Survivor: Gabon

Template:Infobox Television Survivor Survivor: Gabon - Earth's Last Eden is the seventeenth season of the CBS reality television series Survivor. The premier aired September 25, 2008, with the first two episodes screened back-to-back.

Applications were due on January 24, 2008. Around March 2008, 800 applicants were selected for an interview by CBS. Out of these 800, about 48 semi-finalists were selected to go to Los Angeles sometime during April 2008. From these semi-finalists, 18 contestants were selected to participate in the show between late June and mid-July 2008. This season, players sent to Exile Island will have a choice of receiving a clue to the location of a Hidden Immunity Idol or a comfort item.

On April 13, 2008 at the annual National Association of Broadcasters's NAB Show, it was announced that the 17th season would be the first to be shot in high definition, using Sony XDCAMs.

Survivor: Gabon began filming in late June. It marked the second season of the series that was filmed in Africa, after Survivor: Africa was filmed seven years prior in Kenya. Reports from Gabon indicate the show was filmed around the coastal towns of Nyonie and Ekwata in the Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve.

Host Jeff Probst mentioned that preproduction of the series was plagued by shipment delays, a crane toppling over and undesirable wild animals encroaching into the production area.

Contestants

Contestant	Original Tribe	First Switch	Second Switch	Merge	Finish	Total Votes
Michelle Chase 24, Los Angeles, CA	Fang				1st Voted Out Day 3	8
Gillian Larson 61, Temecula, CA	Fang				2nd Voted Out Day 6	8
Paloma Soto-Castillo 24, Downey, CA	Kota				3rd Voted Out Day 9	7
Jacquie Berg 25, Santa Barbara, CA	Kota	Fang			4th Voted Out Day 12	5
Danny "GC" Brown 26, Portland, OR	Fang	Fang			5th Voted Out Day 15	6
Kelly Czarnecki 22, Buffalo Grove, IL	Kota	Fang			6th Voted Out Day 18	8
Ace Gordon 27, Naples, FL	Kota	Fang			7th Voted Out Day 21	5
Dan Kay 32, Boston, MA	Fang	Kota			8th Voted Out Day 21	4
Marcus Lehman 28, Atlanta, GA	Kota	Kota	Kota		9th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 24	3
Robert "Bob" Crowley 58, Portland, ME	Kota	Kota	Kota
Charlie Herschel 29, New York, NY	Kota	Kota	Fang
Corinne Kaplan 29, Los Angeles, CA	Kota	Kota	Fang
Crystal Cox 29, Durham, NC	Fang	Fang	Kota			3
Jessica "Sugar" Kiper 29, Brooklyn, NY	Kota	Fang1	Fang
Ken Hoang 22, Westminster, CA	Fang	Fang	Kota			3
Matty Whitmore 29, Pacific Palisades, CA	Fang	Fang	Fang
Randy Bailey 49, Eagle Rock, MO	Fang	Kota	Fang
Susie Smith 47, Charles City, IA	Fang	Kota	Kota			3

The Total Votes is the number of votes a castaway has received during Tribal Councils where the castaway is eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.

^1 Sugar was not picked in the tribal switch. She was sent to Exile Island and would join the tribe that lost the Immunity Challenge. Because Fang lost the challenge, Sugar became a member of Fang.

The game

Episode Titles	Air Date	Challenges		Exiled	Eliminated	Vote	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
"Want to See the Elephant Dung?" (part one)	September 25, 2008	Kota2	Marcus2
			GC2
		Kota3		None4	Michelle	8-1	1st Voted Out Day 3
"Want to See the Elephant Dung?" (part two)	September 25, 2008	Kota3		Dan	Gillian	7-1	2nd Voted Out Day 6
"She Obviously Is Post-Op!"	October 2, 2008	Fang	Fang	Sugar	Paloma	7-2	3rd Voted Out Day 9
"It Was Like Christmas Morning!"	October 9, 2008	None5	Kota	Sugar1	Jacquie	5-2	4th Voted Out Day 12
"This Camp Is Cursed"	October 16, 2008	Kota	Kota	Sugar	GC	6-1	5th Voted Out Day 15
"He's a Snake, But He's My Snake"	October 23, 2008	Kota	Kota	Sugar	Kelly	5-1	6th Voted Out Day 18
"It All Depends On the Pin-Up Girl"	October 30, 2008	Kota	Marcus6	Sugar	Ace	3-2	7th Voted Out Day 21
			Sugar6		Dan	4-3	8th Voted Out Day 21
"Apple in the Garden of Eden"	November 6, 2008	None7	Fang	None7	Marcus	3-2	9th Voted Out Day 24
"The Brains Behind Everything"	November 13, 2008	Fang	Susie	Bob
"Nothing Tastes Better Than Five Hundred Dollars"	November 20, 2008

In the case of multiple tribes or castaways who win reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically where it was a team effort; where one castaway won and invited others, the invitees are in brackets.

