Episode 20: "That`s it! They just kicked the venomous snake hard and this snake is ready to bite back hard and deep!"- Louise Belcher
After tribal council, the remaining players formed into 2 groups and met is different places in the house. One group has Peggy, Bobby, Lisa, Meg and Homer and they all meet up in the lobby. Lisa comments how taking the big risk worked out for everyone in the group and that Louise must feel like she got burned at the votes earlier. Peggy tells Lisa that she agrees with her but thinks that the 5 of them in the room should form an alliance together and that they should take out Louise and her alliance next. Everyone agrees and Homer asks Peggy when Louise had an alliance. Lisa tells her dad Louise was making alliances since the game started and Homer only looks more confused. Peggy admits in a confessional she doesn`t really want Homer in the alliance since he brings nothing too useful to the group but still knows that she is going to need him to get to the final 5.
While the newly made alliance celebrates voting out Bob in the lobby, it is a different story upstairs in Niagara Jades old room. Louise, Vinny, Roberta and Peter meet up where Louise begins to yell at her alliance how the votes suddenly turned to her dad. Deciding it would be best to fess up fast before Louise causes a scene, Vinny admits he talked to the other alliance about voting out Bob because he didn`t trust him. Louise tells Vinny if it were up to only her, he would go next but due to the fact the other 5 players may possibly gang up and pick off the group of 4 one by one she decides the 4 are going to work together to get rid of someone in the alliance of 5. Louise tells Vinny to start telling the other alliance that he is jumping ship and that Peter found the immunity idol first thing in the morning. In a confessional, Peter says it makes him feel important that Louise is using him in a big lie while Louise says in another confessional that it will be an uphill battle for the next few episodes but she doesn`t plan to just lay down and surrender.
The next morning, the division between the two alliances is apparent as Homer, Peggy, Bobby, Meg and Lisa sit together on one kitchen table while Louise and Peter sit on another. Roberta sits on the lobby's couch eating her meal. When Lisa asks if she wants to sit and join them, Roberta says she feels she has no idea where to sit while Vinny comes in after sleeping in late. Both Peter and Homer try to get Vinny to sit at their table and try to outdo each other trying to call Vinny over to the point where they stand up and start making a scene. Vinny quickly sits with the alliance of 5`s table. Louise and Peter both give Vinny a look but in a confessional, Roberta explains the whole alliance agreed to make Vinny play spy with the other alliance. By making his old alliance look like they despise him, the other alliance will presumably want to get Vinny on their side.
Roberta`s prediction proves true as Peggy and Lisa both start to talk to Vinny quietly about how things are going with Louise`s alliance while Homer and Bobby play rock-paper-scissors with Bobby beating Homer every time. Vinny looks behind his back to make sure that Louise and Peter are too busy talking together to notice and mentions that Peter and Louise may have found another idol. Meg gets surprised Louise managed to get her old idol and asks Vinny how they found it. Vinny mentions that they found it under the couch yesterday morning after Peter found the clue and gave it to Louise. Louise then poked around the lobby and when she looked under the couch, there it was. In a confessional, Peggy says that with Vinny on their side, the alliance is truly dominating the game and that maybe they can recruit Roberta as well since she also appears to be on the outs with the alliance.
While Roberta walks into the kitchen to put her dish in the sink, the flying house lands again and everyone hears carnival music echo through the windows. Homer opens one and sees the house is inside a big building. The 9 contestants run out where they find Calvin standing in a ball pit in a kiddie playground. When Bobby asks what is going on, Calvin announces the contestants are at the reward challenge site as he wades out of the pit.
Calvin tells the contestants he has news for them about this reward challenge: There will be 2 teams of 4 competing in the challenge and the winners of the challenge will only get the comfort prize today, no advantage available. He adds that since there are an odd number of contestants, 1 player will sit out of the challenge. The challenge will be an obstacle course and the contestants will start the challenge when they climb up a latter to a long wobbly bridge. They must run across it and get to a slide. After all 4 members slide down into the ball pit below, they must look in their side of the ball pit for 3 puzzle bags. After all 3 bags are found, the team of 4 must crawl through small tubes to get to the top of a platform. Once all 4 members get to the top, 2 members of the temporary team will untie the puzzle bags and solve a puzzle. The first team to put their puzzle together will win the reward challenge. Homer impatiently asks Calvin what it is and Calvin explains that the winning team will get to go on a BBQ at a nearby local park. They will have beer and soda along with hamburgers, hotdogs, ribs, pork chops and even a salad. The winning team will get to enjoy their lunch in the outdoors and will just enjoy having a break from the game. After Calvin finishes explaining the challenge and reward, the players start to draw for what team they will be on.
