That comment literally had me laughing mi arse off! 
Yeah, what the HELL was UP with Marcie’s touret’s-style yammering to himself? A definite case-study, that one. Oy. :o
Great recap as always, JayJay. I can not BELIEVE your VCR timer ran out just as Marcie was about to hand Amy her ass! DAYAM! .:smack:
I would have loved to have read your commentary on THAT little gem
Oh, Lola! I know! I’d heard about him handing her her ass, and I get home all ready to watch it, and then just as he’s telling Amy she’s his best friend in the house…poof! I got snow.
I was devastated. Blah.
They vote tomorrow! They vote tomorrow! Will we finally be rid of the Devil? Oh, please!
When did they start doing the voting live last year? I don’t remember which week it was…
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They had a trial for the lizards today. Most of the house seems to want to “vote them out” because only Jason will take care of them. So they held a trial.
Roddy was the judge. Jason was the defense attorney. Marc was the prosecution. The jury consisted of Lisa, Huck the shark, Boo the gnome, and a photo of Josh. The star witness was Tallulah Belle (Amy), who testified that she was very much in love with Godzilla (one of the lizards) but he pooped on her dress. She produced the dress in question, a la Lewinsky. Jason asked her if she had that dress in white. She said no. Jason said “That’s good, because it’s after Labor Day!”.
Marc tried to enter “The Bearded Dragon Handbook” into evidence, but Jason objected. Roddy sustained. Then Marc called Leroy “BB” Jenkins (Dani in homeboy gear, bandanna, ball cap, sunglasses) to the stand. Jason accuses Leroy of being a cross-dresser. Roddy comments that Marc’s expertise in this area is irrelevant. Leroy spins a tale of how he and Rodan (the other lizard) used to kick it, and go cricket-roping together. One day, Rodan flicked out his tongue and gasp ATE the cricket. Freaked Leroy right out.
They finally vote and decide to keep the lizards at least until Jason leaves the house.
This whole trial was really a million times funnier and cuter than I’ve managed to convey here. I was more than a little tempted to cut & paste a more detailed recap but didn’t want to violate any board rules.
Later, they have alcohol. Amy, having learned a valuable lesson (namely that if she manages to piss off the houseguests before Wednesday morning, she may actually be gone instead of Roddy), refused to drink. She gave her share of the wine to Roddy and refused beer. Dani tried to push some beer on her, but Amy screamed “Peer pressure! Peer pressure!” It was kind of funny.
Roddy worked on Lisa a little more, staying awake with her till about 2:30 am their time. I think he really thinks Dani’s his only absolutely sure vote so he’s working on Lisa, the only wobbler as far as he knows. Won’t he be surprised tomorrow night?
Just a quick note right now. I’ll post a show summary tomorrow.
MEMO
To: Roddy-Lovers
From: Roddy-haters
Subject: Why we hate Roddy
Please note the show tonight. St. Roddy, at the end mostly, but also earlier in his interactions with Amy since she won the veto, has proven himself a total sociopath. He can’t even imagine how someone can possibly choose their own safety over his. He remembers everything that’s ever been said in the house, unless it’s likely to be detrimental to him.
I can almost guarantee you that if he’d offered to use the veto on Amy all those weeks ago (and before he nominated her and engineered her ouster) and it came down to this situation, he’d have conveniently forgotten his promise. And probably really forgotten it and been totally baffled if Amy had brought it up, because it would be detrimental to him.
If he truly believed that Amy would not use the veto on him, he’d have thrown over his stated promise to Lisa in a heartbeat. The only reason he kept to it was that he thought he had Amy totally under his spell still. Has Roddy ever even made a gesture of sacrificing himself for anyone else in the house?
Now do you understand why Roddy is not the Being of Light that some seem to think he is? Selfish doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Roddy’s a real jerk. He did the same thing with Josh, yelling at him for campaigning for himself. Is everyone supposed to sacrifice themselves to God Roddy? How can he call what he had with Amy a deal? He wasn’t willing to do anything for her in return. I thought Dani was exaggerating by calling him the devil, but after seeing how he plays psychological games to target Amy’s weaknesses and make her feel like shit… yup, sociopath.
