Evidently Ignorance is not Bliss
Evidently Ignorance is not Bliss by Roxanne McDonald
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The Cougars are pit against the Kittens in creating competitions for each other; one Kitten gets grabby; and one Cougar gets confused—or confuses. |
Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble; if I stay there will be double….
So should it be the theme song of at least a couple of contender’s for the tennis pro’s affections.
The older sentiments are along the lines of how younger women do not threaten, for, as one Cougar says, “21 or 25 doesn’t mean they’ve got it going on.”
The younger attitudes are along the lines of, well, ignorance and immunity. They talk as if they are never going to be fifteen or twenty years older, ever, and one of them is so horrified that she says one of the ladies is older than her mom! And then she winces.
There are a zillion shots of the puppy.
There is a conversation between the Marks. [What would have been cool would be to have the host Mark twenty years older than the bachelor Mark…hee.] Host Mark tells bachelor Mark that he noted how when Angela left them last time and when Lauren left and how different those two moments were. I don’t know. Something obscure.
Mark is readying to take one of each age group to lunch. He picks Kelly because she is way sexual (duh); and he picks Amanda because she is so genuine and always smiling. I am impressed by the disparity.
Mark and Kelly giggle across the room, and Amanda is so not okay with this happiness.
Kelly, however, is quite happy to milk the time she has with Mark, hoping to get the dessert end.
Back at the Pool
Host Mark informs the women they will have the opportunity to create the perfect group date…for the opposing team.
Redundant “game is on” yakking in interview….
The younger group is searching for synonyms (at the same time Mark is dining and misusing words like “literally” and Kelly is making a classic date mistake: talking way too much about herself) for “old”. The older group is searching for a group
activity that will make the Kittens look bad. (Bowling won’t work, for then they would be bending over in front of Mark.)
The Kittens have to do a birthday party for twenty kids. Hah! Megan points out the bitter fact that running around after kids takes away from Mark time; but Adelaide, Marianna Sunshine, sees this as the perfect way to test how Mark is with kids. Ew. Let’s watch while he smacks a few of them around like tennis balls.
The Cougars have to do a SENIOR water aerobics class…, but the trick backfires when number one, the women all get to strip down to hot bathing suit action; and number two, Mark actually has a great time. So, teh!
Mark chooses Maria for the single date. He reveals some stand-offish attitudes with body language she interprets as not good for her chances [arms crossed tightly over chest, for example], and so decides she will leave before she is made to.
The women are a mix of anticipation, worry, and wonder. Jen says you really start to wonder what really goes on in Mark’s head. Uh, no. We don’t.
Mark reiterates his appreciation and how he will again have an open mind [there’s your chance, Jen]. He then proceeds to tell each and every one she is looking beautiful, as if he were programmed by his coach for public protocol; then says bye bye to Adelaide (who didn’t he says, give anything to the kids’ party and didn’t give any tongue to their kissing…) and sends Lynn packing by projecting all the “discomfort” between them on her.
By the way, Maria doesn’t leave—after Mark doesn’t give her the kiss-off. You know that was her protective device put in place as she suspected she might go.
So now we have to—we get to—see more of these great minds in action.
Snore.
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