I don’t understand the who Roddy thing. What is it about him that makes it possible for him to seduce almost everyone in the house (except Dani) when they all say they don’t trust him? Is he considered killer good-looking or something? Does he have hypnotic trance eyes? What’s the dealio with that?
Also, isn’t it a fair bet that Roddy, if he gets HoH, will put up Dani and Jason?
Libertarian, I can see Roddy putting up Dani, but he’s been backed into a corner as far as Jason’s concerned. He specifically gave his word that he would take Jason to the end, if possible, and Jason made sure everyone knew that (not to mention that it was used for the show, so it’s public knowledge). If Roddy were to put him up, he’d be proving his “cannot tell a lie” scheme to be a sham.
I don’t understand Roddy’s appeal, either. He’s like Svengali with a house full of Trilbies. Fight it, people!
Did you ever notice that the more nervous he gets, the harder he works the stare and the honeyed tongue? He was talking to Amy for over an hour last night, and then talked to Lisa for another hour in the papasan chairs, then followed her into the house, into the cot room (where she was trying to get ready for bed), pulled up a cot beside hers, and said he wanted to talk to her all night (while heaping her with compliments). He’s scared to death that someone that he hasn’t managed to work enough charm on is going to get HoH. And he’s really scared to death that Dani’s going to get it. Because he knows he can’t charm her, and that she is gunning for him.
I’ve seen criticism of Dani in other places on the internet for her lying to Roddy when he asked her if she wanted him out of the house. Well, DUH! I’m just sitting there wondering if she was supposed to just surrender all of her strategy to him because he asked…I think maybe the houseguests aren’t the only people being charmed by Roddy.
Okay, but let’s just assume for the moment that Roddy really is as smart as they say, and that he really is as gifted with his honeyed tongue as he appears to be. Because of the former, he would know that it is crucial, gamewise, to break up the Dani-Jason alliance (let’s assume he’s figured it out). Because of the latter, he might well be able to call Jason into the room and after fifteen minutes have Jason convinced that Dani long ago betrayed their alliance, and that being put on the block with her is somehow to Jason’s advantage. I mean, couldn’t he conceivably twist Jason into whatever shape he wants?
Last night’s show was a big ol’ suckfest.
From the Holy Book of Big Brother:
I’m not a happy Doper, folks. Not in the least. Bleah! Stupid football…
Not only do I not get to recap tonight’s show, but I"ll be away for the weekend and won’t be able to recap Saturday’s until after I get back and watch the tape. I’m calling the station tomorrow to see if they’re planning on running tonight’s show sometime else, like tomorrow night, and I’ll tape that as well if they are. I’m angry. Very, very angry. The NFL ruined my entire night…it’s the goddamn LIVE SHOW! You can’t pre-empt the live show for a stupid pre-season football game that doesn’t even count for anything! Idiots…total idiots.
Well, trust me, ya didn’t miss much, JayJay.
This show has gotten soooooo boring. I guess it’s cuz they got rid of all the assholes.
The biggest remaining asshole just won HoH. Jayjay, you were right about him. He even declared that, from the beginning, they should have voted by aesthetics. It is amazing how blind people are who see with only their eyes.
Yup, Libertarian. There is definitely at least one asshole left.
They closed the big, good bedroom yesterday (the “High Rent District”) and Marcellas all but hit the panic button because of it. He whined and bitched and moaned and dawdled in getting his things packed and moved because he didn’t like the other bedrooms. “The colors are ugly”. Life must be such a horrible, painful experience for him, havng to live in such an imperfect world with such ugly, ugly scenery at times…poor, poor Marcellas.
Too bad Tonya wasn’t there to make a Tonya-gnome.
jayjay, may I just chime in to say that your powers of analysis continue to amaze me, and your writing is damn funny, and why aren’t you doing this for a living somewhere? You blow TWOP out of the water, guy.
masonite, thank you, but I can’t even come close to comparing to the wonderful Miss Alli. The woman cracks me up with every show synopsis she does.
First of all, there isn’t enough plaster in Los Angeles to scale-model her bags o’silicone. Second of all, Gucci doesn’t manufacture paint, and Boobsya would never put paint with a second-tier name on her gnome. And finally, once Boobsya had the damn thing painted, it would scale the wall for a night on the town. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they’ve seen Club Sin? 
