Excellent recap - funny and timely! One small note, however, the Dewey Decimal System isn't alphabetical, it's numerical.

Poor Balki, er Sanjay was hysterical without meaning to be. OMG, who proclaims to love rap, but not know the meaning of the words?!? "What? Booty = Intercourse? That explains a lot." LOL! It was especially telling when he polled the other geeks and they all understood booty to mean pirate treasure. Although I'm sad to see Sanjay go, I'm willing to accept the collateral damage to get rid of Tori. She literally (or would it be illiterally?) had no redeeming qualities. Andrea's next in my cross-hairs. Ho's gotta go.

Excellent recap? But a small picky thing... did you mean "Sweet Value High" to be funny or did you actually mean "Sweet VALLEY High?, which was the name of the school in the books and tv show?

wow! you hated tori just as much as me, sucks fo sanjay bc he didn't even stand a chance, and I don't know why she is a "beauty" anyway, sure she's dumb enough, but there is nothing pretty about her and she dresses like she shops at rave girl and gets dressed in the dark! good riddance!

and def nate has the strongest shot so far of being the sercretly cute geek, can't wait to find out who hooks up!

I've seen Jennylee before. She was on that show Next, and she had 5 guys on the bus waiting to see if they can be her date. She cut two immediately because they were shorter than she was, then she made the others pretend they were in Grease. They were at the actual location of Rydell High, where the movie was filmed, and she was dressed as Sandy. She made the guys dress up like Danny, in a black wig and a leather jacket, then they did this weird go kart thing, then I think that they got ice cream sundaes or something and sat on the bleachers. It was weird. I didn't like her then, and I still don't like her.

I really like Cecille and Nate. Cecille is an airhead, but at least she's funny. And I like Sheree and Matt. But that's about it. But I HATED Tori. Poor Sanjay. She is the biggest idiot ever. Honestly, they told her like 3 times how to read the teleprompter and when to start, and she STILL couldn't get it right!! And then she got all pissed off that Sanjay didn't congratulate her! What a moron.

~Georgia~

Thank you thank you THANK YOU for recapping this show. I never know what to think until TVGasm validates my opinions about a show.

Whoops. I did indeed mean Sweet Valley High. Sweet Value High sounds like a cross between Costco and a high school.

Scooter gets my vote for the after makeover hottie. Sure he dresses poorly, but that's easy to fix and he does have the requisite facial hair that needs to be shaved.

Georgia, my cousin and I totally called Jennylee out...we had seen her on "Next" the previous day! We are betting that she never ONCE mentions her "addiction" to Grease on this show. Proving that Next is total B.S.
Also, she just lost all "credibility" about how serious she is about this show, she seems like those actresses that apply to billions of Reality Shows trying to get into the bizz.

Other than that, I totally love this show!!!! Nate is my favorite!

I think Nate just looks like every other bearded hipster in Brooklyn right now. Slightly more awkward, maybe, but not exactly geeky.

I think Neils could be in the running to win the hottie makeover contest.

Erin is originally from my hometown. I'm wondering what kind of "voice teacher" she really is. You do actually have to know stuff in order to teach voice, and she did well in the elimination round. I think she might be pulling a Cher. (i.e. faking the total idiocy)

Finally, thank god that Tori is gone. She so obviously got mad at Sanjay because she was insecure and knew she f-ed up by not studying. A person has a right to sleep? Come on!!

I'm pulling for Mario and Nadia. They're my faves so far. And I liked the super mario boob-squeeze joke.

I'm with zoobabe- Scooter's got the most cleanup potential.

I'm sick to death of Freakonomics and the associated hype. It's not that great, people. The authors are one step away from appearing on the Surreal Life.

"The last book she read was Sweet Valley High and clearly not Hairstyles to Make Your Forehead Look Smaller, because dear God that thing is huge."
HAHA!!

Great Recap! I love this show... but its never been as good without Richard! That guy was phenomenal.

I felt so bad for Sanjay for having such a retarded partner. Seriously, I wanted to strangle her when Sanjay was trying to apologize.

I LOVE this show! I never watched the first two seasons but I'm now addicted after seeing the first episode! I really think Nate will look good once he's cleaned up-- plus I thought he was funny (and confident during the library challenge).

I think Nadia and Mario are great together. I hope they go far.

You forgot to mention the new twist - having all the other contestants watch the Elimination contest from a TV upstairs. I'm not quite sure how this twist will impact the game - unless it intimidates some of the teams from taking a winning team out.

The girls are much meaner this year - and are definitely here for the cameras and not to learn anything or hang out with these poor shlubs.

Okay so I was totally right about Erin. Just talked to a friend that went to high school with her. She is not dumb at all and was even on the Math Team. She's pulling a Cher! I'm so annoyed!