I Love Money: the Heat is gone
Lindsay Diokno recaps another episode of VH1's I Love Money:
"Boston, when you gonna get plowed, dude?"
With an opening line like that, the rest of the episode can't be (and wasn't) disappointing.
Right off the bat, we check in on our established lovebirds, Destiney and Heat, and 12 Pack and Heather. It looks like nothing could split up these matches made in heaven, which means problems will ensue right around the half-hour mark.
For this episode's challenge, newly picked team captains Entertainer and Mr. Boston are told to split their team members into pairs for a luncheon. Understandably, Mr. Boston picks his teams with a gross food eating challenge in mind. You almost want to admire this kind of planning.
But the challenge, of course, is not eating gross food (sort of). "The Kiss-off" challenge is based on a record-setting make-out session between Flavor Flav and contestant New York on Flavor of Love -- which means that each pair in this challenge has to lock lips longer than any other pair for their team to win. The only pairing that matters is the charming Mr. Boston-Chance combo. Chance, by the way, is another guy that competed with Mr. Boston on I Love New York. Because every pair must kiss for their team to be in the challenge, Chance’s refusal to kiss Mr. Boston disqualifies the green team. Even though his team ragged on him, I have to back Chance up on this one -- Mr. Boston may have a clean bill of health, but I don’t know that $250,000 is worth making out with him.
In a related note, Destiney defends her beloved Heat when Chance blows up at him. Heat not coming to Destiney's defense disqualifies Heat in that relationship, and Entertainer moves in for the kill. Then one of the blondes that isn't Heather tries to start gold team drama by telling Heather that 12 Pack was flirting with someone else. Entertainer is ticked that not-Heather is starting drama for his team. During all this, Real calls the gold team "immoral." I laugh hysterically.
I laugh even harder when the Green team can't decide whom they want up for elimination, so they let Entertainer (paymaster for this challenge) decide for them. Instead of the green team getting the Whiteboy-Real-Chance trio split up, Entertainer picks Megan, Heat and Mr. Boston. Well-played, green team. Heat's obviously going home -- Entertainer hates Megan for causing drama, and he doesn't like Mr. Boston because, well, no one does. But Entertainer is the kind of guy who would kick off a person he thinks could stand between him and his woman, Destiney, whom he says he's dating less than a day after they start shacking up. I love how fast time moves on reality TV.
Anyway, there's a power outing where Megan cries about how she's misunderstood and Mr. Boston fakes throwing up. He says he hopes the sight of him throwing up doesn't hurt his chances with Megan. Let's review -- if Megan wins, she'll use the prize to spread awareness of mentally challenged dogs. She sounds like the kind of winner that you want to make a good impression on.
So Heat is eliminated, and he looks just a little drunk during the ceremony. Megan looks just a little scandalous in her bathing suit -- although bathing suit might be too generous a label. I don't know, can cloth be called clothing as long as it covers the essentials? And I'm just a little doubtful that Entertainer will take it all. A guy who plays off his emotions instead of playing smart and knocking off a strong competitor isn't someone who plays to win.
Next week's preview shows flying chicken carcasses, more nudity and men crying. In other words, it looks promising.
Stay classy, Heat. And a word of advice: The camera's just not that into you:






