Bachelor Pad Recap: Survey says
On tonight's Bachelor Pad, feelings get hurt when a survey challenge reveals who will always be a bridesmaid (spoiler: it's not one of the guys). One date goes well and one date is full of fail. Two more contestants go home.
We rejoin the house just after last week's elimination. Wes is upset that Gia was sent home while Dave didn't appreciate having to be the tiebreaker. A few others talk about how painful the game is, blah blah blah, and then Wes decides to get on a high horse about hurt feelings. Dave calls him a jackass for being apologetic that a reality show with an elimination element might ruffle some feathers. They begin to argue:
Wes: "What?"
Dave: "What?"
Wes: "What?"
Dave: "What?"
Game on, I suppose. The guys bicker a bit more and do not appear to be winning over any of the other contestants. Natalie interviews that Wes doesn't seem to be aware that the winner of the show will have the best social strategy and won't necessarily be the best kisser. Meanwhile, Wes is still stewing and he wants to challenge Dave to a boxing match. "Dave ripped his britches with me," shares Wes in an interview.
The doorbell rings and one of the women goes outside to collect a basket of clipboards. Everyone is asked to fill out a confidential survey about their fellow contestants. I have a feeling this won't be as fun as Senior Superlatives.
This week's competition requires the players to guess which contestant received the most votes in each survey question. The first guy and gal to score 4 points wins the Rose. The questions start out easy ("Who's going to win?") but quickly get personal ("Who is the dumbest?"). Tenley's guess of Gwen as the dumbest gave Tenley the Rose for the women.
At this point, people are starting to take the answers given now personally. For example, almost everyone else guessed Natalie for the "dumbest" question (including Natalie). Now if one votes for Natalie here, they aren't saying they agree with that answer, they just think more people voted for Natalie than anyone else.
This distinction is important when it gets to the end of the competition. Jesse and Kovacs end up tying when they guess that Wes is the biggest jerk (Wes did not guess himself and does not agree with the answer). The tie-breaker question: Who has the worst boob job? It should be noted that the questions that are presented as most damning are specific to women while questions that are just generally hurtful are gender neutral. Keep it classy, Bachelor Pad. Anyway, Kovacs suspects that the house would vote Elizabeth. Not only does he disagree with that conclusion, but Kovacs doesn't want to hurt Elizabeth's feeling by putting her name down. He was right that the house selected Elizabeth, but so did Jesse so he wins.
Unsurprisingly, the women do not take being called permanent bridesmaids with weird boobs all that well. Natalie (permanent bridesmaid) and Elizabeth (shallow) take the survey slams the hardest. Gwen comforts Natalie while Kovacs works his magic on Elizabeth. Everyone seems to recover but the whole house seems to have a feeling of "ick."
Tenley receives her date card offering an Island Escape for Two. This week, the show shifts to one-on-one dates. At the end of the date, the date winner can decide if they want to offer their selection the Rose and, if things go really well, the key to the Fantasy Suite. Tenley chooses Kiptyn to join her. They go on a helicopter ride to Catalina. After riding a zipline and a bunch of awful puns involving the varying heights of relationships, the couple have a fancy tiki-lit dinner on the beach. Tenley offers Kiptyn the Rose and he accepts. They go to the fantasy suite and close the doors. I assume they are playing Uno or clipping coupons as the moon crosses the sky.
When Tenley and Kiptyn return they make out in front of the house. They both agree that they should put on their game faces before going back in and that neither should take any distance personally. It is a game after all. When they enter the backyard, the other contestants ask about the date. Both are purposely vague, but they do reveal that Kiptyn received the Rose.
Jesse's date card arrives promising "the sky's the limit." He choose Peyton and they ride a limo to an airfield. Their date features a ride on a fancy biplane. Afterwards, the plane pulls into a hangar decked out with curtains and a frilly couch. Peyton thinks Jesse acts like a schoolboy in a cute sort of way. He offers the Rose early on to get that formality out of the way. Peyton makes Jesse a martini, which he chugs down. Evidently Jesse's cuteness goes down the drunker he gets and the date sours very quickly. Peyton determines that they are in the friend zone and passes on the Fantasy Suite. When they return to the house, Gwen notices that the couple is not as close as when they left for their date.
Elimination time. The women are split between Wes and Kovacs. Dave tries to sway Krisily to vote for Wes over Kovacs. Wes and Peyton vote for Elizabeth but Kovacs and Dave want to get rid of Gwen. Kiptyn is on the fence and really does not want to vote Gwen. He would rather vote for Krisily.
Chris Harrison gathers everyone to the courtyard to hand out roses. Natalie, Ashley, David, Nikki, and Elizabeth are safe. On the women's side, Gwen receives the last rose, which means Krisily is going home. Kovacs receives the last rose boutonniere, so Wes is going home. Krisily is upset that she was told she was safe but they voted her out. She calls out Kovacs, Natalie, Kiptyn and Tenley as being the final four because no one will break them up. Wes is less vocal, saying that he had fun before high-fiving all the guys.
Next time: Three women will be kicked off because they need to even up the men and the women. Have fun with that.
Mike McComb – TVLatest.com
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