The WORST episodes of Beauty and the Geek
Every episode of Beauty and the Geek ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Beauty and the Geek!
Once upon a time, there were 7 attractive women who got by on their appearances, and 7 intelligent men with limited social skills, who lived in a house together, learning from each others' weaknesses and strengths. By the end of their six-episode journey, these diverse men and women received lessons in confidence, equality, and dignity. No longer were they just the Beauty and the Geek. Beauty and the Geek is Ashton Kutcher's social experiment, which tested if seven beautiful women could work with seven intelligent men to become a whole lot more.
#2 - Beauty and the Geek Special
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/22/2008
This special highlights the biggest, sexiest and most dramatic moments from the first six episodes of the season. The show will also feature an astounding surprise makeover for one eliminated geek, filmed exclusively for this special. Plus, profiles of this year's most colorful characters, never-before-seen footage in the mansion, unseen moments from casting tapes and the inside scoop on all the clicks, clashes, catfights, and love connections.
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#6 - The Fixer-Uppers
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/6/2008
After hashing out their differences in Big Bear, one team returns to the mansion and announces to the other teams that they are a force to be reckoned with. Geeks become style gurus when they give head-to-toe makeovers to a group of nerdy girls for this week's challenge. The beauties roll up their sleeves and are tested on their plumbing skills.
#7 - Makeovers and Pick-Up Lines
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/22/2005
The competition heats up as the four remaining teams gear up for their new tasks. The ladies get to give the guys makeovers and the guys must go out and get phone numbers from total strangers. Tensions rise as a rivalry grows between two of the contestants, and when Chuck and Caitilin win the challenges again, they nominate Richard & Mindi for elimination for the second time, along with Lauren & Bill. The experience of having gone through elimination once already proves to be an advantage for Richard & Mindi, who survive, and Lauren & Bill are sent home.
#8 - Meet the Geeks
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2005
The ultimate social experiment begins when seven beauties and seven geeks move into an enormous mansion in Los Angeles. After choosing teams, Brian explains the first challenge, where the women and the men must learn from each other to complete tasks. All of the contestants must rediscover the fifth grade; the women compete in a trivia contest, focusing on history, spelling, and geography. Meanwhile, the men learn dance moves from the women, who then must perform in front of a crowd of people, who judge who danced the best. Mindi and Richard win both of their challenges, ensuring them full immunity and giving them the power to nominate two other teams for elimination. At the elimination ceremony, Richard and Mindi send Eric and Cheryl and Joe and Erika to the elimination chamber, where Eric and Cheryl are eliminated.
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#9 - Happily Ever After?
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/2005
Beauty and the Geek's first season contestants gather in front of a live studio audience to discuss their time in the house, as well as what they took away from the experience, how their confidence has increased, and how their rivalries and romances have ended after the show has wrapped production.
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#10 - Opposites Attract
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2007
Things are shaken up when the male beauty and the female geek finally move into the mansion. Meanwhile, the geeks are challenged to write an autobiographical rap to be performed for Three 6 Mafia, and the beauties must study politics and later put their newfound knowledge to the test while debating each other.
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#12 - Episode 03
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2006
The women educate the men about interior design and decorating for the next task, while the men teach the women the technological aspects of computers. The women judge the geeks' newly-decorated rooms for the first task. After that, the beauties compete in a race to assemble a computer.
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#13 - Episode 02
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2006
The beauties and geeks continue with getting to know each other, but two couples are forced to meet more quickly than the rest when Chris and Amanda make their decision about which pair to switch themselves with. Later, the men face a karaoke challenge, and the women are forced to muster up the courage to give a speech about a political topic that they know very little about.
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#15 - Beauties and the Beach
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/24/2007
The five remaining teams take a surprise trip to San Diego's Mission Beach, where the beauties must learn about radio waves and electronics while the geeks must put together their own fitness routines. One team is eliminated at the end of the episode.
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#16 - Episode 01
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2006
Beauty and the Geek 2 begins with geekier Geeks, more beautiful Beauties, and lots of lessons learned, even in the first two days! After the eight new women choose a partner, the contestants move into the mansion, and quickly begin to bond. Josh finds himself filled with so much anxiety and insecurity that he cannot bear to sleep in his room with Cher but instead spends the night in the closet while Tristin reveals her own insecurities about wearing a swimsuit.
#17 - Raising the Bar
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/2007
It's down to the final four teams, and tension and second guessing begin to take over the mansion. For their challenges, the beauties must get personal with creepy crawlers and the geeks must battle it off at a bar tending challenge that will test their confidence.
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#18 - Viva Mexico!
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/2007
The remaining contestants travel to Mexico, where one geek comes out of his shell and another is pushed to limits. For their challenges, the beauties must face each other in a memory competition while the geeks compete for immunity in a dance-off. Finally, a new twist promises to turn the competition upside down.
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#19 - Episode 04
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2006
When the women give the men makeovers in order to improve their chances of winning the week's only task, the geeks come out looking much more presentable than they did, and their confidence soars. After the girls have stylists give the men haircuts, eyebrow and chest waxings, and find a new wardrobe, the guys are sent to a bar for a round of speed dating, where three women spend a short period of time with all six men and then judge them on their conversation, appearance, and all-around social skills. The women observe the dates and critique their partners from TV monitors.
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#20 - It's Game Time
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/2008
When the beauties face off against the geeks in a game of flag football, the action on the field becomes highly aggressive. One player gets injured while another suffers a different kind of fate. Back at the mansion, the social experiment takes another serious turn.
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#21 - Double Dare
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/2007
After a champagne celebration and a game of Truth or Dare take place, a romance begins to happen in the house between two contestants. Meanwhile, the beauties must study anatomy, and are later challenged by locating and drawing organs on their partner's body. The geeks, on the other hand, are challenged to put together romantic gifts.
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#22 - A Day with Mechanics and Masseusses
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/8/2005
Episode two brings strain to the game. some of the Geeks are already growing thin on the Beauties, and one pair in the house, Erika and Brad, begins a romance. The second set of tasks entails lots of oil the women must complete a series of tasks having to do with a car: popping the hood, and changing the oil, air filter, and a tire. The men are forced to brush up on massages. At the challenges, Chuck and Caitilin prosper, working as a team to win both. Fighting breaks out between the two because of Chucks inability to nominate anyone for elimination, but in the end, they decide on sending Erika and Joe and Brad and Scarlet to the elimination room. Erika and Joe lose the quiz, sending them home and ending the short-lived love between Erika and Brad.
#24 - Episode 06
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2006
The beauties are forced to ask their geeks out on a romantic date, and later, the men set out on a photography challenge, making their partners feel comfortable as the subjects of their work. The relationship between Cher and Wes becomes more intimate, and at the end of the episode, one couple is sent packing.
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#25 - Flame Broiled Geeks
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/15/2008
When a practical joke falls flat, a geek loses his cool with one of the beauties. Flames ignite when the geeks must become firefighters and rescue their beauties from a burning building. The beauties get a whiff of a smelly challenge involving two of their least favorite things.