At the beginning of the episode, they showed everyone in a room by themselves. It’s a big mansion from the outside, but trust me, it gets a lot bigger when you’re running out of housemates.
Out of all the activities everyone liked, Josh surprised me the most. He doesn’t seem like an outdoorsy person, but it looks like he would have had an easy time reeling in the dead fish last season. Joe playing chess, Brittany going ice skating, Cher making sushi… pretty cool stuff, but it pales in comparison to fly fishing.
Hey, Cher! The cute biting-the-tongue act was mine! Copycat!
Yay! Josh finally got into the hot tub and roasted his nuts! There may not have been eight beautiful women around at the time, but dammit, that’s progress!
I have to admit, if you ignore the fact that the final elimination took about half the episode, I liked it more this time. It wasn’t thinking of cold, hard facts about their partners—it was thinking like their partners.
Cher has become a lot more huggy in the last few weeks, hasn’t she? In his final interview, Josh was talking about puking out all his internal organs because the beautiful girls made him so nervous. Just imagine how he (and his stomach) would have reacted two months ago if Cher had been constantly draped over him when he answered questions correctly.
And along those lines, try to imagine him talking about the size of Wes’s penis during the first episode. In his own words, “BLEEEAAARRRRGH!!!!”
Now that I think about it, maybe Josh and I are more alike than I thought. Sure, Karl is on the verge of being my twin brother, but Josh and I grew up around lakes, we like to spend time in the outdoors, we both barfed during the course of the show… we’re almost the same person! I’m taller and heavier, but besides that, we’re the same!
The last commercial break was really obnoxious. “Josh needs this answer to force a tie-breaker… let’s see if he gets it after this.” Hmmm… the clock says there’s ten minutes left in the show—I wonder if he’ll screw up and they’ll show a bunch of flashbacks again…
Here’s an e-tissue for Joe: he was a cool guy and I can’t say I blame him for being so emotional. That’s not to say I would have been that choked up if I’d lost the final elimination, but I understand how he could feel that way. (If you haven’t been sitting in an interview chair for the last time, don’t judge—saying goodbye to the whole experience is a lot more overwhelming than you’d think.)
