{"id":106,"date":"2007-11-12T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T00:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=106"},"modified":"2011-08-02T23:07:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T04:07:31","slug":"s4-episode-5-aaaaahhh-kelly-clarkson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"S4, Episode 5: AAAAAHHH, KELLY CLARKSON!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the geeks to look pretty!  Or at least as close to pretty as they&#8217;re physically capable!  Woo hoo!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they showed Dave getting the full-body wax treatment this season, yank by painful yank.  (I wonder how that compares to getting whacked repeatedly by big foam swords&#8230;)  I have this horrible feeling that had Will still been around for this episode, his entire upper body would have been glowing red from getting so much hair pulled out.  I still cringe when I think about it&#8230;  man, if that doesn&#8217;t make a guy appreciate bikini waxes, I don&#8217;t know what would.  Maybe seeing a non-bikini-waxed girl wearing a bikini&#8230; <shudder>  But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure what the beauties&#8217; fashion coaching was for&#8212;it seemed like the fashion designers were picking out the clothing that looked the best without a whole lot of input from the geeks.  Maybe that was for the best, because I remember what some of the guys considered &#8220;fashionable&#8221; during Season 3 and the results could have saved them money on a costume to scare little kids on Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>As each geek walked in with their new look, the only time I said &#8220;Holy shit!&#8221; (and I really did say that out loud) was when Jesse walked in with bleach-white hair.  His head matched his partners!  Thankfully, none of the rest of him did.  Then Joshua came through the curtain and I was immediately struck by how much he looked like a short college professor.  And Nicole was Nicole, except this time, she was really hot.  I&#8217;ll give the producers credit: that was <i>one<\/i> nice twist to the show&#8217;s &#8220;evolution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dave, you fool!  If you don&#8217;t ask the woman, she&#8217;ll ask someone else!  And then she&#8217;ll have sex with him, but while they&#8217;re lying in bed, his mistress reappears after an apparent suicide, then she pulls out a knife and you&#8217;re left to watch your crush as she lies in a hospital bed in a coma with multiple stab wounds, hooked up to the machine that goes &#8220;Ping!&#8221;  If you&#8217;ve ever watched soap operas, you&#8217;d have known better.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s cool that the geeks loosened up enough to talk to people at the prom, but c&#8217;mon!  They&#8217;re teenagers!  Everyone in the cast had to be at least 21 and in college; talking to kids in high school couldn&#8217;t have been <i>that<\/i> difficult, could it?  Especially when they take Joshua under their wing and do everything but stuff the ballot box for him.  Sometimes high school kids are really cool&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was pretty apparent that the teaching competition was a tight race between Sam and Shay.  Both looked like they knew what they were doing (Shay admitted that the key term was &#8220;looked&#8221;) and both had the kids laughing and enjoying themselves.  I probably would have done the same thing that Sam did: &#8220;Look at the dinosaur&#8217;s big teeth!  They could chomp the lunch lady right in half if she was serving tater tot casserole again because it only eats meat!  Chomp chomp chomp!&#8221;  But hey, as long as the kids absorbed the information and didn&#8217;t get left behind, that was the important part.  And hopefully they didn&#8217;t get pushed behind, either&#8212;some of the clips they showed were painful to watch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also pretty apparently that not having anyone to hook up with is going to make Sam an even more dangerous competitor.  He was already a threat to win every challenge (aside from &#8220;Wait&#8230; <i>her<\/i> left earlobe?&#8221;), but now he&#8217;ll be able to use that extra time to study.  And according to all of the previous episodes, that&#8217;s <i>a lot<\/i> of studying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the geeks to look pretty! Or at least as close to pretty as they&#8217;re physically capable! 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