Minicap: The Challenge

The Challenge

By CathodeTube | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 | 11:21 pm | 19 Comments
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I won’t be happy ’til Ty and Paula get busy

Tonight on The Challenge, our couples spend another evening at club Oh No! Cara Maria makes overtures about her and Abe sharing a place in Massachusetts (maybe near Boston?). Camila gets completely fit-shaced and has to be extricated from an embrace with a blurry-faced dude and dragged back to the van by Emily. She’s apparently one of those Jekyll and Hyde drinkers, and she’s been harboring some pissedness at Johnny, for not liking her enough, I guess. She completely goes off, crying and yelling and throwing chairs. Paula has to hug her into submission.

 …and later follow her into the pool in mismatched underwear. Now that’s a stand-up gal.

Next morning, Cam doesn’t really remember her antics and is somewhat regretful.

The challenge takes place on La Playa Grande and involves some tall poles with tiny round platforms on them, big enough for one person to stand on. So of course, both team members have to stand on them. One member of the couple jumps to the pole ahead, then the other must jump to join him or her on the same wobbly pole-platform. Then the first person jumps to the next one. Repeat, but do not rinse, because for once it’s not over water. Spoilers below.

Mmm… tastes douchey

This is actually not called the Humpty Dance

Nobody falls! Holy crap, I am amazed and disappointed, as is Teej. Mark and Robin tear it up – one cast member posits that Mark jumps from pole to pole so quickly because he doesn’t like Robin touching him. The couples who do the worst are those in which the woman acts the most helpless and hand-wringing: CT/Diem and Abe/Cara. Insert your own conclusions about women who love short-fused men.

Although Abe and Cara have a creative way of doing the challenge, in which she sort of jumps on his lap and straddles him, the time it takes them to get up from that position costs them. They end up in last place and get Domed. Mark and Robin beat Johnny and Cam for Power Couple, and they throw in Ty and Emily over Robin’s mild objection, because Mark isn’t “friends with them.” Robin actually prefers Ty and Emily’s “clean slate,” as she is more realistic about how “friends” treat each other on shows like these. But she’s overruled.

The Dome challenge involves that pesky steel X and the boy-boy, girl-girl battles to wrastle it out of one another’s hands. Legs go around necks and stuff. Emily wins the girls’ round, and Ty and Abe end up tied after two rounds, with Ty winning the final battle and keeping himself and Emily in the game. They will fight another day, and their vendettas will be divided now, between Mark/Robin and Paula/Dunbar. It’s a case of nobody wanting to go against them in the finals, coupled with their having no use for the social game. Still, Ty is hot, if overgroomed.  Abe and Cara Maria drag their dysfunctional asses home with bells on. I’m guessing they don’t actually move in together.

CathodeTube

CathodeTube has wanted to be a recapper ever since she read the MightyBigTV interview with Sars and James Van Der Beek. She lives in Chicago with her husband and baby son, and adores hip-hop, cop shows, competitive reality TV, and all foods involving melted cheese. She used to copyedit made-up blogs for the "reputation management" of people who got themselves on The Dirty or Mugshots.com. Turns out google-bombing doesn't work anymore, so now she writes product copy, is much happier, and still wears stretchy pants at all times.

19 Comments

  1. 1
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 6:10 am

    If I may speak for the Commonwealth in this instannce; thank you Cara Maria for your schizophrenia. WE appreciate you UN-inviting Abe to come live with us. Keep your feces to yourself. I started packing for Portland after the first half of the show! (Thanks for the ribbing, Cath) ;-)

    No CB and a half naked CT cooking breakfast, yes Ma’am! Mark Long, I’d love to be in a power couple with you. Ty, just good GOD! MP in full effect.

    Now Camilla, you showed your goddamn ass by getting so wasted that you let everyone know you like that Dumb Bitch and Walnuts, are you his minion? HATE!

    I am gonna say right here, right now I am Team Tymily all the way!

  2. 2
    Sunni Siduep
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 8:52 am

    Can I just say I love, love, love the olde timey’ness of having Mark and Rachel on this show??? For one, old athletes can still kill it with the young’uns; for two, watching Mark work a house never gets old, and it makes me feel like I’m 20 again, snuggling a 40 and watching Road Rules in the dorm lounge.

  3. 3
    (J)ustPeachy
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 9:14 am

    Hooray for no CB/CT drama this episode!
    I felt sorry for Camilla. Hate Bananas.
    Does he have Paula trained or what?
    Go team Tymily!!!!!

  4. 4
    Angela
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    Diem sucks and she continues to drag CT down in the competition. I would love to see him paired with Emily or Laurel at some point. That would be an unstoppable team either way.

