LOVE CRUISE

EPISODE RECAP #3
By reality editor, Gordon Pepper

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When last time we left our stranded couple wannabe's, Adrian decided to piss off the women by telling them that the women want their independence, but they leave the decisions up to the guys. This gets the ire of Jeanette and Andrea, who confront Adrian after the jury vote. Jeanette is convinces that Adrian is a chauvanist: "He is just that way about women" - Meanwhile, Jeanette is not exactly Snow White herself - she has a child out of a previous relationship. So does Adrian. Apparently, they should call the show 'Love Cruise with the Tug Boat Nursery in the back'. Since they talked about nothing but this, do you get the feeling that this may be the running theme in today's episode?

Back to the coupling. The women get to pick the guys, and they all flock to Michael. After that bit of silliness (Michael picks Melissa), the groups are as follows: Adrian/Tomiko and Greg/Toni stay as items, Ralph and Jeanette are now a couple, as are Andrea and Darin and Anthony and Lisa.

Toni and Greg seem to be coming closer - Toni gives Greg a massage, and Greg talks about the 2 sides of Toni. meanwhile, everyone else seems to be talking about Adrian. Anthony will ask him about his daughter, so people can see the other side of Adrian, while Jeanette will continue her desensitization of Adrian, by asking Tomiko why she can't see that he's a male chauvinist. Would you like some iodine to pour into his wounds, Jeanette?

So the hot seat has a pajama party theme to it. Toni gets called to the seat first, and is asked about Greg, who says 'he's a hottie'. But a whole bunch of vanilla answers from Toni means that she has to do a dare - namely, strip tease in front of Greg. Not like anyone seemed to mind, since we get a few minutes of Toni bouncing in front of everyone.

It's Tomiko's turn to go up - and she gets the poison pill question. Jeanette then declares that its her question and gets into yet another fight with Adrian. Tomiko takes the high road by saying that Adrian sometimes speaks before he thinks, but you have to get to know him better and he is a great guy. Jeanette finishes her segment by saying 'I hope my feelings don't influence their opinions against me'. Yeah - and if you don't believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

Jeanette has turned into public enemy number one with the guys. According to Michael 'Jeanette just bought her ticket off of the boat'. Trying to stop the damage, Ralph attempts to get Adrian and Jeanette to talk to each other, while Jeanette talks about how much she loves her child. But it's becoming obvious that if Jeanette or Adrian don't win the all-important Switch Card, that they will be moving to Skankville, Aruba.

The competition for the switch card is intelligence. The team is positioned on a small inflatable tube. The team has to answer a trivia question - if they don't get it right then they have to stand up on the tube, which will force them to fall off. The last team on the tube wins. Adrian and Tomiko goof up on the very first question and go bye-bye. Ralph and Jeanette then soon follow. Being that the 2 people who really needed the card were the
first teams knocked out, the rest becomes very anti-climactic - but Michael and Melissa win and Michael gets the Switch Card. According to Michael 'Jeanette and Andrea are in big trouble' You think?

Meanwhile, Jeanette is being accused of calling Adrian a deadbeat dad. Jeanette says that she never said it (actually, it was Anthony who started that rumor) and Jeanette tells Adrian that she never said it. Memo to
Jeanette - you can't use a spoonful of water to put out a forest fire.

But leave it to Greg to pull off the dumb-ass move of the episode. Greg decides to flatter Lisa, and play with her and splash water around her body. Lisa takes it to mean that he is flirting with her and tells Andrea, who
tells Toni, who thought she has this beautiful relationship with Greg. Toni falls apart, and this galvanizes the girls, since everyone knows that a male chauvanist pig isn't as bad a someone who splashes water on a poor
defenseless female (wha?).

The women choose to eliminate Greg, while the men easily dispatch Jeanette. in the meantime, greg talks about how close he and Toni have gotten (D'oh!). Mike decides not to use the switch cards, so those are the people that get to go to Skankville, Aruba.

Jeanette and Adrian sort of make-up at the end (where the heck was this earlier on, dummy?) and Greg apologizes to Toni, saying that he didn't get to know the women that well. Apparently, he got to know Lisa a little too well. Lisa, meanwhile, looks like the cat that has eaten the canary. She has now successfully helped to dismantle 2 relationships (Anthony and Laura being the first), and may be the person who is playing the game the best - stopping the relationships before they get too strong. But it seems like in the previews for next episode that she may have gone too far and got caught. Is she the next to go? Or does someone else piss the guys off even more?

To be continued...