One of Kendra's happiest childhood memories (I'm glad she has at least one) is when she would laugh in the face of danger and put pennies on the rails in front of a fast-approaching train. Sounds like what my dad did for fun when he was growing up in the 60s. But hey, maybe 1990s San Diego was more like mid-20th century Boston than I give it credit for.
So Kendra and playmate Sarah Underwood jump off the bus and into the path of a speeding locomotive. Well, kinda. They totally miss the first train. But don't worry, another one is coming. But Sarah realizes a problem. "Are they going to run into eachother?!" Luckily hundreds of years of railroad experience has taught the conductors to make sure one train waits on a side track while the other passes. But good thinking, Sarah.
If one train is going sixty miles an hour and the other train is going fifty miles an hour but they're going different ways, which one will get to...wait. I forgot the question.
Despite Kendra freaking out because she thinks the train will smoosh them (it's actually stopped) the girls put their pennies down on the tracks. After the train goes by they run to the spots where they placed them and... they're gone!
Gasp!! How on earth would pennies MOVE after a thousand TON train runs over them. Can we send these girlies to Physics 101 please? Sarah ultimately spots the pennies and they do look cool in their flattened state. Actually, I totally want to try that some time! Unfortunately, I don't think they'd like me climbing down near the third rail on the Red Line.
Next super exciting stop on the 21st birthday road trip? A diner. Oh come ON.
The girls head into Anderson Pea Soup Diner because a) Holly said she used to go there with her family and b) Kendra just looooves pea soup. After the girls cram their top-heavy bodies on a 25 center children's merry-go-round, the sit down at a booth, which may as well be at the Suburban in Paramus, NJ. Kendra is "so frickin' excited for the pea soup. I don't think anybody is more excited than me to eat the pea soup. Pea soup!" We get it. You're excited. For pea soup.
WAIT a minute. My dad loves pea soup. My dad loved flattening pennies on the train tracks. Kendra... are you my dad?? ::shivers::
Bridget says she doesn't think she'll like pea soup because peas are vegetables, and if we learned anything in last week's episode it's that Bridget ABHORS vegetables. Unfort for Bridg, Kenny intends on force feeding her pea soup if she has to. "It tastes like pea soup not peas!" Kendra tries to explain. "Everybody was afraid of the pea soup so I had to force everybody to eat the pea soup." Jeez, someone really likes to say "pea soup," doesn't she?
Kendra makes everyone order it and Bridg loads hers with cheese and ham, which I think makes it look super gross. (And I like pea soup!) Turns out everyone likes it, and Kendra is pleased.
OK, hold the EFF up. Did I seriously just write four paragraphs about PEA freaking SOUP?!? I'm sorry, I thought this was supposed to be a show about slutty polygamist girls that live in the Playboy Mansion, not Golden Girls on a blue hair bus tour. Are the producers trying to prove that the girls are interesting even out of their boob-centric environment?
Because they're not.
Thankfully, the next stop is slightly more entertaining. The bus pulls up to some random town that has an infamous Bubblegum Alley, aka sketchy alley that has walls covered in gum. How lovely. OK, it's actually kinda cool looking and I can imagine lots of photographic opportunities. The girls, they just see gross gum.
H: I dare somebody to push somebody in it.
B:I dare somebody to lick this wall.
K: Ewwwww!
Holly, naturally, makes a bubblegum penis. And Kendra, ever the narcissist, molds her gum into her initials. Well, that was fun.
Next the bus rolls in to Solvang, a small danish town. (Um, one, what does that even mean? And two, SERIOUSLY?!) The girls have a lot of interesting things to say about Solvang.
K: Solvang was the cutest town I have ever been in.
B: It is the cutest little town I have ever seen.
H: This is the cutest frickin' city I've ever seen.
Enlightening.
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Comments (6)
i keep hoping that there will be an episode on that will require more than a three page recap. if only you had been able to recap the older episodes those were way more fun and had the girls saying and doing so many inane things. they haven't really shown the girls dressing up all the time like they love to do because they are living fantasy land. but i think you do a great job with the material that you are given.
kendra constantly saying pea soup and the oh my god this town is cuute was about as good as it got. i just think the girls aren't giving it their all anymore, they are totally phoning it in. probably because when this was filmed was when k-dog and hollz had already moved on. i think that for the most part kendra and hollz didn't want to do too much filming in the mansion since they were ready to move out and that is why most of the shows have the girls any place, but the mansion.
1 of 6 | Posted by reckless_saturn_11 | Posted on January 11, 2009 11:17 AM
I get a laugh out of watching this show...even a bigger laugh from reading the recap. Keep up the good work.
BTW..the gum wall is in San Luis Obispo...a great little college down...Sovang is about 90 miles south and is a major tourist trap done to resembl a Danish town...the only time I stopped there was when the fog was so bad that driving was dangerous and we decided to wait it out...unfortunately it was Solvang...anyone with one ounce of brain...would avoid Anderson's Pea Soup...I just wonder if these locations pay to be featured...and if so this shows you they are really getting to the bottom of the barrel....
And the Girls missed the one of the better know spots at the Madonna inn...the men's restroom....it's just a gaudy place that one avoids...again...I think these places are paying for the visit...and clearly the show is at it's bottom...
Keep up the great recap..
2 of 6 | Posted by lvken | Posted on January 11, 2009 7:22 PM
I wonder if these places pay to be feature..if so the show is at the bottom of the barrel. Sovang is a major tourist trap. Anderson's is to be avoided whenever possible. The Madonna Inn is so gaudy no one admits to visiting it. Apparently they missed their famous men's bathroom. Lucky for us.
BTW..the gum alley is in San Luis Obispo, a quait college town on the Central Coast of CA..
Keep up the good recap...it's the best part of watching the show.
3 of 6 | Posted by lvken | Posted on January 11, 2009 7:26 PM
Reckless -- Good call that Hollz and Kennster probably don't want to film in the mansion because they're already gone! That must also be why everyone has gathered in Bridget's room for the last few eps.
Ivken -- So funny that you actually know about all these ridic places! Will you flatten a penny on those train tracks for me?
And did you guys hear that Bridg officially moved out this weekend?? So sad that they are ALL gone. Will you watch her travel show?
4 of 6 | Posted by anglophista | Posted on January 12, 2009 6:18 AM
what bridget is going to have own travel show. I will watch it just to see where she goes and for the trainwreck value. would you recap it? I would for sure watch if that was the case. I wouldn't watch another GND without the OG girls. seems kind of pointless and I am still trying to figure out why I am watching this to begin with.
5 of 6 | Posted by reckless_Saturn_11 | Posted on January 12, 2009 1:12 PM
Yeah, she's going to be hosting a show called "Bridget's Sexiest Beaches" for the Travel Channel.
Not sure if it's plausible to recap a travel show. Guess it depends on how much fodder for comedy it has. Love the loyalty though, Reckless!
6 of 6 | Posted by anglophista | Posted on January 13, 2009 11:45 AM