After the selecting is done Roberta, Homer, Lisa and Meg are the temporary green team while Vinny, Peter, Louise and Peggy are on the temporary red team. Bobby ends up sitting out and Calvin tells Bobby he can chose which team to back. He says to Bobby if he picks the team that ends up winning, he can go to the BBQ with the winners. Bobby picks the temporary green team right away. While Bobby sits on a nearby chair that is way too small for him, the 2 teams line up at the starting line that is near their latter.
As soon as Calvin gives the word, both teams take off and all climb the latter one at a time. The 2 teams stay neck and neck while going across the wobbly bridge and both of them get all the players into the ball pit at the same time. All 8 of the competitors wildly search through the ball pit while Bobby cheers for the temporary green team to win. Vinny manages to find a puzzle bag for the red team but to he and his team mates horror, Vinny accidently pulls the rope that is holding the bag shut and spills all the puzzle pieces inside into the bottom of the ball pit. While Vinny and his group are forced to look for the pieces, Lisa manages to find a bag for her team followed by another from Meg. The last bag is surprisingly found by Homer and the green team moves on. Vinny, Louise and Peter all search for the spilled puzzle pieces while Peggy keeps looking for the other 2. Homer, Roberta, Meg and Lisa all climb through a tube to a top and Homer complains how cramped he feels. Roberta tells Homer he should go on a diet and Homer has a fearful look on his face as he climbs. He suddenly gets stuck near the top and can`t move. Roberta and Meg try to pull Homer out from the top of the platform while Lisa tries to push Homer out while she is still in the tube as well. In the ball pit, Peggy manages to find both bags as her 3 team mates believe they got all the pieces Vinny spilled and they start to crawl up. They catch up to the green team as they finally get Homer out. Everyone ends up on the platform and Lisa and Roberta start working on the puzzle for the temporary green team while Peggy and Louise start to work on the puzzle for the red team. Peggy actually manages to make progress on the green team and manages to pass them while Louise doesn`t do much. As Lisa and Roberta are about to finish their puzzle, Louise calls out she and Peggy are done. When Calvin checks the puzzle, he tells the girls they are missing 2 pieces and the puzzle is incomplete. Peter says they could still be in the ball pit. As he and Vinny start to go down the tube to search the ball pit, Lisa puts the last piece into place and calls for Calvin. When Calvin looks at the puzzle, he announces that it is done and that Lisa, Meg, Roberta, Homer and Bobby all won reward. Vinny suddenly emerges from the ball pit holding up 2 puzzle pieces and says he found them. All Peggy can comment to Vinny that it is too late.
The winning team and Bobby are lead outside to a bus stop where Calvin tells them that they will get a lift to the local park and will be lead to the BBQ. As the bus comes, Calvin tells Peggy, Vinny, Peter and Louise he has nothing for them and the 4 re-enter the house while the others board the bus and leave for their reward.
About 15 minutes later, the bus gets to the park and the reward challenge winners step out. An awaiting intern leads them to a gazebo where the BBQ and drinks are. While all the contestants chow down on the meat Lisa sticks to the soda and salad, telling Meg eating meat is against her belief. Meg asks Lisa if she noticed how she was starting to put up a stand against her dad and Lisa pats Meg on the shoulder and says that she is indeed beginning to fight back at her biggest foe. Bobby tells Lisa and Meg that he feels bad siding against his mom in the challenge but didn`t want to stay with Louise when Roberta leans over and whispers to the trio that Peter has an immunity idol while Homer gets drunk on beer. Lisa says that at the immunity challenge, they must not let Peter or Louise win again. Then, the rest of the players can gang up on them and vote one of them out while taking out the idol with it. In a confessional, Meg says she feels happy that things just keep getting better and better for her and Lisa and that if Louise went home tonight, it would be the cherry on top of a perfect day. In another confessional, Roberta says she can`t believe how gullible Louise`s former team mates are and says that picking them off will be easy once her alliance gets their advantage back.
At the house (which is currently flying again), Vinny apologizes to the rest of his group and all 3 half-heartedly shrug it off. In a confessional, Vinny says he keeps pulling off dumb moves and fears Peter's stupidity could be running off on him. Peter comments to Peggy he can`t stand to see Homer beat him and Peggy admits she doesn`t really like Homer that much either due to his stupidity before going upstairs for a nap. While Peter and Louise sit on the couch in the lobby and do nothing but just lay around, Vinny opens the refrigerator for a drink to try to lift his spirits. He reaches for a pitcher of grape juice when he suddenly sees a soda can with a piece of paper taped to it. Vinny takes it and discovers the idol clue. He excitedly shows it to Peter and Louise and Peter says this is what the alliance could use to get the upper hand back. Louise takes the clue from Vinny and starts to read it. She can`t understand the first clue since it is in a foreign language but the second clue leads her to the lobby`s karaoke machine. Looking behind it, Louise spots something and pulls out the immunity idol. Peter and Vinny excitedly high five before doing a crazy awkward dance while Louise hides the idol in her pocket and tells the 2 Griffins that they now have something to help them out with their numbers problem.