Even more evil, chula, is the way that he’s built her up emotionally throughout the game to the point where Amy is virtually addicted to his good opinion. Personally, my natural reaction in Amy’s place to his little lecture at the papasans would have been to blow up in his face and tell him exactly where he could get off. But Amy was so guilted and worried that her emotional high would be taken away that she just sat there and cried. Personally, I’m amazed she had the guts to refuse to use the veto, her “epiphany” notwithstanding. Probably only her realization that she’d be a guaranteed out if she did use it was the only thing that kept her from it.
I’m not hating Roddy because he manipulates. I’m hating Roddy because of the way he manipulates and also because everything that happens is, in is mind, supposed to benefit him. While Marcellas has a morality based on aesthetic principles, Roddy has a morality based on egotistic principles. What’s good for him is good. What’s bad for him is evil. Absolute. No exceptions. While probably everyone has this kind of thing to an extent, most people realize that their personal perceptions of good for them and bad for them aren’t always accurate, and that other people also have to look out for themselves.
Roddy apparently doesn’t have that ability to go out of himself. He seems to consider everyone else’s actions in the same light he considers his. What’s good for him is good, even if it’s very, very bad for the person performing the action. That is far scarier than Dani’s mugging for the cameras and trying to herd the pack of jackals to her plan. Roddy doesn’t herd, he just browbeats in that “injured” manner that seems to be a hallmark of the sociopath.
Oddly, Lisa is beginning to bubble up as the person I like and want to win the most.
As you’ve said, Roddy is demonic. Dani has a very overblown self-confidence that, to me at least, is off-putting. Marcellas, much to my dismay, played the race card last night, so that just piles another negative onto him. Amy is oblivious to the game in progress — not the one in her head, the one the other people are playing. (Hint to Amy: see those things moving around out there in the yard? Those are other people.) Jason is starting to scare me with his oh-please-don’t-touch-me-I’m-a-virgin weirdness.
That leaves Lisa. She seems to be level-headed, well-rounded, says kind things about others, and very mindful of the game.
I hate to interrupt all this Roddy-angst, but can we spare a few minutes to hate on the Queen of Sanctimony, Marcie?!?
This guy is making me physically ill with his holier than thou tirades!
Who the hell made him the authority on…well, fucking EVERYTHING!?!
Marcie, two snaps YOU AIN"T ALL THAT, GURLFRIEND!!!
:rolleyes:
PS - for the record, I really think Dani, Lisa & Jason are playing this game really well and deserve to be where they are at. I do believe Marcie’s a goner next week.
Synopsis for Wednesday, September 4. No spoiler space because just about everyone who’s going to watch it should have seen it by now.
“Previously, on Big Brother…” we see scenes we’ve already seen 4 or 5 times before. The way I do this is that I watch while I’m taping, then rewind the tape and watch a second time, taking notes. I usually fast forward through the “previously” segment. Because there’s never anything new. Ever.
As we colorize into new stuff, we hear Roddy remark, “Unnecessary isn’t a strong enough word. It was flat-out selfish and ridiculous to hurt somebody for no reason.” Um, excuse me, Mr. Mancuso? Wasn’t that pretty much a rehash of your original nomination speech to Amy when you put her up? Funny how you never remember the bad things you’ve said or done in the house, huh?
Dani and Marcellas confer on the basketball court. Dani is trying to figure out who Marc actually wants out this week (because he’s expressed frustration with Amy recently). Marc says to oust Roddy.
