Paula asks evan what she should do, and he tells her that if she committed to saying MJ, she better say MJ. Of course, he says this with MJ standing 5 feet from him.
MJ goes into the girls room and tries to get one of them to vote for Dunbar. Ruthie ain't having it. MJ goes over his evil plan a few more times with more people and I can't keep up. Oh, real world, you've outsmarted me once again!
Paula then schemes somehow, someway to get Robin called last. But wants to make sure that Ryan and Dunbar are also called. Let's see how this all plays out, shall we?
At the picking ceremony, Mark and Rachel pick Aneesa, who picks Landon, who picks Brit, who picks Brad, who picks Tori, who picks Evan, who picks Paula, who picks.... Dunbar?! Cue the record scratch.
Evan tells her out of the corner of his mouth that what she did was really fucked up, and that SHE fucked up. Paula smiles at him like an idiot, probably thinking that he just complimented her on something.
Dunbar picks Diem (barf), who picks Ryan, who picks Jen, who picks Nehemiah (I feel like this is starting to sound like the first passage of the Bible), who picks Brooke, who picks Davis, who picks Kimberly (why, Davis, why?), who picks Derrek,who picks Katie, who picks Big Easy, who picks Ruthie.....meaning that the final ones left are Robin, MJ and Issac (noooo).
What's wrong with you people? Issac is the coolest one here, for gods sake! Luckily, Ruthie (of all people) has enough sense to pick Issac, leaving Robin and MJ to go to the duel. Nice plan, Paula Walnuts!
MJ picks Ryan to go against in the duel, who is pissed since he just went into the duel with Nick 24 hours earlier.
Robin picks Kimberly, who in all honestly I probably would've picked too. Or Brittini.
TJ hands them their Duel cards to pick, and Robin gets Duel Pole Dancing and MJ picks Push Over.
The girls talk about how shocked they are the way things went down, and Kimberly says they need to stop listening to Paula and Evan. How about we stop listenting to the girl who said Blackville?
Ryan is pissed, and there ain't nothing worse then an angry gay man. He says Paula always goes for meat heads like Dunbar. Evan is now trying to distance himself from Paula, claiming she went rogue. Oh Evan, this is why I hate you. She's not an undercover CIA agent for god's sake.
At the duel, TJ explains the pole dancing challenge, and its not nearly as interesting as what I hoped. Robin and Kimberly have to rock climb up a cylinder but will be fighting over footholes along the way. First person to ring the bell at the top wins. Probably not the best challenge to go against a skinny girl.
As expected, Kimberly has a pretty good lead and Robin has barely made it 5 feet up the pole. Kimberly rings the bell and wins. Woo freakin hoo. I don't like either of them, but find Robin less offensive then Kimberly, which really isn't saying much.
Robin looks pissed and shocked, and I cross my fingers that we see some of that psycho Katie was talking about. But, she just cries alot, which is annoying and lame.
She gives us a speech worthy of a Lifetime Movie reel about how she keeps coming back because she likes to challenge herself, and everybody took that away from her. Yes, I'm sure being crazy had noting to do with that.
MJ and Ryan are next, and in their challenge, they need to push each other off a platform with the two out of 3 being the final winner. This isn't looking good for Ryan, but he says he's taken some hits before. I bet he has, but not the kind that will help him in this challenge. Predictably, MJ comes at him and knocks him off. Twice. MJ wins.
Paula interviews that she hopes MJ didn't take her diss personally, which is funny, because we all know you're over the Jonny Bananas backstab. Riiiiiiight.
Brad has no sympathy for her, and the whole crew agreed that Paula now has a big bullseye on her back.
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Comments (16)
thanks for making a soup reference. one of my favorite shows, and joel mchale rocks. not suprised that you watch the soup...joel mchale and tvgasm are the two reasons that i'm scared to go on a reality show, so how fitting...