    And Bananas referring to his liveliehood… priceless. Of course maybe I am just jealous that he can earn a years’ salary for 4-5 weeks of “work.”

  5. 5
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    Didn’t CT chew out Wes for an epic 7 hours on the last channel about “Taking food off his family’s table”? Way to be orig, DUMB BITCH.

    That Dumb Bitch strikes me as a spoiled Mamma’s boy from Long Island or Manalapan who thinks the world owes him and, everyone should do his bidding b/c his parents told him he shit gold bars. I bet his partents were they type that insisted that every kid on the little league team get a trophy too.

    I went to college with a lot of kids like him. Ignorant fat heads who think the world wouldn’t exist if they didn’t walk it.

    And efn’ing Paula, she clearly dealt with her insecurity issues since Key West, huh? Trying to fit in much? What a disgusting display of womanhood from her. Let that loco chica drink her g’damn tequila and have herself a good old temper tantrum and let THEM get kicked off for acting a fool. Aneesa was right, the DB should be handling his partner not Walnuts? When is that girl going to learn to stop working for free?

  6. 6
    HandyManda
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    I can’t stand Ty. Ever since his season on RW, that guy is a super douche of epic proportions. Maybe not as bad as Bananas or Wes, but damn close. I’ve always been sort of “meh” on Emily, but her whinyness is bugging me too this time around.

  7. 7
    Tadow
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 5:18 pm

    yeah ty’s good to look at, but he does sucks. Last time he was on didn’t he crush a woman with a bedframe? Major anger issues.

  8. 8
    Tadow
    Posted February 23, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    …erm, whatever

  9. 9
    plockeness monster
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 6:54 am

    I bet Abe’s balls hurt so bad after that challenge.

  10. 10
    plockeness monster
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 6:57 am

    Handy – I’m w/ you on Ty. He was a super douche on his season and I don’t like him now. Eh on Emily too.

    I want Mark and Robin to win. I like Robin.

  11. 11
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 7:03 am

    What did Bananas do to Paula that has her so loyal? I wouldn’t purposely get him out of the house but I sure wouldn’t stop anyone from trying either.

    I never understood stopping people from acting an ass so they have to go home. I am trying to win the money so you go about it your way and I’ll go about it mine.

  12. 12
    Liz
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 8:32 am

    I think Paula is hoping Bananas will save her till the end, so she’s doing his bidding. And even though Camila was being absolutely ridiculous, it’s not really certain she would have punched somebody or done something to get kicked off, just that she would royally piss off the rest of the house. And if she did get kicked off with Bananas, then Paula would have to rely on winning, which she’s not always the best at. Just my two cents!

  13. 13
    Enrique's Mole
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 8:33 am

    @Sunni Siduep – I lurve you and I agree totally. Mark has only gotten hotter with age (if a touch douchier).

  14. 14
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 8:34 am

    But he never keeps her Liz!!!

  15. 15
    plockeness monster
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 8:54 am

    Exactly, Classy!!! He has stabbed her in the back and (I think) the challenge where they were on an island (show possibly called “The Island”), he totally fucked over Paula and Ev.

    OMG y’all, where is Ev? She is the voice of reason! I miss her.

  16. 16
    Liz
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 11:27 am

    Oh no, I totally agree, Bananas has totally screwed Paula over before and most definitely will if he ever fancies to again. I just mean that’s what I think she’s thinking. This is the part of the challenges that I really hate – some (or a bunch of) total douches run the show and everyone just lets them because the challenges are very physical so unless you can beat them that way you’re just screwed.

  17. 17
    sheesh
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    Paula does whatever Johnny wants because she’s a looneybird.

    Hate hate hate Diem!

  18. 18
    Andrea
    Posted February 24, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    When you watch their season of the Real World together, Johnny was actually a really good friend to Paula for most of the season (with a few exceptions), while she was constantly getting too drunk and picking fights with him and the other housemates for no reason.
    I think her loyalty to him is just because they have that kind of brother/sister relationship from being in the Real World house together, but who knows.
    I actually thought Camila wasn’t going to come up for air when she jumped in the pool..she went crazy.

  19. 19
    JL
    Posted February 26, 2012 at 5:30 pm

    Also, Derrick does a podcast and on it Kenny, Derrick, Dunbar, Evelyn, and a few others have all said that Paula was never promised a spot on their final team and KNEW that the boys were gonna take Evelyn on their boat, she just freaked out for camera. There were also some suggestions that Kenny was going to compensate her for what was going to happen. Paula also fucked Johnny on the Gauntlet 3 when CT made the team throw Johnny in instead of Big Easy and Paula didn’t try to defend him. I think the “guys always screw Paula” is a figment of her imagination (and I really like Paula).

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