This task was so challenging that Brandon and Nicole decided to try the Fast Forward, seeing as how it was taking some people 15 minutes to make one brick. Upon arriving at said Fast Forward, the two evangelical love birds discovered that they had the relatively easy task of performing a traditional Indian ritual. Relatively easy as long as you don't mind completely shaving your head. I know what you are saying. Shave your head? That's hard?! It will all grow back. You might even come home with fewer lice. Nicole looked as if the producers told her she had to star in Gangbang Girl 15 or something. She couldn't face cutting her hair. Brandon stated that he would have cut his hair, but he could never ask his baby to cut hers. I believe that Brandon was secretly grateful that Nicole freaked out, because there is no way he would let his Soul Glow stop shining from here until eternity. Perhaps if the producers said they would donate their hair to charity, it would have been a different story.
As you can imaging, going to one challege, choosing the fast forward, then going back to the original challenge took a lot of time, and Brandon and Nicole were very far behind. Even the twins, who took the longest to make the bricks, were gone. The next part of the trip was a train ride to another town, and we know how those third world train rides go. Without fail, the women are going to get mugged and they think people are groping them. The more likely story is that they are pickpockets who aren't very covert. The most likely story is that they are trying to cram a thousand people onto a train made for a hundred, so their isn't much personal space. Chip and Kim and Colin and Christie made it on the first plane, and the Bowling Moms were right behind them, but only had American Dollars to pay the train fare, and the ticket holder would only take rupees. The ticket agent was obviously an idiot for not fleecing the Americans out of their money, and the moms were forced to scalp for some rupees before they were able to board the next train, departing the station just as the twins had arrived.
I always love the detours, because the producers usually have great choices, "each with their own pros and cons". This year, the detours have been sub-par, because it seems a lot of teams are taking the physically demanding challenge and none take the harder course. Maybe this is a factor of the players involved or people getting wiser to the show, but their may need to be some tweaking in preparation for next year to get a little more variety. As you may guess, everybody chose the physical challenge, which was pushing a motor-less taxicab through the streets to a cab station. I could imagine how this would have been difficult for one person to do, but all of the teams received the aid of the multitude of people in the streets and with a dozen Indians pushing an empty cab, the task goes by like that.
So, Colin and Christie, Chip and Kim were first and second in close succession, and the Bowling Moms and the twins were farther behind, leaving only Brandon and Nicole to finish the race and wait for Phil's haunting words of departure. I was going to write something about vanity and the bible, or make a pun on Bonfire of the Vanities, to make fun of them, but CBS surprised me when they announced that this leg of the race was also non-elimination. On the heels of the Twins receiving the non-hook last week, I was hoping for some sanctimonious pleasure seeing Brandon and Nicole leave. Well at least I got to see that ridiculous look on Brandon's face.
Another team feels the pain of the non-elimination. The twins were able to get money by stroking the egos of a few guys in Bahrain, but I wonder if Nicole will go all Mary Magdalene to make her way through the next week. Chip and Kim and Colin and Christie are still the team to beat. It will be interesting to see if Chip and Kim can succeed in their goal of getting Colin so overconfident he messes up and they use it to their advantage.
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Comments (13)
The look on Brandon's face was just spectacular. LOVED IT. So glad you captured it!
1 of 13 | Posted by freakgirl | Posted on September 1, 2004 6:15 AM
I think you mean the Yield's not been used, not the Detour.
I suspect that since it's only been mentioned in the first episode of the season, and last night's, it's going to start to play a key role in episodes starting next week or so.
2 of 13 | Posted by allelel | Posted on September 1, 2004 6:54 AM
I like how Nicole remarks with disdain how there are mosques "on like every corner - like Starbucks". Yeah, because you'd be hard pressed to find a church in the United States.
And let's not overlook the twins' little meltdown at the brick factory. That was finger-pointing fun.
Also, I believe it was Wild Wiki, not Water Wiki.
3 of 13 | Posted by b-side | Posted on September 1, 2004 8:58 AM
Actually, b-side, it is Wild Wadi:
http://www.wildwadi.com/info/
I was hoping that Chip and Kim would do the Fast Forward. I mean, they were half done already!
4 of 13 | Posted by TheMatt | Posted on September 1, 2004 9:22 AM
Ah, but for the power of prayer . . .
