Don't Say Anything About My Mom

 is the penultimate episode of.

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Dizzy Gillespie

The castaways have to unscrew three bars with their loved ones and stack them on a rack. They must then toss three balls on ropes and connect with the rack.

Reward: Picnic with two of their loved ones (one of which participated the challenge).

Winner: Brenda [originally shared with Dawn] (gave it up to Cochran, Eddie, Erik, and Sherri)

Immunity Challenge: I Hold On

The castaways will stand on a log, placed at the end of the platform with their arms behind them grabbing onto a handle. At certain times, Jeff will turn a crank, which uncoils the rope, which lowers the castaways and sends them closer to the water. When the castaways fall into the water, they're out of the challenge. Last person standing wins immunity.

Winner: Dawn

Day 35
Day 35's treemail was a Sprint HTC Evo 4G LTE containing videos from the castaways' loved ones: Brenda's dad Raymond, Dawn's husband David, Sherri's husband Jared, Cochran's mom Arlene, Eddie's dad Edward, and Erik's brother Richard. At the Reward Challenge, Brenda's dad Raymond scored the last point to take the win. Jeff called Brenda over and gave her the offer to select one other castaway to join them and Brenda selected Dawn. Jeff then pulled out a second HTC Evo 4G LTE that had a video announcing that, not one, but two loved ones were on the island for the visit. Jeff then told Brenda that she could give up both her and Dawn's visit with their loved ones in exchange for the other four castaways to see their loved ones on the boat. Brenda called the decision a "no brainer" and gave up the reward. While the four were enjoying their visit, Dawn was livid that she missed out on her loved ones' visit back at camp because of Brenda. When the castaways returned from the visit, Cochran was concerned that Brenda's gesture would protect her for the rest of the game and would even get her votes at the final Tribal Council.

Day 36
At the Immunity Challenge, the challenge came down to Brenda and Dawn. Dawn tried to cut a deal to end the challenge early since Eddie had not won and they would send him to the jury. However, Brenda did not agree to the deal and the challenge continued. Dawn would eventually outlast Brenda to take Individual Immunity. Back at camp, Cochran tried to sell Dawn and Sherri on sending Brenda home. Sherri readily agreed, while Dawn was conflicted on what to do. When the vote came, Dawn followed through with Cochran's plan and blindsided a devastated Brenda by a vote of 3–2–1.

Life at Ponderosa
Brenda arrives with a warm welcome and the jury comforts her as she is still distraught over her blindside by Dawn. The jury then gives her a brownie, and learns that Brenda lost 10 pounds over the course of the season. They then talk about the game, the good things, and also trash people, and Phillip says that he doesn't respect Dawn's game. Brenda is then accepting of her blindside and tells herself that is "the game".

Other

 * This was the first time in Survivor history where two loved ones came to the island rather than just one.
 * This episode marked the first time that Jeff Probst cried during a loved ones challenge.
 * In this episode, Jeff stated that Dawn Meehan's Individual Immunity win was the first in her Survivor career. This is untrue, as she won individual immunity in Double Agent in her original season.
 * However, this was the first time she has won Individual Immunity by herself, as Individual Immunity was offered to a man and a woman that challenge during her original season (with Ozzy Lusth being the male winner).
 * Nobody who voted against Brenda Lowe received a vote this Tribal Council, while those who voted for someone else all received votes against them.
 * This is the first time such a voting pattern occurred.
 * Erik Reichenbach and Eddie Fox voted for each other, but it was a third person (Brenda) who was voted out. This is the third time this has happened, following What Goes Around, Comes Around and You Own My Vote.
 * Coincidentally, Brenda was present at the former, while jurors Andrea Boehlke and Phillip Sheppard were present at the latter, with Phillip being one of the two people receiving votes but not voted out.
 * Brenda was eliminated in a similar manner as Kat Edorsson from :
 * Both contestants won the Loved Ones Challenge.
 * Both made an act during the Loved Ones Challenge that contributed to their elimination.
 * Both subsequently lost in the exact same Immunity Challenge (I Hold On) to their perceived ally (Kim Spradlin & Dawn Meehan, respectively), who then proceeded to blindside them and vote them out of the game.
 * Due to the social media backlash against Dawn Meehan regarding Brenda's elimination, she deleted her Twitter account (@meehand) on May 10, 2013. She later restored it after the season had finished airing.
 * On the Survivor After Show, Brenda revealed that she had not spoken to Dawn since the season ended filming, despite Dawn trying to reach out to her.
 * The eventual Final Three contestants all voted out Brenda this episode's tribal council.

Episode Title

 * John Cochran said this to Jeff Probst during the challenge when Jeff made a comment about Cochran's mother during the Loved Ones Challenge.