Momma's Boys
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Momma's Boys is an American
reality television
series on the NBC
network, executive produced by Ryan Seacrest
(American Idol) and Andrew Glassman
(Average Joe), which centers on a group of mothers who must help choose the perfect woman for their complacent sons. Ultimately, the series poses the question: "Who is really the most important woman in every man's life?"
At the beginning of the series, 32 single women are contestants seeking romance with any of three single men (firefighter/paramedic Michael Sarysz, real estate broker Robert Kluge, or college student Jojo Bojanowski). The men's mothers are brought in to live in a house with the female contestants while the sons are housed in a nearby condominium.
Throughout the series, the female contestants participate in competitions and are selected by the men for dates, with some of the contestants being eliminated at various intervals. Each woman receives a text message of "yes" if any of the men want to keep her in contention or "no" if none of them want to keep her in contention. If the men are undecided, they send a text message for the woman to meet them at the house's swimming pool, where the men have an additional opportunity to talk to her before deciding whether she should stay or go.
The men make the decisions whether each woman should stay or go, but the mothers actively seek to influence their sons as to those decisions.
Some of the female contestants have been nude models for Playboy
or Penthouse
, namely Erica Ellyson
, Meghan Allen
, Brittany Fuchs, and Stacy Fuson. Megan Albertus is an actress who appeared in film prior to her time on the show.
In December 2008 Luftu Murat Uckardesler sought an injunction to prevent the airing of the show for 45 days. Uckardesler has a reality show The Perfect Bride that is a hit in Turkey
, Italy
and the Middle East. Uckardesler claims a trademark
on Perfect Bride a copyright to a "reality television format centering on mothers and sons and their attempts to find the 'Perfect Bride.'" NBC used the phrase "Perfect Bride" in its advertising for Momma's Boy. The court did not issue the injunction.
On March 13, 2009, it was confirmed that the series had been canceled and would not be returning for a second season.
Camilla, Stacy, Cara, and Brittany won a suitability challenge and were immune
from elimination in the second elimination round. In the second elimination round, Vita, Callie, Mya, and Payten were eliminated by text message. Lauren, Carina, and Megan were called down to the pool, at which time Lauren was kept in the competition and Megan quit. Carina would have been eliminated but was kept in due to Megan's departure.
After this round, the mothers opened the files. Lorraine chose Michelle. Esther chose Lauren in order to see how good she was. Khalood chose Brittany.
Although they went on dates with Michael in that episode, Carina and Jessica C. were both eliminated. Stacey and Cara both received a no via text message, and Cara threw a tantrum upon her exit. The next elimination was to decide the fates of Nikki, Michelle, and Brittany, and Brittany was eliminated at the pool.
The next round of the series would continue in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The men would be allowed to select two women to accompany them, and their mothers would choose one. Rob first chose Camilla and then Amanda, however, Amanda declined the invitation from Rob. Rob then picked Nikki to go with him. Esther picked Lauren to attend as well. Michael selected Erica and Meghan to go with him, and specifically rejected Michelle. Lorraine chose Amanda as her pick. Jojo refused Misty citing that she did not respect his mother, and he chose both Julie and Mindy to come with him. However, his mother, feeling that none of the women were an appropriate match for him, tore up the remaining ticket. The two remaining girls, Liz and Maisha, were therefore also eliminated.
For the eliminations, the mothers were allowed to select the women they felt was most compatible with their son. In return, that woman would be both spared from elimination and allowed to accompany the man on the final date. Esther again chose Lauren, Lorraine selected Erica, and Khalood denied both Mindy and Julie the final date. Finally, the men were forced to eliminate one girl. Nikki, Meghan, and Julie were asked to leave.
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reality television
Reality television
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series on the NBC
NBC
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network, executive produced by Ryan Seacrest
Ryan Seacrest
Ryan John Seacrest is an American radio personality, television host, network producer and voice actor. He is the host of On Air with Ryan Seacrest, a nationally syndicated Top 40 radio show that airs on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and throughout the United States and Canada on Premiere Radio Networks,...
(American Idol) and Andrew Glassman
Andrew Glassman
Andrew Glassman is an American television producer who has created TV programs throughout the world.Glassman founded in 2001, which is an independent Los Angeles-based international television production company whose credits include network primetime dating, competition, and self-improvement,...
