Hopefully, Automn(!) will be the first one voted off. UGGH! Not particularly sympathetic (little tiff following the ‘car contest episode’) and obviously forgot to leave her hormones at the door. Talk about subtle…
My next guess would be the winner of said car. The guy doesn’t exactly blend in (at least so far), not to mention his ‘reservations’ concerning homosexuals and the very elegant way he tried, without much success, to forge alliances right off the bat.
Not sure I’ll be a regular viewer…
The show (and this topic) is gonna be a real winner.
Well I was going to post something until I relaised it was about the US Big Brother. Now if it was the english Big Brother we could talk.
Has it started yet?
The US or the English one?
The US one.
Good lord, I watched “Real World” AND “Big Brother” this week. Someone shoot me.
The “BB” people are heinous, one and all. They also have three 20-something white guys with dark hair who look IDENTICAL, just to make things more confusing. Just like on “RW,” there’s a horny, teary-eyed girl humping some poor schmoe’s leg. Oh, and I’m no fan of the gay guy, either—he’s going on a national TV show to live in close proximity with others, and he WON’T COME OUT OF THE CLOSET? Whiney little wanker, he won’t get MY sympathy.
And then there’s Objectionable Middle-Aged Guy, who in the first episode has already 1) taken a car from a single mom, 2) refused to play Truth or Dare with the Gang, but sat off and glared haughtily at them and 3) voiced horrendous homophobic opinions.
I hope Perky Julie Chen pushes the button that collapses the house on the lot of 'em.
You truly have a way with words. Definitely couldn’t have summed it up better myself (if in doubt, see supra:D). I unfortunately :rolleyes: don’t get RW where I live. Looks like I’m missing something.
The only good reason to watch a few more episodes seems to be Perky Julie Chen (she doesn’t stick to the script AND she’s a LOOKER!!:D)
Eve: I’m surprised and - frankly - a bit shocked that someone of your stature would lower herself to such menial occupations.
Yes, in the rather unlikely eventuality that I DO come across you, I will shoot you.
“I’m surprised and - frankly - a bit shocked that someone of your stature would lower herself to such menial occupations.”
—Hey, I have to do SOMEthing to avoid actually working on my book!
" . . . in the rather unlikely eventuality that I DO come across you, I will shoot you."
—Hmmm. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard THAT . . .
Well, I agree he is a first rate jerk, but I bet he won’t be the first to go. As far as taking the car from a single mom, well I have to agree with him that if she needed/wanted it that bad she could have stuck it out. I wouldn’t have left that car for anything. She just got upset that her sob story didn’t work on him and he wouldn’t just give in to her. I would have sat there singing “Jimmy Crack Corn and I don’t care…” (if you’ve ever heard me sing you would know his ears would’ve started bleeding) He would have given up.
I think little Automn suddenly changed her mind when the self-appointed leader of the group declared (with the seeming agreement of the others) that the last one in the car would be the first one booted out of the house. The little pack of rats then suddenly left the GM Rendez-Vous en masse, except for the two last hold-outs, i.e. daughter of Flower Power people (probably conceived during Woodstock) and the aptly nicknamed Objectionable Middle-Aged Guy.
The shear drama of it all.
My favorite part of the episode was when Objectionable Middle-Aged Guy© starts to confide in If-He-Has-A-Ring-He-Can’t-Possibly-Be-Gay Guy© about playing a round of “Who’s gay?”, and talking about how he and Justin (Eddie with two legs)© are going to hook-up (i.e. not nominate each other, not hook-up in the sense that everyone else would assume). IHHARHCPBGG almost passes out from the tension.
I don’t think Bunky (god I wish I was making THAT up) is going to be able to stay closeted too long. All it will take is for someone to ask him what his wife’s name is, and I don’t think the answer “Greg” is gonig to sit well with Kent. Actually, this probably already happened, they’ve been in there since Sunday.
And I looove the whole bed thing. Nothing’s gonna cause fights more than who gets the waterbed and who gets the cot.
Can’t wait to see who Vanilla Mike nominates on Saturday (Mike Mike baby, word to your mother).
I must confess, I had to change the channel when Vanilla Mike started rapping. Even I can take only so much. And I am extremely depressed over the fact that I know what you mean when you call Justin “Eddie with Two Legs.”
Jesus. Now I am going to have to WATCH the whole boring, sordid thing, just so I can laugh about it with you guys . . . I’ll be out of town next week, so be sure to tell me what heart-stopping adventures I’ve missed . . . I will just KICK myself if I miss seeing Objectionable Middle-Aged Guy find out that If-He-Has-A-Ring-He-Can’t-Possibly-Be-Gay’s wife is named Greg . . . Or when Horny, Teary-Eyed Girl finally gets booted out of One of the Three Identical Guys’ bed.
Geez, I really needed the laugh, guys. And you provided in spades. pcubed, kudos for the humour: had I had been drinking a liquid of any kind when I read your post, I’d probably be sponging up the keyboard right now. That was simply precious. The copyright thing was the icing on the cake.
Eve, witty as usual. I’d otherwise try to convince you to postpone your trip if it were a mere question of days, but I realize we’re now in this for the long run. With play-by-play from pcubed and other budding psychoanalyst Dopers, it’s now a dead ringer and I’ll have to seriously consider my initial resolve to be a mere casual viewer.
For you hardcore masochists, here’s an “official” link, so you can put pasty faces to the snarky descriptions:
I heard that this year it costs $10 to watch them on the internet. I personally found that plenty boring last year, so there is no danger I’ll be coming up with $10.
