Bachelor Recap: Week 8
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 @ 07:02 AM
Thank goodness last night’s episode showcased a high school marching band and a fake wedding. Otherwise it would have been the equivalent of watching traffic court on your local public access television station.
Somehow, I managed to cobble together an article for the Huffington Post. Check it out HERE and come back later this afternoon for the recap.
PS: Groban’s hair was as ridiculous as his cowboy outfit. Discuss.
I think Kacey is really sweet but I was cringing when I saw her marching out with her baton…I think someday she’ll look back on it and cringe, too.
I think if I were in Kacey’s parents position and that was my daughter & she brought that guy home. I was also be like…Oh HEEEEELL NO!!
Maybe the cowboy hat would have looked okay on Ben if he hid all his hair under it.
Don’t knock the redneck wine glasses! They were the classiest thing about the episode.
@beanhead – agreed on Kacie’s look last night. I too am no fashionista, and my straight hair is almost always straight, with no frills. But Kacie didn’t even fix her hair for dinner! She got caught in the rain during her baton twirling, so it understandably became messy, but why not fix that pony tail before dinner with Ben and the fam!?
Did anyone catch that Lindzi’s father’s name is Harry Cox. Oh my!
@JMaybes – that “imporT-Tant” thing has been bugging me all season! What’s up with that?
I thought the hometown dates were painful to watch. It’s obvious he doesn’t have chemistry with anyone but Courtney. And, I hate to see the girls (Niki and Kacie B. mostly) pouring out their feelings and getting no reciprocation whatsoever. I don’t think Lindzi cares one way or the other or maybe she is just painfully shy. I hope it’s that she doesn’t care!!!
To everyone that has commented before about Ben in cowboy duds – I completely agree! Most guys look rugged and sexy when “cowboyed up” but Ben looked more dorky than ever!! Alfalfa dressed as a cowboy is NO BUENO!
Can you imagine if you brought a guy home to meet your parents, then set up a fake wedding and read vows to him??? Any real guy would think PSYCHO and lay a scratch a mile long fleeing the scene.
I think Kacie was let go because her dad asked him to let her go early if he wasn’t going to choose her in the end. She was probably his #2, but he has had his mind made up about #1 (Courtney, I believe) the whole time. Lindzi and Nikki are just place-holders in my opinion.
OMG – this season is just terrible – so i’m forced to watch for what i can tear apart.
1. redneck wine glasses? Seriously? I mean i think they are funny but how stupid of a product to actually use on National TV!
2. Kasey B had lots of fun things planned but we saw NOTHING! Bleacher picnic and then awkward dinner table set up with all of her mother’s “Home Interior” Party decor on the walls. The 2 kitchen table chairs placed in front of the fireplace for Fireside chats and what was up with that blank lime green canvas above the couch? Modern art?
3. Courtney clearly takes after her mother (same lip thing going on) and her sister clearly takes after their father – Poor thing needs a nose job badly. and what was up with courtney’s purse – big, little, big, little, oh big again.
4. and seriously with that big freakin house in Texas the only room Nikki could go to for a quiet chat was a bedroom? really? no outside, no kitchen come on anything would have been better than the bed.
But don’t be sad folks – because they are going to the “perfect place to fall in love” (HMMMMM don’t they say that about every place?) i feel a new drinking game coming on.
Thank God this will all be over soon – what a mess.
This is the worst season…did not like Ben from the beginning and now throw in a Courtney. UGG.
Yes, I noticed that Courtney was copying her original “vows”…and do you notice how she talks, she does not talk about making Ben happy. It is all full of me and I…and her vows were non-specific and did not have any “you” or “Ben, you mean so much to me…”
So many red flags when Courtney is on camera that you could have a drinking game!
Yeah ABC, that voice over of Courtney regretting her actions to the other girls was sooo convincing. NOT. Can you here the producer saying, “Come on now Courtney, don’t you think you were hard on the other girls? Do you want to be the most hated girl on tv right when this airs?”
@Eleanora: YESSSSSSSSS bring back Ames!! I totally second that!
Just goes to show you the clothes do NOT make the man! As a fellow Fort Worthian, Ben would’ve been laughed out of the stockyards walking around like that! I think he likes “acting” and plays each part the girl puts in front of him. Same reason he didn’t seem to mind the staged wedding scene….he just likes pretending.
It bugs me that Nikki keeps comparing her happiness to her “first” marriage….which apparently didn’t last very long but she’s so in love and ready to jump right back into one. Grow a little!
And I hope Kacey realizes she was TOO GOOD once she watches the show and not “not good enough” for Ben. She’s a doll!
I have to comment on what “since the beginning” said above, my husband was also watching part of the show with me last night and when Ben and Kacie were sitting on the bleachers and Kacie was rambling on and on and Ben was just sitting there with the stupid stare on his face my husband said, “do you want to know what he’s hearing right now?, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah”. Seriously could Ben have looked any less interested. And when he sent her packing to the unmarked van, all he said was “I’m sorry”?? How lame. This guy is such a dork.
Kacie is gorgeous in a pony tail, but I too was wondering why she did not change into something pretty? Kacie actually looks more like model material to me.
She tried to stay classy on exit, wishing him the best…but broke down in the limo. Kacie you really were too good for him. I know that you thought you could get him a good haircut later but he is just not worth your tears.