^2 Combined Reward/Individual Immunity Challenge. Tribal Immunity was not in play, therefore no castaway was eligible to be exiled or eliminated.

^3 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge.

^4 Exile Island was not yet known to the castaways.

^5 There was no Reward Challenge due to a tribal switch.

^6 Individual Immunity Challenge instead of Tribal Immunity. Marcus chose Sugar to receive Individual Immunity after he won the challenge.

^7 There was no Reward Challenge due to a tribal switch, therefore nobody was sent to Exile Island.

Episode 1: "Want to See the Elephant Dung?" (part one)

• Reward/Individual Immunity Challenge: The tribes would have to race across the plain and up a hill. The first castaway from each tribe to the top of the hill would win an Individual Immunity Idol that would only be good at their tribe's first Tribal Council. The first entire tribe to the top of the hill would win.
  • Reward: An extra bag of corn and beans

• Reward/Immunity Challenge: Six tribe members would be belted together and have to race through a swamp, over a net wall, and under and over a series of hitching posts. The six would then have to dig up three bags of puzzle pieces and deliver them to the three remaining tribe members. These three would then assemble the puzzle pieces to win the challenge.
  • Reward: Tribal Immunity and flint

The castaways were welcomed to the game by Jeff with just their street clothes. After introducing themselves, the tribes were divided by schoolyard pick. As traditional in Gabon, Jeff announced that the elders usually make the decisions in the tribe and therefore the oldest castaways, Bob and Gillian, started the pick. After the tribes were picked, tribe names announced, and buffs passed out, Jeff announced the first challenge for individual Immunity Idols and extra food. Marcus and GC won individual Immunity Idols and Kota won the extra bag of food. At the Kota tribe, Bob and Ace took charge and organized the campsite. At the Fang tribe, a nighttime visit by an elephant spooked the tribe. Randy hit his head on the tribe's hut, requiring a visit by the Survivor medical team to put in several stitches. At a combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, Kota pulled far ahead while digging up the puzzle bags and won by a blowout. Before Tribal Council, Michelle and Gillian were targets for votes due to their negativity and age, respectively. Michelle's negativity outweighed concerns over age and she was voted out 8-1. After the vote, Jeff announced that Fang would be taking their torches back to camp and gave them a flint.

Episode 2: "Want to See the Elephant Dung?" (part two)

• Reward/Immunity Challenge: The tribes have to roll a large ball through a series of gates. At two points along the course, a tribe member would have to climb atop the ball to retrieve of set of keys. At the final gate, the keys would unlock three chains that blocked the gate. The first tribe to go through all the gates and roll their boulder atop a short pedestal wins.
  • Reward: Tribal Immunity and fishing gear

Picked as the leader of Fang at Tribal Council, GC started the tribe's first fire and organized jobs to fix up the campsite. At Kota, Charlie felt attracted to Marcus (Charlie's feelings were not reciprocated as Marcus is straight) and they formed an alliance. The two expanded their alliance to include Jacquie and Corrine. The four discussed bringing in Bob to have a majority, though Bob would be kept out of the core alliance of four. In the early morning of day 5, GC resigned his leadership of the tribe after arguing with Gillian over waking up early and making too much noise. After receiving tree mail announcing the next challenge, Dan tried to unify the tribe by painting everybody with charcoal face paint, but the motivation did not work and Kota won their third challenge in a row. Kota selected Dan to go to Exile Island, where he chose to get a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol, but he was not able to decode the clue to find it. At Fang, Randy fashioned a fishing hook out of parts from his glasses and the tribe was finally able to get some meat. Dan's behavior after he returned from Exile Island made the others suspicious that he had found the Hidden Immunity Idol. This caused some of the Fang tribe to reconsider voting out their weakest link, Gillian, and instead vote for Dan. At Tribal Council, Gillian's weakness at physical challenges was seen as a greater concern than Dan's potential of having the Hidden Immunity Idol and she was voted out 7-1.

Episode 3: "She Obviously Is Post-Op!"

