It"s time for family week, so we get a glimpse at a bunch of blood relatives and Denise"s husband. Amanda"s sister looks just like her, right down to the blurred behind (which is pretty damn funny), Peih-Gee"s dad is amusingly businesslike, Courtney clings to her father like she"s never clung before, Erik"s mom thinks he"s too thin, and everybody cries. And Todd"s sister lets slip that Todd"s other sister, who"s even younger than this sister, who"s even younger than 22-year-old Todd, has had a miscarriage of a very early pregnancy. Denise wins reward, and she chooses to take Todd and Amanda with her, despite the fact that Peih-Gee just included her in an awesome reward last week. And then, just when viewers at home are hating on themselves for fleetingly wondering whether there"s any chance that Todd and his sister were putting on that sad story, it turns out that everyone not on the reward is wondering the same thing, including Courtney, who"s so sure it couldn"t be true that she guarantees herself a place in the history of the insensitive jerk if it turns out that her eye-rolly "whatever"-ing is wrong. Later, Peih-Gee wins immunity again (where"s her big love for being such a challenge monster, Jeff Probst?), and Erik is in trouble. There"s an effort to get Denise to force a tie so she can have some chance at finishing better than fourth, but she"s the kind of inert player who really just can"t bring herself to act if there"s any risk to acting, because she underestimates the risks of not acting. So Denise dutifully votes along with Todd, Courtney, and Amanda, and Erik goes home. His mom will be glad he can eat now. So Peih-Gee is basically the Boo at this point, going into the endgame with an absolute requirement that she win immunity every single time, because there"s no way they"re letting her get near a jury including Erik, Jaime, Frosti, and a bunch of people with good reasons to hate Todd and Amanda for dicking them over. It"s immunity or bust, lady. Keep it up.


