Angry black guy(ex-con) first one gone from Utopia. Have no idea how this is decided...
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From #BananaGate to the front gate: a timeline.
ALL OF UTOPIA -- On Day 8, Dave had his final food fight.
Since moving in exactly one week ago, Dave has argued with fellow Utopians over a variety of food items: Vienna sausages, quinoa, Tang, ramen soup, brown rice, RADISHES! But it was pregnant Amanda’s request for bananas (bananas!) that proved to be the final straw for the ex-con looking for a fresh start in Utopia.
Here’s a breakdown of what led to Dave’s dramatic exit.
8:21 p.m. - Red confronts Amanda because The Utopia State of Freedom (aka Red and Dave) felt cheated that she only returned four bananas to them after they gave her six. She explains that her four large bananas equals the six tiny bananas they had originally given to her. Things escalate. Because of course they do.
8:22 p.m. - Amanda tells Dave he has an attitude. As you could imagine, this does not sit well. Dave rants about not caring about “any of y’all n******” in Utopia. Amanda walks away and moves to the main house, where she sighs to Mike, “This is not prison.” Meanwhile, Dave hisses that Amanda’s attitude will get her man hurt one day.
8:23 p.m. - Hex stands up for Amanda, and questions why Amanda “needs a man” for protection to begin with. She then sarcastically says that she needs her own boyfriend, to which Dave snaps, “Why, so he could beat you up?”
8:27 p.m. - All is quiet.
8:28 p.m. - Dave talks to Red, demanding that Amanda pay him back for the bananas that were taken. He feels disrespected by the way Amanda handled the banana hand-off. “Now I look like a monster!”
8:30 p.m. - The ranting continues. The bananas become a metaphor for child support. Dave claims the Utopians are always taking advantage of him. “There’s a lot of sneaky m*****f****** here!”
8:33 p.m. - “It’s not about the bananas. It’s about the principle.” (The radishes of Utopia turn to each other and say, "Tell me about it.")
8:34 p.m. - Pastor Jon sits quietly in the background, cleaning his teeth. Hex, meanwhile, speaks up again. Dave's response: “You’re the same kind of chick that gets your man beat up.” Hex retorts, “I bet, by an ignorant ass m*****f***** like you, right?” More escalation. Dave brings up the big fight with Josh that kicked off Utopia a week ago, saying, “The only reason I popped on Josh is ‘cause of you! That’s a fact!” A minute later, Dave accuses Hex of provoking Josh’s previous inappropriate behavior because she wore a bikini near him. Pastor Jon walks away.
8:36 p.m. - Hex stands her ground (while seated on a rock eating dinner, mind you), which only makes Dave angrier. 5th Ave now claims he jumped Drunk Josh because he had told him to perform a sexual act on him. (!) Dave continues to accuse Hex of speaking out of turn with him. Hex “If you’re gonna talk to me like a man I’m gonna talk to you back like one! So because I’m female, I’m allowed to be spoken to the way I’m being spoken to? Then shut up!”
8:37 p.m. - Dave says he’s “outta here” because everyone is racist. Hex retorts, “You wish, so you had an excuse!” Dave walks up to the house to get his belongings. “I don’t like conflict like this,” says new arrival Kristen. (Welcome to Utopia!)
8:38 p.m. - Hex and Kristen have a serious discussion about rape culture. “‘Cause I had a bathing suit on [a week ago] I was begging for everybody to slap my ass and tell me a bunch of inappropriate s***?! And then when I speak my mind I’m an a****** and am gonna get my man killed?! He’s the reason why women are afraid to speak up when they get raped.”
8:43 p.m. - Dave enters the house, throws bananas towards Amanda, starts packing.
8:45 p.m. - Red asks Jon if he wants to “bounce,” but Jon says he’ll stay.
8:47 p.m. - Red rolls Dave a final cigarette (or several). Dave asks for more tobacco.
8:49 p.m. - Aaron enters and tells Dave that it was him, not Amanda, who put the four bananas on Dave’s belongings.
8:54 p.m. - A Mootopian cries. Even the animals are fed up with Dave.
8:57 p.m. - Dave takes his packed crate and walks through the Utopia grounds.
8:59 p.m. - Hex tells Josh, “I just wanna watch him walk out. It will be so delightful.”
9:00 p.m. - Dave exits Utopia forever.
9:01 p.m. - Dave sits on a crate outside the Utopia gates, waiting for somebody, anybody to pick him up.
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And just like that, Utopia lost its first member.
With Dave gone, will Red leave in the morning? Who will Jon baptize now? And can Utopia survive a Friday night without a major incident? We have 51 more weeks to find out… |