• Reward Challenge: One member of each tribe would hang on to a post. Two members of the opposing tribe would attempt to remove the tribe member from the post and drag them across the sand to the finish line. The first tribe to get the member of the other tribe across the finish line would receive one point. The first tribe to score two points wins.
  • Reward: Blankets, a hammock, pillows, and a mat

• Immunity Challenge: One at a time, six tribe members would slide down a water slide. They would then swim out to retrieve a numbered tile, then run up the hill they slid down to drop their number off. Once all six tiles were retrieved, the remaining castaway would use the tiles to solve a numeric puzzle. The answer to the puzzle is a combination to open a locked chest, which holds an ax. The first tribe to open their chest and use the ax to cut a rope that would raise their tribe's flag would win.

At Fang, the argument over who was or was not the tribe leader continued. At Kota, the rest of the tribe was annoyed at Ace's attitude of being king of the tribe. At the Reward Challenge, Ace chose Paloma to play an instrumental role. However, the Fang members easily overpowered her, leading to their first victory. They also elected to send Sugar to Exile Island. The win re-energized the Fang tribe and they finally felt like a team. Meanwhile, at Kota, Paloma's poor effort at the challenge caused her to be seen as the weakest link in the tribe. Corinne talked to Bob about joining her alliance of four, though she kept him in the dark about his status in the endgame. On Exile Island, Sugar elected to receive a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol over comfort and followed the clues to find the Hidden Immunity Idol. During the Immunity Challenge, Ken secured Fang's victory by overcoming Kota's lead at the tile retrieval stage and solving the numeric puzzle before Bob. After the Immunity Challenge and back at their camp, Sugar told Ace that she found the Hidden Immunity Idol while leading the others to believe she didn't have it. Paloma approached Corinne about forming an alliance and targeting Ace for elimination, due to Ace being manipulative and trying to set her up for failure at the Reward Challenge. At Tribal Council, Ace's attitude at camp was discussed, but the tribe chose to remove their weakest physical link and voted out Paloma 7-2.

Episode 4: "It Was Like Christmas Morning!"

• Reward Challenge: No Reward Challenge occurred due to a tribal switch.
• Immunity Challenge: The tribes would play a lacrosse-like game on the water. Each tribe member would be on a raft and have a paddle. The castaways would paddle around the playing field, using the paddle to pass a ball from one tribemate to another. The first tribe to throw the ball three times into their opponents goal would win.

After Tribal Council, Ace was upset at Kelly's animosity towards him and her vote against him. In retaliation, he targeted her for the next elimination. Over at Fang, an alliance of Dan, Matty, Randy, and Susie formed and targeted GC for elimination. The remaining members of Fang, Crystal, GC, and Ken formed their own alliance. When the tribes next gathered, Jeff announced that the castaways would rank their tribemates by secret survey according to their importance within the tribe. Kota ranked Marcus as most important in their tribe followed by Ace, Bob, Charlie, Jacquie, Corinne, Sugar, and Kelly. Fang ranked Matty as most important in their tribe followed by Dan, Randy, Crystal, Ken, GC, and Susie. After announcing the rankings, Jeff told the castaways to drop their buffs as they would be picking new tribes by schoolyard pick once again. Voted as most important within their tribes, Marcus and Matty stayed with their original tribes and started the draft. The new Kota was Marcus, Dan, Charlie, Randy, Corinne, Susie, and Bob, while the new Fang tribe consisted of Matty, Ace, Crystal, Jacquie, Ken, Kelly, and GC. As Sugar was not selected during the process, she was sent to Exile Island. She would stay there until after the next Tribal Council and then join the tribe that lost the next Immunity Challenge. Since she had already found the Hidden Immunity Idol, Sugar chose the comfort option at Exile Island. At the newly formed Fang campsite, Crystal noticed that Kelly felt like an outcast at the old Kota and invited her to join her alliance with GC and Ken. At the Immunity Challenge, Randy scored all three goals for Kota in their shutout victory over Fang.

Kelly's poor performance at the challenge made Crystal, GC, and Ken reconsider their alliance with her, as they now perceived her as the weakest member of the tribe. However, they decided to target Jacquie instead, realizing that Sugar might have the Hidden Immunity Idol and with it, the trio of Ace, Sugar, and Jacquie would hold power within the tribe. They wanted to ensure that Ace in particular had as little power as possible, as he was also a physical threat. The three shared their plan with Matty to persuade him to vote their way, but he immediately informed Jacquie of the development. Jacquie tried to plead her case to Ken and Crystal, casting herself as an outsider who was not allied with Ace and really wanted to remain in the game. However, her effort was in vain, as the original Fang stuck to their plan at Tribal Council, voting Jacquie out 5-2.

