In The Bachelor world, the idea is to pick a guy who has the qualities that most easily telegraph “great catch” to the audience. Sure, qualities such as honesty, loyalty, dedication, humility and humor might be the qualities that would really make most women happy, but do you know how much footage they'd have to shoot to demonstrate some dude has all that?

It's much much easier to find a hot guy with a good career or money and stick him in front of a camera, and hope that all that, you know, character-type stuff works itself out.

So once again, The Bachelor was a handsome guy with a great body. And with Tennessean Travis Stork, they found themselves a doctor, a profession generally assumed to have some kind of Pavlovian-response from the ladies.

And in case the doctor, the good looks and the roses didn't all telegraph “Have we got one big romantic cliché waiting for you!” they stepped it up a notch…all the way to Paris.

Emergency room doctor Travis and his ladies had the run of a 14-century French chateau, and went through the usual process. The first episode, with the full group of 25 women, brought us one of the most entertaining bachelorettes to ever pass through a Rose Ceremony.

Allie J., was also a doctor, but one got the sense that she was started to feel like maybe it was time to focus more on her personal life after years of developing her career. What gave us that impression? It was this, the single best quote to ever come from The Bachelor: “My eggs are rotting.”

In her defense, Allie did have the foresight to tweak that language just a little bit when explaining the same concept to Dr. Travis. “I'm ready to move to the reproductive phase,” she told him. Her tone made it clear this wasn't, say, an immediate proposition clumsily delivered. Then Dr. Travis made it clear that he wasn't ready for any reproductive phase, and he eventually booted her in the first Rose Ceremony.

But if you thought we got all the entertainment we could out of her rotting eggs, you would be wrong. She then tracked Dr. Travis down for a confrontation about why he didn't choose her. After he explained again that he wasn't looking to knock anybody up just then, she left sobbing, and then had the quintessential reality show recovery from rejection: chalk it all up to being threatened, saying “He was just intimidated by another professional.”

After dating his way through the women, he found himself torn between fellow Tennessean Sarah Stone, a kindergarten teacher, and Moana Dixon.

Moana was an unusual woman to have on The Bachelor. She was a bit aloof and standoffish, and had an edgier vibe to her than we are used to seeing. She frustrated some of the cattier women in the house with her refusal to get too bent out of shape about the whole process.

Travis was attracted to her “mysterious” nature, but ultimately, as Moana put it herself after being rejected, “Guys like him don't marry girls like me.” Travis went with Sarah, telling her she's beautiful, smart, [and] honest.”

After the finale, though, the couple, was on a media blackout, and not surprisingly, they soon broke up. The two stated it was the forced separation that contributed to the end of the relationship. The separation has never seemed to be easy on any of the couples, but Travis and Sarah were actually neighbors that, due to contractual obligations, just couldn't meet with each other.

"I remember one day Sarah was running down the street,” Travis said, “and I walked out my front door on my bike and I instantly saw this person darting across the street, through traffic. I'm like, 'That's Sarah. Do I look, do I not? What do I do?' Of course, what do I do? I bike in the opposite direction. It's strange to have to live that way."

After the break-up, the two seemed to remain friends. Travis moved to Colorado, but in March of this year, Sarah said that the two still talk, even sharing with him when she began dating someone else.. When asked if she would do a reality show again, she said she would, and named The Amazing Race as one of them – she even thought that Travis might make a good partner for the show.

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- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Sources: RealityTV World, About.com, RealityTV Magazine, AZ Central, OrwellProject.com, TV.com
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