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July 28, 2008

I Love Money: Insert clever pun about Mr. Boston here

Lindsay Diokno writes about I Love Money

When an episode immediately opens with drama, I know it's gonna be a good episode.

12 Pack approaches green team members Mr. Boston, Megan, Brandi C. and Destiney with a proposal -- throw the next challenge and the gold team would make sure Whiteboy was bounced. Of course, the green team members agree, and, of course, we know that alliance won't last an entire episode.

The gold team, led by 12 Pack, and the green team, led by Chance, lead their teams into the next challenge: the Chickenpult. In Flavor of Love, a contestant served Flav's mom a raw chicken; in this challenge, the teams assemble a catapult and fling raw chickens to their teammates, who must plate 5 chickens on a nearby table. I would kill to be on the dream team that creates these challenges. Yeah, this is the preview video, but I felt a picture of the Chickenpult didn't fully explain how great this invention is.


So Mr. Boston and Megan do what they can to make their team lose (assemble the catapult wrong, load the chicken carcass wrong, etc.), and gold team manages to skate by with the win -- but not before Rodeo gets slammed in the face with a raw chicken. I really do feel bad for her, because that is foul. This win means the green team is set to put Whiteboy up for elimination, except there's changing of minds and Whiteboy tells Megan they should get rid of other people, which leads to a really awkward 14 minutes of Mr. Boston fighting to keep his check out of the cashbox.

The end result is that Brandi and Destiney are up for elimination, and Mr. Boston cries because he's up for elimination as well. At the power outing, Mr. Boston walks off to cry more, which is actually entertaining. Brandi tries to defend herself for throwing the alliance agreement by not voting for Whiteboy to be eliminated while saying that she kept her end of the bargain. I would love to be a part of Brandi's alternate reality.

At the end of the show, it's goodbye to Mr. Boston, who picks a spectacular name-calling match with Brandi. If you get a chance, watch it. Destiney is saved, which makes the rest of the gold team mad because they wanted her gone. Brandi is saved, because 12 Pack knows she's a weak player. And Megan sits on the sideline with her mentally challenged dog (her description) looking like Ernst Stavro Blofeld (the inspiration for Dr. Evil, if you aren't up on your James Bond).

Next week promises lots of crying, LOTS of boozing and little love for Destiney. And I think it might be time for the Real-Hoopz romance to heat up.
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Sarah Kickler Kelber, an editor in the features department since 1999, got sucked into reality TV with the first episode of MTV's The Real World in 1992. Then came Survivor and American Idol, and suddenly, the genre was everywhere. She started blogging about it for The Baltimore Sun in January 2006 and has logged more hours watching and writing about such shows as Dancing With the Stars, Big Brother and, of course, Idol, than she'd like to admit.
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