Episode Recap: Season 3, Episode 2

Episode 2 Original Air Date: January 10, 2007 This episode begins just after the elimination from the last episode. Scooter, evidently in the mood for something completely wild and outrageous, decides to play Chess with Pi. That might seem like it would be enough excitement for one night, but after the game is over Scooter wanders upstairs where he eventually finds himself in one of the bedrooms with hoochies Megan and Cecille. What happens next leaves Cecille nearly injured and Scooter in the fetal position. According to Cecille, she and Megan start to "flirt" with Scooter. Scooter characterizes it as the girls "attacking" him. It can easily be open to interpretation. Poor Scooter is suddenly closer than he's ever been to two non-inflatable females, and becomes (in his own words) "nervous and frightened". One could say he's like a nerd out of water. In any event, Cecille wants to push the flirtation even farther by making out with Scooter. Scooter is not willing, however, and scrambles to make up an excuse. Finally he tells her he doesn't want to make out with her because there's a camera in the room. But it takes perseverence and determination to be as skanky as Cecille, and she is not about to be deterred by such a little thing as a nation-wide audience. She climbs on top of a couple of suitcases and tries unsuccessfully to throw an article of clothing over the camera. The suitcases topple and Cecille ends up as a pile of hoochie on the floor. Everyone else rushes into the bedroom after hearing the loud crash. Cecille is uninjured, but, as Jennylee observes, poor Scooter is "shaking". He finally scampers off to his own bedroom to hide in his own bunkbed. Cecille later tells us, just as was the case with the attention shown to Matt in the last episode, that she is "not attracted" to Scooter. She was "just flirting". Classy. Conclusions: After seeing him perform in the first challenge in the last episode, I thought Scooter might be what I call a "sleeper geek" - a guy who is planted on the show but is not as geeky as initially portrayed. This entire incident blows that theory to Kingdom Come. This incident does, however, confirm beyond a reasonable doubt that Cecille is a tramp. The next morning, host Mike Richards gathers the group downstairs to discuss their next challenge. Nate shows up wearing the same baseball cap (which he probably sleeps with), an old T-shirt with giraffes on it, white plaid pants, and red sneakers. I wish I knew where this guy shops for clothes. I don't think I could find clothes that ugly if I went looking for them on purpose. But I digress. Mike informs the ladies (and I use that term loosely) that their next challenge will have to do with aeronautics. Of course, Mike then has to explain to the girls what the term "aeronautics" means. Because preparing for this challenge will require reading and maybe actually learning something, the beauties are understandibly frightened. Megan tells us she doesn't know anything about aeronautics, but she is a member of the Mile-High Club. Color me shocked. Jennylee tells us she's nervous because she has no idea what the challenge will actually be. She says tomorrow she could find herself behind "the wheel" of an airplane, or "on the moon". That's one way to raise the average IQ of the people on Earth. Mike then tells the men (and I use that term just as loosely) that their next challenge will have to do with "appreciating" women. In order to prepare, the geeks must subject themselves to untold amounts of suffering by reading a stack of women's magazines. Geek or not, that's almost too much to ask from a guy. Captain Drew says he'd rather read a Star Trek magazine. Somehow I see this guy living in his mother's basement for the rest of his life. To ensure her team wins the next challenge, Cecille leaps into action by changing into a bikini and lounging by the pool. But that's not all she does. She has a magazine with her. Yes, it is one of the women's magazines, but atleast it contains words. She tells us, "I was reading the magazine for my own pleasure, but I guess I could help my team mate." Speaking of her team mate, Nate adopts the off-the-wall strategy of studying for the challenge. It's so crazy it just might work. He's not studying for his challenge, though. He's reading the material on aeronautics and making notes of the main points for Cecille, who we can be sure will be very grateful and follow up by reading his notes carefully. Later the geeks decide to fire up the charcoal grill and cook dinner for the beauties. They figure since their next challenge has to do with appreciating women, what better way to show their appreciation than making supper for the ladies? Nate endears Jennylee and Erin to him by telling a story about how he never had the courage to ask anyone to dance at school parties. He would always hide behind the concession stand instead. Awww That night, the only two girls who bother to study are the two brunettes, Andrea and Sheree. The four blondes are out in the hot tub comparing thongs. Sheree worries about the blonde clique and thinks she must win the next challenge or she'll be chosen for elimination for sure. She's not being paranoid. Even Matt sees that a clique has formed. The next day host Mike Richards assembles the geeks downstairs for their next challenge. As the walk into the room they discover a number of easels equipped with large sketch pads. Mike tells them that in a moment they will be asked to sketch what is set in front of them. A moment later a woman walks in wearing a robe. She introduces herself as Sophia, then promptly drops her robe, revealing herself to be completely the opposite of clothed. For some of the guys, this is probably the closest they'll get to a naked woman in a long, long