Essentials for a Bachelor Watch Party

As you may know, I am serious about my watch parties for the ridiculously insane television franchise that is The Bachelor. 

Even though the bachelor this season was sort of an ass and looks like Francine from "Arthur"...

....and he's more than likely going to pick this psycho biatch

...my friends and I love it every single Monday. 

It's hard to believe how fast the season goes by, but tonight is the FINALE.  Therefore, I thought it would an appropriate time to share the key ingredients that make these watch parties a highlight of my week. 

1.) Snarky friends

This is definitely not a show to watch alone. Half the fun is making fun of the hilarious crazies together. There was a brief time when I first moved to LA and didn't have a watch party group, and I would watch the episodes on abc.com alone in my room...I hope to never return to those dark days ever again. We honestly miss about 30% of the dialogue because we are too busy with our own commentary. ;-)

2.) DVR

I don't know what we would do without DVR. The show is 2 hours every Monday, so we don't start watching until it's about 20-30 minutes in, so we can skip all the commercials, making it much more tolerable. 

3.) Food

We have a potluck style party food spread every week, and it never disappoints. We usually have an extra special spread for the premiere and finale episodes (like the chocolate fountain and caviar included in the photo at the left for our premeire party this season). Mid-way through this season we tried to start bringing slightly healthy-ish snacks so we didn't all feel the need to hit the gym for several hours the following day. (That rule doesn't apply to finale night tonight, of course). ;-)

4.) Booze

Wine is our weekly staple in the booze department, but occasionally we mix it up with margs or daquiris if we're feelin' festive. We loosely play a drinking game (although if we strictly adhered to the rules, we'd all be wasted every week) that goes something like this...
Drink every time:

• Someone cries
• Someone says the word "journey"
• Someone says the word "connection"
• Someone says something else overly corny/ridiculous
• Ben's hair looks extra bad 

All these essentials definitely make Mondays MUCH more enjoyable.  My watch party girls and I are so sad when the season is over not to have these built in girls nights every week.  This season isn't even officially over yet and we're already looking forward to the new Bachelorette season coming up in a few months. :-)

If you're not into the show and think it looks completely stupid and ridiculous, you should get a group of friends together and try it out! Here's a good article listing reasons you might just love it. And if you ARE already into it, enjoy the finale tonight! (Here's to hoping he picked the bitchy model and they already broke up.) ;-)

xoxo, 

Annie.