Hey give it up to Randi a little!! She did loosen up and burp at the table. That had me laughing for a while!
For everyone who’s kind of hoping Randi falls for Steve in the end, so do I…because he’s married. He was on The View the week this show premiered and his wife was in the audience. She’s a petite, pretty blonde woman. I thought she was better looking than Randi and actually looked a tiny bit like her. I hope she gets introduced to Randi in the end because Randi seems to think no one could possibly ever love Steve. Ha! (BTW, Steve was very cool in the interview.)
Steve would be impossible for me to love. Well, not the real Steve, but that stupid, clueless, crude guy he’s pretending to be.
Since I only saw the episode on last night, Randi does seem overly preoccupied about how she will look to others what people will think about her for being engaged to such a spazz. When it doesn’t matter at all.
Still, I would be bitching to the camera guy about the farting and his stupidity too.
I really don’t think I can blame Randi for being so uptight. Just look at her mother!
Randi is too uptight, though. It may be impossible for someone like Randi to love a man like Steve, but she could have been a lot more tolerant of some of Steve’s ways. She shouldn’t have looked at him with disgust when they first met, either.
I guess I’m kind of rooting for Randi. I think she opened up a lot last episode, (that belch must have been awfully liberating for her). I really hope she learns something from all of this. Maybe knowing how some of the viewers are responding will open up her eyes a little.
I would also like to see a followup show where the woman turns out to be an actor, and a man has to deal with whatever she brings.
I’m starting to think you’re right. Randi’s family just doesn’t ring true, especially the evil mom.
Some have complained about FOX “giving away the ending” when they show Randi’s dad stand up at the wedding. Well, here’s what I think will happen:
When the dad stands up, instead of objecting, he tells Randi that it’s all a ruse, and they were ALL in on it.
Either that, or Steve’s psycho sister whips out a knife and butchers everyone on the spot…
Well, that might be because
Randi told her family that she was on a reality show, and as part of the deal at the very beginning, Fox set up video cameras around her home. The family could have been allowing the cameras simply because it was a condition of their daughter getting to be on a reality show, and the familty doesn’t know anything more than that.
Please tell me I wasn’t the only person bored enough to watch this last night.
No Dewey… and the worse is… I wasn’t even bored AND watched it…
I couldn’t find the thread.
This show makes me laugh a lot, I really enjoy the actors. I can’t wait to get to the end, I am curious to see Randi’s family reaction when they’re told it is fake. I suspect they will still be mighty pissed.
Sadly, no…Sauron and I have been sucked into the vortex too.
We watched and laughed. A lot.
I forgot it was on - could someone briefly recap what it was like when the two families met? What else happened?
As intimated on the little “coming next week!” blurb at the end of last week’s episode, Steve has a “panic attack” on the way to meet Randi’s folks. He gets out of the limo and lies down on the pavement, apparently in shock.
And all Randi can say to him is, “Stop making this so hard on me!” :rolleyes:
Yes Tracer, that was a bit harsh!
I was one of the people “defending” Randi a week ago, saying she wasn’t that bad.
But a few things last night made me cringe, mostly the fact that she did not help him at all when he had his “panic attack”.
Bibliocat, it was pretty funny last night.
At first Steve acted great when he first met the family on a yatch. He was well mannered, didn’t break anything, and looked pretty smart and well spoken. The whole family was saying they liked him.
Then the morning after, withouth Randi around to witness, he went about his old ways, eating loudly, mouth open, lude comments, burping, in front of parents and siblings. They were completly horrified.
They dropped the news they were engaged… big trouble, although the dad kepts saying “well, it’s not like they’re married”…
At night, both family met for a “engagement party/dinner”. More horrifying situations insued.
It was pretty funny to see Randi’s family get more and more paniced as the evening went by.
They then announced they were getting married on national TV, in three days… Randi’s mom was saying “No! Randi not, don’t do it…” Randi’s sister was crying, Randi’s oldest brother was very pissed and left the room…
When I see this summary, I do feel bad for them once in a while!
I’m starting to like Randi a little bit, but her reaction to the panic attack set her back a bit for me too. I love the expressions she gets on her face though.
