The Challenge Is Back, Bitches

The big deal with this year's Real World/Road Rules Challenge (The Island) is that all these drunks have to live in the "wilderness". By which I mean some pretty well-appointed cabins. But there are outdoor toilets and no electricity, so that's what I consider roughing it. Of course there is alcohol.

No teams. No challenges. They just live on a beach and the prize money is in a treasure chest on an island. Huh? We're making the rules up as we go?

I don't know who loads of these people are, because I haven't watched The Real World in a while. There are enough familiar faces though, and the new people always get picked off early.

Derrick got married and his wife is pregnant. Oh crap! I thought steroids slowed your sperm down! Tonya is all cleaned up, and hella fatter, and lives in a small town again. So now she's freaking out because she's back in her old, familiar, slutty, bitchy surroundings.

Straight Jenn and Rachel make out. Gay Ryan makes out with a chick. Kenny and Johanna hook up - she knows how to pick winners! Actually, Kenny is hysterical and way better than Wes.

So the deal is that airdrops will bring the folks supplies and materials to build a boat that will eventually carry 8 of them to the Island. Will there be more booze in the airdrops too? Otherwise, I can't be bothered to listen to TJ try to explain the rules.

There is a Faceoff. Which seems a lot like a "challenge", but only 3 people do it. Kenny and Abram volunteer for it, and Tonya gets picked for it. The winner gets a prize, a key to the treasure chest, and immunity from elimination. And the winner is... Abram.

Elimination - the 2 losers from the Faceoff plead their case and beg to be kept in the game. Voting is done all out in the open, which is cool. Tonya goes home. Poor girl can't redeem herself. Life Lesson 1: being good doesn't pay. So because Kenny wasn't eliminated, he also gets a key. I think there's something about people being able to challenge other players for their keys. IDK, I don't even have a long enough attention span for MTV.