We’re finally at the pointy end of our ‘Bachie‘ journey: the home town visits. Our chance to see where the final four women vying for Matty J‘s heart grew up, the environment that raised them into the beautiful roses that they are, the family dynamic that HOLY SHIT, IS THAT A THREE-LEGGED DOG?
Who’s a good doggo? Buster is a good doggo!!!! #TheBachelorAU pic.twitter.com/6YgVhJIhn4
— Channel 10 (@Channel10AU) September 7, 2017
Tonight’s ep had all the stuff we’ve come to expect from home town visits, including your standard perfectly nice families who’ve clearly coached into saying confrontational things like “LIAR“, a mum drinking away her camera nerves in the kitchen, something about mashed potato, and a trip to a deserted Movie World (Tara, you dream girl – fyi, Matty, you better choose right).
The Australian public to matty if he breaks Tara’s heart #TheBachelorAU pic.twitter.com/QRorX9CmHT
— flower dad 666 (@ArthurDowdle1) September 7, 2017
But still, none of that actually matters, because literally all anyone who watched this episode cares about is Laura‘s three-legged dog, Buster.
There are few pleasures purer than the company of a dog, but the purity and the pleasure is somehow magnified tenfold if it happens to be that that dog has fewer than the standard number of legs. Don’t ask me how this works; I’m not a scientist. It’s just the way things are.
see?
So it was remarkably refreshing to feel the weird, manufactured anxieties and dramas that constitute ‘The Bachelor‘ all fall by the wayside as the country collectively fell in love with Buster.
Yeah okay Matty and Laura are probably legitimately in love, but whatever LOOK AT BUSTER HEY BUDDY #TheBachelorAU pic.twitter.com/xuUep6474C
— Jo Thornely (@jothornely) September 7, 2017
Oh my god. Buster! #thebachelorau pic.twitter.com/QY5qN65egO
— yellow bird (@zzippidydoodaa) September 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/ejagius/status/905747384344264704
GIVE 👏🏻 BUSTER 👏🏻 CAMERA 👏🏻 TIME #thebachelorAU
— jackson langford (@jacksonlangford) September 7, 2017
Buster for the next Bachelor #TheBachelorAU
— Michelle 🐿💨 (@MichelleMackey1) September 7, 2017
Where’s Buster#TheBachelorAU
— BuzzFeed Australia (@BuzzFeedOz) September 7, 2017
Give Buster the rose and end the show… #TheBachelorAU
— Tom “Tj” Edwards (@Tj__Edwards) September 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/becplumridge/status/905746540647481345
Surf dog has NOTHING on Buster! #TheBachelorAU pic.twitter.com/0EoULlGZEN
— The Bachelor Australia 🌹 (@TheBachelorAU) September 7, 2017
You stuffed up, Channel 10. I could not care less about the outcome of this particular romance-based reality TV show any more (Tara, babe, whatever happens, you’re gonna be okay). All I care about is Buster, the best boy. What do you think he’s doing right now? Do you think he’d like me if we met? Do you reckon he and this guy would be friends?
I think they would :)))
