The Ruins: Episode #6 - "Ruining On Empty"

Last week's episode of The Ruins was a bittersweet one for me. I am a big fan of both Cohutta and Wes, so seeing the two of them facing off in The Ruins was a toughy for me. Overall, I was glad that Cohutta stayed though I would have been equally as crushed etc, if he had went home. I thought it was quite humorous that after the scheming to get a Veronica vs. KellyAnne girls Ruins, Ibis ended up being the one going in, and was beat. I used to like Ibis but I didn't like the people she was hanging around with this season, so it didn't bother me to see her go home.

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This week started out with your regular, run-of-the-mill plotting and scheming. Once again the Champions wanted to ensure that it would be a Veronica vs. KellyAnne faceoff at The Ruins, and Veronica was contemplating throwing the challenge so that the Challengers would win and not put her in The Ruins. On the other side of things, Johnny Bananas decided that it was time to go on a mission to save his own ass and confronted Evan about doing the same, saying that Evan was playing the game to better his own chances and not thinking in terms of the alliance. I don't really care because that whole alliance is jacked anyway. I think it's funny that Johnny is calling someone else out about being shady. That's like the pot calling the kettle black right there folks.

At the challenge, the Challengers nominate their only three remaining guys, Brad, Cohutta, and Dunbar, along with Sarah, Casey, and KellyAnne [making Kim the only one not nominated this time around]. The Champions decide to nominate Johnny, Derrick, and Syrus [who was under the assumption that because he'd already been in a Ruins that he wouldn't be voted in should they win], and the only three girls, Johanna, Veronica, and Susie.

The challenge was a fruity one! Literally! The concept of the challenge was to get as much of your big fruit bowl across the obstacle course to the scale baskets on the other end. Whichever team gets the most weight in fruit across, wins. After some initial bitching and bickering about who would take which position in the course of the game, the Challengers seem to be doing pretty good, giving their weakest player, Casey, the easiest job of dumping the final fruit bowl into the scale basket. A monkey could do this job. Both teams had a bit of a struggle at the first leg of the contest because Veronica and Kim couldn't seem to get much, if any, of their fruit over the wall to the catchers.

When all was said and done, the Champions pulled out another win. Back at the house, Johnny Bananas went on another save-your-own-ass spree, talking the others into sending Syrus into The Ruins, stating that because of his age and getting banged up in the challenges, that he was "dead weight". Of course anyone, including Evan, could see that he was only doing this because he was in jeopardy of being sent in himself. When it came down to the actual deliberation, Syrus ended up being selected to go into The Ruins, picking Cohutta [who is the smallest, and richest Challenger] to go against. Veronica was ultimately sent in to face off against KellyAnne, because apparently the rest of the team thought she was their "best chance" to beat KellyAnne, who has proven herself to be a tough competitor. I call bullshit, siting all the talk about in case KellyAnne does win, at least it would only be Veronica leaving. Veronica caught wind of this when she overheard Evan having a conversation with Susie and Johanna about what they would do the following week, and who should volunteer themselves to The Ruins. Evan told them to wait and see if Veronica was still around [meaning that they'd just throw her in again]. Surprisingly, she didn't throw a big fit. Anyone know anything about me and my past experiences watching the challenges, knows that I am not a Veronica fan, but the way they have been treating her is pretty shady if I do say so myself.

During The Ruins, the folks facing off were suspended by their wrists and ankles from a giant log-type fixture and had to maneuver their way across it to the otherside, retrieving a key in the process and then finally unlocking themselves, in which they'd run to the other end and ring their gong. The guys were up first and Syrus was off to an extremely big lead, but couldn't figure out that he didn't have to unlock both wrists and could just do one and then pull the rope over the log. This gave Cohutta all the time in the world to finish and secure a win for the second week in a row. Lots of money for him. I was excited because I could listen to Cohutta talk forever so him being eliminated wouldn't be a good thing. Keeps me happy, keeps him happy, we're all good.

The girls had to do the same thing, obviously, but found that it was a much more daunting task. They seemed to take forever to complete this faceoff whereas the guys flew through it. Finally KellyAnne managed to pull out a win, not only crushing Veronica as her competition, but crushing Johanna who was hoping KellyAnne would leave [so she wouldn't have to face off against her]. I was really happy with this outcome as well. I don't like Johanna so anything that helps piss her off, makes me happier.

Back at the house they finish up the episode showing Johnny Bananas doing his usual routine of pranking and pissing people off, getting bitched at [or in this case tackled by a drunk and unhappy Derrick], and then wondering why everyone always "blames him". Uhm, because you are the one who always starts the shit and is a jerk. Just sayin'.

The previews for next week show Casey getting singled out, bitched out, and schemed against and with, for being the world's shittiest player ever. Can't wait!