The visual of Big Easy and Devyn was funky. The pageant queen and future Television host paired with the crude party-guy Big Easy. You ever hear someone tell you that your aura has a certain color? Big Easy’s Aura is a McDonald’s red, and you can see it from a mile away. How is that relevant to the article? It isn’t, but I’ve been waiting all week to use that line.

On Battle of the Seasons, Big Easy made his sixth Challenge appearance and Devyn was on her rookie season. The two bonded as they both were able to have normal conversations among a house of children and crazy people. Big Easy actually comes from wealth as his family was apparently successful pig farmers. He actually runs a very successful travel agency that focuses on Spring Break related parties. However, once these two got outside of a Challenge house, they quickly realized that being able to have regular conversation doesn’t mean you’re actually in love with each other. Devyn is all over the place, working on the Wendy Williams show, being a dating coach, getting married herself, and everything in-between.

This duo’s time on the Challenge was ended in the most extreme of ways when facing off against one another in elimination where Big Easy famously quit, enraging Camila and TJ. Devyn was there to console him after the elimination was over.

6 Landon and Tonya — Inferno 2

Wait, what? When people think of Landon, they think of the guy who was a competitive beast and a genuinely nice guy. On a spiciness level, Landon is about a 2 out of 10. Meanwhile, Tonya was problematic to say the least, and she had a spiciness level where you’d have to sign a waiver in order for the restaurant to be able to serve you a dish of Tonya.

Well, on the Inferno 2, after a drunken night, Landon found himself in bed with Tonya. Which, I do not blame him, Tonya had an amazing body. However, you could tell that Landon immediately regretted it the next night. Landon lost his Challenge virginity and didn’t even remember it. It is such a weird hookup in the bigger picture of Landon and Tonya’s dramatically different Challenge careers.

5 Paula and Mike — Rivals 1

Part of me thinks Paula was bored when she decided to make Mike Ross her showmance on Rivals 1. Paula had her fair share of hookups, so by the time she was on her eight season of the Challenge, she either had been there before or knew she had no interest in certain people. After having a deeply enigmatic relationship where she was often way more into Dunbar than he was into her, Paula saw a cute little puppy named Mike Mike and decided to take him for a ride.

Honestly, Mike Ross lived the dream of every single Challenge fan. He woke up, got on a plane, competed in daily challenges where he performed well most days, got to party with the cast members, got into a fight with other cast members, hooked up, and made it to the final. The Rivals 1 final is one of the hardest in Challenge history, and the fact Mike got through 95% of it is fucking nuts in retrospect. I’m glad he never came back so we only remember him positively. Paula would go on to have another weird hookup the following season, Ty, while she had a boyfriend at home.

4 Evelyn and Brooke — Gauntlet 3