TBS has joined the reality game with a new Bachelor clone show that blends in elements of Survivor:Outback and Average Joe. A group of women (photos here)name who have lived a pampered lifestyle think they are going to live in a mansion while they try to win the affection of bachelor Vadim Dale. Wrong. The first thing they discover is that he is actually in Australia. At that they go crazy with joy. When they arrive, however, they are told they will need to parachute in to the location. That should have been a hint that it wasn't a Holiday Inn they were headed for. Still, the girls prodded along until they hit their base camp. No electricity, showers where you have to pump the water and nice bug nets only the bugs are a lot worse than what you saw in that funny Expedia commercial.

I don't have much of an impression of the girls yet after the opening episode, other than Mary has one of the worst boob jobs I've ever seen. The doctor should be sued and then shot.

In their version of a rose ceremony he tells the girls there is only room for 8 in the canoes. How romantic. Either Jillian or Natasha (I really can't remember) tells him they want to leave, the other he discarded along with Sommer and Laura, the latter of which I thought was clearly one of the better looking girls. Now the token black girl (Adrienne) is the only dark haired girl left so do you think he might like the blondes?

Later in the show, just like in Average Joe, a second group of suitors will arrive on the scene. These chicks will be the outdoors type and something tells me Vadim doesn't really care about that, but whatever.