As for her family, my first impression from the teasers leading up to this eposode were that her dad looked like a retired coach, her mom was a bitch, and her brothers jocks. Didn’t see enough of her sister except to make the shallow opinion that Randi is much better looking than her sister or mother. (Though I go for Asian Chicks.)¹
This episode revealed that her father was a coach. I think her dad and mom seem like ok people but her brothers are jerks. Having a “little sister” myself though, I can see where their behaviour may be coming from.
I do hope that Randi and her family were compensated well by Fox for making them the butts of this joke.
¹(Not really, I’m partial to brown eyed, dark haired women, like the Latin types.)
I’m learning what a little selective editing to do. In all the teasers before last night, Randi’s family seemed like horrible, closed-minded snobs. But they wre actually pretty accepting of Steve the first night when he was making a concerted effort to appear charming and polite. I was also surprised to see Randi show a sense of humor about Steve’s “regifting” of the vase to her mother. I thought she’d freak out when he told her he stole it but she was like, “great idea, great thinking, my mom loved it.” That was a gag that might have actually backfired on the writers a little bit.
It didn’t quite redeem her from her totally cold behavior during Steve’s “panic attack,” though. My god, what kind of person won’t even help a guy to his feet after that?
I think Randi’s dad is really trying to hold it together and not be judgemental but you can see him starting to crack underneath that fixed grin.
The mom acted like a total bitch with the “no, randi, no…” stuff after the wedding announcement. that’s a pretty rude thing to do in front of the groom and his family.
Randi’s siblings seem the least accepting and the one brother I think has some issues he needs to work. She said in an earlier episode that he hates all her boyfriends and I think I sense a little bit of a creepy VC Andrews vibe going on there…
…or maybe its just me.
I almost forgot, Steve’s “dad’s” story about peeing on his sleeping mother-in-law in a drunken stupor was funny as hell.
That’s why I don’t watch any of the “reality” shows on Fox - they all seem too set up to me. I think the entire cast on these shows (bachelors, bachelorettes, family members, etc.) is made up of actors with scripts - sort of like wrestling - and the outcome each week is predetermined.
But isn’t it encouraging that Fox valued the demographic of social misfits and malcontnets such as ourselves, that they put up Randi’s family for us to despise?
And after seeing her family, I too just feel sorry for Randi:
(Paraphrasing): “Dad, I just need some support here.”
“Well, what sort of support are you looking for?”
EMOTIONAL support, bullethead! As in “fatherly love,” not “Sorry kitten, here in Fortress Middle Class we only dispense small doses of conditional love. We find it improves our social standing and material wealth to do it that way”
(and it’s not too difficult for social misfits like me to imagine his next line):
“Now, if you expect something more from me, we’ll have to go someplace private and have one our ‘secret playtime’ sessions.”
And is anyone else wondering how her family would behave if, instead of a fat goofus, they had a average Black guy?
That was brilliant!
Steve is a good actor. He seemed like a whole new person. He did such a good job with impressing the family, (the best he possibly could), that it was painful for me to watch him shatter any hope that they had for the situation. I had my finger on the “Prev. CH” throughout the entire show.
Randi’s family wasn’t as uninviting as I thought they might be, when they first met Steve. I thought they would be more concerned with Steve’s appearance, education and financial/career status. Not that there’s anything wrong with the way Steve looks or what he does, I just thought their expectations would be a little more absurd. I can’t believe Randi’s father hugged him.
I want to see how this all turned out. How did these people react when they found out it was all a joke? If FOX dicided to fork over the cash regardless of what happened at the wedding, was it be enough to ease their minds of the situation? They seemed pretty freaked out!
Son and I watched it for the first time last night and bust a gut.
Steve, doing terribly at croquet, watches randi’s brother hit the ball and yells “YOU SUUUUUUCK!”
So now my sweet little kid and I yell that across the house at each other.
I think there is no way FOX would have the entire show based around one person and not give her anything at the end no matter what the outcome of the wedding was. If she loses and gets nothing she would have sued FOX already for tricking her.