# Average Joe 2/23 (spoilers please) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871 "2004-02-24T12:29:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![arteitle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@arteitle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arteitle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/41 "2004-03-02T16:31:47Z")
> [@Balduran](#): > > Another WTF? checking in. Was the end of Average Joe sorta taking place in our time? Perhaps it was finished before the Leno interview and by that time everybody was reconciled (or at least bound by a non-disclosure agreement). This is definitely true. I’ve read that both _Average Joe_ series were taped before the first one aired, and it’s been noted by the Joe who lost all the weight afterward that he had six months in which to do it. So the show was filmed in the middle of last year, giving plenty of time for them to reconcile over the divisive “Fabio” issue. Did anyone see them on the _Today_ show, and can they sum up what was said? ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/42 "2004-03-02T16:40:38Z")
I only saw the last three episodes of this show. What was Larissa’s initial reaction when she found out she was on a dating show with “Average Joe’s”? Was she disappointed? I ask because I’m not yet sure how much I should actually \*hate \* her. > [@Balduran](#): > > If you mean her keeping him to the end, I don’t really blame her. It’s not like she had a choice to get rid of the average joes first. The show required her to dump average joes and hunks in equal number. She acted as if she had some profound romantic feelings for him. I think she lead him on big time! Brian took it like a man, which I was very happy to see. I really hope we haven’t seen the last of him. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/43 "2004-03-02T16:55:08Z")
I think it would have been great if Gil heard about Fabio, then walked out to sea… and kept walking, and walking, until his head disappeared, and he was never seen again. It would have been so stoic. Where am I getting that idea from? A movie? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/44 "2004-03-02T16:57:58Z")
> [@KarmaComa](#): > > I think it would have been great if Gil heard about Fabio, then walked out to sea… and kept walking, and walking, until his head disappeared, and he was never seen again. It would have been so stoic. > > Where am I getting that idea from? A movie? It’s the ending of _A Star Is Born_! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/45 "2004-03-03T03:09:07Z")
It’s also the end of _Coming Home_. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/46 "2004-03-03T06:31:33Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > I hope we see “The Return of Brian”. Welease Bwian! (Psst, sir, we **do** have a Brian!) ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/47 "2004-03-03T08:52:45Z")
Since I taped it, I’m late to the thread, but I think she picked Gil to see his “O” face. Doesn’t he totally look like that guy? “Lumburgh f\*cked her.” I post on Television Without Pity, so I’m all about the snark. But I felt SO bad for Brian. I agree that was the silliest “twist” on reality TV. “You reap what you sow”, beeyatch! Oh, wait, that’s another show. Oops! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/48 "2004-03-03T19:40:58Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > I think she picked Gil to see his “O” face. Doesn’t he totally look like that guy? “Lumburgh f\*cked her.” Er … huh? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871/49 "2004-03-03T21:34:43Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Er … huh? 😕 [Office Space](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/). Rent it, laugh your ass off. My friends and I have been talking like Brian for the last couple of weeks. “There’s a BAWX around my HAAAAAAAAHT!!!” I can just imagine him watching that episode with his friends at the Cask N Flagon, saying “FAAAAABIO!!! Oh my GAAAAAAHD!!!” Speaking of Fabio, I can kind-of see where the guy was coming from. She kept selling herself as this kind-hearted woman who is looking for a deep, meaningful relationship, and then she reveals that she fell for perhaps the cheesiest mimbo on the planet. As soon as I heard that, I turned to my wife and said “I can’t believe he’s not…better.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-joe-2-23-spoilers-please/230871.md?page=2)