S05.E08: You D-Rival Me Crazy

[AntFTW]

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Nany worries that Turbo's attitude around the house paints a bigger target on their backs; Adam begins to question one of his alliance members; Veronica continues to take issue with her BFF Shane's lack of allegiance to her side of the house.

Air date: March 19, 2025 on MTV

[Lantern7]

Turbo, Turbo, Turbo. Why do you have to make things so difficult? Is it a cultural thing? Or are you just that big of an asshole? I'm happy that he and Nany survived the Jungle, just so he could maybe slap the stank off of Adam with his shoe. Y'all think Averey would love him if he had a permanent sole mark on his face?

Crappy mission, crappy drama, etc. I'm thinking Shane leaves next week. That's his lot . . . never making it to the final mission. Nicole trying to get Melissa to stop jawing at Turbo was funny to me because it implied fear. The list of people that I think could hold their down against him is small, but Nicole is on it.

I'm still wondering if Veronica has ever suffocated her g/f with her chest.

[mojoween]

Turbo sucks.  Just as a human, he’s good at carnival games.

[bunnyface]

Who knew that Jordan and Turbo would ever be on the same side of an issue?  Jordan threw a fit one time because those people live like pigs in the house.  And now Turbo.  Turbo's a crap person who is upset you have to let women talk once in a while, but he's not wrong about the living conditions.  He's just wrong to keep himself in the middle of it.  Go to a bedroom!

[aghst]

Now the star holders are going down.

Veronica and Katy are deluding themselves that they can run the final with poor athletes.

The producers would really have to tilt the playground in their favor in the Final, just puzzles after puzzles after puzzles or something like the time zone challenge where they have knowledge that other teams don't have.

That's if they make the final.  I think the producers try to keep them in the game just for the entertainment value, since they seem to feature them a lot in the talking heads.

Neither of them came close to tapping the star because Veronica appears to have let up on the gas before the end of the ramp so the quad buggy didn't clear the ramp and in fact fell and hit the side of the cliff before going into the water.

I guess those things are completely water proof?  There was a shot showing a couple of them in the water so they're not pulling it out and re-using it for each team.

The elimination was pretty well designed.  Just worked out that both teams were male-female and they only had to keep the table level for 3 minutes at a time.

I don't think Dario was close to solving that puzzle, so it was going to be Ashley who would have to solve it.  So he apparently ghosted her for 6 years?  Man time flies, I vaguely recall the season where they met and had a little showmance going and they must have dated for some time and then 6 years afterwards, they're on the show again.

 

[LaurelleJ]

Dario screwed Leroy so not sad to see him go. Seeing Adam and Steve go in every week got old quick, and now seeing Nany and Turbo go in again and again is getting old. Shane had a good point that Adam and Steve are shareholders and won't forever be safe from Frank and Sam, who repeatedly put them in. I would have gone for the puppet master (frank). Next week, if Adam and Steve don't win, will Frank push for Nany and Turbo to go against Adam and Steve? probably. I hope Shane and Davonne win the daily and the star so things can really get started. 

I feel like Veronica and Katie are banking on staying as long as possible, and then waiting for the perfect time for her allies to finagle a challenge daily win for them so they can get a star. No way in the world can they win a final, no matter how much production tries to skew things in their favor. 

At this point my ideal final would be Nany/Turbo (Winners), Adam/Steve (2nd), Shane/Davonne (3rd), Frank/Sam last, just to see them lose. This is the best and most competitive final I can envision out of who is left.