# US Big Brother 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122 "2002-07-09T23:15:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/1 "2002-07-09T23:15:33Z")
Starting July 10th, we get 12 new houseguests: Name: Chiara Berti Age: 25 Name: Amy Crews Age:23 Name: Lisa Donahue Age: 26 Name: Josh Feinberg Age: 28 Name: Jason Guy Age: 24 Name: Gerry Lancaster Age: 51 Name: Roddy Mancuso Age: 30 Name: Lori Olson Age: 36 Name: Eric Ouellete Age: 26 Name: Danielle Reyes Age: 30 Name: Marcellas Reynolds Age: 34 Name: Tonya Paoni Age: 35 We can post show ideas & commentary here (At least everyone knows its starting July 10th) Not to be confused with the BB3 in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/2 "2002-07-09T23:22:11Z")
I can’t wait to tear the Habitrail Hamsters® new ones… I can’t wait to watch them slowly melt down (remember Nicole and her screaming for more Xanax?). I can’t wait to download bitch fight MP3s from the live feeds. I can’t wait to lambaste Julie Chen. Let the insanity begin! 😃 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![riserius1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@riserius1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riserius1)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/3 "2002-07-10T21:10:59Z")
They seem to be going for a younger crowd this time around;only one over-40 type. I think ratings are going to be good this time around. Chris W ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/4 "2002-07-10T21:25:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by riserius1 \* > \*\*I think ratings are going to be good this time around. > \*\* Oh, _I don’t know…_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/5 "2002-07-10T21:38:53Z")
Ooh, thanks for the heads up! Uh…not that I’m gonna be watching or anything… No, not me… ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/6 "2002-07-11T00:59:32Z")
OK, it’s awwwwwwwwn! Let the media whoring begin! 😃 I wonder what outfit Julie “Intense Career Suicide” Chen will be wearing tonight… and what pose she’ll take. ---
**Author:** ![abidude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@abidude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abidude)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/7 "2002-07-11T01:18:58Z")
If you think that this place is addictive, go to one of those places that chronicles the shenanigans during the live feeds. You will never eat or sleep again. Watching a grown man shit his pants on a trampoline and a woman use the fact that her dead mother does not have a headstone on her grave as leverage to stay in the house are both reasons that the live feed updates will be the end of your existence. Anyways, it’s awwwwn right now. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/8 "2002-07-11T11:49:34Z")
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this episode SUCKED. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/9 "2002-07-11T12:31:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this episode SUCKED. \*\* Don’t they all? ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/10 "2002-07-11T13:19:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\* > > Don’t they all? \*\* Oh, yeah. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/11 "2002-07-11T13:59:38Z")
I actually watched last season’s _Big Brother_, solely so I would appreciate the snarky commentary on [TV Without Pity](http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/). But last night . . . I can not see any way I would watch this season, unless I were paid huge amounts of money to do so, or they guarantee televised orgies of the cuter hamsters (not the hideous ones!). ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/12 "2002-07-11T14:54:59Z")
No hampsters, but how about a lizard? I laugh thinking about these people that look like tokens: e.g. The big boob job, the old guy, the various races, the bitchy one, the leader one, Etc. ---
**Author:** ![trixiebix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@trixiebix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trixiebix)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/13 "2002-07-11T15:00:50Z")
MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!!! This reality show crap MUST stop… please!!! For the sake of my own sanity! ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/14 "2002-07-11T15:10:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\*OK, it’s awwwwwwwwn! > > Let the media whoring begin! 😃 > > I wonder what outfit Julie “Intense Career Suicide” Chen will be wearing tonight… and what pose she’ll take. \*\* Me thinks perhaps Ms. Chen hired a stylist. She looked cute in those jeans and the little red top. Oh please no more plastic pants like last season. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/15 "2002-07-11T15:24:20Z")
Come to think of it, how were they able to have previews of upcoming stuff. I thought this shit was supposed to be **LIVE.** ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/16 "2002-07-11T15:37:27Z")
The internet feeds are live and the eviction shows are live. The other shows use taped footage. The hamsters entered the habitrail on 7/6 so CBS had footage taped to show the “Previews” of up-coming shows. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/17 "2002-07-11T15:52:14Z")
