“Beauty and the Geek” — Opposites Attract
Girl! Put some clothes on!
Last week we were left on a cliffhanger introducing a new couple to the house comprise of a beauty-guy and a geeky-girl. Right off the bat this week the two newbies were thrown right into the mix. This hunky dude, Sam, is – get this – a total tool. Granted, this was completely expected, and while yes the beauties are might not be the brightest, this guy is pushing new levels of intolerability. He’s Spencer-esque. Nicole, the geeky girl, never really had a proper introduction, so we don’t really know the roots of her geekdom. At this stage she seems far more likely to be cast in a teen sex movie as the “girl with glasses who will ultimately take off those glasses and shocks everyone with her natural beauty,†than the girl with the collection of scale replica Lord of the Rings battles made of hair (or whatever). More after the jump…
The first big challenge was for the geeks to write a rap about their life and then perform it for a crowd and judged by the 3-6 Mafia (or is it the Three Six Mafia?). Will pulled out the win. On the beauties side they had Lincoln-Douglas debates on the issues of the day. With both challenges the contestants that stood out the most (positively) were the ones who actually did the homework. Those geeks who burst out of their shell had the best stage presence (and seemed the most willing to act like a crazy person), and the beauties who took the time to read the preparation materials and remembered some of what was said obviously had the advantage. Sam, the hunk, ended up winning the debate by remembering that the increase in teen death rate in those states with 18 as the drinking age was caused primarily by teens driving to these states from areas where the drinking age was still 21. Nice work Sam. This win presented quite the problem for the lady-beauties as they had all agreed to kick him out if any of them had won — best study up next time, I suspect.
As for the elimination round, I was finding it hard to find couples to root for. Perhaps there are too many competitors still. The geeks each have very distinct personalities, but no real storylines have emerged, whereas the beauties at this point are mostly interchangeable, with a few exceptions. Jasmine has the most classically ditzy behavior and thus is easy to like (why is that?). The super-inflated Amanda, on the other hand, is a total seaword. Poor Tony was crying his eyes out and she just sat there on the edge of the bed being pouty about having to compete in the elimination round. Perhaps all that saleen has killed off her emotions.
The two couples fighting to stay were Amanda and the aforementioned weepy Tony, and Natalie and John. The ladies kept the competition close with Natalie only taking a 1-0 lead. John was then able to seal the deal by knowing 50 Cent was shot exactly nine times. Way to go John.
Tony and Amanda are out. Tony seemed like a good kid, though he was introverted like no one I’ve ever seen. This obviously makes it kind of hard to win a television dating show. I’m sure Amanda and her giant tits will be fine.
September 26th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I thought it seemed like Amanda was really encouraging with Tony. She had tears in her eyes when he was crying.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
With regards to geek-girl, over and over during the show I thought “wow she is like 90 percent of the librarians I have ever worked with…hmm…uh oh…am I her??” it was disturbing