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"We dominated you!"
— Monroe in "Bagging on You"

Monroe Gierl
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Information
Full name

Monroe Jordan Gierl

Occupation

Accountant

Affiliations

Beta Alpha Psi

Endurance 3: Hawaii, 3rd place
Hometown

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Age

15

Team

Yellow Team

Partner

Bryanah Bascon

Arrived

The Arrival

Left

Final Elimination

Seeing "Jaws" at the age of 4 terrified this competitive swimmer, but fear of sharks won't stop the strategy-minded Monroe from working to win. An incredibly loyal fan of "Endurance", Monroe has studied all the strategies, but will his knowledge help him when it really counts?

—DiscoveryKids.com bio

Monroe Jordan Gierl is a former contestant on Endurance 3: Hawaii. He competed alongside his partner, Bryanah Bascon, as the Yellow Team.

About[]

Monroe was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. .

Endurance[]

In the Casting Special, the casting crew was impressed by his enthusiasm. In one of his audition tapes, he made a basket, and ranted on the windy conditions in Milwaukee, which might "fly him away to Jupiter". While he was watching the season finale of Endurance 2 with some friends, J.D. came to his house and told him he was one of twenty contestants who was to compete on E3.

When the contestants first made it in the jungle, the other girls have considered choosing him to skip the Right to Stay. However, they started to have second doubts about it, ultimately choosing Reece instead. During the Right to Stay challenge, Demian constantly tried to knock him off the pole. However, he made it through. In the partner selection, he caught the #13 ball, and didn't get a partner until Bryanah was bumped by Lindi, and she was forced to be partners with him. He was not happy with the decision, especially as he wanted Alex, but she chose Bjorn.

In Headstrong, he was happy to see Taylor back, and was rooting for her in the challenge. As a result of their friendship, he resented Tom for choosing Vanetta and didn't want to befriend him. In the next episode, Yellow was the second team eliminated in the challenge, and they received the Samadhi. He then remarked at the end of the episode that he couldn't just sit back anymore while things happened around him.

In the beginning of Bagging on You, Monroe was upset he got Bryanah as a partner because she stirred drama with everyone else, which made them target their team. At the Temple Mission, the Yellow Team, despite getting the Samadhi, ended up winning. Afterward, Monroe wanted to send Orange and Gray up to the Temple of Fate, while Bryanah wanted to send up Blue alongside Orange, because she liked Chris. They ended up sending Orange and Blue up, with the hopes Orange would be eliminated. However, the Orange Team came back.

When the next mission was announced to be a Temple Mission the next day, Monroe became scared, because either Yellow, or their allies on Green and Brown, has to win a strategy-based game, or Gray or Purple would win a strength-based game and Yellow would be sent up to Temple along with Green. In the mission Squaring Off, Yellow ends up losing, while Orange wins. He blamed Vanetta for picking Orange when she was supposed to pick Yellow. Monroe's fears came true when Orange picked Yellow and Green to go up to the Temple of Fate. Both teams cried, knowing if they won, their friends wouldn't come back. Yellow, however, manage to survive and returned to the jungle.

In Out on a Limb, Yellow received the Heart piece from Green, which Monroe wasn't surprised about. He also wore a green bandana on his arm, something he would continue doing in the rest of the season. In the confessional, he believes Nicole felt sorry for Demian because "Demian has got a whack partner like yourself". In the challenge itself, while the other boys were struggling, Monroe was "making it look easy", as J.D. put it, though it may be because Bryanah was one of the lighter girls on the platform. He won the challenge for Yellow, but not before Reece called him a beast before letting go. When choosing superteams, the Yellow Team decided to pick Purple and Gray, despite Nicole's pleas to join them and Tom's questions on their loyalty.  

In the superteam challenge, the Yellow Team won, though Monroe was dragged twenty feet across the obstacle course. When deciding on which two teams from the losing superteam would go to Temple, Monroe wanted Orange to be selected, but ended up conceding in sending Red and Brown instead. In an interview later on, he remarks this could be hopeful because Orange and Yellow could start a peace treaty because the former was spared. And much to their relief, the Brown Team came back. 

Like with every other team except for Gray, Yellow struggled to get a ball in during Pipeline. When Gray won, Monroe suspects what could be the worse, commenting on how everything bad happens to them. Despite wanting Chris at the beginning, Bryanah was relatively happy with having Monroe as a partner, nullifying fears of a team switch. When going on the island, Monroe kissed his pieces goodbye, because he believed that they would be taken away. Unfortunately for Yellow, his worst fears came true, and Yellow was left with no pieces. Things get worse the following day when it's revealed that Nicole told Chris about Yellow's secret alliance with Brown and Orange. Chris confronts Monroe about it with Chris declaring that if he wins the temple mission, Yellow will go to temple. Gray wins I'm Pulling For You and unsurprising gives the Samadhi to Yellow. This was a particularly harsh Samadhi as it banned Yellow from competing in the following temple mission. Not helping the situation was that Vanetta suffered an injury before the Balance Ball mission which was so bad that she needed to be taken out of the game, leaving Tom as a one man team. Purple ultimately won and they sent Yellow with Brown. Before going to the temple, Monroe poured water in Chris and Reece's sleeping bags so that, if eliminated, they would feel his wrath or if he stays, he'll find their reactions hilarious. Monroe maintained though that Yellow weren't going away even though that is what the other teams were hoping for. At temple, Yellow won two rounds in a row, thus ensuring they would stay. Both Monroe and Bryanah though were emotional as this meant that Tom was eliminated but still happy that they were still in the game.  

