Dr Witchbaby

I'm pretty sure that was Chase! He's been reminding me of a more attractive version of Bukowski. YES, I noticed that, too!! Derek, I think?? I LOVED that "Dude, you've been making some pretty misogynistic comments" was high up on his list of complaints about Chad's behavior. They've definitely been having fun with the occupations ("Canadian"?) this season. I've also been noticing the fact that Luke is identified as "War Veteran," while Alex is just "US Marine." I feel like they might as well have tagged Luke "War Hero" and Alex "Also Fought" or something. I kind of got the impression that some of the craziness (definitely not the bulk of the craziness, by any means) with Chad was that he was responding to the other guys as if they were in a normal/real world conversation. They were all sitting on the couches, and Luke leaned forward, obviously prompted by a producer, to ask (verbatim), "So, Chad -- if it's you that's going home tomorrow -- WHY do you think it'd be you that's going home tomorrow? What do you think that JoJo needs to know about you that would have her have you stay here?" I feel like Chad responded the way he would if some stranger turned to him in a bar and asked, "So, if your girlfriend is planning to dump you tomorrow, why might she be planning that? What deep emotional truth do you need to reveal about yourself in the next twelve hours to keep that from happening?" Lucille Bluth: My initial reaction was basically, Well, this is an awful lot of running for something that's supposed to be a fun outing. And the hiking in the woods! That looked legitimately difficult and unpleasant. Life is a rich tapestry and everything, but I would definitely put that on my list of worst date ideas ever.

I got the impression he meant Bonnie and Clyde, like, "Oh, we're two outlaws, breaking the rules, pulling the wool over everyone's eyes to find love and win this show!" Whatever, Joe. Like there's a producer sitting there asking, "So, Juelia, what do you think about Justin? Is he good at conversating?" I definitely could see that happening. I'm expecting/hoping for it to come out over the next few episodes that she was texting with like 20 former contestants, hedging her bets. I just want a constant stream of guys showing up, expecting to find love with Sam because she told each of them to "do whatever it takes" for them to meet.

That actually sounded like Megan's voice to me, although they played it over Clare's exit. The fact that he doesn't see why calling someone a "trophy wife" is offensive says a lot about how Joe views women, in general. Remember the earlier episode where he thought saying he had a sister who was smarter than JJ was a sick burn? That phone call actually made me feel pretty bad for Jared. I would be so mad (and embarrassed!) if someone called up someone I had dated to tell them I was obsessed with them. Kaitlyn definitely seemed to enjoy the drama of hearing that, too. Also, did anyone else notice that Ashley I. was wearing a Titanic "Heart of the Ocean" necklace last night? I've never seen anyone actually wearing it. Oh, Ashley I.

I interpreted this differently. I think the point that he/the show was making was that he had "lied" (not a big deal, in my opinion) about his age when he initially told her he was 26, whenever that conversation happened. She thought the birthday meant that he had just turned 27, but what he meant was that he had actually been 25 at the beginning of the show and had turned 26 during taping. Saying he might not propose seemed like producer-driven misdirection to me, trying to distract viewers from the whole "she said I was The One in San Antonio" thing. So much of this season has felt like the producers were throwing everything they could think of at a wall, hoping something would stick to make it seem like Kaitlyn hadn't made her mind up ages ago. I really dislike Nick, but I don't think we can blame him for that. Isn't it standard procedure to make contestants surrender their phones during taping? Hey, who doesn't like Costco?

I think part of the problem is that she uses "I can't imagine saying goodbye to you" as code for "I am actually saying goodbye to you right this second." I've noticed her doing this with a couple guys this season; they've all seemed (understandably) pretty confused as it's happening. But I did think it was hilarious when Joe was like, "I don't know what to do now ... what do I do?" And Kaitlyn kept responding like, "You have to do whatever you need to do, we both just have to try to put these emotions that we've shared behind us, you have to do whatever you can to recover from this heartbreak and move on." And you could tell that Joe was like, "No I mean WHERE IS MY SUITCASE. DO I NEED TO FIND MY OWN RIDE TO THE AIRPORT. I assume the producers don't intend for me to just live on this bench now so WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO INSTEAD."

I feel like this might have been an attempt to prevent a repeat of the Ashley/Emily situation. With Ashley, the subtext was always that some/many of the guys would have preferred Emily. This time it's all out in the open; even more than that, there's actual footage of plenty of this season's guys voting for Kaitlyn over Britt. This is definitely what I thought had happened when I saw the preview. To be fair, when we're talking about having the best personality in a room full of Bachelor/Bachelorette contestants, the bar isn't incredibly high.