By the way, interesting tidbit I read the other day: this Joe Millionaire may actually be. Apparently Daddy is an oil tycoon, and the reason David can indulge his passion for rodeo for a mere $11k per year is because Daddy takes care of his every need.
Subtitles are a staple of American reality TV whenever the contestants are speaking too softly/rapidly to be easily understood. They don’t just use subtitles for translating foreign languages. (Remember the subtitles we got during the first Joe Millionaire? “Mmmm” “Oooh” “(Slurp)” …)
Well…this new Joe Millionare 2 makes Joe Millionare 1 look like a frigin genius.
Here’s an idea. Enough nice imbeciles. Make Joe Millionare an evil, manipulative bastard. I want someone who will treat these women like the big hos they are. Hell, put me on - “I’ll pay you $100,000 to cover yourself in syrup and go sunbath on that ant hill.” “I could never consider marying a woman who wasn’t willing to blow me on TV.” “Wow…Joe Millionare sure is drunk today!”
The women on the show remind me of the lazy, stupid, golddigging Eurohos who expect to be pampered and taken care of that some of my friends from Europe used to describe.
I am surprised, and enlightened. Thanks.
They used a lot of the subtitles on the Italian chick. She certainly wasn’t speaking perfect unaccented English.
And the hot one was Anique. One weird thing: why are the bios about the countries and not the girls? (Though it is interesting that the Netherlands is twice the size of New Jersey.)
The minute I saw that, I turned to my wife and said “Playboy spread in two months…” 
Joe Hundredaire?
Who Wants to Eat a Meal?
… it became frightfully obvious that it wasn’t Cat who was the real troublemaker among the women.
All the bad-mouthing about Cat was coming from Olinda. I mean, all of it. I’m surprised I didn’t notice it before. She went on and on about how Cat was “fake,” but really, she was the fake one. She was projecting her fakeness onto Cat. Maybe she just didn’t like the competition in the fakery department. To hear David say that he didn’t think she was a gold digger gave me quite a chuckle. Olinda reminded me of this one girl in 12th grade who constantly told me to shut up, even when everyone else was having their say in an open discussion forum, and then expected everyone to pat her on the back for being rude.
I won’t miss her.
Yay, I thought I was the only one watching.
While Cat did do a few snarky things, it was clear to me all along that Olinda was blowing things way out of proportion.
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Part of me is sad to see her go, I loved to hate her even more than Heidi from last season. God, she was evil. Assuring Cat it was all in fun while hugging her and rolling her eyes behind her back??? That’s not ‘fake’?
Paul in the Ceasar Costume put me into a giggling fit.
Of the three remaining, I’m pulling for Cat. Although I think Petra might be the only one of the remaining 3 that wouldn’t be pissed about the money. It’s a shame about Giada. She seemed the most real and nice of all of them, but didn’t get much time to get to know David.[/spoiler]
Dang, but was Olinda a bitch-on-wheels or what?
It would’ve been fun to have Cat and Olinda be the final two. Not much drama left, I’m afraid.
David is so…what’s the word…uninteresting? Dumb? There’s not much there.
I almost feel sorry for Fox. They were about to pull the plug on JM2, editing in down to fewer episodes – then they decided to dump Skin instead–which was actually a better show, but nobody was watching it 'cuz JM2 stank so bad.
And I know this point was raised many times last year, but what is the reason for whatshername’s existence? The one who comes out and says “David will be booting one of you tonight”? Couldn’t Paul do that, and save the producers a few bucks?
I suspect it’s to give the impression that Paul is simply JM’s real butler and has been for a while, so he has no real relationship to the show. The hostess is useless except to perpetuate the illusion of the game.
Olinda was evilly hilarious, but not as bad as Heidi since Heidi seemed genuinely clueless to her faults, while Olinda unapologetically revelled in them. Still, it’s pretty clear the bad-mouthing of Cat was largely fueled by the Swede (with the other two going along simply because it’s easier, especially to someone so obviously a threat). I’m pulling for Cat (who’s quite lovely and surprisingly soft-spoken) and still have yet to see her do anything genuinely bitchy (except maybe be a little cold and defensive, but who wouldn’t be?).
As for who’s coming back, I’m guessing either Linda (who may hold up better under the “stress” with fewer gossipy girls around) or Alessia, who was fun-loving like Olinda without being Satan’s spawn. I think Petra would be less bothered by the deception, but Anique (sp?) seems to be falling a bit hard, so it’ll be interesting…
I thought I was the only one watching this show as well.
Damn this girl Olinda was the bitch from hell, how annoying. Although she got me laughing out loud on a few of her remarks. What a drunk she was, lay off the booze lady!
David is the most unattractive guy I’ve never laid an eye on… I would have quit like the other girl did. None of them is attracted to him enough to stick with him once they’ll know he is not rich…
ArchiveGuy, what do you mean somebody is coming back???
In the “Stay tuned next week” promo, they mentioned a twist where David has to revisit one of his rejects and invite her back, bringing the total back up to 4. None of the ladies seemed enthralled by the news (especially since most probably suspect who he’ll likely choose–the one they themselves keep asking him about).
Well, the series finale of The Next Joe Millionaire: An International Affair finally showed last night.
[spoiler]David picked Linda, and then, wouldn’t you know it, just like in the 3rd or 4th episode, Linda ran away again when David told her he wasn’t rich. And, once again, she “couldn’t get him out of her mind,” and went racing back to meet him in Austin, Texas.
They made it look like a fairytale ending, but given her history, I wouldn’t be surprised if Linda runs away again when David takes his boots off and one of them makes too loud a noise for her liking when it hits the ground. :rolleyes:[/spoiler]
I heard a clip of how he revealed this to her on the radio this morning. Something along the lines of, “I’m about to spaz here, but, like, I don’t have $80 million.”
Did I mishear it? Or were those really his words?
Somewhere in a jacuzzi filled with hot naked women, Evan Mariott is laughing heartily.
No, I think it was more like: “I’m about to spaz here, but, like, I don’t have $80 million, and stuff. Y’know?.”
I thought it was a really sweet ending. You guys are too cynical.
A sweet ending? Hmph. David’s going to wake up the next morning with a Dear John letter on his pillow from Linda that’ll look something like this:
“Dear David, I’m sorry, but the pressures of this new life are too much for me. Your horse neighed at me, and I’m sure that means he doesn’t like me. I’m just a fragile delicate little flower who has to be treated with kid gloves at every instant, so I’m running away again. Of course, I can’t stop thinking about you, so I’ll probably come back tomorrow, but for now I need to get away from this life so that I can heal from the traumatic experience of what your horse said to me. Love, Linda.”