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Beauty and the Geek: 02-02

Posted on 01.22.06 | (15) Comments | 3195 views

When we last left our beauties and geeks, Chris and Amanda were about to disturb the peace in the house by switching teams. Honestly, I can’t blame Amanda for not wanting to parnter with Chris. They decide to swap with Tristin and Brandon, which is unfortunate because I like them both and think they would have done well as a couple. Chris wanted to partner with Tristin because of her perceived intellect, however after a few minutes alone with her, he realizes he was kind of wrong.

This week’s challenge for the guys was to stand in front of an audience and perform a karaoke song. The audience would vote for the best team to determine the winner. The girls’ challenge was to give a speech on one of four hot political topics, such as taxes or the environment.

The girls made sure all of the guys were prepared for karaoke, but some of the guys didn’t bother to make sure the girls were very prepared.

As such, the guys all did a fairly great job with the karaoke task and the girls were left stumbling around, trying to define the good and bad points of social security and the like, without much of an understanding of it. Granted, some of these girls are dumber than dishwater. I believe it was Tristin, for example, who in one of her applicant interviews that the sun was a really big planet that was too hot for us to live on or go to. Yeah. How does anyone past second grade not know the sun is a star?

Spoilers inside! Do not continue on if you don’t want to know who won the first challenges and who went home this week.

Tyson, the adorable and very nice Rubik’s cube record holder, won the karaoke competition. He was bragging that he had perfect pitch, something only 1 in 2000 people have, yet I still didn’t think he had a bad singing voice. At the end of his karaoke routine, he solved a Rubik’s cube. I think this guy is great and I admire his interest in the Rubik’s cube, but he needs to find some other hobbies, or at least not take this one with him everywhere he goes. There’s more to life than solving that puzzle.

Cher won the girl’s competition with a speech about social security. She was able to relate it to her grandmother, which probably won the audience over. We didn’t get to hear much of anyone’s speech, but I do agree that Cher’s was probably the best. Tristin’s was the funniest though. That girl should look into stand up comedy.

Tyson and Cher are on different teams, so both of their teams were granted immunity and they each got to pick one of the teams to go head-to-head in the competition to send one of them home. As expected, they chose Chris and Tristin, going so far as to tell them they hoped they wouldn’t be coming back. They also chose Brandon and Amanda.

I always hate this part of the show because I do like all the couples. Chris realized what a jerk he was being and tried to apologize to the group, but they wouldn’t hear any of it. I don’t think Chris is a jerk, I think he’s just a little too full of himself and he really needs to accept the fact that he can learn a lot from someone without a high IQ or a college education.

The final challenge simply consists of a series of questions. Amanda did well in her round, getting 2 points to Tristin’s 1 point. Chris, however, blew Brandon away and won the game for his team.

Although I didn’t care too much for Amanda, I was sad to see Brandon go so quickly. He’s probably the least geeky looking of all the guys, so hopefully he gained the confidence in his short time there to ungeekify himself somewhat.

Next week the guys try to learn interior decorating (I’m guessing that’s the episode we see Josh staple a teddy bear to the wall) and the girls have to learn how to build a computer. I don’t envy the beauties challenge at all, because despite watching my husband put a computer together several times, I’m pretty sure I’d have no clue how to do that. It should be interesting!

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