What kind of argument happens around a slurpee machine? Well, the kind of argument that Coral likes to start, of course. Coral has become a little leery at all of the independent voices in the house that may not think she is entitled to make it to the end without contention. No, some of her team actually had the guts to think about playing the game fair. This juggernaut going after the Coral included Robin, Ibis, and Aneesa. Katie wanted to stick it to Coral because Coral had Veronica on her side, and she and Katie are pretty much mortal enemies, despite all the talk about them not hating each other. Now, we know that Aneesa, at least from her previous votes is not so much about fairness as she is about keeping with consensus. And Ibis? She also made her decisions based on what would antagonize the least amount of people. This new groups wasn't really all high and mighty, but once a lot the women saw how a couple of people basically conspired to get rid of Angela, they opened their eyes.

I must mention the guys because the producers decided that since the show was in its seventh week, it was OK to clue everybody in on the fact that there were two apparently single gay men on the same Bunim/Murray reality show! Yes, Nick and Shane were happy talking about how it was great having somebody who shared their same experiences around at the same time. Sitting around the table, they got a lot of advice about the struggle for gay rights and indentiy from, uh, Eric Neis? Apparently afraid that they were putting too many gay people on at the same time, the producers left off Dan, perhaps because they wanted to keep the level of discourse up, and not degenerate into what you did after you were caught pleasuring yourself in an adult movie theater. Bunim/Murray is always looking to keep the level of discourse on their shows high. Since nary a word has been mentioned of Nick or Shane during this season, I figured they were setting us up for one of them to go home. But first they had to go about that messy business we have now come to know as "humiliating the girls in every competition possible".

The name of this week's game was "Fill Er Up", and the teams were instructed to wear bathing suits underneath their normal clothes, so things had to be going absolutely CRAZY! Although the challenge didn't involve much strategy, despite Jonny Mosely saying the team leaders would be an important in the game, it was definitely one of the more gross challenges to date. Thankfully my chinese food hadn't arrived yet (oh man, are the TVgasm offices running low on food), so I didn't get sick myself. The teams chose one person to be slathered from head to toe in honey while laying down in a plastic coffin. Once nice and sticky inside the coffin, their teammates would then cover them in several thousand maggots(super worms they call them now) and cockroaches. These cockroaches were like nothing nobody has seen, or at least Ibis has never seen. I found it strange that she was in South America all of that time in that pig sty of an RV and never encountered a roach like she saw during the challenge. Roaches are everywhere in the third world. Some of them carry away kids in the night. That's the reason people use bug nets when in the tropics, not for some silly idea that it will protect against mosquitos carrying malaria.

But wait. THERE'S MORE!

Posted by J-Unit on November 23, 2004 1:12 AM