Here Come the Newlyweds, Episode 4: Money Changes Everything

We join the couples as they are eating breakfast and there is definitely some tension after the previous vote. The Krashins voted for the Freises and the other three couples seem to be pretty pissed about it. Dana tells the group that she is trying not to be a liar and apologizes for being crazy. Huh? I’m very confused and wondering if ABC has been leaving important parts of this story on the cutting room floor. I don’t remember her lying and she hasn’t come off as being any crazier than anyone else on this show.

Host Pat joins and tells the couples that the final prize is now $390,000. He introduces the next challenge to add money to the final prize. Pat will ask each couple a question and the wife and husband have to simultaneously blurt out their answers. For each matching answer, $3000 will be added to the final prize.

The first question is for the Freises and Pat asks them how many minutes foreplay should last. No match here as Dawn says 15 minutes and Cody says a mere five. Cody then interviews that he was shocked because Dawn usually avoids foreplay. Can I just say, too much information?

The Krashins get the same question and also have mismatch. Steve says a mere two minutes. Poor Dana.

There is finally a match as the Holmeses both say five minutes.

The Moutras seem to have learned something from the previous contestants and they also have a match with five minutes.

The next question for the couples is how many times a day a couple should talk on the phone. I’m embarrassed for myself because all the answers are one, two, or three. I think I call my husband about ten times a day. In my defense though, most of the calls are less than a minute just to say something that is on my mind. Both the Moutras and the Holmes match answers on this question.

Pat then asks the Freises what one movie star Cody would kiss if they could. Dawn says Jennifer Aniston and Cody says Kiera Knightly – no match.

The Krashins disagree on the number of nights a couple should have dinner together. Steve says five and Dana says three. Steve and Dana must have nice predictable jobs without long hours or travel.

The Holmeses get an easy one as Pat asks them the name of the person Lance dated right before Heather.

I’m shocked at the next question. Pat asks the Moutras what they would name a boy child and they actually have a match! That’s very impressive to me, as most people I know don’t even know what they would name a child until right before it is born.

Pat asks the Freises what celebrity, living or dead, they’d most like to have dinner with. Dawn says Oprah and Cody says Jesus. I question whether Jesus is actually considered to be a celebrity (as opposed to a famous person or historical figure).

The Holmeses have really bad taste in movies. Pat asks them what movie they would watch if they could only watch that one movie. Heather says Old School and Lance says Dumb and Dumber.

Pat continues to ask more questions, most of which aren’t very interesting, but the couples do get a lot more matches.

Pat tells the couples that the total prize is now $420,000 and invites all the couples to go for lunch.

At lunch, a woman approaches the table and sits down next to Pat. She introduces herself as Joan Marie and tells the couples she is a psychic. Some of the couples look excited and some of them (the Freises) just look scared.

Joan Marie says that the name Rose is important to someone at the table. Heather says that Rose is her grandmother and Joan Marie goes on to say she sees a small round table that Rose used to sit at. Heather looks blank, so Joan Marie brings up a photograph of Heather in a red dress. Heather says there is such a photograph, but she is actually wearing a red suit and that it was Christmas.

Now Joan Marie says she is thinking of a violin and Johnnie says he used to play the violin. Joan Marie then tells them not to worry about finances so much. Gee, that takes psychic powers, figuring out a newlywed couple might be worried about finances. Given that Joan Marie probably was given background material on each couple and that the Moutras live in Johnnie’s parents house, this doesn’t seem very psychic to me at all.

Dawn wants to know what Joan Marie sees for them. She tells Dawn needs to let Cody in on a deeper lever. Duh! I could have told them that just after watching this show for three weeks. Seriously, I’m not impressed.

Joan Marie then tells Dana Krashin that she can see images of her in as a baby in her Christening gown. Dana just smiles and then interviews that she thought the Christening gown bit was pretty funny since she is Jewish. I just bust out laughing. This is almost as good as the palm reader who told me that great things would happen to me in my late twenties when I was 31.

The couples go back to the house and start to drink. Dana seems to be drinking more than everyone else combined. The tension from the morning comes back to haunt her and the Holmeses and Freises tell Dana that they were angry with her and didn’t trust her. It is hard to tell if the Krashins are getting the vote out edit or if this is all just misdirection.