Samantha A. Goodwin ’03 learned a tough lesson on a recent date: sometimes when you drop the H-bomb, you get burned.

In the WB reality television show elimiDATE’s dramatic final segment, entitled “H-Bombed,” Goodwin lost the prize in front of a national television audience.

On the show—in which one man goes on a date with four women, and elimiDATEs one per round—Goodwin made it to the final round before losing the “prize,” a 26-year old member of the National Gaurd named Craig.

The candidates “need to outflirt, outsmart and outlast their competition using their wit, charm and sex appeal,” the show’s website reads.

“Their strategy should ultimately ensure that they’re the one left standing when the dating dust has settled,” it says.

On Wednesday night, Goodwin and her Mather House roommates gathered to watch the edited version of her date.

The show, filmed last October, entitled “Hating Harvard,” and prominently featured the University and the “H-Bomb.”

The show’s eventual winner frequently complained that Goodwin was touting her Harvard status to make herself appear “better” than the other three contestants.

Goodwin, however, blamed constant references to Harvard on the show’s editors.

She said the editors wanted her to say “Harvard” more than usual.

Also, because the show is condensed into a half-hour installment, the editors were able to make it appear as though she was repeatedly dropping the “H-bomb,” she said.

The date consisted of a trip to the popular Cambridge bar Rock Bottom and then dancing at the Boston night club Caprice.

At Rock Bottom, the audience got its first glimpse of a quarrel amongst the four women contestants. Goodwin spoke of her success in beauty pageantry, which provoked a dispute with Nicole, another contestant.

Following the first round, one contestant was dismissed and the group traveled to Caprice.

There, the women danced and drank with Craig, and after a series of chaotic club scenes the second round was over and another contestant was dismissed.