For those of you who don’t want to wait til tonight to find out who was nomiated… or til Wednesday night to find out who won power of veto…
Marc nominated Roddy and Amy - with the agreement that Roddy would be the one to be evicted. However, Amy won power of veto. For some reason the livefeed recappers think she may use it to save Roddy (because of a past promise? or something promised during the competition itself?) Last I heard (from the live feed recaps) Jason was on his way to try and talk her out of using it.
This could get interesting.
Was that too much information to put in a spoiler box?
Holy CRAP! :eek:
Is she insane?
Nope, and it was very informative. Thanks, callie! And thanks to jayjay for recapping what looked to me to be a very boring week. I actually stopped reading the live feeds (gasp!) last week.
callie, thanks for using the box!
Oh, and just to clarify - I was talking about Amy in the above post! 
P.S. I think that was pretty evil of Marcie tonight! :mad:
With friends like him, who needs enemies! :rolleyes:
I agree Lola! I’m not sure why he felt the need to go off on her like that. It just made him look mean. But apparently they got over it because she has still been sleeping with him in the HOH room since then so…
If you want to know if the person who got POV used that power - look in the spoiler box…
According to the live feed recappers - Amy did NOT save Roddy! Yea! She was told that if she did save Roddy -she would be the one to leave this week.
I hate strong-arm tactics, but in this case I’m happy it happened. Roddy needs to go.
I saw the taped Saturday show, but I’m still recovering from my “vacation” this weekend and have no desire to plow through seven pages of recaps at the moment (oy, the work I do for you people! ;)), so I’ll post about it and the live feeds tomorrow.
Well, I did see Thursday’s show. They aired it at 2:30 the next morning. However, I was half asleep and only vaguely remember it, so no recap, except to say that Gerry was ousted and Marc got HoH. But you knew that already.
I did tape Saturday’s show, watched it twice, and took notes the second time. I’m not sure it’s terribly relevant to recap it now, but I am anyway. 
“Previously, on Big Brother…”
Julie’s dirty trick is replayed (“By a vote of 4-0, Amy…unpack your bags…”) and the escorting of Gerry to the door and the aftermath is shown. They then cut to the HoH competition. Marc wins and Amy’s just as happy as a pig in mud that Marc is in charge again. “I love being First Lady!”
Marc apparently has a human moment and finally realizes just how crucial Gerry’s veto of his nomination that first week was. Don’t hold your breath…the live feeds for the rest of the week prove it’s not permanent.
We finally come up to the present and enter the HoH room where Marc has received his goody basket. There’s a very bad 70’s picture of Marc and his family in there. He looks like an 80s sitcom child star gone bad. Kind of what Gary Coleman would have been like with normal kidney function. Marc was apparently not a happy child…his glare at the camera only made his moderate afro scarier.
Marc also got a blanket from home, a Jill Scott (who?) CD, and a letter from his sister. She tells him they miss him, and she talked to “David” who said he needs to lose the flipflops and socks (David is obviously a gay friend with an infinitely better fashion sense than Marc).
We then go to Roddy on the chaise longues. He calls Amy over and gives her a bit of advice, telling her that the “First Lady” stuff kind of makes the rest of the house nervous, as if she’s totally safe when Marc is HoH, thus making their own odds of being put up greater. Amy thanks him. Then St. Roddy goes into martyr mode and tells her that it’s “obviously not in my best interest to tell you this…” Rack up those obligations, Rodster.
Marc talks about Amy not being trustworthy and going to Roddy with any piece of information. Flashback clips of all the times Amy and Roddy have had private conversations and Amy has given out secrets. Marc says that he was hoping someone else would get HoH and put Roddy and Danielle up. He calls it the “Clash of the Titans”. Personally, if someone had tried to connect me in any way with that movie, I’d have been after them faster than Medusa was on Harry Hamlin’s mini-skirted ass.
We get a whispered conversation between Dani and Lisa, Princess of Moderately Dim Lighting, speculating on who Marcellus is going to nominate. Dani watches Roddy work out in the kitchen windows, then picks her teeth (wasn’t that something they didn’t like about Gerry? Hypocrites!). She then commandeers Jason and they speculate about Marc’s nominations. Dani is apparently quite nervous about this week.
