We paid attention this time, refusing to be distracted by the ambient noise droning from the host and the accompanying soft-core bikini montage.

You'll recall that the premise of the show sees four couples taken to an island off the coast of Belize for two weeks of fun in the sun. The catch is that they're to be separated by gender and then put into the company of a dozen overdeveloped members of the opposite sex, who presumably will be trying to induce the promised pairs into a little Belizian beach-boffing.

To create a little friction, each week the segregated boyfriends and the girlfriends will, as a group, vote the "least-compatible" overdeveloped single of the opposite sex off the island.

To stir things up some more, at the end of each day, the members of the couples will be given the chance to watch their partners' "experiences on the other end." (Read: Cue the retaliatory sex!)

Host not-the -Mark Walberg caps his commanding rendition of the instructions the same way he did last Wednesday, by asking: "Who will stay together? Who will be torn apart?" (Who wants to bet this becomes the next annoying catchphrase of the day?)

Credits are followed by yet another montage -- "Last week, on 'Explanation Island'!" -- summarizing the previous days' infinitesimal progress, which is followed by another montage of everybody waking up.

Finally, Walberg joins the boys at breakfast and tries to make small talk, which he tries to pass off as a natural part of any early-morning guy conversation, before laying the big rhetorical questions on them:

"So, last night: Did you guys go home and cry in each other's arms?"

We know what happened the previous night -- the boys went back to carouse with the babes in a beach cabana, while the women ended up huddled on the beach comforting poor Ytossie, who has the misfortune to be involved with the biggest jerk of the four men, which is saying something. (We learned last week that Taheed, her boyfriend, has been "stepping out" on her already.)

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