S4, Episode 2: Vanilla Ice would have been proud

Let’s see if I can whip out a quick two-fer so I’ll be ready to present a recap for Episode 4 (coming up tomorrow night on the CW!). Woo hoo!

Sam and Nicole have names! Sweet! It becomes very obvious very quickly that Sam has character as well. Unfortunately, it’s very obnoxious. “C’mon, let’s party out by the hot tub! Who wants a beer? Want some champagne? How about a beer? Where can a guy find a keg around here?! I wanna get some chick drunk so we can make out!” (It turns out that he won’t have to—some beauties are into “meatheads.”)

“Snoop D-O-double-G” and “Word” coming out of the host’s mouth? I have a black friend who likes to point out some things I say and exclaim, “You’re so white!” When I heard how that challenge was being introduced, I thought about how my friend might want to kill himself solely so he could roll over in his grave because it sounded so white. Ouch.

David, David, David… if you think this is the worst challenge ever, you’re screwed. It’s always downhill from here. Always.

MC Geeky. MC Geeky! I wonder if the guys from Three 6 Mafia turned three-6 shades whiter after being exposed to that challenge… And the fact that they showed Will getting a standing ovation was a pretty good indicator that he won. Joe from Season 1 would have absolutely destroyed the competition, of course, but Will got his standing O regardless.

Incidentally, whittling the group down to two before announcing the winner is actually quite annoying. It might seem more suspenseful, but it’s also quite annoying. Just tell us who the winner is, dammit!

I was on the debate team back in high school. I remember needing to work out arguments for and against a certain topic, but we only had to prepare for one issue and had a lot more time to do it. (We also needed to find quotes from various sources to back up our arguments, but still, give the beauties a little credit…) I knew it was going to be tough for them, so the only thing that irked me was how Sam brought up the new issue of drinking out-state and driving home in his rebuttal. Bring something new into a rebuttal was an absolute no-no in high school. Had he been stuck with his initial argument about letting 18-year-olds get drunk and party with the older kids… yeah, that sounds like him already. “C’mon, let’s party out by the hot tub! Who wants a beer? Want some champagne? How about a beer? Where can a guy find a keg around here?! I wanna get some chick drunk so we can make out!”

Ultimately, I wonder how the decisions got made for who to send to the elimination room. Sam picked the team that would be more of a threat in the future, whereas Will picked the couple that he thought was overly passive. Threat versus improvement… hmmm… (Quite frankly, I’m surprised that Will and Rebecca didn’t use a different standard—you’d think the passive team would need the experience more than the others, wouldn’t you?)

Tony seemed like such a sweet guy. Opening up for the first time, trying to win in the elimination room for Amanda’s sake… I really wish he could have stuck around longer. And Amanda’s fake boobs would have been nice, too.