Previously on the Challenge: Dan asked James who he wanted to "get some" from on the trip, and James said Rebecca. How romantic! James and Rebecca went out on a little date. The Real World team won $10,000 and flicked their tongues at the giant check, Julie more than the others. Then, of course, it is time for the scene which was never shown previously: Kameelah reads the clue, which says that they are going to Montreal. Now, I love Canada. I do. I really do. But they scream and shout as if they won a trip to the fucking moon or something. Maybe I'm jaded, because I only live about three hours from the Canadian border, and have crossed it numerous times, but this seems out of control. ["I've never been to Montral but I hear it's a big drinking town. So...perhaps that's where they're coming from." -- Wing Chun]
It looks like the same night we saw last week. Members of the Real World team say goodbye to Rebecca as she heads down the street with James. There's a lot of "Be safe!" and if it were coming from anyone but Syrrhosis, I wouldn't make the safe-sex association, but it does, so I do. In an interview, Kameelah says she doesn't know what the romance is about, but James and Rebecca are always together. The RW team gets into a cab. Jamie was asleep or something when they were all saying goodbye, because he asks where James is. Julie explains that James and Rebecca are going off alone. Jamie looks confused. Kameelah voice-overs something about "good-looking people" and "an attraction," but she totally gets cut off in mid-sentence, so God only knows where she was going with that. James and Rebecca wander around the city. In an interview, Rebecca says that James is funny. Well, that will be put to the test later in this episode, I hear. They stop at a fountain, but James doesn't have any money to throw in to make a wish. In an interview, James says that he and Rebecca are not "on a boyfriend-girlfriend level" but instead, like to hang out together "in an intimate way." That totally makes it sound like they just like to get naked together. Which could be true, but it seems like it would be difficult to get privacy on the buses. James and Rebecca sit on the waterfront and discuss how they are happy. An ovary (tm Sars) warbles in the background. Cut to James and Rebecca in a shop of some sort. Rebecca says (according to the captioning), "Don't hide your inner desires." Is she reciting song lyrics? What does that mean? James is all, "Huh?" and Rebecca kisses him on one cheek, then the other, then on the lips. Whooooo! They totally freeze-frame just as she makes lip contact, so what could have been a peck is made to look much longer.
Road signs. Rain. In an interview, James says that they've been losing a lot and "losing sucks." The RR team discusses their situation. James keeps pointing out that they haven't won. Christian thinks that the RW has "better team spirit." Yeah, because they don't have annoying James, the poor loser, dragging everyone down. James voice-overs that it's "hard to lose and lose gracefully." No, it's really not. You just accept it, learn from it, and move on. It's actually quite easy. Dwelling on it doesn't help. Oh, why do I bother? They show some footage of James yelling at Syrrhosis on the bus, but he's clearly (mostly) joking while he screams at the top of his lungs and pounds the walls. I mean, everyone's laughing. Jamie gets his picture taken with their two big checks, but thankfully doesn't do any tongue-flicking towards them. In an interview, Rebecca says that James has a hard time accepting loss, but she's laughing while she says it. Hey, do you think James is a bad loser? Because I didn't get that from either the eight thousand times he threw a temper tantrum during his season of Road Rules, or the forty times they have mentioned it in the first five minutes of this episode. God.
Anyway, the buses arrive at a campground. Rebecca beats James at foosball and gloats a bit. In an interview, James says that he's not a good loser. You think? Rebecca, James, and Emichelle (both of them) are sitting at a bar. Emichelle are totally engrossed in their own conversation. James talks about how he will be a good winner when his team wins, but will gloat to Rebecca. Rebecca tells him that he's the worst loser she's ever met. James says that lots of people tell him that. God, I'm so sick of this already. Who doesn't know how this is going to turn out? The RR team will lose, and James will have a bad reaction, and Rebecca will be turned off. There. You can all stop reading now. The End.
Just kidding. They are listening to the clue, even though we already saw Kameelah reading the clue in the "Previously On" segment. I'm so confused. Both teams seem to be on the same bus. Dan yells at whoever is working the CD player. Devon from RR Season Two comes on and says something about "standing up" for the challenge and they will have to "make them laugh." The camera zooms in on Emily, since she had a relationship with Devon during and after their season. Emily asks Christian if he recognizes the voice, and he does. And they totally let that thread drop. I think it would have been interesting to see how it made Emily feel, or something, but Dan starts yelling about how he knows that they are going to the Just For Laughs Festival, which is like "the Cannes Film Festival for stand-up comics." ["I think the Aspen Comedy Festival has probably unseated Just For Laughs for that spot, but whatever." -- Wing Chun] Michelle makes a goofy face. Dan is all fired up. Julie wants her team to go back to their own bus. In an interview, Dan says that they have to make people laugh, and it will be "a bloodbath." Dan's flair for the dramatic persists, I see. Michelle yells after Julie, asking if she is "already planning strategy."