So! What are the indications? Any value this week, do we think? Or another non-starter? I'm trying to be optimistic - but deep down, I fear it may be over.

Looks like there's a new one this week:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL3N6JDBgRD/

This balloon/pie segment was taped several weeks ago. It finally airs today.

The picture reveals one good pie.

Another one of the girls mentions on social media that her hair got messed up so I'm assuming there's at least a second decent pie-ing.

I expect the episode to be split roughly 50-50 game show/reality show.

The balloons/pies will be the first segment so don't tune in late if you watch it live.

Remember, the episode starts one hour earlier due to the seasonal change of time in Sao Paulo.

I assume when this show gets cancelled and/or gives up pies, Curly will simply stand outside the studio with a tray full of tortas and beg passerby to destroy him.
(I assume while holding a sign: "MEN PREFERRED. WOMEN TOLERATED.")

Not having to even think about this idiot for months HAS been the silver lining to the slow-motion collapse of CM.

Did anyone else (outside of Brazil) have difficulty connecting to the server?

Five good pies this week for those interested.

Good like the great Dani pie from a few weeks back? (That you didn't upload! )
Or "good" like the weak half-face pies they've been doing lately? I guess Phantom Of The Opera is still a thing in Brazil.

Which Dani clip are you talking about? I scan through the episodes pretty quickly, so I might've missed it.

Also, I guess you'll have to wait and see

Can't remember how many weeks back, but she had the almost-rubber red dress and reddish hair. Blue pie. Total coverage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbyHpuXtKA

About 48 minutes in. I believe this to be it.

A shame with Dani. Perfect in every way but one and her one glaring defect is so bad that it pretty much ruins almost every hit she's ever taken.

She's beautiful.
She's a very common recipient of pies.
The men for whatever reason don't hold back with her.
She seems to have a pretty good sense of humor about being pied constantly.

All good, right?

Yes, but then there is her wiping technique. The whole handed face cleaning way she wipes almost instantly after every hit she's taken just takes what should be A+ moments and makes them Ds of Fs, constantly. Wish they'd wrap her up in saran wrap like they did all those male youtubers and try pieing her then. Something to hold those devil hands back.

Yeah, that's been her "thing" from Day One. I can see it ruining otherwise strong hits, but honestly Dani has never been one of my favorites so I don't particularly mind one way or the other.

The best wiping techniques (cuz after a while you know them by heart, the main girls all do it the same):
--Ana, who wipes in a way that IMPROVES most hits (she'll take a half-hit and "wipe" so it covers her whole face)
--Julia 1.0, not quite as good as Ana but similar
--Barb, of course, for her "no wipe" wiping technique.

The perfect girl for me would've been Barb with the attitude (but nothing else) of Dani. Barb actually did get almost exclusively great hits from the guys (I'm sure her diva attitude was the reason they didn't hold back) but her personality and maneuvering ensured those hits were few-and-far-between. (And once in a while they'd even get cut from the broadcast if she was pulling MAJOR attitude.)

While this might be more deserving of it's own thread/discussion, there are certain criteria that make for a "perfect" target.

Attractiveness is certainly one, reaction and frequency being others but in the case of Barb there is another factor she was more than solid in - which is deserving. Her kind of nasty attitude and the brutal way she dolled out the pies in some way makes her getting destroyed more satisfying than someone who gets hit hard that comes off as maybe meekish or not really having it coming.

Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of the times Karla Lais Bonfa was wrecked with pies, she's certainly attractive and her reaction techniques aren't bad, but if she's also been a major pain in the butt Diva, I'm sure those moments would have been even better. I don't want to say I almost felt sorry for her, but there were moments when I came close, especially in her early shows.

It might be the somewhat submissive way she went about it, which I guess in reflection isn't a deal-breaker but isn't as great as someone who "hams it up", like that great Jessica Juttel 3-pieing or reacts angrily (but not wiping everything off) like Barbara.

Haha... This MIGHT turn into its own discussion too! But to follow up what you said....

--Barb getting it was always deeply satisfying, for the reasons you mentioned. But it was also frustrating when her "diva" worked against her getting effectively pied... From the couple of pieings that were basically edited out (did any other model ever pull that??) to those loooong stretches in 2015 where she "miraculously" stayed pie-free on show after show.
Did the frustration make her eventual pieings sweeter? Sure. But I would've loved to see a CM where the running gag was Barb was still a diva... BUT got destroyed with a pie (or 3) every week in return. Maybe it would've gotten old? I'd take that chance tho.

--Jessica not making the jump to Conexao was the biggest casting mistake the show ever made. She was Top 3 in every one of her appearances. She could've been GOAT if she stayed on. No idea what happened there, but... too bad.

--Karla getting wrecked her first (second?) time on the show was ALMOST too cruel... But it was so well done, and she took it in stride, so I still loved it. It helped that D'Lucca got to be the one to wreck her. (Possibly the last time he wasn't neutered by the producers?)
Anyway, shortly after came that infamous show where Curly got wrecked with pies by his own team every time he came to the podium... THEN missed every question against Karla so she wrecked him even more. Culminating in a final bit where the guys surrounded a totally clean Karla with pies... and then just destroyed Curly yet again.
I know it was staged (and Curly himself probably begged the producers to let the guys drown him in pastries) but even so... Seeing Karla 100% clean at the end of that show ensured that I never felt sorry for her again. (Even after she took 6 pies on Conexao much later... HA!)

Oh, I remember that scene now. I remember being pretty tired at the time and deciding that the rest of the hits in the episode were considerably better, so I skipped over it. I can go back and edit it if you'd like when I do the next batch. Also, the dress material is leather.

As far as wiping goes, I actually have the opposite attitude. I prefer to be able to see the woman's face in order to see her displeasure. Wiping completely, or even better, a fully hair pie, is optimal in my opinion.

This cryptic post appeared on Conexao's IG Monday morning.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL9HmXABpkK/?taken-by=conexaomodels

Is it an announcement that the pie-centric format is returning?

Knowing them, it's probably a cryptic way of saying "this is what our pies look like in their natural habitat."

Karla Bonfa's huge thighs and big round butt on her tiny 5 foot frame is a sight to behold. (Her three foot long hair ain't bad either.)

The girl is apparently an exercise fanatic.

There's not an ounce of (unnecessary) fat on her body.

For the uninitiated:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BK6QIoXhBUr/?taken-by=karlabonfa

Haha, good stuff... But I've seen tons of similar workout vids from my SS girls Lyndsay and Mya, among others. They set a pretty high bar. (Especially Lynds. Good Lord!)

Still, seeing that most of the CM girls are skin and bones, glad that Karla actually has a muscular, well-toned frame. Now if she would just take a pie or 12 every show.

Well, first week in a while with no weak pies and only semi-quick cuts, 5 for 5 above par. But Jesus is there a whole lot of shit to wade through to get to those, cause this show has completely given up any pretense of rules and order (or maybe they did it a while ago and I just didn't want to admit it). There were at least 4 separate occasions during this game where guys were pied or ballooned outside of the actual game. I legitimately am not sure if it would make me more or less angry if I understood the language and knew the "reasons" why this was happening. I mean, the reasons are 99% likely to be bullshit and manufactured, given that they only occur to guys (and basically every week to UglyBieber), so it's hard to say whether the uncertainty as to the exact context of the bullshit is more or less frustrating.

I'm also reasonably certain it's been about 4 months since Victoria was pied, and that is, as Glenn Cullen's dear old mother would have said, double wank and shit chips.

A worthwhile edit though at least.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

I find that not caring about... or watching... the show anymore has made it a lot easier to ignore all the BS.

Let's be honest: The show started dumping on the guys around the time the twins became "comic relief" and never stopped. Bojack would randomly pie them... Curly, infamously, got pie barraged by his own team for a month straight there (STILL can't explain that one)... Ugly Bieber is just the latest example of the show going, "HAHA ISN'T IT FUNNY THAT WE PIED AN IDIOT GUY FOR NO REASON!!"

Although... Remember when Bojack pied Barb cuz she wouldn't shut up on the mic? Yeah... Me neither... Cuz they cut it out of the broadcast.

Anyway. New girl with big eyes who got pied last week got VERY well pied. Would've been better if she hadn't immediately run away while the show didn't bother to do any closeups, slo-mo replay, or aftermath. Ah well. No idea who those other four were.
Apparently there are still veterans left on the show (Karla, Victoria, Julia 2.0, Dani, Naty) but when you only pie 5 females total per week, you can use that seniority to basically stay mess-free. (Unless you're Curly. Or Ugly Bieber. Or any guy, really.)