Last night, I watched this with my wife. It was two hours of hell, but we believe we know who the winner will be. Just to be as safe as possible with this (yes, I know about the bracket trick), I’ll post the spoiler next.
Near the end of the broadcast, when they were showing coming attractions from the season, there was a brief flash of the bachelor on his knees putting a diamond ring on a finger. It was only about twenty frames or so, but the photography was very clear, we have a 65 inch widescreen TV, and the broadcast was in 1080i. We could clearly see two small moles on the female arm — one on the left side (it was a left arm) about two inches back from the wrist, and another about two inches back from that but on the top.
Armed with this information, we began scanning.
Now, there was a longish scene showing the return of the bachelorette from last year who had turned down the bachelor from this year. She says she “made a mistake” in rejecting him, and is apparently going to join the competition. That’s not a spoiler, of course, since they’re basically announcing it. But during this scene, there was a flurry of MTV-like split-second four-frame shots of the bachelor with her. So naturally, we stepped through those.
And sure enough, right in the middle of them was the hand. It had exactly the same moles (and as my wife pointed out, incidentally, the same fingernails — something like “French nails” or something like that, she said) in exactly the same places. But this time, the face was showing. But from a weird angle. All that could really be discerned was that she had brown eyes and brown hair. That description fits the former bachelorette, and the frames were slap in the middle of the scene about her return.
But it wasn’t her!
It was in fact a gratuitous sequence of (drum roll)…
Shannon, the dental hygenist
…which we confirmed with further scanning.
Either the producers screwed up, or they’ve created one of the best misleads ever.
Thus proving that having a fancy-ass TV doesn’t necessarily improve one’s quality of life.
Lib, honey, you need to get out more.
Hey! We love being dweebs. 
You watched The Bachelor?
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! What a loser!
[sup]That blonde from Pennsylvania (?), I didn’t catch her name, is WAY cute![/sup]
Ah, but did you see the lookers on Rock of Love: The Bus Tour? :eek: My neighbor instructed me to watch as a goof, and yikes. Two minutes of Barbie-skanks was enough.
Ok, one of them seemed like a nice enough person.
I thought it would be the lady who said, “I’m amazing!” (I caught part of Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue las’night, & apparently the Bachelor really likes that word. In a need-a-thesaurus way.)
As a way of making lemonade, I have agreed to watch this show with my wife…but only if we gamble. We each pick five horses out of the limo, and the winner takes all only if one of us gets the actual winner. My list:
Lauren (teacher)
Melissa (Dallas Cowboy cheerleader)
Katy (KC)
Nikki (crazy chick who loves her nieces)
Megan (has a 14 month old)
Wish me luck, especially since Mrs. Morbo has Shannon. Of course, she also picked two who we never saw again after the limo scenes: Treasure and Ann (Phoenix). So she’s already down two.
Good luck, for sure. As I said, it’s possible that the producers have left a monumental mislead. I haven’t checked the TV sites or anything, but we can’t possibly be the only ones to have caught the moles. Still, I hope your wife and I are wrong because I don’t like…
Shannon
…because she comes across as a pathetic and desperate stalker.
But see, that’s a common production tactic on these shows. They create the story arc so that you dislike someone at first, but they grow on you. And that’s especially true when their character is going to be longterm.
I don’t even watch the Bachelor so I don’t know why I opened this thread or even went to the ABC boards about it, but…
The ABC Bachelor message board has a couple of screen shots and that person thinks the winner is Melissa.
Okay, no, it’s not
Melissa
because she doesn’t have the moles.
All five horses still in business! Take THAT, Caesar’s Sports Book!
Although Mrs. Morbo still has Shannon, Jillian and Natalie…
I thought about this thread because it appears another Bachelor sleuth is predicting the winner. See a video about it here.
http://videogum.com/archives/reality-tv/grown-man-ashamed-to-have-figu_046041.html
Spoiler, obviously.
Well, we’re the other US household watching The Bachelor, and either your spoiler is spoiled or Jake’s going to practice polygamy.
The only two left are Tenley and Vienna.
And since Bachelor relationships never last, it really doesn’t matter who he picks. From what I’ve seen this season, Jake is in love with whomever is in front of him at the moment.
Check the date of the OP. It’s from last season. Anyway, he was completely wrong about that too, so it doesn’t matter.
LOL, pulling up a thread from over a year old to chastise the OP, and then being two seasons behind.
HILARIOUS!!!
In tonight’s very special Rose Ceremony, twickster will drive a long-stemmed rose through the heart of this zombie.