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For 39 days, 16 castaways were stranded in Asia.  Every 3 days on the island became a 1-hour show.  The first contestant eliminated pockets $2500.  Each successive eliminated contestant wins more money, through the next-to-last Survivor, who receives $100,000.  The final Survivor wins a million dollars!

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Night 21: The Cave Becomes a Full House Minus One.

Waiting for Sook Jai to come back from Tribal, Clay just up and said "There's a lot of tension in that tribe, isn't there?"

Speak of the devil, here comes a Shii Ann-less Sook Jai. Penny tried to bring the tribe together in a healing of sorts. "We are all four and we are all strong. Let's stay together and let's stay true to one another, and just want you to know that I love y'all, and thank you very much for keeping me around." Quite the vulnerable one, isn't she. After all, she was the also-ran in the previous vote. BUT none of that will matter in a moment, as we find out that, as with the previous four chapters of "I'm A Regular American, Get Me Outta Here!", the rest of the players are in the game for the long haul.

Day 22: I guess she has to have bleached dreads, a giant bust, and the name of Ghandia, does she?

The vulnerability continues, as Penny tried her hand with a neutral (for now) opinion from Ted. Apparently it did not go as planned. Ted, having learned from his previous escapade with a woman, wasn't about to fall prey again. "Penny is going out of her way to be super nice to the point where it doesn't feel genuine. It feels fake." Clay, in agreement, added that Penny is a real cutie, but "she thinks her looks and her talent can get her whatever she wants out of men. I am 46 and she ain't getting nothing from me." Personally, I didn't even know that Clay could GIVE anything, but I digress.

Now, imagine for a moment that you were living in a cave, and you really had to go. Where would be the first place to go if you didn't have a bathroom? That's right, wherever you were at the time. Ken, having assumed the odor of it, starts complaining. Well met, as anyone in a med lab can tell you.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the tribes, Helen is telling everyone how she beat Iron Chef Sakai. No, not really, but it looks as if Jake's heard more than one recipe than he needed. "I love every person on the other tribe. It's Helen that drives me crazy! You know I've heard recipes until I am just green in the face."

After she gets into how to boil water, Jake decides that he needs a break. "Yackity yackity yack!" Brian, suffering from "Cave Fever", agrees. "I would just LOVE to talk about the same thing!" They take the outrigger out for a spin. "I'm very careful about what I tell Brian and he's very careful about what he tells me. We're still two different tribes." They try to ferret info from each other, telling the truth when wanted, fudging a bit when needed, and forging an alliance of sorts. "I'm not giving him anything, at least not yet," Brian said.

Night 22: And then you add cocoa.

Jake and Ken talk about what Brian said on the canoe. Ken parted that night with a warning: "Remember, he's a used car salesman. What do they sell? They sell lemons."

Day 23: Tree Mail with a Drowning Green Lady

"How you deal with adversity will show who copes the best.
Anyone can shine when it's easy, but how do you cope with stress?
No physical strength required, or power from your brain.
All you need for this one is the desire to win the game."

Drowning green lady. An endurance test. I suspect a pool is involved...

I-CHALLENGE: Breathing Space

The teams are divided once more and shown this setup: a pool of water with a row of snorkels, not form fitting, mind you, but able to stand the test. And the test is: see if you can hold yourself underwater. Tribal times will be combined. Longest time wins immunity. Penny is up first. Then Ken, Clay, Teddy Bear, Jan, and Erin. If Sook Jai can stay under longer than Chuay Gahn for 16 seconds more, they win. But the last Sook Jai, Jake, rises first, and Brian is notified of the win via Clay. Brian takes the Green Lady for the victorious Chuay Gahn.

The tribesmen return to... dinner being stolen... by Magilla. No bananas, no chicken feed, and no noodles, leaving the players with no other option than to eat the final chicken.

Meanhwile, Jake is berating himself about the challenge. "I feel totally responsible for the fact that we are going back to Tribal Council. I'd rather be out all by myself and ... be pissed off." Erin consoled her teammate, saying that "we knew this day would come, and we knew that we would have to start voting out people that we didn't want to. We have to remain strong in our hearts. Nobody blames you; it's not your fault. We believe in you, okay?"

Mid-afternoon - Day 23.

Brian calls not celebrating a win "a very strange feeling". "We can't fully enjoy our win, because we have you here with us," Ted noticed. Clay, being the blunt man he is, thinks that it's a rather torrid front and "we were all so glad to have won."

The Sook Jais united one more time, saying that they were supposed to be the final four. Well, they are... in a matter of speaking. "Maybe the four of us can sleep together tonight," Penny said. "That sounds almost... erotic," Jake noticed. "No matter what happens, and no matter what it looks like, our team's loyal."

Day (of reckoning) 24

Before killing the chicken, Jake says a few words on Lucky. Ted saw him as a pet. "The Dalai Lama says that this chicken's dharma is to give sustenance to the rest of us," Jake pronounced. Clay said the same words... albeit in Clayglish. "I've been around animals all my life, and I have never seen such a ceremony over killing a damn chicken in my life. Animals were put on this world for us to eat. Kill'em and eat'em. It's not that big of a deal." Jake continued, "We should have a prayer of Thanksgiving upon eating the chicken. So, Lucky, thanks for giving your life." Jan, obviously moved by the whole ordeal, set up a grave for Lucky's head and feet, right next to Oliver the Bat Creature, with an attack power of 1600. That, Lucky's head, and a ritual card, and the Chuay Gahns will be able to summon Lucky the Winged Champion, with an attack power of 2500. But if the Sook Jais draw a Blue Eyes White Dragon, then they'll be able to win this thing (and that, my friends, is your Duel Monsters lesson for the day. Don't bother calling; we're sorry already).

Afterwards, the Sook Jais met one more time to discuss the vote. They decide that they will NOT reveal who's going tonight before the actual vote. All are agreed that this vote will be an excruciatingly difficult one. "I think I'd want to know," says Penny. "I don't know how I'd feel," Erin said. "I would only want to know if we were in agreement," says Ken. Only this much is known: after tonight, there will only be three Sook Jai, as the Chuay Gahns say their goodbyes. "I do feel sad for Sook Jai. After living with them, it is a sad reality that one of them has to go."

Night 24: Tribal Council.

Ken feels more at home with each day that passes. "We're family, and when we leave to compete, we compete." Erin brings up the numbers game. "Now we're the underdogs. They walked us out, told us good luck, and basically told us 'goodbye'." Penny had to learn how things work. "Now we're starting to team up and pair up and we're starting to really get to know them". Erin offers a hollow answer to the question of why she can't be voted out. Jeff suspects Penny to be a threat, as she offers another hollow answer. Jake brings up his water weakness and another hollow answer. Ken, another hollow answer. The loser tonight becomes the first member of the jury that will eventually decide the million dollar winner.

Jake - "You made a great tribemate. You've made a great companion."

Erin - "The competition's beginning to weigh on you."

Both votes are hidden. Here is the final tally:

Erin - KEN
Jake - ERIN
Ken - ERIN
Penny - ERIN

Three is enough. Erin, THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN.