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The Bachelor's Robert De Niro inspired hometown visits
By Ebony Bowden
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The final four Bachelor girls have taken Sam Wood home to meet their families, and the ensuing awkward conversations and grillings did not disappoint.
Unfortunately, former favourite Heather was not able to break free from the friend zone and was sent home by Wood in an emotional rose ceremony, but not before she took him home to meet her intense father figure, Warwick.
At a horse ranch somewhere in Queensland, Warwick, an imposing figure at 6"4, studied the personal trainer with a level of intensity not seen since Robert De Niro's Meet the Fockers.
The horse whisperer, who called the animals a "good judge of character", grilled Sam on the various women he was dating while also providing magnificent pearls of wisdom about life.
"Your comfort zone is just a prison of your own making," Warwick told Heather and Sam while necking a beer.
He also refused to call the program by its real name, instead referring to The Bachelor as "bubble world".
Someone give this man his own show.
Later on, in a misty NSW rainforest, a turtleneck-clad Lana introduced Sam to her mother in an uneventful date that naturally went swimmingly.
The communication's assistant mother however, did warn Lana to keep a level head about the brooding bachelor, telling her: "you've got to keep very level headed".
"I haven't seen you this happy for a long time, but it could be euphoria too, you know."
Lana didn't like this.
In a Mornington Peninsula mansion, the eternally-demure Sarah introduced Sam to a dozen family members - cousins included - following an awkward conversation about how she was too young for kids.
After some bubbly, Sarah's mother Roz asked "Samuel" to 'pick some herbs' with her before probing him on kind of animal he would be. Sam naturally described himself as a labrador.
Sam and Sarah's father also bonded over their identical hairdos, which is a good thing because Sarah's sister later decided to passive aggressively grill the bachelor over their white linen tablecloth dinner.
"Coming from a sister point of view, that's gold right over there," she said, pointing to Sarah.
Yikes.
Things didn't look up from there for poor Sam, however. He now had to travel to Perth to meet Snezana's daughter, Eve, and the glamorous brunette's intense brother.
The trio played happy families and Eve got to 'grill' Sam on whether he liked One Direction and if he knew the capital of Macedonia. Smart girl.
Snezana's brother, elected the "family spokesperson", tore Sam to shreds, asking him if he was truly ready be a father and whether he'd be happy to give up the other 'side girls'.
"Are gonna go from being single to all of a sudden being with someone and then being a father straight away?" he asked.
A clearly-taken aback Sam admitted he hadn't thought about it before, but promised he'd be willing to move to Perth despite having an entire business and life in Melbourne.
It looks like our eligible bachelor has some difficult decisions to make in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned.