Keep us posted, The Wrong Girl.
According to the livefeed updates - she sang three songs and chatted for a few minutes and has already left. They all forgot to get her autograph though - which they appear to be bummed about now.
First, welcome GalacticCowGirl! The SouthParkHamsters are too funny. The ones I can read anyway. 
(I’m stuck with the screen resolution of a 30-year-old 25-inch television set at the moment).
Okay, Sheryl Crow(e?). The houseguests had a luxury competition. They had to find 18 CD cases that were hidden around the house and put them together in five minutes to figure out what the luxury was. Like CBS was going to send Sheryl Crow(e) home if they didn’t make it. Right.
When they did get all the covers together and figured out the message, the first notes of “All I Wanna Do” began and the hamsters all ran out into the backyard.
She sang “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up the Sun” (original lyrics, damn…), and “Steve McQueen,” which makes me think of a Sheryl Crow(e) special appearance in a Gorillaz video, but that’s neither here nor there.
The hamsters can’t dance. This is a public service announcement by the National Board to Prevent Accidental Laughter Injury. They can drink just fine, but they can’t dance.
Sheryl knew Gerry’s name. Gerry was all choked up by that. After her three songs, she left, saying she had her own reality show to get back to, the Sheryl Crow(e) tour. Ha.
The houseguests appeared to be in a mixture of awe and snark. Marcellas (of course…more on that later) made fun of her clothes. Most of them were just wowing. Don’t know whether it was sincere or just for the cameras.
They had a huge whole-house Diary Room after the concert. That should be interesting.
Later that night (or earlier this morning, take your pick), Amy and Marcellas had a huge argument. Marcellas told Amy that it was likely that Roddy was going on Thursday instead of Chiara, and that he was going to vote to evict him, too. Amy started to cry and say how everyone lied to her and she feels like she was just a tool for the rest of them and her own feelings didn’t even get considered (she didn’t want to put up Roddy in the first place). She said everyone lies to her (more about that later, too) and that she can’t trust anyone anymore and it’s just no fun! Wow, that wonderful excitement about being back in the house faded quick, didn’t it? She storms out for an emergency Diary Room and stalks past Chiara and Roddy in the living room (at 4 AM PDT…don’t these people ever sleep?) On the way back, they try to get her to talk to them and find out why she had to Diary Room so early in the morning and she blows them off and returns to the HoH room. Marc agrees to vote out Chiara for her after all, and the whole voting scheme this week is so convoluted that I have absolutely NO idea who’s voting for whom. None. They’ve flipflopped four times since Saturday morning and I hate it.
It looks (from the standpoint of seeing the recaps from the voting time earlier today) like they’ve decided to vote Chiara out, mostly to placate Amy. They’re idiots. That may be short and cruel, but they are. Two times in a row they’ve had the opportunity to get the biggest threat to them in the house out and both times they’ve passed it by so as not to offend the HoH. GodDAMN, why don’t they just change the rules to “The houseguest the HoH actually wants out will be automatically evicted every week”?
That’s how it stands at the moment…total chaos and uncertainty. Sorry.
Now, for personal observations, which this week has clarified for me:
The AmyLove? It’s gone. I still like her a little, but only personally, not in a game context. The girl has no game. None. Zilch. Zero. Nada. Every time someone comes to her with a strategy or an alliance, she goes straight to Roddy and pukes up her guts all over his brain. She plays by emotion (which I think is why she gets along so well with Marc, who does the same thing), to her own detriment and, more unfortunately, to the detriment of anyone who takes her into confidence. She hates that people lie to her, but what can she possibly expect when every word that comes out of anyone’s mouth goes straight into Roddy’s ears? Are people supposed to be aboveboard with her even when they know she’ll spill it to their major opponent right now? Blah.
Marcellas, Marcellas, Marcellas. I’m at the point where I wish he’d go back to Chicago and be forced to wear a sign around his neck that says “I do not represent all gay men.” Just for public relations purposes. Even Bunky’s constant tears last year weren’t as damaging as Marc’s superiority complex, clothes snobbishness, cowardly cruelty (being snarkish behind people’s backs) and hypocrisy (he knows that Gerry saved his gay black ass the first week but he still snarks on him constantly). And he’s seriously on the verge of completely repudiating Danielle and their alliance. He’s in thick with Roddy, despite the lack of an actual deal. He plays as emotionally as Amy and just as stupidly. Go home, Marc.
