Eric and Ray take the Roadblock. Yolanda couldn't even do the skydive? Ack. By my count, that's all the Roadblocks Ray can do, if indeed he can only do six. Joseph is still telling Monica not to cry, and it's still not the right way to handle her at all, because -- as she rightly points out -- he can't actually tell her how to feel. She tells him that she's not saying he has to be upset; she's just saying she's upset. And as to this part, I do agree with her. You can't always just will yourself not to be upset in a stressful situation, and I'm not sure he's being very helpful.
Commercials. I do not understand what a Lincoln Zephyr has to do with a buffalo, but that's why I don't work in marketing.
We come back to Monica, now crossing over into what would get old in a hurry, which is saying -- again -- that it's "not fair." Joseph assures her that the Yield is not going to matter. I'm sure he's quite aware that it's sure to be non-elimination, for one thing. Elsewhere, BJ suits up for the skydive. Tyler pulls this total bullshit line about how "intense" it is when you Yield someone, and how awful he would feel if it were him. Talk about talk being cheap, man. You really can't play a vindictive card on somebody and then claim that you feel sympathy. It's just not convincing. And as BJ wanders off for the jump, one of them says "T-Tow." Again. "T-Tow, my ass," Monica mutters at the Yield mat. Well, exactly. How sick of that shit do you suppose the other people are by now? BJ's plane goes up. Eric's plane goes up. "Hopefully, your chute opens, dude!" Jeremy hollers. Ray's plane goes up.
Monica cries at the mat. Joseph instructs her to cheer up, which still isn't helping. She tells him she's fine, and that if he would stop talking to her, she'd be less upset. Which, reluctantly, I also think is often true, despite the fact that at this point, she is definitely into "toughen up" territory.
BJ jumps. T-Tow count during the jump: 2. "He's so damn corny," Yolanda says on the ground. And...exactly. And the second "T-Tow" definitely comes off as "Did you miss the first one, camera guy? I got another one for you!" Jeremy, sort of bored, says, "They both have their unique personalities." This seems to bring to mind the idea of flirting with Yolanda, and Jeremy hasn't hit on anyone in a leg or two, it appears, so he tells her that if she weren't with Ray, he'd be all over her. "Oh, yeah?" she asks, not entirely unamused, but...still entirely amused, if you see what I mean.













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