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Props to the posters in the forums for suggesting nicknames to liven things up a bit!
Previously on Tough Enough: Jason left, and Greg told us it was "a total mind-blower for everybody." Paulina wondered whether she was cut out to be a wrestler. Triple H told the contestants that they either want it or they don't. Boobie Jo (tm spygirl) wondered whether she wants it enough to keep going. Victoria was scared that she'll get hurt.
It's morning, and Taylor and Nidia are just getting up. Chris-tian makes some sort of breakfast drink that involves many, many raw eggs. Paulina puts on her shoes, but she looks like she's about ninety years old, because she can barely bend her legs. Josh eats some cereal. They head out to the vehicles, and Big tells them that only one person will be riding in the Humvee with him. That one person is Victoria. Big asks her how she feels about Jason's leaving, and what her mindset is. Victoria says she's not sure she wants to be a wrestler, and that she's not sure she can do it. We see a flashback to her wobbling around in the ring after hitting her head multiple times. Victoria never thought she would get picked. Big thinks that things happen for a reason. Victoria tells him that she never quit anything before, and that she's not ready to start now. I guess Big must have heard rumblings that Victoria was talking about leaving, so he gave her this one-on-one pep talk. Or, he thinks she's cute.
At the House of Pain (tm TV_Buffy), Al Snow reminds the group about the cuts, and serves them with twenty-four hours' notice. Maven asks whether both a male and a female will get cut, and Al tells him that only one person will be cut. I don't understand how that's going to work, because there are fewer women, so some weeks they will have to cut a man just to even things out, even if all of the remaining women suck. Whatever. In an interview, Shadrick says that if he doesn't get the contract, at least he'll know that he gave 100%. Al tells them that he's not trying to tear them apart, but that they have to take bumps every day. Last week, they learned how to do it, and this week they are becoming conditioned to it so that it's second nature. Montage of various contestants taking bumps. Some of the girls try to flip and land on their backs, but they totally land on their heads instead. In an interview, Josh says that Victoria scares him in the ring, because she looks like she's getting hurt. In an interview, Greg says that he had to turn his head four or five times to avoid seeing Victoria land on the back of her neck. Al shows them how to put on a headlock, and they all pair up and practice. Al takes turns having the contestant put a headlock on him and flip him over onto his back. When Darryl flips him, Al says, "You're a big boy, Darryl." That's an understatement. After weighing over the suggestions given in the forums, I think that the most apt nickname for Darryl is Baby Huey (tm net21designdotcom), both because he's large and ungainly, and because he acts like an infant. When Josh flips Al over, Al calmly says that he gets cranky when a guy lands on his head; he says that Josh has done it about seven times today and it's not even lunch yet. Al reminds Josh to wait until Al has taken the bump, and then land on him, or Al will bite Josh's nipple off and spit it in his face. It was all in the delivery -- totally deadpan.
Al and Baby Huey face off in the ring. They lock up and then go into a headlock; then Baby Huey takes Al down and ends up putting Al's head in a leg lock. Al asks Baby Huey whether he has washed his pants lately. Baby Huey says he hasn't in the last two days, and that he ran in them yesterday. Al waves his hands in front of his nose to indicate that the pants stink. Now they are standing up, and Al tells Baby Huey that he needs to wash his pants, and asks whether he has some shorts in the locker room. Baby Huey says that he does, but that they have a hole in them, as Triple H pointed out last week. Al says that it's okay, and tells Baby Huey to put them on. The other contestants watch and giggle as Baby Huey walks off to the locker room. Al calls him back and asks why Baby Huey was talking under his breath when he walked away. Al says, "Don't disrespect me, because I don't even put up with that from my own son, who is eleven years old, because that's exactly how you acted when you walked away from me like that talking under your breath, and it pisses me off." In an interview, Baby Huey says he doesn't worry about who doesn't like him or who's mad at him. God, could he please get cut soon? Please? In an interview, Greg says that Baby Huey is ignorant of the fact that his words and actions offend everyone else. Greg is quickly becoming my favorite.
All the girls are riding in one SUV together. Taylor says that she didn't want to wrestle Baby Huey because he smelled so bad. Nidia says that she didn't want to wrestle him because he's sloppy and he hurt her. Someone points out that Paulina had to wrestle him all day. We see footage of them wrestling, and Baby Huey is, in fact, incredibly sloppy, with no apparent concern for his partner. Paulina says that she would have almost walked out if they didn't change partners.
At the WWF Training Facility, we see shots of the girls' knees, which are all scraped, bruised, and scabby. Taylor says it's proof that she's been trying hard. Someone else says that no one understands how hard it is to be there. Victoria says that it's not the physical stuff, it's the "I hate it" stuff. I have no idea what that means. Baby Huey pretends to be lifting weights, but really he's barely moving his legs back and forth, and instead is concentrating on giving a speech to the effect that the only people he is afraid of are Tazz and Mike Tyson. He thinks he could take Evander Holyfield in a decision, and that he would catch up with Riddick Bowe in the ninth round. Does he really believe all the crap that comes out of his mouth? In an interview, Chris-tian says that Baby Huey "throws in lines out of left field" that only make people hate him more than they already do. In an interview, Harvard Chris says that Baby Huey is "in absolute denial about how people react to him." Greg mutters something about a "crock of shit" to two other guys, and when they ask what he's talking about, he gestures to Baby Huey, who is airboxing and watching himself in the mirror.