We need a “like” button on the comment sections. Some of them are hilarious, loved “I’d rather kiss a puppy” lol!
Did anyone notice when Kacie was “saying her goodbyes” that Courtney sort of wandered over, stayed out of the group hug and gave a very knowing look to Groban?
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As much as I detest Courtney, I got this faint hint of a vulnerable, “i really like this guy” vibe from her when they were saying the vows. It was weird…it made me uncomfortable. He’s TOTALLY into her. And who wouldn’t be…She’s so freaking gorgeous! Her skin was glowing, her hair glossy. I knew it was a done deal for him.
p.s. She clearly gets her bitchy and lip pursing habits from her mother.
did anyone else notice he was wearing the EXACT SAME OUTFIT on both the date with lindzi and kacie?!?!?!!? grey jeans no less! ha ha ha ha ha!
My daughter got redneck wine glasses for Christmas. Very funny. His hair, what can we say except it is AWFUL! I can’t even hardly look at him!
You outdid yourself on Huffington. Still peeing my pants from laughing so hard
The only positive thing I have to say about last night’s show was that I loved Lindzi’s outfit-I want to know where I can find that shirt! I agree with a previous comment-she needs some color on her lips.
Boring Ben is just aweful. ABC, what were you thinking casting him???
These “romances” are anything but. Where is all the intimacy? (Even the skinny dipping was so the opposite of intimate-just for show). Where is the deep belly laughter? I haven’t seen him laugh sincerely once. I’ve never seen Courtney laugh other than at her own dumb wisecracks maybe. You do not see a true love connection when Ben is looking into the eyes of any of the girls. No spark, no chemistry. I think Courtney has looked him in the eyes maybe 3 times.
No one can sincerely say, oh I can see why [she] fell in love with Ben. Based on what???
Hey, I’m no love expert…I’ve only been in love twice, but come on! I taped last night’s episode and fast-forwarded thru most of the dates….so boring and nothing surprising.
What are these relationships based on? They know so little about Ben other than wine and that his dad died. As for the girls, Ben knows little tidbits of painful past relationships because, hey, they had to “open up” to him just so he could say to the camera “so and so really opened up to me and it really made me glad” AUGH I want to scream at him!
I did notice that it seems for the next bachelor, ABC is looking for a real guy, not a recyled ex contestant-YAY!
@Kate – I recognized those lines from SATC too! And I think the rest were song lyrics thrown together – I definitely recognized a few of them. What a lunatic!
I think the reason Courtney said she felt bad about the way she treated the girls, is because she realized that Ben is going to watch the episodes at the end and see how awful she was. Now she can say that she had a moment of clarity and takes it all back. It’s just another clever trick by a mean, mean girl!
And her mom does that same annoying mouth twist and eyebrow raise thing too – ICK! The two of them together made me sick. And did anyone else notice that when her sister was talking to her, Courtney was fixing her hair and looking in a mirror, not even looking at her sister?
Nikki kind of grew on me this episode and it made me cry when her dad said he felt like her divorce was his fault because he shouldn’t have given his permission so readily! What a good dad!
Nikki and Lindzey need to RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. Kacie looked ridiculous doing that baton twirling act and her hair looked terrible on her hometown date. Her SISTER looked dressed for a date, but Kacie looked like crap! Hair in a pony tail? Hello!
I’m soooo impatient! Can’t wait to read the recap!
Glad Kacie is gone (she’s too sweet and deserves so much better than that trashy Ben) I’m sure the minute she saw the skinny dipping episode she was so thankful that he let her go! I loved how protective her dad was of her and how skeptical he was. Given the stellar trackrecord of the show… rightfully so!
Lindzi is just “meh” to me. Seems nice, but nothing exciting there.
Nicki is adorable. Ben is definitely not a cowboy.
Courtney – Oh where to begin. Manipulation QUEEN right there!
I think it’s hilarious that several of us are now rooting for Courtney to “win” just so Grob gets what he deserves. I’m sure he is a nice guy in person, but he is so blind. There is no way Courtney “The Model” would date a guy like him in real life. She just wants to win the not-so-great-prize.
the redneck wine glasses are a pretty big hit here in the South, y’all
I beg to disagree with Sumner…she is not pretty at all, even though she obviously photographs well but modeling shoots are completely retouched and photoshopped! She does nothing with her hair, her face isnt pretty and her legs have a shape bordering on cankles! But more then anything, her ugly personality and mean spirit make her the ugliest girl of the season. If she was a successful model, she wouldnt need to do this show for publicity. Also, at age 28, she is old for modeling standards.
I have a theory about Courtney’s about-face this week regarding how she treated the other ladies – but I should say first that I actively avoid spoilers so this is my personal opinion.
I think Courtney “wins” and the producers were left with trying to make her not look like the worst person in the world. I noticed that all of those comments were voice overs. I think they were all added after the show ended. They did the same thing when Jake picked Vienna; suddenly towards the end Vienna started getting the sympathy edit.
I like Kacie but her initial intro video was shot in Knoxville, TN (a fantastic city) yet she’s from Clarksville which is about 4 or 5 hours from Knoxville, north of Nashville almost to Kentucky. That high school that the field has named after is in Metro Nashville (several hours from Clarksville or Knoxville) So Kacie’s hometown is a combo of three places? Huh?