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Four teams are left on Beauty and the Geek, Chris and Cara, Tommy and Amanda, Joe and Tara, Matt and Leticia. This week they are back in the mansion and I realize that we are still stuck with the two people I wanted to go. Joe, who is annoying, and Cara, who talks like a baby. They decide to give Jason and Christine a Norse funeral, a burning pyre on a paper plate floating in the pool. How sad that the mighty Norsemen are reduced to this.

Now, comes the challenge. The girls are gonna be plumbers and the guys are gonna help geeky chicks with makeovers. But I have an aside based on Cara’s comment that plumbers are not sexy at all. My husband is a pipe fitter and I think he’s very sexy. Plus, plumbers make good money and that’s very sexy, if you ask me.

I thought that Tommy and Chris did the best makeovers, then Joe, and lastly Matt. That chick’s hair was just wrong. And the beauties agreed with me, which I thought was interesting. The winner is Chris, which is nice, because Tommy won the last challenge.

Then we have to deal with more Tara and Joe drama. Listen, chick, you picked Joe. You could have picked that other guy, the momma’s boy, remember him? Whatever.

Now the girls are up to their challenge. Acting as plumbers in a stage set which looks like a nasty bathroom. They have to unclog the tub, make the toilet run, and get a ring stuck in the sink (and put the sink back together again). First of all, Tara has her hair loose, which is gross, cause then it’s gonna get in that water. Yuck! And Cara had plumbers crack, which is funny. Leticia was really good. She knew just what she was doing. I think she’s right, being older and having to take care of yourself does give you an advantage cause you probably have had to unclog a drain or re-attach the chain on the toilet handle.

Both Amanda and Tara seemed pretty unhappy about having to go into the elimination room, especially against each other. At this point, I want to get rid of Joe and Tara, since I can’t take anymore of the petty squabbling. Besides, I don’t want to lose Tommy.

The part that made me unhappy is that the chicks were just sitting around on their beds and stuff, still in the clothes they had worn to that challenge. Talk about gross.

Into elimination, the girls are asked about home improvement and the guys about fashion. Tara answers the first question correctly. Tommy answers the next question correctly. (Believe it or not, I knew the answers to the home improvement questions, but not the fashion questions.) Amanda answered the next question right, so now its two to one. Then Joe answers correctly (I knew that one).

Finally, Amanda beats out Tara to answer a question about incandescent light bulbs (I’m surprised she even knew that word), and Tommy and Amanda are safe.

I’m pretty glad to see the end of Tara and Joe fussing. But what will we do for entertainment on the season finale next week?

Since I was out of town last week, as previously mentioned, I’m still trying to play catch up on my shows and blogs.

I finally got a chance to watch last week’s episode of Beauty and the Geek. Joe and Tara are still there and most people didn’t want them back. It does look like Joe is planning on being a little less miserable, but we’ll see how long that lasts. They did have a sad farewell party for Greg (without him, of course), and they ate the cake he had made.

So now they are moving the party to Big Bear Resort, which I don’t get, since it will be all cold and snow. I think it’s harder to be sexy looking in a winter parka. But maybe that’s just me. I was a little surprised to see them wanting to hook up with people who aren’t their partners. And it saddens me to think that Tommy still believes there is a chance of something happening with Amber after the show is over.

The challenge is that the chicks have to build a sled with the assistance of their geek, and then they have to slide down a hill on it. Kristina is finished first and she and Jason start down the hill while everyone else is still putting their sleds together. But they don’t have enough momentum to get across the finish line, mostly cause Jason’s feet get in the way. They end up doing it over and over, like four times, and never make it down. Cara finishes next, and she and Chris start out, but tip over immediately. Then Tom and Amanda get on their sled and they get across the finish line the first time.

So Tom and Amanda are safe. But then they are all are told that elimination is going to be based on a vote. Each team picks one team for elimination and which ever team gets the most votes will be eliminated. If its a tie, then Tom and Amanda have to pick. I’m not sure who I want to go home. I used to think it was Joe, but lately, he’s not as annoying as he used to be.

