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No
clowns or even harlequins here. How about harlots?
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Tough Enough 3
original
airdate: 11-21-02
Scott.
Oh, man, Scott. You're kidding me.
The big
excitement this episode is visitation rights. Big announces
that two of the contestants will be allowed to have guests
flown in for a weekend, and draws John and Jonah's names out
of a hat. Actually, out of a Doritos bag. The man's named
Big, after all.
Both
of them plan to invite their respective girlfriends on the
all-expenses paid trip to southern California, but Scott immediately
jumps on the chance to do something completely insane.
He offers Jonah $2000, all the money he has in the world,
for the ticket.
Which
he wants to give to a girl he hasn't seen in more than four
years. The girl he considers his first true love. From high
school. Whose response to Scott's totally out of the blue
phone call is, as any sensible woman's would be, to say no.
(To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that she didn't jump on
the opportunity to be on MTV, but I guess I should give people
a little more credit to know when to stay away from clearly
crazy pseudo-stalkers.)
Somehow
this, and not the fact that they've been out of touch
since they graduated from high school, makes Scott face the
reality that she doesn't want him.
So John
and Jonah's girlfriends visit, as originally planned, which
throws everyone's favorite attention-starved "bad" girl, Jamie,
into a bit of a snit. She confessed her crush on John, fully
aware that he had a girlfriend, but she wasn't ever planning
on having to deal with the competition in person.
Upon
meeting Casey, the aforementioned girlfriend, Jamie admits
to being surprised, saying athletic guys usually want athletic
girlfriends, which Casey is not. (This, by the way, is Insecure
for "ohmigod, she's so fat and I'm so much better for him!")
By the end of the visit, though, she's come around and is
at least self-aware enough to realize that pursuing a guy
in a relationship is a bad idea.
Jonah's
girlfriend doesn't get much screentime, but she sure looks
like exactly the kind of girl Jonah would date. Too bad Jill
left, really. That would have been entertaining. Scott, predictably,
sulks and makes inappropriate comments, which John and Jonah
fend off handily.
Kelly
and Nick have also been getting kind of cozy, but another
potential hook up is averted when the trainers announce the
next cut. Nick, having been diagnosed with tendonitis in his
arm (tennis elbow) is deemed not tough enough for coming in
with a sling, and gets the boot.
Not that
I'm in any way an expert, but I can't quite get behind this
cut, and not just because I liked Nick. Realizing that wrestling
is a tough business and that tendonitis is pretty minor in
the grand scheme of things, I'd still question the trainers
for setting an example to ignore doctor's orders, especially
in the early days of training.
Ivory
compares him unfavorably to Jackie, who tore her ACL, and
sucked it up to win the contract. It's not the same, in my
opinion. She did take a few days off to rest, and then worked
carefully, only with Al, to avoid aggravating the injury.
From what we could tell, Nick only stayed out the one day
before the cut, and could easily have changed his mind and
gone back into the ring, had he not been cut.
It's
true that Nick could have fought harder; asked for anti-inflammatories
and soldiered on, or agreed to rest one day, or avoided the
sling (because it's the sling that really seemed to offend
the trainers). But I just don't think you can say someone
isn't "tough enough" for following the advice of a trained
medical professional.
But that's
me, and I think we've well established that I'm not tough
enough. Because I'm not. Also, apologies
again to Ray Pierce, Aerial Arts Director of the Secret Circus,
for last week's error. He is not a clown, and I will be very
careful who I call "clown" in the future.
(Scott,
I'm looking at you.)
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