# Joe Millionaire play-by-play (it's on right now!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070 "2003-01-07T02:22:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/41 "2003-01-08T02:57:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peepthis \* > **This was skillful editing by the directors, broadcasting scenes (from hours of footage) to cast her in the worst possible light & thus manipulate the viewing audience’s sympathies – and it appears from what people have written here so far that it worked.** I agree that a lot of it is editing… like did you see the shot they showed of one of the blonde chicks looking down her nose at one of the other women who was being introduced to Evan? None of this makes me think that Heidi isn’t a bitch though. And don’t try to ruin my perception! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/42 "2003-01-08T06:08:18Z")
I heard somewhere that it’s only a 7 week show, so if they cut it down to 5 next week, like they showed in the closing credits, it’ll probably be a uni-ho-ectemy each week from there on out. ---
**Author:** ![EhhMon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@EhhMon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EhhMon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/43 "2003-01-08T08:10:34Z")
I’m a reality show Junkie…I watch it all. Battle of the Sexes on MTV and Joe Millionaire both started on Monday…these two should tie me over until American Idol 2 starts later in the month. About the evening gown and the ball…was I not the only who choked when that one gurl wore the sunglasses. That was a tacky way of trying to leave an impression…very tacky ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/44 "2003-01-08T12:57:23Z")
Actually they’re cutting 7 next week. The sunglasses girl… she looked like a little girl playing movie star. Unsuccessfully. She looked positively idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/45 "2003-01-08T15:15:10Z")
Sure, they’re editing it to create an impression–but they have to have the raw material to work with! Heidi is totally a bitch. For those of you who can’t get enough Joe Millionaire snark, definitely go to TWoP, linked above. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/46 "2003-01-08T16:20:54Z")
I find it eerily unsettling that the one gal that caught my eye the most is Melissa M… Not because of anything about **her** , per se, but because I have a co-worker whose first name is Melissa and whose last name starts with an M. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/47 "2003-01-08T16:59:37Z")
I just wish we could’ve seen the looks on the women’s faces that were already cut when told that Evan was only a thousand-aire. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/48 "2003-01-08T17:09:11Z")
I’d like to see this show done for Gay Couples. Some how it seems more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/49 "2003-01-08T17:22:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*The Smoking Gun comes through yet again: > [Exposing "Joe Millionaire": The Modeling Shots | The Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/marriott1.html) \*\* Hey! I posted that already! Now I get to throw a pouting fit too 😉 Did anybody see the “feminist” interviewed on CNN’s “Connie Chung” just before the episode started? I saw a bit of the tape, and while Connie was laughing her ass off about the ludicrousness of the whole show, the interviewee had her face set in a permanent scowl. Not a performance designed to win sympathy for the feminist cause, that. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/50 "2003-01-08T18:43:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gangster Octopus \* > \*\*I just wish we could’ve seen the looks on the women’s faces that were already cut when told that Evan was only a thousand-aire. \*\* From what I could tell from the show, I’m not sure that the women who were “let go” **were** told the truth about Evan’s non-fortune. ---
**Author:** ![JustaGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JustaGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustaGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/51 "2003-01-08T19:24:44Z")
I personally don’t see the problem with the “actual” occupation he does have. He’s a construction worker for christs sake … I would kill to work for the city and make that kind of money, not to mention the benefits … Screw it , I think I should get his job. I’ll get paid well, have full medicial and dental and be able to work beside hot sweaty sexy men all day ! I don’t really think anyo f those women deserve him… you always here women (not all of course) comment on how they never finda good hearted, honest guy… It would seem to me that if they looked down thier noses every now and then and didn’t have thier standards so bloody high they would find there are many great men out there to meet, maybe not all millionaires but hey, money doesn’t make the man … ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/52 "2003-01-09T15:27:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lezlers \* > \*\*oh, and word about the lying of ages. I never thought about it, I just kept saying to myself “I can’t _possibly_ be older than some of these women, I could pass as their little sister!” Crimeny, I’ve got friends in their mid thirties and early forties that look younger than some of the ones claiming to be in their early 20’s… > > - **lezlers** , who just turned 25 and looks a good 10 years younger than some of those 23 and 24 year olds… \*\* Hell, I’m turning 35 tomorrow and **I** look a damn-site younger than many of these girls. The cutest by far IMHO was Melissa M. Go smiley! Did anyone else think that Evan seems to have really low self-esteem? ---
**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/53 "2003-01-09T16:55:21Z")
[QUOTE] _Originally posted by Menocchio \* \*\*Some possibilities for next season: [ul] [li] Jane Millionaire- It looks like it’s just the same premise with the genders reversed, or so the guys think. Not only is she really poor, she was also born a man. [_] Joe Not-A-Enuch [_] Joe Human [_] Joe Heterosexual- Can he choose a woman who can look past the fact that he’s not attracted to her at all? Joe Not-A-Brain In a vat.[/li] And Finally [li] Joe HIV Negative. [/ul] \*\*[/li][/QUOTE] Honest, Menocchio, I didn’t steal this from you: [Fox to Air _Joe Circumcised_](http://www.confusionroad.com/articles/joe.htm) ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/54 "2003-01-09T17:29:27Z")
First of all, I think the whole show is bogus. Jerry Springer is fake, why can’t this be? Anyway, assuming it _is_ real, when Joe finally picks a girl at the end, will she ask him how many of the other girls he slept with?! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/55 "2003-01-09T23:20:13Z")
“Anyway, assuming it is real, when Joe finally picks a girl at the end, will she ask him how many of the other girls he slept with?!” Easy, they are staying in the same place right, so she can just count how many of them did not return at night to know they slept with him. But if they had sex with him, that’s another matter to figure out. ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/56 "2003-01-12T04:45:06Z")
heh, looks like SNL read **Menocchio** ’s _Joe Heterosexual_ idea. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/57 "2003-01-14T12:29:20Z")
Ok… new episode… BAAHAHAHAHAHA!! Heidi is a whiny pants. Mojo is annoying. Those necklaces were pretty. I wanted to ride one of the horsies. and finally… Heidi got the boot! YES! Haha… ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/58 "2003-01-14T15:00:10Z")
I watched it last night, I liked watching them shovel the shit and coal. I didn’t think that Melissa would have been so whiny. It’ll be intersting next week when he has to pick one, at least I guess it’s next week. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/59 "2003-01-14T15:01:02Z")
Heheh a pretty good episode. I like how the show’s producers seemingly have no shame in making these women look as stupid as possible. Look at the treatment Heidi received! Granted, she was indeed a she-devil, but her last few scenes making fun of her French was just mean (which was why I thought it was so damn funny). Other thoughts: I’m suprised the black-curly-hair girl made it. I thought she sealed her fate with the grape picking. She’s easily the best looking of the group though (IMHO of course). I wasn’t that surprised that the tall blond chick didn’t continue. Not everyone likes the supermodel look, and ol’ Joe seems to want a down-to-earth girl, and she ain’t it. I’m glad the teacher (Zora maybe?) made it - she seems like she may be the front-runner. So are we assuming that it’ll be one dismissal per week from now on? ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070/60 "2003-01-14T15:03:40Z")
Yeah, the model-girl looks pretty beat to me for some reason. Big Zora fan here. “I have none of the bread of the baggage.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-millionaire-play-by-play-its-on-right-now/147070.md?page=4)