Amy sits at the table looking stunned. Lisa feels bad for her and offers a shoulder to cry on. Amy isn’t so much upset at the nomination as the speech. Lisa sits there and looks kind of dumb. I know there are people who will read that and think “And this is new how?”, but…
Ah, can you smell the smarm? Roddy comes out to the back where Dani and Marc are talking and sits down with them. Roddy is hurt over the accusations of being untrustworthy, because nobody could possibly be more trustworthy than St. Roddy. He expresses disappointment with Dani for having said previously that she trusted him 100% and then telling Marc that she didn’t trust Roddy. Has anyone else ever noticed that the Rodster has a word-perfect memory of everything everybody else has ever said in that house except when it’s detrimental to him?
Marc claims that Roddy is untrustworthy because of the company he kept (Chiara, Josh, Gerry). Marc says Roddy never called any of them out on their bad behavior. Roddy’s not happy with this and says he did call Josh out. Yes, Roddy, you did…when he was up against you and working to save his own butt.
Roddy begins to create his own weather patterns as he spins, spins, spins…
“I totally 100% forgive you” he says to Marc. Marc, tired of the whole conversation, says “OK”. Roddy complains that Marc wasn’t grateful enough for the forgiveness. Roddy’s ego is demanding a zip code of its own as he shakes his head, not understanding why condescension and paternalism aren’t the most efficient or successful ways to get in good with African-Americans.
Amy comes out and talks to Dani, who glad-hands her about her need to be accepted and tells her she needs to go talk to her friend. Amy does just that and she and Marc make up. Marc says that Amy is a wonderful person when she’s not being the Southern Beauty Queen or Bendable Barbie.
Next we have Roddy the Goof. We open with Roddy in the pool, with a toilet brush holy water dispenser, doing mock Gregorian chant in the perfect nasal tone. “Domino’s Pizza…thirty minutes or it’s free…” which is awfully close to my own childhood “Domino’s Nabisco”, but I digress. I think it was Marc saying that Roddy is more accessible, because Chiara isn’t around to drag him off into Skankyland. With little warning, they show a blue-tone Chiara flashback that, despite my sexual orientation, scares my boys so far up into my body that they won’t feel the light of day for two weeks.
Roddy makes weird noises (we’ve seen the wookie call before, but there are new ones. He talks to his food. And despite my intense Roddy-hate, I think he’s kind of funny. I still hate him, though.
Dani says there are two Roddys. Satan, the bad guy, and Lucifer, the playful one. Marc says that if he’d been like this the whole time, he might not be on the block. But it’s too little, too late.
Roddy and Marc are discussing the agreement in the hot tub that night. Marc says the agreement was not cemented to him. While I’m happy he put Roddy up, he did break what seemed to me to be a pretty solid and clear agreement to carry each other to the end. St. Roddy martyrizes again in that injured/disappointed tone.
Dani & Amy discuss Amy’s “bid” for Roddy’s veto box in the PoV competition during Marcellas’s last time as HoH. Amy promised that if Roddy was ever up and she had the veto, she’d take him off the block. There seems to be some dispute on the wording of that promise in internet discussion of the show…some think that Roddy said that if he were ever up, and there were two people to pick from, she’d use the veto on him. I didn’t write down the wording when the flashback was on so I’m not sure myself. Interesting, though, that the promise made during Marc’s last HoH week is coming to fruition in Marc’s second HoH week…
Dani discusses the Amy veto thing with Marc. He goes off. “Son of a biscuit-eatin’ bitch! I’m tellin’ you, that mother was born under the good moon! That mother must be the luckiest mother on the face of the earth. He’s gonna walk out of here with $500,000 then go play the lottery and win a couple million!”
Jason is also not happy at this turn of events. He’s worried.
Amy and Roddy sit in the bathroom chairs. Amy tries to get Roddy to agree to vote to keep her in if she vetoes him. He refuses because he apparently has a deal with Lisa and he can’t vote against Lisa if she goes up in his place. Amy finally realizes that Roddy is playing her. “He underestimated me. He completely underestimated me.”
Note that Roddy is becoming Josh…sleeping in a pile of blankets and pillows on the floor of the cot room. Weirdness.
