RECAP: Around the World in 80 Plates- Mangia Italia

11 Comments

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   Derek Hazelton
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 10:32 am

   It seems to me that if you are on a team of 4, Gary stupidly voted. He should have voted for Jenna, just like Liz. I mean, at worst, you’ll force a tie, at best, John will also vote for Jenna, rendering her vote moot. I believe that Nicole Who would’ve voted for Jenna, if it came down to a tie between Jenna and Gary. I don’t understand what Gary was thinking and I don’t understand the decided lack of strategy on this show.

   @J&B, do you guys only pinch hit for the regular recappers who aren’t able to complete their assignments? If not, when are you two getting your own show? Please tell me you’ll be recapping something like “True Blood” or “Big Brother” later this summer. You definitely deserve it after incluing a Super Mario Brothers reference and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reference in the same recap.

   Keep up the GREAT work!

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   Jane and Blanche
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 10:48 am

   We agree on the strategy! It’s so frustrating lol
   We will be recapping Hollywood exes, starts June 27, weekly! thanks for the support @derek hazelton!

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   Mummy Butterfly
   Posted June 8, 2012 at 2:07 pm

   I despise Avery. Didn’t like her last week (and the whole “my beets were stolen” crap) – REALLY can’t stand her whining this week about being picked last. DUH! That means they wanted you for THEIR team, so they didn’t pick you for the OTHER team. She * Just * Annoys * Me!

   Jenna also annoys me, I want to slap her silly. Or muzzle her. Or shove a stolen beet in her mouth and duct tape it there so she can’t talk (in ANY language).

   I loved Gary. WTH? Force a tie! This is a game! PLAY IT! Sad to see him go.

   Great recap!

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   Foggywood
   Posted June 9, 2012 at 2:04 am

   J & B – I’d let you cook me dinner anytime! I love “Jenna salami” with no other context. Not Jenna the Salami, just Jenna salami. HEE!
   Thank you guys so much – Lurved the whole thang. Am in Asia right now and can’t get the stream, so you two saved me.
   xoxoxo –
   Foggywood

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   Jane and Blanche
   Posted June 9, 2012 at 9:39 am

   Thanks, Foggy! We love you, too! Come back quick and don’t forget to bring us something purty

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   Another World
   Posted June 9, 2012 at 11:16 am

   Gary was my favorite! Waaaaaa!

   @derekhazelton, I agree. The outcome could have been wonderful if he’d gone with your logic.

   Funny recap, Jane and Blanche! I’m enjoying yall filling in

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   caligal
   Posted June 9, 2012 at 11:40 am

   I still don’t get what Gary did to be voted off. John destroyed the main dish and Gary had to start all over. But then I thought about it, and if Gary was stupid enough not to throw another vote to someone who already had a vote, he deserved to be voted off.

   I really expected better from Magical Elves.

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   Sel
   Posted June 9, 2012 at 8:07 pm

   Why do they have Cat AND Curtis? They both do the same thing, together. Cat in particular is extraneous… I actually like her although her personality is not evident on this show at all. Maybe they wanted to have 2 hosts so they could talk in case the locals weren’t chatty?

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   chaosbutterfly
   Posted June 10, 2012 at 1:40 am

   First off, thanks @Jane and Blanche for the great work! It was so extremely funny, and I’m looking forward to your recaps of Hollywood Exes!!

   Secondly, I don’t understand what happened here. Gary is a sweetheart and I will miss him terribly, but he clearly has zero sense of self-preservation and may also be incapable of basic arithmetic. A modicum of either would have told him to vote for fucking JENNA. What am I going to do without Gary? The only person left that I like is Avery and Nookie is actually growing on me, but neither one can serve up bitchy wit the way that Gary did. And there’s not enough Curtis. What are we supposed to do now? I hate this show. *throws glass across room*

   John is such a sad sack. When that shelf fell, I started laughing so hard that I almost choked to death on nothing. Like of course out of everyone, that would happen to him. He is the Charlie Brown of the show, except for that even Charlie Brown has a good day every now and then. John is just…no. I did think he was adorable with his parents though, and I appreciate that he clearly felt like shit over the great ribollita disaster of 2012. Oh John…the sun will come out tomorrow. Maybe. But probably not.

   Also, I tried to google salami ring or whatever the fuck that ugly ass shit was because I had never heard of it and didn’t understand why anyone would give that to someone as an engagement ring, and the only thing that popped up was Jenna’s annoying know-it-all blog that she has with her equally annoying and pretentious fiance. Of course.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted June 10, 2012 at 2:02 am

    Also, I’m kind of irritated at the eurocentricity of this show. They’re supposed to be going “around the world”, but so far, it’s been all Europe, with one stop in Morocco. And they keep on referring to Morocco as “Africa”, which drives the geographer in me mad.
    It’s Marrakech or Morocco, not Africa.
    They call all their other destinations by their specific names, so why call Marrakech Africa, like it’s the whole continent and not just a teeny tiny piece of it? God.

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    Derek Hazelton
    Posted June 10, 2012 at 7:19 am

    @Chaosbutterfly, I was thinking the same thing about the European focus of the show. I am looking forward to Asian travel or some non-European locale where Jenna’s language skills won’t keep her around for another week.