Battling Beauties and Gracious Geeks—Special Moments and Musings

Battling Beauties and Gracious Geeks—Special Moments and Musings by Roxanne McDonald

I’ll abstain from giving a full recap and just recount some special moments in Beauty and the Geek.

I’ll leave the full (and most thorough) recapping to the funnier writers like Logan Huffmanron and others at Reality TV Calendar, and instead propose another look at the cutest, funniest, and more endearing (or at least engaging) moments, comments, and contestants as they appeared on episode four of Beauty and the Geek. I will even spare the lengthy here and just list, comment upon, or grunt at….

1. When Nate and Cecille return as victors from the Elimination Room and everyone screams and cheers for Nate like he’s Norm from “Cheers”, but completely ignore Cecille. Now that was harsh.

2. Megan interviewing how all that thinking and studying, all that brain activity, poor thing, is wearing on her [and therefore how she will welcome a sandy-ego excursion—

which she thinks is a vacation/reward…heh-heh].

3. When, after host Mike Richards informs the girls they will be studying waves, air waves, Megan interviews how her knowledge falls far short while her use of electronics is prolific, especially with her fav…wait, she catches herself….

4. Geek analogies and metaphors—like the one Nate uses to describe his fitness status: he says he is like a bottle of spoiled milk, all chunky and white…. Wow. Quite an image, Nate, but most original nonetheless.

5. The inevitability of at least one geek getting car sick.

6. Another analogy of sorts: Drew impressing upon Erin how infrequently he works out, saying that the last time he did so, Bill Clinton was president [and of course, Star Wars was big].

7. A similar comfort with exercise/working out: when Cecille takes the funniest geek ever to the weight room to start what will be his own version of a workout session lead by him (the competition requires each geek to run a session), Nate points to what he calls heavy-looking things—weights/dumbbells.

8. Another moment indicative of geek/work-out familiarity: Mario bouncing rather than of course appropriately using the giant work-out ball.

9. How Niels insists on defying the frustrated Jennylee. Again.

10. The uh-oh is she here for the air time moment: when Erin, in HEELS on a boat, goes to the windshield and starts doing a sexy [out-of-context, really] dance, which is made up of one move, undulating.

11. When Cecille (Cici, uhheh!) pulls a mock power thing on Niels, saying how “smart” she is that she will “kick his %^# ass”. Huh. I didn’t know “Beauty and the Geek” was a comedy?! Worse, though, is how this absurd moment turns vicious: when Cici critiques Niels for Jennylee,

pointing out, especially, his crying. [He got teary-eyed once, for God’s sake.]

12. In conjunction with #11: The one who is setting herself up for a big ego busting, Cecille resorts to ridiculing and haranguing—calling Berkeley students “disgusting, dirty hippies” (uh, is Fifi unaware that time has passed since Vietnam?) living in a crap town and being junk heads…. Of course, the one way to dilute her drunken (?) slurries is to have her repeat one adjective over and over and over…so now she just looks like a mental wart-riddled, petulant, bigoted, spiritually bankrupt, resentful, threatened, frightened, and of course moronic pig.

13. When it’s Niels’ turn to lead a workout session and he takes the whole metaphor thing all the way to the mats…making the girls get down on all fours and “crawl like a bear”. LOL. He should have said pig.

14. When Mike Richards describes the girls’ challenge and Nadia tries on her primadonna whine: “but we already worked ouuuttt. Sniff.” Oh, the oh-so-unfair challenge? To dig in the sand, retrieve a working walkie-talkie, and run to a boat.

15. When Megan can’t work the walkie talkie. She can talk, but can’t listen. Hmmm. A theme?

16. When the episode is closing in on the Elimination Round and Drew taps into his Star Trek repertoire to wish his fellows well: he uses the abstraction of time personified and while I do not doubt Drew’s sincerity and sweetness, I doubt one half of that room’s humans get it….

17. Which leads to my absolute favorite, this week’s stunner: when Niels teaches JennyLee what the acronym RADAR stands for, and she asks, then, what the “I” in RADAR stands for. Dearest darling girl, there is not an “I” in everything in your world. LOL.

Here’s to the beauties making even Homer Simpson look like a nuclear scientist. DOH! Wait…then again….
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