“It’s the romantic television event of the year”- Chris Harrison, ‘Bachelor’ host and remaining
rose announcer
Weddings make everything better, unless you have to watch
them. Former Bachelorette contestant
Ashley H. and her forehead have married their Game Show consolation prize J.P. and
ABC thought everyone would want to see them try on shoes and cuddle and throw
around enough money to feed everyone for the rest of time. It’s exactly what I
needed after watching the Bills grab their ankles while playing a ‘home’ game
in a different country. (Sports quota filled)
If you’re new to my recaps, here’s a quick primer. The
Bachelor/Bachelorette is terrible and my favorite thing to do is watch it and
recap it. My soul is made of black tar and this is the only way I can feed it.
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Ashley H. is beyond annoying. Every time she talks, I get a
kidney stone. She is desperate and needs to be fed compliments like ‘Gauntlet’
needed to be fed quarters. Not a lot of girls will get my ‘Gauntlet’ reference
but, if you did, we should have a televised wedding together.
“And, most important, what will their dog ‘Boo’ wear?”- Chris Harrison, with an actual quote while
running down the fun we’re about to have.
For the record, the definition of ‘important’ is ‘of great
significance or consequence’, so our priorities are in order.
During this two hour special, ABC runs down the details
leading up to the extravagant wedding ceremony of their favorite couple. Chris
Harrison starts off by listing the success stories of their Game Show. This is
the third wedding out of 25 franchise seasons. One of those wedding involved a
guy who picked a girl and then changed his mind and picked another girl. They’ve
got about a 12% success rate which, to be fair, is better than I would have
predicted. Numbers are also skewed because a guy named Brad Womack, who always
seemed like he was about to punch someone, was the ‘Bachelor’ twice.
The benefit of going on a date Game Show to meet your future
spouse is obvious. J.P. says it best, “One day, our kids are going to ask, how
did you and Mommy meet? And I’ll say, have a seat.”
And, if you didn’t see Ashley and J.P.’s Bachelorette season
or have not seen any episode of any Bachelorette season, you should know that
their kids will be watching Mom make out with 7 or so dudes in a hot tub in one
night, cry constantly over her own desperate insecurities, and sleep with 3
dudes the night before dumping one of them at a Rose Ceremony.
That’s how Mommy and me met!
We get a little taste of the home life of Ashley H. and J.P.
because ABC cameras camp out in their bedroom and wait for them to wake up so
America can watch them cuddle with their dog Boo. These cameras follow them out
into the street for stirring footage of ice cream sharing and walking.
Ashley gushes about how ‘meant-to-be’ she and J.P. are. It
should be noted that Ashley fell in love with 7 guys during her season. One of
those guys was a paid actor named Bentley who was brought on the show to act
mean. Ashley found out he was being mean and still begged him to stay on the
show. He left. She cried. He came back. She cried and asked him to stay. He
left again. She eventually chose J.P. It was like a Disney movie.
Ashley H. and J.P. talk with their families so Ashley’s
sister gets a chance to be on T.V. again. She has tattoos. It’s controversial.
They
all talk and cry because that’s what wedding are about. Boo barks.
In the middle of the chaos, Ashley H. and J.P. find time to
lay a picnic blanket out in a park and drink wine. Do these people carry around
blankets and wine everywhere they go? Are the Wine and Blanket stores in their
city as plentiful as Tim Horton’s in Buffalo? Are you guys even answering these
questions?
The ‘meant-to-be’ couple meets with a wedding planner to
make their televised event perfect. They talk about flowers and wood. Ashley H.
decided to have 9 bridesmaids. I had the over/under at 20. There is more
talking about colors and shoes. I have a computer on my lap with access to
every episode of ‘Cheers’ and porn, yet I continue to watch wedding planning.
The wedding planner has dog dresses for their dog Boo.
Finally, the important questions are being answered. The planner holds a dress
up next to the dog and announces that it costs $8,400. I look over and see that
my wife is sleeping and I hit fast-forward. I’m sorry, the anger that wells up
inside of me over a dog dress that costs more than I make in months could power
a factory. Fast-forwarding was a nice substitute for punching drywall.
I’m going to kick this into high gear because this
presentation is terrible.
They try on dresses and tuxedos. Chris Harrison interviews
horrible people from season’s past. Some of them are pregnant.
They show the entire nuptial ceremony. Chris Harrison is
suddenly a priest because he’s performing the ceremony. It’s endless. I just
went to church in my living room. It’s like a 2-hour diamond commercial.
If you’re a woman and you have a man and you haven’t watched
this wedding yet and you plan on sitting down with him tonight to watch this
wedding and you don’t want him to leave you, turn on the T.V., take out $20,
press it into his hand and say, “Go get beer. You don’t have to watch this.”
Then, let him touch your chest.
That will be the moment your man will know he has found true
love.
ABC follows up hell with the promise of more hell. They
preview the upcoming ‘Bachelor’ season with religious guy Shawn. He has
shoulder muscles like Idaho has potatoes. There will be love, drama, repelling from
cliffs and, of course, an ambulance at the Bachelor mansion because that has to
happen every season. It’s contracted. California must have built a hospital
next to the Bachelor mansion by now because the place is constantly crawling
with ambulances.
I hope you’ll join me in January to follow the fun. I
sincerely apologize for my recaps.
