Love in the Wild – Season 2 Episode 6 – Recap – Week 6

I was out of town Tuesday, so running a bit late on this week’s recap, but here’s what happened on week six of Love in the Wild.

The Aftermath:

After last week’s double elimination, we’re down to just three couples who are still in the hunt for the ultimate prize. Summer was left feeling bad for Ryan, after his partner Jenna blind sided him at the couple’s choice ceremony, but Chase, realizing that the double elimination brought them that much closer to winning is pumped about what went down. However, Chase is also frustrated that he’s having trouble advancing things in the romance department because Summer is so focused on winning.

Ben & Boobs McGee are just feeling lucky and grateful to have survived one more week, but Ken & Yanina are hungry for the win and feel that their status as the only couple who has been together for the entire competition gives them an edge over their competitors.

The Adventure Challenge:

In this week’s adventure challenge the couples will get to use a GPS instead of a map to navigate the various obstacles on the course. Their first task will be to locate their GPS, which is hidden somewhere in the jungle behind Jenny McCarthy. Once they find the GPS, they will enter three different coordinates, which will take them to three different objects they will need to complete their adventure, one of which is a journal.

Jenny reminds the couples that the winner will get to spend the night at The Oasis and get a special reward, but that isn’t all. She advised them all to try extra hard to win this week, because there will be a special surprise at the couple’s choice ceremony. Must be that twist they promised us in last week’s teaser!

And, they’re off! Summer & Chase are the first to find their GPS, with Ken & Yanina hot on their heels. Summer is excited about using the GPS, because she thinks Chase’s experience as a former Marine will give him an advantage in this challenge. Yanina reads us a clue, which indicates the three objects they need to retrieve are an inner tube, a pump and a journal. Sounds like a fun weekend!

Yanina & Ken are the first to grab the inner tube. Ben & Boobs McGee are running last and struggling a bit to figure out their GPS. Things aren’t going as well for Summer & Chase as Summer had imagined they would and they are struggling to find their first item. Meanwhile, Ben & Boobs McGee are starting to get the hang of the whole GPS thing and are the second team to find the inner tube.

Ken & Yanina continue to work together well and grab the journal, making them the first team to collect all three items. Ben & Boobs McGee are in second place, as they snag the tire pump. Ben is struggling a bit with the GPS again, but Boobs McGee steps in and calms him down and gets their team back on track. Meanwhile, Summer & Chase have finally managed to collect their first item, the tire pump, but they need to really pick up the pace if they’re going to have any shot of winning this challenge.

Ken & Yanina - Love in the WildKen & Yanina and Ben & Boobs McGee have now collected all three items and are ready to move on to the next challenge. Per the instructions in their journal, they must now use the pump to fill up the inner tubes (bet you never saw that coming!), and then use those inner tubes to float down the river to the next trail. Both teams are pretty much neck and neck as they hit the river, but Ken & Yanina have a slight lead.

When Summer & Chase arrive at the inner tubes to discover there is only one set of tubes left, they realize they are in last place. Summer advises us that she is very disappointed in Chase and his failure to properly utilize the GPS. Looks like love in the wild isn’t unconditional. Chase is also feeling like he let Summer down, since GPS should have been his speciality.

Yanina & Ken are the first team to arrive at the next obstacle. For this obstacle, the couples must navigate quick sand in order to grab a leather scroll, which is suspended from some vines above the quicksand pit. They struggle a bit to make it through the quicksand, but once on the other side they make quick work of grabbing a scroll and head off to the next task in first place.

Ben & Boobs McGee are the second team to arrive at the sand pit. They manage to navigate the quicksand with a minimum amount of struggle, and a lot of cursing on Ben’s part, but since Ken & Yanina have already snagged the easiest scroll to reach, the next part is a bit more challenging. Ben makes an impressive leap out over the pit and successfully snags a scroll off one of the vines, but unfortunately for them, Summer & Chase have managed to close the gap and arrive at the pit just as Ben is struggling to make his way back out.

Summer & Chase - Love in the WildThanks to the vine that Ben knocked down with his pit dive, Chase is able to devise a strategy that saves his team a ton of time. Instead of struggling through the pit and then going back to get a scroll like the other two teams, Chase instructs Summer to stand on his chest, using the fallen vine to pull herself up and grab the last scroll. This plan works a charm and allows Summer & Chase to exit the sand pit right on Ben & Boobs McGee’s heels. Redemption for Chase!