So this is how it happens: Jason and Kristina vote for Tara and Joe. Joe and Tara vote for Jason and Kristina. Chris and Cara vote for Leticia and Matt. Matt and Leticia vote for Chris and Cara.

So, we have a tie, since everyone voted for everyone else. Now Tom and Amanda have to chose who they want to go home. They chose Jason and Kristina to go, and it was sad. But I’ll live.

This week’s Beauty and the Geek is a review special. I’m not sure why these reality shows think they have to stop all the action in the middle to make us re-live stuff we’ve already seen, but they do.

I’m not even sure I want to watch it, but apparently there are a couple of surprises. Like Tommy laying in bed with three of the beauties, and, maybe, actually having sex with Amber. Maybe.

Next, they showed some of the spats between the chicks. Bored now. Moving on, they are showing interaction with geeks. Let’s just keep moving, shall we?

After a commercial break, showing an ad for that new reality show, Farmer Wants a Wife (which I will definitely, probably not be watching), and an ad for a “shocking” TMZ report about American Idol treating some contestants unfairly (oh, really?), we get to back to more geeky shenanigans.

But before we get there, I had to go check out TMZ. They are talking about an article written by Carmen Rasmussen (a season 2 Idol), who complained that she lost out to contestants that had more time with the mentors than she did. I already saw that, and it wasn’t that interesting the first time, but I have some real issues with Idol. You can read my review of last night here. While I was on TMZ, I also saw something about Lorenzo Lamas’s ex-wives and how they all look like they’ve cornered the market on plastic surgery gone bad. I believe I already mentioned something about that as well.

So, back to beauties and geeks. Back to some montages of Joe being gross, geeks dancing around, beauties giggling, Greg crying, beauties being stupid, etc., etc.

They do show the one makeover I was hoping for, Jim’s, which is the only reason I’m glad I gave up an hour of my life to watch this special. He really needed it and I thought he might end up looking good. And wow, he wasn’t even recognizable. I’m really happy for him, cause he looks good and maybe that will give him more confidence.

The end the show with a little preview of the last three episodes. You don’t want to miss it. Or do you?

So here’s the deal, I was finally starting to keep the chicks straight on American Idol and America’s Next Top Model, and then I started watching Beauty and the Geek and The Bachelor. Not only was I completely confused as to who was who and which show they were on, I also found myself wondering something. Where do all these skinny brainless chicks come from anyway? Are they just churned out at a factory somewhere?

In any case, last night on The Bachelor was the part that starts to get interesting. They had home dates with the final four girls. Now, I’m finally willing to invest the time to learn their names. Last week, two women were eliminated, one was a psycho chick and the other thought she was America’s Next Top Model, so I was glad to lose them. So that left the four women who’s homes he visited. Don’t ask me where they all lived, though, cause I didn’t care enough to try to remember that. The chicks were Shayne, an “actress” who is the daughter of actor Lorenzo Lamas. I put the word actress in quotes, because I’m fairly certain her acting credits to this point have consisted of high school stage productions. In any case, Matt, this year’s British Bachelor, seems to really like her, even though I think she’s kinda young for him, 22 to his 27. Look, I’d be the first to admit that age is just a number, but trust me when I say that this kid is not the most emotionally mature person you’re ever gonna meet. But she is really, really hot. Plus, she has a family involved in acting, and my friend Sandy tells me that the word on the street is that this guy only agreed to do the show because he wants to be an actor. (Sandy is a great cyber researcher, and for “researcher,” you can read “stalker.”) So he may end up with Shayne. Personally, after the home visit, I would have run screaming, cause although Lorenzo has held up well over the years, and you can still just see the young boy who played the other love interest for Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy on Grease, Shayne’s mother has had one too many trips to the cutting table. Her face is just all weird and her mouth . . . it’s hard to describe . . . it sorta takes over half her face in an unnatural way, with a dark purply outline, but pale, pasty pink lips. I was scared.

Matt also visited the homes of the three other young ladies (I use that term pretty loosely here), Amanda, Chelsea and Noelle. Of those three, probably the most normal was Noelle, with nice parents, and two sisters, who all apparently live on a farm or somewhere with horses. Of course, he doesn’t choose her.

