A Narrow Escape on The Bachelor

Did you watch it tonight??? Oy vay!!! Sure tonight's Bachelor started off innocently enough with hometown visits to meet the final four's parents. Sure, we found out that Jillian's mom suffers from severe depression but the family was jolly and grandma was a hoot and it's not like it's an infectious disease or anything. Our hero Jason did swimmingly.

Then we went over to Molly's hometown where we met those wacky relatives of her with their funny hats and the psychoanalytical drawing test that mom administered. At this point, I was just ho hum about it and was ready just to get to the end to find out who left without a rose but my gut instinct said, "Oh just watch some more. You know you want to." So I gave into temptation and sped through the commercials and was my gut right or what???

We meet Naomi's clan. Now I was never a Naomi fan and even though Stephanie freaked me out in a Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction way, but this episode was too priceless to have missed out on if he had opted for a visit to Stephanie's shrine to her late husband. Naomi's mom greets him with a dead dove and some tree hugging story about how the dove died in front of her and it was symbolic of their meeting Jason. She then asks him to bury "Rosie" (yes she named the freaking dove) and give its eulogy. Naomi is stunned and shocked as any sane rational person would be. Jason is laughing it off but you can tell he's uncomfortable.

But if you thought this was the only awkward moment, just you wait. Dad takes Jason to the side and gives him a good grilling about Jesus. You see dad is a Judeo Christian of the first order. As he asks Jason his opinions on religion and relationships, you can actually see the moment that Jason says "Get me out of here!" First it was a stern intent look (despite the glittering slot machines behind him), then that changed to a fake pageant smile with a look of fear in his eyes. This melded into a glazed over look but mom swoops in to save him or so we are led to believe. Mom sits our boy down to tell him about her beliefs such as Indigo Children and how she is more than positive that Jason is a fellow Indigo Child and that they met in a previous life where she says he was a great mother. Right then and there Jason has made his decision about who is going home tonight. I don't even think that if Melissa's parents turned out to be axe wielding murders with two heads, he would opt otherwise.

As we have it, Melissa's parents don't condone her participation on the show and choose not to take part in the hometown visit. So Melissa calls in the calvary of her framily so that Jason can get to see her from her friends point of view. He does seem to have some trepidations about the dysfunction of Melissa's family and the fact that none of her friends know her mom and dad.

Rose ceremony comes and goes and no shocker, Naomi leaves roseless. Next week though promises to be filled with some scripted drama with the return of that she-devil Deanna who broke Jason's heart last season. Will he go back to her or will he say good bye?? I think we all know the answer but still should make for some good vegging time.

And if you are looking for one BRILLIANT hypothesis of who Jason picks to be mom to little Ty, then check out this video. It's totally something I would have done!