Episode 5: "This Camp Is Cursed"

• Reward Challenge: A tribe member would toss fruit through a hole in a wall to two members of their own tribe. An opposing tribe member would stand in front of the wall and use a club to try to knock away the fruit as it was thrown through the air. Once a piece of fruit is caught by a tribe member, it would have to be thrown through a hole in a second wall defended by a second opposing tribe member. The tribe that catches the most fruit by weight after five minutes would win.
  • Reward: An herb garden, salt, oil, chili sauce, and all fruit collected from the challenge

• Immunity Challenge: One member from each tribe would roll a large ball made of interwoven sticks down a hill. A blindfolded tribe member at the bottom of the hill would attempt to block the opposing tribe's ball with a shield and the aid of a caller. Behind the blocker would be a row of seven goals of varying point values. If a tribe's ball made it past the blocker and into a goal, they would be awarded the specified number of points. The tribe with the most points after five rounds would win.

Sugar arrived at Fang to join her new tribe and was surprised to see that Jacquie was voted out at the last Tribal Council. She continued to feign that she had not found the Hidden Immunity Idol, but Crystal did not believe her and targeted her next for elimination. On day 13, the Fang tribe were visited by an elephant just across the river from their camp. At the Reward Challenge, a strategy change of tossing two fruit at a time over Ace defending the second wall helped Kota win the challenge by 2 pounds (0.91 kg). Kota chose to send Sugar to Exile Island for the third time in a row, with Dan stating that it was a strategy move to force her to play the Hidden Immunity Idol before the tribal merge as they wanted it back into circulation. At Exile Island, Sugar once again opted for the comfort. At the Fang camp, the pressure of the game started to get to GC and he argued with Crystal. Immediately before they were to leave for the Immunity Challenge, he went off alone in the tribe's kayak, causing his tribemates to call out for him. He returned just before they left for the challenge. At the Immunity Challenge, Fang was in the lead until the last round of the challenge when Randy, the caller for Kota, tricked Ace, the blocker for Fang, into stopping and allowing the last Kota ball to reach the goal. The final points were enough for Kota to win the challenge, continuing their winning streak. Before Tribal Council, GC told Matty that he was ready to leave the game. Crystal searched Sugar's bag and found that Sugar had the Hidden Immunity Idol. Crystal, Kelly, Ken, and Matty thought that the upcoming Tribal Council was the ideal time to blindside Sugar, but they decided to grant GC's wish to leave and and he was voted out 6-1.

Episode 6: "He's a Snake, But He's My Snake"

• Reward Challenge: The tribes would be tethered to a 20-foot (6.1 m) long, 200-pound (91 kg) cloth snake. The tribes would start at opposite ends of an oval course. Both tribes would run counter-clockwise around the course and try to catch up to the other tribe. If a tribe member could not continue, they may unhook themselves from the snake and the remaining tribe members would continue the challenge. The first tribe to catch the other tribe and touch one of the opposing tribe members would win.
  • Reward: Croissants, fruit tarts, chocolate éclairs, coffee, and tea.

• Immunity Challenge: The tribes would divide into three pairs. Each pair would be tethered together by a rope. The first pair would crawl under a cargo net, race through the jungle, go through an obstacle, retrieve two sections of a flag pole, and return to the starting line. The next pair would run the same course with an additional obstacle to retrieve the next two pieces of the flag pole. The final pair would run the course with two additional obstacles and retrieve the final two pieces of the flag pole. The first tribe to collect all of the flag pole pieces and assemble their flag would win.

