Waterproof Tuesday arrived, and almost nobody made it. Between an “impossible” deadline, a $43,000 oven, and Roscoe getting outplayed by his own teammates, the thread had more fun with the numbers than the renovation.
Nobody was ever making Waterproof Tuesday
Production shaved a day off the usual deadline and called it Waterproof Tuesday instead of Wednesday, and the thread wasn’t buying the suspense for a second. Fans pointed out that only one team in the show’s history has ever pulled off the easier version of this deadline, so shaving off another day and expecting a different result struck most people as manufactured chaos rather than a real test.
The appliance ad broke the thread’s brain
A guest oven priced at $43,000 stopped the thread cold, with fans openly wondering who buys a $60,000 fridge and genuinely regretting it less.
$43,000 for an oven? And here I am hoping bird flu doesn’t send the price of eggs too much higher so I can eat.
u/BravoWhiskey89, r/TheBlock
The consensus: gaudy, overpriced, and clearly there to justify a sponsor mention rather than anything a judge would actually want in a bathroom.
Roscoe got played
Roscoe swapped a waterproofer for a chippy with a rival team and got left holding nothing when the chippy never turned up, prompting one of the week’s best lines from the man himself.
I agreed to… I don’t know what I agreed to.
Roscoe, quoted on r/TheBlock
The thread had little sympathy, chalking it up as the cost of trying to out-strategise people who were clearly playing a sharper game.
Turns out renovation shows require renovation skills
A recurring theme returned with extra bite this week: contestants arriving without basic painting knowledge or an understanding of standard compliance requirements, despite reportedly being handed a full book of the properties before the season even started. As one fan put it, expecting to wing painting on national television is a special kind of confidence.
The verdict
Seven episodes in, and the thread is split between mild outrage at the sponsor-driven excess and outright boredom with the manufactured deadlines, with more than one person admitting they tuned out entirely partway through. Adam’s quiet “Last Samurai” reputation is about the only thing keeping people watching at this point. Waterproof Tuesday didn’t happen, and nobody’s surprised.
See you back here for the next one.