Still in first place, Ken & Yanina have reached the next task. In this task they must climb a rusty ladder to reach a stone building and then use the scroll they retrieved from the sand pit to decode a message that will lead them to their next obstacle. Sounds simple right? Well, turns out the stone building is filled with live scorpions! Not only do the couples have to cross the scorpion strewn floor, but the actual message they must decode is also covered in scorpions. Ken struggles to decode the message and isn’t having much luck, but when he finally gives over and lets Yanina take a shot at it, she is able to quickly solve the puzzle. You go girl! The message instructs them to go down river and find a blue post. They must then search for a chest buried in the sand within five meters of the blue post.

Scorpions - Love in the WildBen & Boobs McGee arrive at scorpion cave in second place. After his freakout with the spiders last week, I was kind of surprised that Ben handled the scorpions so well. He struggles a bit to decode the message, but with Michelle’s help he is able to solve it and they head to the next task in second place.

Chase and Summer are relatively unphased by the scorpions, but struggle a bit to decode the message. Whatever ground Chase made up with his winning strategy in the sand pit seems to have been lost as Summer tells us that she was ready to strangle Chase and they were not working well as a team at all. Summer eventually decides to take charge and they finally manage to decode the message. However they have fallen even further behind the other two teams.

Yanina & Ken - Love in the WildKen & Yanina have arrived at the blue post in first place and immediately begin digging in the sand in search of the hidden chest. Yanina manages to locate a chest on her first attempt, but they struggle a bit to get it out of the sand. In spite of that, they manage to cross the finish line in first place and their impressive wire to wire performance on this challenge finally nets them a long awaited night at The Oasis. As a bonus, Ken wins some brownie points by impressing Yanina with his stamina and persistence during the challenge.

Ben & Boobs McGee are the second team to arrive at the blue pole. Ben manages to locate a chest and they are struggling to dig the chest out of the sand as Chase & Summer arrive at the beach. Summer & Chase manage to quickly locate a chest, but Ben gets his team’s chest out of the sand first and he and Michelle win the foot race down the beach and claim second place. That leaves Summer & Chase as the last team to arrive and Summer is pretty much laying the whole thing at Chase’s feet and expresses that she doesn’t feel like he pulled his weight during this challenge.

The Social Game:

Love in the Wild - Season 2 Episode 6 - Recap - Week 6Yanina & Ken are thrilled to finally get a night at The Oasis. Ken is convinced that Yanina is the girl for him and Yanina thinks Ken is the man she always dreamed of. Yanina tells Ken that even if they don’t win, she feels like she is still a winner. Awww!

Back at the cabins, Summer is still irritated with Chase due to his performance on the adventure challenge and she’s being pretty sulky about it. She heads off to bed and leaves poor Chase to eat his dinner with Ben & Boobs McGee. Chase shares with them that he knows he disappointed Summer, but he’s just not sure how.

Ben & Boobs Mcgee are getting on well and Ben decides to surprise Michelle with a picnic on the beach the next morning. Michelle tells us that she’s normally not the kind of girl to make such a quick connection with someone, but that she thinks things are going really well with her and Ben. Ben thinks Michelle is “brilliant” and is enjoying every minute he has to spend with her.

Chase decides to try and cheer Summer up by creating a scavenger hunt for her. He sets up a bunch of clues that lead her to all of the places that have special memories for the two of them. Summer is impressed by the amount of work that Chase put into the hunt and starts feeling bad for “being such a poopy pants” about losing the adventure challenge. She notes that her family always questions why she dates guys that don’t treat her very well and thinks they would love Chase. At least she realizes what a sore loser she was being, but I’m still not convinced she’s really all that into Chase.

The Perfect Date - Love in the WildKen & Yanina’s reward for finishing first is a dune buggy ride. The two of them have a blast racing around the beach and Yanina tells us that Ken makes her feel “like a little girl.” Ken thinks their date was a ten, but Yanina disagrees and says it was an 11. Yay!

Meanwhile, back at the cabins, Chase & Summer are telling Ben & Boobs McGee about how they feel they have made a real connection and how they think the last three remaining couples are all there for “the right reasons.” Ben isn’t buying it. He tells Summer & Chase that it seems to him that they have been much more focused on winning the challenges than on finding love in the wild. Fight! Fight!

Summer is totally pissed by Ben’s accusation that she and Chase don’t have a genuine relationship, but Boobs McGee still thinks she and Ben are much more deserving of being in the finale than Chase and Summer. Ben suggests that it’s just silly for a couple that is supposed to be looking for love to get all pissy because someone can’t “hit a mask with a coconut.” Summer fires back with a suggestion that Ben & Michelle don’t seem suited for each other at all and their whole relationship is just weird. So much drama!

Everyone is nervous about what the latest twist is going to be at the couple’s choice ceremony.

The Couple’s Choice Ceremony:

The big twist this week is that instead of having the normal couple’s choice ceremony, they are going to test the couples on how well they know their partners….Newlywed Game style!

