Interesting ploy by the producers. This is the first season when face time hasn’t indicated how long someone will last on the show. First Jonathan, then Jim, guys who seemed like dead ringers to go deep into the season because you never saw them. (If I was either of those two, I’d be kinda pissed about being denied seven or eight of my fifteen minutes of fame.)
And now we have Beauty and the Geek again! Finally, the show resumes its title, its premise and its purpose: to teach geeky guys that not all beautiful girls are pretentious bitches. That’s not the only purpose, of course, but it’s one that John E. and Jonathan didn’t get to fully experience. Bummer, dudes…
Tommy reminded me of all the guys from Season 1: the beauties had the rocket science challenge. Sure, Tommy gets to be on the radio, but the girls get the physics projects!
I think Cara might have a future in politics. Ask her a question she doesn’t want to (or can’t) answer and she’ll tell you about something that’s vaguely related, but never address the actual issue that you wanted to know about. It’s worked in the presidential debates for months now—it can work for you, too!
Someone needs to explain to Randi that humility is a virtue—I’m assuming that she has other virtues to make up for it, but they haven’t shown any yet.
Why, why, why did they revert back to narrowing the group down to two people before announcing the winner? I had so much hope after Cara won the science fair, but nope! Dr. Drew decided to fuck it all up. The man’s a doctor, he should know what that kind of stress can do to a person. After Jason realized that he helped Cara win her challenge, then came in second place for the geeks’ challenge… that boy may never have a proper erection again.
Note to Joe: when you’re on a radio show like “Dr. Drew Live” (a.k.a., “Loveline”), please keep your answers short and sweet. You can say a whole lot in one minute. If you go on for much longer than that, you might as well be their parents giving them “the sex talk”. (Incidentally, I managed to avoid having that conversation with my dad—I stumbled onto the book Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex, But Was Afraid To Ask and read it cover to cover. If you feel uncomfortable talking to your kids about that stuff, “accidentally” leave it in their bedroom and ask if they have any questions three days later.)
The stairway ceremonies are becoming more unorthodox every season. When I was around, if someone was sent to the elimination room, we sucked it up and moved on. Well, that’s what the others did—Scarlet and I got sent there by default—but had that happened to us, I like to think we would have sucked it up and moved on. Nowadays, they encourage bitching about “How dare you choose us!”
And then there’s Tommy. Now that was unorthodox. Walking up to Jim and Tiffany after calling them out and giving them both a big hug… yikes almighty. For those who think Tommy is only pretending to be a geek, you have to admit that he’s doing a pretty damn good job of it.
I learned a few things about Jim’s internal workings after this episode. One: he has more guts than I thought after asking Tiffany to kiss him. Two: he has bigger balls than I thought after his “tit for tat” pledge. Personally, there’s no way that I’d tell someone that. For one thing, someone else might start acting like a major dick in a few days, but because Jim committed himself to sending Tommy to the elimination room, that dick is probably gonna be safe. For another, revenge is a lot sweeter when the person isn’t expecting it.
Given her complete domination in the elimination room, all Leticia has to do is shrink a couple inches and dye her hair brown to become this season’s version of Mindi. Well, that plus give up the whole “jumping out of airplanes” thing.
That was a nice shot of Matt’s trembling hands on top of his buzzer. I didn’t think any of the beauties brought their earthquake projects home from the Beauty and the Geek Science Fair, but I might have been wrong.
“Hey, Jim, why weren’t you on Beauty and the Geek for very long?”
“God hates me.”
Does anyone else find it both ironic and satisfying that out of the three girls who were trying to manipulate the geeks (Leticia, Tiffany and DraculAmber), two of them have already left the mansion?
Hehehe, reading this post made me realize just how bad I am– since I didn’t watch this season from the very beginning (in fact, I think this episode and the last one before it were the only ones I watched in their entirety) I’m not very well-versed on everyone’s names, especially with such a flurry of Js amongst the geeks!
So I took to referring to them by feature, no thanks in small part to TV interview labels: Poet Guy, Sweater Vest Guy, Muscle Guy, Asian Guy, etc… the beauties were decidedly more difficult to differentiate: the blonde, the other blonde, blonde 3, etc… 😉
Is it my imagination, or are the geeks from this season far less impressed by the beauties – at least from what’s been shown? And are the beauties far less…well…beautiful? I think at least half of the gals have looks that I generally associate with trailor parks…
It’s not just you, Ann– I agree. Well, I haven’t seen enough of this season to observe the interplay between the guys and the girls, but there was only one Beauty that I found genuinely pretty– and she was one of the early-eliminated ones 🙁
One of the blondes reminded me of Paris Hilton!
I have to disagree with Ann and Helly about the beautyness of, at least, 3 of the girls. I find Amanda incredibly beautiful, but it’s maybe just me, since i’ve always liked short, green eyed blondes ^_^
About the “tit for tat” pledge, i think is the best strategy, since that way you don’t gain anymore enemies among other people and you can settle the score with the one who sent you. I wouldn’t have said it either, or if i would, i’d explain the reasons i had, because is nothing personal, is just the best strategy i belive is best to follow