survivor pearl islands premiered on september 18th 2003 as 60 new players battled it out on
the coast of panama for one million dollars and the title of soul survivor this premiere is often
considered the best premiere in survivor history and the main reason for this is due to the first
20 minutes of the season after the teams are divided up into morgan and drake they are given
a sack of panamanian currency in an attempt to buy essentials from a local village and
the first great moment from the legendary rupert bonham he took the morgan tribe shoes after the
players left them unattended this is definitely a pirate adventure pirates pillage pirate steal
pirates take advantage if they were gonna be silly enough to put it right next to me i'm gonna put it
in my thing there was my stealing i stole for the drake take them take them you know whose are these
pirated this along with sandra's spanish speaking skills allowed drake to pick up the most amount of
survivor essentials thus theoretically given them the advantage over morgan to start the
game this looked to be the case as drake won the first immunity challenge of the season
however it wasn't by much as drake was able to pass morgan at the last second thanks to a stumble
had it not been for this collapse by the morgan tribe it has been confirmed that sandra would have
been the first boot of the season had drake gone to tribal council on morgan the weak links of ryan
and lil bonded thus making them easy targets for the tribe with the target going into the
first tribal being ryan however for some reason nicole targeted tawana feeling like she would be
a massive threat down the road when t found out about this she got the entire tribe on board to
take out the person that was gunning for her in nicole making nicole the first boot of the pearl
islands and the first true first boot in survivor that played too hard too fast nicole job spoke
something to go knowing he escaped elimination ryan realized he had to prove himself in
the reward challenge however he had trouble underwater in the early part of the challenge
giving drake the early lead and they never looked back to win reward not only were they given a map
to treasure back at camp but they would send one of their members to morgan and that person would
bring an item back with them to drake's camp sandra would be the one chosen and she had her
first villainous moment in survivor ignoring the complaints of morgan tearing off the tarp
and leaving the shelter in bad shape not given one ounce of care on drake rupert became known
to his tribe and the audience as the provider as he not only was endlessly looking for fish but
he even found the head of the fishing spear after sean lost it in the ocean on morgan having enough
of the elements austin was ready to quit the game and after morgan lost their third trade challenge
he was ready to lay down his torch however andrew savage the tribe's leader begged austin to stay
as they desperately needed to keep the tribe as strong as possible moving forward and that
tribal council against the wishes of austin the tribe sent home the weekly grind in a 5-2 vote
ryan tribe's spoken
knowing she was in danger lillian desperately tried to make herself valuable for the tribe as
she attempted to fish for food unfortunately she lost her tribe's fishing hook yeah not
exactly the best way to improve your positioning drake once again won reward and sent krista to
morgan's camp to steal morgan's pot morgan tried to get some information out of krista
but she was able to remain relatively quiet about the tribe dynamics on drake
but you know in my opinion the best way for krista to avoid interrogation would have been to simply
talk morgan to death with that voice thank god they had another pot thank god i would have felt
horrible i don't even think i could have looked at any of them in the eyes when i left
anyway at the moody challenge the teams had to choose their strongest member to hold
their smallest member on a rope and pulley system drake chose rupert while morgan chose austin and
come on take a wild guess at who wins it for their tribe austin you gotta keep your body off
boom austin can't hang rupert wins immunity for drake
lil pleaded to andrew to let her know if she was going home or not and while andrew
told her she was on the chopping block he never explicitly said she was going
home so at tribal lil was shocked and devastated to be voted out unanimously
this anger torch savage would play a massive role later in the season well tribe has spoken
try that again they don't want you to go yeah right
episode 4 starts with drake winning their 6th straight challenge of the season but despite their
success the big time personalities on their tribe were starting to clash on top of that the tribe
had yet to find the treasure they were supposed to find two episodes ago but finally found it in
this episode with the treasure chest containing many luxuries in a moment somewhat coming out of
nowhere burton comes up with a plan to throw a challenge to get rid of one of the weaker women
of the tribe and the majority of drake agrees to this and at the immunity burton and rupert
drake's strongest members stood out the challenge finally given morgan their first win of the season
they were also given the power of kidnapping a member of drake for the night and they chose
rupert putting a dent in burton's plans at drake two sides begin the form with one side targeting
burton and the other one targeting krista both sides were banking on johnny fairplay's vote
but he infamously showed up to travel council drunk that night in a bit of an ironic moment
considering what we saw later in the season with burn and fair play john sides with krista and
the majority blindsided burton after it was originally his idea to throw the challenge
burton travis spoke
at the reward challenge of episode 5 morgan kept their momentum going winning their first reward
of the season earning them some desperately needed essentials they also sent savage over the drake's
camp and he chose to bring a bag of rice with him back to morgan when treamily arrived for
the immunity challenge the drakes realized it would be a gross food eating competition
and when michelle said she had a high tolerance towards gross food they came up with the perfect