If there really were a Marc & Amy Show, I’d watch it. It would be funny in a larger context of the real world. But in the house, it’s just a weakness, and an annoyance at this point.
Oh, well…I’ll post my impressions of the 2-hour show later tonight.
Yeah, Marc & Amy belong in a sitcom, not a reality show. Maybe they could call it Queenie and the Dairy Queen.
So, is tonight the eviction episode? If Amy really wanted Chihora outta there, she shoulda put Marcellas up on the block with her.
I know Roddy is a major prick, but it would really please me to see Chiwora evicted, cuz instead of Club Med, she’s got a DUI conviction waiting for her.
Muahahahahahaahahahaha!!!
PS: Are You guys aware tonight is a 2 hour show???
LolaCocoCola - tonight is not an eviction night. Those are only on Thursday nights. The rest of the world doesn’t even know who has been nominated for eviction - much less who won the power of veto. On the episode last Thursday night they said that tonights episode would be two hours - to kind of make up for not having an episode Saturday night I guess.
Thanks, Callie.
I guess if it’s a 2 hour show, and not even an eviction episode, that means they’ll play all freakin’ three of Sheryl Crow’s songs as filler.
:o
[hijack]
There are different lyrics?
No “e” in Crow, by the way.[/hijack].
To keep things on topic…
Roddy and Kiki were put up.
Gerry won the Power of Veto™ in a slippy slidy challenge. He decided not to use it.
Not filler, Lola, but advertising. CBS owns Sheryl’s label, and they’re (very inexpensively) promoting her tour and her new album by putting her on Big Brother. And they did play all three.
Good show tonight, actually. It did, however, gel the fading of my AmyLove as well as my liking of Marcellas. THese two are on the “don’t care” list now of my reactions to their eventual evictions. Can’t anyone, just ONCE on this show, play the game the way it’s meant to be played rather than doing the good people/bad people thing? Roddy’s the only one on his side that’s playing that way, whereas Dani’s got at least two other people on her side who are actually playing this game the way it’s supposed to be played.
Gerry, on the other hand, is handling his own game fairly well. Marcellas’s characterization of him as the “prison bitch” puzzled me? If you’re allowing your every move, every fart, every noseblow, every meal, every wedge-pick, every nose-pick and every scratch to be televised not only over the internet but also on national network television to win $500,000 in the first place, how is it that you think you actually have any dignity left to act like kowtowing to the person with power is a moral failing?
And another thing about Marcellas, a thing that I’ve gone over in another thread a few months ago…he espouses the gay man’s worst stereotype: that someone’s aesthetic qualities determine their worth. So Gerry is an out-of-shape (though not so badly as he was when he entered the house) middle-aged bald man. How does that translate into the kind of disgust and loathing that Marcellas appears to feel for him? Yes, I remember the hand-washing and the coughing and all of the other myriad hygienic failings that Gerry is supposed to have shown in the house. Personally, all I’ve ever seen that would violate any normal standard of personal behavior in a 24-hour living situation is the handwashing and the coughing. And he’s taken care of both, as far as I can see. Everything else they complain about is bullshit, an excuse to continue hating Gerry because he’s actually more different than anyone else in the house. He’s not young, he’s not self-centered, he’s not beautiful. They complain about him releasing gas. Eric released gas on an almost constant basis and made a joke out of it every time…I don’t remember any of them snarking behind Eric’s back about it. They complain that he doesn’t shower, but that’s far from true…he showers every morning. The rest of them are just too lazy-ass to get up in time to see him go in. It’s all bullshit, and Marc is the worst.
He also falls into another stereotype of the gay man (and I"m not even counting the fem mannerisms or the obsessive neatness and cleanliness), that we’ll do anything a straight man asks us if he just flashes his body at us. The scene in the hot tub tonight between Roddy and Marc was disgusting…he was practically salivating and you could tell his higher brain functions were not only turned off, but heading for the reptile brain for a little fun. Blah. Do all of us American gay men a favor, okay, Marc? Go home.
