About time. Big Brother 4.
Starts July 8th, 2003 8PM ET/PT
Show info:
Live video feed available.
I am thoroughly ashamed to admit I will give this a try—it’s summer, I’m bored and depressed, there’s nothing else on teevee. I hope it’s good “Point-and-Laugh” TV.
They need at least one or two camera-whore psychos to make it interesting; one crier; some sexual/religious/racial strife; and of course cute people prancing around in thongs.
But mostly, psychos.
Dammit, Eve, I was going to say exactly the same thing about the show, so now I have to think of something else than “me too.”
I missed the first season but got emotionally involved in the latter ones. My predictions on who got eructed next were better than 50%, and I found my favorites shifting from week to week.
The year Will won was the best so far, IMHO.
Just hope there’s a bit more variety of types than last year, I really found it hard to care much who won.
Bring on the psychos, misfits, camera ninnies, and the vapid whiners. Gotta be better than what’s been on since Survivor crawled into the sunset.
I’m ready too. I hope the T&A factor is strong as ever along with the social rejects and freaks.
I just hope this Shocking Twist: Beware The X Factor! crap doesn’t screw it up too bad.
I don’t like this cast, simply because there are no ‘real’ people…like Chicken George (BB1), Brittany Petros (BB1), Bunky (BB2 I think) or Marcellas (BB3).
Last season I was thoroughly disgusted but couldn’t seem to stop from watching throughout the horror and idiocy that was BB3.
I hope this season there no more stripper moms, peanut butter bikinis or near-slayings in the house.:rolleyes:
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Oh, but Dig, what is Big Brother without stripper moms, peanut butter bikinis and near-slayings? Oh, and Julie Chen wearing ill-advised Sarah Jessica Parker rejects?
Don’t you just love how Joan has to stand just so? One foot directly in front of the other, like a shop window mannequin.
It’s always bugged me how those folks don’t notice out the window that they’re recreating the Amazon, setting up a stage, hauling in all manner of toys, etc. They always act surprised. Like, where were they during all that racket?
Make that Julie, not Joan. Twin Peaks on the brain.
It’s my understanding from the commercials that some of the houseguests are chosen solely because they’re the exes of some of the other houseguests?
This could be bloody.
And I’ll just have fits if one of the former couples is a gay one. Oh, I see delicious slivers of snark in store…
Incidentally, I AM doing synopses of the episodes this season, but they will be several days late in all cases. Our VCR is dead and I’m borrowing the tapes from my aunt after she watches them.
Or better yet, an ex who broke up with a contestant because they came out! 
Incidentally, “David” says he’s a former army Ranger and he’s only 21. Is this possible? I thought Rangers were special forces and trained for a LONG time before actually being considered full Rangers…if you can’t enter the Army before you’re 18, then that only gives this guy three years to train and to be a Ranger, then retirement? Huh?
A few observations. Note: Spoilers below, no boxes. Beware…
What strikes me first is that there is no obvious gay houseguest this year. Either one of the guests is deep in the closet or there really is no queer presence for the first time since the game began.
Of course, it’s entirely possible that one of the guests is going to end up being outed before the summer is over. Again, it would be quite the drama if it were one of the exes…
Julie looks like she’s been eating. Good. And a skirt! Yay! I’m sure we’ll have ample opportunity to make fun of her wardrobe in the course of the summer, though. Wonder if the pirate shirts (shades of Seinfeld!) are going to make a comeback before October?
I don’t know, really, that I like the idea of the X-factor. I mean, what if the reason that some of these former couples are former is because of physical or mental abuse, and they simply didn’t say anything about it in the pre-selection interviews (as is common with spousal/SO abuse)? Is it right to force a former victim to spend the entire summer in a house with her attacker? Some of the established female guests looked terrified when the X-factor was announced.
Tentative first bet for a future coming-out moment: Male: Justin Female: Dana.
I taped it on the living room set, and will be writing up the synopsis tomorrow.
Tis a possibility.
I was truly surprised nobody fell off the rising bar thingie when they did the food competition. And am I the only one who is pissed that the exes get to share in the food won by the rest of the house? I think the exes should’ve had to eat PB and J the entire week since they did NOTHING to earn that food!
I also think that one girl…the one who was crying because her Ex was in the house and worrying about her current boyfriend dumping her because of it…what a whiner! Geez…cry me a river won’t ya? And Jun…almight Asian chick…what’s up with NOT dating Asian men just because one BF happened to want her to be Ms. Perfect Housewife? Can we be a little more picky? And the Pilates instructor…how I hate thee. I think she’s gonna be the one who bitches and moans that everybody in the house is too fat if they don’t do Pilates with her everyday.
The former FBI agent…me likees. He seems sneaky, and devious. I think he’s gonna be the Will of BB4…the one we love to hate. I also don’t like the guy from OK…he seems a bit of a country bumpkin to me…but then again, so does everybody from OK because the state is a bunch of small towns spread out all over the place with few big towns at all. Ick. It’s a whole lotta nuttin, as my hubby (who’s from OKC) would say.
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I thought that X factor meant Xfiles, so they would have some aliens?
(As a side note, why don’t they ever have any spanish people on these shows?)
Also, there is an odd number of people this time, that leads me to think that some people pulled out of it.
The x factor seems like its gonna be alot of fun.
We’ll be getting the US feed over here for time on E4 who cover the UKBB house 24/7. It will be a day later than you guys but shown as live. Looking forward to it. Hopefully it has a bit of life in it as the BB housemates are very very boring. The public voted out the interesting characters and consigned themselves to looking at people sleep most of the day.
When it comes to the end vote for the person you like other than that all voting should be done on the basis of entertainment value ie. If somebody is getting on every bodies tits(annoying them) in the house keep them in as it makes for better TV. YMMV 
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Is it just me or is anyone else having trouble logging onto the Fantasy League? I’ve registered (twice! Once with my hotmail address and once with my AOL address) and it will not let me log on. I’ve even copied my team names (TeamWheresTheLove and Team_Wheres_The_Love) and passwords directly INTO the little logon/password boxes and it STILL won’t let me log on. >_<
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