Category: beauty and the geek 5

This year’s lame twist turned out to be as bad as last year’s lame twist in Beauty and the Geek 5 Episode 1. In a competition based show, a wrench like beauty vs. the geek gives one or more people an obvious advantage in the challenges.

Tara’s not happy to see Jonathan come back. She thinks he’s just odd.

Amber thinks Tom’s good looking and hopes that one day he will be really rich and take care of her. For some reason, he likes her, too.

The next challenge is a talent show. The girls are worried that they’re talentless. The guys may have less self confidence, but they’re confident they’re more talented than the girls are. The beauties spend their time bickering. The geeks are working on… a rap?

The beauties eventually give up and decide to play spin the bottle instead.

Amber reveals to the other beauties that she’s just playing Tom so she doesn’t go into the elimination room.

The beauties have finally come up with something. They’re going to do a dance routine dressed up like Britney Spears (before the children/losing her mind). Unfortunately, there’s no actual “routine” to their dance routine, so they just do random dances. The crowd hates them.

The geeks are a whole different story. Their hodge podge of talents comes together well to form an entertaining and funny show.

Unsurprisingly, the geeks win the challenge. Amanda realizes that they failed to use something other than their beauty, thereby failing to realize the whole point of the challenge. At least she’s showing some growth, even if her teammates aren’t. The geeks will be able to send 5 of them to the elimination room.

Some of the girls are studying. Some of them would rather try to sell themselves. Amber continues working the Tom angle. Leticia and Tiffany hop in the hot tub because they feel studying is beneath them. The guys appear naive enough to fall for this. What this also accomplishes is it gets the other girls to hate them.

The geeks focus on who they want to keep. They turn this into an excessively complicated Congressional measure. Even some of the geeks are confused by it.

Amber (who blames a “certain person” on her team), Amanda, Randi, Kristina, and Jillian. Amber disputes the fact that Leticia hasn’t been sent to the elimination room, and on this point, I agree with her. Leticia’s wasting space there in hopes of getting an extra modelling gig. Not that Amber’s any better.

Amanda knows Chicago is in Illinois and is safe. Kristina is the next one safe by knowing the name of a play. Jillian knows math and is also safe. So it’s down to Amber and Randi. Randi knows the question about hookers, and Amber is eliminated. She says the experience hasn’t changed her any. She is willing to talk to Tom if he still wants to talk to her after this, though she’s not interested in having him as a boyfriend.

Stay tuned to Beauty and the Geek 5 episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

In an effort to make this a ridiculously crazy reality TV night (Fox has American Idol 7, NBC has The Biggest Loser: Couples, and CBS has Big Brother 9… and if you explore further, you’ll find Reality Chat on TV Guide, America’s Next Top Model on VH1, High School Reunion on TV Land, True Life on MTV, Deal or No Deal on CNBC, America’s Funniest Home Videos on ABC Family, and Real Housewives on Bravo), The CW is jumping into the ring with the premiere of Beauty and the Geek 5. Check out the Beauty and the Geek 5 cast, which unlike last season does not include a male beauty and female geek since nobody liked that twist the first time.

This season, it’s not beauty and the geek. It’s beauty vs. the geek. What the point of that is I’m not real clear.

Greg is a gay geek (the clothing designer part in his bio gave that away). Joe tells us sex is overrated. Tommy collects sweater vests. Jim looks like he just stepped off a VW bus in the 70s.

Amber says she’s a 20. Someone slap her. Tara hits up daddy for money whenever she needs it. Kristina isn’t stupid… she just… doesn’t know stuff. Tiffany says her IQ is a little below average, probably around 200.

Amber lets Greg sleep in her room. All of the girls immediately like him. He’s afraid he doesn’t fit in with either group.

The girls get together to plot strategy. Amber doesn’t want to hear anything about it, choosing instead to get in her bathing suit and sit on Joe’s lap. She makes an alliance with him, even if she can’t remember his name afterward.

