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Title: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Stick on October 01, 2012, 12:39:25 pm
So this show is returning this Thursday at 8:30pm! I'm so excited! :D Does anyone else here really love this show?

One of the contestants this year is a medicine student from New South Wales, called Yiran. He achieved a perfect ATAR of 99.95 last year. There might be some members on this forum who might be able to relate with him as the show progresses. Should be interesting to see how he goes. :P
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: MonsieurHulot on October 01, 2012, 12:45:00 pm
Does anyone else here really love this show?
No.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: brenden on October 01, 2012, 12:49:58 pm
(http://img0.joyreactor.com/images/templates/solo/mother_of_god.jpg)
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: catwoman101 on October 01, 2012, 01:28:29 pm
 Does anyone else here really love this show?


YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!! ARGHHHHH SO EXCITED !!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS SHOW SOOOOOOOO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CANT WAIT  !!!!!
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: duhherro on October 01, 2012, 04:40:09 pm
dis gon be good
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: pi on October 01, 2012, 05:09:07 pm
Does anyone else here really love this show?
No.

This.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Limista on October 01, 2012, 05:14:22 pm
lol...each to their own. Personally, I find it superficial, dramatic, unrealistic and a waste of time - but that's just me  ;D Thumbs up to people who like this show though - go crazy  :)
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: nisha on October 01, 2012, 05:15:00 pm
Goddamn stupidest show I have ever seen in my life.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: catwoman101 on October 01, 2012, 06:01:44 pm
Goddamn stupidest show I have ever seen in my life.

no thats the shire !
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Stick on October 01, 2012, 06:11:38 pm
As if you don't laugh at the stupid things the beauties say. xP
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Yendall on October 01, 2012, 06:41:09 pm
Strangely, given my amazing taste in TV shows [;)], I find Beauty and The Geek pretty funny!
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: HERculina on October 01, 2012, 07:23:43 pm
Its good, but tbh everything looks acted out ....
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Hutchoo on October 01, 2012, 09:20:04 pm
Does anyone else here really love this show?
No.

This.
This ^^
1) The Geeks aren't that 'Geeky'. They're just your average smart/dedicated guy. Like one of them is "studying a double degree"... how does that make him 'geeky' 0-o?

2) The girls aren't that hot lol. If you guys are into fake tits and cake faces, then all I can say is thank you. You save me from being hit on from said troglodytes.

Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: nisha on October 01, 2012, 09:31:56 pm
Does anyone else here really love this show?
No.

This.
This ^^
1) The Geeks aren't that 'Geeky'. They're just your average smart/dedicated guy. Like one of them is "studying a double degree"... how does that make him 'geeky' 0-o?

2) The girls aren't that hot lol. If you guys are into fake tits and cake faces, then all I can say is thank you. You save me from being hit on from said troglodytes.
If I could, I would upvote this 100 times.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: spectroscopy on October 01, 2012, 09:33:28 pm
the geeks shouldnt be just smart people, they should be like fat comic book mums basement people, and the beautys should be legit beautys not cakefaces

shit show imo, but the stupid stuff the beautys say makes me laugh so hard oh god HAHAHS
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Truck on October 01, 2012, 10:40:09 pm
I enjoy watching it in the same way I might enjoy watching Jersey Shore or Big Brother - whenever I'm feeling exceptionally bored, and I want to watch idiotic people doing idiotic things, it's there to be consumed.

It's just annoying to see stereotypes that "smart people = socially retarded" and "hot people = dumb" being perpetuated... As hutchoo said, it's just fake girls who need an education and incredibly lame guys who were probably not allowed to go out of the house past 5pm even when they turned 18.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Fyrefly on October 02, 2012, 01:22:21 am
"My mum always said 'don't judge a cover by it's book', but that's okay, coz I don't read much anyway."
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: paulsterio on October 02, 2012, 09:27:46 am
lol is it a reality show or is it acted out?
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Limista on October 02, 2012, 09:48:55 am
lol is it a reality show or is it acted out?

Bit of both I think  :)
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: catwoman101 on October 02, 2012, 09:49:34 am
lol is it a reality show or is it acted out?

both
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: thushan on October 02, 2012, 10:59:33 am
incredibly lame guys who were probably not allowed to go out of the house past 5pm even when they turned 18.

Thanks Truck :P
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Truck on October 02, 2012, 12:12:54 pm
incredibly lame guys who were probably not allowed to go out of the house past 5pm even when they turned 18.

Thanks Truck :P

lol you're an exception bro, one of the most top blokes out dw
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Stick on October 02, 2012, 12:28:27 pm
"My mum always said 'don't judge a cover by it's book', but that's okay, coz I don't read much anyway."

I love that one. How about Troy's explanation of the invention of time? :P

"In Jerusalem when they didn't have time, they used to trade goats during the day but then run out of daylight and couldn't see at night. So they had to work out a method of how long they have to move their sheep into the paddocks, so they came up with a thing called the Rolex and they decided to call it time."
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: duhherro on October 02, 2012, 02:07:19 pm
Haha I wish there were hotties that were the geeks (particularly females). Be awesome.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: HighLatency on October 02, 2012, 02:55:39 pm
Haha I wish there were hotties that were the geeks (particularly females). Be awesome.

