After last week's recap of Making the Band, one of my favorite Gasmiis, Y3KPhenom, commented about Que and Dawn's romance, saying "I hope that MTV tones the coverage down a bit, but really, what else is there for them to show with this group? More Orangebrey faux-drama? More Diddy nuttiness? I mean, Will's chest is great, but I don't think they can just show that for an hour. Or can they?"
The show opens with Diddy giving a special shout-out to all the Brillo Klang fans, Danity Kane fans and Day26 fans. We see some crazed fan footage -- including but not limited to -- a girl chasing a very small car in the street, some really bad signs that were homemade with markers, and some guy in a yellow shirt screaming "Danity Kane What What?!" The gang will be headed to San Diego and then Los Angeles to finish up their last two legs of the tour. Oh look at how far we've come...
The show's theme song has changed yet again! Holy crap, Diddy! Stop messing with our minds! It's now Brillo's "Dr. Love," and I don't know if I'll ever be able to take this song seriously. The lyrics are actually: "You'll be begging me for more after the surgery." That imagery is just not sexy to me; I'm sorry. I've had surgery more than once in my life and not every scenario really needs to be turned into a love, pop song. It sounds like a bad porn that takes place on an operating table. "Hey sweet sexy! I just sewed you up! Now what are YOU up to?" Um, no thanks.
Now we are in San Diego, witnessing eager concert goers as they wait in line and buy merchandise from our Making the Banders. Somewhere backstage, our heroes and heroines lounge around on 1970s-style couches. They are all sad that the tour is winding down, and they will soon be going their separate ways. Orangebrey explains her need to always been on tour because she needs constant attention. Well, I'm sure she'll always find new ways to get attention. Like by telling the San Francisco Chronicle how to avoid getting her sex tapes leaked.
Because San Diego is close to Aundrea's home, her family has showed up for a visit backstage. Her sister looks SO much like her and her nieces are just adorable. Aundrea tells that she's very close with her niece, Isabelle, and doesn't get to see her much now that she's working all the time. Isabelle tells Aundrea that she wants her to come home and doesn't give two shits about her Goddamn motherfucking son of a bitch music group.
But we interrupt this wholesome family time to introduce our favorite perpetually half-dressed man, WILL. He comes right up to the camera and does his little "left right" pec bouncing trick. Then we get to see back-to-back clips of Will ripping his shirt off in every town across America. Shannon tells us that things are getting taken to a new level because there is baby oil involved now. Dawn says that the baby oil is a little excessive and if the sun were to hit him, he'd cook. Some unidentified lady comes over and proceeds to rub the oil into his skin really hard. Looks like this lady has my dream job. But, in all honesty, Will's nakedness is starting to bore me a little. It's no longer a novelty, just same ol' same ol'. I barely even glance up from the magazine that I'm casually perusing.
Orangebrey, who is trying to stay focused and Zen for her show, asks Will to take his distracting body out of the room. Little do they all know, Brillo is peeping in through the door and coming up with some ideas of his own. As soon as he sees all the attention that Will is getting from the hot girls of DK, he realizes that he, too, must disrobe for attention. And for the first time ever, I notice Orangebrey's weird freaky elfin ears.
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Comments (7)
Great job, MandaMo! I love that you have an awesome handle on these people's personalities... I was at a gay event this weekend in Phoenix and I saw NO LESS than THREE different people wearing a "NO BITCH ASS NESS" T-shirt...
I have heard there may have been trouble in the DK camp, but nothing firm... I'm not surprised, I'm sure that there are always going to be people wanting to get all Nicole Scherzinger and break free, then release a solo record that completely flops and then come running back into the open arms of the group, LOL.
Keep up the great work, sweetie...
love, J-Mo :)
P.S. I may be waaay off base considering that me and the military stay far, far away from each other (with good reason) but I think that "XO" might be a naval acronym that stands for "eXecutive Officer"... :)
1 of 7 | Posted by J-Mo | Posted on October 7, 2008 11:54 AM
The blurring on Diddy's shirt were the first two letters of Ciroc vodka that he is hawking.
2 of 7 | Posted by esmerelda | Posted on October 7, 2008 12:14 PM
I just found this... looks like we'll have to wait until next week to get the whole story.
"All the details will be revealed in the live special on October 14th when fans get an exclusive of never before seen footage from the dramatic meeting with Diddy and Danity Kane. In the live special viewers and fans will find out if there has really been a cut and if MTV’s favorite girl group stays in-tact."
3 of 7 | Posted by pixyamiga | Posted on October 7, 2008 1:40 PM
Esmeralda:
Ah..Ciroc makes sense.
I was kinda hoping the blurred out letter on Puffy's shirt was a "B". :P
4 of 7 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on October 9, 2008 10:23 PM
LOL! @ "You know what would go well with this cashmere throw? Cheesecake!"
Oh the good ol' days when I used to try to catch every episode of this show.
Since I mostly started paying attention again this season through recaps, can someone catch me up to speed?
1. When did Puffy stop caring about Mike being Butterball-ish?
2. How long has Que and Dawn been going steady (awww!)?
3. Have Audrey and Brillo (oh my, what's his real name again?) knocked boots? How serious were they? Why'd they "break up"?
5 of 7 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on October 9, 2008 10:35 PM
Dear blahblah,
First of all, I was hoping that it was a blurred out "B" too ;)
Anyway, to answer your questions...
(1) No one really knows when Diddy stopped caring that Big Mike continued to butterball it up. It's one of Making the Band's greatest mysteries! But it does seem like Mike stopped working on his physique, and no one's mentioned it at all during this season.
(2) Dawn and Que got together about midway through last season. They had instant chemistry, but it took Dawn a little while to come around because she was a little unsure of Que's intentions. And also he's so much younger that she was worried that she'd be robbing the cradle.
(3) It's unclear about Brillo and Orange...last season they went on a date and shared an on-screen goodnight kiss. But then he took another girl on a date that SAME night, and Orangey got pissed. After that, they decided to just be "friends," but sometimes they talk about snuggling although we never see it on camera.
Whew! Hope that answers everything!
6 of 7 | Posted by mandamo | Posted on October 12, 2008 8:45 PM
Aw, shucks! I hate that I am just now getting to read this! I have to say, that I am completely honored to have been quoted in this recap!!!! And to be called a favorite - I feel so loved! Does this make me "internet famous" now? And I didn't even have to put any embarrassing pictures on Facebook to do it!
But onto the review - you are so right, this episode did seem to take forever and it contained more than it's fair share of cringe-worthy moments. I guess there really can be too much of a good thing! Thanks and next time I will be sure to read sooner!!!!!
7 of 7 | Posted by Y3KPhenom | Posted on November 7, 2008 11:35 AM