*Preview Spoiler*
If my memory is correct, the previews showed Evan having the last pick and choosing Paula to go in the duel and paula flipping him off...it might have just been that he didn't save her...i am not entirely certain about the last choice part, though i imagine no one else will
save her if evan doesn't, so she probably is in regardless
1 of 16 | Posted by tv freak | Posted on April 21, 2009 2:11 PM
I have been watching these duels since the bald guy hosted the inferno..what was his name? Oh someone please look that up I'm so lazy. Anyway, I'm so glad someone is recapping them like this because as much as I love them, my god, could it get any more ridiculous?
Also, I agree with tv freak. The Soup is great. You should recap it. Although recapping a recap...well now I'm dizzy.
2 of 16 | Posted by congratsmeathead | Posted on April 21, 2009 2:17 PM
Dave Mirra was his name...Much better (and cuter) than TJ..TJ seriously looks like he reads right off the cue cards and has ZERO personality
3 of 16 | Posted by illinigal | Posted on April 21, 2009 2:28 PM
what happened to Robin, I remember her on her season, she was a tough girl, now she has turned into this low self esteem, hanging all over guys chic. She needs to move out of LA and discover who she is.
I think it wasn't fair for Ryan to pick Nick last week, because he had a broken hand.
Paula is an idiot, why rock the boat so soon, I am sure some of the other girls would have picked dumbar anyway, but now she lost her alliance with Ryan, and Evan, painted a bulls eye on her back, and made it so obvious she was working with Dumbar, very foolish in my opinion.
Once again I like that Isaac and Ruthie are playing hte game, like they see how stupid the whole thing is.
Landon is a major hottie, but for the life of me, can't recall what season he was on, I know he had a crush on the black girl in the cast, but I can't remember anything else.
And what season was MJ on, I like how Rachel as mellowed down from Her Veronica adn Rachel Mean girls days.
4 of 16 | Posted by nflow | Posted on April 21, 2009 2:32 PM
nflow: Both Landon & MJ were on the Real World Philly. The girl Landon had a crush on was Shavonda
5 of 16 | Posted by ghnstry | Posted on April 21, 2009 3:53 PM
"Paula interviews that if you want some damn hugs, don't bang people's ex-boyfriends".
Aren't people's ex-boyfriends fair game? And wasn't it Diem who wanted to seperate from CT? It's like Diem's a little girl who doesn't want to play with her doll, but gets jealous when another little girl does. In fact, all these contestants are like little girls.
6 of 16 | Posted by leslie_gilman | Posted on April 21, 2009 4:04 PM
Ok, I have to defend Robin. She did keep it together this challenge. Yes, there was some crying but she didn's freak out. I like her and she appears to have had some personal growth. My question is, why didn't she pick a weak player like that chick who was making out with the gay guys? She seems like easy pickin's.
Anyway, great recap! Soo looking forward to this week's episode. I hope Paula goes home, but I don't think she will.
7 of 16 | Posted by oldmomoftoddlerboys | Posted on April 21, 2009 5:35 PM
Maybe I missed it, but why does everyone hate Diem? I remember her from the Fresh Meat Challenge. I was really touched when she told CT she had cancer and really proud of her competing without hair. I still like her. CT was really nice during that Fresh Meat Challenge. That's where Evan got his start I think. I like Evan too. MJ gets on my nerves though.
8 of 16 | Posted by nyc cookie | Posted on April 21, 2009 5:43 PM
nyc cookie:
Diem was Derrick's partner on Fresh Meat and he was the one she first told about her cancer. Diem didn't meet CT until the challenge after that, which was The Duel 1. CT was not on Fresh Meat
A lot of people don't like Diem because they feel like she tries to make people feel sorry for her because of her cancer thing.
9 of 16 | Posted by Aaron2009 | Posted on April 21, 2009 6:50 PM
i dont think robin was on the show long enough to have one of her freak outs. and the girl who made out of the gay guys, brooke...she had to do rock climbing on her season. i think she would've beat robin too.
10 of 16 | Posted by mellimel | Posted on April 21, 2009 6:52 PM
I knew Aneesa would win, it was obvious. She was seen throughout the trailer.
