By Jordan
Before I go into this week's recap of Beauty and the Geek, I would like to apologize to all of the Pet Shop Boys fans who read these recaps. I had no idea that the theme song to Beauty and the Geek was an original song from the 80's. Please forgive me for not being a Pet Shop Boys Fan. I will do my best to never make an egregious error like this again. Thank you.
Last week on Beauty and the Geek, the Geeks drew a naked woman, the Beauties gave some of the worst museum tours of all time, and in the end, Sheree's forehead and Paio were sent packing.
And we open with Matt and Andrea's triumphant return upstairs. Matt enters alone to a chorus of cheers because Andrea is highly disliked by all the remaining girls. Why? Because she doesn't have blonde hair of course. Also, because she might not be a complete dumbass. Beauties can be so catty. Andrea enters the room after Matt and the room goes dead silent. Poor Andrea. I'm almost starting to feel bad for her.
The next morning everyone meets in the living room where our host Mike tells the Geeks that they're going to be getting…a makeover! Hooray! The ladies on the meantime, will be studying marketing and business…hooray? For these makeovers, the Geeks will be shopping all by themselves with only the tips they've been given by their partners beforehand. This could get messy.
Nate is worried because he says he takes pride in how he doesn't conform to society's standards. And he's right because after all, he does look like Homo Erectus.
Upstairs, the Beauties attempt to give their Geeks tips on what to buy. Drew wants to buy a watch with a calculator on it. I used to have one of those. When I was 11. Jennylee tells Neils all the things that are "hot," while Neils is more concerned about buying alligator skin shoes with flames on them. Now I'm not a fashion expert or anything, but those sound freaking awesome.
In probably the worst moment of the episode, Nate asks Cecille if he can wear anything that will make him sweat less, to which she suggests deodorant. Nate then informs her, and the entire viewing audience, that he has never worn deodorant before and that he likes to go "au natural." Cecille tells us she has no idea what that means, which is not at all surprising. I'm still pretty convinced that if you gave Cecille a picture of a dog and a picture of the number ten and asked her to point to the number, her head would explode.
Soon, the Geeks are off to buy new clothes. Matt stumbles around for a while with his usual Matt face, you know, the one where his jaw is attached to the floor. Matt is starting to remind me of one of those dumb nerds from high school. Dumb nerds were a lot like regular nerds, except they got bad grades and were just, well, kinda stupid. Real nerds don't walk around everywhere with blank looks on their faces like Matt does.
We are then subjected to a montage of Neils trying on jeans with very bizarre music playing on the soundtrack that goes "oh you touch my tra la la, my ding ding dong." Is this also a Pet Shop Boys song? Because it also sucks. And is kind of creepy. Neils apparently can't find tight enough clothing so he decides to start looking for shirts in the women's section. I can't stress enough how much of a bad idea this is. So in three episodes, so far we know that Neils a) loves boobs and b) wears women's clothes. I'm doing my best to pull for Neils since he is from the same city as me, but dammit, this guy needs help. He ends up picking out this women's shirt with a fish on it that screams "I am a cross-dressing homosexual." Neils tells us the look he was going for was "the coolest guy in the club," but to me he looks more like "that weird guy in the corner wearing women's clothing." Not quite the same thing. And again we get the weird "tra la la" song.
Meanwhile, Mario struggles to find plus-sized clothing that will fit him. Aw.
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Comments (14)
The "Ding Ding Dong" song is a fabulously horrible song by Gunter and the Sunshine Girls. There is really now way to explain it so here is the You Tube Link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4IKC9V67dE
If that doesn't work....just search for "Ding Dong Song".
1 of 14 | Posted by juxtapoeser
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Posted on January 18, 2007 2:28 PM
Thanks for the link Juxtapoeser. Dare I say that was the greatest music video of all time?
2 of 14 | Posted by Jordan
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Posted on January 18, 2007 2:34 PM
You're very welcome. It just may be the best video ever - for the creative use of champagne alone.
p.s. fab recap as well!
