And the fun continues as Maryann takes Jason into the arts and crafts room and tells him he has to draw a picture of his favorite memory of Molly's face. Okay, I will NEVER be embarrassed to have anyone meet my family after seeing this. And I have a brother-in-law who came to Thanksgiving dressed as a Star Wars storm trooper... seriously. Jason gets to work drawing Molly's smiling face at a rose ceremony.
Molly and her dad have a chat and her dad only asks one thing of her through this entire process. If she is eliminated and forced to take a Ride of Shame, please don't cry. Just smile. What, so none of us will have the memory of Molly's face with tears on it to draw a picture of? WEIRD. Meanwhile, Jason is drawing a picture that looks like Ty drew while he was asleep. The family passes it around a giggles. Oh, Jason is a hit at Molly's house - sweet.
Moving right along to Lake Elsinore, California, home of Naomi, the free-spirited flight attendant who wants to make dinner and have family Christmases. Naomi's mission today is to positively convince Jason that she is ready to have a family. Jason's not ready to buy it, but he's going to figure it all out today. When Jason gets out of the car, they sit down on the ground to drink juice out of champagne flutes and Naomi has to tell Jason something. Remember last week when he called her out of line to have a chat during the Rose Ceremony? Well it really freaked her out, but it also made her realize just how ready she is to be in Jason's life and to be Ty's mommy. Jason's like, "Uh, I'm glad."
During the car ride over to her family's house, Naomi says "potential future husband" several times and tells us that her family is crazy and she's a little nervous about what Jason will think of them. Good call putting them on TV, Naomi. There is a whole passel of people for us to meet and the first thing Naomi's mom does is bring out hula hoops for everyone to have a hula hoop contest. "Be one with the hula hoop!" she tells Jason as he awkwardly twists around. Be one with the hula hoop? This is already weirder than Molly's mom and her arts and crafts project. The weirdest part is that everyone joins right in hula hooping like every family does this every day of the year, what's the big deal?
Once that gets boring, Naomi's mom gathers everyone around to hear the story of her hitting a dove with her car while driving home from work the other day. In fact, she scooped the dove up out of the road and brought it home to give it a proper burial. Side note: Naomi's parents got divorced when she was little, but her dad has graciously shown up today to meet Jason. He's standing around with this look on his face like, "Oh right, this is the reason I left."
Anyway, Naomi's mom tells Jason (not asks, tells) that he will assist in the burial and give the eulogy for Rosie - yes the dead dove has a name. As Jason buries Rosie, he realizes that he is actually burying his sanity by participating in this nonsense.
Hector, Naomi's dad, takes an opportunity to escape from the crazy and have a sit-down with Jason. He wants to make sure that Jason is selfless enough to marry his daughter. Hector brings up his own divorce and tells Jason that the way he was able to rise above all of his adversity is through Jesus. Does Jason know about Jesus? Jason's like, "Uh, no. See, I came on this show called The Bachelor..." and Hector continues on about raising Naomi in a biblical fashion and the representation of marriage in the bible when suddenly Mrs. Crazy bursts back onto the scene to steal Jason away to help bury a grasshopper she just stepped on. Actually she wants to tell Jason about these premonitions she has. Does Jason have premonitions? Jason's like, "See, there's this guy name Chris Harrison and he called me up..." Mrs. Crazy thinks that she and Jason are in the same soul family and that Jason has possibly come from the future. How does he feel about reincarnation? She believes Jason was a mom in a past life. Past life? LOL, Mrs. Crazy.
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Comments (12)
Well, here's my take on what went down this episode:
Molly's family: "Well, you know honey, you know that Jews aren't really allowed to become members of the country club."
Melissa's family: "T'ain't know way we're letting some Jewboy into our trailer park."
Naomi's family: "Maybe we can still save him from going to hell, honey."
And lastly Jillian's family: "Eh?"
1 of 12 | Posted by itchy | Posted on February 16, 2009 3:27 AM
Never ever ever will I ever again think my family is weird.
2 of 12 | Posted by Quean CeCe | Posted on February 16, 2009 9:39 AM
I'm starting to think ABC just hires actors to play the bachelorettes' families.
