Oh man, 7 more shows just to bring it down to those 10 seconds of seeing the womans’ face as he informs him all he really does is construction…sigh sigh
That wasn’t a cop-out, that was a carefully engineered ratings ploy.
It’s been pretty well established throughout the history of movies and TV that more people will want to watch moving images of good-looking people than will want to watch moving images of average-looking or downright ugly people. Every TV producer knows this. They know that with good-looking people up there on the small screen, more viewers will tune in simply to watch “the hottie.” They know that with bad-looking people on the screen, more viewers will change the channel.
Joe Millionaire’s target demographic is primarily female. If Evan had looked like the fat old butler, how many female viewers would have squirmed and said, “Ew! I can’t watch this!” when the 20 women started trying to seduce him? With Evan looking like a swimsuit model, how many more women in the audience are tuning in because “Well, sure, he’s dirt-poor, but at least he’s easy on the eyes!”?
Yeah, I know, I know…but I still think as an experiment it would have been much better the other way.
Saw the encore presentation.
Ehh…still think poor Evan’s going at it all wrong, and I can almost guarantee that this will not end well for him. (Just once I’d like to see a reality show that didn’t end in frustration/grief/exasperation for someone.)
Not sure what to make of the “big slip” hinted at in the promos. Knowing reality programmers’ penchant for exaggeration, my guess is that whoever he tells it to either keeps it under her hat, or else he claims to have lied about the truth, thus keeping the real lie secure. Or something. What the hell, one thing I’ve learned is that, no matter what, it never stops before the bitter end, so this’ll be interesting to see.
The last couple in the final episode of Bachelorettes in Alaska looked like they were going to live Happily Ever After [TM].
Knowing reality programmers’ penchant for exaggeration, my guess is that the “big slip” has nothing to do with the fact that Evan isn’t rich. It’s probably something stupid like “Woops, I used my real last name there instead of the fake one I’ve been using,” or “Woops, I let slip that I haven’t really been riding horses for all of these last 2 years.” :rolleyes:
From Sports Illustrated - January 20
We also checked the sports credentials of Evan Marriott, the star of the Fox hit Joe Millionaire and found his penchant for duplicity runs deep.
In 2001 Marriott, now 28, studied briefly at Ultimate University, a California school for pro wrestlers, where his nom de guerre was Duke Suede.
Three weeks ago I was driving a bulldozer…
dur hur dur hur…
I loved the painting (actualy it looked like a pastel drawing). Ooh la la!!
I’m still trying to figure out how you could make only 19,000 a year being a heavy equipment operator. Trash picking up construction jobs make more than 19, that dude has to make 60 at least.
I read an interview with him in which he answered this question, saying that last year he made $19,000. But this was because he was out of work for most of the year, due to the poor post-9/11 economy he said (and hence is why he needed the money from Fox to do the show). Go ask at the Pasadena Union Hall, he claimed, who would vouch he’s in construction. He concluded by saying his hourly salary is about $29.50.
Ugly-Ass Hat
Ugly-Ass Painting
Stupid Mojo.
Stupid, kinda lecherous, Evan.
Poor Zora. Poor Allison.
No Verbs.
Yes, a bad painting. (I’m a portrait artist, BTW, so I can be quite picky.) You can’t really get a good likeness from just one source photo, and it’s also hard to get a good likeness without having met the model. (Though of course some artists pull it off.) This street artist didn’t. Yikes. Ugly and unflattering. Bad art.
Dumb hat on Mojo. Adios Mojo.
I was all astonishment that Zora’s still around. She seemed astonished too! And I guess Allison is the red-haired girl? (See how detail-oriented I am?) She seemed really bummed out.
I’m glad Zora’s still around–thank god Allison did herself in. But Z’s gonna have to get her act together to survive the next round. Melissa M. and the blonde girl (not Mojo) seem to have the inside track thus far.
I think Mojo needs a spanking!
I think they should show the girl who just got booted being told who he really it. Rather that just getting to see one girl in the end. That is all I wanna see anyway.
Nobody on the show seems to have a clue on holding an intelligent conversation. I expected the women on this show to be shallow, given the premise. But that Joe Millionaire himself is quite a bimbo.
The portrait sucked ass. (And as an artist I can say that, too) The hat was lame as hell.
Did anyone else noticed that during the tango lesson, they rarely showed full-body shots? I think they were trying to hide how bad they both sucked 
Given the heavy editing, I don’t really think we have any idea how the dates actually went. The Zora date was edited to look like it went terribly, but for all we know the 99% of the date and followup interviews we DIDN’T see went smashingly well. Maybe they ended up necking in the back of the limousine. Heck, maybe they ended up having wild monkey sex. I’ve had dates where the conversation was disastrous at some point but things recovered later.
Mrs. RickJay has an interesting theory; he’s already picked the curly-haired chicky. Her theory is based on the fact that he took her to the Eiffel Tower; according to her, “If you go to Paris for romance, that’s the one thing you always do, and he picked her for the One Big Thing, so it’s her.”
This show is hysterical. I love the editors. Last week with Heidi and her bread French, this week with Mojo and her hideous hat.
Interesting theory. What might Mojo’s date to the Moulin Rouge mean? I just think it’s too bad they had such crappy weather in Paris; that city looks pretty dismal. I really liked the riverboat date, particularly for Evan’s violent reactions to the food.
And I think you have a point, Walloon, about no one being able to hold a conversation. I think most of the ladies are trying, but he’s also not giving them a damn thing to work with in the interest of keeping up the ruse. The dates come off as interrogations, and not just interviews (which in my opinion any date is, really). I also got the feeling that Zora so completely freaked out because she didn’t want to discuss any personal or painful family history in front of cameras. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone shut down so fast.
Poor Zora! She was as surprised as I was that she didn’t get the boot. I’m betting she’s next though, based on the “no chemistry” comment in next week’s preview. I know the editing can do a lot, but she herself said she thought the date went poorly.
I’ve officially jumped ship on Melissa M. Smoking’s a bit turn off for me, and even if the picture was hideous, I don’t think she should’ve raved about it to him and then snarked about it later. Maybe it was just to be nice, but it’s the second case of “acting nice” from her (see the grape incident last week) and I’m beginning to think she’s just acting the whole time.
Zora seems a lot more geniune, but unfortunately a fish out of water around all that money and the cameras. (tragically, so is Evan, (at least about the money, not the cameras) so it’s a good match but they don’t know it.)
I missed the Mojo date because my parents called. I’ll have to watch the tape tonight. This “hat” sounds hilarious, especially since I hate Mojo.
Sara didn’t seem to have a personalilty in the previous shows. It really started to come out this time, and I’m glad to see we’ve got a new golddigger to root against. 
Man… I love this awful show.