About an hour later, Peggy wakes up from her nap as the house lands and the other 5 contestants return from their reward BBQ. She asks Lisa how things went with the reward and she says that while her dad laid passed out in the gazebo after a beer too many, she and the rest of the group explored the park and enjoyed the great outdoors. Bobby suddenly walks up on Peggy and Lisa`s chat and tells his mom he feels sorry he didn`t pick her team for the challenge because he didn`t want to cheer for Louise to win and Peggy says he has nothing to apologize for. Bobby happily hugs Peggy while Roberta and Meg carry a drunken Homer to the lobby and set him on the couch. As Meg goes to wash her hands, Louise meets up with Roberta and whispers to her that she found the immunity idol. Roberta is surprised by the news and says in the confessional with Louise really having an idol now it makes her feel her chances at winning the game went up.
While Roberta goes to add a touch of makeup on her, she meets up with Lisa and Meg and the 2 girls start to chat with her. They ask her if she and Vinny are onboard with the plan tonight of voting off either Peter or Louise and Roberta smiles and says she is. Lisa adds they have to make sure that neither of the 2 outcasts must win immunity and Roberta says they will have to give all the energy they have into today's challenge and admits her mind is tingling with excitement just thinking about it. In a confessional, Meg says todays immunity challenge will possibly determine the outcome of the game and hopes nothing will go wrong with the plan so far like last time.
Later that day, the camera looks in on a long field where some of it is grassy and some of it is dusty and bare. Several bikes and poles can be seen as the house lands in the distance and the contestants and Calvin approach it. Once everyone gets to the bikes, Calvin announces that it is immunity challenge time and takes the necklace back after struggling a bit with Louise, who really doesn`t want to give it up. After Calvin does get the immunity necklace back from Louise, he begins to describe the challenge. For the challenge, each player will hop on a bike and when Calvin blows an air horn, all the players will try to bike to a numbered pole that is on the field. In every round, the last person who gets to the pole is out of the challenge until there is one person left. That person will win immunity and will go to the final 8 while the rest are in peril of being voted out tonight. After Calvin explains the challenge, the contestants all get a bike and start to get ready.
After having a minute to get to the starting line and into position, Calvin walks over to the first pole and blows and air horn. In the first round, Homer is out since he is still not 100% sober and can`t see straight still. The contestants get ready as Calvin jogs to the next pole and blows the air horn again. For round 2, Vinny finds himself out of the challenge as he struggles to ride the bike. In a confessional, Vinny admits in an embarrassed tone he never really learned how to ride a bike at all. Lisa and Meg get worried that Louise and Peter are still in the challenge together and the worry that either of them could win immunity increases when they all pass round 3 and Peggy is out of the challenge. In the next round, Roberta gets eliminated while Lisa begins to get exhausted, which Louise likes to see. In round 5, Lisa looks like she is the one who is going to lose when Bobby suddenly falls down and fails to catch up in time. However, Lisa loses the next round followed by Peter. The competition goes all the way down to Meg vs. Louise. Calvin starts the challenge and the 2 girls go hard at trying to beat each other to the end. A lot of cheering comes from the other 7 contestants, with most of them for Meg. Louise just keeps her eyes on the finish and looks like she will win the challenge but at the last moments, Meg finds the strength in her to bike past Louise and get to the finish first. Calvin announces that Meg won immunity while Lisa, Bobby and Peggy all cheer.
Calvin gives Meg the necklace and tells the players Meg won`t be going home tonight but one of the other players will and tells everyone they have the rest of the day to think what will go down at tribal tonight before dismissing them. In a confessional, Meg says this feels like the greatest moment of her life and once she sees Louise go tonight, she and Lisa are so going to the final 3.
At the house later, everyone but Peter and Louise meet up in the kitchen while Louise and Peter are upstairs. Peggy asks Vinny if he is sure that he saw Louise find an idol and Vinny says he saw what he saw. When Homer asks what the voting plan is tonight, Peggy says that the alliance will give Peter 3 votes and Louise 4 votes at tribal council. Roberta asks why they would split if they are only up against 2 votes and Lisa says that it`s in case one of them plays an idol. Homer says he wants to vote out Peter and everyone begins to decide who will vote for who at tribal council. After the deciding is done, Lisa dismisses the meeting and says that as long as the votes go as planned, things will be smooth sailing. When Homer asks Lisa what could go wrong, Lisa says nothing while Vinny and Roberta go upstairs.
