haha you got me laughing out loud with your analyses gobear!
I didn’t watch the show in his entirety but decided to watch last night finale after seeing the, of course, scandalous previews all week! (dumb catchy things like that work on me!).
Oh geez… I actually felt bad for them!!!
The first couple (The Neanderthal-looking hunk like you put it!) was actually “ok”… and I actually give them credit for not getting married on the show.
Ohthankgod someone else revived this. I, like others, didn’t watch the beginning, but I’ve seen the last two episodes and the schadenfreude was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Anyway, Billie Jeane needs to kick her friend Dwayne or Duane’s ASS for being such a drama whore. Earlier in the series, he had a crying fit over “losing” his friend and how everyone was happy but him, blah blah blah. And he had to be the center of attention with his little snit at the wedding. A good friend, a real friend, would have cared more about supporting his friend than showing everyone how outraged and indignant he was. What a jerk.
So…no one actually got married?!?
I kinda sorta planned on watching the last hour but Compulsion was on FOX Movie Channel at the same time and, sorry, but a thinly-disguised retelling of queer thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb wins out over whiny-ass str8 people every time.
I will admit not only to watching MBA but also to watching almost every single episode. I may have only missed one or two. And it wasn’t even because I was enjoying it.
Gundy, I got the feeling someone told Dwayne he looked a little like Michael Chiklis (which he does, in a way), and he felt it was incumbent upon him to EMOTE all over the place and be a badass.
I’m still all broken up that Tony didn’t say “I do” to Billy Jeanne. 
I just read the Slate summary of the final ep and…wow. I find myself feeling really bad for Billie Jeanne. Can it be that someone on reality TV is actually real?
The Slate article certainly sympathised with BJ…and I guess it’s understandable. Being needy isn’t a crime. But it was obvious to ME that Tony was going to bail.
Jill bailing on Kevin wasn’t too surprising, either. His inability to know who he wanted to be when he grows up didn’t seem like something a girl like Jill would have much patience with. Did he remind anyone else of Kevin Nealon?
Nah, it’s ‘cause she’s a blonde babe. It’s much easier to feel sympathy toward someone when she’s good-lookin’.
OK, I admit it. I watched all but the first episode. The finale was about as big a train-wreck as I’ve ever seen (and I watch A LOT of reality TV.)
I felt so bad for Billie Jeanne. Couldn’t they leave the poor girl alone while she was crying in the closet? If you watched the series it was incredibly obvious that Tony wasn’t into her past the sex, and that she is a very needy person that gets attached to men very easily. From the second episode she was saying that she was in love with Tony. How anyone could fall in love with such an outright asshole I will never know. I only have to assume that he was nicer than the editing portrayed him to be. She seemed like a sweet but very naive girl.
tracer, did you really think Billie Jeanne was a babe? I thought she cleaned up well, but looked pretty darned awful without makeup.
Even Jill, the Playmate, had sort of a horse face. The guys were the better looking bunch on this show, IMHO.
My husband was seriously disturbed that I was even watching the show. Of course, he watched pretty much the whole thing too. 
I didn’t perceive Tony as such a mean jerk. He was not into her like she was into him that is clear, but I thought he was ok. But, of course, he should have told her before the whole ceremony that he didn’t want to go through with it.
And did you see the little summaries they put up at the end, Jill and Kevin, supposely are still going on their engagement and Billie Jeanne is moving to LA “just because.”, not because of Tony… noooooo …
Okay, okay, I admit it – I’m a sucker for long blonde hair. Always have been. Maybe that blinded me to her other purported flaws. But, darn it, I could swear I remember the rest of her looking pretty cute, too.
Lemme put it this way: I wouldn’t kick Billie Jeanne out of bed for eating crackers.
Watching Tony with the stripper was enough for me to know he wouldn’t marry BJeanne. They should have shown that stripper scene to her so she would know what Tony is really like but I suppose BJ is going to be on a sitcom soon.
Damn! I missed the stripper episode… or the bit of it… I wished I’d seen it… I might have a new view on Mister Tony…
Miss Alli did the recaps for MBA, and she’s the one whose recaps for Big Brother 3 last summer got me watching. She’s really funny and smart - if she were on SDMB she’d be one of our most valued members.
I don’t think that would’ve deterred her one bit. Tony admitted to smooching a stripper, and although Billie Jeanne felt hurt by it, she still said “I do.” (Besides, Billie Jeanne wasn’t exactly hands-off with her strippers during her bachelorette party, y’know.)
" Tony admitted to smooching a stripper,"
Yeah, ‘just a little kiss’ ha…more like a tongue swallowing contest & then some more we didn’t exactly get to watch when the door shut.
Well, of course, when the door was shut, they just sat on opposite sides of the room and discussed the works of Jean Paul Sartre.