Give Dorks a Chance
In a desperate attempt to entertain myself last night, I resorted to an activity shared by many, but I believe enjoyed by few - channel flipping. Channel flipping is kind of like running from an ax-murderer. You keep running faster and faster, you’re breathing hard and harder (ok, maybe that’s just me), and finally you get nowhere except on the wrong side of a previously bloodied death tool.
For me, that ax landed sharply on my forehead at the CW Network. In an attempt have two wrongs make a right, The CW is the love child of a vicious merger between The UPN and The WB networks . I’m guessing that CW stands for the two owners of the network - CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment, but who the hell knows or cares? And I don’t think “Dawson‘s Creek” made the cut.
Anyway, I was lucky enough to hit the CW on undoubtedly their best show of the week - “Beauty and the Geek”. That’s right folks, we have now reached the pinnacle of performance for reality television, and if it weren’t for Real World Denver, things wouldn’t be looking so bad for the world of reality TV. We don’t have to lie in bed at night longing for the days of “Survivor” and “Big Brother”. Ok, maybe it’s not that good, but it sure beats trudging through an overly dramatic episode of “Grey’s Anatomy”.
So if you haven’t had the pleasure of watching this masterful brain-child of Ashton Kutcher, I’ll give you a quick overview of what BATG has to offer. Basically, the show starts with eight beauties and eight geeks. The beauties range from a hot voice teacher to a former Hooter’s waitress. The geeks consist of an M.I.T. graduate and yep, you guessed it, a virgin. Each beauty is paired exclusively with a respective geek. The beauties go through exercises that challenge their wits, like acting as tour guides for museum visitors, while the geeks do things that cool, slick dudes could pull off, like playing strip poker. Each week a couple gets voted off on the basis of performance.
The highlight of last night’s episode was a challenge for the beauties to interview Stephen Dubner, a co-author for the best selling book, “Freakonomics”. The model beauty gave a pathetic and painful attempt at reading from a tele-prompter and discussing the contents of the book she had never seen before. After the interview her geek (the virgin) was in no way congratulating or supportive. A behind the scenes conversation between the model and the virgin show the beauty angry at her little dork, and crying at the lack of support. The geek responded with asking her why she didn’t study harder. This scene of a beautiful woman seeking approval from a geek was perverse, but in a strange way touching.
I guess the glimmer of hope that a geek will actually hook up with a beauty by the end of the show keeps folks coming back for more. Since BATG was the highest rated show on television last Wednesday, it looks like there is a special place in the heart of America for dorks in search of love. I know I’ll be tuning in.
Tell John Poole how many tears you shed in the last episode of “Beauty and the Geek” at poolejohn@gmail.com.
For me, that ax landed sharply on my forehead at the CW Network. In an attempt have two wrongs make a right, The CW is the love child of a vicious merger between The UPN and The WB networks . I’m guessing that CW stands for the two owners of the network - CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment, but who the hell knows or cares? And I don’t think “Dawson‘s Creek” made the cut.
Anyway, I was lucky enough to hit the CW on undoubtedly their best show of the week - “Beauty and the Geek”. That’s right folks, we have now reached the pinnacle of performance for reality television, and if it weren’t for Real World Denver, things wouldn’t be looking so bad for the world of reality TV. We don’t have to lie in bed at night longing for the days of “Survivor” and “Big Brother”. Ok, maybe it’s not that good, but it sure beats trudging through an overly dramatic episode of “Grey’s Anatomy”.
So if you haven’t had the pleasure of watching this masterful brain-child of Ashton Kutcher, I’ll give you a quick overview of what BATG has to offer. Basically, the show starts with eight beauties and eight geeks. The beauties range from a hot voice teacher to a former Hooter’s waitress. The geeks consist of an M.I.T. graduate and yep, you guessed it, a virgin. Each beauty is paired exclusively with a respective geek. The beauties go through exercises that challenge their wits, like acting as tour guides for museum visitors, while the geeks do things that cool, slick dudes could pull off, like playing strip poker. Each week a couple gets voted off on the basis of performance.
The highlight of last night’s episode was a challenge for the beauties to interview Stephen Dubner, a co-author for the best selling book, “Freakonomics”. The model beauty gave a pathetic and painful attempt at reading from a tele-prompter and discussing the contents of the book she had never seen before. After the interview her geek (the virgin) was in no way congratulating or supportive. A behind the scenes conversation between the model and the virgin show the beauty angry at her little dork, and crying at the lack of support. The geek responded with asking her why she didn’t study harder. This scene of a beautiful woman seeking approval from a geek was perverse, but in a strange way touching.
I guess the glimmer of hope that a geek will actually hook up with a beauty by the end of the show keeps folks coming back for more. Since BATG was the highest rated show on television last Wednesday, it looks like there is a special place in the heart of America for dorks in search of love. I know I’ll be tuning in.
Tell John Poole how many tears you shed in the last episode of “Beauty and the Geek” at poolejohn@gmail.com.
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