Banana Etiquette

Banana Etiquette is the sixth episode of .
==Story==
===Night 14===
The Heroes return to camp from the Tribal Council where Tom Westman was voted out. Colby Donaldson is clearly distraught at the result of the vote, and is now without an alliance left standing in the game. Candice Woodcock regrets the decision her tribe made in sending Tom home instead of James Clement, and Candice's flippant behavior upon returning to camp annoys some of her fellow tribemates.
In the early morning hours over at the Villains camp, Russell Hantz wakes up and has a talk with Rob Mariano. Russell tries to deceive Rob by saying that he is not gunning for him. Rob, on the other hand, attempts to make Russell even more paranoid by threatening to eliminate him for his behavior in regards to the Hidden Immunity Idol that everyone suspects he has found. Both men end the conversation by threatening the other to watch their back.
===Day 15===
Both tribes arrive at the challenge, where the Villains are clearly stunned that James was not voted out because of his injury. The two tribes soon learn that they will not be competing against each other for tribal reward or immunity, but that both tribes will instead go to a Double Tribal Council and that members of both tribes will compete for individual immunity. The Heroes run the challenge first, and the Villains are impressed by James' strong effort and performance despite his injury. However, Candice is the one who wins immunity for the Heroes by narrowly beating out J.T. Thomas.
When it is the Villains' turn to run through the challenge, Rob wins individual immunity. Rob then faces off with Candice for tribal reward in a more difficult section of the original challenge. Rob is able to win for the Villains tribe, giving the Villains the right to have Tribal Council first and then listen in on the Heroes' Tribal Council while enjoying food.
At the Villains camp, Rob's alliance of himself, Coach Wade, Courtney Yates, Jerri Manthey, Sandra Diaz-Twine, and Tyson Apostol, meet in the ocean after the challenge and quickly decide to vote for Parvati Shallow due to her perceived threat in the game. Rob's alliance agrees to make Russell feel like he will be voted out so that he wastes his Hidden Immunity Idol.
To spook Russell, Rob meets with Russell and lies, saying that if Russell does not already have the idol, to go find it because otherwise, he will be sent home. Rob's intimidation only fuels Russell's fire to eliminate someone from Rob's alliance.
Russell talks with Parvati and Danielle DiLorenzo, telling them that he knows Rob is trying to get him to play the idol but vote for Parvati. Russell tells his alliance that they will target Tyson, since Rob is immune from the vote and Tyson is Rob's right-hand man in the game.
At the Heroes camp, Colby is upset with his poor performance at the challenge, sadly remarking that even James with his injured leg was able to beat him. Colby tells the tribe that he expects to be voted out and essentially surrenders to the mercy of the tribe. Colby and James have a brief talk in the shelter about Colby's will to continue in the game, and ability to perform. James says he wanted to see Colby perform much better in the challenges than the results have shown so far, and that if Colby is ready to leave, he would like to stay despite his injury.
Despite Colby's surrender, James' injury is still a major issue for the tribe and must be considered. Candice, J.T., Amanda Kimmel, and Rupert Boneham talk in the jungle about the possibility of voting James out because of the knee injury and also for his perceived lack of 'banana etiquette' around camp.
James attempts to prove that his knee is no longer an issue by having a foot race with J.T. Rupert starts the race and James loses, even after J.T. starts to run backwards. James claims that even though J.T. beat him that his knee is holding up fine and that he will be fine. James then jokes to J.T. and Rupert about improving his banana etiquette by going over the top with asking people if they want bananas.
Back at the Villains tribe, Rob realizes they will need to split the votes to prevent Russell from playing his Hidden Immunity Idol on Parvati, allowing the three in Russell's alliance to take out someone from Rob's alliance.
Rob's alliance agrees to have Rob, Sandra, and Tyson vote for Russell and have Coach, Courtney, and Jerri vote for Parvati, and eliminate Russell on the re-vote if he played his idol on her or if he did not play his idol at all. If he played the idol for himself, Parvati would be eliminated.
