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Last week: The boys outperformed the girls at the visiting rodeo when they stayed on the bulls longer, and the girls had to make them dinner in their lingerie. Shae and Joey had a painful (to watch) date. Tyler and Katie flirted. A lot. Shain got his new truck stuck in a mudhole. And we met Najee, my Salwa’s boyfriend.
Episode 9: Pitching a Tent
We begin at Shain’s house, where Joey is throwing something at Tyler for busting out his headlight, and hits him in the balls. Shain emerges from his shed with a jar and a garden till and explains that he’s burying his money. Predictably, the other guys want him to share, but Shain condescends to explain to them that the reason they don’t have any money like he does is because they’re not responsible enough. Not responsible enough to bury their money in the backyard. From what we’ve seen so far from Shain, I would hazard to guess that his backyard is full of jars he forgot he buried.
Anyway, the guys ask him if he’s going camping with them that weekend. They both have dates; Joey has Shae and Tyler has Katie. Shain, ever the silly chick-flick sidekick that he is, realizes that in order to fit in, he’s going to have to find a date, too! He consults with his friends and decides he needs to ask Cara. He’s been working hard all summer on hooking up with her anyway. Tyler weirdly encourages this, and I say weirdly because he was the last one that hooked up with her. Presumably.
At the girls’ place, Cara is making an omelet out of macaroni and cheese. Tyler is flummoxed at the thought of this combination, but Cara calmly explains that her dad used to make spaghetti omelets all the time (gross.) He then ungratefully makes gagging noises as he tries the omelet. He complains that the cheese is too hot (Cara put too much hot sauce in or something?) He goes outside to recover for some reason, and Katie runs out to console him and make sure that the spicy food isn’t causing his death, while Cara samples the omelet to make sure she’s right, and he is the crazy one.
Maybe it’s the Febreze, not the hot sauce, that’s giving it that special zest of poison.
Cara tells us that she feels guilty about Tyler’s near-death experience, so she sets up a game of Truth or Dare. The best way to apologize to me is bringing me chocolate, and I’m guessing for Tyler it’s beer, so I’m not sure how a game of Truth or Dare is supposed to constitute an apology, but let’s just go with the premise we’ve been given. Anna dares Tyler to kiss Katie’s big toe. Cara, seeing that control of Tyler’s dick the game is slipping away from her, whines loudly about it, and then when Tyler completes the dare flawlessly, vengefully dares Katie to wag her butt in front of Anna’s face for two minutes.
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I’ll be honest, as a guy, it embarrassed me to see Shain flirt with Cara. That was just sad. Any hook up that happens between them next week, be it a kiss or sex, is going to be just done out of pity. It’s especially lame because Cara’s far from the most attractive of the bunch.
I also admit that I was stunned to see Shain and his family wearing gloves while making that candy. Even though the promise of seeing Salwa flash her boobs at me wouldn’t convince me to try any of it.
I went from liking Cara in the first episode to hating her in the second. She was just really rude to Sevgi for now real reason. When describing her as the girl in their relationship, she made sure to say that she was emotional and dramatic and she said them in very cruel ways. Sevgi’s better off IMO.
I also vote that we include making Salwa a permanent cast member next season too! Far too little of her in these episodes!
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Can we just have a reality show with Shain’s family? I’d totally watch a show about Meemaw Gandee’s candy-making business. Najee and Salwa can help too. I love those two. I think they don’t show them as much because all that gorgeousness makes the rest of the cast look bad.
Anyone else wondering why none of the girls have accents while the guys have to have subtitles? As a Southerner, I call bullshit on the authenticity of the chicks – the guys, however, are like every fella I went to high school with. Tots agree on the Shain fam show – much more authentic than what these chicks are dising out.
I might be totally wrong, but I really don’t think Cara went out with Sevgi. I think that is a story she came up with for the show thinking it would get her more screen time. It was more like childhood friends and one of them had to move away. I did not sense any romantic feelings between them, even if it was in the past. Their whole discussion of who was the girl vs guy seemed very scripted and rehearsed.
Overall, this show is not that bad. I would feel differently if they only showed one episode per week. It is also one of the most scripted ‘reality’ shows on MTV I have seen in a long time. Burying money in the yard while your two friends are there, oh and a whole tv crew? Um, even Shane is smarter than that. I do think a lot of the stuff Shane’s family does is true. They are hilarious. Maybe MTV will take a page out of TLCs book and give the Gandee’s their own show like TLC did for Honey Boo-Boo.
The one thing that has impressed me with this show is the 3D words/chapter titles. They are pretty cool. I know it is basically a new program MTV bought, but you can tell they put some time into it.
I am so damn enthralled with these kids. How in the fuck do you forget to take your tent from the camp site?
Loved the party the girls had when everyone else went camping. Good for you Anna, you deserve a man you are so awesome. And Najee cooks – steak no less. Yummy
S-Natch I wonder if the girls aren’t more educated than the boys and learned to “lose” their accents. I can hear a slight accent in Anna’s voice.
Cara was being a typical man in the relationship. She is so stupid she doesn’t see she is taking her anger for Tyler out on her ex?
Damn season is over next week. I think they are going to do another season since their ratings have been going up.
S-Natch: Cara (I think) is the one that goes to WVU, right? Do we know for sure that she’s actually from WV? A lot of my friends went to school there and they have a pretty large out-of-state attendance (and internationals too). She could be from somewhere else, but has lived in WV attending college for the past couple of years. I’m not sure about the other girls though. The rest of the girls had that house in South Charleston in the first episode. If they’re from the city, that may explain the less obvious accent as well. The boys obviously live in the country, so their accent would be stronger.
I dunno what it is about rednecks but they always make a fascinating watch. And of course add the familiar reality formula of a mix of horny attractive coeds and now all of a sudden I’m hooked…plus I’m learning new vocabulary every day.
Also I thought it was great they played the song “Caged Animals” by Ambassadors when Katie and Tyler go to sleep in their tent and the girls mess with them, because that song sort of describes this show..and probably how Tyler felt in the tent!