Originally Aired Thursday, August 31, 2006
Episode Rating: **** (four stars out of five)
Episode Overview: A Head of Houeshold competition, a Power of Veto Competition, and two live evictions.
Episode Highlights:
- Two HouseGuests are sent packing.
- Janelle re-asserts her challenge dominance.
- Colonel Sanders, with a bucket of chicken, makes an appearance.
Recap:
All right, we've all known this was coming and Julie tells us again at the opening of the episode. This live show will contain the initial live eviction, then a week's worth of events all compressed into one hour of live TV: Head of Household Competition, Nomination Ceremony, Power of Veto Competition, Power of Veto Ceremony, and Live Eviction. So, two HouseGuests will be going home this episode.
Julie Chen is wearing a black leather jacket (I think her and Len are taking the motorcycle out after the episode) and makes a weird John Lennon/Paul McCartney comparison to Boogie and Will. We see some footage of ChillTown working their magic. In one hilarious segment, Erika enters the storeroom and is assured of her place in ChillTown. When she leaves, Janelle immediately enters and is assured of the exact same thing.
Danielle naively thinks she is staying, because Will and Boogie both lie to her face.
Janelle, Will and Boogie all vote to evict Danielle. Her exit is amazingly dignified as is her interview with Julie. The taped goodbyes from the housemates are all very kind as well.
We quickly move to the Head of Household competition in the backyard. Each of the four competing HouseGuests stand on a circle. The HouseGuests are walled off from each other, so they can't see what each other are doing. In each player's segment, there is a strip that says male and one that says female. Julie asks questions about events that occurred during the season, and the HouseGuests must decide whether it was a male or female who performed the event. Again, Janelle proves unstoppable and answers all 8 questions correctly. No one else had a chance.
With live nominations coming within minutes, Will and Janelle disappear to a bedroom, while everyone else waits, to discuss her choices. Will pushes for Erika and Chicken George, while Janelle worries that that is too obvious. Of course, Will wins out and Janelle nominates Erika and Chicken George.
The Power of Veto comp is like ones we've seen numerous times on Survivor. Each player is attached to a rope that has two humongous knots on it. At the opposite end of the rope is the player's respective Veto symbol. They must untie themselves and the knot, grab their veto symbol, rush back to where they started, untie the veto symbol from it's rope, then hit their buzzer. From the start, it's clear that the competition will be a two-man race between Erika and Will. Will takes a slow and steady pace, while Erika uses her contortion abilities to easy wriggle through small holes in the knots. It goes down to the wire and Erika wins when Will is unable to untie the veto symbol as efficiently as Erika.
At the Veto Ceremony, Erika vetoes herself and Janelle nominates Boogie. After an awkward pause courtesy of the Chenbot, it's time to vote. Only Will and Erika are eligible to cast their votes and they both elect to evict George. George is happy he's made it this far and thanks everybody.
In the weirdest non-Doogie moment of the season, George is greeted by Colonel Sanders holding a bucket of chicken as he exits the house.
Overall, a fun whirlwind of the episode. ChillTown is still in the driver's seat, and I really don't see too many ways in which Will doesn't win the whole thing.
-Oscar Dahl
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