When we get back from the commercial (and oh, how happy I am that I can fastforward through those Citrona commercials this time!), we see a Very Special Segment of Big Brother, in which the flirtations of Roddy to Amy are covered. Amy and Roddy alone in the backyard, Roddy working out, Amy doing lunges (subtlety is not an art taught in the schools of Arkansas, is it?). They do the stupid “date to the fair” thing, and Amy complains that Roddy would be no fun because he doesn’t do rollercoasters. Roddy says in mock surprise that he thought she just wanted to kiss on Lovers’ Lane. gag Cut to Diary Room footage of Dani: “Why did Amy want Chiara out the house? Hmmmm…” Footage of Marc: “She’s suddenly not wearing a bra, and showing a lot of nipple.” More Amy/Roddy flirting.
Amy voice-over “It seems like Roddy’s more relaxed since ding-dong the witch has died…” Being a former witch myself, I take offense at someone bringing Skankiara anywhere near the concept.
Roddy schmoozes Amy…“once you get inside of you, you can do no wrong…” Verrry nice double-entendre there, Rodster.
We go to the fun segment. FROLIC! The hamsters play water duckball (although they call it water polo, it’s obviously water duckball). This is one brutal game. They play boys vs. girls, and the girls ain’t playing fair. Amy grabs Jason’s head and just pushes it into her boobs! We cut to Diary Room footage of Amy and Lisa, pushing their chests out proudly and saying “here are our secret weapons!” Cute. The girls are shown being just a mite too aggressive. Amy apparently kicked Roddy in the boys and her claws are, by my estimate, the equivalent of a +5 dagger of wounding in D&D terms. They show Roddy’s war wounds, and Amy really did do a little damage.
Okay, this next segment was probably the funniest ever. I can’t stand Marc under normal circumstances, but they are editing him to be not quite as whiny and sniping as he actually is. But the “Marcellas Is Losing It” sequence was roll-on-the-floor hilarious. For those who saw it, remember that this was NOT Diary Room footage. He wasn’t responding to producers’ questions. He was just…talking to himself. I present a relatively complete transcript, though I didn’t write down all the Diary Room intercuts. Most of those were just Marc talking about how much better company he is than anyone else in the house.
“My favorite TV show: Charlie’s Angels. My favorite episode: Angels in Chains.”
“I’m Danielle! I’m going to tell you what to do and you’d better do it!”
“I like Scooby-Doo…my favorite episode is The Snow Beast.”
“I’m not going to bed early with this pack of jackals!”
Diary Room: I find myself very interesting…
“I tend to agree with Roddy’s quote: ‘Humans are my least favorite animals.’”
“That’s what I want for Christmas! I want the big cardigan with the belt but I want the (something) print and I want it to look just like David Soul on Starsky & Hutch.”
“If I had a son, I’d name him Huck. It’d drive my mother insane. She’d be like ‘Why you gonna name that baby Huck?’.”
“My 3rd favorite cartoon is Speed Racer.”
“‘But why?’ ‘Because I said so!’ ‘But it’s like killing Bambi!’ ‘So what? If his mother was here we’d kill her too.’”
And apparently they left out a few things because from what the live feeds said about this, he was moving photos of models around like dolls and talking to them, too. Note that “Huck” is also what he named the inflatable shark. Marc, Huck and Boo…what a family…
Lisa knows sign language. So does Dani. They didn’t know this about each other, however. By the time they did, Lisa was already teaching “the devil” Roddy the manual alphabet. Dani did not like this. “Don’t teach him!” she hisses in the Diary Room. “Don’t give the devil new tools!”
As I mentioned in a live feed recap recap, they closed the High Rent District, or HRD (the big bedroom). Marc does not take it well. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, yea, and even doth he hide under ye bed. Big baby. And what does “packed together like lemmings…” mean, anyway? I had no idea that lemmings were animals that had the folklorish attribute of being “packed”, as sardines are.
We find out one of the reasons they closed the HRD. They needed a place to put the pies! This is the food competition. There are what look like hundreds of pies in rows on the floor and on racks on the walls. There are seven medallions, one for each day of the week, inside the pies. They have to find all of them in 90 seconds. Any day they miss is a PB&J day.
This food competition is fun, actually. They manage to find all seven days, then a massive food fight erupts! Marc can’t even finish his speech at the end before they begin to pie him. But wait! Who can spoil our fun? Never fear, Amy’s here! Amy lost her grandmother’s diamond ring. During the competition. In the pie room. They have to find a single diamond solitaire ring among literal gallons of pie filling and foil plates…Marc is pissed. Dani finally finds the thing (a miracle!) and they all run outside to wash off at the outdoor shower. They’re all covered in pie filling. So what happens? You guessed it! Amy loses the ring again!
