I'm very excited for Bachelor Pad, but I'm also not quite clear on what it is. It's a Big Brother-style competition for money -- that I get -- but it's also apparently a dating show, too? I watched the first thirty minutes of the premiere and I am completely confused. The contestants compete against each other in physical challenges, but then, if you win a challenge you get a rose, which allows you to go on a date with the contestant of your choice, whom you can then vote to evict? I have no idea, but they kept saying things like "I'm ready to open my heart up and win $250,000" and other things that just sounded like something someone in a bad parody sketch would say, which I guess is what this is, really, so I'll go with it.

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