Ben Higgins

Who doesn’t want a pair of cat-ear headphones?

It’s a story as old as time: Boy meets girl on reality TV show, gets dumped and sent home, comes back to star on his own show, meets another girl, gets engaged, and gives birth to a Bachelor spin-off.

It will be fun, they said.

Hollywood tax incentives, shmax incentives. Who needs ’em when you have a Hoosier hometown visit on the reality-show docket?

ABC’s newest Bachelor (and Indiana native) Ben Higgins is so normal compared to most Bachelor contestants (we’re lookin’ at you, Juan Pablo) that he seems almost too good to be true. He’s only three episodes into his search for true love, but he’s already won the hearts of Bachelor Nation—and the sixteen women still in the running for the final rose. Here’s a look at some of the IU grad’s best moments, on- and off-screen.