US Big Brother 3

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Not to mix high art with reality TV, but I was just writing a paper on Ovid about that very subject. The thesis of which was that rational thought cannot predict behavior because people are innately driven by irrational emotional passions and desires. But that was just pertaining to everyday life; you’d think that in a setting like this, where they know its all a big orchestrated game with a massive payday they could put aside their emotions and try and win this thing.

The show should wave a check for $500k in front of their faces to remind them just what the hell they’re cooped up in that house for.

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Thank you for noticing and appreciating the difference. :cool:
-Girl Next Door

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Heh! :slight_smile:

Comments on the show tonight:

Hmmm…this could be very interesting after all. The problem with the live feeds is that you don’t get Diary Room dirt or Veto/Nomination ceremonies or competitions. The recappers made it sound like the houseguests were worried about what Josh would do because of his outburst during the Veto ceremony. Didn’t look so much like an outburst to me as a basic telling of the truth about Chiara. I was happy that at the very least Dani and Lisa agreed. Of course Chiara considered it an outburst because anything that any other houseguest does that doesn’t contribute to either her or Roddy winning the $500K is obviously a disloyalty and a moral failure on ths scale of the Holocaust.

On another note, I’m half-convinced that Josh is gay and Mewwit (if she’s real and the one we saw a few weeks ago wasn’t an actress hired to play her) is a beard. He’s got Straight-Crush Syndrome over Roddy. More so than Marcellas ever dreamed of having. I honestly think that his biggest disappointment with being evicted won’t so much be losing the chance for the money as it will be not being in the house with Roddy anymore.

I do feel bad for Gerry. Truthfully, he’s no worse than the rest of the stupid houseguests in hygiene. According to the live feed recappers, he showers every day. He just gets up something like three hours before everyone else so they never see him shower. And his personal habits (other than the coughing) are no worse than anyone else’s. They all sit on that food preparation island all the time, and nobody ever sees anyone take an antiseptic wipe to that thing except when they’re doing a general clean-up. Tonya was in the hot tub all the time with her nasty melting boob job and Lisa used to go in there when she had the butt-funk a couple weeks ago. When the Couples were intact, Lisa and Chiara spent hours picking the guys’ zits and ingrown hairs and then they’d make dinner without washing their hands! The only one in that house that hasn’t got hypocrite points for making fun of Gerry is Marcellas, and that’s only because he’s psycho about germs. The hygiene thing is only a convenient excuse to make fun of the old guy. Idiots.

And you have to love the generally shallow mindset of the house. Admittedly, Gerry and Roddy’s intelligence seems to be mostly of the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” font o’ trivia variety. But the others all act like any distraction from the constant round of entertainment and celebrity talk is a waste of time and oh-so-boring. :rolleyes: Like a detailed analysis of which modern haute coutier designers have created or not created supermodels is incredibly interesting. shoots a glare at Marcellas

I cannot wait for tomorrow. Does anyone know if they’re planning on making the votes themselves live when they get the numbers down to a certain point or not?

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“couture”, dammit. I hate doing this on WebTV…

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Please don’t tell anyone I watch this show. I’ve only seen it about five times, I swear.

Tomorrow’s episode is going to been shown at a “special time” in NYC. 2:07 a.m. Isn’t that special. Like everyone else, I would love to see Roddy’s face if he gets voted out.

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Im in California when they did the vote & then that new HOH contest last week, it was light outside for them (during the contest), but not here. I thought i was in California? If so, then their is something fishy going on, because if its live there, it should be light for my city too. What’s up with this?

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Handy, the Pacific time zone gets a “recorded live” version of the live show. They start the live show at 5PM Pacific time so that it airs at 8PM Eastern/7PM Central. If they showed it live on the West Coast, most people wouldn’t even be home to watch it yet.

chula, thanks for reminding me to remind everyone to check their local listings for the Friday/Saturday show. On my cable system it’s airing at 9PM Friday. It may be different in other areas. Darn pre-season football…

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Okay, I know a lot of people aren’t going to see tonight’s show until after 2AM EDT, so I’m leaving spoiler space. If you don’t wanna know, don’t go below.
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I was disappointed that they chickened out and voted out Josh instead of going for the oh-so-exposed Roddy, but things really, really couldn’t have possibly turned out better for them despite this.

