SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV
This was a much better week for our locals than last week when we lost two of them--TWO! Read on.
On "The Amazing Race," bodybuilding brothers Godwin and Irwin left the pitstop in eighth place--AKA second to last place--and headed to Vietnam, although in their hearts, they'd already won because they've been able to see such wonderful things, and they've been together to see it all. Aaawwww. Everyone got on the same flight and started the race with zero dollars. Once in Vietnam more bunching occurred and all the teams arrived at the first stop, the "Hanoi Hilton," which is now a museum. They had to find the display featuring John McCain's flight suit, where they'd get their first clue. Godwin and Irwin chose to observe a moment of silence (one of only two teams that even bothered to so much as look at the damn display) which was a nice thing to witness, albeit a tad cheesy. Doing so put them in last place, but only briefly.
The Roadblock involved riding a bike around town and selling flowers, and all the money they made they could keep (hence the reasoning behind the no money thing at the beginning of the leg). Erwin took on the task, and didn't get too far before he totally crashed his bike and spilled all his flowers. He and Godwin eventually realized they didn't actually need to pedal anywhere to peddle anything, and they quickly earned their money and caught the first bus to Vac.
The Detour was a choice between "Fuel or Foul"--creating coal bricks or a birdcage. They chose the coal. Unfortunately, after creating the 30 required coal bricks, they were told the bricks were too short, and they had to start all over again. Dudes! Always check your work early on! Fortunately their lead was big enough (and the incompetence of the other teams high enough) that the re-do didn't really matter, and the boys made it to the pit stop in first place, woo! (They also won a "state-of-the-art entertainment system." How strangely vague.) Way to go, Cho bros!
Last week on "America's Next Top Model" we lost one of our own when Megan was booted. Back at the house most of the girls were pretty peeved that Megan was eliminated while Monique the Crazy was still there. As were we all.
At a tightrope walking exercise it was obvious a rivalry was developing between Melrose and Monique. Well, not so much a rivalry as an, "I hate you!" "No, I hate YOU!"-ry. Once they were back at the house, Monique got pissed at Melrose for using the phone because apparently she had "called it." She pretty much used all her phone time with that three-and-a-half hour call last week, didn't she? As retaliation, Monique decided to rub her underwear all over Melrose's bed, which we found dumb for two reasons. First, what is she, twelve? And second, she's pretty much admitting that her underwear are so nasty and stanky that anyone would find the thought of them being rubbed on their bed as utterly disgusting. Well played, Monique. Well played.
At the challenge, the girls had to walk on a cobblestone path in high heels while wearing masquerade masks. (This show seems determined to break someone's ankles. Remember the stiletto platforms last season?) Melrose stumbled and couldn't recover (much to Monique's delight), while A.J. rocked it and won the prize, which was modeling in a charity fashion show put on by Dennis Quaid in Austin. Meanwhile, back home, Monique got sick and had to go to the emergency room. Karma's a bitch, ain't it?
Monique tried to tough it out for the photo shoot, but went back home at the last minute. This show also seems determined to kill one of the girls via food poisoning. This is the third time a model has gone to the emergency room for it (although in the other cases--Adrienne in season one, and Danielle is season six--the girls actually made it through the photo shoots). Soon the girls realized the shoot involved walking on a floating platform in a pool--and not a sturdy platform either. It was a hoot. Once again, A.J. nailed the photo portion, as did Melrose.
The judges loved Melrose's picture, and felt she was the best walker of the bunch; they also loved A.J.'s photo. Needless to say, they are both still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model. Yay!
And Monique? She. Is. GONE. Can we get a double yay?
Finally, on "Survivor," Yul was still sitting pretty having uncovered the hidden immunity island during his stint on Exile Island. During the reward challenge, which involved running an obstacle course while tied to their teammates, Aitu worked well together--at least during the physical part. When it came to the puzzle portion, they ALMOST blew it, but eventually solved it and won the reward which included blankets and a hammock.
Back at camp Cao Boi decided to climb a tree in hopes of stealing some eggs from a bird's nest. In the process, he overturned the nest and knocked a newborn chick to the ground. It was pretty sad, but it looks like they were able to restore the nest and return the baby chick to it, seemingly OK. Cao Boi's a nut.
The immunity challenge involved rescuing a teammate tied to a mast out in the water, then coming back to land, at which point the rescued member was placed on a stretcher (!) and brought back into the jungle where the team had to then build a fire that would burn a rope and raise a flag. Cao Boi once again acted like a fool, but he did manage to set the fire before the other team, and Aitu won immunity. Yul was safe for another week! Woot!
For the record, J.P. was voted out, which was actually kind of shocking.