Amazingly though, even though Nehemiah seemed completely full of rage, he then pulled the "I don't see why they don't get that I'm joking." Oh. Clearly Nehemiah changed horses mid-stream. A little damage control, if you will. You know, because he was acting like a douchebag. Point being: this altercation ended peacefully with Neh and Mike laughing and dapping all the way home. Unfortunately, the emotions were too much for poor Rachel who holed herself up in a toilet stall and cried, cried, cried. See, she thought it was all her fault that the Halifax guys were going home, but no, you sillyhead! They weren't going anywhere! The girls then all had to climb in the stall and give her exaggerated encouragement, kind of like when you're trying to make a seven-year-old stop crying. "This is STUPID!" said Lacey, trying to cheer her up and make her realize everything was okay. But seriously, it was stupid.

The next morning, Rachel, Wes, and Danny were supposed to drive out to a campsite an hour away and film HelloGoodbye, but oopsy-daisy! In her drunken state, Rachel forgot to set her alarm clock. The three all headed out extremely late, and in the car, Wes and Danny continued to hound Rachel about the basketball hoop. Man, these guys really love this thing, but maybe I'm underestimating it. I mean, it was clearly the reigning story of the household. In fact, over at Gossip Central, Lacey was talking about it to her boyfriend Ryan: "Yeah, Rachel broke their basketball machine last night. They're so pissed at her. She whale-dived on it, and it folded in half and broke the wire out of the machine." Seriously Lacey, this is the most mundane gossip yet. Next she's going to be regaling Ryan with tales of how the iron was really hot today and how the garbage kind of smelled.

Meanwhile, in the car, Danny, Rachel, and Wes kvetched about Lacey and her gossiping ways. Ah, would this be the episode where Lacey finally becomes the outcast? We've been expecting it all season. Has this golden moment arrived?? Well, Danny in particular really laid into Lacey, saying that all she does is talk about people behind their backs... unlike what he was doing at that very second. We then saw a flashback of Lacey saying, "Not that our roommates are super stupid, but they're definitely not at the prime of their intelligence." Look, she might be talking behind people's backs, but at least she's not lying.

For those of you who care about the saga of HelloGoodbye, Rachel and the crew arrived at the park but couldn't actually find the proper campsite. This made Danny pissed, of course, so they all had to drive back home, thus wasting essentially two or three hours of precious drinking time. At the mansion, Rachel coordinated with HelloGoodbye to film them the next day instead, but since she was tired from all the extra work that her irresponsibility had wrought, she asked Lacey to do the shoot instead. Well, Lacey explained to us that her group was in charge of Enon while Rachel's was in charge of HelloGoodbye; so while it sucked that they had arrived late and missed their shoot, it really wasn't Lacey's fault or responsibility. What the hell are you talking about, Lacey? Don't try to be "logical" and "professional"! Rachel got drunk, missed her own damn appointment with the band, and now has to go back out there the next day. Clearly this is something you should be doing instead. Rachel's already worked very lightly today. Gosh, you're so inconsiderate sometimes.

That night, the whole gang went to see HelloGoodbye perform, and guess what? Lacey liked them! She really liked them! But seriously, they can't be as good as Enon. NOTHING's as good as Enon! Afterwards, Rachel and Danny bitched about Lacey some more, with Danny complaining, "I thought she was going to take this thing seriously." This coming from the guy who blew off the Enon shoot so he could get drunk at the Spaghetti Warehouse instead. But I can't expect rational thinking from Danny. After all, he is an IDIOT.

The next day, Rachel, Melinda, and Danny headed off to the campsite yet again, and spent most of the morning complaining about how Lacey had said this shoot was stupid. Actually, I'm pretty sure Lacey was saying it would have been stupid for her to go because, you know, it wasn't her responsibility. Nevertheless, this powerful trio arrived at the campsite where they were shown a sizable cliff above a river. "I am going to jump off this cliff no matter what happens," promised Danny. Uh oh. Will this lead to a freshly re-broken skull? I don't know, but speaking of bashing faces in, that was my first impulse when we met the lead singer of Hellogoodbye and he began singing a stupid song on his banjo. It was not unlike that seminal scene from Animal House where John Belushi destroys that guy's guitar. Nevertheless, with this guy crooning on the soundtrack, we then saw Danny and Melinda jumping off the cliff and then boasting about how symbolic it was for their relationship. The good news was that this Danny/Melinda bit was over relatively quickly. The bad news was the mild assumption that if we went an episode without getting an update on these two, we'd be furious.

This guy is just asking for a beating.

That's better.

Posted by B-side on October 18, 2005 1:29 PM