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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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Day 4: Gimme shelter...

One day after a shocker of an Immunity Challenge, and the girls are still with no roof over their heads. What's a girl to do? Sleep on a plank in a poncho, of course. And they'll need it, as there's a cloud in the sky that's ready to let loose with torrential downpours.

And the Jaburu still don't have a plan. Well, except to talk about shelter for either the fire or themselves. And even that is subject to debate once the storm hits.

"We thought we had more time than this to prepare for the rain. We forgot that we are in the middle of the Amazon, and torrential rainstorms come by daily," said a water-logged Shawna.

R-CHALLENGE: Flip Out (for fish bait)

Blindfolded teams of two go out, guided only by the sound of one of their tribesmates. They must search for 30 strips that will eventually form a puzzle. Once all the strips are found, they can remove the blindfolds and work on that puzzle. First team to correctly put the puzzle together wins. Joanna, in all her bombastic glory, calls it for the Jaburu, while Butch calls it for the Tambaqui. There's really no explanation to it. Jaburu was faster and more coordinated to win the bait.

And the next day, they reap the rewards, catching bigger fish. And by bigger, I mean about Game Boy Advanced size, rather than Game Boy cartridge sized.

Night 5: Immunity Idol. Joanna gets to be Simon!

They protect their much-coveted fire, for in the dark, you cannot see the tree in front of your feet. Ow. But enough about that.

As you all know, each Survivor series has at least one person of greater-than-usual faith, all except for the last one in Thailand. Joanna more than makes up for it in her disgust over the Mr. Ugly. "Put that idol over there. I'm not touching it," Joanna says in bed (this could be a problem if we have that challenge come up again. "Joanna doesn't like the Immunity Idol because she thinks that it is an idol, and idols are forbidden via the Ten Commandments. 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.' She doesn't want it in the camp AT ALL, didn't want to touch it, didn't want to hold it, didn't want anything to do with it," Jeanne notes. Joanna's rebuttal, aside from proposing a name change to symbol rather than idol: "Some people worship Buddha or whatever, I worship (God, as Joanna puts it), and He despises idol worship. If you read the Old Testament, they got struck down. That's why we got rained on last night!"

Day 6: Immunity Idol: The results show.

Because she is deaf, Christy's communication is severely hampered by nightfall, so she gets the 411 from Jeanne. "I just wanna let you know that Joanna is not excited about the Idol." Quoth Christy: "Well that's stupid!" What starts as a difference of opinions continues as a shouting match and ends with the hand. Here at GSNN, and as a public service to the community, we will take the universal meaning of when someone puts the hand in your face, that's a diss. Christy says, "When someone puts their hand in my face, that really pisses me off! Man, if you are a vessel of Christ, don't you think you need to be a little nicer or a little kinder?"

Later that day: It's a ten letter word. The clue is "against the group"... CONTRABAND!

And somewhere along the whole drama, an even more pressing issue is at hands. In the Jaburu box o'fun, there's a granola bar.

Jeanne, who's looking more and more like the antagonist of the series, notices it and starts telling anyone within the sound of her own voice. In equal fashion, she tries to snuff out Janet as the culprit (by now, no one is saying anything to defend her or confessing to bringing the offending bar), saying, simply... "I don't like cheaters." So another spectacle is made as the granola bar is fuel to a fire of a different ilk. The one that's under the tribal pot.

And after all this, there's mail:

"What will you remember?
For Immunity, absorb it all!
The only things that matter
Are things you can recall".

I-CHALLENGE: Total Recall

The tribes get two minutes to overlook a tribal dwelling. Based on information that they gather, they must answer ten questions on the dwelling. The Tambaqui beat the Jaburu in eight, meaning that good news for Joanna, she doesn't get to see the Idol for another couple of days. Bad news for Joanna, she's one of the three marked for elimination.

Here are the other two:

Janet: She corrals the tribe and gives her side of the allegations brought up by Jeanne. "It wasn't me," she says. Then she pleads that if she is the one to go tonight, then it shouldn't be because of the incident.

Christy: She builds a shelter... by herself. Then when it's time for the rest of the tribe to help out, she says no. "I think my tribe is the laziest tribe and the laziest group I have ever been involved with!" Then Deena had something to say about that attitude, claiming, "It set me off a little bit. I didn't say anything, because it's not worth my time and effort, so I just walked away."

And it doesn't help matters that Jenna hasn't said a word to her since the drop-off either.

Night 6: Tribal Council

We all know about the ritual of the first Tribal Council so let's just skip it. Janet outs Deena as a leader, so much as a leader she can be, anyway. Deena outs back, saying that they have no shelter and that camp is a mess. Joanna cites duties at home and abroad for that. Christy thinks that the shelter should've been built on go, a thought that Joanna plays back in the form of the initial refusal to help with the shelter after building it on her own. Christy then admits sobbingly that she's on the outside looking in because of her notion that the tribe is too lazy for its own good. Jenna thinks that if Christy does go tonight, it wouldn't be because of her debility. Well SOMEONE has to go.

Heidi: JANET - "You were really sick at first and it's really hard to catch up."

Joanna: KRYSTIE (Christy) - "We need physical strength, but your attitude stinks!"

Christy: JEN(n)A

Janet: JEAN(ne) - "Too aggressive."

So far, the count's all over the place. Here are the rest of the votes.

Deena: JANET

Jeanne: JANET

Jenna: JANET

Shawna: JANET

The final count is 5-1-1-1 with one vote unleavened. Janet, the granola bar has spoken.