This week's episode starts off how every episode starts off, with the winners of last week's challenge returning to the fold. When asked how well they did, Cher tells them it was 4-1, so they know she went three-for-three again. Joe tells us that if anyone can beat Cher and Josh, it's he and Brittany. But even that would be a Herculean task. ("Hercules Hercules Hercules!" Ah, Rickey Smith, how we miss you...)
Josh describes his grandmother's "HUGE tracts of land."
Downstairs, Host Mike Richards welcomes the final three teams. "To get this far," he tells them, "you've had to climb out of the world you're used to living in, and immerse yourselves in another." And somehow or other, this is supposed to relate to maps, which is the theme for this week's challenge. The Beauties will have to learn how to read a map, while the Geeks will have to learn the map to a woman's heart. Basically, this means they have to study three catalogs full of girly-girl stuff like shoes, purses and jewelry. It's supposed to teach them how important it is to pick the perfect gift and how that ability is the key to romance, but in reality it just reinforces the stereotype that pretty girls are shallow and materialistic. Brittany, Cher and Jennipher, meanwhile, reinforce the stereotype that they're also dumber than a box of hair.
The players also get a special box containing a video camera and instructions to create a special video message for their partners. Finally, Josh will get to make Cher the snuff film he's only been dreaming of to this point. Or maybe that's my dream…
Right away, Jennipher marches over to Ankur and tells him he'd better make a sweet video for her, and not something silly, because it will mean a lot. So of course Ankur starts his video off with a somersault. He'd planned to follow this move by a triple salchow, but just then Tonya Harding busted his knee with Brian Boitano's shinbone, then ate Scott Hamilton's face with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Or was that my dream too…?
When Brittany heard the challenge was about maps, she was all excited. And stuff. "I'm a senior in college," she says, "and once I almost got a 100 on an African map quiz, so I was hoping our map challenge would have something to do with Africa." Too bad the show takes place in Los Angeles. Although how cool would it be to see Brittany and Joe travel to Africa on The Amazing Race?
Jennipher is trying to teach Joe and Ankur about jewelry, telling them that while diamonds are the best, colored diamonds are the ultimate. Joe thinks the fact that diamonds are a girl's best friend is really impersonal, and that a girl's best friend should be a puppy. After all, a man's best friend is a dog. And at least a dog can "interact back". "What's a diamond going to do?" he asks, before acting out a conversation between a woman and her diamond that revolved around each telling the other they're quite "sparkly." Seriously.
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Comments (12)
The pinball pad commercial is funny.
1 of 12 | Posted by BigTeebo
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Posted on March 7, 2006 6:40 AM
It wasn't just you, copygodd: this episode was pretty boring. And the pink diamond Ben Affleck bought was for Jennifer Lopez, not Garner but whatever, can't always keep track :) Oh and funny you noticed Brittany doesn't like being touched by Joe, haha. She always looks back on his hand or makes a scared face when he's approaching her.
2 of 12 | Posted by stacyrocks
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Posted on March 7, 2006 9:12 AM
it's a 3D period
silly rabbit
3 of 12 | Posted by plethLaura
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Posted on March 7, 2006 10:11 AM
i loved when Jennipher said "so many pages! so many pages".
even though she was a total tool on this challenge I had to laugh at how nonchalant she was about it.
and props to Ankur for not hitting her over the head with the thomas guide!
4 of 12 | Posted by juxtapoeser
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Posted on March 7, 2006 12:15 PM
So everything Joe did was because of Brittney's birthday or it was Brittney's lucky number. No wonder he pulled a Greg Brady on her in the car. I was wondering if he'd follow up to the modeling shoot when he wanted her dress to fly up.
5 of 12 | Posted by sweepea
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Posted on March 7, 2006 5:47 PM
I seems as if Josh and Cher are the clear front-runners, but I hope that Brittany and Joe make it a close final. At least we know that Cher still has Wes, so if her diatribe about being in the house for the "right reasons" now is true she should be happy with him and not need the money so much.
6 of 12 | Posted by zoobabe
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Posted on March 7, 2006 6:47 PM
I especially enjoyed the blueberry pancakes vs. oral pleasure debate. Both have their merits... :)
I need to know, and B-Side hasn't answered me - someone here had to have gone to Dartmouth b/c it is just randomly on the links page. 'Fess up. I know some peeps from there and got all excited that I actually know people. Unfortunately, they were all members of the Dungeons and Dragons club that met every Sat. nite, so....
Kidding. And I promise this is not a ploy to find out your "real" identities. B/c frankly, as long as you continue to make me laugh, you could be Starr Jones for all I care. Or Danny from Real World Austin...same level of repugnance. : )
7 of 12 | Posted by ra
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Posted on March 7, 2006 7:44 PM
It looks like this season is 'repeating' the last one. Last season, Richard & Mindy kept being sent to the elimination room and would come back and made it to the finals but then lost to Caitilin and i forget his name. And Josh is definitely this season's Richard so maybe him & Cher will lose. But what do I know, gotta wait for the finale. :)
8 of 12 | Posted by stacyrocks
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Posted on March 7, 2006 8:30 PM
ra -
Yes, more than one TVgasm went to Dartmouth. Personally, I stayed a couple nights in Hanover while hiking the AT a few years ago and had a great time.
Big haired Carried from Martha Stewart's Apprentice - another proud Dartmouth grad.
9 of 12 | Posted by sg-dub
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Posted on March 8, 2006 2:57 AM
proud grad of THE ohio state university.
10 of 12 | Posted by copygodd
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Posted on March 8, 2006 7:49 AM
Sg-dub,
I knew it! What a super sleuth I am. Haha.
I know a ton of '00s and '01s from Dartmouth, mostly track people, but a few football players. I am a HUGE fan of Dartmouth pong and even have my own paddle!
Copygodd - good ole PSU here.
ra
11 of 12 | Posted by ra
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Posted on March 8, 2006 9:46 AM
GO BUCS!!!
12 of 12 | Posted by Me
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Posted on March 9, 2006 11:46 AM