Episode Report Card Daniel: D | 16 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT King Jeremy the Wicked
By Daniel | Season 13 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2008.05.26
Outside, Jeremy and DeAnna do their best to destroy my soul with clichés and unearned sentiment. And then they make out for a little while, and then she says she has to rejoin the party.
So Jeremy walks over to the table where the other guys are still complaining about him. Jeremy wants to know what the guys think DeAnna wants from a guy, and then Robert is all, "You're getting all the one-on-one time, so you tell us!" Ron goes off on him. "You don't have to be a [bleep]," says Mr. Always-Smiling, Never-Using-Profanity Ryan, who goes off again about Jeremy not being real. DeAnna comes in while Jeremy stares down Ryan, and all the guys paste on smiles, and Ron takes the chance to get some one-on-one time. Careful! Don't want to get too competitive!
He tells her he thinks his divorce bothers her, and she admits she's never dated a divorced dude before, but it doesn't bother her. Then she jokes that she's surprised he's being all serious with her, when she thought he was going to make a nice light comment, and then he does a complete 180 and tries -- too late -- to show what a happy-fun guy he is. He talks about how he's looking forward to having a "herd" of kids, but when DeAnna looks terrified, he downgrades to "three" and then to "a couple." But it's about being real, right? In a talking head, he's all, "Jeremy's not the front-runner anymore. Game on!"
Then we have a pushup contest, for some reason. Some guys start packing it in pretty early. I would be in that group. Jeremy says he could have gone longer, but he took a dive, because he didn't want to keep showing up the other guys. In the end, Jesse just tops Brian (although his pushup technique was very sloppy by the end -- but I should acknowledge I doubt my ability to get into the double digits). Afterwards Jesse sits down with DeAnna and talks a bunch of shit about how he wants to spend time at home with his (eventual) kids and be the "cool dad." Here's a tip: trying to be the "cool dad" usually makes you into the ineffectual douchebag dad.