The day after Tribal Council, Matty and Ace made a pact to take each other to the tribal merger as long as Ace could keep Sugar in the game and Matty could keep Ken in the game. Matty swore on his girlfriend and Ace swore on his mother's life. Over at Kota, Dan's extra helpings of food caused conflict among the tribe while the dwindling food supplies at Fang made them rethink their rationing of food. After Ace told Sugar that he thought the rest of Fang went through her bag and discovered the Hidden Immunity Idol, she gave him the idol for safekeeping. At the Reward Challenge, Kota won their fourth consecutive challenge when Ken, Sugar, Kelly, and Crystal were unable to keep up and dropped out of the challenge, leaving an exhausted Ace and Matty to be chased down by the five men of Kota. Randy's taunting of an emotional Crystal did not sit well with her and she predicted that the old Fang and new Fang members would not get along. Kota chose to send Sugar back to Exile Island for the fourth time. Unlike her last visit where she enjoyed the food with the comfort, Sugar felt guilty about eating while her fellow tribe members subsisted on three scoops of rice. Kelly thought that Crystal crying after the Reward Challenge was a sign of weakness, but Crystal said that it was not. At the Immunity Challenge, good teamwork by Kota during the flag pole assembly versus Ace trying to assemble Fang's flag alone allowed Kota to extend their winning streak to five challenges in a row. After the challenge, Matty approached Ace about blindsiding Sugar to flush the Hidden Immunity Idol, but Ace convinced Matty not to worry about the Hidden Immunity Idol being played and to vote for Kelly, though Ace did not tell Matty that he had the idol. Crystal also wanted to blindside Sugar or vote out Ace, but Matty told her of Ace's plans. Ken talked to Matty about blindsiding Ace, but Matty told Ken that he made a promise that he could not break. Lastly, Ken talked to Sugar about Ace and she told Ken that she had given the idol to Ace. Ken was unable to convince Sugar to change her alliances, but Ken did make sure that Sugar took the idol back from Ace. At Tribal Council, none of the blindside plans came to fruition and Kelly was voted out 5-1.

Episode 7: "It All Depends On the Pin-Up Girl"

• Reward Challenge: In two roped off squares, three members of a tribe would toss a breakable ball back and forth. An opposing tribe member would attempt to smash or knock the ball to the ground. The first tribe to break the opposing tribe's ball would score a point for the round. The first tribe to score three points would win.
  • Reward: A helicopter ride to a picnic. Not announced at the Challenge were letters from home.

• Immunity Challenge: The castaways would compete in a head-to-head logrolling contest in a single-elimination tournament. The final round would have three castaways rolling the log at the same time.

The day after Tribal Council, Crystal accidentally kicked over Fang's rice supply, which upset Ace and Matty. At the Kota camp, the alliance of Charlie, Corrine, and Marcus made Dan uncomfortable and he approached them feeling left out. At the Reward Challenge, Kota continued their winning streak by shutting out Fang 3-0; Sugar was chosen to go to Exile Island for the fifth consecutive time. Back at camp, Matty voiced his frustration at Sugar's lack of effort at the challenge. Matty offered Ace a plan to vote out Sugar without Ace having to stab her in the back, but Ace wanted to vote out Crystal instead. Meanwhile, Ken talked to Crystal about blindsiding Ace. During Kota's reward picnic, a crew member of the helicopter surprised them with letters from home. At the Immunity Challenge, Jeff announced that both tribes would be going to Tribal Council, that they would be playing for Individual Immunity, and there would be a twist announced after the Challenge was done. Marcus won the Individual Immunity by defeating Sugar and Ace. The twist was that Marcus had to assign Individual Immunity to one member of the other tribe and he selected Sugar. After the Immunity Challenge, Ken, in an effort to blindside Ace, told Sugar about Ace and Matty plotting to vote her out. Later, Ace asked Sugar to give him the Hidden Immunity Idol, which made her think Ken's story was true. At Fang's Tribal Council, Ken's plan to blindside Ace came to fruition and he was voted out 3-2. The afternoon before Kota's Tribal Council, Dan scrambled to keep himself in the game. Charlie, Corrine, and Marcus replaced Bob in their alliance with Randy, though they did not tell Bob. Susie upset Corrine by telling her she had planned to vote for her. Corrine immediately went to her alliance and told them that she wanted to vote out Susie. Corrine, Charlie, Marcus, Randy, and Bob split their votes between Dan and Susie, convincing each to vote for the other and hoping that the immunity idol would be flushed out if Dan had it in his possession. At Tribal Council, Dan was voted out 4-3.

Episode 8: "Apple in the Garden of Eden"

• Immunity Challenge: The castaways would hold two poles on the tops of their hands up against a board over their heads. Any movement in their hands would cause the poles to drop to the ground. The last person who does not drop their poles would win immunity for their tribe.