Anyway, I'm surprised Mark won, I thought he would do lousy on this challenge, but win on the "Last Man Standing" challenge.
Rachel won too. Don't care for her too much.
Anyway, I'm glad Ryan lost and Paula Walnuts is a bitch, I hope she loses soon.
I can't believe Kimberly beat Robin, how shocking.
Anyway, I already know Landon will win the next challenge(Look in the trailer, Mark and Landon are the last two. Landon takes down Mark.)
11 of 16 | Posted by Blakelovesthechallenge | Posted on April 21, 2009 7:22 PM
Who cares if Paula rocks the boat? I mean, if she didn't, this season would be so dull.... and the new castmates they added to the Challenge this year are dull.... I had forgotten who Kim and Brittini were... although, I'm sure Brit will be Landon's new love jones... LOL.
12 of 16 | Posted by slutty_whore | Posted on April 21, 2009 7:52 PM
Aaron2009--Thank you for the info. Sorry I got that wrong. I guess that's why I thought the guy who was really Derrick and not CT was really nice--if that makes sense! Anyway appreciate it--my memory isn't what it used to be! Still like Diem though. Can't help it, I think she was really brave.
13 of 16 | Posted by nyc cookie | Posted on April 21, 2009 9:56 PM
I still don't understand why MJ came in and now people need to save him and answer to him. Why did Paula mess everything up by picking Dunbar? Ryan still got picked... does Ryan think if MJ wasn't last, he wouldn't have gotten picked? I think it was funny that MJ & Robin were picked last since in the first episode MJ was sucking up to Robin begging her to pick him. I never understand why certain people get picked and others don't, like Isaac my favorite! And I will never like Easy after the challenge where he did NOTHING and got to the final challenge and ruined it for his team...i'm still so glad that happened. He is not a good competitor.
Nflow-I was thinking the same thing about Robin., she makes me nervous, i feel like any second she's going to crack. She was that tough bartender in the san diego season...
Also as for Diem, I thought she was sweet and so brave for fighting cancer, but if you beat cancer..would you really waste your time on CT? when she hooked up with CT i kind of lost respect for her because what is she thinking?? he's not even hot and he has a long history of being an asshole.
14 of 16 | Posted by winks523 | Posted on April 22, 2009 8:13 AM
winks,
there was a scene where ryan, paula, and a few others were sitting around talking. ryan said that if mj was the last to get picked, he was definitely going to pick him to go into the duel. paula agreed. so by picking mj, paula was most likely saving ryan as well.
15 of 16 | Posted by kmh5125 | Posted on April 22, 2009 1:50 PM
First, I am embarrased to say that at my age I am still watching this show, and am still very much into it (I stopped caring about Real World long ago). Moving on.
I used to think that CT was so completely hot physically, even though he was a gigantic douchebag. Now, not only is he not good looking, but it is crystal clear that within the next year or two he will be charged with anything ranging from aggravated battery to homicide. He is a certifiable, dangerous human being and if MTV keeps insisting on bringing him back for this shit, they'd better have lots and lots of liability insurance.
The fact that Shauvon banged him within the (what seemed like) first HOUR of being in the house--the Diem situation notwithstanding--not only proves her to be a dirty skank whore, but one with not a whole lot of sense.
Landon is still SO hot. I hope he hooks up with the Black girl on this challenge (don't know her name, but obviously not Aneesa), for purely selfish reasons! I loved when he hooked up with Shavonda during his RW season, although I was sooo jealous that it wasn't me!
Davis was my "Gay Boy crush" during his RW season, and I LOVED that he also makes out with girls! So again, I'm glad that Ryan is gone for purely selfish reasons.
I will end with this...if Paula still thinks that any of the usual suspects are her "friends" and will not betray her at the drop of a hat (LIKE LAST TIME), she truly is an idiot.
16 of 16 | Posted by snarky | Posted on April 23, 2009 12:20 AM