Chelsea, 25, to me is just sorta loud and obnoxious, and yet manages to hide any type of emotional connection. They both keep saying how great they are together, but I don’t see it. Her family did seem nice, though.

Finally, we have Amanda, 27. Amanda thought it would be a real hoot to hire actors to play her parents, and be as weird and annoying as possible. Her ersatz mother played a drunken slut who laughed inappropriately and made several passes at Matt. The father was just kinda rude. Finally, he walks in on Matt and the mother, who is all over Matt, and demands to know what’s going on. I was wondering the same thing. Why would Amanda waste so much of her time with Matt on something so silly. So, long after the rest of us have had enough, Amanda calls it quits and tells Matt she was pulling a practical joke on him. Ha ha. Yikes. Then he gets to meet her real family, but fortunately we really don’t have to sit through too much of that. If it was my choice, I’d have gotten rid of Amanda, just for that, but Matt clearly has a different sense of humor than me.

Next week, Matt takes the three remaining chicks for some fun in the sun in Barbados. I, for one, just can’t wait.

Lots of shows that I’ve been waiting for start up again this week. Well, to be honest, a couple started last week, like Bones, which is airing on Mondays at 8 pm ET on Fox, and Law & Order: SVU on NBC at 10 pm ET. There were 6 new eps of Bones and 5 of SVU. Actually, last week’s ep of SVU was one of the most disturbing I’ve seen in a long time.

So here is my TV schedule for this week (all times are ET):

Monday
Big Bang Theory - CBS - 8 pm
Bones - Fox - 8 pm
House - Fox - 9 pm (4 new eps start 4/28)
The Bachelor - ABC - 10 pm

Tuesday
American Idol - Fox - 8 pm
Beauty and the Geek - CW - 8 pm
Hell’s Kitchen - Fox - 9 pm
Reaper - CW - 9 pm (5 new eps)
Law and Order: SVU - NBC - 10 pm

Wednesday
America’s Next Top Model - CW - 8 pm
Back To You - Fox - 8:30 pm
American Idol - Fox - 9 pm

Thursday
Supernatural - CW - 9 pm (4 new eps)
Lost - ABC - 10 pm (5 new eps)

Friday
Sarah Jane Adventures - SciFi - 8 pm (new eps to air in US)
Doctor Who - SciFi - 9 pm (new eps to air in US)
Moonlight - CBS - 9 pm (4 new episodes)

Obviously, I’m gonna be pretty busy this week. Thank goodness for DVR.

Last week on Beauty and the Geek, the geeks got their makeover, and no one got kicked off. They did however have to pick a team to go to the elimination room this week, and they chose Joe and Tara. However, we find out that if either one wins a challenge this week, they will be safe.

Apparently, the contestants think the house is haunted, so they dress Tom up as a vampire and try to sneak in her room to scare Tara. Joe defends her honor and Randi is being so mean to him, its almost making me like him. And they even had Joe reading a Bible. Talk about swaying people’s opinions.

I wish I could get in there and slap Randi in her stupid, ugly, annoying face. I hate people who always have to be right, so they keep shouting over everyone else’s point of view. I think such people should be executed at dawn.

We find out that Matt broke his clavicle during the football game (they never said before what he broke) and so he can’t compete in the fireman challenge, but Leticia gets to compete in his place.

The challenge was kinda fun, cause they had to get dressed as firemen, put out a fire in a barrel, then climb a fire escape ladder and convince the chick to jump down two stories. Joe and Tara were first and he did it in 4 minutes 40 seconds.

Greg and Randi - 5 minutes 10 seconds
Jason and Kristina - 7 minutes 25 seconds
Leticia and Matt - 8 minutes and 4 seconds (she just couldn’t attach the hose to the hydrant and it ate up all her time)
Chris and Cara - 3 minutes 29 seconds
Tom and Amanda - 3 minutes 22 seconds

So Tom and Amanda won!

The girls challenge is about garbage and math. They have to find recyclable cans and bottles in a huge pile of garbage. The cans and the bottles are worth a certain amount each, and they have to make them add up to $5 exactly to win. Kristina won, which is funny, since she didn’t seem like she could count.