Chiara…well, Chiara disgusts me. Believe it or not, it’s not really because of her slutty ways. I’m all for promiscuity, if care is taken. But she’s not careful (by her own stories…she hates condoms), and the sex is the least of it.
Chiara acts like this entire season of Big Brother was intended just to give her a star showcase while she sat out a couple of months and collected half a mil at the end. Sorry, doll. Doesn’t work that way. Hate her. Still want to see Roddy go first, though.
And speaking of sex, can we say “shocked”? Not that these women actually did what they did (I knew about that two nights ago when they first did it), but that CBS actually showed the parts of it they showed. Although, believe it or not, what they showed was very much the tamer segments of that night.
Anyone else notice the anger in the Chiara Diary Room interviews? She was practically biting heads off in there. I think this was when she was telling off the producers for “setting (her) up” and “conspiring to get rid of (her)” because obviously no one in their right mind would ever consider nominating the Star of the Show, the Queen of the House, without producer approval! Go home, Chiara. Preferably, with Roddy on your arm.
I’m spent…sorry this is so disjointed.
Sigh. Does anyone read my posts? Kidding! Kidding!
I actually offered a new set of lyrics. Should be at the top of Page 6, I believe. 
I read 'em! I thought your lyrics were funny!
Yes, tonight was a great show!
Roddy calling Marc to the hot tub made me wretch. How fucking transparent. But I was more disgusted by, as JayJay would say, Marc’s reptilian brain taking over. Ugh.
I thought Chiara’s head was gonna start spinnin’ and pea soup was gonna spew from her herpes simplex lips in the diary room. You’re right, she’s truly dellusional. I somehow smell a lawsuit attempt by her against CBS in the future ala Stacey from Survivor 1.
Danielle just flat-out scares me as a human being. It’s sad when you realize there are people who would sell their mother’s soul for the all-mighty greenback.
Right now Amy’s dissinterest in playing the game and operating solely on revenge tactics are nauseating in their own right. Get over it! Play the fuckin’ game, already!
I do believe the only two people who are playing this game, and fairly well (in a below the radar kinda way), are Jesus and Jerry.
And you’re right - not to be outwhored by Chiara, CBS pimps one from their own stable, Sheryl Crow.
Someone pass the barf bag, I’m gonna be sick.
:o
I love reading the comments. It seems some of the people who get live feeds might be adding some spoilers for us. Can someone teach them the ‘spoiler box’ trick?
I find the spoiler box trick to be extremely annoying when it has to be used extensively (like when someone is actually recapping live feeds). Perhaps it would be better for a moderator to add “Possible Spoilers” to the thread title and if anyone posts a major, major spoiler they can add space.
The spoiler tag is fine for small spoilers of a line or less. But it’s ridiculous to put an entire post in spoiler boxes.
I get it now. Funny. I saw the Kikiwhore lyrics.
FOTH stands for “Footage of the House,” right?
Front of the House, I thinks. They cut to a shot of the front of the house whenever they don’t want what’s going on inside to go out over the internet.
Okay, jayjay, so who it is gonna be tonight?
Roddy or ChiaWhore? Which one’s taking the long walk of shame?
BiblioCat, like I said before, I have no idea. They’ve changed their votes four times since Saturday and I have absolutely no idea which side they landed on before the voting yesterday. This has been the worst week yet for figuring out the vote counts beforehand.
Lisa had it right last night when she and Dani were talking about voting Roddy out. Dani was going chicken(livers) again because Roddy suspected them of being an alliance and being out to get him. And Lisa said to her that this would be the perfect time to get rid of him, then. Problem solved. If she’s worried about Roddy, why doesn’t she just do the bold thing and bumrush him out the door?
My respect for Dani’s gameplay is waning as she dithers and worries and backs away from her plans every week. The last time her alliance did anything courageous was when they engineered Eric’s eviction and converted Lisa. And that was three weeks ago. They need to wake up. Or Jason and Lisa need to jump ship. Dani’s going to go down if she didn’t take care of Roddy and I don’t want those two to go down with her.
