Q: My girlfriend has been making me watch “The Bachelorette” and I’m not even ashamed. Isn’t it easily as good as any other Monday night comedy? Plus, there’s Jillian and the unending internal debate in my head as to whether she’s hot or not. Literally every shot of her evokes a different reaction from me. I’m amazed at how intriguing the show is.
— Mike B. Brighton, Mass.

SG: And you left out Wes, the two-timing country singer who wasn’t there for the right reasons, as well as the appropriately named Ed, who couldn’t rise to the occasion with Jillian in a sleepover date and now is headed for a double-bathtub ad with her for Cialis. But I had to follow up on your Jillian comment. Never, not ever, not in the history of mankind, has a TV or movie star vacillated back and forth between “not attractive” to “super attractive” this frequently. If you charted it, it would be like an EKG exam gone haywire. She’s cute. She’s not cute. She’s hot. She’s smoking! Yikes, I wish her face didn’t just do that. She’s cute. She’s not cute. She’s super cute. A genius selection by the show’s producer. No wonder Ed couldn’t come through on the sleepover date; even his organs were confused by Jillian’s looks.