The challenge is about numbers. It’s about getting phone numbers from strangers. They’ll go to a Hollywood club full of hot guys and girls. To level the playing field, the girls are getting a makeunder, from fat to bad skin to bad clothes. Even still, it’s unfair because the girls may not be as pretty as usual, but they’ve got a lot more self confidence and people skills.

The task is sped through, with no clear indication of who did how well, just that everybody struggled to an extent. Mike will call all the numbers and make sure they’re actually real.

The real drama begins after the challenge. Randi and Amber try to prove they’re the most obnoxious of the group, getting into a screaming match. It’s a pretty close race.

The beauties won the challenge. Wow. Shocker. I hope all the challenges aren’t this lopsided, but I don’t see how they can make them much fairer. As with last year’s twist, it’s obvious from the first night it’s a stupid idea.

Having won the challenge, the girls will have to send 5 geeks to the elimination room. They want to come up with the four guys who they most don’t want to see have a chance of going home. Since he has a girlfriend already, Chris is sent to the elimination room. Tommy is as well, which doesn’t surprise me because he looks like the guy who’s the ringer of the group. Jonathan and Joe are more social than the others. John is the last one sent to the elimination room. That leaves Greg, Jason, Jim, and Matt as safe.

They’ll all get questions. The first person to answer right stays. If they answer wrong, they’re out. Tommy is safe from elimination, having correctly recalled a girl’s phone number from a video clue. Chris knows how to speak like he’s on AOL, saving himself. Jonathan is the next one safe. Joe saves himself by knowing that you can get someone’s attention with your eyebrows. John has been eliminated. Lame quiz format accompanies the lame twist.

Stay tuned to Beauty and the Geek 5 episode 2, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

Beauty and the Geek 5 will premiere on The CW Tuesday March 11 at 8PM. Mike Richards will return as host. This season, two cliques will compete against each other, and people will be eliminated individually rather than in teams of two. Eighteen people will make up the cast.

Geeks

Chris
23
MIT oceanography student
Cambridge MA

Greg
23
Clothing designer/pastry chef
Azusa CA

Jason
23
Internet marketer
Brooklyn NY

Jim
21
Computer programmer/student
Bedford MA

Joe
24
TV assignment editor
Nipomo CA

John E
25
Recovering Microsoft addict
Tempe AZ

Jonathan
26
System administrator
Colfax CA

Matt
21
Writer/student
Dallas TX

Tommy
24
Law student
Somerville MA

Beauties

Amanda
23
Model
Queen Creek AZ

Amber
25
Model
Los Angeles CA

Cara
21
Cocktail Waitress
Temecula CA

Jillian
22
Model
Miami fL

Kristina
21
Student
Wheaton IL

Leticia
29
Sports announcer
Orlando FL

Randi
26
Stylist
Houston TX

Tara
24
Hooters hostess
Davie FL

Tiffany
21
Student
Nashville TN

Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 11 was pretty much just a way to fill an hour. Rather than revealing the winner, they told us it was just a popularity contest, and that America would vote for the winner. It’s now down to the final two: Sam & Nicole and Jasmine & David.

Jen kinda misses William. Huh?

Will tells us he was so embarassed by how people felt about him. He had no idea that it was actually happening.

Dave says Jasmine was helpless on purpose but became more self sufficient as time went on. Jasmine noticed confidence and sociability in Dave.

Joshua, who called David & Jasmine out for not growing enough, doesn’t regret this move, even if it did give them a kick in the pants.

On the picking up bug competition that as usual unfairly favored Sam, Jasmine made the mistake of saying her one regret was not being able to pick up the spider. So they bring him back and make her touch it now, with the assistance of her partner. She’s able to touch one of its legs. Barely.

Sam and Rebecca missed each other. Any bets on how long this lasts?

Rebecca doesn’t hold any hard feelings against Nicole for wanting her out, and Will thinks she was a genius for plotting to get rid of them.