Seriously--I guess Jesus really can come through for you in a pinch, especially if you're cute and appeal to targeted marketing demographics.
But the big moment of the episode for me was discovering Chip & Kim's Machiavellian scheme to undo Colin by flattering the angry young man's ego. Whodathunk Carebear Chip could be so devious? I almost felt sorry for Colin, who seemed pathetically oblivious to the fact that even the super-nice people like Chip & Kim and the Bowling Moms despise him intensely. Of course, only a minute or two later, he was once again the eye-bulging, red-faced, raised-vein-on-the-temple Colin we've come to know and loathe, and all sympathy crumbled like a poorly molded brick.
Maybe next week, instead of helping Brandon and Nicky, Jesus will stick an invisible leg out in front of Colin and send him tumbling down a steep flight of stairs like the one the priest goes flying down at the end of 'The Exorcist.'
In the immortal words of Big Brother 5's Jase, "That would be good TV."
5 of 13 | Posted by jack | Posted on September 1, 2004 9:58 AM
Hello people?!?!?! The best line of the night was when Colin yelled at Christie, "You're Killing Me!" It sounded just like something from 'Who's Affraid of Virginia Wolf' or something.
Colin is an ASS!
I didn't want anyone to take that FastForward as much as I wanted the Christian couple too. Duh, what was I thinking. Of course they weren't going to shave their heads. But man I was hoping they would.
And at the end when the Indian woman smudged red paint on their third eye, I thought they would complain that it was sacraligious to take part in another religions activity. They giggled, but none of the screaming I thought would happen.
p.s. Colin is an ASS!
6 of 13 | Posted by Genevieve | Posted on September 1, 2004 11:03 AM
Yah Boy couldnt agree more with u, genevieve, its so priceless n irriating at the same time to hear Colin says " you are killing me. " I wonder why he even say that man. He the one killing everyone with his Psychopath looks!!
Btw do any of u guys remember in the episode, where he almost when to jail, he said sth like. " this is not the r/s that i am looking for, i need her to support n agree with me, n not go against me" DUH??? how unreasonable he can get!
oh my goodness his looks as best sum up by Mina. " An ex convict face "
7 of 13 | Posted by raisin | Posted on September 1, 2004 12:52 PM
nicole and brandon said at the end of the episode that God still wants them in the game.
but apparently God wants them in the game without money. apparently God wants americans going after a million dollar prize to get poor indians to give them their money. apparently God is a colonialist.
8 of 13 | Posted by njy | Posted on September 1, 2004 2:21 PM
Did anyone notice how at the pit stop, Nicole brushed off the red things they put on her head. How rude! It fell off everyone else's heads as they were jumping for joy - she just brushed it off as if it were bugs. Too bad they weren't bugs...
9 of 13 | Posted by Crystal | Posted on September 2, 2004 6:43 AM
As they were my early favorites in the game, even through the Mirna days, it is sad (albeit great TV) to see Colin's descent into madness. I only hope they never get eliminated - until the last leg when Colin will be taking out other teams with a rifle from a tower.
And I have to say I love those moms. Does the brown-haired one ever talk? But it was cute when they were asking the indian people for rubles instead of rupees.
10 of 13 | Posted by Jack | Posted on September 2, 2004 8:39 AM
anyone remember nicole say "i couldnt let them shave our heads! i mean we are models, and brandon's hair is ALL HE HAS"
haha, oh SNAP!
11 of 13 | Posted by jash | Posted on September 2, 2004 10:34 AM
When Brandon and Nicole chose to not shave their heads I didn't look at it like they were being vain. I just looked at it that they were not greedy. It just proves there are some things they wont do for money. Personally, I would not have shaved my head if I were them. Just imagine how much the other teams would have made fun of them (especially Colin). I think dignity is more important than winning a reality show and I'm glad they didn't do it. When Nicole brought up doing the fast forward I was thinking "no, don't go". After all, they were the team with the best hair. I'm glad they were not eliminated. I hope they win.
12 of 13 | Posted by Lisa | Posted on September 3, 2004 12:45 AM
I would let Colin hit me, as long as he made it up to me later. My only concern is that he almost surely has a micropenis.
13 of 13 | Posted by Frank | Posted on September 3, 2004 7:40 AM