Mark Burnett: "We’ve never gone away from the core values of the game, but we’ve kept it fresh every season… It’s as valid today with young people who weren’t old enough to remember what TV was when the show started."

Probst mentioned that steak and lobster were two of the choices on the list.

Hey, Hayden, what entrée do you want for your food reward? Steak? Lobster?

Random shot of Gervase's puzzle: "YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DIE"

Maybe Tina was raised in some sort of Dickensian orphanage.

Probst (to Gervase, while choosing ice cream buddies): "People have made million-dollar mistakes at this point in the game."

Hey, Hayden – if you wanna find the Immunity Idol, watch where the camera operator is tilting and zooming!

Same here.

I was impressed that Hayden's desperate eleventh hour scrambling actually paid off. Apologies for my crappy memory, but has a last-minute scramble ever borne fruit this dramatically before?

Hayden: "As Kat would say, 'touché'."

Stop trying to fix Redemption Island!

Ruffle ≠ Rustle ≠ Ressell

A copy of the rulebook was leaked by TV critic Andrew Dehnart on the site Reality Blurred. See this LINK.

"During individual challenges assisting other castaways on the challenge is forbidden."

Without further comment, I offer this recipe.

Just checking to make sure this one was mentioned. Specifically #3, the "dry" solo. Thanks David Gilmour.

Agreed. I think it was also a way of visibly taking ownership of the action in front of the other players. No one can accuse her of weaseling out of that vote.

Ah! Thanks, now I remember. Sorry, my brain's Survivor partition needs to be defragged.

Refresh my memory… wasn't that a situation where the player was clearly next up to be voted off, the player knew it, and giving up the reward was an obvious last ditch effort to win favor (that clearly wasn't effective)?

"Thank you for giving away your reward food, Monica"