Rebecca was happy to see Amanda leave, considering she knew Sam liked her first.

Joshua learned not to fight Shay. Shay learned patience. Shay thinks they’re the old married couple. Joshua thinks she’s the bossy mom, but it’s because she cares about how he turns out. They surprise the cast by bringing out Joshua’s actual mom. She wasn’t real pleased with the new look, but she was happy he was happy.

The viewers voted Sam as the beauty they most have a crush on, which was easy to see coming since the girls all split any male votes, while the female voters likely made up the largest percentage. Joshua was easily voted as the geekiest, another pretty obvious result. Josh came in second.

Josh wasn’t around for the makeover but did decide to do his own. He’s got a new hairstyle, new wardrobe, and has gotten rid of all his body hair. Looks to me like another ringer who wasn’t overly geeky to begin with. He claims he did this because Rebecca promised him she’d give him a full back massage. So they just happen to have a massage table to make this promise come true.

Hollie plans to go back to school and study anthropology. Jen will take her realtor’s course.

Josh has a girlfriend now. Luke’s a player.

And the winners of Beauty and the Geek Season 4 are… Jasmine and Dave. America got it right.

We got down to our final two in Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 10. Obviously, one of those two teams is Sam & Nicole, this season’s twist. The other is Jasmine and David, which also is not a surprise, since they were considered a weak team, making them strategically a good team to drag further, though they did come on strong when they needed to.

Mike tells the teams there’s a(nother) new twist. This one probably won’t not suck any less than the previous ones. Before revealing that, though, the final two teams will get to go to each other’s home towns.

David takes Jasmine to Somerville, just outside of Boston. She’s concerned she’ll be judged for how she looks/talks, but that doesn’t present a problem. His friends surprise her when they tell her how social he is. She gets to be a LARPer. In public. In the process, she kills everybody except Dave, regardless of what side they’re on, but she can’t read the baron’s words because they’re not in Elvish.

Of course, the first place Sam takes Nicole to is the gym in Davis, CA. Then somehow the words coming out of her mouth are about being ready to go clubbing. She thinks there’s some point in the past in which he was a little more down to earth.

Sam goes to Nicole’s college, where he probably won’t find any frat parties. There she shows him she’s a good singer. Then she brings him to meet her roommates, where he likes to see her happy go lucky side coming out.

Nobody from Jasmine’s home is a cartoon character, which is disappointing to me. She takes him to visit her mom, then to babysit. On the visit, she learns Dave’s a friend.

Dave and Jasmine are hoping the winning team will be about who changed the most. Sam and Nicole are more interested in a quiz, or better yet one of the male-oriented beauty challenges Sam keeps winning.

Mike reveals how the winner will be determined. It’s not about who changed the most, or about what they’ve learned. Rather, it’s a popularity contest. America will vote.

Jasmine tells Dave to lighten up and just speak from the heart and have fun. Sam also wants to just have fun with it. Nicole would rather point out specifics and treat it like a quiz. It’s safe to say most people have already made up their minds, regardless of what’s said.

Nicole says she can relate to more people and take things a little less seriously. Sam says Nicole taught him how to not be crazy and unable to stand still, allowing him to be capable of learning. Jasmine and Dave point out how they didn’t want to be partners at first, but that they’ve grown and learned not to judge a book by its cover.

Voting will take place through Friday November 30th at noon EST, through both text messages and online.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 12, where we will find out who the winner is.

Joshua and Shay were eliminated in Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 9, which brought us down to the final three teams: Jen & William (the team that hates each other), Sam & Nicole (the team the show was rigged to favor), and David & Jasmine (okay, so I at least like Jasmine, even if she’s still an airhead).

David still thinks William and Jen can learn to not hate each other’s guts.

The next challenge is in wine country. Most of them are hoping to get drunk. This will be a team challenge. Whoever doesn’t win goes to the elimination room.

