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As I said before, the Austin kids were being targeted, and while Wes was campaigning to get people to vote for Shane, Derrick told everybody about the plan to make sure that Wes would not go unpunished. In retaliation for trying to vote out Shane, the rest of the people were going to vote Danny and Ev into Exile, pitting the two best friends against each other.

Now, the plan might have been to vote for Shane, but the voting was oral, and even though Coral and Evan weren't there to cause trouble (winners of the challenge can't participate in the decision to put the second team into exile since they were already responsible for one team being sent there), Shane and Linnette let it be known that they were going to vote for Danny and Ev as retaliation against the Austin cast. Theo and Chanda are next, and they aren't down with the entire "Fuck Austin" mentality and vote Johnnie and Tonya into exile because they had the worst time.

Now, instead of sticking to the plan and voting for Shane, Melinda sees an opportunity and votes for Tonya and Johnnie as well. It looks like it is going to be close vote between Tonya and Johnnie and Danny and Ev when it comes time for Johanna to vote. Even though the plan had obviously changed, Johanna decided that she was going to vote for Shane and Linnette just like Wes told her to, all but removing any chance she had of perhaps saving Danny from having to go into exile as well.

After the final votes were counted, it turned out that Johanna's decision would not have made a difference, but you never know what could have happened if they had only stuck to the plan. Danny was absolutely furious. After explaining that it took a lot to get him mad, Danny let Johanna have it. Umm, did Danny realize that we were all watching the Austin season? It takes a lot to get him mad? Like when he got in that fight and came home and blamed Nehemiah for not having his back when Nehemiah was not anywhere near the scene? Or when he broke up with his girlfriend because she joked that it might be fun to shag Prince William? Or when he went to American Eagle and the only hats they had left had full-size brims? The only thing it takes Danny to get mad is, well, Danny.

With Danny and Wes pegged to battle in Exile, the only thing that could save one of them would be to win the challenge the next day. The game was called bush whacked and it put all of the teams on raised wooden platforms. A medicine ball would be swinging around and they would have to try and knock each other off and you could also be eliminated if you held onto the ball for more than three seconds.

Again, nobody cared who won, we all just wanted to make sure that both Danny and Wes lost. Things got started off well when Danny, who doesn't get mad very easily, got knocked off early and immediately threw a temper tantrum. After four people were eliminated, the remaining teams placed themselves on higher posts. When another four teams were eliminated, they moved up to even higher posts, and I was starting to get worried because Wes made it to the final round.

Fortunately, all of my anxieties were put to rest when Wes was eliminated. Now you would think that it would be a nice relaxing time for the remaining teams now that there was no worry that any of them would be going to Exile, but that was not the case. Johnnie and Tonya were still in contention, and Johnnie doesn't like to lose. He and Tonya started arguing because he thought that Tonya was giving up, but she was screaming that wasn't the case.

In the end, Tonya got hit and the head, and although we would imagine she is used to the donkey punch, this knocked her off the platform. It looked like Johnnie was so disgusted that he simply threw Tonya off, but my interpretation is that he actually tried to save her, but when he tried to grab hold of her, he only got a handful of boob. Worried that he would get some herpes or kidney stones, he took his hand away and Tonya fell on her ass. I would normally call Johnnie a jerk, but since this is Tonya, I kind of think that I should blame her for getting in the way.

Besides Wes, Danny, Melinda and Johanna, everybody was fine with the Exile teams and was actually bummed that they couldn't watch. Eventually, they all decided that it would be just as much fun to get drunk instead.

Danny and Ev, Wes and Casey were taken to the secret Exile location, where they learned of their task. When they arrived in Australia, everybody had their bags weighed. It seemed strange at first, but we soon learned the reasoning behind it all. Each team was going to have to carry they weight of all of their bags through the Exile course.

Right away, Casey was worried, because she had packed a lot more weight than Ev. Isn't it cute when they are so young and innocent? Casey didn't realize that she is now with Bunim-Murray and you can always count on somebody being dumber than you. Danny had decided to pack a lot of Melinda's things with him, meaning his bags alone were 103 pounds, or just ten pounds less than the combined totals of Danny and Ev.

By the way, kudos to the producers. Now that all future Challenge contestants will be worried about the weight of their bags, it will be much easier to force lots of sponsored clothing on the contestants.

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Posted by J-Unit on May 31, 2006 1:55 AM