Tom, Amanda, Jason and Kristina have to pick another team to go into elimination. I hope its Randi and Greg. Yes!!!! It is, it is! OK, I was way too excited about that, wasn’t I? I am a little sorry about Greg, cause he’s a sweetie, but whatever.

So into elimination - Tara answers the first question correctly, Joe answers the second correctly. Randi got the next one, so it was two to one.

I was actually rooting for Joe. I never thought I would do that. The third question Joe started to answer but messed up. Greg had no idea, so they asked one more question for the geeks, which Joe got right. He did apologize to Randi, but being the low class chick she is, she couldn’t even accept his apology. Good riddance to her.

It’s makeover week on Beauty and the Geek. The makeover is always a favorite episode of mine on America’s Next Top Model, mostly cause there’s always a meltdown. And that never stops being funny. Apparently, the way they end up looking has something to do with the next challenge. I love how they like to be tricky on this show.

I could have guessed that Joe would be the biggest baby about it all, and I’m a little bit sorry that Jim is gone, cause it would have been interesting to see if they shaved him and cut his hair short. It’s a little scary to me that they let them pick what they will wear and how they will look. You can only hope the chicks have good enough taste that they are able to tell them what’s good for them.

What was the deal with the body waxing?? Apparently, manly body hair isn’t sexy. The little bit of sexy hair sneaking out at the top of my husband’s shirt was what initially attracted me to him. Um, is that too much information?

The Makeover:
Greg was cute. He did look much more sure of himself.
Tommy looked hot. I always thought he was kinda cute but he ended up looking good.
Matt still looked like Matt. To me anyway. It’s probably the glasses.
Chris looked really different.
Jason looked like an executive or something in that suit.
Joe almost looked cute and much younger, as well. He was unhappy, but he shouldn’t have been.

The Challenge: To write and perform a romantic scene based on the Prom. The winner gets to go the premiere of Prom Night.

They are judged by a couple of people from the Young and the Restless. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this show, but I didn’t recognize the two actors who they picked from the show. Plus, their acting skills were not too great. I mean the soap actors. As for the Beauties and the Geeks, they were pretty bad, but not far off from a typical soap actor, actually. Some of them weren’t too bad. And Matt got to kiss Leticia.

Matt and Leticia were the winners, which is nice for them, cause they don’t have to go back into the elimination room. As it turns out, they aren’t going to send anyone into elimination this week, cause no one is leaving. They also get to pick a couple to go out on the town with them and they pick Randi and Greg.

But there is some bad news. One of the four couples who is left, has to decide to go into the elimination room next week. I told you this show was tricky. They decide to have a cross dressing fashion show challenge, which was just silly. And in the end they put Joe and Tara into elimination, cause everyone is tired of Joe. As am I.

This week, on Beauty and the Geek, they quickly resolved the issue, left over from last week, of who was staying and who was going, starting out with Tara’s agonized decision of choosing Joe over Jonathan. Personally, I would have kept Jonathan, but that’s just me. Jonathan did seem fairly comfortable with the idea of going back home to his mommy, though, so I guess it was all OK. Question: Who cares if someone has a huge heart anyway? They all kept talking about it, and I wonder if its just the only way stupid chicks feel they can relate to ugly guys. Whatever.

So the Beauties and Geeks, now in teams of two, have their first challenge as couples. For the girls, its a science project, and for the guys, its having to give love advice on Dr. Drew’s radio call in show. Now, I’m gonna be honest with you. Although I did watch this show, it was late. I had just finished watching American Idol and Hell’s Kitchen and was reviewing my AI blog, so I wasn’t maybe paying as close attention as I should have been to the action on the screen. But the show seemed kinda boring to me.

However, watching them trying to be comfortable outside of their own spheres, I was proud of them. And a little frightened. I did find myself wishing Cara would go soon, cause her little baby voice is making me want to puke. But still, the way some of those girls were able to learn and explain about volcanoes, earthquakes and electricity, and the guys give love advice, it made me think people can change and learn. Even Cara, who had to ask Chris if we live on the outside of the Earth, and Tom, who didn’t know what “sexually active” meant. Not that all of them really got it, but some of them did pretty well. Joe, however, still talks too much.

