We return to Geek Manor to find Sam and Nicole basking in the glow of their elimination challenge victory last week. Sam is pleased with himself, which is good since no one else seems to be. Not one of the other contestants gets up to hug Sam or Nicole on their return.

LARPer Dave confronts Woody-Allenesque Joshua on the “call out” he got last week when Joshua stupidly stated how lousy Jasmine and Dave were–too lousy, apparently, to even warrant a trip to the elimination room. Rather than plotting revenge like a normal person, Dave goes into a self-hate shame-spiral. What a gutless weenie.

The challenge this week involves a trip to Comic Con. [SarahK: Frank and I were so excited about that! We started cracking up when they found out, and I think I laughed throughout the rest of the ep non-stop.] Each team must create a female superhero–the beauties are to create the back story and arch-nemesis (though the geeks clearly have input on the process), and the geeks are responsible for designing a sexy costume. This should be good. The winning team gets to pick BOTH pairs for potential elimination.

The thing Hairdresser Erin relates comic books to is “bubbles”, and not knowing which one to read first! Its amazing how being cute magically transforms one from idiotic to adorable. [SK: My being cute and my amazing brain power combine to make me irresistible.]

Shay wants to name her character “Breezy”, but Joshua wisely guides her to the slightly superior “Steam”. Erin muses about a character she has named “Aqualita Splash”, who aparently is Aquaman with a bikini but without the stuffed-shirt intelligence. Jasmine comes up with the character “Princess Bed Head”, who has the power to make people fall asleep instantly. Dave comically quips that she stops crime with narcolepsy, and they determine that her “Kryptonite” is coffee! [SK: That was so hilarious. Even though Jasmine is very vacant, I wanted them to win.]

Sam, always modest, wants to simply go as himself since he is so soooper. [SK: Can someone explain to me how this guy is supposed to be a beauty? He is not remotely cute! And his thinking that he is makes him a parody of himself!] His self-proclaimed power is to impregnate women, who give birth to super babies in five minutes. ::eyes rolling right out of my head:: Ultimate Hooters Girl Natalie wants to be a super-villain, with vines that come out of every orifice. Apparently she is some kind of a vegetarian “Doc Oc” (I suspect Frank can think of a better analogy than that). Cigar model Jennifer wants to fight evil with her . . . um . . . chestal area. Well, they do say one should write what one knows . . . [SK: I can’t stand this girl. She’s so hateful to her partner! Of course, they just made him so much worse when they gave him red hair. He looked so much better before they turned him into Opie!]

After the commercial break, the geeks go into the sewing room. Nicole, not surprisingly, seems to know how to sew–she’s got FHA geek written all over her. However, her costume for Sam only involves gluing pieces of fabric to a pair of bike shorts. [SK: We thought that was funny, because she was being “helpful” and answering their questions about sewing, and she took the easy route. I laughed my butt off at that.] LARPer Dave is surprisingly inept at putting together a costume. One would think he would be into that, given his love of period costumery–I guess he just shops at the local Renaissance Faire. [SK: My thoughts exactly!] Joshua fails miserably at his first fitting with Shay, while Natalie muses that she should adopt the nom de plume “Lady Killer” since she is . . . a lady . . . who kills. [This also falls within that idiotic/adorable schism I referenced earlier.] John has made a smoking bustier for Natalie, which is just good strategy.

Geek William is busted busting on busty Jennifer as she catches him telling the others he is thinking of making a costume to make her look fat just for spite. Jennifer takes William aside for a few choice words and he agrees to behave himself. I don’t think, however, that he was very sincere. Cut to 14 HOURS later, and the geeks are falling asleep at their sewing machines. If given 14 hours I think I could make a superhero costume fit for Superman–or at least fit for Matter-Eater Lad.

The next day, the group is on the bus to Comic Con. It is unclear if any of the beauties ever got a chance to try on their costume before heading out. Jennifer is again the center of attention (is it her night to leave?), as she is shown becoming visibly irritated by LARPer Dave’s and William’s geeky comic fanboy cross-talk. Sam can’t believe that William is on the verge of tears over a stupid comic book convention.