Sometime later, Russell pulls Tyson aside and decides to lie and say that he is going to vote for Parvati in order to save himself from being eliminated. Tyson agrees that Russell should go ahead and do that to save himself. Russell's talk plants a seed in Tyson's mind about potentially flipping his vote to Parvati to just get rid of her right away and to have some power over Russell once she is gone.
As Tribal Council approaches, Russell faces a dilemma over whether to play the idol to save himself, or to give it to Parvati in hopes that she will receive more votes.
At the Villains' Tribal Council, the members of Rob's alliance focus attention on Russell to get him to admit having the Hidden Immunity Idol, but Russell does not reveal anything and denies that he even has the idol, but no one believes him. As they go to vote, Tyson decides to change his vote to Parvati. However, when the time comes to read the votes, Russell pulls a double cross on Tyson by standing up and handing the idol over to Parvati instead of playing it on himself. A surprised Parvati plays the idol and negates 4 votes against her - the original 3 votes that Rob's alliance planned against her, and Tyson's, who switched over. Having ruined the split vote with his own deciding vote, Tyson essentially sends himself home after the alliance of Danielle, Parvati, and Russell vote for him. Tyson is eliminated in a 3-2-0 vote to the shock of everyone on the tribe, including Russell's own alliance members.
When the Heroes visit Tribal Council next, the Villains have the opportunity to watch in and eat food due to Rob winning the reward section at the challenge. Both Colby and James are mentioned as being in trouble due to the former's injury and the latter for being on the bottom of the Heroes tribe and for performing poorly in challenges. Colby's poor challenge performance compared to his past seasons is talked about in depth, and Colby remarks that the only thing worse than seeing his challenge ability degrade is to be the one living it. The Heroes also talk about James and the 'banana etiquette' problem at camp, much to the amusement of the Villains who get to listen in on the bizarre argument. The Heroes explain the etiquette is that you are supposed to ask everyone around you if they want a banana if you go get up to get one. James thinks the rule is ridiculous and that anyone who is hungry should go get up and get their own banana, but he says that he has been working on improving his banana etiquette for the sake of the tribe. Before the Heroes go to vote, the Villains have to leave. In the end, the Heroes decide that James' injury is too big of a burden to bear and vote him out in a unanimous 5-1 decision to ensure he would receive immediate medical treatment.
==Challenges==
Individual Immunity/Tribal Reward Challenge: Rope-a-DopeEach castaway will be connected to a long rope that is threaded through an obstacle course they need to climb over and crawl under. The first hero and the first villain to reach his or her finish post wins individual immunity. The two winners will then compete for tribal reward, where they will have to go through a more difficult obstacle course.
Addition Stipulation: Regardless of the outcome, both teams will face Tribal CouncilReward: A feast of hot dogs and soft drinks while watching the other tribe's Tribal Council.Winners: and ​ (Rob won the tribal reward half of the challenge, winning the ​ the hot dog feast)
==Tribal Council==
===Villains===
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====Voting Confessionals====
Russell did not give a confessional.
====Final Words====
===Heroes===
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====Voting Confessionals====
James did not give a confessional.
====Final Words====
===Still in the Running===
									
									
==Trivia==
* This episode was voted the 8th best episode of all time in the "Top 25 Greatest Episodes of all time" poll by Survivor Oz in 2015.
* With Candice winning individual immunity, this marks the only time this season where a Hero wins individual immunity.
* This was the first time there was an attempt to cause a three-way tied vote involving Russell. The second time was in , two seasons later, that time successfully voting him out.
* Tyson switching his vote and being voted out because of it was nominated as one of the five dumbest moves of Survivor in a poll host Jeff took during the .
* This is the first and only time that Tyson has not been affiliated with more than one tribe and the only time that he is eliminated pre-merge.
===Behind the Scenes===
* Day 15 on the Villains, Tyson gets a spear fishing lesson from Rob. Tyson kills several small fish fails to bring any of them back to camp. In a confessional, Tyson revels at the thought of him killing all the small fish that day just for the sake of killing and not for food.
* James jokes around with his tribe by going over the top with banana etiquette. James privately feels the whole problem with banana etiquette is silly, and that anybody who is hungry and wants a banana should go get one themselves, but he plays on for the sake of the tribe.
==References==
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