You Better Be Wearing a Seatbelt

You Better Be Wearing a Seatbelt is the eighth episode of .
==Story==
=== Night 14 ===
The final eleven return to camp, having officially entered the merge and the jury phase of the game. The newly merged tribe hopes for a feast, while the surviving members of the majority alliance debrief. The outsiders Chanelle Howell, Maryanne Oketch, Romeo Escobar, and Tori Meehan split off to figure out what happened with the vote.
Chanelle demands to know why she was left out of the vote when her Vati tribemates Hai Giang and Mike Turner were in on the plan. Hai lies to Chanelle that the vote was switched at the last minute. As Chanelle begs Hai to keep her in the loop in the future, she questions her standing in the game.
Romeo expresses his frustration at being left out of the vote and is unsatisfied by Drea Wheeler shirking the responsibility of keeping him informed despite supposedly being his ally. His increasing paranoia draws her ire.
Meanwhile, Lindsay Dolashewich assures Maryanne that the Taku four are still strong, but Maryanne feels that her self-described weirdness has caused her to be alienated from her former tribemates.
===Day 15===
===Day 16===
==Challenges==
<tabber>Reward=Challenge: Basket CaseOne at a time, team members will leap from a tower into the water and swim to a platform where they will find buoys attached to a rope. They will maneuver a buoy through a series of obstacles and swim to the next platform, then the next member goes. Once a team has collected all five buoys, they will attempt to toss them into a basket. The first team to get all five buoys in their basket wins.Reward: Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and potato chipsWinners: (, , , , and )
|-|Immunity=Challenge: Can't Buoy Me LoveCastaways must balance on a small perch while holding a buoy using two handles. The last person holding their buoy while still on the balance beam wins.Additional Stipulation: If one castaway agreed to forfeit their chance at immunity, they would receive a single serving of rice. If multiple castaways agreed to forfeit their chance at immunity, the tribe would receive four days' worth of rice. The tribe successfully negotiated for four members to sit out of the challenge and received the bag of rice.Winner: 
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==Tribal Council==
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=== Voting Confessionals ===
No voting confessionals were aired in this episode. Romeo's confessional was shown on the next episode.
=== Final Words ===
===Still in the Running===
								
								
==Trivia==
===Secret Scenes===
*(Untitled): On Day 15, the merged tribe names themselves "Kula Kula".https://ew.com/tv/survivor-42-episode-8-kula-kula-merged-tribe-name/
*She's Hilarious: Tori reveals why she likes Maryanne as they get ready for the Immunity Challenge.https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/MCDcJG9ctztKLFyPK2yqBh2XVVVqvnXV/
*Rice Reward: Drea is so grateful for the rice that she, Lindsay, Maryanne and Omar sat out of the Immunity Challenge to get.https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/vS2JSSTdSTIXl1wOwvkx6R4bG2T9hvdk/
===Behind the Scenes===
*According to Hai's exit interview, he told Romeo to vote against Chanelle; Romeo then disclosed this to her, and she relayed this back to Hai, causing Romeo to be put on the chopping block.https://ew.com/tv/survivor-42-hai-giang-interview/
*Independently, both Lindsay and Hai told Omar about their Advantage Amulets 15 minutes apart from each other.https://robhasawebsite.com/survivor-42-omar-zaheer-interview/ (1:41:30)
===Other===
*Day 16 was filmed on May 31, 2021, the 21st anniversary of the airing of the first episode of .http://www.truedorktimes.com/s42/calendar.htm Jeff Probst filmed a video commemorating the occasion on location shortly before the Day 16 Immunity Challenge that was posted on the CBS Twitter page.https://www.twitter.com/CBS/status/1399483378416558080
*This is the eighth consecutive episode with at least one person sitting out of a challenge, breaking the record of seven episodes previously set in and tied in .
**This episode also marks the tenth consecutive challenge with at least one person sitting out.
*This episode marks the first appearance of a Beware Advantage following the merge.
*Drea becomes the first castaway to possess four unique advantages at the same time.
*Tori becomes the second woman to win the first two individual Immunity Challenges, after Laura Morett in .
**Tori is the first woman to achieve this where only one Immunity Necklace was available at each challenge.
*This is the first episode of the season where nobody became ineligible to vote at any point during Tribal Council.
*The episode title is said by Hai at Tribal Council about the power dynamics on Kula Kula.
==References==
Category:Survivor (U.S.)
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