Bobby, Craig, and Nicole hook up with some locals to score pants and a tie for Bobby, and a shirt for Craig. Suddenly, Craig spots a laundromat. And it just so HAPPENS to be the exact laundromat where all of the players' clothes are being dry-cleaned. Craig and Bobby congratulate themselves on being useful for once, which really makes me suspect that they're going to be disqualified for this. But when they return to the restaurant, Jon explains that the cards that he handed them with the restaurant's address on them also had a small code at the bottom that pointed to the address of the laundromat. Yay hidden codes!
Meanwhile, Clay and Mark are denied entrance into the restaurant. They stand under the dining room window, hungry and dejected in their silly little robes.
"But they're terrycloth! The finest of all cloths!"
In a bout of rather terrible editing, we come back from the commercials to the team sitting down to yet another dinner (a.k.a. the Pre-Quiz Supper of Dysfunction) the next night. What did they do all day? I MUST KNOW. Mark is chided for being such a fastidious note-taker, and then Paul starts yelling. And yelling. He shouts at Mark, calls Bobby a punk, and blares that he's here to make money, not friends. Then he and Nicole trade some words. She apologizes to the table for threatening to kill him. He demands an apology directly to him. She apologizes directly to him. He yells that he doesn't want her apology. Paul, if you have given anyone at that table a reason not to drive an icepick through your chest, I'd love to hear it.
"JUDGING."
Quiz time! My favorite question, once again included only for the purpose of mocking a certain player's ineptitude: "In the 'Fruit of the Luge' mission, did the Mole put two apples in their fruit lineup/answer?" Take THAT, Alex's stupid brain!
When the kids sit down to receive their quiz results, Jon suddenly raises a single eyebrow. Uh oh. Either he's about to steal their clothes again, or something is Up. He offers them a bribe: $20,000 in cash to leave the game, right now. Shocked faces and sweaty brows abound. But no one takes it, so the execution begins.
Kristen, Mark, and Victoria are safe. Now that there's a 1-in-7 chance of being executed, Jon ups the total for the bribe: $30,000 to quit and leave. And Ali takes it! Addressing a bunch of gaping mouth holes, she says that she doesn't feel that she did very well on the quiz. As Jon takes her out to the car, the rest of the players are split on her decision. Alex thinks that that was a really smart move, whereas Bobby says that he never would have taken it, that he's here to win. Ali says that she misses home, and with that, she's gone, and without even a proper group eulogy.
Jon returns and tells them that Ali would have been safe. Oh well. Time to continue the execution! Uh...wha?? Now THAT threw me for a loop. I did not expect them to get rid of two people in one episode, but then again, that's the game. That Jon (creator of everything and master of all plot twists) sure is a trickster.
And the redprint goes to...Bobby! Bobby, who only two minutes ago said he was here to win. Oh well, maybe not so much. He leaves the group with a sad puppy dog face, and Victoria cries (really?) as he goes. Paul smirks and says that he's two people closer to winning the money. Oh, Paul. Your charm is as infectious as the multiple STDs probably raging through your groin.
Farewell, Bobby. We'll miss your ability to never do anything useful, ever.
Well! Any new suspicions? I'm still thinking either Victoria (especially after the finish line snafu) or Clay (for refusing to take part in the Dress Code mission). Part of me also really wants to suspect Craig, but then again he found those clothes at the laundromat. But then again, he's so likable that no one would suspect him of being so devious. Plus, I want him to be around until the end so that he can compare his body type to more things. A bowling ball! A beluga whale! The abstract representation of irony! The possibilities are endless.
What do we think? Can we get a group consensus on the longest, most painful way to dispose of Paul?
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Comments (7)
Thanks for the hilarious recap! I'm not so sure about Craig being the Mole. It's too obvious and insulting in a "this is only way a fat guy could make it through" kind of way. It could be Alex; any guy who knows he's that good looking is suspect, even though he's right. I'm leaning toward Clay. The only thing he has done so far is opt out of the clothing challenge this episode, I think, otherwise, he's been flying under the radar.
1 of 7 | Posted by lillybaby | Posted on June 18, 2008 10:27 PM
I have to say I think Clay or Mark is a good bet for the Mole.
And Dr. Whiner just gets on my freaking nerves! I wish every day for her to go away from this show and never return.
But then, I also have an unhealthy love for SmugJon. I know he's not Anderson Cooper, but I love him none-the-less. Is that so wrong?
2 of 7 | Posted by lonebutterflly | Posted on June 19, 2008 6:20 AM
I still got Victoria. Aside from her general game play (and the green thumb on the helmet in the first ep, I'm telling you!!), her behavior during quiz results is too "OMG I'm safe, I didn't think I would be!!"
3 of 7 | Posted by EZ Rider | Posted on June 19, 2008 10:19 AM
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these recaps! Thank you!!
Little tid bit that I caught as I fanatically watched half of the show frame by frame...Craig had a card, already, BEFORE Jon handed them out. Either it was really bad editing, or....
Right after Ali's interview, they go back to a group shot and you see the SHOCK and AWE on Kristen's face and right behind her, Craig is very cool, looking at the card in his hand...
And I love Jon, too! I think his smarminess comes across as thinly veiled ridicule for the whole process and what "he" is putting them through...it makes me giggle. :D
4 of 7 | Posted by kimbubbly | Posted on June 19, 2008 11:20 AM
Just like 98% of the decisions I make, I was wrong once again. I had pegged Bobby b/c all of a sudden King Useless was able to speak Spanish when before in the pig mission he just sat in the wheelbarrow of shame and pretended not to. So I thought ... AA HAA (but in that creepy villian on Scooby Doo way voice) Bobby is now on my list of suspects. And then of course, he was executed (although not the way I had hoped with the last meal, shaved head, priest, protesters, and awaiting pine box) Why did Clay have a card in his shorts and then refuse to participate? Me thinks he knew the clothes were at the laudromat and was trying to sabotage the mission. If statistics hold true, I am wrong again
5 of 7 | Posted by Fayellis1 | Posted on June 20, 2008 8:14 AM
I miss Bobby already.
Oh, but boring Clay is still there.
I like John Kelly too. He's like a black Anderson Cooper but not as closeted.
6 of 7 | Posted by weasel dearest | Posted on June 23, 2008 7:58 AM
omg scrooge mcduck silo! lmao. i knew i wasnt the only one out there who remembered that!
7 of 7 | Posted by aidnnme | Posted on June 23, 2008 12:08 PM