They’ll pick 20 pounds of grapes, stomp them, and bottle, cork, and label them. They’ll have to work closely: being tied together. What this has to do with what they studied, I guess I’ll have to keep wondering. Sam’s happy because he’ll be able to speed Nicole up, as he drags her down the hill. Jen and William don’t know if they have enough, but they decide to head back anyway and take a chance. David and Jasmine head back with 20 pounds and are the first to be able to start the next part of the challenge. However, William and Jen only have 13 pounds, so they have to go back down the hill. Sam and Nicole got back with 25-30 pounds. William and Jen catch up with 20. So now everybody’s stomping grapes. Dave and Jasmine fill up three bottles first. They easily get the win before the others can get any bottles filled. Jen and William were as much of a disaster as could be expected in something requiring a lot of teamwork, while Sam’s physical ability was not enough to be able to carry Nicole. Sam decides to be a baby and refuses to eat, pouting all day instead.

William and Jen are studying. Together. They still hate each other, but they’re at least working toward a common goal.

They watch the first episode of this season. David and Jasmine relive how much he didn’t want to be her partner, but he’s happy now, while she thinks he just needs to learn how to lie to women. They try to convince us Sam’s not still a meathead. William and Jen hated each other. So no change.

Despite his earlier beliefs that Jen and William need to be around to repair their relationship, Dave helps Nicole study because he’s got a crush on her. He plans with Jasmine to go on a double date with them if they survive. Then she tries to convince him he should tell Nicole he likes her before she leaves for the elimination room. Right before elimination, Jasmine goes to say goodbye and drags Nicole back to see Dave. In his mind, he asks her on a date, inviting her out to eat when they get back to Boston. She just sees it as going out with a friend and doesn’t expect it to go anywhere.

Jen gets her first question right, as does Sam. Jen misses her second question, but Sam gets his. William apologizes to her because he mispronounced the word while they were studying. William gets his first question right, as does Nicole. William misses his second question, which is about a pop singer for some reason, so he and Jen are finally eliminated. They’ve learned to tolerate each other, though.

Next week, the teams go home to meet their parents. They also learn the winner will be decided in a unique way. That’s probably not a good thing.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 11 Meet the Parents, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

In Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 8, Jen and William continued their bickering, as it became more obvious they were never going to not hate each other. I’m so over both of them at this point. In a (lame) twist, John and Natalie were sent packing without even being given the chance to defend themselves in the elimination room.

William discusses the money and wanting to win. The only problem with him actually caring about winning is that Hell has not yet frozen over.

The beauties will study animals and insects. The geeks will study how to be a flare bartender. Sam’s upset that he’s not the bartender. Jasmine hates bugs. While studying with Shay, they freak out over a bug flying around them.

Beauties are up first. Roaches, giant millipedes, snakes, toads, grubs, spiders, and scorpions are revealed. Jasmine, who hates all bugs, and Shay, who’s afraid of spiders, go crazy before the challenge even begins. They must put the animals in the terrarium matching their scientific names. Mike reveals they must do this without any protective gear, not even gloves, and that the animals might nip at them a bit. The girls are completely grossed out. Sam seems unconcerned. Gee, what a surprise, another challenge that unfairly favors Sam. Jasmine runs away from Shay just walking past her with the snake, let alone actually being able to pick one up herself. Shay’s performing very well despite her fear. Jasmine is hopeless and takes 8 minutes just to pick up a toad. Sam has no clue what he’s doing, but he’s touched a lot grosser things and is having no problems filling the cages with what may or may not be the correct animals, which is messing with the girls because they’re scared he’s beating them easily. Jen’s strategy is to let the animals pick their own cases.

Sam – 7 of 7, with 5 correct
Shay – 7 of 7, with 1 correct
Jen – 5 of 7, with 1 correct
Jasmine – 3 of 7, with 0 correct

Following the challenge, Jasmine, who I’d argue did the best regardless of what the results may have been, continues to be upset when they get back to the mansion. David’s there to support her, and they make brownies together.

