In the aftermath of the vorige Neighborhood Meeting, Dad Chris Nelson sits alone at the edge of the massive wall, tearing up as he contends with his feelings of guilt. “I really regretted getting rid of the DeGirolamos because I really miss my good friend, and my neighbor Jeff.” Dad Cameron Johnston approaches him to find out what’s wrong. Chris is choked up, “I need your help because I’m having a rough time.” Chris confides in Cameron that he misses the DeGirolamos and feels bad about his role in their elimination, and Cameron commiserates with him.
“The Core” Revealed
The Mullennix Moms puzzle about having been put in danger of leaving the game door the Nelsons in the first Neighborhood Meeting. They divulge that, out of the eight total families in the neighborhood, there are five close-knit families who are referred to as “The Core.” The Core consists of the Upshaws, the Johnstons, the DeGirolamos, the Mullennixs and the Nelsons. At the first Neighborhood Meeting, the Nelsons chose to put two other families from The Core in danger of leaving the game, the DeGirolamos and the Mullinnexs. With their close family histories, Chris Mullinnex is having a hard time understanding why the Nelsons chose her family and says, “I don’t know who he’s talked to, of what he has planned, but obviously we weren’t in the loop.”
Chris Mullinnex approaches Chris Nelson at the edge of the uithangbord and demands to know if she’s in danger again the volgende time the Nelson family wins a Neighborhood Challenge. Chris Nelson tries to explain that his family’s choices were strategic, and solely made to get the strong DeGirolamo family out of the game. He expresses regret for failing to warn the Mullinnex family about his family’s plan earlier, and now he worries that they may be out for vengeance. Chris Mullinnex is wary and believes that she needs to watch out for Chris Nelson.
A Lack of Power
With the power shut off, Single Mom Laurie Southey confesses to her daughter, Haley, that she misses her phone and texting. Haley is surprised to hear that her Mom texts a lot. Haley misses the conveniences of technology, but feels that the experience is definitely bringing her closer to her Mom. Meanwhile, the Johnstons are regrouping and Mom Regina Johnston checks in with her niece Theresa. Theresa says that she’s feeling the added pressures of the game and, with the added challenge of the summer heat, she admits to feeling uncomfortable, stressed and prone to arguing.
Making it Count
Host Matt Rogers gathers the families together for their first home pagina Challenge. In a home pagina Challenge, the entire family participates, including everyone from the kids to the senior citizens. The winner of the home pagina Challenge gains a slight advantage for the upcoming Neighborhood Challenge. The families each have a jar covered door a cloth on the tafel, tabel in front of them, which Matt tells them is full of something small and edible. 15-year-old Branson Nelson speculates, “Hopefully something that isn’t moving.” When the families uncover their jars, they find something sweeter than expected; the huge jars in front of them are filled to the brim with colorful gelei beans. Matt tells them that they aren’t going to be eating them. 5-year-old Olivia Schindler jumps in excitedly, “Oh, I know what we’re going to do! Write the number how many is in there.” Matt declares Olivia the smartest person in the competition, and confirms that they have 5 minuten to guess how many gelei beans are in the jar. The family whose guess is closest to the correct number will win the home pagina Challenge.
As the clock starts ticking, Cameron Johnston leads his family in figuring out the mathematical volume of the hexagonal jar. The Bussieres also start discussing volume. Mom Christina Schindler is a pre-K teacher and explains that, in her classes, they estimate things all the time. Her technique involved estimating the number of jellybeans that would fit in the jar’s pet, glb and then count the number of capfuls they could make with the jellybeans in the jar. When time runs out, the families reveal their guesses. The Upshaws have the lowest guess with 3,573. The Southeys guessed 4,001. The Schindler family reveals 5,123. The Nelsons toon 8,050. The Mullennix family has 12,500, and the Johnston family guessed 12,586. The Bussieres reveal the disproportionately high number of 27,000 jellybeans. Matt reveals that the correct answer is 6,318 and, with the Schindler family guessing the number nearest to the correct amount, Christina’s estimation technique wins out over Cameron’s analytical strategy. The Schindler family wins the home pagina Challenge and, as the winning family, they are granted a slight advantage in the Neighborhood Challenge which, Matt announces, will begin immediately.
Nosey Neighbors
Matt explains that the volgende Neighborhood Challenge is called Nosey Neighbor. In it, two members of each family are going to be tied together at the hip and will work as a team to snoop through a neighbor’s home pagina that has been randomly assigned to them. They will receive a walkie-talkie and a scrapbook containing pictures of five items that they will have to find in their neighbor’s house. Since they won an advantage in the home pagina Challenge, the Schindler family will only need to find four items in their neighbor’s house. Once a team has found all of the items, they must bring them to the front porch and notify Matt via walkie-talkie. The Nelsons will be snooping through the Schindler home. The Schindlers will be in the Bussiere home. The Bussieres end up with the Nelsons home. The Johnstons are assigned the Mullennixs home. The Mullennixs will be digging through the Southey home. The Southeys will look through the Upshaw home. And finally, the Upshaws will zoek the Johnston home.
On Matt’s “GO,” the teams rush into their homes and flip through their scrapbooks. Rick Upshaw is tied to wife Therese and notes, “Therese and I being tethered together, that was instinctive. I’ve been tethered with her since 11th grade.” Mom Christina Schindler is tethered to 10-year-old son Emmett and frantically begins searching the Bussiere house for their first item, a striped Speedo, asking, “Tom wears a Speedo?” Emmett replies, “I guess so! Who else would?” As she rushes towards the dresser, Christina says, “…that’s a little creepy.” Mom Susan Bussiere is connected to 7-year-old daughter Elise. She’s having difficulty searching and directing her young daughter at the same time, but says “Tom had promised our kids that, if we won, they could get a puppy, so Elise wanted to participate. Maybe it wasn’t the best strategy, but how could we say no?”
