Fuck Yeah Burning Love

at first, after the contestant minh thu professed her love for the other contestant truc nhu, they walked out of the show together:

but apparently afterwards, the bachelor quoc trung met up with truc nhu and convinced her to remain on the show, which pretty much broke hearts everywhere:

BUT i just found out that minh thu and truc nhu are officially together as a couple!!!

Adam Scott Dancing

You guys…I’m just kidding.

I have a fave. It’s a problematic fave, even; not everything can be Steven Universe. But I’m not going hang a lantern on its problems today. Because sometimes a little levity is nice. So instead, let me tell you about the best parody the world has to offer:Burning Love. This is a web-series (later aired on E!) that satirizes the popular ABC franchise, The Bachelor.

Burning Love has three seasons: one for a typical Bachelor season, one styled after The Bachelorette, and one for the Bachelor Pad.

For anyone who doesn’t know (lucky you),The Bachelor is a reality dating show, where twenty-five women compete to become the fiancé of one man, who is an eligible bachelor. It’s an exceedingly clever title. The Bachelorette is the same thing, but the genders are flipped. These bachelors and bachelorettes, aside from the first dude who was just a dude, are typically the most popular or marketable contestants from past seasons. So like, the first season of The Bachelorette starred the runner-up from The Bachelor, though the #3 choice would totally have been more popular.

Then there’s the Bachelor Pad, which I think is now called Bachelor in Paradise or something. This is where fan-favorite contestants are all shoved into a house together, and the idea is that like, you try to find love while also competing for a cash prize of $250,000. It’s weird, and there’s random challenges that are unrelated to each other. I think there’s 10 male and 10 female participants, or something like that.

The true brilliance of Burning Love, however, is that you really don’t need any base knowledge of that franchise to find the parody humorous.

To make sure I communicated to the best of my abilities, I practiced my expressions in the mirror. It’s this trick I learned from this biography of the Hillside Strangler. He did a lot of bad things, but practicing expressions in the mirror was not one of them.