The next day, all the teams gather on top of a garage somewhere. Host Mike Richards greets them and explains today's challenge: a modified scavenger hunt. Since there are only three teams left, it will be a team challenge. The winning team is assured a spot in next week's finals, while the two losing teams will face off in the Elimination Room. In this week's challenge, the Beauties have to circle an item they'd like to receive as a gift from three different store catalogs. The Geeks must go to the store and try to figure out which gift they think their Beauties picked. To complicate matters further, the Beauties have to use a map of Los Angeles to tell their driver how to reach the store, with no help allowed from the Geeks. Once the Geek picks the right gift, he's given an envelope with the name and address of the next store, which he gives to the Beauty, who has to tell the driver how to reach the next store, where the Geek will try and guess the next gift. It sounds more complicated than it is. More interesting, too.
Worst. Shoe Store. Ever.
Cher doesn't have any problem finding the first store, and Josh is able to pick the correct gift in less than five minutes. Josh attributes his performance to help from the goddess of shoes. Brittany, meanwhile, is a little concerned, as she's terrible with directions: "North, south, east, west… I don't understand that." Still, she figures out the map and gets to the shoe store not long after Cher and Josh. Unfortunately, Joe has really pissed off the goddess of shoes, and he takes a bit longer to find the right pair. Will Ankur and Jennipher catch up and move into second place? In a word, hellno. Jennipher can't find anything in the map book and has no idea what to do. Ever the optimist, however, she tells Ankur to smile: "At least we don't have cancer. We don't have AIDS." I'd love to hear how she'd cheer up Ankur if he had AIDS. "At least we're not lost trying to find a shoe store." Eventually, she starts giving the driver random directions.
Jen REALLY hates maps.
At the next store, the Geeks have to pick the purse they think their Beauties chose. Once again, Josh takes just a few moments to pick the right gift. Obviously, Josh's love affair with his murse has caused the purse gods to look favorably upon his quest. Joe still isn't that far behind, but again takes just a little longer than Josh. Will he be able to make up time in the last store? Will Jennipher and Ankur catch him? In a word, fuckno. Thanks to her random directions, Jennipher has had the driver take them right back to Universal Studios, which is where they started out.
Do NOT touch The Brittany.
Finding the final store is a bit trickier, and Cher and Brittany both have trouble locating it. Eventually, Cher and Josh find it first. In this store, the Geeks have to pick an entire set of jewelry. On the way to the store, Josh trips and falls up the stairs. Normally, I'd make fun of this, but I did the same thing this morning, and now my toe hurts. So I'm letting Josh off the hook, as he's obviously been blessed by the stair gods. Just as he's leaving, Joe enters the store, which means the race is far from over.
With Josh back in the car, Cher tells her driver to "Go go go, faster faster faster!" Doesn't she know that cab drivers only understand "Rapido rapido rapido!"? Brittany, meanwhile, says the final leg of the race reminds her of "that one movie, Beverly Hills 90210, with the girl scouts at the end in the forest…" That's just what I was thinking.
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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