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  • TV Episode | Reality-TV, Romance

Beauty and the Geek

Extra Special: The Beauty and the Geek Special (Season 5, Episode 7)
TV Episode | Reality-TV, Romance

The premise of the show consists of a group of "Beauties" (young women who have relied primarily on their looks) and a group of "Geeks" (young men who have relied primarily on intellect rather than social aptitude or looks) who are paired ...See moreThe premise of the show consists of a group of "Beauties" (young women who have relied primarily on their looks) and a group of "Geeks" (young men who have relied primarily on intellect rather than social aptitude or looks) who are paired up to compete as couples for a shared $250,000 and other prizes. (For the fourth season, the producers modified the formula to include an extra team consisting of a male "beauty" and a female "geek". For the fifth season, the beauties and geeks competed against each other at first, and teams of one beauty and one geek were not selected until the end of episode three.) Each beauty lives together in a room with her geek during the course of the competition. There are challenges shown each episode, one testing the beauties on a primarily academic subject, and another that has the geeks competing in a more popular/social realm. The winners of the challenges select two teams to compete against each other in a pure "quiz show" type question and answer session: the team with fewer correct answers gets eliminated. By the end of the competition, many of the contestants say that they have learned much about interacting with people from a different social group (and positive lessons about the character of people from that group), positive things about themselves and their own character, and often something about human nature in general. See less
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Producer
Editor
J.R. Arinaga (as Jose Arinaga Jr.)
Casting Directors
Status
Edit Released
Updated Apr 22, 2008

Release date
Apr 22, 2008 (United States)
Awards
Series awards
4 nominations

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Cast

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19 cast members
Name Known for
Amber
Self - Beauty Self - Beauty   See fewer
Jim Babcock
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
Jillian Beyor
Self - Beauty Self - Beauty   See fewer
Matt Carter
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
Leticia Cline
Self - Beauty Self - Beauty   See fewer
Amanda Corey
Self - Beauty Self - Beauty   See fewer
Joe Cortez
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
John English
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
Randi Ferrera
Self - Beauty Self - Beauty   See fewer
Chris Follett
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
Cara Goldberg
Self - Beauty (as Cara) Self - Beauty (as Cara)   See fewer
Tara McComas
Self - Beauty Self - Beauty   See fewer
Jason Prager
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
Jonathan Prater
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
Mike Richards
Self - Host Self - Host   See fewer
Kristina Savenok
Self - Beauty Self - Beauty   See fewer
Tommy Severo
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
Greggy Soriano
Self - Geek Self - Geek   See fewer
Tiffany Wade
Self - Beauty Self - Beauty   See fewer
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