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On last night's very special "Bachelor," Jake went on hometown dates to meet the families of the four remaining women (Hey, did you hear that Tenley has an ex-husband?!).

But the real drama happened in the last half hour of the show when Ali went to Jake's hotel room to tell him that she was being forced to choose between staying there with him and going back to her job. In the end, after a lot of crying and a lot of whining, Ali left Jake to return to her career.

Wait. We've didn't just fall off a turnip truck, "Bachelor" producers. We remember Ed and Jillian, and how Ed told her he had to leave and go back to his job, and then guess who showed back up again at the end because he had made the wrong decision? Ed. 

So is Ali pulling an Ed? Do the "Bachelor" producers think we'll fall for that again? Probably. Because as Chris Harrison tells us at the end, the finale will be the most dramatic in Bachelor history! Hey Chris, if you keep upping the ante like that at the end of every "Bachelor" season, eventually one of these final rose ceremonies is going to have to end with someone being murdered.

Other thoughts on the episode:

1/ The dance. I'm so embarrassed for Tenley I don't know what to do.
2/ Tenley is definitely not over her ex. Does Jake want to be her rebound husband? Run, Jake!
3/ Vienna's family. So not what I expected, but then at the same time, it all makes sense now.
4/ Jake didn't really seem at ease with Gia's family. I think she's the next to go.
5/ Ali will absolutely come back. She has to.

Adrienne is on the road today, but reports that the Raleigh team of bakers from Swank Cake Design competing on last night's "Ultimate Cake Off" on TLC did not win the $10,000 prize money.

Here's what Adrienne said: "Wayne Steinkopf did not win. He won the skills test, which was decorating a dog bowl with fondant, but he lost the taste test which cost him 30 minutes in working time. Still, he did finish his 8-foot cake, which had a rotating agility ring. The judges didn't think most of his dogs looked realistic enough (the winner's dogs looked REALLY realistic) and that is what I think did him in. But overall, I do think he had the best looking cake. He has a clean style and the cake was colorful, but not overdone."

American Idol (8pm, Fox) - The auditions are over and the real show finally begins. The lucky contestants arrive in Hollywood to begin grueling rehearsals, and Ellen Degeneres joins the team as the fourth judge. There have already been rumors that she and Simon Cowell are clashing. Boy, I hope that probably-totally-true-rumor doesn't hurt the show's ratings (eye roll). 

Lost (9pm, ABC) - Kate is on the run and Jack must do something that will jeopardize a friend.

Past Life (9pm, Fox) - A new series in which people who are haunted by "past-life" events are helped by a psychologist and an ex-police detective played by Nicholas Bishop (right). The first episode involves a teenager who is troubled by memories of an abduction and murder which took place before his birth. To solve the case, the detective must first figure out who the teen was in his past life. Hey, anyone remember "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud?"

The Good Wife (10pm, CBS) - Alicia must defend a man accused of murdering a babysitter while she and the family await the results of Peter's appeals hearing.

The Jay Leno Show (10pm, NBC) - The good news is this is the last episode of NBC's awful primetime Jay Leno experiment. The bad news is, well, we all know what that is. 

Just in case you missed today's article in the N&O Life section, some bakers from Raleigh are competing tonight in TLC's "Ultimate Cake Off."

The actual competition was filmed in December. Wayne Steinkopf led a team from Swank Cake Design in Raleigh. The team had nine hours to build a cake that was at least nine feet tall.

Read more about tonight's "Ultimate Cake Off" episode here. It airs at 10pm on TLC.

It's kind of cool and kind of sad at the same time, but last night's Super Bowl beat the 27-year-old record previously held by the final episode of "M*A*S*H" to become the most-watched television broadcast in U.S. history.

The Super Bowl XLIV attracted 106.5 million viewers, but there are still caveats to the record. As TV MoJoe explains, significant U.S. population growth is one thing accounting for the record number of viewers, but in terms of percentage of TV viewers watching the Super Bowl, "M*A*S*H" still reigns (Note: the U.S. had 75 million fewer people in 1983 than it does today). 

The Washington Post also points out that thanks to a massive snowstorm, a big chunk of east coast viewers were housebound Sunday night, giving CBS a pretty captive audience.

Still, it was the best Super Bowl ratings performance in 23 years, grabbing a 46.4 rating and a 68 share.