Okay…I will admit it. I…I am a Big Brother 2 addict. I blame the bar…they got me hooked, airing it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Now I’m all caught up in the second incarnation of a show that I spent much energy and time making fun of in the original run.
So…Bunky. The gay houseguest. What’s to say? What’s to say?
How about “Grow a spine, for god’s sakes, man!”? Every time they show his eviction vote, every time he contemplates his eviction vote, he’s a blubbering mess of emotions! Sensitivity is fine…really. I’m sensitive. I cry listening to “Puff the Magic Dragon” or watching “The Fox and the Hound”. But Bunky, honey…please!
And what is with this “How do you want me to vote?” thing every single week? To quote Garbage, “Do you have an opinion? A mind of your own?”
I’m sorry, but I watched the live eviction vote on Thursday and thought to myself, “There’s 30 years of gay public relations and acceptance efforts down the drain…”
Bunky, it’s a game! Honest! Hyperbole like “…every time we vote someone out it’s like we’re killing a friend!” makes you look like a kook. Which, as you are probably the current most-watched gay TV star, makes US all look like kooks, too. “…all we have is each other!” What?! Was there a nuclear holocaust that I missed? You’re in the middle of a fucking GAME…in three weeks you’re all going to go back to your pre-BB lives and never talk to each other again! All of those “friends” you’re talking about? Nope…don’t add gullible to your list of traits, hon. Kent, your buddy, your ally, your confidante, the man who you were the only real friend of at the end (although you still voted to toss him out…) still thinks you’re a perverted freak who should keep all your life to yourself. Hardy and Nicole and Will would all stab you with a dull butter knife if it meant they’d be the last three standing. Monica…well, Monica doesn’t like much of anyone in there anymore.
I wanna know why we didn’t get to vote on the person who would “represent” us on national television for three months…
Well, I obviously haven’t looked for ratings, but what else do we have? Will & Grace…popular but not that popular. Queer as Folk…premium cable in most markets, therefore nowhere near as widely watched as broadcast. Never seen Six Feet Under. And these are mostly just characters, not the actual stars themselves.
Of course, I don’t watch a lot of TV, so I’m probably missing a few. But BB2 is big…
Well, with Richard Hatch (from Survivor), we had the “evil gay guy.” So maybe in all fairness, CBS has decided to offer the nation the “overly sensitive, can’t form a thought of his own, cries if anyone so much as looks at him cross-eyed gay guy.”
This is a hijack, but I just have to mention it: A couple weeks into the show, they had a scene with Hardy and Bunky working out together. There’s a voice-over of Bunky explaining that he’s bad about trying to stay in shape, but when he “sees someone like Hardy” it “inspires” him to work out more. My husband looked over and said, “Yeah, I bet Hardy inspires him in a lot of ways. ;)”
Umm… I think you missed something obvious here. They’re ALL kooks. CBS decided that everyone got along too well in last year’s BB, so they decided that putting only kooks on the show would spice things up. And for comic relief, they put a sane older guy (kent) on the show to see if he would go insane, just like Chicken George did last year.
I wholeheartedly agree with you jayjay. At first, I was just annoyed by Bunky, the crying and whining. When Kent said that Bunky hadn’t caused him to rethink his position on homosexuality, and that he still thought it was a perverted, freakish practice…Bunky sat there and said nothing. Oh yeah, Kent’s a great “friend”, screw the sympathy vote.
I was also pretty upset about the effect Bunky might have on other people’s viewpoints of homosexuals. I guess if I think about it, I know he hasn’t changed my mind, and I doubt he’d change people of Kent’s thinking, whether he (Bunky) reflected a negative stereotype or not.
Oh, I am in complete denial about Hardy’s evil ways. He is just too incredibly yummy to be bad. I am convinced that he’s only pretending to be evil so that he can plot Will’s downfall. Hardy is so incredibly handsome and smart and sweet. And it’s hard for me to dislike someone who loves their grandma that much. Sigh…Hardy…
(Oh, sorry about hijacking your thread again. Hardy just does that to me :))
God, I’ve been missing out. I feel so OUT of it!!! ::screams and hurls self out of window onto the Thames:: How was that, was that good enough to make the show?
I guess if Hardy is a hottie, I’ll take a looksee. CBS, eh. Nice to see they’re keeping up their reputation to good, quality viewing.
Um…I’m not sure we’re entirely on the same page, Zoggie…is that the Thames as in London, UK?
'Cause we’re talking about American Big Brother. Do you get it over there?
I know the only way we’d get yours would be if the tape archives of the British version of Antiques Roadshow suddenly burst into flames and were destroyed. Then BBCAmerica would have to actually air something else…
(if a little belatedly), I sort of liked Bunky. UNTIL the you-tell-me-how-to-vote-and-I’ll-do-it-just-as-long-as-you’re-not-mean-to-me-or-kick-me-out episode. He’s now lost pretty much all credibility, as far as I’m concerned.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who worries about the Bunkster. Back when I slammed him in this thread, I worried I was being too harsh, but not any more. My wife, who is way too into this show and gets stressed over how the people on it are feeling, couldn’t stop laughing during Bunky’s live vote. It’s just getting way too predictable.
I’m sure somewhere there is a BB2 drinking game where you take a drink when Bunky cries…
I haven’t been watching this REGULARLY (she says, remembering how she blew her cover as a Real World viewer). But I did manage to catch “Bunky, The Copiously-Weeping Homosexual,” last week. Yikes! I picture his boyfriend cringing in shame and trying to explain to his friends, "Bunky isn’t always like that, really . . . "
I agree that they went for heinous freaks this year: argumentative, devious, stupid, bigoted . . . SOUNDS like great teevee, but this year just hasn’t caught my interest at all. I still think that instead of banishing each other from the house, they should hold a Human Sacrifice each week. With Julie Chen as High Priestess.
