Who Wants To Marry My Dad? Episode 4
Seeing Red
Recap By Teri Sue
July 13, 2004
Are we seeing red? Not in this episode. White dominated the entire show. White what? Wedding dresses of course. There is that "M" word in the RTV show title which translates to "white" wedding stuff.
We left off last week with the Justice of the Peace standing in the Okland house, telling Dad Marty and the Women that this time, the show would not end in a proposal. It would end with a wedding ceremony. Remember the dropped jaws and Dad asking if it was April's Fool's.
This week, the women retreat to their room to discuss the situation. Each of them express their obvious delight in the possibilities. The daughters are watching on closed circuit TV naturally.
To make a long story short, the women come to the conclusion that they had better start thinking in the terms that they are all "engaged" to dear old Dad. So, how do a group of women act who are engaged to the same man? Hisses, Meow?? Surprisingly no. Not in this case. They all display class with a capital C.
The next thing we know, the daughters are telling Dad and the women that the JP scenario was just a "test." However, the women do get to go on a shopping spree to pick out their own wedding gown. The daughters tell Dad that he is to go find a tux. Go Daddy go. Start sweating knowing your bachelor days are about to end. Surely there is a nice little strip bar for diversion while your many potential brides are doing their do. Seek and find. While you're at it, why not invite Lie Detector Guy to go with you.
The women don the wedding gowns. Ohhhs and Ahhhhs abound, from the daughters and the women as each woman models her respective gown it is said that this is the one, perfect wedding dress. OK, this goes on and on for awhile, so I'm sure you get the picture.
In the limo leaving the shopping day as they all are still blissfully in their wedding dresses. Like I said. color does not dominate this episode. It's like a white out in Minnesota in the winter. Out of this winter wonderland of whiteness glistening in the limo, is heard the wail of a police siren. The women think it is Dad playing a joke. Nope. It's a cop with a message. Personally, I think the thought of a cop with a gun is much more erotic. Oh, wrong show. The ticket, it was just a piece of paper, told the daughters that they have 15 minutes to eliminate one of the women. On the spot. Right there. Right now. No going back to the Okland home, no passing go, no collecting $200. No monopoly on Dad for one of them.
The daughters tell everyone to step outside. Got the image? Women standing out on the side of the road by a limo. All of them in white wedding gear. Complete with veils. Whoa. I bet if there were any eligible bachelors driving by their autos caught fire as they sped down the road. Imagine the utter horror in their faces as they glanced to the side to see the site of WHITE on the side of the street. Whew. The daughters make their choice. It is the one they knew their dad, from the previous episode, had stated he was not attracted to. Nicole. Bye Nicole.
Now here comes one of the tackiest moments in RTV history. The ladies, who had been called back into the limo, one by one prior to leaving Nicole as the ousted one leave with the daughters. Nicole is left standing on the steps of a church, yes, a church. Even tackier. A cab pulls up and it gets worse, on the back of the cab is the usual tin cans dragging the street in ear piercing clanging, with the Just Eliminated sign on the back. Good grief! Whoever wrote that into the show ought to have to be put into the corner for a time out.
Back at the Okland ponderosa. Howdy ladies. Now, guess what you have to do. Go to your room and write up some vows to bring back downstairs and recite to Dad Marty in front of the daughters. Make them original and true feelings. Violin music should come to mind here.
