Showbiz Commentary: Heidi Oringer

April 26 — -- You'll need to sing this to the theme of Magilla Gorilla:

A Bachelor! A Bachelor's for sale!Won't you buy him? Take him home and try him? He's really ideal …Don't want a single guy you can call your own?A Bachelor who'll be with you when you're all alone.

[Little girl:] How much is that bachelor on the TV?

Take the network's advice, at any price,A Bachelor like this one is mighty nice!The Bachelor, The Bachelor's for sale. [Music to fade]

And that's what we have on ABC TV. The Bachelor is about a man who decided to pimp himself on network TV to 25 hungry women who decided they were so desperate to find a decent man that they would subject themselves to being picked over like day-old garbage in the dumpster of an unlicensed Indian take-out restaurant in Manhattan.

Here's the kicker — women are obsessed with watching this drivel. This begs the obvious question: What's the appeal?

Is It Him?

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He's Alex. He's 31. He's a Harvard graduate and has an MBA from Stanford. He likes root beer and The Simpsons among other things, including every kind of sport known to man. He's had five serious relationships and he's very nice-looking.

Alex thinks he's funny, although he's yet to show it on television. But there's gotta be a reason he's NOT married yet. So what's wrong with him? I'll tell you what's wrong with him. He agreed to partake in a show that guarantees him a wife in six weeks. It's kind of like buying one of those weight-loss products because you've seen the picture of a 300-pound girl who gets Janet Jackson's washboard abs after taking just 90 supplements. Is It the Bachelorettes?

Twenty-five attractive women subjected themselves to participating in a dehumanizing experiment. Let a man have a look at you, talk to you for a few minutes, then decide if he wants to bother to get to know you. Then, talk to him a VERY little more, let him have a second gawk at you and then let him decide whether you're a keeper or one of those unwanted curry dishes that I mentioned earlier.