Previously on My Top Design on the D-List : I wouldn't know, because my husband usually writes these recaps. Except last Wednesday, the minute this episode ended, he stalked out the door with only his wallet and a big bottle of SPF 45. Since then, I've had two garbled phone calls, but it was kind of hard to hear over the sobbing and the loudspeaker commanding people to "coloque sus wagers en el prizefighter siguiente." I imagine Mr. Sobell will come home with Carl the Carpenter when he's good and ready. Until then, you're stuck with me.

Top Designer roll call: Gone! Booted! Carisa! Vanished! Absent! Matt! Andrea! Departed! Vamoosed! Ejected! Banished! Exxxxxxxxxxiled!

After a few shots of Los Angeles' more Blade Runner-y buildings, we zoom to the condos where the three remaining designers are staying. Matt is eating breakfast in his condo with only his paint chips for company. I had no idea green was the most sociable of the paint chip families -- this show has been so good for learning all those insider-y tidbits, hasn't it?

We cut to Matt doing his talking head thing, saying, "If I'm not one of the final two, I will, like, get depressed and kill myself." Matt, you realize you've just thrown down the gauntlet to reality TV producers everywhere. Anyway, Matt seems to feel that being the most experienced designer left in the competition should automatically bump him to the next round.

Over in the girls' condo, we are learning that indeed, green is the color choice of breakfasting designers everywhere. As Carisa notes that the top three includes two women, we get a V.O. of Andrea saying, "I did not think that was going to happen. I was surprised that Carisa made it into the top three. She always delivers in a certain way, but she kind of does a similar thing each time. If she does the same thing again, I think it may be, like, one time too many."

But when Andrea is not busy running down the competition, she's chit-chatting it up. Carisa is fretting over their next challenge, and Andrea notes that "Matt keeps saying that we need to do, like, a really formal living room or something. But that's his deal. So hopefully, this one won't be formal so he gets knocked out." The two laugh because it's fun to conspire against the competition!

We head to the Pacific Design Center so we can establish that indeed, the contestants are heading back into the grinder. Then we cut quickly to Matt's talking head interview: "Whenever I have time to think about my family, I feel guilty for being here. There's, like, a million things going on back home, so I was hoping this competition really comes through for me and it was all worth it." Or else what? Say... there is your next reality show: what happens to contestants of any competitive series after they're ejected from the hermetic TV bubble and forced to reckon with all the people they left behind. Top Divorce? "This week's challenge -- divide your assets in half, or the courts will do it for you!"