Dani thinks she catches Roddy in a lie. When Jason was HoH, Roddy told him that the only person he now had a deal with was Dani (from the beginning when they agreed not to put each other up). He now tells Dani that he had a deal with Marc that Marc threw over by nominating Roddy. Is this right or was the deal with Marc after he talked to Jason that week? Note also the way he managed to let Dani know that her apparent ally Marc had a secret deal with Roddy. Roddy’s a smarter version of Josh. Blah. Roddy thinks he has a reaffirmation of his original deal with Dani. Dani lets him assume.
First, let me say that the Power of Veto competition was suspiciously convenient for Amy. When I saw what the goal was, the first thing I thought was that the house beauty queen was going to breeze through this one and wasn’t that terribly blatant a manipulation? They have to get through an obstacle course, while balancing a cardboard square on their heads. Each time the square falls off or they touch it, they get 15 seconds added to their time.
Amy wins, of course. Uh-oh.
Jason comes in second.
The top two hamsters get a massage. Jason is terribly nervous about this. We get a good five minutes of Jason agonizing over whether he can even do this because it would involve another human being touching his skin in embarassing places. Of course, once they get out to the backyard, they find it’s one of those AquaMassage machines that use carwash-like jets of water to massage you. Amy gets mischievous and pauses the jets right over Jason’s butt.
Dani and Jason talk about Amy’s veto in the bathroom. Dani prays.
America’s Choice was the clothes. The setup was basically the same as last year…90 seconds to grab as much as they can. Everybody just marauded the racks and they sorted it out afterward. Lisa got a dress that Amy was jealous of.
Can I just take a moment to yell at Jason, please? What were you thinking with that hair!? Oh, my god…he looks like something off of “That 70s Show”. Marc! Take the boy in hand, dammit.
Amy and Roddy talk about the veto out on the hammock. Roddy guilt-trips her big-time. Amy freaks out in the Diary Room.
During the Veto Meeting, Amy decides not to use it. Roddy looks pole-axed. He says that Amy’s reasoning is no reasoning at all. What Amy has done, he says, is to prove that her word is no good. Because, you know, she was supposed to jump on top of the grenade for him just like the rest of the world should. I hate Roddy.
I refuse to even actually recap the conversation in the papasan chairs afterward. St. Roddy is in full voice as he guilt-trips her hard, but not in a harsh voice. No, St. Roddy never sounds harsh…he merely sounds hurt, because he can’t understand how other people can possibly consider themselves more important than himself. We end with Amy huddled up in a fetal position in tears.
Have I mentioned already that I hate Roddy? Did I write the word “loathe” yet? How about “despise”? If I missed any, I’m open to suggestions. Bleah.
I think that’s a good analysis of Roddy’s character jayjay. I got the impression he actually believed the mean things he was saying to Amy (and to others). He actually believes Amy is a bad person for not sacrificing herself for him.
Unfortunately, I had to miss tonight’s episode. I would have loved to see him get the boot.
What are the predictions for next week’s nominations? I’d guess Marcellas and Amy, but I dunno.
Everyone be sure to check the listings for the coming week, because there are cancellations and preemptions due to sports and 9/11. If I understood correctly, instead of a Wednesday show there will be a 2-hour Thursday show, with both veto and nomination ceremonies.
I don’t think I’ve said thank you for the updates, jayjay. You’re certainly more prompt and reliable than Miss Alli.
chula said:
I’m not sure I agree. I mean, yes, he thinks that Amy should have held to her word, and he was “disappointed” that she didn’t, but he knows it’s a game and that people will do things they wouldn’t normally do.
That said, if Amy somehow made it into the final 2 (I personally don’t think she’ll make it past this week, but if…), she will almost certainly not get Roddy’s vote.
Heh. Did you sing “Oh wrap her nose up” in the Litany of the Virgin, too?
Libertarian said:
Nah, just charming. How can you not like a guy who is a writer and gives his idiot girlfriend a Carl Sagan book? (OK, well, there is the whole idiot girlfriend problem, but I’m hoping that’s resolved.)
