Which Came First? The Chicken or the Brain?

It's official. The Beauty Tribe is my favourite. The entire conversation about chickens and eggs made my life. More on that in a bit.

There was a reward challenge and an immunity challenge. For the reward challenge, Beauty won, followed by Brawn who were WAY behind Brains but came back due to guess whose complete ineptitude?  J'Tia. Correct. Without going too much into the challenge, the most entertaining part was the fact that it was one of those ones where the teammates are blindfolded and someone has to yell at them what directions to go, while all of the obstacles are pretty much at crotch height. Someone was working some serious slapstick on the Survivor design team here. It's possible that LJ may never have children after this challenge.

So, the Beauty team won some chickens and a rooster, which prompted a discussion about whether the chicken and the rooster need to "get it on" in order for the eggs to be made. "What is the rooster for?" asks one of the girls. A whole bunch of speculation ensued at this point, making the pretty girls look.... well.... pretty. LJ, the HORSE TRAINER, and pretty much the only smart one, finally broke it to the girls how it works.
"You make eggs, right?"
"Oooooooooh."
Leading LJ to comment, "We all know that the egg came first because the dinosaurs came before the chickens and they laid eggs."  Ummm... ok. Sure.  I guess.

The other thing to mention in the Beauty tribe is that Morgan managed to cleverly throw Jeremiah under the bus for making another alliance with her & Brice in front of the whole group. Nice work, girl. It led one of the other girls (Jefra, I think?) to throw out this brilliant observation:

"I don't even know how Jeremiah got on the Beauty team. He's not even that good looking!"

Later to try to make it up to the team, hideous Jeremiah killed a chicken by tearing its head off!!!! Are we all ok with this? Did I need to hear the noise of a chicken's head coming off on TV?  Unsure.  I get it that it's Survivor (they are surviving...) and that yes, I also eat chicken. But... still, it messed with my ummm... delicate sensibilities. Or something. I did like how Jeremiah pretended like he knew how to go about killing a chicken, when really, "uh, I'm just a model."  Funny. I still didn't need to hear it.

 Meanwhile, the Brawn tribe considered throwing the immunity challenge in order to get rid of Cliff. Interesting how Cliff has unknowingly become the target - mostly because he's threatening to the other alpha male in the group, Tony. Remember how Tony fibbed to Sara about Cliff & Dreadlocks conspiring against her. Well now Sara's got a bee in her bonnet about Cliff... which is all good for Tony. Always good to have a bigger, richer alpha male around. 'Cause that's the other argument against Cliff - they all know he's a former NBA player and probably is quite comfortable.  Even Cliff's bro-bestie, Woo, is up for ousting his pal if it means someone younger and more financially deserving can win a million bucks. Cliff really needs to come up with a story soon about how he pissed his NBA fortune away on gambling debts... or gave away all his money to a sick relative... or something!  I'm rooting for Cliff.

Anyway, the challenge was to dive down, release buoys and then use them in a BASKETBALL challenge.  Yup, that's the one to try to throw when you have an NBA star on your team. Idiots. The bigger idiots? Ironically, Brains. That's right. Even trying to throw a challenge, Brawn still managed to come in second, ahead of the Brains team, who are saddled with J'Tia, who as you'll recall, is completely useless.  Not that Kass or Tasha were spectacular in the challenge either - Spencer pretty much kept them in the challenge at all & it was actually pretty close at the end between them and Brawn.  But as Sara noted - "The green team sucks. We were trying to give it to them and they still lost. They deserve to lose." Spencer honestly deserves a medal for not losing it on those girls, right?

Spencer made a good play going to Kass & Tasha and telling them that the only way they're going to ever win anything is to get rid of J'Tia. He also promised his loyalty. It worked. Barely. They finally sent J'Tia packing. She was an interesting character in how self-aware she was about how much she sucked at the challenges and how she knew she should have been voted out for the rice incident anyway.  It made me almost want to like her a little bit. I just never want to be on her team for anything, please.

Next week, the teams will switch up, which will be interesting. Will Spencer stick with Kass & Tasha after all?  Will Kass and Tasha just bring down whatever team they're on? Will the oust Cliff strategy come to pass? Will some of the partnerships like Tony/Sara get broken up?  Will Jefra be able to keep her food down having to be on a team with such ugly people? Where DO baby chickens come from?It remains to be seen!