(Average Joe), which centers on a group of mothers who must help choose the perfect woman for their complacent sons. Ultimately, the series poses the question: "Who is really the most important woman in every man's life?"
At the beginning of the series, 32 single women are contestants seeking romance with any of three single men (firefighter/paramedic Michael Sarysz, real estate broker Robert Kluge, or college student Jojo Bojanowski). The men's mothers are brought in to live in a house with the female contestants while the sons are housed in a nearby condominium.
Throughout the series, the female contestants participate in competitions and are selected by the men for dates, with some of the contestants being eliminated at various intervals. Each woman receives a text message of "yes" if any of the men want to keep her in contention or "no" if none of them want to keep her in contention. If the men are undecided, they send a text message for the woman to meet them at the house's swimming pool, where the men have an additional opportunity to talk to her before deciding whether she should stay or go.
The men make the decisions whether each woman should stay or go, but the mothers actively seek to influence their sons as to those decisions.
Some of the female contestants have been nude models for Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
or Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...
, namely Erica Ellyson
Erica Ellyson
Erica Ellyson is an American softcore model and actress who was Penthouse's Pet of the Month for January 2007 and Pet of the Year for 2008.- Biography :Ellyson was raised in Hurley, Mississippi...
, Meghan Allen
Meghan Allen
Meghan Allen is an American softcore model and reality show contestant. She was Playboy Cyber Girl of the Month for January 2008. Meghan first appeared in NBC reality show Fear Factor in 2004. Together with Adam Hipp, her boyfriend at the time, she competed in the Couples edition, doing 8...
, Brittany Fuchs, and Stacy Fuson. Megan Albertus is an actress who appeared in film prior to her time on the show.
In December 2008 Luftu Murat Uckardesler sought an injunction to prevent the airing of the show for 45 days. Uckardesler has a reality show The Perfect Bride that is a hit in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, Italy
Italy
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and the Middle East. Uckardesler claims a trademark
Trademark
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on Perfect Bride a copyright to a "reality television format centering on mothers and sons and their attempts to find the 'Perfect Bride.'" NBC used the phrase "Perfect Bride" in its advertising for Momma's Boy. The court did not issue the injunction.
On March 13, 2009, it was confirmed that the series had been canceled and would not be returning for a second season.
International versions
| Country | Name | Host | Network | Date premiered |
 Arab League Arab WorldArab world The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the... |
Perfect Bride قسمة ونصيب |
Roula Bahnam Rola Bahnam Rola Bahnam or often spelt Rula Bahnam, is an Iraqi Lebanese television presenter, mostly known for working in Future TV and now presenting the TV Show "Isma Wi Naseeb" "Perfect Bride" on LBC... Razan Maghrebi |
LBC Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and... |
May 2007 |
 India |
Perfect Bride Perfect Bride Perfect Bride is an Indian reality show that airs on STAR Plus. It premiered on September 12, 2009, and follows five bridegrooms as they choose their brides from a panel of eleven potential candidates. It is the Indian version of the American reality TV series Momma's Boys . The winning girl and... |
Megha Gupta and Vishal Malhotra |
STAR Plus STAR Plus STAR Plus is a Hindi language general entertainment television channel based in India. The channel is part of the STAR TV network's bouquet of channels... |
September 12, 2009 |
 Italy |
La sposa perfetta | Cesare Cadeo and Roberta Lanfranchi |
Rai 2 | 2007 |
