A while ago, I dreamt that I was talking to a cute sort of indie-rock type girl on a bus, and she was working on a game show.  I didn’t actually get to see any of the game show — it was just told to me, and I pieced together the rules from her conversation. Basically, it was a version of The Dating Game, only a bit different. In this version[1], basically, as normal, the guy would ask the 3 women questions about whatnot, and would choose one for a “date” and go off on a trip, etc. In this one, however, the bachelor[2] was guaranteed the prize (considering how in the original the Bachelor couldn’t just go “thanks but no thanks, I’m leaving”, and walk out with nothing. Nor, would he probably want to, since a trip with a loathsome person is still a trip, and presumably you wouldn’t have to spend all your time with them and go off and do cool things while the other person stayed inside or did other cool things separate from you or whatever.); in this show, he had an extra option — if he didn’t like any of the women, he could choose to go with his sister.[3] In this eventuality, though, the Bachelorettes would win, say, 5000 dollars (in the dream, the trip was worth $20,000). But if the guy chose one of the non-sister ladies, the un-chosen ones would get Zippo. Or, rather, a lifetime supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco Treat.[4]
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