The Bachelorette

Desiree, the wide-eyed brunette with a mischievous smile who Sean (almost) fell in love with on The Bachelor, seems rather uncomfortable being the center of attention. Maybe she's just nervous about picking a husband from among the assembled suitors, who fall into two camps: human caricatures (Zak, who arrives shirtless and asks Des ''Will you accept these abs?''), and dull Nice Guys. Based on how sleepy and slurry the men become, it took a loooong time for producers to get enough usable footage from the opening-night cocktail party to fill the premiere. But the drunker the dudes get, the funnier they become. When one contestant exits the limo in a suit of armor, his dead-eyed rival drones, ''I'd call that trying too hard. It's kind of like a guy who waxes his eyebrows.'' B — Kristen Baldwin