Jen wants William to dress better for the challenge, but he resists her attempts to help. Sam, meanwhile, is turned off by William’s cockiness as he performs. Joshua, however, takes Shay’s advice, including hairspray and tanning spray. Jasmine dresses Dave up but says she’s not a good drink critic because she’ll drink anything.

The geeks will be judged on bartending style and flare. And actually being able to make a drink may count for something. Joshua makes a big mess. Nicole does the same trick over and over again. William tries not to scare people but does well otherwise. David’s entertaining, which combined with his confidence is enough for the win. William’s upset that Dave won based on his personality, which is probably true.

Shay gets emotional because of how surprisingly close she’s gotten to Joshua. William and Jen still hate each other, but she says she’d stop someone if she saw them kicking him on the ground. Progress. When they get into the elimination room, Shay and Joshua hug, while William and Jen can only muster a handshake.

Jen gets her first question right, as does Shay. Jen gets her second question right, as does Shay. William gets his first question right, but Joshua misses his. William gets his second question right, eliminating Joshua and Shay. The old married couple is finally gone, but she’s already making plans to go to him and tell him how to dress.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 10, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

In Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 6, Sam and Nicole won the challenge because Sam’s superhero, an underwear model who breakdances the bad guys, was on some planet allegedly considered a viable superhero worthy of winning a challenge. They sent best friends Natalie & John and Jesse & Erin to the elimination room, where Jesse & Erin were sent home.

John and Natalie return, and they’re not happy that their friends are gone.

Mike comes upstairs and pretends the game is evolving. But they’re just going to Mexico. Sam’s looking forward to learning the history of… spring break in Mexico.

Jen asked William if she’s fat, and he said yes. He eventually reveals that she reminds him of the kids in high school.

The beauties have to study the Mayans. As usual, Jasmine’s afraid because she knows, well, not much. But that turns out to be completely irrelevant since this challenge basically has nothing to do with the Mayans. It’s a memory game. They must remember symbols with their matching numbers and use them to crack the code. There is no running because it’s sacred ground, but they can walk as fast as they possibly can. I never did figure out where the line is between power walking and running myself. Jen says she can’t come up with a strategy. Sam guesses at the first treasure and gets it correct, with Natalie close behind, and then Jen. Sam gets his second box, with Natalie still close behind. Sam guesses again to get his third, and Natalie’s still on his tail. Sam wins the challenge by a few seconds, which means no revenge this week.

The geeks must learn salsa. Josh is happy because this is something he can actually use when he goes back to normal life. William’s afraid because salsa’s about passion, while he and his partner can’t get to anywhere not resembling hatred. Shay tries to get Joshua to feel sexy. Good luck with that. David shows he can do a roundoff double backhandspring. Then Jasmine kisses him. A drunk Natalie hits on Sam, which she says is strategy, but he’s not falling for it. I think.

Jen tries to convince William to let go of what happened in high school. She tells him she doesn’t have the personality of them, and he asks her if she’s kidding him.

They get new partners, and Jen, who’s allegedly so nice to William, is thrilled because it means she won’t have to dance with him. They’ll dance with experienced dancers. Jasmine tells David to not think. Easy for her to say, but he seems to really be listening to her. Nicole does a good job. David took Jasmine’s advice and did well. John, who we’re supposed to believe is a geek, has no problem getting down the passion aspect of it. Joshua comes in second. David is the winner.

The elimination will take place in Mexico. I thought this was another pointless twist until they revealed the next part. The two teams will be given 30 minutes to unanimously decide who to send home. They agree pretty quickly to keep Shay and Joshua. Sam wants to get rid of the threat. Nicole wants to get rid of the people who hate each other. Jasmine and David don’t seem to say much. In the end, Sam gets his way, and John and Natalie are sent home. Lame. I’m over William and Jen, and it sucks Natalie and John didn’t even get a chance to defend themselves.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 9, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.