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Okay, since I’m completely confused as to how we’re doing Big Brother threads this year, I’m going to start one for tonight. Feel free to suggest how we should handle this, by the way: individual threads for each episode, one thread for the week, what day that thread starts if we go with that…whatever.
Kind of boring tonight…nothing big happened, and I’m completely confused about just how far back the actual footage for each episode happened. There was some amount of non-interpersonal drama in the house this weekend and I’m not sure when it’ll be showing up (if it does). But none of that showed up yet…maybe Tuesday.
Anyway, I hate to say “I told you so”, but I had misgivings about the whole “We’re lesbians” story when they first came up with it. Stupid stupid stupid…people hold enough of a grudge when you lie to them in that house WITH a good reason. Lying with no good reason can do nothing but make them think you actually HAD a reason. Stupid.
Ugh. Slop. And correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t we seen this food challenge already this past week. On a different CBS reality show, maybe? :dubious:
And if I have to hear “Operation Condor! Skreeeeeee!” (which is, unfortunately, better than “Operation Condor! Ka-kaw! Ka-kaw!” You suck, Adam.) much more, I’m going to do some skreeeeeing myself.
Okay, the one on his chest says “Brawny” and underneath “Prestigious c*nt”. Classy, isn’t he? The one on his arm is, according to Yahoo! Answers (because with the possibilities of what they’re linking to with James, I’m not going to go check things out while I’m at work) a priest possibly preparing to shoot himself while imagining two people of indeterminate gender having sex. Man, this is really a boy you want to take home to mother, isn’t it? Both are apparently blurred for offensiveness reasons, as well as trademark reasons with the Brawny.
Ah, to be young, attractive, and completely moronic. Since most of us are not, it is indeed a joy to watch the emotionally immature commit acts of random stupidity, which Big Brother always delivers in spades. I also enjoy showmances, so this season is perfect. Fun times!
I just remembered the part that kind of disturbed me last night. Amanda apologizing to Joshuah for him attacking her. It really makes me think there’s abuse in Amanda’s past…that’s a classic abuse victim “tell”, the mentality of someone who’s been told repeatedly that when someone attacks her, it’s her own fault.
Okay, going with the idea that three threads per week on this show is too much, I’m going to continue through Wednesday in this thread, then start another one Sunday night.
Still kind of boring, unfortunately. With this group, the REALLY good fights and the REALLY spicy stuff are too vulgar and spicy respectively to actually show on network television, as anyone who’s been watching After Dark this past week knows…so we get the acceptable stuff that’s left. Which isn’t, if you haven’t noticed, much. The Sheila/Allison fight(s), for example…much, MUCH longer and about some things that are only mentionable on broadcast television in ads for Monistat. Yes, the whole fight was mostly about Sheila believing that Allison had told everyone that she (Sheila) had a yeast infection. (When it was actually Josh (surprise! not…) that saw the Monistat box in the garbage and spread it around (the information, not the Monistat. Ew.).)
The medical problems were interesting. I’m sure there was a bit of panic in the house…especially after that lame Jericho teaser after the veto comp. “Hudson River Virus”? Way to play Orson Welles, Grodner! What they didn’t show was Chelsia (who is getting the good girl edit, mostly) saying that Amanda was probably faking it and pulling a bitch-face the entire time. Apparently, James pushed the panic button when he couldn’t get into the diary room and that’s why the paramedics and police came instead of just the nurse. They’re still not sure what Allison had the allergic reaction to, but she’d had some slop about 1/2 before the reaction started. I’m sure they put SOMETHING in that crap to make it taste so bad…it was probably what she reacted to.
My question is – if Amanda really is hypoglycemic (and, frankly, that strikes me as an “if”) – shouldn’t that have come up in pre-show physicals? Which they’ve got to do, lest some hypoglycemic bitch show up and get stuck eating slop and not mention that she’s hypoglycemic till she passes out, if she does. (And besides – remember that horrible twinky virgin from season 1? Didn’t the fact that she was a virgin come up because she misunderstood some question about the physical?)
We’ve got a fairly loathsome group of people going here – I’ve got to find someone I don’t hate, soon.
I think the problem with Amanda wasn’t so much that the slop is no good for hypoglycemia (they can put sugar on it if they want) as that the slop is so nasty that she wasn’t eating enough, period.
The general theory about the slop is that it’s either oatmeal or some kind of protein sludge that has some sort of sulfur compound mixed in it to make it taste and smell really nasty. There’s not enough to make anyone sick, but enough to make the whole thing taste and smell like rotten eggs. That’s a theory, anyway…I don’t think CBS has ever revealed what the slop actually IS.
Not that the show was high-class, but I thought it jumped the shark when they introduced slop… Don’t get me wrong, I still watch, but don’t like the slop angle…
I agree. I figured it was only a matter of time before the whole “slop” thing backfired on the producers. Now I have to wonder if they just might eliminate the whole idea and go back to PB&J. Personally, that would suit me just fine. At least that has enough nutrients to keep people going. The slop angle brought the game to a level it didn’t need to go to.
Thanks for bringing up the yeast infection story, jayjay . I don’t subscribe to the live feed or have Showtime. Without that info, I was watching last night saying, “Whoa, Sheila, crazy much?” I still think she’s kinda nuts, but at least that explains Sheila’s extreme behavior toward Alison.
I’m still wondering if she was faking it. And if she and Alex survive tonight’s eviction, it worked.
The whole “Jericho” thing was absolutely shameless. And the “Hudson River Virus” bit followed by the medical emergencies in the house was just a little too coincidental, dont’cha think?
Don’t necessarily count those annoying chicks before they hatch…the speculation at Chez Jayjayfreak is, based on the shocking twist/surprise for the evictees, is that they’re returning Alex and Amanda to the house to play as individuals and breaking up all the remaining couples for individual play as well. This is TOTAL speculation. I haven’t even looked at a spoiler site since last night yet.
Incidentally, Adam doesn’t know it yet, but he’s been fired from his position at the autism foundation because of the “retards” moment. The foundation he worked for itself is apparently under investigation by the Florida Attorney General…it’s been accused of being a fly-by-night scam.
It’s incredibly obvious that this season was put together in about a month. The houseguest vetting was obviously superficial, at best. The competitions have all been kind of…meh. They’ve had one houseguest who just…left. That’s happened exactly ONCE before, and that was involuntary. They almost had two houseguests out for medical reasons, and both with serious medical emergencies. This group of houseguests is possibly the trashiest ever…there has been at least one night that involved general nakedness, lap dances, whipped cream, voluntary lactation, and naked pool make-out sessions of quite a few gender combinations. You’ll never see that on the show because the Standards & Practices people would max out their annual deductible on the stress effects alone, plus it would make several people who are getting sweetheart edits on the show look less than sweetheartish.
I’m guessing that the reason the actual broadcast episodes are so boring is that they’re mostly filler. That’s because, as hinted above, the interesting stuff that’s going on in that house isn’t broadcastable. It’s either profanity-laden screaming matches about yeast infections or co-ed naked slutting.
And yeah, obviously the paired thing isn’t working, and in order to get any kind of season out of this mess they’ll have to break up the teams – otherwise it’s all over in three more weeks (not that that would be a bad thing).
And “cool” on the Adam-gets-fired-and-employer-gets-investigated thing…