As much as I hate to say it, if Roddy stays after tonight, they ought to abandon Dani to her fate. She’s overplayed the “woe is me” tack and she’s underplayed her supposedly diabolical secret alliance power.
Who do I want to see win this game now? Gerry, Jason, or Lisa. For the reasons stated above, Dani is going to go down. I still can’t stand Roddy. Chiara I want to strangle. Slowly. Wearing latex gloves, of course. Can’t be too careful. Marcellas is dead to me, after his record-time seduction by Roddy and backstab of Dani. And Amy is simply too naive to win this thing, with her whining about people not being honest with her and how it’s not fun anymore so she’s leaving.
Sorry…I have a tendency to rant at this point…
Yippee.
I guess Shoddy really is gonna give Susan Lucci a run for her money. Jesus will definitely put him up on the block next week.
I think so, Lola. Expect to see Roddy in the big comfy chair again.
Okay, notes on the show:
Julie needs to eat something. That IV drip she’s got hidden in her cubicle at CBS studios isn’t working. She has, however, managed to stop looking like she raided a pirate’s lingerie drawer. The top was still peasanty and tight, and still way to flouncy at the hems and sleeves, but the reptilian type pattern was cool. This woman needs to fire her slacks purchaser, however…there has to be a style of pants that actually flatters her instead of making her look like her thighs both hold the same electrical charge and are trying to repel each other.
Ah…not five minutes into the actual show and we get Chiara whining. Yay.
Now those of you who don’t follow the live feed recaps yourselves understand why I was so confused. The little montage of voting discussions was exactly as confusing as it looked. The editing did not make it confusing…that was inherent. All the way to “‘opposite’ confusion”, which I predicted (but didn’t post about) yesterday when Dani did it in the first place.
Julie talks to the Hamsters. Starved for the sight of a face and the sound of a voice that they haven’t heard every waking moment for the last six weeks, they greet her enthusiastically. (Anyone catch Marcellas’s comment to Sheryl last night? “We’re starved for affection!”) Julie mentions that Gerry missed his 28th wedding anniversary because he was in the house and asks him if he has anything he wants to tell his wife right now. She asks him to “keep it brief”. Hehe! Amazingly, he does.
First votes. Dani votes Roddy out. Gerry blahblahs about Roddy being an alpha male, “as am I” :rolleyes:, and that there can be only one (shades of Highlander!). But he votes out Chiara instead. I hate voting edits. Really, really hate them.
When we get back from commercial (complaint on which comes later in the post), we get to watch the Great Detachment of Shady and the Tramp. Roddy criticizes Chiara. Roddy questions her feelings for him. Roddy tells her she humiliates him on the internet and national TV. Roddy all but chews his arm off to get rid of her without having her go off on him with a kitchen knife. She actually does take it better than I thought she would…says she knows that the romantic aspect of her and Roddy is winding down. Awww…not.
They have their version of the Last Date. If anything plays up the difference between Eric/Lisa and Roddy/Chiara, it’s this debacle of a goodbye ritual. Chiara (not creative enough to think up an original gift) got Big Brother to make up a photo of her and Roddy on the hammock (gee, where have I seen a similar one before?). Roddy opens it and, first words out of his mouth, says “this makes me look like the fattest man in the world!” He then tries to make it sound like he was kidding by saying “It’s cute”. This, however, is undemined by his own continuing carping on how it looks like he has a double chin.
Roddy apparently gave Chiara one of his favorite books, whose title and author I forgot to make a note of and which did not make enough of an impression on my mind to sink into long-term memory. Chiara, being the Manhattan intellectual that she is, is extremely disappointed. “He gave me a book! A fucking book!” Lovely show of appreciation, Ho.
They show the remaining three votes, without showing the actual votes. Lisa says that Roddy sneaks around without sneaking around. Jason says that the reason he wants Roddy to stay is the same as the reason he wants him to go…his gameplay and intelligence. Marc snarks on Chiara, saying that all she ever thinks of is herself.
