Oh dear god, as if the wonderfulness of Ashley’s piss-poor decision-making all season on The Bachelorette hadn’t fulfilled our every crapcrapcrapTV need, we go immediately into a houseful of crazy with Bachelor Pad. The Jake-Vienna-Casey triangle? Casting genius. Wonder how much ABC paid Casey to start dating Vienna six months ago? Or I guess it would be more plausible if they paid her.
And did we really watch them having sex tonight?
Oh, and Michelle is back. Is she really buying Vienna’s utterly unconvincing shtick? I keep expecting to hear confessional commentary snarking on Vienna and the whole situation.
Despite the lack of responses, you’re not the only one who loved it last night. I guess we’re the only ones secure enough to admit this guilty pleasure.
I really don’t know which side to take in the Vienna / Jake war. Everything she said about him seems true, that he’s really going out of his way to present this phoney “nice” persona. But at the same time, she’s the controlling two-faced wench he made her out to be. How did Casey not dump her on the spot after that hot-tub conversation?!
Michelle actually came off likable and well adjusted. I have to imagine she actually learned from her experience the first time through. I felt bad for her in the seemingly sincere After The Final Rose special. Well, thank Science Gia didn’t get sent home (yet), she should be cast on EVERY TV show.
Seriously, people admit to watching Big Brother but won’t cop to this? Bachelor Pad is like BB with preexisting plot lines, enabling the show to come roaring out of the gate.
And agree – Michelle was crazy as hell on her season, but it seemed in the reunion show that it had been performance art gone awry. This is why I’m expecting her to indicate that she sees through Vienna.
Between Jake and Vienna – yeah, well, both lying liars – but Vienna’s cry-on-command thing (and it’s not even good fake crying), + the plastic surgery that left her still butt-ugly – definitely the contestant I love to hate. Wonder if she knows she’s being edited to be the villain? Wonder if she cares?
Vienna may be crazy and manipulative, but she is coming off more and more honest at least in her characterization of Jake. Every time he comes on camera he looks more and more phony. Donating all the money to (?)… Puhleeze.
I was sad to see three of the nicest people go home though. That’s just making it increasing more likely that one of the a-holes will win. I swear if Casey ends up with the money I may fly into a fit of rage, he’s really turning into a classic TV gameshow villain. I watched slack-jawed when he did that wrist tatoo flex thing. What exactly is he “protecting” her from? Grace, dignity, taste in men??
I feel bad for anybody who’s not watching this glorious roller coaster turned into a train wreck.
Ok…I’ll jump in here…I will admit to this guilty pleasure because my wife would cry like Vienna if I didn’t watch it with her.
Anyways…I hope they keep building up the Casey and Vienna show because I’m expecting the biggest trainwreck in reality TV to ever take place…each episode gets that train going a little faster each time until they hit that blind curve and washed-out bridge just before the finale. Can you sense it? I believe I do.
Anyways, I think Jake is an idiot for giving Vienna that rose (heh, and every rose when he was The Bachelor as well!)…she probably could have been gone by now, but since he’s “trying” to be the nice guy and take his lumps from “Raccoon and the Tool”, I think it’s a matter of time Casey’s buddies are gonna realize the show is not all about them and flip on the couple.
Vienna, I know you want Casey to be your over-protective dad in a younger body, but please go get some therapy…I can now see why Jake dropped you like a hot potato…he actually wants to have a life away from whiney, bitchy, crazy, manipulative princesses.
Gia…you hot, hawt mess. Why? Why? You could have been a contender…you could have been somebody! Why did you upstage the Raccoon and the Tool when they heard 2 women were gonna be voted off! You could have single-handedly sent them home in bodybags! Just because Jake was stupid in the first week and Grahm was a bastard in the third week, your beauty was more than enough to get you through this little rough patch…But instead, you just had to fold up like a tent in a hurricane. I wanted you to have my babies! The wife would have approved, but not now…even that eye candy has been ripped out of my eye sockets, probably forever…or at least until the next season.
Jackie and Ames…bravo. Live long and prosper in the bedroom.
Michael…you need to tongue-worship the Princess the number of minutes matching the mph of the Randy Johnson heater you gave her on that alleged egg-toss game. That date in the haunted hospital was not the olive branch you intended it to be.
What the hell?? A cliff hanger on a two hour show?!! Thank goodness I put this on DVR and don’t have to actually sit through the full length of it. I weep for those of you who couldn’t fast forward through Casey’s song.
Ack…I wish they would send Casey home; I’m getting a little sick of him threatening to punch somebody. Just punch someone and get it over with and get your ass booted off the show!
What is getting seriously on my nerves is how he and Vienna refer to each other as “my GF”/“my BF” rather than by name. Could we make it a *little *clearer that there is no actual human connection between the two of you, please?
Well, they’ll never be able to play the “nearly-wed” game on Bachelor Pad again, now that Graham and Michelle have shown how to win it. “Seven” for age of lost virginity was pretty jaw-dropping.
I’m totally rooting for Michelle to win, though. With or without Graham, who’s pretty two-dimensional. (Just had to go check what his name is.)
Why on earth did Erika – one of the most unpleasant people in the history of reality TV – and Blake give the roses to Kasey and Vienna? If the thinking was “They’re who we’d like to be up against in the final four,” it might make sense – otherwise, no. Save someone else and get rid of those two.
“He ripped the ring off my finger when I refused to have sex with him!”
And Too Many Cats thinks contemporary TV sucks. Harrumph, I say!
Yeah, when I saw the second numerical answer was “7”, I knew they gamed the system…schmart!
Erica and Blake are suffering from a newly identified disorder…It’s called “Jake Syndrome”…it’s a nasty disorder that starts with believing that two narcissistic people will understand you and help you. Other side effects are getting booted off TV shows for amazing stupidity.
Well, he could do better…why waste the ring on a player…
Well, I did state that this show is a guilty pleasure…I’m not that proud watching it…but it helps me feel somewhat better about myself.
Yeah, and though Michael chewed the scenery as thoroughly as possible, there was never a whole lot of actual suspense as to what he would do.
Man, blindsiding him with the news of Holly and Blake’s [ill-advised? hasty?] engagement like that just seemed nasty to me. He handled it as well as could be expected, but wow.
What are the odds that he’ll be The Bachelor is a season or two?
And imagine my astonishment that Ames and whastherface aren’t still together. Too bad he came off as the bad guy – really, whatsherface? You couldn’t get out of bed for a week?
Speaking of not looking good – loved the unanimity of the “no, Vienna, you were completely hostile” judgment. Not a single person on her side, once everyone watched the season, not even Kasey. If they’re still together, though, maybe that moment of post-humiliation clarity he seemed to have didn’t last.
All in all, a satisfactory ending to one of the guiltiest-pleasure shows on the air.