Back at camp after Tribal Council, Marcus and Corinne addressed Susie over her opinion that she was a stronger player than Corinne. Over at Fang's camp site, the tribe tried to start over and looked ahead to an expected tribal merger. After tree mail hinted at a tribal merge, the castways packed up their personal items and went to a beach for a feast. At the feast, a clue for a Hidden Immunity Idol was tucked under a locked box that the castaways would open after the feast was over. When nobody showed much interest in going to find the idol, Marcus proposed to dig up the Hidden Immunity Idol, but to throw it in the ocean so that nobody could use it. Although many were tempted to take the Idol, the castaways finally agreed to throw it in to the ocean. When the castaways opened the locked box, they were instructed to each draw a numbered stone from a bag. A second note was then read that stated that they had just selected new tribes. Castaways with odd numbers would be the new Fang and the even numbers the new Kota. At the new Kota, Marcus identified Crystal as the cousin of one of his friends, forming a connection with her. The two agreed not to write each other's names down at Tribal Council, but Crystal later stated in a confessional she had no intention to be loyal to him. Marcus tried to convince Susie to join his alliance with himself and Bob. At the new Fang, Corinne felt that the greatest threat to her alliance with Marcus was Matty and she wanted to vote him out next. Matty told Sugar that Ace never targeted her contrary to what Ken told her and she felt bad about blindsiding Ace at the last Tribal Council. The two formed a new alliance. Concerned over how Susie would vote at a Kota Tribal Council, Randy talked to Charlie and Corrine about throwing the next Immunity Challenge to force Fang to go to Tribal Council where the three would vote out Matty. At the Immunity Challenge, Matty outlasted Bob and he won the challenge for Fang, spoiling the Charlie-Corinne-Randy alliance's plans. Marcus tried to keep the Kota six alliance going by approaching Crystal about replacing Susie in the Kota six and voting out Ken followed by Susie, but she did not trust him. Marcus told a different story to Susie, telling her the plan would be to vote out Ken followed by Crystal. He also promised to take Susie to the final three. Not wanting to betray her long term alliance with Ken, Crystal told Ken what Marcus told her. Crystal tried to convince Susie that Marcus' promise of a final three was not possible because Corinne and Randy disliked Susie too much to allow that to happen. At Tribal Council, Susie decided to join Crystal and Ken, and they voted Marcus out 3-2.

Voting history

	Original Tribes			Switched Tribes						Merge
Episode #:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7		8	9
Eliminated:	Michelle 8/9 Votes	Gillian 7/8 Votes	Paloma 7/9 Votes	Jacquie 5/7 Votes	GC 6/7 Votes	Kelly 5/6 Votes	Ace 3/5 Votes	Dan 4/7 Votes	Marcus 3/5 Votes
Voter	Vote
Bob			Paloma					Dan	Ken
Charlie			Paloma					Dan
Corinne			Paloma					Dan
Crystal	Michelle	Gillian		Jacquie	GC	Kelly	Ace		Marcus
Ken	Michelle	Gillian		Jacquie	GC	Kelly	Ace		Marcus
Matty	Michelle	Gillian		Jacquie	GC	Kelly	Crystal
Randy	Michelle	Gillian						Susie
Sugar			Paloma	Exiled1	GC	Kelly	Ace
Susie	Michelle	Gillian						Dan	Marcus
Marcus			Paloma					Susie	Ken
Dan	Michelle	Gillian						Susie
Ace			Paloma	Kelly	GC	Kelly	Crystal
Kelly			Ace	Jacquie	GC	Crystal
GC	Michelle	Gillian		Jacquie	Kelly
Jacquie			Paloma	Kelly
Paloma			Ace
Gillian	Michelle	Ken
Michelle	Gillian

Ratings

U.S. Nielsen ratings

#	Episode	Rating	Share	18-49	Viewers (millions)	Weekly Rank
1	"Want to See the Elephant Dung?" (Part 1)	7.8	13	4.5/13	13.052	#13
2	"Want to See the Elephant Dung?" (Part 2)	7.5	11	4.5/10	13.064	#13
3	"She Is Obviously Post-Op!"	7.7	12	4.5/12	13.076	#12
4	"It Was Like Christmas Morning!"	7.8	13	4.4/12	13.278	#12
5	"This Camp Is Cursed!"	7.9	13	4.2/12	12.883	#10
6	"He's a Snake, But He's My Snake!"	7.9	10	4.4/12	13.310	#9
7	"It All Depends On the Pin-Up Girl"	7.7	13	5.2/12	13.017	#14
8	"Apple in The Garden of Eden"	8.1	9	5.8/12	13.157	#7

Controversy

Survivor: Gabon has received criticism from the Parents Television Council for a brief, uncensored glimpse of the head of Marcus' penis when it was exposed as it accidentally fell out of his underwear. The exposure occurred on the season opener during the second Immunity Challenge.

External links

• Official CBS Survivor Gabon Website