Single Mom Laurie Southey surprises 15-year-old daughter Haley with how frazzled she is during the search. “Calm down mamma,” says Haley, “We can’t think when you’re freaking out…you’re acting really strange.” Laurie laughs and Haley responds, “It’s not funny, it’s weird.” Meanwhile, in the Johnston home, no rock goes unturned as Rick Upshaw dumps out the nightstand drawer onto the Johnston bed in zoek of a white garter. The Mullennixs, Nelsons, and Upshaws are all tied with 4 out of 5 of their items, but Mullennixs are the first to find their last item and reach the porch, calling Matt from their walkie, and winning the Nosey Neighbor challenge. Mom Christina Schindler remarks, “Emmett and I, we were pretty down on ourselves…anyone could have won, but the sad part was, we had the advantage.”
Everything but the keuken-, keuken Sink
Matt brings the families together and announces the Mullennixs as the Queens and Kings of the Neighborhood, and tells them that, as the winners, they will receive, via crane-delivery over the wall, an upgraded kitchen. However, they have also earned a big responsibility. At the Neighborhood Meeting, they will have to pick two families to put in danger of being kicked out of the game. Chris Nelson is worried that the Mullennix family might put the Nelsons in danger as payback, since the Nelsons put the Mullennixs in danger at the first meeting. The volgende morning, the families gather in the Mullennix yard to see a giant kraan schommel, swing over the uithangbord carrying a huge box. Matt kicks them out of their house for a bit and, when they return, their keuken-, keuken has been transformed into a dream keuken-, keuken complete with new dining room set, dishware, cookware and keuken-, keuken utensils. Chris Mullennix is touched. “I love to cook. It’s a great prize, it’s stuff that I would always have loved to have, but never had the money to buy. I don’t know that I’ve ever won anything,” she says tearfully.
15-year-old Haley Southey is impressed door the prizes, but Mom Laurie Southey is meer focused on the responsibility that comes with the titel of Kings of the Neighborhood, “It puts u on the hot zitplaats, stoel though, it might cause meer problems that it solves…I think everyone now knows that winning Kings of the Neighborhood is a double-edged sword”
The Schindlers’ Secret Weapon
Chris Mullennix ventures out into the neighborhood to get some information from other neighbors in preparation for the Neighborhood Meeting. Chris’ partner, Renee, tells Christina Schindler that they have deep ties with the families in The Core that go beyond friendship. Christina is worried because they don’t have a strong relationship with the Mullennixs, which makes them outsiders in that respect. 5-year-old Olivia Schindler comes in from the yard, where she has been playing in the sprinkler. Adorably wrapped in an oversized blanket she innocently asks the Mullennixs, “We supported you…so can u not vote us out?” Christina laughs at her daughter’s power-of-cuteness. “That’s our weapon!” she says. Unfortunately, after speaking with Rene, Dad David Schindler’s nerves get the best of him and he spends the rest of the afternoon sick in bed, while Christina worriedly looks on.
Let Bygones Be Bygones
Dad Cameron Johnston pulls Chris Mullennix aside to discuss the events of the vorige Neighborhood Meeting. He hopes that she won’t be vengeful against the Nelsons, who put her family in danger, and that she will stick with The Core. “You were veilig the whole way, there was never any doubt,” he assures her. He explains that the reason they were put in danger was to get the DeGirolamos out. Chris Mullennix is skeptical because nobody told her this plan in advance. Cameron says that it should not have happened that way, and Chris Nelson has learned his lesson and wouldn’t let it happen again. Chris Mullennix ominously asks, “What if there’s not a volgende time?”
The Mullennixs Deliberate
The Mullennixs gather in their home pagina to discuss the upcoming Neighborhood Meeting and Chris Mullennix suggests putting up the Southeys. Her boys say that there’s no point in kicking them out when there are stronger families that should go first. Chris believes that the Southeys are silent but deadly, but 17-year-old Keith says that the Nelsons are much meer dangerous, and suggests putting them up against the Schindlers. Chris feels like that’s vengefulness, and it’s hard for her to put up her surrogate family, the Nelsons. Rene tells her that it’s three against one in favor of getting rid of the Nelsons.
The seconde Neighborhood Meeting
As the Neighborhood Meeting begins, Matt checks in with the families and Dad David Schindler reveals that they haven’t been real close with the neighborhood over the years but that being trapped inside the uithangbord and spending time with all of his neighbors has made him see that they’ve been missing out. The Southeys echo the same sentiment, saying that they hadn’t previously taken the time to get to know everyone, but that they were always a little intimidated door the families who seemed to stick together—the DeGirolamos, the Nelsons, the Johnstons, the Upshaws and the Mullennixs. Matt asks the families if this was the neighborhood clique. The families outside The Core immediately say yes, while the insiders balk at the bad connotation that the word “clique” holds. Tom Bussiere admits that, when his family moved to town, he was kind of jealous of the close friendships that the families in The Core had. Matt asks the Mullinnexs which two families they are putting in danger of being kicked out of the game, and the Mullinnexs announce that the Southeys and the Schindlers are in danger, revealing that they have decided to keep all of the families in The Core safe.
The families return to their homes to decide which family to support and keep in the game. They must decide if they are supporting the Southeys of the Schindlers, and bring the foto of the family that they have chosen to support back to Matt. In the end, the Schindlers receive 3 stemmen of support, which is enough to keep them in the game and make the Southeys the seconde family to be kicked out of the game. The Southey family exits the uithangbord through the opening gate, glad to have bonded with their neighbors but saddened to be the seconde family leaving THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
