Stir Crazy

B-M conducts the ultimate lab rat experiment, results: inconclusive; Dave falls asleep on the job.

Mission Notes

• Foreshadowing of the Week: Gee, ole Mikey hit the nail smack-dab on the head when he was somberly commenting on how this mission would be the downfall of team RW. Perhaps in the future he'll think twice before forecasting gloom (to quote Ayanna from, "Ayanna's Crisis" words give things power).

• Double Standard of the Week: The Pigster's continued obsession with doing bodily harm to Los has become quite disturbing. Sure, last week's crack about her wanting to chop off his balls and throwing 'em in the ocean was worth a chuckle or two, but she ran away with it this week! There were at least three or four instances in this eps where Piggy passively threatened Los' well-being; and I don't care if it was intended as a joke or not! Repeated threats to the affect of hiring a hit man to blow someone's legs off definitely warrants a yellow alert! And if the tables were turned and Los made such a threat, two-face B-M would dump him off at the nearest bus stop!

• Questionable Actions of the Week: No, not the Pigster's attempt to set Dan's toes a blazin', but rather B-M for not reprimanding Dan for his subsequent whacking of Piggy with a pillow. Doesn't that violate B-M's "policy" on domestic violence, or are we looking at another case of B-M's two-face "policy" on domestic violence?

• Slick Willie of the Week: When a nature call summons Kat to the rest room, she leaves the tennis ball, which is to remain in motion at all times in the drowsy mitts of Ponyboy. Some 20 seconds later (so say the collective) Kat returns to find Ponyboy out like a light and the ball resting in his firm grip. So after their rightful disqualification, Kat tries to lie and say that the ball was still bouncing when she came back, but ahhh... video tapes never lie (unless of course they are digitally altered, but that's a can of worms I'm not gonna open). As the troopers are shown the footage, we can clearly see the Cheshire Kat emerging from the rest room to find the ball resting perfectly still; then to make matters worse, Cheshire makes a quick pass at the camera--knowing full well that she was caught red handed... decides to later fabricate a lie anyway! Shame, shame, shame!

• Reset Button of the Week: Even though it may not have been B-M's desired effect, Los' 180 change of heart by the end of the eps was contrived to say the least. Let's not forget that Los has been bickering with his fellow travelmates (particularly Piggy and Clueless) virtually through-out the whole trip; therefore, are we lead to believe that a 48 hr stay in a cell would suddenly prompt Los to change his attitude towards Piggy & Co.? I don't buy it; In fact, the conspiracy part of me suspects that Bogus Monopoly Productions pre-paid The Los Man to stir-up some conflict just for ratings. How else do you explain Los' talk the talk but never walk the walk scenario of repeatedly threatening to leave the show ... only to later come swaggering back for round 2? Just last week he told Heather B. that he was sick of this (trip) and was ready to go home... well what's stoppin' you? Yo, if I had to put with the likes of Clueless and Piggy constantly griping with me day in and day out, I'd be outta there faster than you can say, "BMP"!

• Mystery of the Week (viewer submitted): Who in the heck was that black guy on the bus, who Piggy was evidently using as a pillow when discussing the whereabouts of Los early in the eps? He had too much hair on top to be Teck, and we know it wasn't Los--unless Piggy & Co. are really off their rocker!

• Mystery of the Week--First Runner Up: We were shown another gracious "traveling" shot [TM] during the closing of the eps, but where were the troopers traveling to? After all, they were never (to our knowledge) given a clue instructing them to head to such-and-such place.

• Showoff of the Week: It appears that Dan is jabbing for Dave and Colin's #1 spot on the shirtless scene scale! I counted at least seven different instances where Dan was either flexing for the camera or Holly (so Holly wishes). But Dan, you may wanna take a razor to that jungle on your chest and stomach!

• Good Teammenship of the Week: I thought it was pretty clever of team RR to concoct a plan to keep the ball moving via putting it into a bag, tying the bag to a string, and hanging it in front of a blowing A/C. This further illustrates why RR has been so triumphant in the last two challenges. There're pretty much on their own turf where they frequently collaborate to solve tough missions, whereas all Mike and Teck can do is boggle over the concept.

• The Rules Are Not Made to be Broken of the Week: Did my eyes deceive me, or did I see Ponyboy puffing on a smoke while discussing "hard time" with Teck? If you take the events from, "Demolition Derby" into consideration Dave just blew his team $6,000 bucks. Apparently both B-M and the troopers have forgotten some of their own history, and you all know the old saying... If you don't know your history, you're doomed to repeat it!

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