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I was amused that we got Johnny Bananas Backpack shown within the first three minutes of the show. That clip will never not be funny. When he is facing the camera head-on in his confessionals, Cillian looks like Chef Michael Voltaggio and it freaks me out.

Assuming these women knew Meredith's father's name, they could have googled and found an obituary to end the never-ending "what day was the memorial" debate. And was Mary just hanging out in the kitchen the entire time the nighttime crazy was happening?

I actually thought her tip this episode about how to get the curvy-walk-hips-thing made sense. Like that's the kind of feedback/instruction these ladies need. Things like "more power" or whatever are just so vague.

I was cracking up at the Oscar acceptance speech music playing behind Fessy's deliberation speech.

Same here. It seemed like this cast gelled together mores than in previous years. I'm surprised that there was only one injury during the cross country skiing portion. There were some pretty gnarly falls happening. I was also half-expecting Cory and the others who removed their skis to get penalized for doing so, but then I realized that Teej's instructions never actually said they had to keep the skis on, just that they had to strap them on. I had to go look up how long ago it was that Johnny stiffed Sarah on the money because he looked so different in that flashback clip. That was only four years ago. Johnny looks so much better now.

This does not seem to be a very strategic thinking group, so the realization that the more red skulls one person gets the fewer there will be for the rest of the group may have flown right over their heads. And Wes/Johnny acting like grownups and expressing regrets over their rivalry getting in the way of a friendship hit me in the feels. Real adult behavior is not something often seen on this show.

I wonder if the Bananas underpants were gear from another Challenge that he's repurposed or he's wearing gear from this Challenge? I know I've seen the guys wear stuff like that before, especially for swimming/muck related events. That poor producer in the middle of the Big T injury mess. She remained calm in the midst of the crazy, but the look on her face screamed "I am re-evaluating my life choices."

How long did those noodles stay on the floor? Are they trying to entice the ants from the Big Brother house to also star on The Challenge? Reading this article on Stop Being Polite puts Nelson's whole dig about the port-a-potty in a whole new light. (TL;DR the potties in the bunker stopped working, so production brought in port-a-potties in rather than fix the plumbing.)

Going into this season, I would have thought that Anne would have been the one to smack down Bananas, not Tyler.

Jay kind of looks like a scrawnier version of Cole Sprouse from Riverdale. I never thought of this. OTOH, Johnny and Wes together could be kind of hilarious as they try to keep the other's scheming under control.

I work in advertising, and I'd be willing to bet that many of those ads are using stock footage or b-roll from previous shoots with remotely recorded voiceovers. The editing and such can all be done by art directors and video editors working from home. It's interesting that PW's eldest daughter and BF are both on the ranch instead of hunkering down at their home(s) in Dallas.

Bananas is spreading his reality TV wings and will appear on Food Network's Worst Cooks in America Celebrity edition. Source: https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/shows/2020/4/a-fresh-batch-of-celebrity-worst-cooks

I'm honestly not sure what was more random...the green card marriage proposal or the presence of Andre Reed. But props to the producers for getting in two shoutouts to The Greatest Comeback in NFL History and only one reference to the four Super Bowls.

The one security guard had a look of "I do not get paid enough to deal with this shit" during the Maddie/Ashley fight. I would have liked to have seen production do more to balance the water temperatures between rounds to ensure that the playing field was even. The first group had 61 degree water, then the next groups were in the 50s. I'm also surprised that Tori was the only one to realize that if her breakers added ice that the water would be colder when their group went in.

Or she was off filming her appearance in the Arrow finale. Another Michael Nouri role was Eli David on NCIS.