On Pagong beach, Ramona keeps throwing up; B.B.'s dyspeptic nature isn't improving. He doesn't care if he gets thrown off, he says. Still, Pagong seems more tightknit than the Tagi troop. The two Pagong youngsters, Greg and Colleen, keep running off into the wilderness together; eyebrows are raised. Meanwhile, another relationship is developing, between Richard, who it turns out is gay, and Rudy, who exclaims that his military pals won't believe he's bunking with a homosexual. The "immunity challenge" is more gruesome this episode -- islanders have to eat squiggly, dirty, thumb-size yellow maggots. It seems the gastrointestinally challenged Ramona is vulnerable here, but she gamely swallows the giant worm when her turn comes.

It's her teammate Gervase, the brawny YMCA athletic instructor, who eventually balks when he and Tagi's Stacey are chosen -- as the most squeamish castaways -- to go one-on-one in a chew-off. Gervase chokes, slapping his bald head like Curly of the Three Stooges as he tries to psyche himself up to swallow the wriggling beetle larvae. Stacey surprises everyone by downing her plateful, and wins the immunity challenge for Tagi. She's rewarded with kisses from her teammates and a slap on the butt from Richard. But when the Pagong group meets in Bwana Jeff's tiki hut to vote a member off the island, Gervase somehow escapes his day of reckoning. Instead, like their Tagi counterparts, the Pagong castaways vote solidly to oust their oldest member, B.B., with Ramona the runner-up.

(B.W.)

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