Boy, I can’t wait for the reunion show. :rolleyes:
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be Pitting myself now for watching this asinine show.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, I say, that a woman who would go on a reality dating show would be vapid and shallow. What’s going to happen next? A sitcom with a misunderstanding and sexual innuendo and double entendres?
Thank God I didn’t watch a bit of it. But thanks for the summary.
I’ve never watched this show, but from constantly seeing promos, I’m mildly curious about one thing: apparently the fact that Mr. Joe Average Finalist was Richie Rich was a “twist”, revealed right at the end. So, were all the Average Guys also Rich Guys? Or did the producers luck out that the rich guy was the finalist, giving them a chance to introduce the additional twist?
gobear reminded me…
I loved the part where they bailed on chess for the easier checkers…and then setup the board wrong.
I guess they deserve each other.
I’m getting so fucking sick of “This is the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make.” and “I’m really beginning to have serious feelings for her” shit that you see on every romantic reality show. Watching the first hour and a half was nearly unbearable and watching the decent guy lose in the last half hour was equally unbearable.
No, she didn’t know because she never bothered to ask. She had no clue that he even owned a bar. How can you spend as much time with a man as she did and not even bother to ask him about what he does for a living, what his dreams and goals are? Oh that’s right, she did ask one of the guys – Mr. Male Model. And she was “so impressed” because this nitwit “dared” to pursue his dreams and go back to college and live off his parents.
Adam had more class and more heart than that vapid bitch could ever dream of finding in a partner. She deserved exactly what she got; a boy who was a nice, pretty package, completely devoid of any gift inside. Idiot.
Marlena picked Jason-the-good-looking-guy for the simple reason that she had the hots for him, big time.
Say all you want about the importance of wittiness, niceness, depth, or even a well-stuffed wallet – but in the end the drooling lust factor will win out every time. (After all, as Fiver intimated, that was why the average-looking guys were all going after Marlena in the first place!)
Yeah, I was rolling. Especially when he said, totally without nuance, “How do I jump you?”
I wonder if the producers realize how badly they shot themselves in the foot.
They start off with the juicy question, would a hot chick really pick personality over good looks?
Then it becomes, would a hot chick pick money over good looks?
By this point, the viewers (at least the ones who didn’t turn the show off when they threw the hot guys into the competition) are forced to root between a guy who may get picked just because he’s rich, vs. a guy who may get picked just because he’s good looking.
Either way, the hot chick winds up being either skank version A or skank version B. And being thoroughly disgusted with the turn of events, a whole bunch of people swear not to watch the sequel.
That guy was definately not rich. He lived in that shitty little apartment with a roommate. Notice he said he “made and lost millions.” The Fortune article was probably about day traders and he was one of the people interviewed as a typical day trader. He also said his capital allowance was from $80,000 to a $1million a day. That’s just not the kind of capital you can make a lot of money with. They just played up the angle because it made for a good story.
Watched a little bit of this trainwreck of a show in the begining and it seems I didn’t miss much. Here is my theory (not that you care or asked)
- Hottie sees all the geeks she gets to choose from
- Complains to producers who tell her “Don’t worry we’ll get you a hot guy later on. Just play along for a few days.”
- She gets her man and strings along the others while always know she was picking the best looking guy. Afterall if she picks a real average guy and it doesn’t work out every average guy in America will hit on her thinking they have a shot. She couldn’t deal with that.
Are you familiar at all with New York real estate?
I live in NY and am a trader.
I saw some stupid Hollywood type show before Jeopardy! yesterday and on that, he said he makes on average about $2 million per year. That’s rich by my standards.
And while she didn’t know for the majority of the show that he was rich, she most definitely knew by the time she had to make her choice between the two boys.
Adam’s apartment looked pretty decent to me. He never claimed to be rich, but did say he was “financially stable and does well for a guy his age.” He has a good job, a decent apartment and is part-owner of a bar. The part that pisses me off is that every time she was with Adam (Average Joe), she seemed to have a genuine good time. He was smart, funny, romantic, and financially stable. His only downfall was that he was not the best looking of the two. When she said she had made her decision and found a “diamond in the rough,” I thought for sure she was going to pick Adam. There is nothing “rough” about pretty-boy Jason. She’s a fucking idiot. I was hoping to catch the early morning show this morning to see what she had to say for herself. I was hoping she’d come on the show and admit that she made the wrong decision because pretty-boy Jason dumped her and spent his vacation with a gay escort.
Despite my frequent indications to the contrary, I like you a whole bunch, Hamlet.
Adam never played it up, the show did. FWIW everyone I know (except me) has a vanity interest in a bar in NY. They’re about $5-15k and are merely intended to be able to say you have an interest in a bar. Most of the 15 or so “investors” in a bar don’t even get free drinks when they go. Pathetically sad.
interface2x, if that’s the case then I can understand how people would say he is “rich.” $2 million isn’t unusual for a decent trader but based on the numbers he talks about I I really doubt he makes even that. Those daytrading firms give no salary but a 50% payout on profits which is pretty huge. In order for him to make $2 million a year he would have to get a 400% return on
his MAXIMUM daily capital allocation which he probably get’s a chance to trade once in a blue moon.
UPDATE:
I just found the article:
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,371846,00.html
Adam made 20k (10 for himself) on a stock that went up 50% in one day. The trade size the guy mentioned had a value of 27.5k. If he did that EVERY DAY he’d make 2.6 million. If he managed to double his average equity per trade every day you’d have heard of him well before Average Joe.
Am I the only one who thinks Adam is actually hotter than the “good looking” guy?
Also, on the Today show they had Malena and Pretty Boy and they said they haven’t even seen each other for seven months. They looked like they had zero chemistry together.
Geez, Adam pays out half of his profits for essentially a data feed and a place to work with cool flat-screen monitors everywhere?
If he’s a good trader, why the hell doesn’t he stay home and trade his own money through a discount broker? If he doesn’t have his own money to trade, then why doesn’t he just save up his salary for a while to get a trading stake, and then trade with it (essentially what I’m doing).
What am I missing here?
Also, why does everyone think she’s being “shallow” because she picked the hot guy? I agree with the other poster who said that it would also be “shallow” if she picked the “rich” guy.
But let’s look deeper. People choose a mate based on a whole host of characteristics. Why is it “shallow” for someone to place physical attractiveness high on their list of characteristics? I think my wife has a lot more to her than just her looks, but I do think she’s quite attractive, and I don’t think I could have married someone I think is not attractive. Could any of you people calling Malana shallow actually date and marry someone that you are not physically attracted to?
I think she was shallow because Adam was romantic and made her laugh every minute they were together.
She and Jason looked incredibly uncomfortable, and her “i feel really natural with you” line felt forced and like she was ‘supposed’ to say it because that’s what you say when you’re with a hottie.
Granted I only watched the last episode, but I thought she chickened out and went with the “cute” guy…