 Sweden |
Mammas pojkar | Angelica Wallgren | TV4 | October 8, 2009 |
 Turkey |
Gelinim Olur musun | TBA | Show TV Show TV SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and... |
2004 |
Elimination chart
| Order | Ladies | Episodes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| 1 | Amanda | Amanda | Nikki | Camilla | Mindy4 | Lauren | Camilla6 | Lauren6 | |
| 2 | Amy | Amy | Liz | Stacy | Amanda | Camilla | Lauren | Amanda | |
| 3 | Brittany | Brittany | Carina | Cara | Lauren6 | Nikki | Amanda5 | Mindy | |
| 4 | Callie | Callie | Michelle | Brittany4 | Erica | Erica5 | Erica | Erica5 | |
| 5 | Camilla | Camilla | Maisha | Julie | Julie | Amanda | Mindy4 | Camilla | |
| 6 | Cara | Cara | Meghan | Meghan | Meghan | Meghan5 | Julie | ||
| 7 | Carina | Carina | Amanda | Jessica C. | Camilla | Julie | Nikki | ||
| 8 | Donna | Donna | Camilla | Misty | Maisha | Mindy | Meghan5 | ||
| 9 | Erica Erica Ellyson Erica Ellyson is an American softcore model and actress who was Penthouse's Pet of the Month for January 2007 and Pet of the Year for 2008.- Biography :Ellyson was raised in Hurley, Mississippi... |
Erica | Callie | Mindy | Liz | Maisha | |||
| 10 | Jamie | Jamie | Stacy | Liz | Misty | Liz | |||
| 11 | Jessica B. | Jessica B. | Misty | Erica | Nikki 3 | Misty4 | |||
| 12 | Jessica C. | Jessica C. | Lauren | Maisha | Michelle 3 | Michelle | |||
| 13 | Julie | Julie | Mindy | Nikki | Brittany3 | ||||
| 14 | Lauren | Lauren | Myaa | Amanda6 | Cara | ||||
| 15 | Liz | Liz | Erica | Michelle5 | Jessica C.5 | ||||
| 16 | Lynette | Lynette | Jessica C. | |Lauren 3 | Carina5 | ||||
| 17 | Madeline | Madeline | Julie | Carina3 | Stacy | ||||
| 18 | Maisha | Maisha | Brittany | Megan3 | |||||
| 19 | Megan | Megan | Payten | Vita | |||||
| 20 | Meghan Meghan Allen Meghan Allen is an American softcore model and reality show contestant. She was Playboy Cyber Girl of the Month for January 2008. Meghan first appeared in NBC reality show Fear Factor in 2004. Together with Adam Hipp, her boyfriend at the time, she competed in the Couples edition, doing 8... |
Meghan | Megan3 | Callie | |||||
| 21 | Michelle | Michelle | Cara 3 | Myaa | |||||
| 22 | Mindy | Mindy | Vita 3 | Payten | |||||
| 23 | Misty | Misty | Lynette3 | ||||||
| 24 | Myaa | Myaa | Madeline3 | ||||||
| 25 | Natalie | Natalie | Jessica B. | ||||||
| 26 | Nikki | Mikki | Amy | ||||||
| 27 | Payten | Payten | Simone | ||||||
| 28 | Rana Lyn | Rana Lyn | Rochelle | ||||||
| 29 | Rochelle | Rochelle | Jamie | ||||||
| 30 | Simone | Simone | Donna | ||||||
| 31 | Stacy | Stacy | Natalie | ||||||
| 32 | Vita | Vita | Rana Lyn | ||||||
- 1 Contestants are listed alphabetically by first name because no contestants were eliminated in this episode.
- 2 In this episode, contestants received a "yes," "no," or "maybe" text message. "Yes" and "no" indicated that the woman was saved or eliminated, respectively. Women receiving a "maybe" text were saved or eliminated in a face-to-face poolside ceremony.
- 3 The contestant received a "maybe" text.
- 4 The contestant went on a date with Jojo
- 5 The contestant went on a date with Michael
- 6 The contestant went on a date with Rob
- The contestant won Momma's Boys by Michael's choice
- The contestant won Momma's Boys by Rob's choice.
- The contestant won Momma's Boys by JoJo's choice.
- The contestant won the suitability challenge and was immuneImmunity (reality television)Immunity in reality television is a concept that is widely used in weekly elimination-type reality television shows by which a contestant participating in such a show may not be "kicked off" or eliminated from competition in a particular time period...
from elimination. - The contestant was going to be eliminated, but due to another contestant quitting, they were allowed to stay.
- The contestant was eliminated.
- The contestant quit the competition.
- Contestants are arranged in the order they were called to stay in the game.
- Contestants are arranged alphabetically in Episode 1 because there were no eliminations.
