Saturday, January 24, 2015

BMN Superfan season 3, episode 9

Only five contestants are left, and Shandi ups the stakes again as they gather in the common room for breakfast: This is another double-elimination week, and also the next-to-last week of farm life before the Barefoots return home.

The breakfast challenge (inspired by the multiple-choice questions on Big Brother) is to answer questions about events on the farm, specifically whether one of them before or after another.   Get it right and stay, get it wrong and be eliminated.  The last contestant standing wins a huge reward after dinner tonight.

The list of questions is too long to repeat here, but let's say Aubrey nails it, winning her second straight challenge on the eighth and final question.  She correctly stated that Curtis' vow to keep Alecia in the competition occurred before Vicky was accused of being a stereotypical blonde.

For the main challenge, Harvey is the focal point and the memory-wall item is the singlet he wore at the 1965 North Carolina state high-school wrestling tournament, when he competed for the Meadow School. 
However, the semifinalists won't battle on the mat, but above the ground - it's a series of matches on pugil sticks.  The object is to knock the opponent off the platform and onto the mat below.  The challenge takes place in a stepladder format.  In other words, the winner of the first match takes on the winner of the second, the third, and so on, until a final match is made.  The last match winner makes it to the final episode, and the others are subject to elimination.  As the breakfast-challenge winner, Aubrey is awarded a bye until the very last match; she also picks the order of the remaining contests.  Complete results:
  • Maurice knocks out Shannon, then helps her up like a true gentleman.
  • Curtis then beats Maurice due to a slipup Maurice compares to "a bad Monty Python routine," then comes back to defeat Jamie
  • Curtis, in his third match, ousts a well-rested Aubrey in the final match to win immunity.  He wins $5,000 in cash and the same amount is added to the kitty for a new total of $86,000.
Labell Barefoot joins Bill Leslie and Barbie Blank in the panel to make the decision as to who joins Curtis in the finale.  All three come to a couple of quick decisions: Aubrey is rewarded due to her outstanding play throughout the season, while Maurice is ousted due to his poor performances in challenges the last few weeks, as well as being slower in the farm tasks than the others.  That leaves Jamie and Shannon.  Both make their cases to stay on the show, and both are the same: Each claims to have worked harder on the farm than anyone else.  Barbie, skeptical, asks who has done the better at challenges.  Both answered themselves, so Barbie reveals that Shannon was on winning teams more often that Jamie was.  "But that was so then," Jamie protests.  "I'm the one who's ready right now."  The panel comes around, and Jamie is awarded the third and final spot in their last week, meaning it's time to say aloha to Shannon.

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