Ben and co.'s most absurd, hilarious, embarrassing and blog-a-riffic moments together

By Kenny Herzog
Special to MSN TV

You don't mess with a successful formula. No series understands this better than "The Bachelor," whose 16th season continued to broadcast week after week of highly rated two-hour episodes, all to determine which pasty beauty queen will walk down the aisle with a relative stranger. And as any married man in a single-television home can attest, this year's action featured just enough catty melodrama and NSFW sexuality to keep both genders glued through every protracted recap, breathlessly edited commercial lead-in and dopey, sanctimonious monologue from the eligible man/wine entrepreneur himself, Ben Flajnik.

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"The Bachelor" season finale airs Monday, March 12, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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