When the group arrives at the event, Shay takes a good long look around and is incredulous at the number of “weirdos” and “dorks”. William, who falls squarely within both categories, is beside himself when the editor of one of the magazines hands him his business card–I’m guessing he only brought a couple thousand to his booth.

Cut to the fashion show, which is being judged by four guys who look ready-made for participation in Season 5. First up is “Steam”–she came out in tiny shorts and a little tank top. She has streaks of gray in her hair, ala Storm, and totally chokes on her backstory–I can’t stand her and can’t wait for her to leave (regardless of Frank’s inexplicable crush on her). [SK: No, we are kinda out on her, too. Remember, last week was our first time to watch!]

Next is “Aqualita Splash” (Hairdresser Erin). She basically is just wearing a swimsuit and carrying a tiny cardboard surf board and starfish. She comes from the “deeps of the ocean”, where her “top scale dolphins” are working hard on R&D. Apparently they have developed telekinesis–naturally, since she says it would be difficult to “do science” with fins instead of fingers.

Next up is “Venus the Hypnotic Temptress” (Amazonian cigar model Jennifer). She is wearing a horrible platinum wig (ala Limelight from WWTBASH) and welding goggles. She looks like a chesty version of Abe from Hellboy!

Next up is “Vinity” (Ultimate Hooters Girl Natalie). She is a self-described lady killer, because, as noted above, she is . . . a lady . . . who kills. Covered with leaves she looks like a Lynyrd Skynyrd wannabe!

Next up is Metro[sexual] Man (Meathead Sam). He looks like an extra from that leather bar that was always featured in the Police Academy movies (the fourth one is the best, by the way). Sam wears some lame chains and claims he is a world famous model who got super powers from a bottle of tanning spray left behind by George Hamilton at a party (Nicole must have come up with that). Ugghh . . . he makes Zoolander look like Albert Einstein. [SK: Don’t forget that he fights people . . . with breakdancing!]

Next up is adorable Jasmine, whose costume is so flimsy that she has to wear clothes under it. LARPer Dave gives a strong introduction for “Princess Bed Head”, who was abandoned with her pet sloth Fanny in Argentina after her parents were mysteriously killed. She gets her energy from the moon and the stars and can mess with peoples’ dreams. When she yawns she sucks the energy out of the people around her. Interestingly, she is one of those rare superheroes who never see their archenemy because she is asleep while he is awake. The judges are smitten with her charming nature, despite the sheer badness of her backstory and Dave’s sewing.

The results: the judges are impressed with Dave and Jasmine, but the winners are . . . Nicole and Sam. Most of the other teams are disgusted by the win, but Jen is so busy being disgusted with her partner William–a self-proclaimed comic geek who failed miserably at creating a costume or backstory for his partner–that she has none left for Nicole and Sam.

Back at the mansion, the beauties are studying comic books. Sam and Nicole determine to put strong teams up for elimination to weaken the competition–what?!–someone actually is using strategy?! The first up for elimination are Ultimate Hooters Girl Natalie and John. Next are Elfin Hairdresser Erin and Albino Jesse. Erin is in tears about the prospect of leaving her friends. Natalie does not seem fazed–I have a feeling she has no shortage of fawning friends back home.

And now . . . the elimination quiz. The first question is for Natalie: what are the three colors used by Captain America–duh–correct. Erin next must choose the definition of “infallible” from a list–correct! Next, who is not known for wearing glasses: Wolverine, Clark Kent or Diana Prince–another easy one for Natalie. Next, Superman was “faster than a speeding bullet, and more powerful than a __________”–whoops, she says rocket. [SK: I said steam engine.] As an aside, that phrase was actually developed in relation to the radio serial, NOT the comic–so I have to call shenanigans on that question. [Editorial note: I am an Old Time Radio fan, NOT a comic book geek–there is a difference!] [SK: And when he says old, he means OLD.]

The guys are up, and John gets an easy question about Versace and Miami Vice–correct. Next up is Albino Jesse, who has choke written all over his blood drained face. He has to identify a picture of Kate Moss–how could he not know that!–but, alas, he fails miserably by guessing Giselle. [SK: I knew Kate Moss, but I was shocked that Erin and Natalie had no idea who it was either.] Erin and Jesse are out, and the tears are flowing like fine vino!

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