Beauty and the Geek...Australia!

No, the title does not refer to any pathetic attempt on my part to woo a buxom Aussie broad, but instead to this show.

First, a confession. I loved the first US season of Beauty and the Geek. Amazeballs. It's a veritable train wreck of humanity captured for our amusement. Usually reality shows go through the motions to mask their pre-defined stereotype contestants and character cut-outs, but this show wallowed in it; they advertised one of the geeks as a "Computer Programmer" which you may as well translate into "Burned His Penis Trying to Impregnate His USB Port". I also knew I would have killed on that show given that I have enough geek in me to have taught some air-head blonde how to assemble a computer, but also enough passing knowledge of Us Weekly to tell you who Tony Romo is dating on any given week.

And this isn't even good US TV the Aussies decided to import. I mean this show was the the CW (nee WB). The CW! That's barely network!

Things I love about this show, so far:

How amazing is the front-page image for this show?

Give that guy a broken Chinese-Australian accent and BOOM! $$$...er...AU$AU$AU$

And the rest of these geeks. You couldn't have cast a better set of misfits. It's like what you find in the clip-art gallery under "socially retarded."

The beauties? Only two of them have what you would call "real jobs." And I'll bet you at least five of them have serious daddy issues. You don't develop glamor poses like those with healthy childhoods!

So, how excited was I when I found out via an email thread at work not only one, they are doing a second season, but two, one of the geeks had to drop out "at the last minute and they need a replacement. Fast." I immediately began devising ways I could make it on the show. Perhaps if I masked my American accent with broken Changlish? What if I got coke-bottle glasses and told them I blogged obsessively because my only friends were online*?

Alas, I gave up these dreams when I took a moment and realized since they sent out this message at work, I wouldn't even make it out of the office in terms of candidate selection. I thought my office back in the US was bad, but this Sydney office? Wow. Like if you took every 7th grade chess club in the world and put them into the engineering department here.

Anyways, it's good to know Aussies, for as much as they regard Americans as dumb, ignorant cousins, still love everything about us. That ensures I'll always have entertaining and familiar TV to veg out to.

*wait...