Wow, what an episode of The Courtney Show that was last night, right? It turns out there was so much riveting footage of the women discussing Courtney until their cosmetically plumped lips almost fell off that ABC had to cut other, slightly-less riveting but still sort of interesting footage from the episode.

Today, in one of our embarrassingly plentiful discussions about The Bachelor, my friend/co-worker/inspiration Carla Patton (who also happens to begin her coverage of American Idol on this website this week, and she‘s hilarious so READ IT!

It‘s only week 2 of The Bachelor, and already we‘re on the move. We open on the bucolic fields of Sonoma, California, then cut to a home video of teenage Ben Flajnik walking his little dog down the street.

Everyone‘s talking about this week‘s Bachelor premiere. Well, the handful of us who watched it, anyway.

Here we go again. Another revolution around the sun, and a brand new season of The Bachelor that will probably make me want to hurl myself into the sun.

What do a grandma, a horse, a big dumb hat, a soccer ball and a lot of wine have in common? (No, not "Jake Pavelka‘s Saturday night.