I have decided I am going to start my recap of the latest episode of Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes 2 without the usual complaints about how the men are boring and the women only things keeping the show moving. Then again, I guess by mentioning that I am not going to mention it, I really actually did mention it, which meant I should have simply mentioned it at the beginning in the first place. Oh whatever. Things start off an a high note as Coral and Robin are discussing things over a Slurpee. When I saw Shawn last week with a slurpee, I simply thought the producers had let them off of their compound in order to get something at a 7-11. Even in their secluded spot in Santa Fe, their needs to be a place to get cigarettes, so it wasn't a stretch to see somebody with a slurpee. To my surprise, it turns out the producers had supplied them with a machine to make their own slurpees. I guess they feel that anybody surviving the liver disease they acquired by drinking so much on the show would fall to their deaths from the insular shock(or "too much sugar" to use the parlance of our times) of drinking corn syrup and food coloring all of the time.
What kind of argument happens around a slurpee machine? Well, the kind of argument that Coral likes to start, of course. Coral has become a little leery at all of the independent voices in the house that may not think she is entitled to make it to the end without contention. No, some of her team actually had the guts to think about playing the game fair. This juggernaut going after the Coral included Robin, Ibis, and Aneesa. Katie wanted to stick it to Coral because Coral had Veronica on her side, and she and Katie are pretty much mortal enemies, despite all the talk about them not hating each other. Now, we know that Aneesa, at least from her previous votes is not so much about fairness as she is about keeping with consensus. And Ibis? She also made her decisions based on what would antagonize the least amount of people. This new groups wasn't really all high and mighty, but once a lot the women saw how a couple of people basically conspired to get rid of Angela, they opened their eyes.
I must mention the guys because the producers decided that since the show was in its seventh week, it was OK to clue everybody in on the fact that there were two apparently single gay men on the same Bunim/Murray reality show! Yes, Nick and Shane were happy talking about how it was great having somebody who shared their same experiences around at the same time. Sitting around the table, they got a lot of advice about the struggle for gay rights and indentiy from, uh, Eric Neis? Apparently afraid that they were putting too many gay people on at the same time, the producers left off Dan, perhaps because they wanted to keep the level of discourse up, and not degenerate into what you did after you were caught pleasuring yourself in an adult movie theater. Bunim/Murray is always looking to keep the level of discourse on their shows high. Since nary a word has been mentioned of Nick or Shane during this season, I figured they were setting us up for one of them to go home. But first they had to go about that messy business we have now come to know as "humiliating the girls in every competition possible".
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Comments (4)
That was, hands down, the most disgusting "challenge" they've ever had. But it was worth it to see Rachel get the boot. The women on Survivor should take a page from these girls and realize you need to take out the center of power in order to win the game. I wonder if Coral will go next, or if they're all too afraid of her.
1 of 4 | Posted by freakgirl | Posted on November 23, 2004 8:44 AM
My favorite was when Coral looked into the tv screen and went "I gotta get a real job".
Yes, you do.
2 of 4 | Posted by Leah3t | Posted on November 23, 2004 1:20 PM
If the Miz can get kicked off anyone can, so I'm betting on Coral for next week. However I think all the girls have resigned themselves to the fact that they are never going to win anything so I highly doubt Coral will "step up" as she says, to be a team leader. I think there should be an Apprentice moment and Johnny Mosely should kick off two girls a week. They all suck.
3 of 4 | Posted by smithie | Posted on November 23, 2004 3:55 PM
does anyone know where Rachel got that orange "LESBIAN" t-shirt from?
4 of 4 | Posted by d | Posted on December 7, 2004 1:19 PM