[Disclaimer: I categorically deny that I am watching this stupid, stupid show. Further, that I am NOT a reality-TV voyeuristic whore, desperately in need of a trash fix to carry me through to November when the next Survivor starts. Any opinions expressed in this post have absolutely no validity, given that I am not, as I stated before, watching the show, and probably came to me in a dream.] First impressions: I like Chiara, Danielle, and Gerry. I hate Amy, and am developing a healthy dislike for Josh. Pretty neutral on the rest so far. Seems kind of a gutsy move, though efficient, to have the token black guy and the token gay guy be the same guy. (He _is_ gay, right?) ---
**Author:** ![stankow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@stankow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stankow)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/18 "2002-07-11T16:08:02Z")
Yeah, the first hour was boring. But it always is – you have to let the hamsters feel out their cage a little before you can start the experiment. Me, I think they need to make two basic changes to really make the show a must-watch: 1 – Big Brother needs to be a personage. Not Julie Chen, either, but a big disembodied head with an electronically filtered voice. That way, the hamsters aren’t bonding with their captor, they’re afraid of him/her/it. 2 – Big Brother needs to be one sadistic motherfucker. I’m talking unremitting psychological torture: [ul][li]At least half of the hamsters must be smokers, and their cigarette ration needs to be abruptly cut off about halfway through the show.[/li][li]Food allowances cut for no reason.[/li][li]Drag each of the hamsters into the confession room one at a time for intense Andy-Sipowicz-style questioning about their criminal records. Repeat over the course of several days, occasionally not questioning certain hamsters. Drop the questioning after nominations are made, then start them up again after the eviction.[/li][li]Interminable, horrible, embarrassing games where the prize is a single argyle sock. At the end, it turns out that each argyle sock is worth $10,000, but this is told only to one hamster, and only after three or four have been “won.” He or she is also told that it doesn’t matter who _won_ the socks, only whether you have them when you leave the house. For extra fun, tell both the most honest Boy Scout type and the most evil bastard, but make the details different (amount of money, number of socks that will be put into play, maximum number per person).[/li][li]Repeat a day, “Groundhog Day” style. During the play of a game, the hamsters make significant changes to the layout of the house and garden. The next day, everything is back the way it was, and the game is played again exactly the same.[/li][li]For two days, Big Brother falls silent. No responses at all, no matter what the hamsters do, even during what should have been a nomination period. Big Brother returns with no explanation of what happened, acting as though the missing days never happened.[/li][li]Head of Household suddenly becomes a horrific ordeal, with sleep deprivation, mandatory cold showers every hour and confinement in the HOH bedroom. But just for two HOHs, and then it goes back to normal.[/li][li]Capricious rule changes to games already in progress.[/li][li]Give the appearance of favoring one member of an alliance to the detriment of his allies.[/li][li]Unexplained power outages, coupled with explosions and sirens in the distance, for about two days, with no explanation from Big Brother.[/li][li]Instead of the nice, polite good-bye walk, four masked bodybuilder types rush in, grab the evictee and drag him out, screaming the entire time.[/li][li]Horrible smells emanating from the walls.[/li][li]Tell the hamsters that one of them is a plant, a la “The Mole.” Then don’t have a plant.[/li][li]Force a re-vote on an eviction. Repeat seven or eight times, then accept the eviction as it was on the first vote.[/li][li]Stuff disappears and reappears _constantly_. The people who get lousy beds at the beginning magically have their stuff reappear at the good beds, and vice versa.[/li][li]Control the clocks so the morning goes incredibly fast, but the afternoon drags on forever.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/19 "2002-07-11T16:54:13Z")
You must check out the **Televsion w/o Pity** message board, those people are hilarious—they’ve already nicknamed the cute Bible-thumper guy “Sexy Flanders.” ---
**Author:** ![abidude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@abidude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abidude)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122/20 "2002-07-11T17:37:16Z")
Hey, any reality show featuring a contestant who can put her legs behind her head can’t be that bad (Amy). God bless the live feeds. They’ll be the reason I get fired. The live feeds for BB3 have also already provided the MILF talking about how she can give handjobs without lotion (to which all of the guys said that was impossible) and right now they are making omelettes. Ah, the magic created when mediawhoring and technology collide. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-big-brother-3/118122.md?page=2)