I grew up in Southern CA and have heard people say "balls out" and "balls to the wall".

Frank sticking up for Jillian really annoyed me. It was probably just the way they edited it, but she should have fought her own battles instead of sitting there silently.

i have been seriously slacking on my gauntlet this season. I hereby vow to make more of a snarkiness effort. might be the weather. snark's just not flowin like it used to.

janelle's an idiot for picking someone with an undefeated record plain and simple. jillian crushed everyone she went up against...meaning she was the worst person to pick. these chicks are half-assing it big time. dust off my red, white and blue loverboy headband and let me show you how it's done. bunch of marys.

anyone remember the 'Return to Las Vegas' antics and frank's turn at being a playboy? i have a feeling miss jillian is going to look back at this and cringe. like making out with that sorta cute guy at the bar that one night and being mildly proud of yourself. that is until you and your friends run into him again and you realize you were slummin big time and it ain't gonna look good on a resume. at least jillian's faux pas is on tape. bravo.

Frank is by far the most annoying rookie. The way he was fighting to Jillian was SOOO annoying. Especially since his reasoning was nonsense. Had it been any other girl who was thrown into the gauntlet each time he would not have cared. Then when he was screaming for her in the gauntlet...I wanted to throw a rock at him!

By the way, how many times are we going to hear the phrases "top dog" and "trim the fat"?

May I add "chopping block" to that list please?

Maybe thats whats so bad about this show this time-(besides no coral/katie/beth action so far) no original thinking!

Once again, nice recap Dr. McSteeny. I love the first two captions - "No Offense Janelle" and "Ten Inches You Say?...Riiight" And I didn't even catch MJ's baby mistake. Hilarious.

I do agree the episodes could be better if they added some of the behind the scenes stuff instead of showing 2 challenges and 2 gauntlets. It might as well be a half hour show again.

It's actually 60 months years.
Anyways, I wonder why they keep sending Jillian in, the Vets I mean, Did I miss something?

sweetleaf: Yes!!! I totally cringe every single time I hear "chopping block." And it's not just this show--it drives me nuts.

Awesome recap. I loved MJ's months years. There wee so many hilarious things about this recap I don't know where to start, so I'll take the lazy way out and just say kudos.
Just for spits and giggles, I say "balls to the wall" quite often. Usually, I'm doing it to sound especially hokey. I've heard my share of it here in the dirty south.

Just wanted to add, if y'all didn't know already. I looked up Brad's myspace page and it looks as if him and Tori are officially together now. So they're not just hooking up, like i thought everyone was doing in the Gauntlet. He has pics of both of them together on his page. =)

You know, as soon as I saw the rules for the first challenge, I had the feeling that one of the idiots on this show would end up injuring himself or herself. Why can't people understand that you should never give two-by-fours to anyone even remotely connected to MTV?

Also, when I saw Frank cheering Jillian on, my first thought was, "This dude is getting laid tonight!" I actually thought it was kind of cute, but I'm a bit partial to Frank, anyway.

balls to the wall gets used in the midwest as well... although once i was trying to think of it to use and came out with "balls to the wind" yeah... use it and pass it on :)

I thought Janelle would put up more of a fight. Seriously, wtf? Scratch her f-cking eyes out, b-tch. It's disappointing 'cause Frank and Jillian are uber-irritating. I thought it was a hilarious farce that Frank said Jillian was in there twice already when one of those times was against Brooke. F-cking Brooke! If that Gauntlet event was who could be a nutty, nonathletic faux-lesbo, then, yeah, Jillian went in twice, but, as it stands, she only really went in once before this one.