The Beauty challenge winner was Cara and the Geek winner was Tom, which made Chris and Cara and Tom and Amanda safe. The couples that went into elimination were Jim and Tiffany and Matt and Leticia. I felt a little sorry for Jim, who put out there on national TV that he had never kissed a girl, and then when he asked Tiffany, she said “no.” In a way, she got paid back when she was completely unable to answer even one question before Leticia. But still, with everyone crying all over the place, it was hard to dislike either girl enough to want to see them go home. In the end, Leticia pulled Matt through with her, by answering all three of her questions correctly, when he never even buzzed in to answer at all, letting Jim get two right in a row. So Jim and Tiffany go home. But I couldn’t help wondering what kind of unbeatable team Leticia and Jim would make if instead of letting a couple go, they just let go the two people who didn’t answer any questions. But I guess the world will never know.

I hope Tiffany kissed Jim goodbye.

I can’t even tell you why I’m still watching Beauty and the Geek. Sheer boredom, I expect.

I feel so very sorry for Tommy, who honestly seemed to feel that Amber was serious about him, when she was really just playing him. I imagine he feels pretty stupid now that he gets to watch the show.

Anyway, this week they have a sports challenge and play flag football. The twist is that each team has to trade a member to the other team. So Jillian goes over with the Geeks and Chris goes with the Beauties. After the switch, the traded person finds out that if the team they are on loses, they are automatically sent home. I’ve never watched this show before, so I don’t know if they’ve done anything like this before and if they should have been more cautious with the trades.

I’m getting pretty tired of Joe, he’s so completely annoying. I’d love to see him go home this week.

The football game itself was dragged out so much that it felt as long as a regular football game to me. The only exciting part was the Pepsi Max commercial in the middle, where they play that song from A Night at the Roxbury and everyone bobs their heads. The upshot is Joe tries to take over the geek team and he’s loud and rude and annoying and gets way too invested in it. The beauty team is only saved by the fact that they have Chris, because he gets them organized and working together. There was a sweet moment for little Greg, cause he actually caught the ball and ran with it, and he was so excited.

There was one injury, as well, when Matt gets tripped by one of the Beauties - whose name I can’t remember and I don’t care enough about to look up. It was a little unclear to me what exactly happened, but apparently he did break something in his arm or shoulder or whatever. He lived. But he did have to go to the ER and didn’t come back until the end of the show.

As for the game, the Beauties won and poor Jillian went home.

Then they went on to the elimination and this week, they did it differently. From this week on, they are going back to the old format of each Beauty teaming up with a Geek. The girls, as the winners, got to choose who they wanted to be paired up with. They decide together who gets whom, and since there is one more guy than girl, obviously whichever guy isn’t chosen is gone.

So here are the teams:

Cara and Chris
Amanda and Tommy
Leticia and Matt
Randi and Greg
Kristina and Jason
Tiffany and Jim

Apparently, Tiffany’s choice was a shock, because she was supposed to pick Jonathan. So that left Tara to chose between Jonathan and Joe. Unfortunately, they ended the show right there, with a “to be continued,” so I guess I have to watch again next week, if I really want to know. It all depends on whether or not Jim was supposed to be the one that left, in which case Tara was supposed to pick Joe. Which she can still do, but then Jonathan, who was supposed to stay has to go. Personally, I’d rather keep Jonathan than Joe, but no one is asking me.

Beauty and the Geek. OK, I gave it another chance. Just cause I had some time and felt like wasting it. I have a friend who really likes this show, so I thought, maybe. Add that to the fact that I need to have stuff to write in this blog about that’s actually on the CW, and it seemed logical to watch it. Even after I already hated the ep I watched last week. Obviously, I don’t catch on quickly.

Anyway, as I watch this week, I have some thoughts.

First of all I think that these chicks are very oversexed. It’s like they can’t help themselves. And yet, they are just using these poor guys, who actually think that beautiful girls might honestly like them.

