Business in the front, scheming in the back

I would've posted sooner, but I got caught up watching Natalie Portman in "Where the Heart Is" on CMT. It's the movie where she gives birth to the baby in Wal-Mart ... and the one she'd probably remove from her resume if given the chance. Here's what went down on ...

"Survivor" (CBS, 8:00): Brett is the last standing member of Galu ... wait. I forgot that Shambo was once a member of that tribe, but she jumped ship a long time ago. I can't recall any player in recent "Survivor" history who was so blatant in their disloyalty to their original tribe. The Renton renegade went rogue as soon as she got the chance to spend time with Foa Foa. Sending Shambo to their camp is ultimately what led to the Galu sitting on the jury.

Back at the Aiga beach, Natalie and Brett are bonding over the good book and after 34 days, realize they have more in common than religion and body odor. So at the reward challenge, Natalie chooses Brett and Mick to play on her team, raising suspicion with Shambo, Jaison and Russell that they may have an alliance in the works. The challenge itself looked really cool and it was something that "Survivor" has never done before. I'm always amazed at the puzzles the crew comes up with. *Sending resume, completed Sudoku book to CBS.* The teams were playing for a feast and a good night's sleep away from camp. It looked like Nat's team was going to pray in a win, but Russell, Sham and Jaison managed to eek out a victory. It was Jaison's first time to win a reward ('bout time!), and once he was full of roasted pig he says, "I have been fortified by the power of food, now I'm about to get jiggy with it."

The immunity challenge was a game of memory and numbers as the survivors had to count various items, each amount giving them a number to open a combination lock. Brett, being the stealth competitor that he is, comes from behind to win back-to-back immunity challenges and foiling Foa's plan to get rid of him. Mick's name gets thrown into the mix along with Shambo's. Now the question is do they vote off one of their own or betray Sham, the Galu who got them to the comfortable place they are now. Cut to Shambo's torch getting snuffed. Turns out, it wasn't such a hard question after all.

Rewind: Shambo's hair was front, center and party in the back in this episode. After she makes a comment about needing a haircut, Russell goes on a two-minute rant about her femullet. "She can store food in it." Later at the reward challenge, Jeff Probst doesn't miss his opportunity to get in some jabs. "How long have you had that hair?" Sham says she's had it since 1986. I was in like, the 3rd grade. Lose the mullet, Shambo! Somewhere in the forest, a raccoon is shivering.

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"CSI:" (CBS, 9:00): Everything I need to know I learned from Nick Stokes. Useless fact: A "John Wayne shot" is when a guy takes a shot to the shoulder then shakes it off "like it's a mosquito bite". I can do that.