They draw straws and the lot falls on Jenna. Tom jokes, "See if Ethan and my alliance are still tight."

Kathy agrees to be Mogo's representative because she knows the other tribe. She probably wishes she will get to stay there.

Jenna arrives on the enemy beach and learns she has to pick three items that will be her tribe's Reward if they win the next Challenge. Kathy has to do the same.

The Challenge is the log roll from a previous season. One Survivor from each side will stand on what looks like a giant toilet paper dispenser suspended above a pool of water. You can't touch the other person, and the first one hit the water loses.

It is revealed Jenna picked Mogo's grill, a bag of rice and the Hawaiian sling (the fishing spear). Ouch. Kathy stayed away from food, chosing a blanket, the parachute from their shelter, and a tarp.

The battles will be within the sexes so Chapera has to sit out one of their extra men, and it's Tom. First team to win five times gets to plunder.

Alicia and Shii Ann start things off and Shii Ann prevails. Rupert vs. Ethan is next. Ethan starts with a side-to-side motion then shifts to running forward to speed up the log. It works and Mogo leads two-nothing.

Jenna beats Kathy to get Chapera on the board. Rob is the aggressor against Lex, keeping the tattooed one on the defensive. Lex eventually takes a rough tumble and we're tied at two.

"It's cool, I'll sit out."

Amber goes to Ethan's run tactic against Jerri and wins. Three straight for Chapera and they're in front!

They re-draw for the second round but it's an Alicia/Shii Ann rematch. Shii Ann starts to move and Alicia falls. Worthless. We're tied at three.

Ethan meets the Robfather in a battle of undefeateds. Rob immediately goes on the offensive and beats Ethan with his own running-man! Chapera is one away from victory.

Amber faces Kathy for the goods. She wastes no time in going to the only move that has worked and Chapera wins again!

That night, Jenna arrives, to collect their prize. Interestingly, she brings them soap, a brush and other toiletries. If they cared so much, why did they let her choose such devastating items? Shii Ann asks if she'll let them scoop out some of the rice before she takes the bag because they lost so much to the mildew. Jenna agrees, saying, "We're not trying to wipe you out." They just want to, you know, wipe them out.

At Chapera, Rupert is ecstatic about the spear. Rob and Amber quietly laugh at him.

Later we hear Amber saying feelings have emerged for Rob. His version? "Amber is slammin'…. Her ass is smokin' too." Such the gentleman. They cuddle and Rob goes in for the kiss. Did someone just switch the channel to Temptation Island? Amber says she feels "99.9% secure" with Rob. He says he wants to get the million and the girl. Will the first Survivor hook-up be followed by the first Survivor break-up?

Day 21 and Rupert and Rob have a chest-beating contest. Rob cracks Tom up with a pretty good impression of Rupert as Blackbeard fishes. "Now that we got the spear we don't need him," Rob says. "I'm not sure we ever did." Rupert comes back with some fish but Rob shows him up by catching even more. Rupert calls him "kind of an arrogant pain in the ass." Maybe you want to turn on the guy who's annoying you this time.

For the Immunity Challenge they have to use a blow-gun then throw a spear at a target to earn arrows for the final round. The winner of each round gets two arrows while the losing tribe only gets one. Alicia sits out, yet again, for Chapera.

To make things tougher, it's raining. Jenna is first with the blow-dart and misses everything. Jerri hits the edge of the target. Amber, Shii Ann and even Rob completely miss. Is there too much wind? Kathy, Rupert and Ethan also miss. Tom is the last one for Chapera, and he misses too! Jerri is the only one to hit the target and she wins two arrows for her tribe.

She's not as lucky with the spear and misses everything. Rupert gets on the edge of the third ring on the target. Shii Ann, Amber and Kathy miss completely. Tom, Ethan, Rob and Lex hit the target, but Rupert's is still the best. Both sides have three arrows for the final.

"Thanks for stinking, Jerri!"

Only one person gets to shoot the arrows for Immunity. Rob obviously gets the call for Chapera versus…Jerri? She says she has experience with a bow. So naturally she completely misses the target on the first try. But, Rob does too. Jerri gets more air on arrow two. Rob hits the edge of the target to put the pressure on Jerri. Her last shot hits nothing and Chapera wins…again.

Back at camp, Jerri apologizes and worries about the vote. Lex pulls her aside and says it's going to be Ethan instead. Yeah, it sure worked out not having Colby today, huh?

Lex tells us he and Ehtan aren't "just acquaintances outside the game, we're good friends." He calls it a handicap in the game. Lex then pulls out one of his old tricks and tells Ethan he's going to vote for him. Ethan is outraged he'd even think about keeping Jerri over him.

Cut to a sped-up shot of a bunch of crabs eating some dead lizard thing. Nice.

Ethan takes his chances with Kathy and said Lex told him he's looking to keep Jerri because she'll do whatever he says. Lex is really, really dumb. Kathy says she won't vote off Lex but tells Ethan she'll consider voting for Jerri and will talk to Shii Ann about it.

To Council we go and Jerri says she volunteered for the final Challenge. Jeff asks Ethan about being the last winner standing and E says he's proud of it. But he adds that the others should keep him around because no one would vote for a winner in the final two. Lex says, if he's on the jury, he would because the winner had to overcome bigger odds to make it that far.

Ethan votes for "Jerry." Lex votes for "EZ" with three horizontal lines for the E. Must be a drummer thing. He says it's easy to win with dignity and now he wants to see if Ethan can lose with dignity, and he throws in a dirty wink. Somebody's not going to get invited over for Thanksgiving dinner.

The ladies are sad.

The tally reads: Ethan, Jerri, Ethan, Ethan. Dang it! Stupid Lex.

What a misfit tribe. I hope they don't bail them out with a merge.

Next time on…Survivor: Chapera is high, Mogo Mogo is low. Everybody expects a merge but Jeff says, "What happens next will turn their worlds upside-down." It looks like a re-draw for new tribes. We see Amber saying she got screwed. So Mogo does get saved one way or the other. Big boo.

To borrow a page from March Madness, let's look at the remaining seeds. The chart reads like this: Previous finish - Original number of players - Number of players left.

1st: 4 - 0
2nd: 1 - 0
3rd: 4 - 2
4th: 2 - 1
5th: 0
6th: 1 - 1
7th: 0
8th: 3 - 3
9th: 1 - 1
10th: 2 - 2

So all the first and second place people are gone, and half of the third and fourth place people have gotten the boot. We figured targeting the people who did well last time would be a possible strategy. Who knew it would be the ONLY strategy. Pretty pathetic. Let's hope with the winners completely gone we can finally get to playing the game in the present.

We don't need any more bitter Survivors. I've got that more than covered here.

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