Okay, yeah, I admit it. I watched the last ten minutes of Joe Millionaire. What can I say, I'm still a little sickish. And what a final ten minutes it was as Joe Millionaire whittled down his choices from twenty beautiful (not to mention deeply intelligent and self-respecting) women to ten. Life's a bitch.

I have to admit, the idea is kind of intriguing. Now, not that I'm gonna watch it (I mean it). Besides, do you really have to watch any episode other than the last one, the one where everyone finds out that he's really a construction worker? (yeah, like that guy's a construction worker. That guy's got acter/model-soon-to-be-seen-fake-boffing Gabriella Hall on-Skinemax-any day-now written all over him). Because the whole show is basically created just so we can watch people's faces when they realize that the rich dude is really a poor dude and not only have they been humiliated and revealed as gold-diggers, but humiliated and revealed as gold-diggers on national TV. That's where the money shot will be.

Do you think the women who signed up to do it had to sign some sort of "please don't sue us for making you out to be idiots" form before they appeared. And if they did, what did it say? It's not like they could say something like "oh, and please don’t' sue us if, say, the guy doesn't turn out to be rich" or "we're not saying that there's gonna be a big surprise at the end, but just in case there is, sign here." Cause you know someone's gotta be pissed. Unless, of course, that everyone's so excited to be on TV that they won't mind being made out to look like idiots. Wait, check that thought.

And what about the girls who got dissed at the get-go? Do you think, in retrospect, they were happy they got dissed early on? Cause while they didn't get their fifteen minutes of fame, they didn't get humiliated. Kind of a blessing in disguise, I guess. And what does it say that they got rejected? That some construction guy pretending to be a Millionaire didn't like them. Is that a good or a bad thing?

Finally, I can see one fatal flaw with this program- no sequel. It's not like they could do this again because everyone who would be interested knows what's up. Unless, of course, they called it something like "Schmoe Billionaire" or "Bob the Construction Worker Who Pretends He's Rich."