Mole Me Over the Waterfall

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Mole Me Over the Waterfall; Mole 6-2 Recap
Topic Started: Jun 3 2008, 11:00 PM (205 Views)
Bored	Jun 3 2008, 11:00 PM Post #1
Well? Posts: 1,439 Group: Admin Member #4 Joined: February 13, 2005	Hello everyone, and welcome to the first recap of The Mole 2008! Yes, the fan favorite is finally back, and just as intense and crazy as it was the first time. During our opening credits, we get our first two ~~clues~~ important pieces of information; the location, beautiful countryside of Los Angeles, Chile, and our contestants. We also get to meet our host, Jon Kelley, who we discover in the first 20 seconds is not nearly as good at hosting as Anderson Cooper and has much, much worse hair. Sadly, although we find out who the contestants are, we don’t get to find out too much about them before they are thrown directly into a challenge. The first thing that Kelley asks the contestants to do is circle who they believe to be the mole. After an intense music interlude, we find out that everyone thinks that the mole is… Marcie, the stay at home mom. Jon announces that Marcie will be making all of the decisions for the next 24 hours. The horror! Then, Jon explains why they’re standing by a waterfall. In order to commemorate a bunch of German tourists that died by falling off the side of the waterfall in a raft, the contestants will be… jumping off of a waterfall to grab a bag of money. To add insult to injury, only six of the eleven contestants will be jumping for money – and Marcie will be deciding who will be jumping for what. As the challenge begins, the contestants begin their descent into paranoia. Alex is first up, and despite his athletic build he completely fails at grabbing the bag, sparking discussion that he could possibly be the mole. Model Ali also fails, also putting a bullseye on her back as well. Clay, the attorney, is the first to succeed at the task, and Kristen, the neuroscientist, managed to do the same. Bobby, the restaurant manager, also succeeds, as does Liz, the 60 year old retired lady. However, Paul is unable to grab it, sparking the first whiny fit of the season. Hurray! Victoria begins to talk herself up as an athletic cheerleader type, but, in a typical Mole twist, completely fails at grabbing the prize, instead falling on her butt before even reaching the edge. Meanwhile, Craig freaks out about the rope not being able to hold his weight, naturally ignoring the fact that the stunt was designed in order to prevent anyone from dying on television. Of course, he doesn’t die, despite his claims of almost choking, but he does miss getting the money bag. The challenge wraps up with Nicole and Mark grabbing their bags. Finally, the players find out whether or not they got any money. In the end, Marcie only put money in Clay’s bag and Mark’s bag, meaning that the pot only has 20,000 dollars out of a possible 60,000. Yikes. Next, Jon gives the players their journals, and springs a twist on the players – Marcie must choose 4 players to sleep outside. In her wisdom, she chooses Liz, the oldest player, Nicole, Craig, and Bobby, quite possibly the four members least likely to survive on their own were they to live in the woods by themselves. Strangely enough, this decision seems to sit the worst with Nicole, who begins a tirade, claiming that the only thing that she has to do is “stay black and die”. During her freak-out, she decides that she can just stay awake all night and stay inside all day long. She explains her circumvention strategy to everyone else, who express their annoyance and say that if she can’t live out in the woods then obviously she shouldn’t be in the competition. After the events of the night, the contestants wake up… with the exception of Nicole, who actually has managed to stay up the entire night. While she complains about needing a blow dryer, Paul and Marcie begin to strike up a coalition, a strange choice for Paul considering that Marcie was chosen most likely to be the mole not even 24 hours beforehand. However, Paul appears to have a back-up plan in the form of Alex, with whom he forms a little driving alliance that comes across as being very obvious to the other people in the group. Once the contestants arrive to their beautiful beach location, Jon asks the contestants who the biggest whiner in the group, and Nicole wins by a landslide. Nicole chalks her pick as being the result of her being smart and beautiful… at the same time. Because of being named the biggest whiner in the group, or, in her words, Dr. Whiner, Nicole must choose teams for the next challenge, based off of the book Robinson Crusoe. In the challenge, the contestants will be split up into three groups – the scavengers, the appraisers, and the timekeepers. The scavengers must find the items on the beach and deliver them to the appraisers, who will decide which items Alexander Selkirk, the castaway whom Robinson Crusoe is based on, had with him when he was stranded. The timekeepers, in the meanwhile, must fill up the massive hourglass as it releases sand. Nicole chooses Marcie, Craig, Bobby, Victoria, Clay, and Alex to be the scavengers, Kristen, Liz and Mark to be the appraisers, and Ali and Paul to be the timekeepers. Once the challenge gets underway, it becomes apparent that the girls are pulling their weight far more than the guys on team scavenger. Yet again Craig complains about not being suited for the type of work that the challenge brings his way, while Clay looks generally confused and Bobby appears to be suffering from a rough case of laziness. Or Asthma. At the appraising table, Nicole is surprised by Mark’s inability to figure out what would be on the island and what wouldn’t, especially considering his background as a history teacher. As Ali and Paul begin to lose ground, the scavengers begin to bring more and more unlikely items, the highlight of which is Craig bringing a taunting mole sign. The appraisers finally decide on their last choices as the sand runs out, and they decide on a goat, a pair of blue jeans, a revolver, a musket, and a bible. The bible, a musket, and the goat ended up being the correct choices, adding another 15,000 into the pot out of a possible 25,000. This brings their final total to 35,000 out of a total 85,000 dollars. As a final twist, Jon announces that one contestant will be remaining on the island, and that that contestant would be… Dr. Whiner! While the rest of the contestants prepare to go to their nice hotel, Dr. Whiner gets to spend the night with the goat and the hair dryer. Finally, we’ve gotten to the last stretch of the episode, where the contestants get as paranoid as possible before they take the quiz and one of them gets eliminated. While the girls are having a playful strategy talking session, Paul attempts to lead Alex to Marcie being the mole. Paul, however, plans to get Alex eliminated in order for his master plan to work. At their first final dinner of many, everyone admits that they don’t really miss “Dr. Nicole”, who has managed to surprise everyone and actually build a fire. Paul admits that Craig is at the top of his list, while Mark starts admitting how badly he needs to win the game for his family. Awww, touching story… too bad touching stories usually result in a premature elimination. We finally get to the quiz. After the contestants take the 10 question quiz, they all prepare to hear the results. First, we get a bit of a surprise from Jon concerning Nicole – since she was not able to take the quiz due to spending the night on the beach, she also received the first exemption. Of course, the rest of the group is rather upset, especially because of their strong disdain for her. Finally, it’s time to reveal the results. In the end, it is Marcie who is eliminated, and who breaks down in her final few moments of the show after Jon does an absolutely horrible job of “consoling” her. Way to go, Jon. Way to go. That’s it for this week. Next week: Dr. Whiner threatens someone’s life? Oh, how I love this show.



dfleminator	Jun 4 2008, 03:37 PM Post #2
Dr. Horrible Posts: 4,810 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: February 13, 2005	Bored Strangely enough, this decision seems to sit the worst with Nicole, who begins a tirade, claiming that the only thing that she has to do is “stay black and die”. Interestingly enough, Michael Jackson has proven that the only thing she REALLY has to do is die. Excellent recap bored!



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