Gordon Pepper
reality editor/daytime correspondent

After watching the VERY entertaining WWTBGoC (and voting for your favorite candidate), we get the victory party! We open up in a 'War Room' like setting, filled with TV screens and balloons. Kennedy once again introduces the finalists - Nate Walton, Mary Carey and Brian Quinn - and the reminder that the winner gets $21,200. In a classy move, Kennedy says that the recall has passed - and your new governor is... Ahhhhnold. 'In layman's terms, that means that the Terminator is also the Governator.' That's according to the GSN Website - but as we all know, that also reflects reality as we know it. That announcement results in mass boos from the audience. In a not-so-class move, Mary is trying to
fondle everyone - the candidates, Kennedy, the crowd, and she is jiggling her...shall I say... assets while she is trying to do it.
 

The Post-Mortem

What are the candidates going to do when this is over? Mary Carey will be
doing 'Marey Carey for Governor (though Kennedy thought the movie would be called
'Hanging Chad', Brian thinks that he's the only Republican in the room, and
Nate, who says that the Lakers will win another championship, wants to see Shaq
be the governor.

Kennedy also invited the other 135 candidates over - to do Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations. Only in California. Also getting some camera time is Trek Thunder Kelly. who isn't surprised that Arnold won. He creates a sculpture called the re-call-age (recall/collage - get it?) - and that gets boos from the audience. The audience has been booing everything - you sure you didn't import them from Boston? (C-Note: Someone's a Yankees fan).

We get a montage from Gary Coleman's adventure at the fair - and THAT gets applause from the audience. He came in 5th in the voting, and you have to wonder if he could be the next GSN host... maybe... you never know... You didn't think at the beginning of the year that you would have Conan the Barbarian in office, did you?

Kennedy congratulates the "Butt Monkey Beer Boys" on their win in Lingo, and their campaign is to stop foreign beer from coming into America. That gets the biggest applause of the evening, and I have the feeling that yes, they did get the crowd from Boston (Yes, I am a New York Yankee fan - can't you tell?).

"Candidates Behind Bars"

Kennedy talks about the criminal backgrounds of some of the candidates in a montage called "Candidates Behinds Bars". We get everything from cocaine, to salami stealing to refusal to pay income taxes to marijuana smoking (THAT gets applause from the Boston crowd).

We have a talk to John P. Roberts, who talks about the demographic breakdown  from the on-line polling. The West Coast was all recall, while the East Coast was against it. Cruz Bustamante wins... one state. The rest went to Ahhhhnold. In a non-shocker, 75% of Mary's votes came from the male audience.

Kennedy admits that they are a bunch of whack jobs, "and I do mean that in a lovable way." We get a montage of the other candidates that auditioned for the show. How affixed is the audience? They are counting down the time for the montage to end. Nice. We are done with that...

The Recall According to Game Show Network

And on to the results. The second runner-up is.... Nate Walton, with twenty-nine percent of the vote. 'I'm going to do everything that I can to make sure that the state isn't ruined by Arnold Schwarzenegger and George Bush.' He's very serious - which is probably why he wound up in last. The first runner-up..... is........ Bryan Quinn, with thirty-four percent of the vote! And Mary Carey flips the double bird at him on national cable television. That itself is worth keeping on tape. Bryan's reaction? "I can't beat big, bouncing boobs." 

The audience goes nuts as Mary Carey, with thirty-seven percent of the vote, wins the competition and $21,200. Rich Cronin gives her the check - and she responds by groping him as well. Bryan says that as a Republican, he's glad to have Arnold in office - and that gets (what else) boos as well. Mary's reaction? "I'm going to go to Vegas...I'm going to donate it to the strippers." Seriously, she says that she will give some of it to fight Parkinson's Disease.  We got boos and boobs on this show.

Rich tries to persuade Mary to get out of porn (yeah, like that's going to happen), and she FINALLY curses on the air. Kennedy suggests "38 Double D Simple Rules", and with that, and with Kennedy unsuccessfully trying to court Mary, we are off the air.