3 of 14 | Posted by juxtapoeser
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Posted on January 18, 2007 3:14 PM
Awesome recap, but wat the hell, the hottest girl andrea is eliminated, and wat the hell was up with those trip questions. did u notice how none of the girls knew the answer to the first one and how the second question was tricky as hell. wow i got a pseduo-racist vibe how all the non-white, ethnic ppl were eliminated. that sucks but andrea is gorgeous and i wouldnt mind puttin my meat into her burrito.
4 of 14 | Posted by sloppyseconds
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Posted on January 18, 2007 4:03 PM
I don't know if anyone reading this is also a Family Guy fan, but the questions Cecile got compared to the one's Andrea got remind me of when Brian and Peter played Trivial Pursuit. Brian got regular questions and Peter got questions from the kids edition. (Such as..."What color is a fire truck?")
Jennylee is awful on so many levels. The whole "I'm cooler than you" banter with Andrea was absolutely ridiculous. What a dumb bitch.
5 of 14 | Posted by Freedman StL
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Posted on January 19, 2007 5:52 AM
the only thing that makes me feel a little better about this episode is that the whole point of the show is for the contestants to grow as people.
obviously andrea has made some sort of transition between beauty and geek (remember when she almost took the money and ran) and maybe she doesn't need the show as much as someone like cecil, who from the previews of the next episode is in need of some inner geek.
6 of 14 | Posted by citychick416
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Posted on January 19, 2007 7:12 AM
I'm pretty sure that Nate's date wasn't taking about babies. He asked her what she did and she said that she wanted to be an actress. He said "A famous actress?" and she said yes, because she wants to be respected. Then she said something about how in auditions, even if you are more talented, they often pick the pretty girl for the part because she's pretty. To this, Nate then asked her what they measured that against, since he evidently found her quite attractive.
On the whole though, great recap!
~Georgia~
7 of 14 | Posted by georgiababe
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Posted on January 19, 2007 2:50 PM
Am I the only one who thought Drew looks like Jason Dohring (Logan) from Veronica Mars?
I totally agree with you Freedman StL, it was exactly like that family guy episode.
8 of 14 | Posted by Ness
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Posted on January 19, 2007 4:00 PM
georgiababe:
No, she was talking about babies. In trying to prove that people instinctively gravitate toward attractive people she brought up a study with babies where the babies preferred pretty girls.
9 of 14 | Posted by Mathematics
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Posted on January 20, 2007 11:35 AM
Damn, damn, damn. Andrea should've b_tch-slapped Jennylee when she busted on her for stooping to the geeks' level and playing chess.
A little embarassed to admit this, but anyone else remember Jennylee from MTV's "Next"? She sucked on that show, too.
10 of 14 | Posted by doorsmats
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Posted on January 20, 2007 5:06 PM
Doorsmats! Thank you!
I knew I had seen Jennylee before. I just couldn't figure out where it was. I'm so relieved to know now!
11 of 14 | Posted by bama girl
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Posted on January 21, 2007 7:11 PM
Scooter still looked the best after the makeovers. If only he can get through his lack of social skills, I'd say he gets laid first.
It's nice to see that the geeks are playing to win as far as putting up the strongest teams for elimination instead of pussying out. Hopefully nest week, Nate will stand up to CeCe and tell her to quit being such a bitch.
12 of 14 | Posted by zoobabe
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Posted on January 22, 2007 6:39 AM
Did anyone else think the auction was unfair? The guys who were auctioned off later sold for much higher dollar amounts and the guys who went first were sold for much smaller amounts of money. I think the early guys were at a disadvantage because most of the girls were probably waiting to see if someone "better" would come up later on. If all the guys had been introduced first, with the bidding happening after the girls saw all the guys, it might have been more fair. The challenge was also not a very good test of the beauties' marketing skills. Unless it was edited out, I don't think most of them had much to say about their Geeks.
13 of 14 | Posted by LonnaSaur
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Posted on January 22, 2007 8:05 AM
Concerning Matt's GPA, he went to MIT. They measure their GPA on a 5.0 scale. So he's actually about an A- MIT student.
And yes, Drew totally looks like Logan!
14 of 14 | Posted by lennonm
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Posted on January 23, 2007 9:01 AM