Upstairs, Vinny and Roberta meet up with Louise and Peter and immediately start talking strategy. Louise says that since Meg won immunity, she wants to see Lisa go home tonight. She tells her alliance Lisa has an I.Q of 150+ and she is socially good at playing the game. Peter asks why he should vote for Lisa when they can get rid of Homer like they planned to last tribal council and Louise says without Lisa, Meg would find herself in a troubled position in the game without her ally and she could be easy to get rid of next. The alliance agrees for Lisa to go tonight.
However, in the hallway Vinny seems to walk around and think. He meets up with Roberta and tells her that he realized something. He tells her that if they really do flip from Louise's alliance to the others, it could change the game in a way for both of them to get to the end possibly. Roberta tells Vinny that if they flip, they would be at the bottom of the alliance after Peter and Louise and gone and they would go next. She tells Vinny she won`t snitch on him for being wishy-washy but tells him to think about making a smart move at tribal tonight that will make him go farther in the game. In a confessional, Roberta says Vinny can be unpredictable and that she fears it could be a concern. She adds that she hopes he makes the right call with the voting and sticks to the real plan.
That late evening, everyone goes to tribal council and has a seat with Calvin. Calvin then introduces the jury who now has Bob. As Bob and the jury sit down, he seems to give Vinny a dirty look. Calvin asks Peter for his opinion on how he thinks the game is going. Peter says that it feels like it has been going just fine and that he feels happy to be where he is now. While he says this, Lisa and Meg wink at each other. Calvin asks Louise if she thinks any major alliances are going on and Louise lies and says no one really has an alliance and that the only reason Marge, Teddy and Bob got voted out was because they were all big social threats who could easily get enough jury votes to win. Homer scoffs and Calvin asks why he did that. Worried he might accidently tell the plan out loud, Homer says his mouth feels dry and he could really use another beer. Calvin tells Homer that for now he will just have to sit and wait before turning his attention to Roberta. He tells her he noticed people were surprised to see Bob go home last night and asks why some people got startled to see that. Roberta says she heard rumors that day about Homer going home so much that she though he would go home instead. Calvin asks Meg if having immunity makes her feel 100% safe in the game right now and Meg says no since she has to keep in mind about the future. Roberta gives Vinny a stern look as she says this and Vinny looks like he starts to think about his decision. Calvin asks Vinny what he is thinking about and Vinny says he wonders what the best moves he can make would be to get to the end. Calvin asks Peggy if she also thinks about what to do to get to the end a lot and Peggy says that lately, it probably has been on everyone's mind and tonight one person's plans didn`t come into effect enough to work tonight since they will go home.
Calvin asks Meg if she wants to keep her immunity or give it up and to Peter's disappointment, Meg says she will keep it. Calvin tells everyone Meg can`t be voted for tonight and sends Homer to vote first. When he votes, he writes down Peter and says he hopes Louise plays an idol so it would be his going home. At Lisa`s turn to vote, she writes down Louise and comments that she is finally getting what she deserved for her harsh gameplay like Bart did. When Peter votes, he writes down Lisa and says that if this will send Meg home later, he is happy to do this. At Vinny`s turn, Vinny seems to have a hard time deciding what to do but he finally puts a name down. After all the players vote, Calvin enters the house to collect the results.
When Calvin returns to the tribal patio with the voting box, he asks if anyone would like to play the immunity idol. A lot of players glance nervously at Peter and Louise but neither stand up to play the idol. Calvin then begins to read the votes. The first 2 votes go to Louise and the next 2 go to Peter. When Lisa gets the next 2 votes, she hardly seems bothered but when she gets a third vote, the whole alliance looks surprised. Louise gets another vote while Roberta glances at Vinny, who looks nervous. Calvin gets the last vote and announces that Lisa has been voted out. Louise stands up and tells the other alliance they got played. Meg looks horrified as Lisa ends up leaving the patio and the game and Peter farts in her face and laughs at this. Calvin says that judging by the results of the votes, some people saw it coming, some didn`t making him believe there could be an alliance going on. He dismisses the players and as they go inside, Bobby calls Vinny and Roberta traitors under his breath.
Idol Clues: Clue 1: (A Japanese advertisement for the karaoke machine)/Clue 2: Need a clue that you can completely understand? Well, you could get a really shock if you learn the idol is behind something running on electricity.
The votes:
Peter: Lisa
Louise: Lisa
Bobby: Peter
Homer: Peter
Vinny: Lisa
Roberta: Lisa
Peggy: Louise
Lisa: Louise
Meg: Louise
The results:
Peter- 2 votes
Louise- 3 votes
Lisa- 4 votes
Out and the 4th member of the jury: Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
In the next episode: With Lisa gone, Meg really struggles to keep her focus on the game. Peter and Homer really hate each other and their climax slowly gets to a boiling point. And at the next tribal council, you won`t believe how it will end.