Papa Bear puts it well when he says “no votes, when they’re against you, are fair.” In that case, things were really unfair for him as he took the bulks of the votes last night when Savaii returned to the tribal council. Watch the voting play out below.

Savaii Tribe voting – Week 3:

• John Cochran – Papa Bear
• Jim Rice – Cochran
• Mark “Papa Bear” Caruso – Jim
• Elyse Umemoto – Papa Bear
• Ozzy Lusth – Papa Bear
• Dawn Meehan – Papa Bear
• Keith Tollefson – Papa Bear
• Whitney Duncan – Papa Bear

With six of the eight votes cast, Papa Bear was sent to Redemption Island. There he’ll face off against Christine after she beat Semhar. Hopefully Semhar can come back and do a little bizarro “spoken word” action for us before the next duel.

Did Savaii make the right choice this week on Survivor South Pacific?

Last night on Survivor South Pacific we get more of rantings and craziness from Brandon Hantz, our first Redemption Island dual and a pretty awesome Immunity Challenge.  Christine wakes up Semhar and doesn’t seem to understand why Coach wanted her gone so badly.  (Maybe because you couldn’t keep your thoughts to yourself and had to run that trap on more than one occassion.)  Coach and Stacy from Upolu with Ozzy and Elise from Savaii head to RI to watch their former tribe members battle it out for a chance to stay in the game.  Semhar in her odd fashion has to quote some spoken word in order to prepare for the competition against Christine.  In the challenge straight from Russell Hantz’s play book the two ladies put a totem on top of a pole and must balance it as they add sections to the pole to make it longer.  To no ones surprise and Coach’s disgusted look, Christine easily beats Semhar and is returned to RI to await the next evicted player.

Back at Upolu Brandon is once again wrestling with demons and says God is chastising him for lying.  He decides to come clean with his tribe and let them all know he is actually Russell’s nephew, a decision that leaves Coach shaking his head in bewildered wonder.  Brandon says he had a relapse of what his Uncle used to do.  IMO, Brandon needs to quit running from who he is and accept that he’s a Hantz and learn to live with it.

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If you can’t wait until tonight to see this week’s Survivor South Pacific immunity challenge then here’s your in-depth preview. There’s a lot to this one with a castaway taking a Boogie board out to grab a wrapped banner, getting pulled back to shore, and then dropping off the bundle for a grappling hook to snag and lift up. Why Ozzy and Albert decided to be the ones to be dragged back to shore I’m not certain. I would have sent the lightest person out there and then kept the stronger ones to do the cranking, but what do I know?

And again, I’m quite envious of the huge team that gets to go out there and design, implement, and test these things. How much fun would that be??

Survivor South Pacific is back tonight with its third episode of the season which means we’re finally about to enjoy our first Redemption Island arena battle. Christine and Semhar will face off in what looks like a balancing act of escalating difficulty. Check out the pictures below for a few shots of the ladies holding poles that have extension pieces laying nearby.

Once that fight gets wrapped up, and honestly I don’t know how that’s likely to turn out, we’ll be back at the main camps for more challenges. Ozzy still has his immunity idol discovery tucked away in case they don’t win this time around. There are a few preview pics of this week’s immunity challenge down below but I’ll also have a preview video of the Survivor challenge posted later on.

Who do you want to win in tonight’s first Redemption duel? Semhar or Christine?

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Survivor 2011 is back this Wednesday with its third South Pacific episode and I think it’s safe that we’ll see plenty more of Brandon and his fear of women. If this guy doesn’t end up rocking in the corner of their shelter begging for the women to vanish then I’ll be surprised. It’s pretty sad, but it’s also hilarious so bring it on.

After last week’s elimination of Christine, thank you Blue Tribe, we’ll get our first Redemption Island action when she faces off against Semhar. I’m not sure what to expect from the two of them dueling, but let’s hope it’s entertaining.

Then there’s Ozzy and his immunity idol which remains hidden from the rest of his tribe. After his quick discovery of the protection piece I’m hoping Survivor starts to consider alternatives to their hiding methods. From the preview video below the Red Tribe seems to start getting suspicious of his actions, so he may need to play that sooner than he hoped. Just kidding. I’m sure they’ll let him ride on to the end.