The vote was unanimous, of course. I knew that when they didn’t bother to end the voting segments with the actual decisions. It was Josh, of course, because cold feet are apparently epidemic in that environment. No big deal, considering what happened in the second half.

I loved the “competition” for the returnees to get back in! “How much of the $500,000 are you willing to give up for the chance to go back into the house?” Brilliant! Lori’s a wimp…$50,000. Give me a break. Tonya, Eric, and my Amy all bid half of the prize, $250,000. So the tie breaker was “How many days of the remaining 42 are you willing to eat peanut butter & jelly?” Ick. Tonya bid half (21) and Eric and Amy bid the whole kit & kaboodle…they were willing to endure PB&J for the entire 42 days to get back into the house.

The second stage was a vote by the people inside the house, as to which one they wanted to return. Secret vote, different rooms, red paddle/black paddle. Eric got 2 votes…guess who? Amy got all the rest of them. Even LISA! Yee-haw! We’re back in business!

So Miss Suzanne Sugarbaker is BACK in the house! Excuse me while I jump up and down…there, that’s better. It was an incredible moment. When she rang the doorbell and stepped in the door, Marc was crying. I mean actually bawling, tears flying. Suzanne and Anthony all but had sex on the floor of the foyer they were so happy to see each other again. Chiara and Roddy were just stunned…what do you mean, our pal Eric didn’t win?! Though they both put on a good game face and welcomed Amy back. Gerry was all but crying himself, he was so happy the returnee wasn’t Eric. He knew that was his instant ticket back home.

So…the HoH. This is interesting, actually. The challenge is to remain in the giant bathtub for as long as you can while various nasty, smelly, slimy things are dumped in. They all competed, except for Chiara, the outgoing HoH. The first bucket dumped in contained fresh squid. Ewwww…

Can I just take a moment aside here and say that either Roddy is incredibly stupid, has a phobia about squid, or thinks that his control over Amy is a sure thing? Chiara dumped the squid into the tub and Roddy almost went light-speed in getting out. Wasn’t this the guy who was so incredibly focused on needing to get HoH this week to make sure he and Chiara weren’t on the block? Duh, Rod! Guess who’s going up now, with the crowd that’s still in the running for HoH? Every single one of these people is well aware that you gotta go…be seeing you in the big comfy chairs again on Thursday, Richard Roderick Mancuso.

This being an endurance competition on live TV, they ended the show well before the competition ended. I haven’t been in to check on the live feed recaps to see if we have a winner yet, but will do so soon.

Some observations/questions:

Exactly whose luxury item was the whoopee cushion? Because that’s really not anywhere near an item I’d waste the allowed space in my bag for.

Mewwit met Josh in the studio, so it’s pretty much confirmed that the remaining evictees will not be sequestered and will not be returning.

Julie Chen didn’t announce the numbers from the returnee vote, so Roddy and Chiara are unaware of just how few votes Eric got. And are totally clueless that Lisa voted for Amy. I almost feel sorry for them, considering what’s going to happen, almost no matter who actually gets HoH now. Nah…it’s impossible to feel sorry for these two egotistical, self-centered, arrogant idiots.

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I will not read the spoiler… I will not read the spoiler… I will not read the spoiler… I will not read the spoiler…

This is so hard. I still have a half an hour to go. Do you know they delayed it here not only for pre-season football but also for golf?

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The Big Brother House is now officially the House of Sugarbaker! Miss Amy got HoH!

Bye-bye, Chi-whore-a! Seeya, Roddy!

Oh my, oh my…I forgot how much fun our lovely little southern lush is!

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Josh was the one who said something intelligent tonight: “Anyone who votes me out over Roddy has no idea how to play the game.” Danielle is the only one who has a clue.

Roddy is such a dick, blowing up at Josh for even thinking about trying to stay in. As if Roddy has some right to stay there.