The next morning, it was revealed that Brown left the Perseverance piece to Yellow, putting them back on the board and, as Monroe notes, give them some chance if they make it to the finals. When Bryannah asks why the other girls don't seem to like her, Monroe states that Nicole doesn't like her and the other girls don't want to stick up for her. In Try Tri Again, Yellow managed to completed their puzzle first, winning them another pyramid piece and giving them the power of the samadhi. Chris tried to get Monroe to say who Yellow was going to give the samadhi to, assuming it would be either Gray or Purple, but Monroe claimed he didn't know yet. He in turn asks what the other guys would do and Chris and Reece said they would have given it to Yellow while Demian claims he would have given it to Purple. Monroe had no intention of telling them yet as they had ruined many of his days and thus didn't mind their day was ruin. Lindi then tries to talk Monroe out of giving it to Gray, claiming she would target Purple. Monroe though is convinced Chris would never target Reece and doesn't believe Lindi is willing target both Purple and Orange instead of Yellow. Monroe did question if they would send Gray due to Bryannah's crush on Chris. When discussing who to give it thought, Monroe and Bryannah immediately agree not to give it to Orange. Monroe insists on giving it to Gray, claiming they would be their only threat in a mental mission. When announcing their final decision, Monroe notes that all of the other three teams have done them wrong: Gray took their pieces, Purple give them a samadhi and sent them to temple and Orange sent them to temple (also joking they wish they could split the samadhi three ways). He claims they are giving to the team they think is their biggest threat with they believe is Gray. By the next day, Orange had come to Yellow to make an alliance despite their previous rivalry as Nicole suspected Gray and Purple would send Orange to temple if either one the mission. In You're Fired, while Purple, Orange and Bryanah were trying to get the number 2 ball (which Nicole won) Monroe grabbed the number 1 ball. Gray, who were then permitted to play, got the last ball. JD revealed that number 2 was the winning ball, giving the win to Orange. Yellow also celebrated their victory, to the surprise of JD and the discomfort of Gray and Purple. Monroe was happy but a bit worried that some people would try to change Nicole's opinion. He thus reminds Nicole that she would have been sent to temple if Gray or Purple won. He also claimed to the others that Chris said that at the final 5 point, he would have sent Yellow and Orange. Orange's final decision was to send Gray and Purple, with Purple getting eliminated.

Portrayal & Relationships[]

Monroe was depicted as a competitor, but everyone seems to underestimate him due to his appearance. However, he proves to be a force to be reckoned with; the most significant occurrence of this was in Out on a Limb.

Quotes[]

  • "STOP IT!" --First Elimination
  • "[Bryanah and Chris] only known each other for one day, but they're going to get married." --Pick Your Partner
  • "Do I want to see [Tom's] face around here; no I would rather not." --Headstrong
  • "I'm not happy with Tom because he didn't choose Taylor. He's so arrogant and thinks he's the King of Endurance and I mean look, Tom, you already got cut once!" (on Tom's choice of Vanetta as his partner) --Headstrong
  • "We dominated you!" --Bagging on You
  • "Bet'cha didn't see that coming!" (confessional) --Bagging on You
  • "I know I need to come back, but...not having Green here, it's just as bad as leaving, not having Green." --Squaring Off
  • "...and it will just be as hard to come back as it will be to leave." (on being sent to Temple with Green) --Squaring Off
  • "Hello Nicole, she feels sorry for [Demian] because he has a whack partner like yourself." (confessional) --Out on a Limb
  • "The comfort level just dropped dramatically and Yellow shot up, because now they know that their little alliance is going to be broken up, and it's unfortunate, but people did it to us, and now we're going to do it to them."
  • "...well, it's just fine with me, because they've ruined plenty of my days." --The Halfway Mark
  • "Don't count me out until I'm burned at Temple."
  • "Chris and Lindi, do not let Nicole win this game." (to Gray Team before leaving) --Final Elimination

Post Endurance[]

He graduated from Nicolet High School in 2007, then attended the University of Wisconsin: Madison. He currently works for a Big Four Firm in Federal Tax Practice.

Trivia[]

  • Behind the scenes of the show, the contestants played pranks on each other like jokingly trying to drown Monroe in the river.
  • Monroe gave Sarah many piggy back rides because of the mud.
  • As a prank, Vanetta and Monroe locked all the port-a-potties making it impossible for anyone to use them.
  • Monroe's pairing with Bryanah (due to the latter being bumped by Lindi) as well as his win in Out on a Limb were both in the top 10 moments from the first four seasons according to the Discovery Kids website.
  • Monroe was mentioned on Endurance: High Sierra's Walk the Plank, when Taylor told Connor to "Be Monroe!"
    • The challenge itself was not unlike Out on a Limb.

Gallery[]

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