But is it really overblown? I mean, she has played the game WELL. She stayed away from the known alliances and kept hers a secret. Where are those other alliances now? Yup. Gone. She’s still there, and will be for at least another week now. (Incidentally, I think she threw the HoH tonight.)
Agreed, as if he needed any more.
She is also an alcoholic who seriously needs help, IMO. And I hope after she is voted out in a week, she will be encouraged to get some.
Yeah, those damned weird religious types… 
She has grown on me as well. She was smart enough to place the game above her personal love interest by voting to bring back Amy rather than Eric. That right there told me a lot about her. And she has stayed in the background. If she makes it into the final two, she has a serious shot at winning.
I watched and taped tonight but I haven’t done my note-taking viewing yet, and probably won’t until tomorrow, so I’ll likely have tonight’s synopsis up by lunchtime.
That said, I had a kind of interesting realization while driving to the store for cigs after the show. Everyone’s always saying that Dani is playing emotionally and Roddy is playing logically. It’s more complex than that.
Dani’s outward demeanor is more emotional than Roddy’s. But her gameplay is done on a much more logical basis. Dani confers with her allies, goes over possible plans of action, decides what their (okay, her) best option is, and then overtly (to the alliance, anyway) persuades, cajoles, or agrees to follow that plan.
Roddy, on the other hand, gets inside his unwitting ally’s head and starts hitting switches and pulling levers in a totally covert way. He doesn’t enlist their overt cooperation in anything. He just manipulates them into doing what he wants. I mean, look at tonight’s show. Amy, who was absolutely certain that Roddy was playing her four days ago, was weeping copiously because it was Roddy and not her going out the door. You could almost hear Julie thinking “What an idiot!” when she was cross-examining Amy’s feelings about what she should have done with the veto.
I may be in a minority. I may be wrong. But I just find Roddy’s method a million times slimier and nastier than Dani’s. Yes, Dani lies. But Dani doesn’t emotionally abuse her allies. Roddy may not overtly lie, but he does horrible, nasty things to his “allies’” minds.
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You could be right. That might explain what I had perceived as her “losing it” a bit last night after the HoH competition. She could have been just overacting slightly.
I agree. Dani threw it again. If you noticed, she changed her answer at the very last second to the least likely one. She had to act upset, though, because she’d said that she was actually trying for it when she was talking to Julie in the living room earlier.
In reality, none of them should have been particularly eager for this week’s HoH. Unless they change the rules next week, this week’s HoH won’t be able to compete for it this next time, and this next time is THE most important HoH.
There are 3 weeks left, and 5 people. The speculation is that they’re going to either evict two people next week or they’re going to try to bribe someone to leave voluntarily. That would bring us to the final three next Thursday. Since there is no vote once they’re down to the Final Three (the HoH just chooses someone to leave), everyone wants to have HoH that week.
The look Dani gave Jason when Lisa and Amy were eliminated was priceless. It just screamed “That wasn’t supposed to happen!” And I’m not totally convinced that Jason wasn’t trying to throw it as well and just had the wrong (right) answer.
**I’d have to agree with chula. After seeing Roddy’s parent’s, I think Roddy is delusional, and his parents are just as deluded. They’ve probably raised him to think he’s better than everyone else and that he’s just so incredibly brilliant. He spouts off these facts like he’s so smart, but it comes off more like he’s memorized a bunch of trivia facts or a “Fact-Of-The-Day” calendar. I don’t think he as smart as everyone (including Roddy himself) thinks he is.
I think in his tiny little mind, Amy should have sacrificed herself to save him. He honestly could not understand why she wouldn’t save him at her own expense. What a prick.
And when Julie asked if he had ever lied, he looked her right in the eye and said no. Ugh, what an ass. He lied to everyone in there.
It’s a game, you lying moron! Why should Amy save you?
They said yesterday there wouldn’t be another show for a week & that would be next thursday (that seems like a long time) but it would be a two hour show.