The competition to get back in was really clever. Lisa voting against Eric was definitely the most surprising development I’ve seen in the game.

I blame televisionwithoutpity for my sudden interest in this game. That woman is funny.

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Oh, I most definitely have a huge measure of MissAlliLove! Her episode recaps this season always have me on the floor.

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I can NOT believe I didn’t watch the last two episodes!!!

Everything went down just the way I wanted it to!

YAY!!!

Is it true the Saturday show is on tonight?

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Sort of. There’s a one hour “special” show on tonight (HoH was an endurance contest), but Saturday’s show will be tacked onto Wednesday’s, so Wednesday will be two hours, beginning at 9 eastern.

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Oh, man, was that an awesome episode. I was actually bouncing up and down when Amy came back in (even though I thought I’d prefer Lori, after seeing her act so weird in the studio, I’m glad she didn’t make it.) Great things:

-Gerry’s reaction when Amy came back in–“He’s happier than a pig in shit!” said my boyfriend. Gerry kept doing this incredibly weird high pitched giggle. It was great.

-Similarly, Chiara’s reaction–the scream which could have been taken as happiness, but was actually shock and horror.

-Josh telling Merritt he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. Play to the cameras much, Josh? That seriously seemed disingenous.

-Julie Chen making me actively embarassed for her when she was working the Queens angle on Josh and said “Now don’t get all homeskillet on me!” Oh my god, Julie. That was truly awful.

-Marcellas not only holding up the red paddle, but DROPPING the black paddle on the floor. Hee!

-Also, Lisa’s incredibly strategic move of not voting for Eric. I hope she didn’t think her vote was the swing vote–my guess is that she might have, judging from how she was wiping away tears kinda surreptitiously after Amy came back in.

It was kind of a depressing thought to think that soon, all of the people we like are going to start cannibalizing themselves. I realized how much I liked everyone in the tub (after Roddy got out, that is) and thought, “Damn, soon they’re gonna turn on each other though.” It probably won’t be pretty, but then again, it never is.

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Well, Roddy spent the better part of the latter part of last night trying to blow as much smoke as possible up Amy’s butt. I don’t know if he’s managed to get to her like he did right before she left. I hope not.

The needy bitch Chiara has apparently decided that Amy is getting entirely too much attention and has mysteriously (and conveniently) come down with a bad case of dermal cysts from ingrown pubic hair. She spent quite a few hours last night moping about and declaring loudly how ill she felt and how much it hurt and POOR, POOR Kiki, ad nauseam. Funny how you didn’t have a problem until the woman that you were instrumental in ousting from the house returned and became the center of attention because she’s been in the real world for two weeks. Needy little bitch.

I’m going to be sooo happy when my Amy puts up Roddy and Chiara. To quote a former player of the game: “I’m the happiest boy in all the land!”

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Does anyone know if they’re going to do nominations tonight too?
Thanks for all the great updates JayJay. I would be lost without you.

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Aw, shucks! :slight_smile:

I have no idea if they’re nominating tonight. You’d think they’d have to, but there is the two-hour show on Wednesday, which could easily combine both nominations and veto.

Although I have to admit that if Roddy weren’t quite so much of a threat, I’d like him to stick around for another few weeks, if only for the entertainment value. I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but Roddy is very aware of the cameras, and very aware of how what he does is recorded. He used to be of the opinion that they weren’t filming all the time, that they gave them some privacy and such. Jason disabused him of that notion a few weeks ago. Ever since, he’s been edging closer and closer to a Nicole-style meltdown as he realizes that he has no privacy and that everything he says and does is on tape, and has probably gone out to the internet.

He’s bottling an awful lot of stuff up, and struggling to find ways to be devious and nasty without having it show up on camera, and I can just see it wearing on him. The "Wat

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I have no clue what the last two words of my previous post are doing there, so please disregard them…

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“When she rang the doorbell and stepped in the door, Marc was crying. I mean actually bawling, tears flying.”

Odd, when you consider that they voted for her 7-0 which means that Marc voted her out too…