BIGGEST SHAFT AWARD...

...goes to me because CBS did not show the bleach drinking incident.

 

Other raw deals:

1.  Mike.  Awful Sophia gets TWO gold stars and he gets none?  Garbage.  And don't just think I'm biased because you don't see me advocating a Colton gold star.

2.  Me again, for being so badly let down by Michael and DK. I used to love those guys and now they are the biggest pansies.  "My legs hurt!"  More like he didn't want the pressure of deciding three gold stars (you saw how much trouble he had with one early in the show) so he was trying to throw the challenge.  And Michael. "We can't build the tables because we don't have How-To books because we didn't pick the library"?!?!?  Have you forgotten that you have McGyver/Greg?  WTF. 

3.  Migle.  When Sophia and Morgan got stars, everyone was like, cool, I get it.  But when they said Migle's name, everyone (her mom especially) was in absolute shock.  Talk about no one believing in you!  Fortunately, $50k should soften the blow.

MIGLE for the win

Migle totally deserves $50k for being part of two of the best scenes in Kid Nation history--- Jared's pimp strut (she was the one sitting outside who told him he looked good) and the emilie vs. kelsey battle of the sidekicks.

p.s. How many kids are going to say that these are the "best people they've met in their entire life" and that BCity is "the only place they belong"??? Enough already. Sappy.

Obvs I will have more thoughts on this tomorrow. I can't believe it's over. Begin depression.

Jaunty Cap Alert

Did you guys see how all the kids signed Markelle's hat? I totally paused it to read what they wrote, but the only one that I could read was "Markelle, you're amazing. I heart U. - Natasha." PLEASE PUT THAT HAT ON EBAY. I WANT TO BUY IT. SERIOUSLY.

can't believe a parent didn't punch the host

Ok so it took exactly 20 minutes to make pasta sauce and exactly 25 min to build a table (even though Greg has built a table before), but they somehow hauled all that garbage in 15? I don’t buy it.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PARENTS' VISTS:
- “ok ok, that’s enough” - alex in response to the hugging
- Colton's mom's cleavage
- Jared teaching his dad how to do root beer bombs
- Nathan's mom encouraging his OCD by carrying water
- Leila calling her mom a city slicker
- Blaine's mom's attempt at preppyness
- "grab a seat Zach's dad"

I may be blue, but I'm sleeping with yellow...or am I??

kelsey's "it's not you, it's me" speech to emilie (and the ensuing brawl) = best best best. I guess taming Taylor is harder than taming wild horses.

Jared better win one of these super gold stars or I'm boycotting KN2.

Can't We All Just Get Along?

Woah, arson and looting in the first ten minutes! I guess I support arson if it means that the stupid journal is gone. Re: the looting-- I wouldn't want gumballs even if they were free, but it would be fun to fill a wagon full of candy (even if that wagon has an old-tyme pogo stick taking up prime space). I loved that Leila started grabbing buffalo nickels. SMART GIRL. Those are prob worth something. Also, how did we never notice that Mike is the white Steve Urkel? When he started dancing, I was getting ready for him to say "got any cheese??" or say something to Carl or little richie. Ha, Urkel. Ok back to the show! Can't believe it's almost over.

Where's the Tragedy?

I can point to no hard sources, but I've got a memory of someone mentioning that one of the kids drinks bleach on KN at some point.  Who?  Why?  CBS better not cut this out.  We've got only one episode left, it's now or never. Here are my predictions, in order of probability:

 

1.  Bleach Possibility 1:  Jared.  He missed out on the gold star last week and is really making a go of it this week by pushing his braininess.  As such, he's drunk on ambition and a bizarre quanta-transporter experiment goes horribly wrong.  Or does it go right?  The child genius meant to drink his quanta-converting concoction but Divad switches the beakers at the last second (she's still pissed about the store casualty).  Jared (along with his quanta) are gone, mysteriously transported to the greedy-money cave where he lives out the rest of his life as a mad scientist.

 

2.  Bleach Possibility 2:  Greg.  Someone dared him to do it and, because he'd accidentally imbibed a gallon of the stuff during his brief career as a pool-man without folly, he assumes it's okay to do again.  And he's fine because nothing can hurt this kid.

 

3.  Bleach Possibility 3:  Kelsey.  She thought it was water.  Everyone cries (bet you didn't see THAT coming) and they rush her to a hospital in a hot air balloon.  Greg regrets not picking the ponies which would have proven speedier transport.