Recap - Survivor S.19 Ep.05 - Shamwow
By: Rivere Victor Thomas
Original Article
for RealityTVMatrix.com

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Survivor Season 19, Episode 5
"Walking on Thin Ice"
The Take: Russell tries to regain control of Team Foa Foa when a new power player emerges.

Sham-WOW “Shambo”

After being the only one left out of who to vote against last week at Galu’s tribal council “Shambo” (Shannon Waters) is feeling no love from her tribe. Meanwhile on Foa- Foa Elizabeth Kim approaches Russell Hantz [Russell H. -vs- Elizabeth] about having the hidden immunity Idol that Russell Hantz had haphazardly found in a hollowed out tree (see episode 2 recap: Ketchup Sandwiches and Kool-Aid).

Reward Challenge
Giant clam, jelly fish, sea cucumber, octopus, Sea slug guts, sea urchin, Jeff’s choice, and bait fish that’s tasty stuff this stuff was also part of the reward challenge a prize of steak and some other weird looking meat products. Each one of these sponge bob delicacy’s names where on a roulette wheel type device and one player from each team dropped a ball to find out which ingredients went in the blender and down the hatch. First team to five wins you only need to drink your glass of blended nasty and keep from blowing chunks. Ashley Trainer and Dave Ball had the worst concoction sea slug guts I could smell it through the tv smellavision is real. [Shannon vs. Jaison Robinson] giant clam and Jeff’s choice octopus noni juice and sea weed mmmm good. Next up battle of the [Russell H. vs. Russell S.] jelly fish and milk. 3rd round [Brett Clouser vs. Mick Trimming] giant clam and sea cucumber. [Monica Padilla vs. Elizabeth] get some good good sea urchin and sea weed. Last but not least [Dave vs. Ashley] the sea slug guts were too much for Ashley and she blew chunks. Galu wins again and they got to send Shambo to Foa-Foa until the immunity challenge which means no steak for Shambo.

Immunity Challenge
Dave, Shannon Waters and Brett from Galu where left out of the immunity challenge due to the fact that Foa – Foa sucks and only won immunity once. [Laura and Russell S. vs. Russell H. and Ashley] the opposing team needs to fill 4 baskets (being held aloft by a rope held by an opposing team member) with coconuts until they are too heavy for the survivors to hold. Lets cut to the chase: Russell H. wimped out, Elizabeth Kim never quit but her basket got heavier than she was and pulled her out of the safe zone and Team Foa-Foa lost.

Tribal Council:
Back to tribal council where they all voted for Ashley - and we didn’t see it coming because sometimes we need to see the stuff on the cutting room floor to let us try to figure out what might happen.

This Week's Top 3:
Team Galu for winning Immunity! (Immunity)
Dave Ball for lighting Galu's fire! (MVP)
Elizabeth Kim for dodging the bullet at Tribal Council! (Best Dodge)

Next Week:
Medic! Another castaway goes down in what Jeff calls "the scariest moment" he has ever had on the show.