Who do you hope wins out in the first Redemption Island arena battle of the season on Survivor South Pacific? Semhar or Christine?

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I joked in the preseason lead up for Survivor South Pacific that Ozzy and Coach were brought back for their dueling battle of who has the best hair. Turns out they’ve got a secret ingredient in their fight for the best hair on the beach: Redemption Island shampoo and conditioner.

CBS released the Survivor spoof clip below and it’s well worth a watch. Hard to believe this wasn’t intentionally done, but I’m pretty sure they had to Frankenstein the audio to make it all work. Kudos to CBS’ Eyelab team.

Would you give Survivor shampoo a try for those kinds of results?

Survivor had another good week of ratings and experienced only a very slight drop going from an average of 10.6 million last week to 10.5 million viewers this week. That’s not bad considering premiere hype versus sustained viewing.

South Pacific took second place only to the premiere of X Factor on FOX, which had its own ratings issues to worry about, while managing to beat out an ABC premiere and NBC’s sitcoms. Pretty good for a show in its 23rd installment.

Does Survivor South Pacific have what it takes to keep you coming back next week instead of flipping to another channel?

Source: TV By the Numbers

Curious how Upolu voted last night on Survivor South Pacific? Here’s the clip from the very end of the show revealing how each member of the blue tribe voted while we listen to Christine who is somehow dumbfounded by what happened. Really? Toxic and off-putting attitude leaves you with no clue, Christine? Sheesh.

Upolu Tribe voting:

• “Coach” Benjamin Wade – Christine
• Albert Destrade – Christine
• Brandon Hantz – Christine
• Christine Shields Markoski – Edna
• Edna Ma – Stacey
• Mikayla “Miki” Wingle – Christine
• Rick Nelson – Stacey
• Sophie Clarke – Stacey
• Stacey Powell – Sophie

It was a close one with 4-3 vote to send Christine to Redemption Island over Stacey. Meanwhile, Brandon “I’m afraid of girls” Hantz’s plan to eliminate Mikayla garnered zero votes. Brilliant move, knucklehead.

Also, as a bonus to complement last night’s poetry reading from “spoken word artist” Semhar, I thought it was appropriate to include another of her great readings. At least I think this is her. Maybe not.

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On this episode of Survivor South Pacific we have Russell Hantz screaming at his tv while he watches his nephen Brandon totally ruin the Hantz name of being one of the best gamers in Survivor history, at least for Survivor Samoa.  I love how Brandon talks all the time of saving the Hantz name.  He doesn’t have a clue he is making it way worse. Let’s think about how Survivor is played.  You have two tribes who battle each other for the right to keep their tribe intact.  When one tribe loses, you vote out a teammate.  In the beginning, you want the best players around so you can come back the next week and win.  You don’t vote out the strongest players first.  Hence Semhar week one.  In this case, you have a guy who is scared to death of being tempted by a woman named Mikayla and instead of looking at his tribe as a whole and thinking about what is the best thing to win challenges, he wants to evict her because God forbid he might have a lustful thought. I am not a fan of him.  In fact, I pretty much think he’s an idiot.  I haven’t seen any actions of Mikayla where she has flirted and acted in any way inappropriately.  She works hard and rocks in the comps.  Get over yourself Brandon and figure out your demons and get rid of them.  Ok I had to get that off my chest.

I don’t know about the rest of you ladies but I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Ozzy in his underwear climbing trees looking for the immunity idol.  I mean this guy is sooo nice to look at lol.  Not only did he take some pointers from Russell and start looking for the idol on his own but he actually found it without a clue.  His tribe seems totally behind him so hopefully he can hang onto it until the merge where he will for sure need it.

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Want to get a sneak peak at tonight’s Survivor 2011 challenge for the South Pacific castaways. “Crate Escape” is introduced by John Kirhoffer, Survivor’s Challenge Producer, (isn’t that a job you’d like to have??) and walks us through the steps. First up there will be the maypole portion to release a key used to unlock the rest of the tribe’s castaways. Then the castaways have to shift around a series of wood boxes to free one and carry it over to the finish line.

What do you think? Could you tackle this Survivor challenge?