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Best Moments from 17 Seasons of 'The Bachelor' Finales_  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 29, 2014 2:55 PM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 29, 2014 2:55 PM UTC I’ve never seen an episode of [_The Bachelorette_](http://time.com/3051384/bachelorette-finale-andi-dorfman/). The editors at TIME have been sending me into [extremely unfamiliar territory](http://time.com/3030738/50-shades-of-grey-movie-trailer-book/) of late and I’ve been instructed to watch and write about the season finale of the show. So I arranged to go to the home of a friend who is hosting a season finale party for the roughly dozen women in her fantasy _Bachelorette_ league (which is a thing, so there you have it—we’re already breaking ground in this investigation). Once more unto the breach. Before we begin, this is what I know about _The Bachelorette_: a group of bachelors compete through feats of strength, wit and charm for the affections of a bachelorette, who confers her approval by giving the winner a rose. There’s a companion show called [_The Bachelor_](http://time.com/3051339/next-bachelor-nick-farmer-chris-arie-marquel/). In the season finale of this show, I think, two men enter the competition and one leaves the victor—I’ve seen _Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome_ so I have some background in that regard. What follows is an abridged play-by-play. “In tonight’s _Bachelorette_ you won’t believe what will happen…both men say they’re in love with her…. “ The woman on screen is in tears, presumably indicating that she’s sad to have to choose one guy over the other. Surely this can’t be because she’s contractually obligated to marry one of them. We’re drinking Rosé (which I don’t like but when in Rome) and the ladies have declared with impressive conviction that we hate Nick and we want Josh to win. Josh is a jock and they both suck but Josh sucks less because Nick is manipulative. We like her dress. There’s an exceptional raspberry/jalapeño-jelly drizzled cheese plate, among other awesome snacks. Impressed. Now everyone is being served individual salads! On little plates with metal forks! This is living. I’ve just learned that the Bachelorette, whose name is Andi, age 26ish, gave up a law career “in order to find love.” This plot point for a reality television show is unsettling to me, for obvious reasons. My co-watchers seem to share my feelings and nonetheless enjoy the spectacle. Also I just remembered this is two hours long. Scandal! I misunderstood an earlier conversation and there is division about who we want to win—a roughly even split between Josh and Nick. Nick is clearly running the awkward sweetheart game. What kind of career is “former pro baseball player”? That is not a job. Josh: “I have no thoughts.” You said it, brother. I’m watching a game show in which actual humans are purporting to live out an early-stage romance on camera, with a soundtrack, as though at the end of the show they ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after. This show is unspeakably bizarre and I’m clearly feeling invested in its outcome. Deeply unsettling. Josh just gave her a baseball card with her name rendered as “Andi Murray.” MURRAY IS HIS LAST NAME. She likes it, which is almost as weird. Andi is the real star here. This is masterful—and terrifying, in a way, to the extent that this “acting” ability, if you can call it that, exists in other humans. She keeps saying the same things to and about both of these dudes. Also everything is the most hardest last thing that will ever happen to anyone for the rest of everyone’s life. I switched to beer under duress. This feels like watching a sporting event filled entirely by halftime interviews. Exceptional banana pudding just came out at the party. Andi just came to break up with Nick. We know this because of everything about the situation but also because of the haunting heavy drama music that accompanied her walking in the room. Is this real? I feel like these people just “broke up” to whatever weird extent that event can happen in this context and they need to hug and carry on with their lives but they’re stuck in the room because some hellfire producer is pointing a gun at them. Now Nick is mad at Andi. He has flipped the script and is accusing her of leading him on, basically, and of crossing him somehow by not liking him back, and possibly, if any of this is real, he is a sociopath. ANDI. RUN. Victory dance by the fantasy league pool winner who is $100 richer. There’s an important post-game show called “After the Final Rose.” Nick is sad and pathetic and leaning dangerously into real-life creep territory with all this talk of how Andi led him on. Fellow watcher Christa: “Is this taking advantage of someone that’s a little on the verge?” Fellow watcher Emi: “I think that’s what this whole show is about.” Well played. Nick keeps saying things like, “She kept giving me so many reasons to be confident.” The normalization of stalkerness is legitimately troubling. I just learned these people just met each other several weeks ago. None of this is real. I’m getting another beer. We’re done here. **Read more on** **_The Bachelorette_** **:** [Who Will Be the Next Bachelor: Nick V., Farmer Chris or Grumpy Cat?](http://time.com/3051339/next-bachelor-nick-farmer-chris-arie-marquel/) [Bachelorette Finale: Andi Makes Her Choice](http://time.com/3049433/recap-the-bachelorette-watch-andi-makes-her-choice/) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] I know its time. I know what I need to know, and I have to choose, and I'm going to. You know, its hard, but its, its definitely, definitely time. I can't wait to be able to look this woman in the eye and say, you're the one. [ MUSIC ] Will you accept this rose? I will absolutely accept this rose. Andrew who's heir to the Firestone Tire Company and Firestone Winery proposed to Jen Schefft in 2003. I am going to be Mrs. Firestone which is incredible. Maybe not so incredible. They dated for seven months before deciding to go their separate ways. And this now represents my promise to you. Oh, my God. [ LAUGH ] To see where we can go with this. Okay. Where they went was splitsville. Brad Womack knows the exact moment when he became known as one of the most hated bachelors ever. In the season 11 finale, he shocked viewers by deciding he had not found true love. Not with Jenny. And here I am, telling you goodbye. Not with Deanna. Hold on real quick. It was the fairy tell ending Melissa had dreamed of. Will you marry me? You want to marry me? I would love to marry you and spend the rest of my life with you. But just six short weeks after Jason proposed, he dropped a bombshell on his new fiancee. We're not right for each other. I wish more than anything that last day you would have just let me go. [ INAUDIBLE ] doing this to me. You're such a bastard. Minutes after dumping Melissa on national TV. Jason asked runner up Molly for a second chance. I came here to find somebody to spend the rest of my life with, without a doubt. And somebody who brings out the best in me in a way that I've never felt before. You are that right person. I've been waiting to hear that. [ MUSIC ] You know what I need. And we can build through this destruction. As we are standing Please make me happier than I've ever been in my life, and marry me. I would love that and I loved to. You are not ready to get married right now. You're, you are ready to put this off a little bit. Right now in this instance I love you, but no. [ NOISE ] You're putting on a brave smile over there. I am. That's gotta suck to hear that. Yeah. Sorry. Absolutely. No. Hey look the one thing. That I love about you. Courtney, will you marry me? America cringed just a little bit Monday night when bachelor Ben Flajnik finally made that decision. Yes, of course I will. But it was after the final rose that Ben said, he finally saw Courtney for who she really was. Well while this show aired we were essentially broken up. Leading to the big question, are they or aren't they still together. What do you want to do with this? I very much want her to have this again. Alright. Hm. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Catherine. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Will you marry me? Yes. 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