When we come back from commercial, Gerry and Dani get the introspection spotlight. Gerry isn’t the only one in his family who needs to shed a few pounds, and I say this as a fat man who comes from a fat Italian family myself. Gerry didn’t look half bad when he was younger, and his wife is still pretty. Gerry has a Tiki Room of his own in his house! Heh…at least he feels at home in his current bedroom. Gerry’s wife, in the final scene of his introspective, kisses a creepy little handpuppet version of Gerry. shudder
Danielle is next, and let me tell you, Javier is really cute. He kind of reminds me of the assistant mortician on Six Feet Under, whose name i can’t remember because it’s been months since the end of the season. Javier says that he and Dani have had some hard times, but also a lot of good times. He says it embarasses him when she goes on about how she’s going to have sex with him for hours when she gets home. There’s a cute scene of him doing pushups and taking vitamins in preparation.
They do the obligatory HoH interview which is never really any different from week to week. “Was it hard to nominate who you nominated?” “How did you enjoy your week as HoH?” Although Julie does throw Amy a curveball and ask if she really wants Chiara out and why? We know the answer to this already, so moving on…
“By a vote of 1-4, Chiara, you’re evicted from the Big Brother house.”
Bleh. THey’re idiots. The only saving grace of this turn of events is ocming up later.
Interestingly, she kissed Jason bigger than she did Roddy. Chiara goes to meet La Chen in the studio (did Airhead manage to get lost on the way from the door to the studio? I looked away for a second and thought I heard her whisper something like “over there?”) and we cut to absolutely silent houseguests as they mike her up (which I don’t understand since she’s still wearing the house mike).
When they come back to the Chenterview, Chiara whines! I know you’re surprised. So was I. Oh, wait, I wasn’t. She also bitches and moans in the fashion that we’ve all come to know by heart. Luckily, Julie won’t let her steal the thunder and starts asking her the questions. Typical “Are you going to miss anyone most?” “Do you and Roddy have a future outside the house?” etc.
Goodbye videos…very nice. Amy has a hell of a lot more class than Chiara, since she managed to lie through her teeth to make a polite, seemingly sad goodbye video, while Chiara’s to Amy way back when was so nasty they didn’t even air it. Gerry says Chiara reminds him of his daughter. Wait till she sees tonight’s episode and Gerry’s daughter. There goes her vote for him if he gets to the final two. (Although I though Gerry’s daughter was pretty, Chiara would so not think so, judging from the taste and snobbishness she’s shown). Her stepsister Lizzie meets her in the studio, and we go to commercial.
The Head of Household competition is in the isolation booth type things that they were in for the one Gerry won. The game is “Who Said It?” They have a cube with the previous five evicted houseguests’ portraits on the sides, and one blank side for “Nobody”. Julie recites a quote from one houseguest in a situation where they were all together.
First round is Josh’s “I was so shy, and they thought maybe this would break me out of my shell”. The ONLY two who get it are Marcellas and Jason. Julie says that was the largest single elimination ever. I stop breathing for the next minute because Marcellas has a deal with Roddy!
Second round is Eric’s “Vito didn’t pull his weight, so Vito had to go” quote. Both get it. I turn blue.
Third round is a quote from Chiara which my mind apparently tried to erase in order to prevent intelligence drain from the sheer proximity of a Chiara thought. I just don’t remember the quote. But Jason is the only one who gets it right, and he is the new Head of Household!
Yayyy!! Godboy is in charge…
America’s Choice question is who do you want to get a video message from home? Since I’m not spending $1 to call a phone number, I don’t care and turn the TV off.
Now…can I just say that the Citrona commercials are easily some of the most annoying commercials on television? They’re loud, they’re obnoxious, and that one with the Michael Stivic throwback and the “Miss Ibiza” sash is just incredibly stupid. When did mid-70’s hippy style become cool again? 
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meeeeow!!! Saucer of milk, table 2. 
The most unromantic anniversary message EVER! Nervous giggles from the hamsters when he says “I’m bringing home the bacon, honey!”
Beta all the way, baby! I hate those damn voting edits, too! Ugh. Just think opposite of what they want you to believe and you’ve pretty much got it.
Carl Sagan! Bwahaha he gave her a sci fi book! Not exactly Shakespeare’s sonnets…
I really didn’t understand why all the hamsters were so damn upset and weepy after the ho’s departure! I would’ve thought they’d be dancing on her grave!
Great recap as ever, JayJay!