Date #16: Jane

Jane M.: Sweet Sixteen (Relax, people! We're talking about this being Bachelor Rick's 16th date, not the age of one of his earlier dates)!



Date recap: Bachelor Rick picks up Jane and the two embrace. Once they pull away, Bachelor Rick lets New Yorker Jane know "I remember you!" How sweet, Richard! From the pre-existence, perhaps? Oh, just from her TMB audition tape? Dang! Well, little miss Janey came all the way from The Big Apple to go on a date with Mr. TMB, making this his second date to travel all the way from the East Coast. How lucky is this man? Women are willing to go the distance for him. I'm getting chills just thinking about it! What also gives me chills is that present Bachelor Rick is holding in his hand as he walks Janey out to the car. For cute! We have a hunch it might be some NYC exclusives: Levaines Cookies! Oh baby! This guy is even luckier than we thought and just for that act alone, we declare Jane a keeper! If Rick has tried even a nibble of those cookies he will know what a lucky man he is. We don't see any cookies  making an appearance in the car ride, but the two soon arrive at Sur La Table for a cooking class! Score #2 for Bachelor Rick, I mean for Janey for helping him out a little! Maybe he'll learn to make something decent for himself so he will no longer have to eat out "95%" of the time. Which brings us to this question: How does Bachelor Rick look as trim as he does with that kind of a statistic? I'm hoping in all of his spare time, he is at the gym. Maybe some of those girls who got long-time hug action can fill us in on how his arms feel? Is he made of steel or some strawberry jell-o? Moving on, the only dish we for sure know these two pre-lovebirds are making (the other dish names were too blurry for us to make out . . . no joke there, people, there's no heat in the kitchen just yet) is some kind of curry soup with chickpeas. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't seem like a good dish to start with for a man who is used to most of his food being fried in all sorts of oil--or any kind of man for that matter.Whatever. The food doesn't seem to matter because these two are totally into each other as only confirmed by Ms. Cleavage herself (Sur La Table cooking instructor?) that these two look great together. After eating their food, Janey and Rickey take a survey. At first we assume it's a survey to rank their cooking class, but we see the deeper meaning behind it. The two are totally ranking their date and giving each other off the chart scores! At the door, here's a surprise: an awkward kiss for all to behold! Majorly awkward. But don't worry, chances were good that the two saw each other before Janey took off for NYC. So maybe they had a chance to work on that kiss again (you didn't hear it from us. Wait. Yes you did..)

First Impression: We like this big city girl. She was cute. The one thing that totally threw us off was her red hair. Do she and Rick know that if they have babies together the chances of their procreations turning into lots of little redheads is astronomically high!?! These are things you have to think about when you're dating! Also, although we thought this girl was cute, we didn't think she was off the charts cute or even near the cutest date Rick's had so far. But maybe in Rick's eyes she was and that's what a love connection is all about.

Second Date Potential: If our sources are correct, there is definitely going to be a second date. They kissed (and probably kissed some more sans cameras). Perhaps they kissed just so Bachelor Rick could shake off his image of only having kissed a teenager so far, but we think there was more to it than that.

TMB Excitement level: Oh baby, oh baby, oh baby! They had that "moment" in the car, which was probably only a "moment" for Bachelor Rick since Janey did admit she was surprised he kissed her, but still, a moment is a moment, folks and we need to give them credit for that.

Creativity Points: Creativity points for doing something Bachelor Rick desperately NEEDED, no not a kiss with someone of legal age, a cooking lesson! This man is in some dire need of help, ladies. Let this be a lesson to all the ladies who get a second date!

Final Thoughts: Will Rick be a man and go to Jane for the next date or will he make her come back to him? Who wants to see these two kiss on top of the Empire State Building or on a ferry ride out to the Statue of Liberty? Or better yet, go shopping for a knock-off Rolex (are those even cool anymore?) and matching Coach bags (we could see Rick sporting a Coach man purse . . . okay, we take that back. Please don't go there, Rick or in three more years you could end up like Brad, back on the Bachelor. And once was enough. Twice would just be a travesty).