BUCKWILD Recap: The Bonfire of the Hormones

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By Dashley | Friday, February 1, 2013 | 11:17 pm | 7 Comments
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Meanwhile, back at the GAP, it’s dinnertime, and Joey and Tyler are determined to tagteam romance their ladies and get them back to the tents as early as possible. Shain, ever the Lothario, starts stomping around and shrieking about a chainsaw murderer with three eyes and four legs who is going to come after them any minute. I think it’s possible, as put forward by my theory last week, that Shain’s emotional development stunted sometime around the age of seven, and he truly believes what he’s saying. 

Drunk Joey and Tyler argue about which direction they’re throwing their trash in, and Cara (quite reasonably) is irritated with them for littering, rather than placing the trash inside the garbage bag she helpfully brought along. And then rather than saying, “Cara, you’re right, I’m sorry, I didn’t realize there was a trash bag,” Tyler says, “who brings a trash bag to something like this?” Really? And then Tyler makes this about Cara’s jealousy over the Katie thing, which is so aggravating, because the girl really did have a point. Even more aggravating is MTV coaching to Cara in the interview to say that she really is irritated by the Katie thing. Can’t it be both? Feminism. Boom.

¡Vamos a la fiesta! An exciting game of flip cup is in progress, and Anna is making googly eyes at a guy. His name is Andrew, and they figure out who their mutual friends are. Salwa does the sweetest thing, guys! She gives Anna a pep talk, saying that she can tell Andrew is into her, and why wouldn’t he be? Anna is the hottest bitch there. Aw, girlfriends. And femininism! They hit the saddest-looking piñata I’ve ever seen, and then build a bonfire. And then this very promising party takes a very stupid turn: everyone starts jumping over the bonfire. Anna dares her guy to jump over it, promising a kiss if he does it. 

This kiss probably wouldn’t have been that great if he was covered in third-degree burns.

We return to the GAP and tensions are running high. Cara is entertaining Shain’s feeble attempts at flirting, but gets distracted when Tyler starts pouring lighter fluid all over the fire. She claims that the lighter fluid needs to last them all night and he’s wasting it, while he counters that there’s another bottle and she needs to get off his back. Instead of one of them checking to find out who is right, they just stare one another down. Katie confesses to us that she gets really frustrated when Cara is mean to Tyler. I don’t know what she’s been seeing all night, but what MTV has been showing us is that Cara is the only sober, responsible one in a group of drunken brats. 

Tyler and Katie storm off to their tent to channel their anger into sexytime. Shae, showing remarkable skills of perception, proposes to Cara that they go mess with the angry couple. Cara says sure, and the two of them shake the tent. Tyler goes from zero to asshole in two seconds flat, and yells at Cara while Shae just stands there and laughs. Unfortunately for Cara, Shain wants to be her consolation prize, and she flat-out tells him that it’s not gonna happen. 

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7 Comments

  1. 1
    Ed
    Posted February 2, 2013 at 1:29 am

    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!

    Follow me back Dashley! @ScoglioSpeaks!

  2. 2
    LadyStardust
    Posted February 2, 2013 at 12:31 pm

    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.

  3. 3
    S-Natch S-Natch
    Posted February 2, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    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.

  4. 4
    carol
    Posted February 3, 2013 at 12:26 am

    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.

  5. 5
    labowner
    Posted February 4, 2013 at 10:37 am

    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.

  6. 6
    LadyStardust
    Posted February 4, 2013 at 11:57 am

    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.

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    darci
    Posted February 8, 2013 at 1:46 pm

    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!

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