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ShowsThe BachelorSeason 4
Aired fall 2003 · Filmed in Agoura Hills

Bob Guiney

The franchise's first deliberate swing at a personality lead. A Cleveland mortgage banker with an easy on-camera laugh takes the mansion, and the tone shifts louder and looser than the buttoned-up first three seasons. Cocktail parties feel like actual parties. The casting matches the lead's energy. The women are quicker with a joke, slower with the tears. A useful counterweight to the prestige run that preceded it, and a hint of where the franchise would later go with comedy-forward leads.

Filmed
Agoura Hills, California
Premiered
Sep 24, 2003
Episodes
6
Format
25 women · comic-relief lead
the first goofy Bachelor
Host
Chris Harrison
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

Louder rooms, a useful counterweight.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #20 slot.

Slot #20 of 29 in the Bachelor Editor's Canon. The franchise's first deliberate swing at a personality lead. A Cleveland mortgage banker with an easy on-camera laugh takes the mansion, and the tone shifts louder and looser than the buttoned-up first three seasons. Cocktail parties feel like actual parties. The casting matches the lead's energy — the women are quicker with a joke, slower with the tears. A useful counterweight to the prestige run that preceded it, and a hint of where the franchise would later go with comedy-forward leads. Not top of the canon, but a season the franchise needed to make.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

Funny on purposelist · 14 entriesThe Bachelor — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #20