I really think that instead of having one girl geek and guy beauty compete with the guy geeks and girl beauties on Beauty and the Geek, they should have done a separate spinoff.

Poor Nicole, the lone girl geek, is getting the short end of the stick. Her partner, Sam, was spending all his time with Laura Linney lookalike Rebecca, and at the beginning of last night's episode, he invited Rebecca into his bed -- the top bunk, with Nicole attempting to sleep in the bottom bunk. She fled the room, embarrassed and angry.

Seriously, has anyone else noticed how most of the other teams have bonded and are trying to help each other out? Whereas Nicole and Sam seem to be operating in different universes.

Anyway, in the first challenge, the geeks had to give the beauties massages and get rated. It seemed like Will was going to win yet another challenge, but Jesse swooped in and took it by one point. He and his partner, Erin, were desperate to nominate Will and Rebecca because of the unkind things Will said about Erin when they nominated them last week.

In the second challenge, the beauties had to build a model rocket and launch it before anyone else did. Several people almost had it, but Sam pulled it out in the end.  (Nicole also won me over with her "Reading is Sexy" T-shirt, which I also happen to own. And it's true, y'all: Reading gives knowledge, knowledge is power, and power is sexy, therefore reading is sexy. And it doesn't just hold true for blogs, but for the newspaper, too. So go pick one up, mmmkay. But I digress!)

When it was time to decide who to eliminate, Jesse and Erin knew they were gunning for Rebecca and Will. Sam and Nicole weren't sure whom to pick. Sam wanted to pick someone easy so Rebecca would stay, and Nicole wanted to pick someone she thought could beat Will and Rebecca. But she didn't tell Sam that. Instead, she craftily suggested Jen and William, spinning them as a weak choice, when in fact she thought they were pretty strong. Usually, I'm against that kind of shenanigans in this game. But when you're stuck with Sam, well ... well-played.

Rebecca was totally upset and cried and cried and cried some more (and didn't really study). Then in the elimination room, she biffed both her questions, and Will missed one, too, so Jen and William did take them out.

I did feel a little bad for Rebecca because she suspected the Sam set her up, when in fact it was Nicole. But crazy, if either of them had shown any respect for Nicole, she probably wouldn't have resorted to cunning behavior.  

Next week: makeovers! 

(Photo of Nicole courtesy of The CW)