Episode 2
Episode 2 was two hours long and included two separate rounds of eliminations. In the first elimination round, Jessica B., Amy, Simone, Rochelle, Jamie, Donna, Natalie, and Rana Lyn were eliminated by text message. Lynette and Madeline were eliminated after being called down to the pool. Megan, Cara, and Vita were called down to the pool but kept in the competition.Camilla, Stacy, Cara, and Brittany won a suitability challenge and were immune
Immunity (reality television)
Immunity in reality television is a concept that is widely used in weekly elimination-type reality television shows by which a contestant participating in such a show may not be "kicked off" or eliminated from competition in a particular time period...
from elimination in the second elimination round. In the second elimination round, Vita, Callie, Mya, and Payten were eliminated by text message. Lauren, Carina, and Megan were called down to the pool, at which time Lauren was kept in the competition and Megan quit. Carina would have been eliminated but was kept in due to Megan's departure.
Episode 3
When the episode began, a box was brought in. It contained files about each woman's personal details. In this episode's challenge Food Network chef Tyler Florence divided the women into groups to Michael, Rob, or Jojo their favorite food. Jojo's mom cried since no one chose to prepare her son's favorite food (catlase and grape leaves). The chef asked Julie to make his food, and she did. Some of the women elected to prepare their own personal favorite recipes, as Meghan and Amanda cooked a stuffed pepper dish instead; Erica made a chicken casserole. After the women prepared the meals, the sons and chef judged each of the meals. The winners were Amanda, Meghan, Julie, and Erica, who were exempted from having their files opened in this episode.After this round, the mothers opened the files. Lorraine chose Michelle. Esther chose Lauren in order to see how good she was. Khalood chose Brittany.
Although they went on dates with Michael in that episode, Carina and Jessica C. were both eliminated. Stacey and Cara both received a no via text message, and Cara threw a tantrum upon her exit. The next elimination was to decide the fates of Nikki, Michelle, and Brittany, and Brittany was eliminated at the pool.
Episode 4
The episode began with a specific focus on family holiday traditions. With the assistance of a priest and a rabbi, the women were given 2 hours to prepare either a Christmas morning or a Hanukkah party along the men and their mothers. Following the festivities, Erica and Michael had their first date, followed by Jojo and Misty. During her son's date, Khalood demanded to the producers that she be taken to her son's location. When she was taken by helicopter to his date, she was distraught when she caught the pair embracing.The next round of the series would continue in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The men would be allowed to select two women to accompany them, and their mothers would choose one. Rob first chose Camilla and then Amanda, however, Amanda declined the invitation from Rob. Rob then picked Nikki to go with him. Esther picked Lauren to attend as well. Michael selected Erica and Meghan to go with him, and specifically rejected Michelle. Lorraine chose Amanda as her pick. Jojo refused Misty citing that she did not respect his mother, and he chose both Julie and Mindy to come with him. However, his mother, feeling that none of the women were an appropriate match for him, tore up the remaining ticket. The two remaining girls, Liz and Maisha, were therefore also eliminated.
Episode 5
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, the men had individual dates with one of the women chosen to go. Rob and Camilla, Michael and Amanda, and Jojo and Mindy had a date.For the eliminations, the mothers were allowed to select the women they felt was most compatible with their son. In return, that woman would be both spared from elimination and allowed to accompany the man on the final date. Esther again chose Lauren, Lorraine selected Erica, and Khalood denied both Mindy and Julie the final date. Finally, the men were forced to eliminate one girl. Nikki, Meghan, and Julie were asked to leave.
Episode 6
In the series finale (first believed to be a season finale), the men went on a final date. Having selected neither Julie or Mindy to attend the final date, Khalood accompanied her son instead. Rob and Lauren shared another date, and during her date with Michael, Erica revealed to both him and Lorraine her status as the 2008 Penthouse Pet of the Year. The men would then have to make a final decision, and the winning pair would receive an extended vacation. For the final selection, Rob chose Lauren over Camilla. Michael picked Amanda, and Jojo picked Mindy over his mother. In the epilogue, Rob left after one day, and without Lauren. Khalood refused counseling, and that following the expiration of her contract, Erica visited Lorraine in Florida.External links
- Creator official site
- Official site
- http://www.glassmanmedia.com/