In honor of Valentine's Day, the first challenge of the show is a compatibility test. The contestants are placed into three duos. While one member waits in the studio, the other is asked a series of questions in the confessional. For each question, the task is to guess the answer he or she thinks his or her partner will give when he or she is asked on-stage. In the first round, each correct answer is worth one point and in the second, each correct answer is worth two points.
The teams are selected by the producers: the favorites (Brittany Ramos and Anna "Lil' Bit" Granthum), the underdogs (Dustin Plunkett and Sgt. Lindsay Hall), and the others (Jeff Porter and Megan Turnipseed). Brittany and Lil' Bit win with five points and each take home $500 gift cards to shop on official family merchandise.
Here are the questions:
Round 1
What is the favorite thing you like to do on a Sunday afternoon?
- Brittany = attend church, eat BBQ; Lil' Bit = "watch a lot of TV shows from Netflix and Hulu" 0 PTS.
- Dustin = watch football; Lindsay = "watch football during the season, especially my Giants, and then whatever sport is on like NASCAR when there's no football" 1 PT.
- Jeff = spend time with family after church; Megan = "go to church, then have family dinner" 1 PT.
- Brittany = The Bachelor; Lil' Bit = "I want to be on The Amazing Race with my friend Fat Legs" 0 PTS.
- Dustin = Survivor; Lindsay = "My guilty pleasure show is Hell's Kitchen" 0 PTS.
- Jeff = America's Next Top Model; Megan = "I want to go on The Bachelor and see if I can connect with someone" 0 PTS.
- Brittany = Chinese; Lil' Bit = "I won't eat Chinese because it looks all foreign to me" 1 PT.
- Dustin = None; Lindsay = "Actually, I'll eat just about anything" 1 PT.
- Jeff = Eggs; Megan = "I won't eat desserts because it makes me gain weight fast" 0 PT.
Round 2
If you had a time machine, to what historic event would you travel?
- Lil' Bit = D-Day; Brittany = "The invasion of Normandy [D-Day]" 2 PTS.
- Lindsay = Obama elected President; Dustin = "Man first walked on the moon" 0 PTS.
- Megan = Flight 93 on 9/11; Jeff = "Final out of the 1995 World Series [Braves won]" 0 PTS.
- Lil' Bit = Julia Roberts; Brittany = "Sandra Bullock would be great" 0 PTS.
- Lindsay = Rainn Wilson; Dustin = "Russell Brand" 0 PTS.
- Megan = "The Hagrid guy in [the Harry Potter film series, Rupert Grint]"; Jeff = "John Ratzenberger [was on Cheers]" 0 PTS.
- Megan = Brittany; Jeff = "Brittany Ramos is a sweet little lady..." 2 PTS.
- Lindsay = Brittany; Dustin = "We have a sports background...so I pick Jeff" 0 PTS.
- Lil' Bit = Jeff; Brittany = "The person...who has played the best game so far is Jeff" 2 PTS.
The
main challenge honors Brenda, the "mother hen" of the family; she has
loved carnivals and circuses since she was a child. Contestants are
asked to create her "dream fair." Although responsible for individual
elements, the items are to be organized collectively and look like the
midway carnival that will be brought to the property this coming
summer. The six items have already been picked out and are randomly
assigned to each contestant, as follows:- Lil' Bit - Ferris wheel
- Brittany - Bandstand
- Dustin - Rollercoaster
- Lindsay - Food truck
- Megan - Performance artist
- Jeff - Circus act
With the challenge winner having a 1-in-5 chance of winning the entire season, the judging is more critical than ever. When Dustin presents his rollercoaster design, which wraps around the entire property but does not have inversions, judge Matt Rogers calls it "weak." Dustin vows to change the design if he wins. Also, Lil' Bit's Ferris wheel and Lindsay's food truck get low grades. After telling the judges that the Ferris wheel is made to resemble the London Eye, Brandon McLamb calls it "a complete knock-off. The design has to be better." As for the food truck, Lindsay's design was compared to "total graffiti" and "a complete eyesore" by Rogers. Lindsay responds that she wanted an old-time feel, but couldn't find the suitable fonts in time: "If only I could find the Broadway font instead of using this handwriting thing." On the other hand, the judges look kindly at the proposed uniform for the performance artist that Megan made. Brenda calls the uniform, for a female illusionist named Carrie, "an intriguing combination of 1920s flapper and the latest look from the runways in Manhattan." Jeff's idea to use a gymnast was also praised: "It's like Cirque du Soleil if it were around a hundred years ago," McLamb says. In the end Jeff wins and the acrobat, to be named Mary Pat, will be part of the carnival.
Unlike the week before, the decision to eliminate is easy. Lindsay's lack of fire in the last several weeks, as well as the excuses she made at panel about her design, send her home from the competition. For the first time since the Jan. 8 episode, a woman has been eliminated.
Locations: First challenge, Baymont Inn and Suites; second challenge, North Carolina State Fairgrounds
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