Then there’s the challenge of a talent show. Do beautiful woman even need talent? Why is that fair? I’m glad the chicks didn’t win the talent competition, cause I was afraid that stupid men would put them through just on their sexiness alone. Not that the guys are that talented, but next to the girls they were amazing.

I still wonder how these chicks can be happy, how they can think they are living fulfilling lives, while they are so incredibly stupid. It doesn’t make any sense to me that anyone can be truly happy when they have absolutely no ideas in their head other than celebrity gossip and going out to parties. I’m not saying they have to be Rhodes scholars or anything, but can’t they even have a clue?

In a way, I was happy to see the end of Amber, cause she was so manipulative. But she wasn’t the only one and it almost didn’t seem fair that her calling the others out for the same thing, should have made all the guys mad at her. But, you know, only almost.

I watched the season premiere of Beauty and the Geek. I’ve never watched this show before, so this is new for me. Apparently, this year, they are changing it up and it’s going to be Beauty versus the Geek, as opposed to other years when it was set up in teams of a Beauty with a Geek.

Question: How do they find such stupid pretty girls? Are all pretty girls stupid?

And why did Ashton Kutcher develop this show? (clearly, he’s more than just a beauty, the guy must be worth millions) Did he ever see himself as a geek trying to attract beauties?

These guys are almost cute in a geeky way. Oh, right. What scares me with a show like this is how people aren’t afraid to act like idiots and embarrass themselves on national TV. I could never do it.

As for the girls, yes they are pretty, but how can they be so stupid. They’re pretending, right?

My first thought is that the geeks will win, mostly because everyone knows how difficult it is to get a bunch of women to work together without discord. Especially a bunch of dumb women who think they are all that. Although girls like to talk a lot, so they will at least communicate.

The first challenge is to get phone numbers from strangers. Sending these guys out to a bar to get phone numbers from opposite sex doesn’t seem fair but, of course, they are leveling the playing field by giving the beauties a “make under” so they won’t be able to rely on their looks. Some of the girls looked really bad, but a couple weren’t too awful.

Question: Why can’t they just tell people it’s a contest and they need to collect as many phone numbers as possible to win? I would.

I guess I identify more with the geeks, because I’m not much of a one for loud parties and mixing with strangers. Also, I fast forwarded through the chick fight, cause I can’t stand that kinda crap. Maybe I’m just more like a guy.

The beauties won the challenge, which seemed probable from the beginning, because even if they are ugly, they still have better social skills than the guys do.

The chicks pick five guys to go into the elimination room where they get an elimination quiz question. I remembered the chick’s number, too, does that make me really geeky? Actually, I answered all of the questions before they did, so I win!

Well, after one episode, I find that I just don’t care enough about these people to keep watching, so its doubtful that I will.

In my Internet travels today, I came across an article detailing the shows that the CW is renewing for next season.

The show I’m most excited about is Supernatural. I was nervous and so was the show’s creator, Eric Kripke. But luckily for all of us, the CW has renewed Supernatural for a fourth season!! And there’s still new eps to air this year, so as far as I’m concerned, its all good.

The CW also renewed Smallville for it’s 8th (and probably last) season. I’ve read elsewhere that they are probably gonna use this season to tie up all the ends and bring Superman up to true Clark Kent adulthood. I’m just not sure how they plan to make him a nerd with glasses.

Other shows renewed by the CW are Gossip Girl for its 2nd full season, One Tree Hill for a Season 6, and sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris. Also, America’s Next Top Model was renewed for both an 11th and 12th cycle. No word yet on new shows Reaper and Aliens in America. I’d like to see Reaper renewed cause I think the show has potential. Don’t forget that there are still three new eps of Reaper to watch starting this week on Thursday, March 13 at 9:00 pm. You should check it out and see what you think if you haven’t seen it yet.

Finally, don’t forget Beauty and the Geek. The fifth season premieres tonight, Tuesday, March 11 at 8 pm. It’s worrisome that it would premiere opposite the Top 12 singing from the Lennon/McCartney songbook on American Idol, but that’s why we have DVRs, right?