Synopsis for Thursday, September 5.
“Previously, on Big Brother…”
Julie in the studio. She apparently fired her previous dresser, because she doesn’t look half-bad tonight. Her pantlegs actually poof out a little! She’s still a stickwoman, though. Eat something, Julie!
We have a beginning segment about Roddy. Dani says “It appears that people who are nominated against Roddy want to be the sacrificial lamb. Gosh-dang (I kid you not, she said that), he’s like a cockroach! You think you got him and he keeps comin’ back!”
Next is the Amy-Is-A-Selfish-Drunk segment. Part 2. Or is it 3? I"m getting as bad as Marcellas with his “Spanish Inquisition” recounting of the things DrunkAmy does that annoy him. “There are two things she does…no, there are three things…no, there are four…” Amy proclaims that she couldn’t live in a city that didn’t allow open containers. Surprise, surprise. Amy drags people into the HoH room to beg for their alcohol, which drives Marc up the wall. Marc tries desperately to get her to quit it and go to bed so that she doesn’t make everyone else decide that maybe they could stand Roddy another week after all. Amy is so drunk that she falls out of the hammock and cackles loudly enough to startle the folks sleeping at Forest Lawn. Marc just shoots her one of the most evil looks I think I’ve ever seen.
Lisa seems to want to give Roddy at least a sympathy vote. She thinks she’d actually be safe in the house with Roddy around. Dani is just boggling at the way he gets people to do what he wants.
Our first Julie and the Hamsters segment is next. Julie turns sideways to talk to the monitor and disappears. No, wait…I can still see her hair. She schmoozes the houseguests for a while. Julie talks to Dani and pretends her shopping spree dress doesn’t look like a mid-80s JCPenney clearance special. Julie thinks Jason’s looks is 'very Greg Brady". I agree. That was not a compliment, Jay.
Julie then dredges up Marc’s nomination speech to Amy. Marc isn’t particularly happy with Julie tonight because this question is only the beginning…Julie lets her serious news interviewer instincts loose tonight and seems to be done throwing exclusive softballs. She asks Amy what she thought of the nomination speech and Amy calls it harsh. “…a bloodbath…”, only half tongue-in-cheek, I think. Julie asks Dani if she wants to win HoH tonight and Dani says she can taste it. They talk about the shopping spree. Yay.
First Diary Room Vote: Dani.
Dani says Amy always needs to be the center of attention. She says she’s not convinced that Roddy would back her up. They don’t show an actual vote, which suggests unanimity. But we’ll see.
Is that Catherine Zeta-Jones in those T-Mobile commercials?
We come back to a retrospective on Satanspawn and Mewwit. Josh says that it was definitely his strategy to offend every single person in the house. He says that maybe he did it too well. Mewwit found that last week with Josh in the house very difficult to watch. So did we, Merrit, so did we. Probably not for the same reason, though.
Oh, my fucking god! Josh in Frederick’s of Hollywood. Silk shall never touch my body again. The taint of association with that pair of dice boxers is just too much for me to allow. Can you imagine being the next guy to try those boxers and that robe on?! Poor unsuspecting Frederick’s shoppers… They then go to look at diamonds. $37,000?! My god…it has to be Los Angeles. Nobody around here comes close to making $37,000 in two months salary. “If you guys ever have a 90% off sale, you should give me a call.” And as a final jab, I’m subjected to the possibility of Josh marrying and breeding yet again. Shoot me. Please.
Julie does the HoH interview with Marc. She really is hitting hard tonight. “What’s the status of your friendship with Amy now?” Marc is disappointed in her. “Do you still love her? Do you like her?”
“I love her.”
“But do you like her?”
Marc half-tearily says “I don’t like her very much right now.” Go Julie, go Julie…
Second Vote: Jason.
Says they’ve seen some of the old Amy this week. Amy is a little dramatic and the drama tends to wear on people. He says that Roddy deserves to be there. No actual vote again, but I’m starting to worry here.
