Q: "Who wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?"
A: "Mozart."
Ahhh, Beauty and the Geek. It's ba-ack!
I can't get enough of this show. Going into this fourth season I thought, can it still be good? Will the cast exaggerate their dumbness/geekiness just to get on the show? Will the humor resonate for the fourth time around?
Well after watching the two hour premiere, all I can say is that Beauty and the Geekis back and better than ever.
I wasn't going to watch the show last night. Since it was two hours, I DVR'd it and planned to watch it this weekend. But then at 11 p.m. I thought I'd hit play just to watch for a few minutes to get a glimpse of the new season. That glimpse led me to stay awake until 1 a.m., since I couldn't hit the stop button. I was hooked. And laughing hysterically for two hours straight. But we'll get to that in a moment.
First, as mostly everyone knows by now, this year has a twist. There is an extra team participating in the social experiment, also consisting of a beauty and a geek. But, the beauty is a guy and the geek is a girl. Most of all, I think this is going to create problems in the house. With only one hot guy for nine beauties, there is sure to be drama. Just how many of them will he make out with? Of course, it's likely to cause the girls to turn against each other. More importantly though, I hope, hope, hope that the hot guy is nice to the geeks and helps them out as well, as opposed to making them feel even more inadequate, which is bound to happen anyway once the beauties go hog wild over him instead of them. I also really hope that one of the geeky guys gets together with the geeky girl and they live happily ever after.
Let's get back to the humor that is Beauty and the Geek. During the casting special, hosted mainly by last season's lovers Nate and Jenny Lee, Nate asked the potential beauties, "Who wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?" Most of the girls looked at him in shock, but the best answers were the one above - Mozart - and another girl's, who said something to the extent of, "I don't read books. Only magazines." Yes, because Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is a book.
Another girl didn't know the difference between the sun and the moon. One beauty, Jasmine, who is cast on the show, said she tells people she speaks French and then walks away so that they can't ask her what she knows, since she can't actually speak any language other than English. Because that's normal. Another potential beauty, when asked who won the Civil War, responded that the US did because the US wins all wars. And my favorite of all? When the beauties and geeks were giving a toast and one of the geeks said, "L'chaim!" Beauty Shalandra responded with, "L'what? L'ham?" Her confusion was golden.
Then there were the geeks. Every time a geek was on screen, I sat on my couch with my jaw completely dropped to the floor. Josh, my absolute favorite of the geeks, called his mother when he had to tell the beauties about himself. There's also David, who participates in LARPing - live action role playing. He plays with swords... and, honestly, I have no idea what else because I must admit that LARPing is quite foreign to me... which is probably a good thing. Although I'm also sure we'll learn lots about it as the season progresses.
The list goes on and on of all the absurdities that occurred on last night's episode. It put me in the best mood, as I haven't laughed that hard for that long probably since Beauty and the Geek premiered the first time (this season is much better than last's). So, if you missed the premiere, be sure to tune in to The CW next Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET to watch the fun unfold.