Bachelor Pad Finale Recap- All on a Summer’s Eve

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   considerthis
   Posted September 13, 2012 at 1:22 pm

   Wow you are being generous with Tony and Blakeley – I give it until Halloween.

   Kalon is the new sage of the Bachelor/B’lette/B Pad franchise – when he said NONE of us DESERVE the MONEY truer words have never been spoken. People whose houses burn down or sick children or animal shelters DESERVE money.

   At least the finale added some excitment to this yawner of a season.

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   TV Junkie
   Posted September 13, 2012 at 1:51 pm

   Thank you so much for this amazing recap..I said all I wanted to say in the mini recap..but I could never express what you write..great job!
   PS I give Lindzy and Kalan a few more weeks and Tony and Blakely a few weeks longer ..maybe until Christmas…
   PSS..If they break up ..do they have to give the ring back to Neil Lane???

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   TV Junkie
   Posted September 13, 2012 at 2:57 pm

   I wonder if Rachael will be the next Bachlorette?…

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   itchy
   Posted September 13, 2012 at 3:28 pm

   No, Rachel’s damaged goods now. No guy will ever want her now that she’s admitted to falling in love with a professional clown. Besides, those veneers of hers are just scary. Penis skin is sensitive stuff, after all.

   As for Blakely and Tony, there’s no doubt they’ll get married. Partly because most likely the Bachelor franchise will foot the bill for the wedding AND bring them back onto television (every season) AND they’ll get a spread in People magazine.

   But mostly because, let’s face it, this is Blakely’s last chance. She’s “34″ after all (yeah, right. Real age = 38?) AND an idiot with buck teeth. And he’s not exactly a prize, especially since he comes with baggage.

   So they’ll cling to each other for as long as they can, and probably squeeze out a baby (another invite back onto a Bachelor show + a photo spread in US magazine).

   I was really disappointed by this reunion. All that time wasted on Jacklyn… meanwhile, they do nothing with the whole “fans” twist ? Are they acknowledging the idea was a dud? Hmm?

   Speaking of buck-teeth veneers… I really enjoyed Nick’s little speech. But yeah. Douche.

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   carol
   Posted September 13, 2012 at 4:32 pm

   This was a great recap. While reading it I realized something. This show is called Bachelor Pad. It is not called couple pad. And they did not make the house guests officially pair up until the final 8 or so it was more of an individual game till that point. I am guessing if they do another season of this, they will make them pair up from the start.

   As bad as Nick seemed, he played the game. He had no reason at all to share the money with Rachel. She was never nice to him until they officially won.

   Did they ever ask Ed and/or Jaclyn about their ‘relationship’? Or that fact that Jaclyn knew Ed was dating someone at home but decided she was fine with being used while they were on the show?

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   Britty
   Posted September 13, 2012 at 5:17 pm

   @itchy – watch it with the baggage stuff…Emily “West-Virginia-Hood-Rat” Maynard is never far away. You run the risk of being rasped at in a surprisingly swanky English pub.

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   melange
   Posted September 13, 2012 at 6:43 pm

   I don’t think Bachelor Pad will ever officially make people pair up ’till nearly the end, so there’s lots of time for random hookups and shenanigans and betrayal.

   I find the misogyny on this show very annoying. Jacklyn is afraid of being a “whore” and “used” while Ed does whatever he wants without any names attached. Aren’t they using each other? Isn’t Ed actually the nasty one for f’ing around with Jacklyn while he has a girl back home?

   Blakely acts like she got the consolation prize. I feel a little sorry for Tony, except that he’s clearly just thinking with his junk. Blakely’s “And he’s got cable!” bit was funny, though.

   Jamie needs to find herself a nice rich geek so they can sit around and be socially awkward together.

   I’m sure ABC will try to bring back Nick next season for a “retribution” storyline. He would be better off saying hell no. Take your douchey money and run, Nick!

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   brzysmom12
   Posted September 13, 2012 at 11:14 pm

   Unfaced shouter-outer. Just beautiful. Favorite thing to come out of all this fustercluck. <3

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   MrsMiaWallace
   Posted September 14, 2012 at 1:15 am

   Great recap!

   Loved this episode and loved that someone finally chose not to share. I kind of thought they would both go that way and the losers would get the split for once, also would have been a cool ending.

   I applaud Nick, he may have done an unpopular thing, but I loved how he broke ranks. The whole clique-ness of former Bachelor/Bachelorette contestants is so obnoxious. The “Pad” crew are basically the losers that weren’t interesting or wholesome enough to be headliners and so get thrown into an STD pit to perform dumbed-down American Gladiator challenges for our amusement and derision. And they happily gobble it up and proclaim disdain for “fans”. Get over yourselves. Right after you get over that screaming case of syphilis.

