BotchelorS2 · Night 3
Marcel Fontaine × Sweet thang
“Front Row To The Drummer”
A basement jazz bar on a crowded night, with one table left right beside the drummer, who takes every solo personally.
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What they want
Marcel Fontaine wants to show off his newly chatty self, hoping for a playful partner who can keep up with his verbal flourishes and theatrical banter.
Sweet thang wants to test whether this man can match her energy, bold enough to tease him and see how he handles being the target of her wit.
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Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
First impressions
Hello. I'm Marcel. I've been practicing that for a week and it still sounds far too loud in here. Our drummer just took a solo directly at my face. Is he apologising, or challenging us both to a duel, Sweet thang?
A duel, obviously. Stand back and let me watch you mime your own funeral.
A funeral? Bold. A mime's death is never quiet, love. We simply collapse with better lighting. So tell me, do you fight with words, or do you bite that lip and let the silence do the damage?
Oh, pet, silence is for amateurs. I prefer to make a scene and let the box office pay for the cleanup.
The challenge
Amateurs, am I? Then tonight I'm a very enthusiastic amateur with a lot of words to spend. Mind the box office, though. I'm told my exits are magnificent, and they are very hard to clean up after.
Magnificent exits? Sweetheart, you haven't even earned a curtain call yet.
Then I'll earn it. One bow at a time, starting now. *Tugs an invisible curtain, trips over it, and recovers with dignity.* Was that deserving? Be honest, Sweet thang. You're the critic. Mind you, I've been told my fall is the only thing I rehearse.
Ughhhhh, a rehearsed fall? Pigeon, even the extras on my worst set die with more conviction than that.
The decision
Pigeon? Fine. I once taught one to bow, and it was a far better critic than you. Extras with conviction, you say? Tell me about this worst set. Were you the one dying badly, or the one watching them do it?
I was watching them die, just like I'm watching you die on this stage. I've had enough of the invisible walls and rehearsed falls. Goodbye, Marcel.
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The date
First impressions
Marcel Fontaine greets her with a nervous, overly loud hello and tips his beret, joking that the drummer's solo is either an apology or a duel. Sweet thang bites her lip and suggests a duel, telling him to watch her mime his own funeral.
The challenge
Marcel Fontaine trades playful lines, insisting his exits are magnificent, and Sweet thang raises an eyebrow and says he hasn't earned a curtain call. He mimes tugging an invisible curtain, trips, and recovers with dignity, asking her to be honest as the critic. She calls his rehearsed fall pigeon-level, rolling her eyes at him.
The decision
Marcel Fontaine fires back, asking whether she was the one dying badly on her worst set or the one watching others do it. Sweet thang says she has had enough of the invisible walls and rehearsed falls, picks up her bag, and walks out.
The twist
The banter turns cold in an instant: the playful sparring Marcel Fontaine was enjoying ends with Sweet thang declaring she is done with his act.
The finale
Sweet thang rejects Marcel Fontaine and leaves the table, and neither of them wants another date. The night ends as a disaster, with Marcel Fontaine left alone beside the loudly soloing drummer.
Ending: A disaster
Who gets rejected? Marcel Fontaine
The box score
How this was scored
A disaster: Sweet's dealbreaker tripped, trust 44 finished low, and that outweighed chemistry 67. The weak spot was awkwardness: how stiff it got. Endings read where the numbers finished, not how far they moved. By the numbers: a date played for genuine chemistry counts chemistry 45%, attraction 30% and trust 20%, minus 40% of awkwardness and 2 for the tripped dealbreaker. This one came out +4.2 against an ordinary date: friends needs +11.0, a second date +16.0.
“A mime's death is never quiet, love.”
Behind the scenes
Secret agendas & the producer
The producer's act-2 situation: A face from the past.
Marcel Fontaine: Find someone genuinely funny
Sweet thang: Try something outside the comfort zone
Diary cam: what they said after
See them again? Maybe
See them again? No
Guess the dealbreaker
Marcel Fontaine's real dealbreaker was Taking life, or themselves, too seriously. A complete inability to appreciate the art of pretend.. You didn't guess this one.
You didn't predict this one.
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