I'm so excited. He's a cowboy who makes $11,000 per annum on the rodeo circuit.
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Why oh why do I watch this trash and enjoy it so much? I'll be watching tonight.

favorgrl

The female DJ on the radio station I listen to had this to say this morning:
"Hmm, so America's sending a Texas cowboy overseas to lie about oil money? I think I've seen that show before. On FOX actually."

Hee!!!

K

Rzngrl that's brilliant! Man, I am so looking forward to needling my European friends about the stereotypes this show is totally going to play on. Though it could be said that they're just using a scenario straight out of Henry James ;).

"Though it could be said that they're just using a scenario straight out of Henry James"

Perhaps, but not with a straight face!!! :P

Henry James, Jesse James, whatever.

"Joe Millionaire" cracks me up. I didn't watch it from the beginning last season, but this time I vow to.

I like this guy better than Evan Marriott. He's cuter, too. Less Neanderthal-ish.

oh, this one was BAD. But at least he swears a lot. he's a total redneck, and the girls will fall for him. hehe!

oh yes.

how the funk are they narrowing it into 4 episodes when we didn't even get to see introductions tonight?

only 4 episodes? sad. this one looks so much funnier than the last one. maybe he goes crazy and has a breakdown? it looked possible from those previews tonight. but then again those things always try to trick you.

Wow. Very obnoxious. They made the women out to be drunken Euro-trash bimbos, and he's all shucks ma'am lunkhaid beefcake charm.

Fox does it again. The only thing more amusingly contemptuous than gold-digging catty women is DRUNK EUROPEAN gold-digging catty women. Let's laugh at some foreigners, then crack a brewski and cheer on the US of A as he takes them fillies down!

Aw, he's too good for most of them wimmen. No, seriously, he is.

I'm rooting for the nice curly-haired woman from the Czech republic. She's nice, has a romantic/idealistic streak (dated mostly "loser" artistic guy - her word), and isn't a gold-digger.

The woman who wore the sparkly turquoise "Cowgirl" top to meet him? Bwhahahaaa! Ugh.

(slurp)

The new joe is sooooooo Woody Harrelson.

i loved all the unnecessary subtitling for certain parts.

i thought it was interested that europeans thought of cowboys as all redneck, white-trash hicks. i thought their turn-around was hilarious. after whatever the hosts name told them he was a cowboy, they had a look on their faces like poop was smeared under their lip. and then told them he was worth $80 million. all smiles!!!!!

i also like the german girl wanting to ask him if he spent all his time on the ranch or went out clubbing. the mental image i had was just hilarous!!!!

the sparkly "cowgirl" shirt was just hilarious!!! i think we have another mojo on our hands!!

The new joe is sooooooo Woody Harrelson---Martitia.

I was thinking last night he was Woody Harrelson/Chris O'Donnell.

The one girl the described a rodeo as a festival with horses cracked me up.

favorgrl

"Let's laugh at some foreigners, then crack a brewski and cheer on the US of A as he takes them fillies down!"

So I guess the model would be more Mark Twain than Henry James then? Anyhow, I didn't realize that it was on at 8pm, so I missed it due to yoga class. But if it's mostly Eastern European women, shouldn't they just change the title to something like "Who wants to marry a green card?" I mean, it's one thing to just make fun of gold diggers. But even a $11,000 a year cowboy with US citizenship still comes off as being wealthy and priviledged if you're from a poor country.

All are from wealthy, industrialized Western European countries, and it didn't seem like any were motivated by a green card.

Tereza is totally the new Zora, Alessia is Heidi and Mojo combined, and the two Swedish women look exactly alike.

Oh, most of the women were totally gold-diggers. Seriously, many of the women last night made "mercenary" Melissa, and MoJo, look like rookies.

I thought it was sweet when David chose his horse. (For those who didn't catch the first episode, he rode up on the horse to meet the ladies.) I thought it was cool that he ended up choosing a horse like him, and not the stereotypical white horse. (The horse really did look like "his horse," even though it's borrowed.)

I think it's adorable that David the Cowboy keeps saying "Yes sir!" to Paul, instead of "Yes, Paul." This guy's got 1000 x more class than Evan "Dumber Than a Box of Rocks" Marriott.

***Edit: Thanks to lulabelle for remembering the name of the one I'm rooting for! Tereza from the Czech Republic is so this year's Zora. (She's the only one who had stars in her eyes instead of dollar signs, when Cowboy David rode up on Hurricane, the palomino.)

***Edited to add commas, hopefully clarifying that MoJo was not a mercenary. A hat fetishist, possibly! ;) But, not mercenary.

Do you think MoJo was mercenary? I think she was tacky and delusional, but not necessarily gold-digging.

I'm with ya on the Woody Harrelson thing. Or more like his character, Woody, on cheers, rather than crazy hemp-wearing real-life Woody.

I'm hooked. You gotta love the earnestness of the European women- they don't seem to have a duplicitous bone in their bodies, they just say what they're thinking.

"Or more like his character, Woody, on cheers"

that would be Woody Boyd.

yeah, I still got it *blows smoke off barrel of gun*

"Do you think MoJo was mercenary?" - the illustrious lulabelle

No, oops, sorry, I was being confusing.

I was calling Melissa "mercenary" for a reason --

Last go-round. Melissa was the one who said she was a "mercenary" kind of person, when she meant to say "missionary." :) :D :D When Evan asked her what she'd do with the money, when they were having some date together, Melissa had some sort of bizarro speech about bathing poor dirty people, 'cause she was "mercenary that way." HA! Classic, classic moment. The scary thing is, I'm not 100% sure it was a Freudian slip?!?

So, no, MoJo was not mercenary. Not a mercenary part of her kept under her (many) hats. :)

MoJo actually did have one "Woop Woop! Possible Golddigger Alert!" moment, 'cause her scrapbook contained a check she'd written to herself for 1 million dollars, which she'd hoped to cash one day...To be fair, I think she was inspired by Jim Carrey doing the same thing when he was an ordinary shmo, to motivate himself to become a success. I think it was that check that she'd written to herself that made Evan send her home the next elimination ceremony.

"I think it was that check that she'd written to herself that made Evan send her home the next elimination ceremony."

dude, I don't think it was the check so much as it was the poem! remember? I choo-choo-choose you!

"I choo-choo-choose you!"

BWAH! Yeah, the "husband and wife" bit at the end of the poem made Evan look like he was about to crap his BVD's. I'm surprised he didn't jump out the window to get away.

Anyway, go Zora 2.0!

Oh my god, I LOVED those women, they made me want to move to Europe! Drink tons of champagne and sleep until noon? Sounds like a lifestyle to me! I also loved how honest they were about their total disdain for his profession ('A cowboy? Um, we're European, so that sounds so stupid.' Hee!)

Also, I thought the guy was a bit charming in a not-my-type-at-all kind of way, definitely more charismatic than Evan. The first thing I thought was Woody on Cheers, too.

Those Swedes were fucking cool, especially the Debbie Harry fashion designer.