Jenny McCarthy - Love in the WildJenny McCarthy will ask the three remaining couples seven questions. If the two partners come up with the same answer to the question, they get a point. The couple who finishes with the most points will get a thirty second head start on the next adventure challenge. Because Ken & Yanina finished first in this week’s challenge they start the game with one extra point. Jenny warns the couples that they do NOT want to finish last, but doesn’t tell us what happens if they do.

Here’s how it went down:

Question 1: What would your partner say is your best physical trait? (posed to the ladies)

Yanina: Butt Ken: Eyes – Jenny thinks Ken was just trying to be romantic

Boobs Mcgee: Jugs Ben: Jugs – well duh!

Summer: Booty Chase: Butt – Summer points out that her booty is still firm & tight with no ripples. She’s so humble!

Round One Score: All teams tied at one point each!

Question 2: What is the one thing that you haven’t done with your partner yet, that you would like to do? (posed to both)

Ken: Get more intimate Yanina: Done It – their tenses don’t match, but their intentions do, point for Ken & Yanina!

Ben: go to Oasis as a couple Boobs McGee: travel – wah, wah, wah!

Chase: Zip Line Summer: Zip Line – I agree with Ben on this one “what the hell?” but they get a point!

Round 2 Score: Ken & Yanina and Summe & Chase tied at 2, Ben & Boobs McGee – 1

Question 3: What will your partner say is the most annoying thing you do in bed at night? (posed to the ladies)

Yanina: puts lime on her body (to keep mosquitoes away) Ken: puts lime on her body – another point!

Boobs Mcgee: can’t keep her hands off Ben Ben: won’t let him sleep – they give them the point, because Michelle said she won’t let Ben sleep when explaining her answer

Summer – wear a cover over her face Chase: wear a shirt over her face – they get the point!

Round 3 Score: Ken & Yanina and Summer & Chase still tied at 3 points, Ben & Boobs McGee – 2 points

Question 4: Who is a better catch between the two of you? (posed to both)

Yanina: Ken Ken: Yanina – sweet, but no points!

Boobs McGee: Me Ben: Michelle – the boobs have it – point!

Chase: Summer Summer: Me! – Summer claims her answer was because Chase is so nice that she just knew he’d write her name down, but we all know she thinks it’s true.

Round 4 Score: Summer & Chase grab the lead with 4 points, Ken & Yanina and Ben & Boobs Mcgee tied at 3 points

Question 5: Between the two of you, who is more materialistic? (posed to both)

Ken: Yanina Yanina: Ken – uh oh! no point

Ben: Michelle Boobs Mcgee: Michelle – point!

Chase: Summer – because she’s a girl Summer- Chase because he’s from Cali – uh oh! no point

Round 5 Score: Summer & Chase and Ben & Boobs McGee are tied for the lead at 4 points, Ken & Yanina have 3 points

Question 6: Other than you, which contestant is your partner most attracted to? (posed to the guys)

Ken: Ben – he’s a heartthrob Yanina: Ben – it’s not true, but she knew Ken would say that cuz he has a man crush on him – point!

Ben: Ken Boobs McGee: Ken – hmmm a Love in the Wild foursome? - point!

Chase: Ken Summer: Ken – everybody loves Ken! – point!

Round 6 Score: Ben & Boobs Mcgee and Summer & Chase still tied at 5 points, Ken & Yanina – 4 points

Question 7: Which of you is most eager to settle down and start a family? (posed to both)

Yanina: Me Ken: Me – uh oh, that means they will definitely finish in last place :(

Boobs McGee: Me Ben: Michelle – point! now Summer & Chase must get the question right to maintain the tie

Summer: Both Chase: Summer – Summer’s bonehead answer means Ben & Boobs McGee are the winners! She better hope Chase takes losing better than she did….

Jenny McCarthy congratulates Ben & Boobs McGee on winning the 30 second head start and assures them it will be crucial in the next challenge. She also congratulates Summer & Chase for finishing in second place.

Jenny then calls over Ken & Yanina and tells them that unfortuantely their last place finish means they will be going home. Everyone is shocked, but it turns out to be a big fake out and since two couples left the week prior, no one is going home!

Winning first place next week will be super important because the winning couple will get the biggest advantage yet and will play a major role in determining who stays and who goes. Exciting!

It’s looking like Summer & Chase better win, because it seems likely they will be headed home otherwise.
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Turn those frowns upside down!

The teaser for next week promises that they have saved the biggest twist for last! The couple who finishes in first place gets to choose which couple will be headed home! With only two episodes left to go, you don’t want to miss it, but if you do, be sure to stop by and read my recap and find out who will be heading to the Love in the Wild finale!