Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based off the latest episode of Survivor 41.
Reward/Immunity Challenge – ”Keep Digging”
- Versions of this challenge were previously used in Africa and Gabon.
- This is the first season to not be filmed in Africa to use this challenge.
- The yellow team is the first yellow team/tribe to lose this challenge.
- Boran won in Africa and Kota won in Gabon.
- Both previous times this challenge was used, the season’s winner was on the winning team.
- Ethan in Africa.
- Bob in Gabon.
Season/Merge
- This is the first season since South Pacific without a tribe swap/switch/expansion.
- The tribe color combination for this season is exactly the same as Edge of Extinction.
- Blue, yellow, green pre-merge tribes.
- Manu, Kama, and Lesu in Edge of Extinction.
- Luvu, Yase, and Ua in Survivor 41.
- Red merged tribes.
- Vata in Edge of Extinction.
- Unnamed merge tribe in Survivor 41.
- Blue, yellow, green pre-merge tribes.
- This is the 5th season with a red merged tribe. The others are as follows:
- Jacare in The Amazon.
- Xhakum in Guatemala.
- Libertad in Nicaragua.
- Vata in Edge of Extinction.
- There have been exactly one red merged tribe in every “decade” of Survivor.
- Jacare in 1-10
- Xhakum in 11-20
- Libertad in 21-30
- Vata in 31-40
- Unnamed merge tribe in 41
- There have been exactly one red merged tribe in every “decade” of Survivor.
- This is the second season after Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers to have 3 starting tribes remain intact until the merge.
- Saboga was dissolved in All-Stars.
- Matsing was dissolved in Philippines.
- Luzon was dissolved in Cagayan.
- Masaya was dissolved in Worlds Apart.
- To Tang was dissolved in Kaoh Rong.
Advantage/Twists
- This is the first time this merge twist happened.
- A similar one happened in Fiji, where the merged tribe was split in half and the teams competed for immunity, sending only the losing team to tribal council.
- Erika is the first person since Carl in David vs. Goliath to be sent to Exile.
- Evvie is the only Yase member to be safe this episode
- Heather is the only Luvu member to be on the non-safe portion of the merged tribe.
- This is her first time losing an immunity challenge.
- This week’s “Game within a Game” rebus puzzle is a callback to Angelina’s “Can I have your jacket?” quote from David vs. Goliath.
Tribal Council
- This is the first non-finale episode where there wasn’t a tribal council or elimination of some sort.
- It’s the second episode to end without an elimination after the Panama season finale “Call the Whambulance.“
- This is the fourth episode with a cliffhanger ending. The others are as follows:
- “What the…? (Part 1)” in Pearl Islands.
- “Call the Whambulance” in Panama.
- “One of Us Is Going to Win the War” in Edge of Extinction.
- This is the first episode that Ricard and Shan didn’t attend tribal council since episode 2.
- Episode 2 is the only episode that Ricard and Shan didn’t attend tribal council during the pre-merge.
Confessionals
- Liana and Shan had the highest number of confessionals this episode with 6.
- Heather is the only person who didn’t have a confessional this episode.
- She’s had 2 confessionals across 6 episodes.
- She’s only had a confessional in 2 episodes out of 6.
- Shan has the highest confessional count so far this season with 36.
- Her confessional total is the same as the number of confessionals in this episode.
- Erika had more confessionals this episode than she did in episodes 1-5 combined.
- Ricard, Sydney, Shan, and Tiffany have had at least 1 confessional in every episode so far.
Ratings
- The sixth episode received 5.0 million viewers and 0.8 in the Adults 18-49 demo.
Episode Title
- The episode title “Ready to Play Like a Lion” was said by Erika when talking about her time on Exile.
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i think the episode where frosti went home in china also had a cliffhanger ending
Yeah you’re right, I forgot about that one!