And what is this “peanut butter and jelly” vs. “food”? I have a son about the age of several of the guys and my son would probably sabatoge things so he didn’t have to eat “food”. Then there’s going to be all that bitching about eating PB&J and the suspense of who is hiding food in their sleeping bags.
We don’t get to vote, right? I guess that is so something like what happened with George can’t happen this year.
Oh, thank goodness someone else started this thread! I didn’t want to start a thread and then find out that I’m the only dork who watches this show. Then again, Eve is hardly a dork, so I feel better knowing that she watches too.
Anyway, I hope that Kent (Objectionable Middle-Aged Guy) gets kicked out soon. Well, not before he finds out about Bunky (or was it Binky?). But I can’t stand people that are so hateful.
Oh, and the single mom? I like to call her WhineyGirl. Geez, she just never stops bitching does she? Did you see when someone named her as the “stinkiest”? Heehee!
The really sad part is that I am looking forward to seeing who’s nominated tomorrow night.
Oh, and would eating nothing but PB really be such a big deal? I love the stuff! Then again, I’m also a big geek who watches Big Brother…
This show is so bad on so many levels it could turn out to be great.
In our last episode, the tribe has pretty much arrived at a consensus concerning Kent(Objectionable Middle-Aged Guy)'s homophobic - one of the longest words heard so far on that show - opinions. Needless to say, it didn’t go down well:D.
Is it just me, or are they trying to put some kind of emphasis on S-E-X in the show (camera angles, “dialogue”, all-out-hormone-releases, etc.)? Harbinger of even racier situations to come? Hmmmm. Sure hope not. But I may be in a minority in TV viewer land on that one.
Favorite moment: When the guys borrow the girls bathing suits. Which, surprisingly enough, make some little bulges look bigger. Strong contender: Bathroom episodes.
Favorite quote:
Automn: I think Justin (Eddie with two legs) is a bit over sexed.
As far as the office pool’s concerned, I guess it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion. Unless control-and-cleanliness-freak Nicole seriously amends, she’s a gonner by this time next week. Pitted against perky, motherly, Sheryl, she doesn’t have a melting snowball’s chance in L.A.
(Aside: It would seem that the initial result (Nicole-Sheryl) was already known to those who spontaneously forked the $10 to follow the drama on Internet and that, in future, parts will be edited so that the punchline isn’t given away before airtime. Damn! Just when I was about to take out my checkbook…)
Okay, here’s my take…
Nominations - Not fifteen minutes before Mike let the ball drop, I mentioned to my wife that if he really wanted to target Nicole (afraid of water -> hydrophobia -> another name for rabies -> disease linked to dogs -> Nicole’s a bitch, case closed), he would nominate her and someone unsinkable like Hardy (Hi, these are my abs). Hardy would’ve been a smart choice 'cause all the girls seemingly want to boff him, and the guys consider him an airhead, so he was no real threat. He could have just coasted through the next week (although he did look like he was about to wet himself from fear during the key sequence) and it would be bye-bye Lassie. Nominating Sheryl could backfire. If Nicole does some backstabbing and politicking (i.e. sleeping around), and if Sheryl loses it ala Jordan from BB1, things could get interesting.
Bunky - I hate to trash the Bunkster, and I realize this is going to come off in entirely the wrong way, but he is the biggest drama queen in the world.
Bunkmeister, if you’re going to stay in the closet, pick one without glass walls. I’d be interested in hearing a gay doper’s take on this, but to my mind he is doing a huge diservice to the gay community. On one hand he seems to want to stay hidden, but on the other he might as well be wearing a sequined tanktop with a red and white checked hankie in his back left pocket (I have no idea what that means, it’s been awhile since I’ve checked the hankie code). He’s a gay man from North Carolina fer chrissakes. Unless he’s totally closeted back home, Kent is probably not the biggest bigot he’s had to deal with.
I will admit that maybe he is a good example of the angst and fear that can arise from being gay, and that what we’re seeing is real pain, and that this should be a wake up call for gay rights. But… You’re in a f-ing fishbowl on national f-ing TV. If you’re having such strong doubts and fears, and don’t want to come out, don’t apply for the f-ing show. You must’ve watched BB1, there was no mercy.
[side-rant]It’s like Deb on Survivor II. If you’re sleeping with your stepson, and don’t want people to make a big deal of it, don’t go on the highest rated TV show out there. We’re TV viewers, we will rip you apart whether it is polite or not.[/side-rant]
Oh, and BTW, Bunk-thing, take off that fleece coat when you go in the po… What’s that? It was what? Ewww.
Kent - Asshole, 'nuff said.
Will - seems likable, intelligent. Could be a dark horse in the finals.
Snoop MikeyMike - That rap stuff is such an act. As decision time got closer, he actually seemed to mellow out. Away from the fellow inmates, I kinda like him.
Rules - CBS obviously learned a lesson from BB1. I love the head of household thingy. In BB1 it was always the disembodied voice telling you to do stupid things. Here, it’s the HH’s job to crack the whip.
You rule!
Eh. You beat me to the punch on that one. Sounds obvious but perhaps Bunky is a bit naive at heart. Don’t know about the biggest drama queen in the world, but surely up there… I like him, though.
As far as the hankie thing is concerned, perhaps he could use the one on Mike’s head, the rapper/head-of-the- household (is it just me, or does that make him look a bit dorky/dorkier?)
Maybe you and I are putting much too much time into this.