plan they wanted michelle to act as a decoy and pretend to have the hardest time eating the food
that way when morgan had to choose somebody for the tiebreaker they would more than likely
choose michelle and at that point she could eat the food quickly for the win however michelle
demolished her first bit of food without even showing an ounce of disgust so when it came
to the tiebreaker morgan chose sandra who had the most trouble getting her food down the first time
and she once again struggled at the tiebreaker allowing for dar to win a muty for morgan
furious at her for not going along with the plan and being the only person to vote with
burn at the previous tribal michelle is voted out unanimously michelle tribe has spoken
episode 6 starts with a humorous moment as a pelican nicknamed pete terrorized austin
and he threatened the bird with a machete i'm not playing around
right now he wants to sit on your lap
i don't like animals i've been bit by a couple animals and the next animal vice people will die
i have no problem chopping that thing's head straight off drake returned to their winning
ways at the following reward challenge winning a steak feast john was sent to morgan's camp
for the raid where he told morgan that drake in fact threw a challenge to get rid of burton
this greatly upsets savage and yeah come to think of it andrew savage and johnny fairplay
just might be the most polar opposite survivor personalities you could possibly have and i
must win a mutiny for morgan they played the plo challenge much better than drake
as morgan added all the way to rupert's paw as opposed to drake who spread it evenly with rupert
not being able to take all that weight he dropped out and krista obviously couldn't compete against
savage and austin leading to a third straight immunity win for morgan after the challenge
tristan fairplay tried to get the numbers to take out the threatening rupert before the
merge but kristin and sandra told rupert he was in trouble and the three formed a tight
alliance at tribal that trio was able to get sean on board as well to blindside trish in a 4-2 vote
trish tribe has spoken it's time for you to go with fairplay being the other person to vote for
rupert at tribal rupert was furious at john and when i say furious i mean this may be the most
angry we've ever seen a player when returning to camp after tribal who the hell voted for me
who the hell bought it for me john yeah who the hell bought it for me i did what the was that
tonight i was down for drake dude i would have made it look at me i'm looking at it was that
i made a decision based on you're starting to now damn it grab that little scrawny ass by the
neck and pop his head off him like a chicken i'm out there kicking my ass to get you damn fish and
you turn the drive against me luckily the two are able to put aside their differences as with
emerge more than likely coming there couldn't be any animosity within the tribe and at the
immunity challenge morgan and drake arrived fully expecting this to be an individual challenge with
the tribes merging at 10 however morgan drake your past has come back to haunt you come on in guys
the six people you have voted out return now as a third tribe if morgan or drake
lose to the outcast tribe you will go to tribal council tonight and you will vote somebody out
the outcast will then go to tribal council and vote somebody in and replace the member you lost
the outcast would end up coming in first sending both morgan and drake to tribal
with sean and fairplay being at the mercy of the christa sandra rupert alliance both
made their cases on why they should stay the three thankfully saved fair play as
despite schema's play at the last tribal council shawn was simply too much of a
threat and a possible flipper come to merge and was bowed out unanimously travis spoken
at morgan austin had finally had enough and once again beg to be sent home with morgan
this time granting his wishes and for the first time in survivor history somebody quit the game
no need to vote don't waste any more time grab your torch
austin for your wishes
go home
episode 8 starts with the outcast tribal where they will be voting two people back into the game
in a 3-3-2-2-1-1 vote burn and lill received the majority three votes earning them both a
second shot back in survivor fun fact the main reason why lilian was voted back in was due to
the outcasts not wanting to have to deal with her on the pre-jury trip in a random draw burn
and lill were sent back to their original tribes burton apologized for his aggressive
gameplay and he immediately pledges allegiance to drake on morgan lou was welcomed back to open
arms but savage for some reason complained a little about how stupid the outcast twist was
i mean savage you're not wrong but dude have some self-awareness at the moody challenge the tribes
finally merged and burton who was already safe along with lil at the first merge tribal barely
won immunity over rupert morgan decided to vote for fair play while drake planned to put their
votes on savage lil was the swing vote here and savage desperately tried to get her to vote with
morgan however in a moment of pure irony lillian essentially sealed andrew's fate right to his face
i have not totally decided yet and that's all i can say i have not totally decided yet you let
me know before i'll jump off the horse remember i asked you to let me know before and you didn't
seventh person voted out of the tribe andrew you need to bring me a torch
andrew chop a smoker
the morgans knew they were now in trouble with ryan feeling the most vulnerable as the strongest
physically of the three at the reward challenge rupert won but elected to give up his reward to
burton after byrne gave up his immunity to rupert the previous night burton brought
lillian along with him and they came up with a plan to blindside rupert this plan only expanded
throughout the day as rupert's threat level was obvious to everyone in the game however
at the coconuts challenge rupert unknowingly won a must-have immunity with the rupert blindside
put on pause for now ryan's fate was all but sealed as he was unanimously sent to the jury
ryan tribe has spoken i'll be back guys
with fair play seeing firsthand how close krista sandra and rupert happy com he formed an alliance
