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tv-reality show “Beauty and the geek”, season 2http://www.tv.com/beauty-and-the-geek/show/32037/summary.htmlOnce 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. At the end of its first season, which filmed in December in California, and premiered in June of 2005, the men and women involved came out better people – more confident, and more accepting.The second season, with eight new men, eight new women, and eight new episodes, debuts on January 12th, 2006, in a new timeslot.Casting SpecialThe audition process for the second season of Beauty and the Geek is chronicled. The search is on for the smartest dorks and the biggest bimbos in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Kansas City and Boston!Episode 201Beauty 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. At the first challenge, a quiz show, Chris and Amanda win the advantage of being able to switch around two couples, including themselves. That night, the two ponder what their next move should be, but only after Chris holds an offensive meeting with the players, interrogating each one to better understand his decision, and at the end of the episode, Amanda and Chris reveal that they will be switching around the teams.Episode 202The 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 – they ultimatley decide to split up, with Chris pairing with Tristin and Amanda pairing with Brandon. 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. Tyson and Cher win their respective challenges, granting their partnerships immunity from the elimination room and forcing them each to nominate one team for elimination. Tyson and Thais choose Chris and Tristin, and Cher and Josh nominate Amanda and Brandon. In the elimination room, the four people involved with the surprise team switch square off in a round of question and answer; the beauties answer questions about politics and the geeks answer questions about popular culture and music. Brandon and Amanda lose the quiz, and the two become the first eliminated from Beauty and the Geek 2.Episode 203The 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, and the beauties deem Joe’s room the most stylish. After that, the beauties compete in a race to assemble a computer, a contest that Cheryl wins. Later, Cher & Josh and Joe & Brittany nominate Tristin & Chris and Tyson & Thais for elimination, and in the dreaded elimination room proceedings, Tristin & Chris answer the most questions correctly, forcing Thais & Tyson to leave the mansion.Episode 204When 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, and while listening, Tristin hears Chris make a comment about her lack of intelligence, leading to anguish for Tristin and a verbal beating for Chris. Things don’t look up for the team when the winners of the competition, Sarah & Wes, choose them, along with Tristin’s nemesis Cheryl (and partner Josh), to go to the elimination room. Cheryl and Josh emerge victorious and send Tristin & Chris home, hopefully with each learning important lessons about themselves.Episode 205The group travels to Las Vegas and plays strip poker, an infatuation develops between two contestants, and a couple is eliminated.Episode 206The 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 packingEpisode 207The contestants make heartfelt videos for their partner, explaining what the partner means to them and what they learned from the experience of Beauty and the Geek. After the teams cherish their videos, they get to work on the next task, a joint scavenger hunt. The challenge involves each couple in thier own car with a driver; the women (without any help from the men) must navigate through Los Angeles to three different stores, where the men must then go into the store and choose the item that they think their partner has picked. While Josh & Cher and Joe & Brittany excel at the task, constantly neck-and-neck with each other, Jennipher fails at leading her driver to the right places. In the end, Brittany & Joe lose by only a few minutes, forcing them into the elimination room with Jennipher & Ankur. The latter team’s time, however, is up when Jennipher & Ankur do poorly in the quiz room and wind up getting ousted from the house, leaving Josh & Cher and Brittany & Joe as the final two teams.Episode 208The two remaining couples are given some time to spend with each other and learn some of their hobbies. Josh takes Cher fly fishing while Joe shows Brittany his chess skills and tries to teach her the game, and later, Cher teaches Josh how to cook a meal as Brittany takes Joe ice-skating. After, the teams spend their last hours with each other, studying the ins and outs of each of their lives for the final quiz. In the quiz room, the pairs are surprised to learn that instead of the way the final quiz was orchestrated in season one, this one would be different: one person from each pair must answer a series of questions about his or her own interests and the other must try to match the answers. Brittany & Joe and Cher & Josh tie, and two tie-breaker rounds ensue until Cher and Josh trump Brittany and Joe by one question, making them the victors of Beauty and the Geek 2.