Reality Eats Itself – The Fresh Meat Challenge: Episode 3

Posted by Dan June 15th, 2006 at 04:31pm In Guilty Pleasures MTV RW/RR Challenge

Recap: 

Cristin writes:

Melinda/Ryan and Wes/Casey have been doomed to exile. Melinda and Ryan discuss her relationship with Danny and how it's fast-tracking her to a battered women's shelter, and she seems unconcerned. TJ sends out the clue for the Exile Challenge, in which he uses the term "tennis shoes" for sneakers and it makes me mad, because I'm a yankee and we don't talk like that.

The Jailbreak challenge involves digging through slop with your mouth to find a series of keys that will then unshackle you and your partner and release you from your cell. Johanna is "so excited" by how well she's doing that she drops the key and blows the whole mission. Theo and Chanda take it home, winning Fandango tickets for a year (the company of creepy talking brown paper bags).

This exile has the added task of collecting flags as the team carry their luggage weight through two checkpoints. Melinda and Ryan correctly solve the first puzzle and get to drop their bags for the remainder of the race, but cleverly forget to pick up the flags and lose, hardcore.

Cristin's two cents:

Some things I'd like to see as this season progresses: Wes getting kicked in the nuts, Tonya being humiliated in public as much as possible, and a weather channel update-style scroll across the bottom of the screen telling us that back in Boston, Danny's been arrested for public drunkeness/ wearing stupid hats/ dating a woman two brackets above him who he has no business touching at all.

Dan's two cents:

It takes a lot for me to turn against the gays, but I can't say I shed a tear when Ryan packed his bags.  Kind of a boring, Rice-a-Roni personality.  And seriously, you can't get these Austin kids off my screen quick enough so here's hoping they drop like flies.  Drunk flies.  Sweaty, abusive, drunken flies.  The best part of this season so far has been Coral who is an absolute scream.  It's a rare feat when someone on reality TV tries to be funny and actually is.  Next week, it looks like Cristin's Blue Iguanas might be racking up the points with a barn-burner of a fight between Wes and Johanna.

The Scoreboard:

Teams:
Cristin's Blue Iguanas: Katie/Eric; Johanna/Jesse; Tonya/Johnnie; Theo/Chanda; Shane/Linette
Dan's Green Monkeys: Coral/Evan; Melinda/Ryan; Tina/Kenny; Darrell/Aviv; Derrick/Diem

Dan's old total: 7

Dan's new total: 11