It’s hard to say if last night’s double (dating show) suicide was legit,or if NBC just wants to get Age of Love off the air as soon as possible. After Maria’s needlessly postponed self-elimination (I think the producers said, "Please just say some more insane things about women — and we swear you can leave") and Megan (pictured) refusing to fly Down Under (a looped clip of Mark saying "Qantas has, like, the safest flight in the sky" should be the Aussie airline’s new ad campaign), it’s down to 48-year-old Jen and 25-year-old Amanda. How did we get here? Well, one way to answer that question is by recapping Week 6’s most outrageous moments!
Jayanna’s posthumous video message Allowing contestants to compose a going-away speech to"the girls" is an amazing idea, as was evidenced by J-Money’s claws-out cougar attack on Amanda. Incidentally, the technology featured in the girls’ apartment seems exceedingly futuristic. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had cryogenic anti-aging chamber tucked away in the bathroom.
The Salsa Date Pace Picante. Newman’s Own. Old El Paso. Chi Chis. These are just some of the salsas I have enjoyed in my day. Unfortunately, I did not have any of these brands at my disposal while watching this terrible date unfold. Amanda was predictably boring, and Maria’s bump ‘n’ grind approach to salsa was sort of reasonable, but also terrifying. Mandi and Eva thought the Poo overreacted to her "what would you say if this was the last time we saw you" line of questioning, but I don’t think she really warranted a response for one main reason: Her decisions about when to play the game and when to sneer at it were always inconsistent, and, as usual, she chose to wrong moment to suit up (in a horrendous dress).
High Tea with Megan I think Megan took this one a bit too literally and may have calmed her nerves with something other tea leaves. She’s so confused and awe-struck by the world around her! It’s really quite amazing to watch. Top 5 Megan-isms from last night:
5. "What are those spongy things?" Those are sugar cubes, Megan. Don’t eat too many or you’ll get cavities!
4. "Studio City…" Megan practices her reading by sounding out street signs along the freeway.
3. "I’m retarded." Most sensible thing you’ve said all day!
2. "It’s this really good tea." In a way, that is a fair definition of "hightea."
1. "My stomach, like, fell out of my butt." Have you been eating Pace Picante as well?
Cinderella carriage ride This couldn’t have been lamer, but it was redeemed by a massage that clearly had a very happy ending, and I’m not talking about the fairytale kind! (I’m talking about the sexual kind…) I wasn’t sure what really went down, but when Jen started kissing and telling — "It was bad. I don’t think [the producers] could even use half the stuff" — I started to get the picture. NBC interns, where’s the YouTube leak!? Other than that moment of gloating (and her inexplicable loyalty to Jayanna), Jen continued to shine as the least annoying contestant. At 48, she also looks incredible in a bikini.
I guess there’s only one question left, PopWatchers, but I will say it in three ways: Amanda or Jen? Kitten or Cougar? 20s or 40s?
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Though I watch this show out of pure boredom and spend most of it flipping back and forth between it and reruns of other shows. I’ll have to say that I think Jen has the whole thing going for her! Attiude,body, etc. Though relationship will fail in the end. Amanda is very stalkerish and seems evil! Psycho!
I wonder who Mark would have eliminated if he had the chance? Is he left with gals he would have gotten rid of? And now he must choose between the beautiful but way too old for him Jen or the stalker with the big you knows Amanda. Either way, the relationship won’t last long.
Unfortunately it’s a moot point on who wins; this show is about as manufactured as the lumps on Amandas chest. Megan should have had some of that high tea before venturing to LAX.
on the double date can someone tell me why they gave amanda this little slutty outfit and maria a bat mitzvah dress from the 80s?
First Chris, props on the write up. It was 100% on the money. Could Maria’s dress have looked any tackier? And why take the Poo out salsa dancing when he doesn’t know how? Amanda’s outfit sizzled, but the poor girl (a Latina who drops Spanish phrases for kicks) could barely dance.
Megan? Sigh. Seemed clueless 99% of the time, the other 1% making pointless attemtps at “humor”. And DUDE, Qantas is so safe even friggin RAINMAN was willing to fly that airline.
I was irked once Jayanna was kicked off. Poo, what were you thinking man? Believing Amanda after she fanagled herself a spot into your tent without permission? I guess MENSA membership isn’t a requirement for tennis pros.
For being a bad Salsa dancer and for hating on my homegirl Jayanna, I hope Amanda goes down in flames.
So that leaves Jen. I dig her vibe, but she’s 48. And divorced. With a teenage kid. That may not fly with the Poos.
The Poo is a man who once dated Paris Hilton. He will choose Amanda.
Being as these are reality TV game shows, I tend not to develop strong hatred for any of the people no matter how awful they might be in real life. (I love Jen on Big Brother 8). But man, I HATE Amanda. She is the worst kind of passive-aggresive, manipulative you-know-what. Yeah, the Poo gave Jen a massage. Yeah, he kisses other girls. It’s a dating show, for the love of Poo. At least the other girls don’t try to get other women kicked off for having a nice date with him. If the Poo ended up picking her, I hope he breaks up with her after watching the show and realizing what a psycho she is. And yes, I am still mad that she got Jayanna bounced.
EP Sato, please note also that “Senorita Amanda” is a professional dancer of some kind (I’m still a little baffled as to what a “hockey team dancer” does, but I assume dancing is involved). Maria’s dress was beyond heinous, but Amanda’s fringed snoobs, combined with bizzarre straps criss-crossed with the chord of her ginormous necklace, were not the height of fashion either. That date was painful.
Jen’s body borders on medically impossible. She must live on bamboo shoots and run 70 miles a day after doing 6 hours of pilates and teaching a tae bo class. For that alone, she deserves victory. (If winning the Poo can be considered “victory”….)
I don’t know if it’s the editing of the show, or simply because it’s true – the 20 somethings are just dingbats. I’m pulling for Jen but I wouldn’t be surprised if Jayanna makes some sort of come back.
As a sidenote, does anyone feel as if Maria stayed a few weeks too many? My reading of her is that she stuck around for the condo, the free publicity and food NBC was hooking her up with and not so much for the poo himself.
From the way the last episode was set up, it seemed to me like they were going to do an “amnesty” episode where all four girls would end up in Australia and the Poo’s family’d get to dissect them all to pieces. I am curious to see what the folk who spawned this fool are like though…
In watching the previews for next week, am I the only one who thought the Poo’s mom looked a little like the mom from Muriel’s Wedding? Do all Aussie mom’s look like that?
Can someone at EW do a write-up of Rock of Love? It can’t be any worse than Age of Love!
studio cit cit city…it does make me laugh, but she is so dense…i am 29 and would love jen’s body..but I’d keep my face and personality
I second MJ – come on, it’s summer! TV watch/popwatch bar must be lowered to include ‘Rock of Love’ and its ilk.
where was mark consuelos during this epidode, the mini me off poo (poo jr, lil poo) was nowhere to be found? And the voiceover clearly was not him..it sounded like brian dunkleman!