On Thursday night, it was already time to mix up the fans and the "favorites" on Survivor. Of course, they did a schoolyard pick, and of course, Chet was last.

When the reconfiguring was done, the tribes looked like this:

Malakal: Ozzy, Joel, Amanda, Erik, Ami, Tracy, Cirie and Chet

Airai: Natalie, James, Alexis, Jonathan, Jason, Parvati, Kathy and Eliza

I guess I'm going to have to learn to spell these tribe names since I can't just call them "fans" and "favorites" anymore. Aww, nuts.

For their first challenge, a pair from each team was tied together, one with a flag on its back. The flag wearers were the chasees and the others were the chasers. The goal was to get three flags off the other team. Oh, and of course, there was this (stick-filled) obstacle course, which made the whole thing pretty brutal. Ami tweaked her knee, Jonathan ripped his knee open and Parvati got a fat lip. But the person who took the most abuse was Chet, who was lashed to Joel, who, dragged him around and ran him into things and was generally a gigantic jerk about it all. So Malakal lost the reward, but they got to stay on the favorites' beach, so things weren't looking so bad after all since there was an actual shelter there. And they have Ozzy.

Over at Airai, the favorites marveled at how awful the camp was, and the new team got ready to enjoy its reward. Then, a beautiful Survivor moment. They were happily cooking their meat and veggie reward in the bad camp, when suddenly, the tide came in and wiped out the fire. Too funny. Not so surprisingly, the next thing we saw was the faves figuring out where the new camp should be and building a new shelter.

For the immunity challenge, the banged up contestants were spared a physical challenge for one involving the usual tiles and puzzle. Malakal lost.

So, of course, it seemed like Chet was going home. No question, right? Well, Cirie didn't much like the idea of the weakest going home first since she'd be considered in that category. So she ended up manipulating all the votes again. (When will her teammates figure out they are being played by her and get rid of her instead?) Anyway, Cirie teamed up with Tracy and Chet and talked to some of the other tribemates about Joel's bad attitude and temper, and apparently he'd made enough of a bad impression that plenty of others turned against him, too. Bye, Joel.

My other favorite moment of the night was early in the episode. Ozzy was shown carefully hiding away the immunity idol from Exile Island, immediately after which they learned about the switch. He looked terrified that he was going to get sent to the other beach, and it was hysterical. But he ended up back at home, back with his idol.

I was hoping that the switch would mean that the couples would be separated (especially since I didn't sign up to watch Survivor: Til Death Do Us Part), but that didn't happen. Ozzy and Amanda are still together on one team, and James and Parvati are together on the other. At least their foursome got mixed up.