The Bachelor

We watch The Bachelor mostly to make fun of the ridiculous things the girls do in the name of "love." My favorite is about the second or third episode, when they invariably start crying to the guy about how hard it is to share his attention with twenty other women (like so many did this week).

To that I say, "Duh."

Have they watched the show? That's the whole game. For weeks. No one likes to share their love interest with other people. If you can't take it... don't participate in the show.

The worst part probably isn't sharing him with twenty, it's sharing him with that last other one on the final episode. That's when it really gets weird, because the guy has two women equally convinced that he is in love with them (and wants to marry them... after a total of maybe 48 hours of one-on-one time since they first met). Many times, the guys have said they are actually in love with both women.

An interesting thing I've noticed over the seasons-- The person who goes on the very first one-on-one date always seems to develop an over-attachment to the Bachelor (or Bachelorette). That person is always tossed about mid season, when the Bachelor(ette) finally gets sick to death of having to bolster that person's self-esteem and constantly reassure them that they still like them.

And there's always a crazy girl. She's the most fun to watch, and the Bachelor always keeps her around. When the other girls start telling him the crazy one is crazy... he thinks they're being catty because they're jealous, which makes him all the more attracted to the poor little picked-on, crazy one. It's the most fun when he chooses the crazy one at the end. Sometimes HE turns out to be crazier than the crazy one ever was *coughJakecough*. Of course the crazy men are usually from Texas.

The Bachelorette is another thing altogether. The guys aren't nearly as snarky or competitive with each other as the girls. Guys and girls... very different. What the guys lack in entertaining drama, they make up for in being frequently shirtless.

Are you still reading this???!  I'll stop, so you can go read a book or learn a foreign language or something.