ArchivesOne of the things we look for in our Challenge episodes—besides the weekly challenge of trying to translate the incoherent rantings of host TJ Lavin into understandable English—are life lessons. These take-aways teach us how to be better people, and, at the very least, provide material for the cast to lecture college students about.
On last night’s very special episode of The Gauntlet 2, we learned about the special bond that can form between heterosexual Challenge whores. Physical and emotional affection, the cast told their teenage and 20-something audience members, is perfectly acceptable between same-sex friends. Confining and restrictive gender barriers came crashing down twice last night.
For example, when Cara and Susie said goodbye, they showed that friends can love one another. After being eliminated, Cara said, “But it’s not the end, because we’re going to be lifetime buddies. Bye friend!” Susie replied, “Bye, I love you!” Cara replied, “Love you so much.” And all of this came after the sealed their loving friendship with a kiss:
During the Gauntlet, we were reminded that our boys MJ and Landon got matching tattoos to commemorate their journey through life on The Real World together. And when TJ spun the wheel to see which Gauntlet challenge Cara and Kina would face, Landon and MJ were so distressed that they had to grab on to each other for emotional support, with MJ even giving Landon’s shoulder a few reassuring squeezes:
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