Marc is not happy with Amy’s behavior and immaturity (yeah, good call, Mr. Hide-Under-the-Bed). He expresses to Dani that he’s considering getting rid of her this week. Dani talks to Jason about this, and they agree Marc shouldn’t do it. It wouldn’t look good to put up a friend. She later finger-spells to Lisa about it.
Dani and Jason playing cards later, and speculating about Marc’s noms. Marc comes out and Jason goes to shower. Marc & Dani talk.
It appears that Dani has 3 different deals going right now. She’s made motions of bringing Marc, Jason and Lisa into the final 2, which is mathematically impossible. Marc asks her if she’s overextended on alliances. She lies and says no. They then talk about getting rid of all of the original six. Cut to an ominous shot of Lisa and Roddy on the hammock talking.
They then showed the nominations. Lisa tells Danielle she’s safe in her little girl voice that irritated so many when Eric was around. Marc has nominated Amy and Roddy. Says Roddy can’t be trusted. Marc says he’d trust Jason with his life, that he trusts Dani as if he were one of her kids, that he trusts Lisa. But he can’t trust Roddy. Unfortunately, my timer was off so I didn’t get to hear his actual reason for nomming Amy. Sorry guys!
Live feed recap recaps for the last six days coming up soon…and it was 15 pages, not 7.
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Hope this is far enough. I’m only giving the most important/significant events here, because I refuse to recap 15 whole pages of information.
Amy won Power of Veto, and everyone was very worried what she’d do with it. Dani worried that she’d use it. Roddy worried that she wouldn’t. Roddy reminded her that she promised to use the veto if he was ever up when they were “bidding” on veto power in the third (?) week, when Dani had the big pile o’ boxes in front of her.
This produced some consternation. People were definitely trying to convince her that she had no obligation to honor that promise. And besides, they’d vote her out so fast her head would spin if she used the damn thing. I hate strong-arm tactics, but I’m torn here.
And then the hamsters started comparing notes about Roddy’s techniques and the scales miraculously fell from Amy’s eyes. Apparently, he’d been working Lisa in almost exactly the same way he was working Amy. Stupid Roddy. Stupid, stupid Roddy.
Amy had an epiphany, and determined to NOT use the veto on Roddy. Not only that, but she was going to work up her veto speech to absolutely destroy him. Unfortunately for posterity and those who love a masterful turn of phrase, her most-prominent simile was that Roddy had played her like Liberace at the piano. I may never use figures of speech again.
For some reason, they tried to convince her not to rip Roddy a new one. Not sure why, really…except that Dani has an irrational fear of Roddy that goes beyond his power at playing the game. Girl needs therapy.
Prior to the veto ceremony, I characterized Roddy’s behavior to myself as “overextended and panicking”. He’s out of control with the schmoozing and getting careless about who he schmoozes when, which led to Amy’s revelation. Boy’s losing it.
The Veto Ceremony was FOTH, so I don’t know what exactly happened, except that Amy did not use it. Roddy, realizing that Amy was no longer of real use to him, became cruel and nasty to her, giving her guilt about her “selfishness” in not using the veto, etc. etc. Amy was in tears for a long time.
In the midst of all of this, Marc went back to his favorite subject. Gerry-bashing. Since he had nothing new to use, he fell back on the old standbys: age, weight, hygiene, the totally false accusations of leering and sexual harassment, the irrational fears of Gerry going off on them during his nomination week. Yeah, Marc…you really learned a lesson about love and friendship when Gerry walked out the door, huh? Feh.
They had the America’s Choice on Sunday. They won the clothes-shopping spree. It was FOTH, but they all got some nice stuff, though Dani was unhappy that they didn’t have pants in her size and Amy apparently hoarded the pajama pants.
Monday night was booze night. Apparently Amy was begging for beer again. I’m worried that she’ll manage to make herself unbearable before Wednesday.
Today was boring. They rarely do anything on Tuesday. Tomorrow is voting, though. It looks like everyone promised to deliver a Roddy ouster, and it seems likely unless Amy manages to shoot herself in the foot before tomorrow morning. Depends on if they had alcohol tonight, I guess.