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Worst TV Show of the Week

 Bachelor Pad on ABC

Naturally, reality shows cast extroverts, egotists, and eccentrics – basically, people willing to do wild and crazy things in front of the cameras. “Fame whores” – as they are derogatorily referred to - don’t usually gain much notoriety for something they aren’t willing to do. But on the September 5^th episode of Bachelor Pad (Mondays 8:00 p.m.), couples Kasey and Vienna and Erica and Blake actually do not – repeat – do not have sex. Yet somehow, they still manage to lose a bit of their dignity, and in the process we lose a bit our faith in humanity.

Kasey and Vienna entered the Bachelor Pad mansion as the “power couple,” since they’ve been dating for the past six months. But as the days pass, their relationship grows increasingly more strained. And in this episode, we find out a big reason why. Their argument spills into the kitchen where the rest of the contestants are milling about.

Kasey: “Don't come in here and continuously lead me on when...”

Vienna: “Continue? If a girl doesn't want to have sex with you, you don't run upstairs and rip a ring off of her finger!”

Blake explains the Kasey and Vienna argument.

Blake: “Kasey and Vienna burst into the kitchen and Vienna saying, 'He ripped the ring off of my finger, 'cause I wouldn't have sex with him.’ ”

Vienna and Kasey continue to argue.

Vienna: “Every night, you say, well, I want to, and I say I...”

Kasey: “You're making this a huge deal and you're looking crazy, dude.”

Vienna: “I'm not looking crazy, Kasey. You just ripped a ring off my finger because I won't have sex with you.”

Kasey: “No, because you don't do things. You got to follow through!”

Vienna: “Do what? 'Cause I'm not having sex with you, you ripped a ring off my finger!”

A moment later

Vienna: “You've made such a big deal over sex.”

Kasey: “Because you kept telling me that's what you wanted!”

Vienna: “I never kept telling you anything!”

Kasey: “How are you going to deny that?”

Vienna: “Today is the first day that I've ever said anything about it.”

Kasey: “You're saying, yes, I want to do it and then you're not following through what you're saying, I get that and I respect you but just don't keep telling me you want to do it and then not.”

Vienna: “I'm not keeping saying anything.”

Kasey: “Yes you do.”

Vienna: “No is no. No matter if it's no this, no that, no this, no that. No is no.”

Kasey: “Then just don't tell me you're going to.”

Vienna: “No is no.”

Kasey: “You never said no. You said yes just like you told Wes, just like you told Dave Good, just like you told all...”

Vienna: “Really?”

Kasey: “Yeah. Just think about it.”

Vienna: “You want to do that? It doesn't matter! It's sex! Get the (bleeped f***) over it! I don't want to do it in this house!”

And who could blame her, with cameras everywhere and barely any privacy? Yet, Kasey persists, haranguing her until she agrees to “cuddle” with him. Pressuring a girlfriend to have sex is itself a horrible form of behavior; but to pressure her to have sex, knowing cameras will be around to capture it, and to essentially call her “slut” on national television by listing the other men she has slept with, is especially low.

On the flipside, Ericka makes it abundantly clear how she wants her date with Blake to end. She shows off the sexy lingerie she plans to seduce him with. During the date, she pulls out all the stops, even going for as to suggest that sex with her would be a good strategic move:

Erica: “I let Blake know that I would be frustrated if he wouldn't have sex with me. 'Cause he's tried being with Melissa. She was too crazy. He tried getting with Holly. If he wants to get with me, it will be no strings attached.”

Blake: “I have been on four dates with four different girls and my date with Melissa was a fun date and then she lost her (bleeped f******) mind. Okay? And then my date with Holly, I had a lot of fun, it was a good time and we did have a kiss and I'm on a date with you and do the same thing? I look like the just the worst, most flip-floppingest, waffflingest person ever!”

A moment later:

Blake: “The fact that you told me that you packed a bag and you packed your lingerie and I feel like you've painted yourself into this corner and you just assumed that I would hop right on there and it really bothers me. It bothers me a lot.”

Erica: “It bothers me that you wouldn't, as my partner. I'm asking you to do something for me and you won't and that upsets me.”

Blake: “That's kind of (bleeped f*****) up if you ask me. I mean, if the role was reversed and I'm sitting here just assuming you're going to stay and, oh yeah, I told all the guys that I brought a bunch of condoms or whatever and you weren't comfortable with it, it would be really really weird if I was so persistent.”

Yes, it would be weird. But you know what is also weird? The utter lack of shame on this reality show.

For sexual content, Bachelor Pad has earned the title of Worst TV Show of the Week.