The Bachelor Pad Finale Drives Kasey To Tears While Holly & Michael Win

Well, the leaked details of the Bachelor Pad Finale turned out to be pretty much 100% correct.

Holly & Michael beat Michelle & Graham in the race to split $250K.

I switched over to watching Bachelor Pad when the Republican Debate on CNN went to commercial. I did not realize, at the time, that ABC was bloating Bachelor Pad to a 3 hour long time span.

Things that stick in my memory from last night.

The Cirque du Soleil competition in Las Vegas. Judged by former Bachelors/Bachelorettes, Ali Fedorowosky, or however you spell her name, Jason Mesnick and Trista, the first Bachelorette. The trio seemed way too earnest in their judging.

The earnest judges gave the win to Holly & Michael and gave the boot to Ella & Kirk. Ella took it real bad because now she'd have no money for her kid and plastic surgery.

Winners, Holly & Michael, had 2 Sacred Red Roses to give to whoever they wanted to go to the end with. After some weird Graham angst and Kasey being his clueless overly intense self, it was Michelle & Graham to the end, where they did not win.

The return of the Bachelor Pad Bootees part was the most entertaining. Watching Kasey get his comeuppance, via a clip of highlights of his most douchey behavior, with that driving him to tears, then him saying, "Sometimes it feels like I just can't get back to being happy!" Well, that was satisfying.

Another Kasey highlight was his fellow villain, Justin Rego, saying Kasey & Vienna were like Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, with the Kermit remark referring to Kasey's odd speaking voice. This had Kasey revealing he has a speech impediment, to the seeming incredulousness of Chris Harrison.

Erica Rose was highly amusing. She really should be the next Bachelorette.

Blake's contrived, filmed, proposal to Holly was so weirdly staged, as if they were hiking in the mountains in formal wear. With cameramen in tow.

If I understood correctly, at some point someone indicated that the filming of Bachelor Pad took place over the course of only 3 weeks. Blake got smitten with Holly and vice verse in 3 weeks? I think there must be a long lag time between the end of filming and the finale filming we saw last night.

The finale ended with the introduction of Ashley reject, Ben Flajnik as the next Bachelor. I'm guessing it is going to be a trainwreck.

The Bachelorette: Ali Leaves Kasey Stranded on an Iceland Glacier

With nothing else to watch on Monday night, despite me saying never again, I am finding myself fast forwarding through Monday night's 2 hour The Bachelorette.

Last night Ali booted 2 guys. The one who got booted at the sacred Rose Ceremony totally botched being able to speak when he was finally alone with Ali. This was the first I remember him speaking at all. I don't remember his name, that is how memorable he was.

The other bootee was the delusional Kasey, he with an odd stalker-like demeanor that seemed completely disconnected from reality. Kasey showed Ali the tattoo he'd gotten in New York, sure it would show Ali his extreme sincerity. Instead, the tattoo showed Ali Kasey's extreme insanity.

Ali flew the guys from New York City to Iceland. You would think in Iceland there would be limited swimming suit opportunities. That turned out to not be the case when Ali whipped off her clothes and dove into a big hot springs. The boys soon followed.

I think there was a one on one date, details of which I do not remember, except the guy on the date got a rose.

And then there was a group date out on the ice. They had to go into a hole in the ice. I think it was the guy named Ty who rose to the challenge by being helpful and thus got a rose.

The formerly crippled Justin, now out of his cast, and hapless Kasey, went on a double date, or whatever you call it, knowing that one would get a rose and the other would go home.

A helicopter took Ali, Justin and Kasey to a glacier. Some hiking took place with Ali leading the boys to the most ridiculously contrived setting yet. An ice cave, with ice furniture, candles and all sorts of accouterments. Justin behaved well. Kasey was embarrassing.

Then Ali led the boys from the ice cave, hiking across the glacier, when suddenly Ali gave Justin a rose and Kasey the boot. The helicopter was magically there. Justin and Ali flew away, leaving long-suffering Kasey alone on the glacier somewhere in the wilds of Iceland.

We saw no more of Kasey. I assume he made it safely off the glacier.

Previews for next week sort of confirm, to me, that this show is scripted by very unimaginative writers, recycling the same plots. Currently we have Justin being this season's Vienna. And next week we have one of the guys shocking, absolutely shocking, Ali, who discovers, oh the horror, he has a girl friend.

This will be the 3rd time in a row we have seen this plot device. When Jillian was The Bachelorette it was Wes who had a girl friend. Or two. When Jake was The Bachelor it was Rozlyn (or is it Roslyn) who had an affair with one of the show's producers.

And now one of Ali's guys has himself a girl back home.

Now. I may be totally off here, but it seems unrealistic, to me, to think that these guys, ranging from the early 20s to the 30s, would be girl friend free. I mean, they might not be in a committed type relationship, but it would seem to me that most of them must have a friend or two, of the girl gender, who they might call up on a Saturday night to ask if she's busy.

Anyway, I need to hunt harder to find something to watch on Monday night.