   I have to say after watching the first two seasons, we owe this whole interesting outcome of a hated villain vs. a barely together couple to Erica Rose. That washed-up, sad, pathetic little wingless butterfly finally did what every group should have done in breaking up the cool kids’ alliance and letting some oddballs in tot he winners’ circle. Results? Hilarity!

   PS The nail has been hit in the proverbial head. Blakely and Tony are long-term. She is firmly settling for the stable nice guy who worships her because her music stopped about three years ago and there is a paucity of chairs available. Enter lucky Tony who will never be with anyone hotter. Win (sad horns) win.

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    Tally
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 6:25 am

    Are we just not going to talk about how ugly Blakeley’s dress is?

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    Jane and Blanche
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 6:40 am

    It seemed like old news becasue she wore it several times during the season

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    Tally
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 6:53 am

    Yes, but it doesn’t make it any less awful. Not the kind of dress I’d want to get engaged in. Of course, I wouldn’t want to get engaged on national television to some guy I met on a reality show, but that’s just me.

    I think Rachel would be a trainwreck as a bachelorette. Like, Ashley-style trainwreck. She falls too hard too quickly.

    I think Nick’s decision might actually give Bachelor Pad a chance of coming back. The show’s ratings have been bad, but there’s definitely more buzz around it now. But I’m not holding my breath.

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    Lisa
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 7:14 am

    I thought Nick was Great! And he wasn’t a sore winner, what else could he have said, something like: “I’m sorry Rachel but yeah, I’m keeping the money”. They would have still jumped on him with their claws out. I think it’s great that fake hypocrite Rachel (and Jacklyn and Blakely) don’t get one dime ……. at least I hope they don’t get anything. Meanwhile, I hope I never see Jacklyn’s face on my T.V. again.

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    Jane and Blanche
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 7:21 am

    Sorry, we were with him up until the Tony Robbins style lecture after the reveal. We were raised to reserve the chest thumping and jumping around until after the 1st runner up has left the stage. Unless the 1st runner up is family, then all bets are off.

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    kthxbai
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 10:51 am

    test comment pls ignore ( I tried 2 times to make 1 that doesn’t show up. It had links the 1st time. But didn’t show up even when I took them out)

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    Jane and Blanche
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 11:53 am

    That’s ok, kthxbai, wordpress hates us too…

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    kthxbai
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 11:58 am

    Wow it really hates me lots! I’m trying to figure out what it hates most.

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    melange
    Posted September 14, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    According to rumors around the web, all the cast members are paid per episode. The more episodes they appear in, the more they’re paid. I’m sure bigger names (like previous Bachelor/ettes or winners, like Ed) get an additional bonus to lure them onto the show. No one walks away with nothing – that’s just pure BS.

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    Pikey578
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 7:44 am

    I just read in the New York Post that Rachel may be taking Nick to court for half of the prize money. The premise? They had a verbal agreement (which he agreed they had) which he broke. It will be interesting to see if she takes that route and if she actually wins…

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    carol
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 8:20 am

    @Pikey578 – what does Rachel think she is going to accomplish with that? A verbal agreement is not really going to hold up unless she recorded it (I am not in the law field, so I am not 100% sure). Even if he says he did agree, think of all the other things that were said in the house that people did not follow up on. Rachel even said she was leaving, then was talked out of it, so she broke an agreement with herself. Or all the contestants who said they would shoot themselves if such and such happened. There was no shooting this season.

    Plus, as wrong as Chris Harrison thought Nick was, the higher ups at ABC loved it because it brought in the viewers and got people talking. If she does sue and brings up everything in court, she will no doubt burn her bridges. She was in the perfect position to approach ABC and ask to be on the next season. But if she wins her court case (highly unlikely) she will not go back onto the show.

    I wonder what would have happened if Rachel had picked keep and Nick had picked share.

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    kthxbai
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 9:12 am

    @Pikey578 I bet the lawyer that talked her into that will make partner!

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    Jane and Blanche
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    @pikey578 NO WAY?!!! LOL Christ, get a grip reality assholes!
    Chris tweeted saying if they had won they were gonna donate 1/2 the money…..
    Riiiiiitttteeeeee……..

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    itchy
    Posted September 15, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    You’d think they’d cover this possibility in the contracts these idiots have to sign, something to the effect of “candidates agree not to make agreements about the prize money prior to the show” and that “candidates agree that only the ‘keep’ or ‘share’ decisions made during the course of the incredibly drawn-out finale will be binding”.

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    carol
    Posted September 16, 2012 at 12:09 am

    @itchy – don’t they have that in the Survivor contract? Also in the contract for The Amazing Race I thought they had something in there that they aren’t allowed to say they are on TAR to cabbies/locals/etc. Of course those are CBS shows and Bachelor/etc is an ABC show.

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    Danielle
    Posted September 16, 2012 at 10:12 pm

    This was a game. You are free to say whatever you want in a game! C’mon. Verbal agreement my ass.