There are just too many similarities between this season's families and the families from Brad's season.
Molly = Tina = country club, golfin' family
Naomi = (?) = crazy new agey astrology mommy on a boat family
Jillian = Jenny = warm & lovable with the fiesty granny family
Although Melissa pulled a new one by substituting friends for family. I don't think she told her family she's on this show...Either that, or her family is completely unsupportive of anything she does (can't come to just one Dallas Cowboys game?). Maybe they're Christian fundamentalists or Mormons who think she's a sinner (aka "black sheep of the family").
The bachelorette with the crazy family always gets the hometown axe.
3 of 12 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on February 16, 2009 12:25 PM
And why does Melissa have such low self-esteem? Usually, cute girls think they're "worthy". What kinda damage has her family done to her that she would settle for guys who treat her like an appendage? Long-term relationships where the guys never meet your friends or family???
4 of 12 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on February 16, 2009 12:28 PM
still trying to figure out if wearing the hats or the dead dove was worse.
melissa...i think she's really into what others think and trying to appear perfect. maybe she's embarassed of her family? it's not just the tv thing, as her close friends hadn't met them either.
am i the only one that thinks naomi looks like a boy in drag?
5 of 12 | Posted by tikibar | Posted on February 16, 2009 4:19 PM
"Ty says, 'Can't you just be my daddy?' Okay so he didn't say that, but he would if he were cognitively advanced enough."
"Why are Canadians so proud of themselves? What have they ever done? What?"
Two of my favorites from a funny recap!
Poor little Melissa is a sad case. She may be just what Jason is looking for, however. Didn't he say something about not being sure about Jillian because she is so independent, and he wants somebody to "rely" on him. Someone with low self-esteem like Melissa will sure as hell "rely" on him.
6 of 12 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on February 16, 2009 5:59 PM
Ha, Itchy, my husband was saying the same thing last week.
I just don't see Jason with any of these girls. I like Jillian so much, but she's just way too cool for Jason.
7 of 12 | Posted by dani2526 | Posted on February 16, 2009 7:57 PM
I thought Naomi looked more like a muppet.
I think Molly is sufficiently bland to fit in perfectly with Jason's lifestyle. Just don't know she'd want to. She's, what, 24?
Melissa seems to be the only one who doesn't cringe when she kisses him, so I'm guessing she's the one.
8 of 12 | Posted by itchy | Posted on February 17, 2009 12:03 AM
after the home visits, I'd say Jillian is my favorite. There's something very strange about Molly's dad, but I think she's okay. It's funny that I do believe in reincarnation (and UFO's, and ESP and a few other initialed things) but that was soooo crazy with the dove, even though I only paid half attention to this 2 hour train wreck. Do you know Jesus? gee, I dunno, I wasn't really around 2000 years ago, and you!? Religious zealotry always gets me down, as religion is only one aspect of a full person, and to make it the most important part, to me, is lame-o!!! I don't care what anyone believes as long as they don't care that I believe in past lives, UFO's and ESP . . .
Anyhoo, thanks for filling in the blanks, Honey!!! Can't wait till next scintillating recap!!!! xoxoxoxo
9 of 12 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on February 17, 2009 11:34 AM
When I adopted my Ecuadorean child, I had to fill out many forms. On one, the adoption agency asked me the "reason for adopting child". I wrote down "to attract single women with white teeth and prominent breasts who can't wait to be mommies".
10 of 12 | Posted by NotWithoutMyTV | Posted on February 17, 2009 12:06 PM
Funny, NotWithout!
Anwyay, last night was a major let down. Boy was I fooled...I really did think we were going to see the whole Deanna thing. I was so hopeful that it'd be last night that I couldn't stop looking at the clock...like, uh oh, Deanna only has 5 minutes to come back?!
11 of 12 | Posted by dani2526 | Posted on February 17, 2009 1:15 PM
well this ought to be an interesting finale, no? i'm hoping he doesn't take deanna back - seems a bit unfair for it to go this far before she decides to surprise him in new zealand. on the other hand, that makes for good ratings. maybe we ought to line them up and let ty pick? : )
12 of 12 | Posted by tikibar | Posted on February 17, 2009 2:26 PM