You notice how every now and then, the producers of try and do a personality makeover on one or more of the the contestants. People have told me that Ace was actually a fun guy and that I simply got a bad impression of him from his weak performances on the last two challenges. Maybe that is true, but from the video of this season, it looks like Mallory also jumped off the Ace bandwagon, so I am not the only one who thinks he's a douchebag. This week's makeover contestant was Tonya. We get scenes of her in a club, having fun, enjoying herself, kissing Angela. You know, the standard stuff. It was oddly the same type of intro we got for Ace the previous week, and he went home. I wondered if this would also mean bad news for Tonya.

Once again, we are reminded on how the new people are going to have a hard time against the veterans. They are acting like this is some sort of surprise or something. This is how it always is. And it doesn't matter when your Bunim/Murray season actually aired, it only matters how many times you have been on the challenges. The people who don't have enough energy/incentive to get jobs come back on these things, and they all know they need to win so they can spend another six months or so without a job until the next challenge comes around. I think this was the point The Miz was trying to get across to Kina near the beginning of the episode. Kina was being naive about the alliances on their team, and The Miz came away with a somewhat thoughtful response, although I thought he was too drunk to even pay attention to her speaking. My theory is that he was trying to get her drunk so she would hook up with him, but somehow his plan went awry and he was forced to talk with her. That was probably not the type of thing the producers were counting on when they loaded the houses with all of that booze. By the way, let me be the first one to warn the Bunim/Murray producers about a future class action lawsuit from all of the people who appeared on their shows and became alcoholics who couldn't hold down a job.

Before we got to the challenge, there was one more little thing we had to get out of the way. You knew it would be only a matter of time before somebody in the girls' house would complain about something petty and then the person would hear it and start a fight that was just as petty and would blow it completely out of proportion. In seasons past, it would have been Katie vs. Veronica in this type of battle royale, but this season, we have Tina, and you know that she is always going to be part of some irrational confrontation. So what was this argument about? Well, it turns out that Tina overheard somebody saying that Tonya was saying that Tina was on the phone too long, and people were looking for it, and couldn't find it. Not a big deal? Well, it was for Tina. She started saying that she hates it when people talk shit or, you know, say anything about her. Tina started saying how Tonya was the biggest liar in the house and she would start so much shit if she wanted to. Tonya said that she is not a liar if she is speaking the truth, and the truth is that Tina had the phone when people couldn't find it. This started Tina off again, with the only real effect being the breakout of hysterical laughter of anybody starting the fight. B-side tells me that Tonya complaining about the phone is especially ironic because she was basically on the phone crying to her boyfriend for the entirety of her season in Chicago. I guess she is just trying to prevent others from talking on the phone all season and having their housemates hate them. For her part Coral said if there was a fight her money was on Tina, because Tina fights dirty. Well, everything about Tina is dirty, but yes, I agree with Coral.

Posted by J-Unit on October 26, 2004 12:45 PM