Average Joe Commentary

The very thing they set out to disprove on Average Joe, they can't help themselves but prove every show. It seems this reality tv show wants us to think that an average-looking man can be more than a geek, yet they're going to be spending each episode remaking a rejected Joe to be physically more attractive.

To add to it, the "hot" guys that are added to the mix spend every introduction minute talking about how great-looking they are (no denying that) and how the Joes have no chance against them. One went as far as to say he's going to invite the beautiful red-headed Anna to a "gun show", then flashes his biceps as proof. To borrow a phrase from my years spent as a high-schooler in the early eighties ... Gag me. Are their looks their only merit?

The Joes even start to turn on themselves as crazy-haired Dante spends all his waking moments on the show strategizing how to fight off the incoming competition. Igor says he wants to enjoy the time on the show, not sit around strategizing. Dante wants to get such an early start one morning on the planning that he runs around banging pots and pans to wake the other Joes. They get him back the next night by taping his snoring carcass to the bed. At least they didn't put his hand in water.

The dating starts as the Joes join Anna at Sea World. In an odd move, Dante tries to scare away the others by wearing smelly sandals. It doesn't seem to work, though, and there's no word on what Anna thought. I do have to think it would deter and not attract me.

As they all go watch the Shamu performance, Anna needs to pick a Joe to give a hug to the whale and she chooses Nathan, as she likes the quiet type. Later, she needs to pick someone for the first private date, and chooses another quiet guy, Aaron. But she doesn't tell him to his face, instead she whispers it to a sea lion, and he goes down the line of Joes, "yelling" at the rejected men, and when he gets to Anna's choice of Aaron, he smiles. Yes, this sea lion actually smiles, but it's almost more creepy-looking than cute.