Minicap: The Challenge

The Challenge

By CathodeTube | Thursday, March 8, 2012 | 10:30 am | 12 Comments
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Posted in: MiniCaps, Recaps, The Challenge, The Challenge

No spoiler-guard pics in this recap, ‘cause we get a cliffhanger!

This week on The Challenge, Drama Diem gets some weak advice from Ty that leads her to sit CT down for like the 20 billionth time and again go over the reasons they are mad, which still don’t include “because we’re both annoying and wrong for each other and a super-boring drain on the viewing audience.” But sorries are said, I guess for the first time (I kind of don’t buy that. Maybe they’re heard for the first time.) and the re-invigorated “couple” goes on to dominate in the wedding-themed challenge, which I’ve been waiting for since the first week.

The challenge starts with the teams getting dressed. The guys struggle with their bowties, then have to dig in the sand for garters (not garter belts, tramps) to put on the girls’ legs. Ty and Emily’s is buried deeper than everyone else’s, apparently, and they’re out in round 1 and automatically Domed.

The remaining teams have to eat a bunch of cake, which chokes Johnny and Camila. I like that the less-athletic tasks are shaking up the usual order. Which is not to say that the couples in the lead are any more deserving.

Our buff slabs look dirty-sexy in those bowties and no shirts!

Changing a tire in round three delays Dunbar and Paula due to sandy nuts, but it’s Mark and Robin who actually get eliminated. CT & Diem get an early lead over Dunbar & Paula in a race down the beach to the “altar,” giving their loud, gloating asses their first seats in Power Couple throne-chairs. This doesn’t go to their heads at all, except inasmuch as Diem wears her damn veil to Da Club. I prefer when CT & Diem fight. It’s more funny.

The Beg-a-Thon is drawn out this ep, and we have a week to ponder how all of the couples’ bargaining styles affected our Power Couple.

Da club always leads our competitors to display their smartest and most mature behavior. This week, Camila and Emily get the bright idea to dress up and lampoon Ty and Paula in an “innocent, funny theatrical set.” This probably didn’t need to involve blackface, as Ty has plenty of distinguishing features and mannerisms, but since Emily was apparently raised in a cult, she sees no problem in coating her face with chocolate, in addition to donning the Stupid Hat of Doom.

Ty is pissed. It’s a combination of the ignorance and the abandoning of his back by Emily. He decides he doesn’t need to take this crap for the sake of getting her some money, and starts packing his bags to go home. The guys convince him to stay, apparently having been shocked into abandoning their need to win. After several meals, Ty has calmed down enough to hear Emily’s apology. They make an uneasy truce, and he relents and stays in the game, just in time for The Dome.

Diem and CT take their places to announce the other couple getting Domed… and that’s the end! It’s a cliffhanger! Oh MTV! We would have tuned in next week regardless, why ya gotta do us like this? Next week better not be a clip show.

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.

12 Comments

  1. 1
    JudgyWudgy
    Posted March 8, 2012 at 11:07 am

    Something is so off here. Couldn’t you be raised by wolves and still feel like it’s a little wrong to cover your face in something to imitate another race? If not wrong, at least weird? Plus, even as a child raised in a normal environment before knowing what blackface was, I would’ve never thought to do that so I have a hard time believing Emily just came up with it without knowing it was insulting.

    That said, this would’ve had a whole lot more impact on me if Ty wasn’t such a little bitch boy about seemingly EVERYTHING in his life.

  2. 2
    Derek Hazelton
    Posted March 8, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    @JudgyWudgy, Emily did ask Camila if she thought the mockery was racist and Camila said no. So, I do think Emily knew that there was a possibility that it was racist and went forward with it anyway. While I don’t believe she is a racist person, considering she and Ty dated in DC and she seems to have dated other black men in her past, I believe she honestly only meant to mock the Ty/Paula dynamic. But, as you said, just because you grew up in an insulated environment is not an excuse for shitty behavior that you instinctively question yourself as potentially incendiary. Ty handled the situation well both in the episode and on the Aftershow, so I give him credit for his maturity and growth.

  3. 3
    sardini
    Posted March 9, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Judgy, I came on here to point out that she absolutely asked Camila if it was racist. So, it couldn’t have been such a shock that it was offensive! I agree though, I don’t think she is racist. She made a mistake and seemed genuinely apologetic on the after show, not like an “I’m giving a back handed apology because you all want me to.” I actually felt bad for her.

  4. 4
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted March 9, 2012 at 9:08 am

    CT needs to punt Diem back to the States get his act together and get with a real woman, like me.

    Just sayin’.

    So glad the GASM is BACK!

  5. 5
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted March 9, 2012 at 9:11 am

    PS- I gotta just get it out, this show is boring me to tears! The past three weeks I can barely get through the episode. Ironing my sheets is more exciting than this season. Good Lord!

  6. 6
    wow
    Posted March 9, 2012 at 11:52 am

    I also do not believe Emily is racist and that she was truly sorry for hurting Ty. I think a huge mistake Emily made is ignoring her gut that the likelihood of offense was extremely high and instead relying on the relationship she has with Ty to be enough for him to give her the benefit of the doubt as to her intentions. Her intentions nonetheless were to mock him, even if she didn’t mean to do it in a racist way (which is hard to swallow given the blackface) so unfortunately she loses both ways.

    Between this and Survivor’s episode, race surfaced in some interesting ways on reality tv, and in both cases, highlight real examples of attitudes and beliefs that are present in actual “reality”.

  7. 7
    Z
    Posted March 9, 2012 at 5:00 pm

    let’s not forget the fact that camila flat-out told emily it wasn’t racist, then went on to say that the only reason ty was upset was because he was embarrassed.

    so. you know. she really flew under the radar on that one.

  8. 8
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted March 22, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    Recap? Minicap? Bueller? ;-)

  9. 9
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted March 22, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    “ironing my sheets” is that what the kids are calling it these days?!??!?! ;)

  10. 10
    CathodeTube CathodeTube
    Posted March 22, 2012 at 4:36 pm

    It’s submitted, G! Should be up in a few!

  11. 11
    CathodeTube CathodeTube
    Posted March 22, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    Recap from last week is here. http://www.tvgasm.com/recaps/the_challenge-recaps/the-challenge-thrust-and-drag.html

    MiniCap is on its way!

  12. 12
    Kojak96
    Posted August 24, 2012 at 12:10 am

    Can I have the link video of Emily and Ty’s fight

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