Road Rules 11, Episode 6: Food Fight!

Previously on Road Rules... we see clips we've actually seen before! Wow! Thanks MTV! Darrell is back at The Citadel talking about how he wants to beat someone up, Sarah is being called the weak link and Shane's still being a jerk. So basically it's a tossup who could be tossed if the group loses the next mission.

The gang is screwing around on the Winnie - or as I have discovered recently, the Fleetwood - and Shane puts a condom in Eric's mouth when he's asleep. I wonder if these people are going to be this cute about five years from now when they're $28 grand in debt and realize they picked the wrong career. Oh, sorry. Don't know how my diary made it in there... hee.

The group talks to Sarah about her situation with her parents. Someone says they think it's pretty stupid that two doctors would make it impossible for their kid to go to college. Good point. Sarah says her parents were trying to make a point. She'd been a wallflower all her life so when she went to school the first year she got a little wild. She came home that summer and would hang out with a band until 5 a.m. She came home one morning and her parents basically divorced her. I sympathize. I too waited until late in life to have my rebellious years and my mother is still confused. Still, as one of the roommates pointed out, Sarah's parents' actions were a little extreme.

Rachel says she wishes Sarah were as social during the missions as she was during the rest of the trip. Sarah, for her part, thinks she's made great strides with the group and she's now not most likely to get kicked off the trip.

The group gets its clue to be at the University of Alabama at 7:45 a.m. the next day. They are more than thrilled with the early hour. "I don't know what we're gonna do but we'll get through it," says Kendal, in her "Hi, I'm Kendal and I'm stuck on terminal perk" voice. Wow, The Citadel has really broken her.

Later that night there's more screwing around in the Winnie as Shane and Darrell use their MTV-provided Nextel direct phone to make prank calls to Shane's friends. When Darrell tells one of his victims he's Shane, Shane reaches over and slaps Darrell on the side of the face.

Rut ro.

Dude, you just hit an amateur boxer on the side of the face. You're a moron.

As if he heard my words, Shane is immediately embarrassed and sits with his face in his hands.

"What was I thinking?" he asks. I don't know, but I'm sure we're going to spend the next 20 minutes analyzing it.

Darrell gets up and leaves the Fleetwood with his bag in hand. Oh no, is he leaving the show? No, he's just going to the john. He tells the overeager camera man that if Shane is behind him to watch out because he's going to beat him up. Shane, wisely for once, keeps his distance.

Everyone gives Darrell props for not beating Shane down right then. Sarah points out that as Darrell was leaving the Fleetwood, his lips were quivering. Eric says Darrell could easily beat the crap out of Eric and Shane. There's a man who knows his place. Rachel defends her man.

"Darrell has been more than accepting of Shane and it hurts when a gay man slaps you in the face," she says. Hell, I'd be embarrassed if a gay man hit me and I don't even box.

Eric finally goes and checks on Darrell. Darrell is scared to go back to the scene of the crime because he wants to hurt Shane. Eric compliments Shane again on holding it together, as we watch a grainy black and white replay of the incident, in case we already forgot what happened in the last two minutes. I'm sorry, but no one can smoke that much pot.

They walk back to the Fleetwood and Darrell says he doesn't want to be the angry black man.

Meanwhile there are now six angry people. The bull horns from the front of the Fleetwood are gone! Ohhh the horror! I guess those are the same horns that have lasted on the front of the Road Rules mode of transport for 11 years. Why didn't someone think to steal them before now?

The group drives to their mission and Shane is still freaking out that he was actually stupid enough to provoke an amateur boxer. He's talking to Kendal, who, for her part, looks like she has a little shiner below her eye. Didn't know Eric played so rough. They pull up to the site and their mission mayors are on balance beams. Kendal doesn't understand the mission.

"There's nothing to understand, we're getting on the beams were doing what it takes and then we're leaving Alabama," Eric says. Whoah, someone has the same issues with Alabama that I do. Way to get the most out of the mission there, bud.

The group must split into three and stay suspended at the top of three platforms for a total of 18 hours. For the sake of editing, and the sanity of all Alabamans, that means just two hours per person on each pole, totaling 18 hours. If someone falls, their time is added to the group time. The prize is Local Motion surf gear.

Everyone's happy until they find out that they will have rotten food thrown at them by UA students every half hour. And some of these kids are good shots.

The mayors have predetermined who's going to be on each pole and Shane and Darrell are matched. Ooohh drama... Do you think they bugged the Fleetwood? Rachel says she's going to pray for them, and Darrell, for his part, says he's in hell. Wow, first these kids were in hell at The Citadel, now it's in Alabama. Everywhere is hell for these people.

Shane and Darrell get on their pole (just kinda begs for a comment doesn't it?) and Shane's freaking out. Darrell calms him down and the group takes their first round of rotten food. This is disgusting. Only in Alabama would they think of this. This looks like the leftovers from the Clemson challenge.

The group checks each other after the first round and Darrell says he has some meat in his eye but he's OK. Once again, begs for a comment, but I'm not gonna go there.

Then it's back to our normal weakest link, Sarah. She lasts about 40 minutes on the pole before dry heaving and nearly passing out. They lower her pathetic self to the ground.

Of course, this means the group has to stay up there another 40 minutes. Shane's ticked again.

"She didn't care," he said. "She let us down. Just because she has problems she thinks it's OK to let us down."

Sarah makes a complete recovery once on the ground and is eating and frolicking with the other college students. Darrell is up on the platform and eats one of the rotten bananas. OK, that's gross.

While on the ground, Sarah finds out that some band of freaks called the Thursday Night Posse stole their horns from the Fleetwood. Rachel calls them the bootleg Backstreet Boys. Hee.

One of the members, who looks amazingly like Sam from the step challenge, challenges Sarah and the group to a physical challenge to get the horns back, but the group yells down at Sarah to call the cops, which she does. I bet law enforcement just loves when MTV comes to town.

The cops chase down this white truck and Sarah and its driver argue over the meaning of specifics. Meanwhile, the five remaining pole sitters finish the challenge and win the prizes. They climb down off the pole, wet, tired, cold, hungry, and covered in crap, while Sarah is aglow from her run-in with the law.

"Sarah sucks," someone says.

"She's trying to do something," says Kendal. "It's too bad she can't do what the rest of us do."

Once again Rachel warns that Sarah's gone if the group fails the next mission.

The next morning it's raining as it can only rain in the South, a blinding downpour so bad that the front of the Fleetwood is leaking. The group's busy cleaning up when a white truck pulls up. Why if it isn't the redneck posse.

The group's leader literally carries the bull by the horns as he returns it to the group. Eric thanks them and then immediately goes, in the rain, to reattach the horns.

Back in the Fleetwood, everyone's talking about how much the last mission sucked. Everyone except Sarah, who's asleep in the back. Darrell says he's over the incident with Shane. Thank God.

Next week it's the Crocodile Hunter! No, but bees, snakes, and lizards are involved as Darrell and Sarah are the next to lock horns.

Jennifer Shrader is a reporter at a community newspaper in rural North Carolina who is waiting to be discovered.

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