time. Pi even admits to us that this is the first time he's ever seen a naked woman. It's several minutes before the guys are able to stop giggling. The geeks concentrate and work hard on their sketches, but Sophia keeps making it difficult because she won't keep still. She also talks the entire time, rambling endlessly about herself. The rambling seems purposeful. Something's fishy. Time's up. Mike walks back into the room and tells the guys to reveal their handiwork. Most of the sketches look like the work of third graders - third graders who have an extreme appreciation for anatomy. However, Nate's sketch is an incredibly complicated piece which is supposed to be a bunch of negatives of photos taken of different parts of the model. On the other extreme, Pi wrote "perfection" on the top of his sketch and drew a large circle containing a smaller circle surrounded by four stick figures. He explains that the circle represents Sophia's breast and the stick figures represent the many men attracted to it. Okay, then. Mike tells the guys that even though their sketches are very good (for a special ed class), the sketching was not the challenge. Appreciating a woman, he explains to them, is all about listening to what she has to say. Then he starts to quiz them on what Sophia said while she was in the room. The quiz doesn't last too long. The first question was "What was the model's name", and half of the guys missed it. One of the guys thought it was "Jennifer". Others guessed "Sharon" and "Heather". Those guys had to sit out the rest of the quiz. The next question was "What movie did she stay up all last night watching?" and only Mario answered correctly (Pretty Woman). Pi guessed Lord of the Rings. I think he was confusing Sophia with himself. Super Mario later tells us that when Sophia started talking non-stop, he realized what was going on so he started listening. After the challenge, Pi runs up to his room because he can't wait to show off his giant breast sketch to Sheree. She is not impressed. "One boob. That's what he drew. That is objectifying women, which is so chauvanistic," says Sheree, the former Hooters waitress. Pi tells us in his own defense that he "worked hard on the sketch, actually. Yeah it was one boob. But it was a boob drawn with love." Later, Nate asks Cecille how she feels about Aeronautics. "Spacey," she answers with uncharacteristic wit, then adds, "I get it. But if we had to do a museum tour, we'd be in big trouble." Speaking of museum tours, the group next gathers at the California Science Center Air and Space Museum. Sure enough, the beauties' next challenge is to give a museum tour. The curator will be tagging along to judge which girl gives the best tour. Andrea, Sheree, and Nadia actually do a pretty good job. The other girls, however, not so much. Cecille thought the sign that said "Bell X-1" referred, not to the small plane piloted by Chuck Yeager that broke the Sound Barrier, but rather a nearby police helicopter. She informs the group that this particular helicopter was used on the TV series Mash to "fly soldiers from bomb sites to the hospital". Jennylee thought the Mercury Red Stone capsule, used to send a chimp into space, was either a satellite or a telescope. She also informed the group that plant life has recently been discovered on Mars. Andrea and Sheree know that if neither of them win, they will probably both go to elimination. Andrea, who had been doing really well throughout the rest of the tour, stumbles on the Viking Lander. She then figures it's up to Sheree to win. But Sheree identifies the wrong satellite as Sputnik. It looks as though Nadia may have a chance to win this one, which would not be good for the brunettes. Sure enough, Nadia wins, leaving it up to her and Mario to choose both teams for elimination. Back at the mansion, the other blondes start with the peer pressure on Nadia. Nadia gets frustrated and starts to cry. She doesn't know whom to choose. She's afraid of upsetting the other blondes by choosing any of them. "They're my friends," she blubbers to Mario. "You just met them," he says. He also makes it clear he thinks Cecille and Megan should be the ones to go, since they're not trying. It doesn't go that way, though. Once the group gathers downstairs for The Announcement, Mario and Nadia name Andrea and Matt and Pi and Sheree as the teams marked for elimination. This provokes Sheree to complain to Nadia that she's too involved into the clique. She tells the rest of the women that they're setting a bad example for the geeks. The beauties are supposed to be teaching the boys about how to see past the superficial, she explains, but instead the girls are all about the superficial. Niels tells us that watching the women interact makes him feel better about how the guys interact. Among the geek herd, no one is ostracized and everyone gets along. "There's actually a lot about social interaction the girls could learn from the guys," he says. Pi tells us he would like to stay. "I have a lot of issues to resolve, possibly with myself, definitely with Sheree... We have a unique relationhip where the woman nags and nags and the man just listens." The two teams square off in the elimination room. Sheree and Andrea each answer both of their questions correctly. It's up to the guys. Pi misses his first question, but Matt answers both of his correctly. Pi and Sheree are eliminated. During the post elimination interview, Pi complements Sheree. She returns the favor, but adds that he needs to "listen to women." Pi says, "This a divorced married couple right here." "We're just friends," Sheree responds. "I think we're using the term 'friends' loosely." "I don't see [in Pi] the want or willingness to change..." "Sheree..." "It's just not there..." "Sheree..." Next week - Geek makeover.