As this episode starts, the remaining contestants ask each other questions that they’ve been dying to know. Most of them center on Iron Enforcer and whether he takes steroids and that sort of thing. Not a good beginning. Then everyone takes off to help a little old lady get into her house by getting across her back yard. The only problem is that there are two attack dogs in the yard that they must pass to get to the back door.
August 2006 Archives
Who Wants to Be a Superhero? Recap: Issue 2
Who Wants to Be a Superhero? · Season 1 · Episode 2 · Aired August 2, 2006
Who Wants to Be a Superhero? Recap: Issue 1
Who Wants to Be a Superhero? · Season 1 · Episode 1 · Aired July 26, 2006
In this reality series from SciFi and Stan “The Man” Lee, a number of contestants vie to become an actual superhero. 12 are chosen to compete over a series of weeks in “unique challenges” to see if they are deserving of true superhero status. If they are deemed worthy, they will be the subject of a new Dark Horse comic and a Saturday night SciFi original movie.
Dirty Jobs Recap: Alpaca Shearer
Dirty Jobs · Season 2 · Episode 20 · Aired August 22, 2006
Shellfish Farmer. Back to Puget Sound for some more farming of shellfish. This one is a bit easier than the last time (Geoduck Farmer from Geoduck Farmer). In that one, you have to get in the mud and dig down to retrieve the 2-pound beasts. When growing mussels, they hang from “socks”, and you simply lower a platform, then move the growing platform over it, cut them, move the platform out of the way, and raise the catch platform.
Dirty Jobs Recap: Monkey Caretaker
Dirty Jobs · Season 2 · Episode 21 · Aired August 29, 2006
While Mike and the crew were in Africa shooting the Jobs That Bite and Jobs That Bite Harder for Shark Week, they ended up without anything to do one day, and as luck would have it, they went off in search of another job. While it involved animals, it wasn’t sharks – it was monkeys. Crazy, wild monkeys.
Charlotte’s Moving Up In the World
Posted on August 30, 2006
Nielsen Media Research tracks a number of things having to do with just how badly we want our TV, and one of those things they keep tabs on is the size of the television markets in the United States. This is mostly so that the networks can sell their advertising. You see, if your city is in the Top 25, it (and, by extension, you) will get more attention than if it is not.
Mythbusters Recap: Crimes and Myth-Demeanors 1
Mythbusters · Season 4 · Episode 11 · Aired July 12, 2006
This special episode is a bit different than most, in that instead of concentrating on a specific myth, it pays homage to an entire genre: Great Hollywood Heists. For years, we’ve seen movies where treasures lie just beyond the reach of a creative or enterprising thief, and the Mythbusters are here to put their methods to the test.
Grant, Kari and Tory are put in charge of building the challenge course, which will create several standard obstacles found in movies. Adam and Jamie, meanwhile, then have to navigate the course.
Mythbusters Recap: Stinky Car, Raccoon Rocket
Mythbusters · Season 1 · Episode 7 · Aired December 5, 2003
Stinky Car. A pricey car is on the market at a great price. There has to be a catch, doesn’t there? Sure there does! This deal stinks – literally! It turns out that someone died in the car and the smell just won’t go away. So if this should happen to you, can the smell be cleaned?
As with the Hunt for Hoffa in Buried in Concrete, Daddy Longlegs, Jet Taxi, Adam and Jamie turn to pigs – dead pigs. They get a couple of recently deceased pigs, pack them up in a pretty nice Corvette, and pack it in a shippng container for two months. In the meantime they take some lessons on cleaning up messes from someone who should know – he cleans up crime scenes for a living, and he thinks it should be no problem. But he hasn’t seen this scene yet.
Sean ends up on Maggie’s front porch, presumably because he knows she is a nurse and hopes she will be able to help him without him having to go to a hospital (and thus having to call the police). She doesn’t want to do so, because she recognizes that he’s lost a lot of blood, but she agrees to help for now.
Peter and Sunny did indeed end up in bed together, and while they’re lying there, Sunny confides in Peter that she lied about the ticket. She tries to make it all okay because she held all those lottery parties and always made sure that everyone put in their dollar, and the one time she didn’t do it, no one came to see if she wanted to put in her dollar. Peter throws out another one-liner, saying that if she wants trust, she shouldn’t try to gain it by lying. Sunny does take all of her money not invested in the company and gives it to charity, to try and impress Peter. No telling if it works or not.
Damien and Galina visit a doctor to find out that Galina has some history of birth defects, and Damien appears to be having second thoughts about the paternity test – or perhaps he is just being sucked back into Galina’s web. Frankie, meanwhile, is caught by her mom and the credit card is shut off again, but she gets by when she meets the son of the hotel owner, who comps her room, at least for the night.
Cameron and Beth make a bit of peace and Cameron meets his half-sister, and in so doing he finds out that she wants to go around the world. So one night he and Beth visit her and give her what she wants. What I find odd here is that the present apparently cost three hundred thousand dollars. I have no problem with doing things in style, but good grief that’s a lot of money.
Nina and Peter break the news to their girls that they are breaking up, and Violet (the oldest) runs away to the carnival, wondering why they can’t be happy like the time when daddy brought the carnival to the back yard. In the end, Peter asks Nina to stay the night, saying he’ll sleep on the couch. So perhaps they will reconcile and everything will work out.
At the end of the episode, Sean collapses and Maggie takes him to the hospital (well, an ambulance does), and while he has an operation to save his life, he also is confronted by the police who say that Tally tells them everything – about how Tally says he killed Zoe and threatened her. The last thing we see is Sean getting handcuffed to the bed. Once again, no previews, so no idea how this will work out.
My Name is Earl Recap: Dad’s Car
My Name is Earl · Season 1 · Episode 18 · Aired March 16, 2006
The episode starts off with Crabman taking the kids away for a week as Joy‘s Mother’s Day present. This in turn makes Earl feel like he needs to do something for his mom, so he recalls a coupon book that he and Randy gave his mom one Mother’s Day, but never honored (no word on whether he plans to pay back the kid they stole it from). They spend the day honoring those coupons.
Then they get to the last coupon, which is “Mom’s Choice”, and she wants Earl to do something for his dad (Beau Bridges). This in turn leads to the Mustang that Earl lost in a drag race when he was 11, which he feels bad about. But it turns out that this was actually to be Earl’s car, so he ends up doing something for himself – fixing up the car.
In the process, he finds out that his dad wants to work on it too, and the two end up putting it back together and spending some quality time together – the first quality time that they’ve ever spent together. In the end, when the car is fixed up, Earl lets his dad hang onto the car for him for the time being, giving them an excuse to work on it together – but supposedly for the reason that Randy won’t slide across the hood like he’s always wanted to do.
Mythbusters Recap: Mentos and Soda
Mythbusters · Season 4 · Episode 14 · Aired August 9, 2006
Mentos™ + Soda. The first myth is interesting for two reasons. The first is that it shows pictures of Kari‘s photo shoot with FHM Magazine, and, well, who wouldn’t like that? But more importantly it shows the very interesting result of what happens if you drop a couple of classic Mentos™ into a bottle of diet soda. What happens is rather amazing – a fountain of drink spouts up nearly ten feet in the air.