with burton and agreed with bern that rupert was a massive threat that needed to be taken out as soon
as possible this alliance was all but confirmed that jon when burn gave up his reward to him
much to the dismay of rupert lill also won reward here as her fair play enjoyed food on a catamaran
at the reward fairplay told lil of the plan to get rid of rupert as the two of them burton and
the outsiders of dara and t would give them the majority over rupert's trio lillian agreed to this
and back at camp she even acted like she was loyal to rupert at the meeting challenge rupert had an
early lead in the blow gun challenge but burton was able to come back to win immunity burton
and john then put their plan into action as they picked up the three original morgans to blindside
rupert in a 5-2-1 boat putting an end to the legendary run of the pirate himself rupert bonham
sandra was furious at her ally rupert's blind side and threw away all the fish that rupert had caught
however crystal was the one blamed for this despite krista being sandra's closest ally left
in the game sanchez didn't say a word and this was really the first case of sandra's classic anyone
but me strategy the final seven's loved ones were then brought in for the reward challenge
which of course arguably gave us the greatest moment in survivor history
john you went from really happy to really sad it was either going to be my buddy or my
grandmother coming and uh my grandmother's out here for a reason what happened geez
he's not around my grandmother's sitting home watching jerry springer right now
this is a game for a million dollars i have one chance in my life at this you should take every
single advantage possible if you don't you're a fool knowing they're now at the bottom it was
now kristen and sandra's turn to swing over tee and dar to their side to give them the majority
over lil burton and johnny fair play sandra even got tea to spy on burton and john in the middle
of the night to convince her just how tight they were at the immunity challenge it initially looked
like burton one but jeff realized he overlooked burton's misspelling of liaison with a second
chance dara won her first immunity feeling like they were the swing votes darwin t debated on
which side to join at tribal however fairplay got worried that the two might indeed flip on him and
burton as for one burton was vulnerable and easily the biggest physical threat in the game and in
general he was scared of an all-girls alliance so he tried to get the drakes back together
once again to take out t this surprisingly worked as the drakes and lil banded together
to protect each other from the swing boats blindsidedt in a 5-2 vote see the tribe bespoke
after seeing that darun t voted for bertrand at the previous tribal christian and sanchez
regretted their decision and attempted to align with dara once again however knowing she was
at the bottom dara clutched up to win her second straight immunity with dara safe and having little
locked by their side john and bergen plan to take out krista due to her previous close relationship
with rupert and that tribal council sandra and krista are once again blindsided by burton and
fair play with dara also siding with the duo plus lil to blindside krista in a 4-2 vote
krista trump has spoken
officially out of allies sandra plotted revenge against burton and john as it was literally now
or never to make her move and at the final five reward challenge her chance to make a big move
came as burton won the challenge and elected to bring john with him to explore panama this gave
the three women a chance to come together and realize just how much of a threat the burton
john deal had been all game and this was their last chance to break them up while they still
had the numbers after their original target dara won the third straight immunity burton
and john felt they had no other choice but to butt out lil and we're confident that both sandra
and daryl would follow suit as they would once again get their way but sandra finally got her
revenge for rupert and krista as the three women banded together to blindside burton in a 3-2 vote
burton for the second time tribe's spoken
the final four head off to the immunity challenge at tribal council where it looks to be a trivia
type challenge however instead of playing against each other they would also be facing off against
the jury unsurprisingly the jury won as wouldn't you know it five minds who had been living the
good life at ponderosa had the advantage over one mind who was on day 37 of survivor and due to the
jury winning nobody won immunity thus making all the final four eligible to receive votes dara
was ultimately voted out unanimously because of her challenged dominance far and away being the
favor to win the final immunity making her the sixth member of the jury there tribe's spoken
lily and sandra in fairplay now about as unlikely about finally three as you could get
based off our final immunity balancing themselves on a raft in the ocean and probably the only final
immunity challenge lil could ever win her experience with squatting helped her win
her first immunity guaranteeing herself a spot in the final two this challenge was so hilarious as
after sandra was the first to be eliminated fair play basically spent the rest of the challenge
trying to make a final 2 deal with lille to which she denied every time much to his frustration
however despite losing fair play still felt confident that lil would bring him to the end
as he told her that the jury would hate him for his ruthless gameplay but at tribal
also feeling like the jury didn't respect her and not wanting to lose a fair play lillian
used her soul vote to eliminate the one and only johnny fairplay 14th person voted out of the tribe
johnny fairfield my god need to bring me your torch john i'm sorry john peace
john the tribe has spoken lillian and sandra faced off against the jury while on tv
it appeared that lil had a chance due to her underdog story in reality she was despised by
the entire jury and loses to literally anyone at the merge and months later sandra won her first
of two survivor crowns beating lil in a 6-1 vote to become the sole survivor of the pearl islands
the winner of survivor
man what a fun ride that was if you enjoyed this video as much as i did
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