Coming soon to NBC: Average Joe, the show that asks, "Can a guy like this [show schlubby/nerdy/ugly guy] get a girl like THIS [show gorgeous super-babe]?"

I can answer this question for them before the commercial is even over. Yes, yes, a thousand times YES, already.

It's been proven repeatedly throughout history that less-than-studly dudes can win the hearts of beautiful women. Besides numerous celebrity examples, I don't know a single woman who would reject an otherwise delightful and suitable suitor just because he wasn't a fine physical specimen. Granted, most of the women I associate with are possessed of incredible depth and character, but even if they weren't, I'd stand by my statement. The fairy tale's called "Beauty and the Beast", you know, not "Handsome and the Fugly Chick"*.

Which begs a better question: Could there ever be an "Average Jill" show? Of course there could, but the outcome would be far more complicated and uncertain. You don't see a lot of unattractive women with attractive men, and in those infrequent instances, even if the woman isn't fair of face, she's fairly hot of body. I'm not saying it never happens, I'm just saying this would make a far more interesting and contraversial program, because it so very rarely does.

(* ps, is it wrong that I totally cracked myself up writing that?)