Will There Be a Feast Tonight?

Will There Be A Feast Tonight? is the seventh episode of Survivor: Africa.

Day 19
At Boran, Clarence faced gastronomical pains after a heavy meal of chicken he had the night before. Though he considered the meal as his best after almost three weeks of starvation, Clarence commented, "This was an embarrassing way to die," doing a "number two" dangerously near elephants that might trample him. After the incident, Boran started to converse about the impending merge over brunch. During the conversation, Kim J. got surprised that Frank never heard the word "brunch" before. Frank made a wild guess of what the word means, "It's a combination of breakfast and lunch?" Teresa joked her friend, "Frank, do you want [corn] mush er, brunch? Frank embarrassingly replied, "No, thank you." As the tribes laughed off the incident, they were still anxious of what's to come in the next three days.

Over at Samburu, Kelly and Tom observed that Lex started to act strange due to boredom. Foraging excess firewood and carving brand names to them, Lex gave his tribemates his carved wood creations, presenting them as his "ergonomically designed products." Kelly commented, "It's annoying. I want to vote off Lex and if there's no merger ever, I will do it in a heartbeat."

Day 20
Early morning, the tribes received Tree Mail, instructing them to prepare for their next Immunity Challenge. When the tribes met host Jeff Probst at the Challenge area, Jeff asked the ten remaining castaways to drop their buffs, for they are now merged as one tribe. As Jeff handed each person a new green buff, the group cheered for making it to the merge. The survivor decided that Boran's camp was more livable, and they will be residing at Boran camp for the rest of the game (the items left at the old Samburu camp will be relocated to Boran as well). Despite their celebration, the game has to continue, for they will immediately compete in their first individual Immunity Challenge.

Kelly was the first to lower her arm, and was eliminated after lasting 14 minutes, with Kim J. following. Sitting over to the side, the two women wasted no time comparing notes about the happenings on both tribes since the tribe switch. When Jeff started to tempt the castaways with food, the rest of the group surrendered immunity in exchange for filled bellies. This left Clarence and Teresa the only castaways remaining. With Clarence expressing tiredness, he offered a game of "Rock Paper Scissors" to his last opponent, with Teresa winning. With this, Clarence conceded, thus guaranteeing her three more days in Kenya.

Upon reaching camp, they were welcomed with food, a green-colored, blank tribe flag, and some paint to decorate their flag with. Lex decided to christen the new tribe as "Moto Maji," meaning "fire" and "water," the two most important components for survival. While the whole tribe bonded over food, Frank felt alienated from thr group, saying that: "Imagine getting in the mail an invitation to attend the Wagner family reunion and your name is Smith. That's just what it felt like. I'm just floating on the outside."

Day 21 Frank wandered off and found an elephant. He attempted to mimic the mammal and tried to communicate with it. He said, "There are a few humans here I wouldn't interact with, but the animals, yes."

Shortly before the vote, Lex pulled Clarence and told him that "we've all decided to vote you off today," because Clarence is too much of a threat in Immunity Challenges. Clarence respected Lex for giving him the news, but Kelly was irked about the incident.

As the tribe prepared for Tribal Council, Teresa declared that she would honor the agreement she made with Clarence during the Immunity Challenge by saying, "I won't vote for Clarence tonight. He honored his word, and I have to do the same." But ultimately, Clarence was the seventh casualty of Survivor: Africa, but not before two votes, one from Clarence and one from Teresa, were cast against an unsuspecting Lex.

Trivia

 * This episode marked the first time that the tribes merged with uneven numbers, with Boran was still up to six, while Samburu was already decimated at four.
 * The immunity challenge was the only time a former Samburu member would win an individual immunity challenge, with Teresa winning.

Links

 * CBS episode summary