Processing....processing....processing.
Does not compute.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: ldee on October 05, 2012, 03:40:59 pm
Quote, one of the beauties.
"My friends say I speak jiberish, but that doesn't make sense because I've never even been to that country!"

Surely, that is scripted.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Stick on October 05, 2012, 04:33:02 pm
I honestly do not comprehend how people can actually get that stupid. I mean, we do have an adequate education system in Australia in which you're meant to attend school until the end of Year 10... even if you're not the brightest spark, surely you'd have some level of knowledge. :S
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Slumdawg on October 05, 2012, 05:10:46 pm
Surely no one actually believes most of the ridiculously dumb things the beauties say are legit? It's so clear that it's scripted.. The poor acting skills of the beauties say it all.

Also the geeks are totally moulded too, you can tell they've been told what to wear and to grow beards, etc to look more nerdy.. Most of the things they say aren't even that smart and just make them look like they're trying too hard to look smart or act dorky..

But anyway, I think it's a pretty entertaining show even though it's incredibly set up.. Sometimes they just go way too far with what the contestants get told to say..

Like 99% of shows like these are simply the product of producers..
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: JellyDonut on October 05, 2012, 07:05:28 pm
What they do, is that they compile the Overheard section in the mx and gives them to the beauties as scripts
the geeks shouldnt be just smart people, they should be like fat comic book mums basement people, and the beautys should be legit beautys not cakefaces
^^
If there ain't neckbeards reeking of nachos and referencing obscure DnD fiction, not a real geek
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: ldee on October 05, 2012, 07:48:47 pm
Also the geeks are totally moulded too, you can tell they've been told what to wear and to grow beards, etc to look more nerdy.. Most of the things they say aren't even that smart and just make them look like they're trying too hard to look smart or act dorky..

Very true. One of the geeks from last season was actually a past student of my school, and from what I'd heard from the older guys, he wasn't at all intellectually talented. Played it up well though, just used it to meet some good looking girls and have a good few weeks.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Stick on October 05, 2012, 08:32:49 pm
My friends tell me I should go on the show. I don't know whether it's a compliment or an offense. I guess one could have a very good time in there though. :P
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: ellaa81 on October 07, 2012, 01:01:53 pm
I know of one of the beauties and can assure you what you see is exactly like what she's like in real life, although she stands out as one of the smarter ones haha.
All the same I definitely don't disagree with everything on here about them being molded into the typical beauty or geek, and I'm sure they're told to act in certain ways. All they have to do is catch a one of the beauties slip up and say a silly comment on camera once and they'll edit it in a way that makes them look as dumb as possible.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Kanon on October 16, 2012, 07:09:21 pm
I don't usually watch this show, but this appeared on Reddit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYogebRxlw0
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: slothpomba on October 25, 2012, 05:39:18 am
Goddamn stupidest show I have ever seen in my life.

Clearly never seen american TV then...

Exhibit A:

(http://abicte.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Honey-Boo-Boo-with-Abicte.com-12.jpg)

Also the geeks are totally moulded too, you can tell they've been told what to wear and to grow beards, etc to look more nerdy.. Most of the things they say aren't even that smart and just make them look like they're trying too hard to look smart or act dorky..

Gilbert from beauty and the geek actually goes to monash, i've seen him around uni a few times. Someone posted in the comments section of some website they made him grow that horrible beard and gave him a wardrobe to wear. I didn't (and don't) watch the show but apparently his geek cred was having a double degree. Might be geeky to the public but for most of us, thats just kind of normal.

I don't think that there is anything necessarily wrong with the show.

It's reality in the same sense a Brittney concert or a magic show is reality. They're not actors, in that sense its real. Doesn't mean it isn't creatively edited to portray a certain story or they put activities that are likely to cause these things. Normal isn't interesting, sometimes we just want something outlandish and over the top like this because its so unlike real life. It's nothing worse than a magic show or a Brittney concert (musical talent aside).

I think they've tried having one or two female geeks and one or two male hotties before but i could be wrong. I just don't think it sells as well as a geeky, supposedly basement dwelling dude though.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Fyrefly on October 25, 2012, 12:41:03 pm
his geek cred was having a double degree.

*Insert awesome Monash v UoM joke, because UoM doesn't offer double degrees.*
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: Greatness on October 25, 2012, 12:54:03 pm
Yeah I know one of the guys he was in the year above me in high school. From what I've been told they told him to grow a beard and such, also I don't think he needs to wear those goggle things all the time lol He never wore glasses or anything in high school... unless it's for the geek look, but im not entirely sure. It's a crap show lol all scripted imo.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: #1procrastinator on October 25, 2012, 07:23:10 pm
I hate it. As a karate expert, I can tell you that the show is too damn fake.
Title: Re: Beauty and the Geek Australia
Post by: ShortBlackChick on November 01, 2012, 09:54:49 pm
I just found out I have one of Chontelle's best friends on Facebook. Kept wondering who the fuck this Chonny person was on her statuses. I was like how does she know machonny