[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for The Challenge Season 41 Episode 5.]
One other GOAT of the present headed dwelling on The Problem‘s newest episode — although not for the explanation you may assume.
Wednesday’s (August 27) new episode of Vets and New Threats picked up proper the place the final one left off, with the remaining rivals coping with the aftermath of Johnny Bananas‘ elimination. His showmance associate Dee Valladares staged an impromptu memorial on his now-empty mattress, match with an precise banana and a “no toes” signal as a wink to his obvious kink.
In the meantime, Olivia Kaiser mused that his exit would have the unintended consequence of uniting the rookies towards the veterans, and he or she gave the impression to be proper primarily based on the hush-hush bunkroom gathering Aneesa Ferreira by chance (or possibly deliberately) crashed.
After that, Cara Maria Sorbello revealed that she wanted to go away after receiving dangerous information about her mom’s well being and saved her largest goodbye for fellow Bostonian Chris “C.T.” Tamburello, who provided to go away proper alongside her.
“That is tougher than The Problem itself,” she mentioned of what she confronted at dwelling. “That is my escape. That is the place I can simply go on autopilot and deal with one factor and escape my dwelling actuality.” Of her exit, CT mentioned in a confessional, “Cara is sort of a sister to me… I inform her to maintain her head up, and he or she’s a troublesome chick, however I’m going to overlook her.”
Cara’s exit meant Leo Dionicio had no associate, however as an alternative of forcing him to grow to be the following “hangnail” of the sport, host T.J. Lavin introduced that an alternate was coming into the sport — it was not simply any outdated participant, however two-time The Problem: All Stars winner Jonna Mannion. Sport on.
The every day problem was sponsored by (and themed in accordance with) the upcoming soccer horror movie Him. Referred to as “Dirtballer,” the grueling problem required the pairs to work collectively to dig up large picket posts, carry them throughout a 500-meter area, then set them again into the bottom to create a goalpost earlier than kicking a area aim on it to win. Profitable the problem had been Michaela Bradshaw and Jake Cornish. Coming in useless final had been Dee and Derek Chavez.
Michaela, regardless of giving Olivia a spirited speech about her resolution to guard somebody who wasn’t being focused, determined to throw their save to Jake’s pal Leo from potential elimination. Then, the home vote grew to become a tie between Yeremi Hykel (whose associate Ashley Mitchell was loudly involved about changing into a hangnail) and Ben Davis. T.J. resolved the tie with a coin toss, which despatched Ben into the sector.
The elimination problem was, just like the every day, Him-coded as “Him Collide,” a variation of the basic Corridor Brawl that includes a soccer. With out a lot resistance, Derek ran throughout Ben and simply gained, leaving his associate Olivia as the following hangnail.
Then got here the choice, whereby the brand new partnerships had been determined: Michael and Yeremi, Jake and Janna, Adrienne Naylor and Derek, Turabi “Turbo” Çamkıran and Tay Wilcoxson, Aviv Melmed and Cedric Hodges, Will Gagnon and Ashley, Ayoleka “Leka” Sodade and CT, Gabe Wai and Aneesa, America Chavez and Derrick Kosinski, Leroy Garrett and Izzy Fairthorne, Sydney Segal and Leo, Nany Gonzales and Theo Campbell, and Justin Hinsley and Dee.
All in all, there wasn’t an excessive amount of drama on this specific episode, however the look-ahead tells us that issues are about to bitter up between CT and Turbo — which means, the worry that vet-on-vet crimes would start within the wake of Bananas’ departure may simply come true in spite of everything.
The Problem, Wednesdays, 8/7c, MTV