We come back from commercial to see a segment on Roddy’s parents. And they’re as delusional as he is. I see where he gets that I’m -the-most-important-guy-around attitude now. Rod’s dad leads us into the family library. In my experience, bookshelves with tchotchkes and knick-knacks in front of the books rarely get used. And we’re treated to a conversational proof of this as we see Roddy spout bullshit about the evolutionary superiority of frogs to men. Gould is rolling in his grave.
Oh, my…Roddy’s parents actually like Chiara! I can practically hear Jason’s mom from here…“Thank GOD! Maybe now she’ll stay away from our Jason.” Roddy’s parents think his feelings for her were genuine. (Didn’t I say they were delusional?)
His mother says that he’s not a manipulative person. (See? Delusional.) His father says, “He has the power to convince someone what is right. One and one are always two.”
Mom says, “Those people realize they’re up against someone who’s a very strong competitor. Obviously, they’re uncomfortable.” You can just tell she was really thinking “who has very strong morals”…the air of superiority is absolutely blatant. At least we know Roddy comes by something honestly. Mama Mancuso, however, is a very bad prophet. “I really think our Rod is going to win.” HA!
Incidentally, note what the background music for this segment was, please. Perfect for Roddy. [sub]I’m just a gigolo, and everywhere I go…[/sub]
We go back to Julie and her interview with the condemned. She asks Roddy if he agrees with Amy’s decision not to use the veto.
R:“Amy can do what she wants. But Amy had made a deal with me to use the Power of Veto if she had the opportunity, and she had the opportunity and she passed it up. But she can do what she wants.” Just dig those claws in deeper, Rod…
Amy’s turn, and she says, “I think it was probably the worst decision I could have made…I always say that I don’t regret anything but this is the exception.”
Julie says, “So you wish you had taken Roddy off the block? Why?” I think there’s a slight tone of WTF in her voice, but I could be biased about the whole Amy/Roddy brainwash turnaround…
Amy replies, “Because the reason I didn’t veto him was because he couldn’t promise me a vote, and the reason he couldn’t promise me a vote was because he’d already promised other people a vote and it was a very honest and respectable thing that he did and I feel very selfish.”
Excuse me a second. I have to clean up this puddle of vomit that caused me to spew.
Julie has, mentally, the same reaction, because she asks the same question in a form which she apparently hopes will produce a more reasonable and non-lunatic answer. “So are you saying, now, looking back, that you would have taken Roddy off the block and perhaps taken the fall for him to walk out the door?”
Amy replies, “Absolutely”, and all I can see is the way that women (and men) in abusive relationships will constantly take the blame for that relationship on themselves and gladly sacrifice their happiness and well-being to save their abuser. And I’m slightly ashamed of myself for being happy that Amy had that five minutes of actual clarity to refuse to use the veto before she got swallowed up by the Roddycharm again.
Julie asks for final thoughts. Amy tells Roddy she’s sorry (gag), and tells everyone she loves them. Roddy tells Amy he forgives her (I, personally, would be like “yeah, so?”). “Of course I do”…because I’m St. Roddy and I can afford to bestow my divine forgiveness on my lessers. Blah.
Vote: Lisa.
Ever since Amy came back, she felt she had to take over the spotlight, that she had to be the center of attention all of the time and that’s a little exhausting to watch.
[Roddy]'s not a threat to me and I’m safe with Roddy in the house.
Now, I’m really worried, despite the lack of actual votes. I hate Voting edits.
We come back and Julie reads the eviction results. ‘By a vote of 3-0, Roddy, you are evicted from the Big Brother house…’ YAAAAAAY!!! Finally! Goodbye, arrogant scum!
We follow the houseguests into the backyard while they wire Roddy up. Amy is weepy. Marc is upset (at Amy crying?). Dani laughs very briefly, apparently over something Marc said.
Julie asks Roddy if he is surprised to be sitting in the studio with her. He says he is, because people had promised him they would keep him in the house and they seemed to have established their credibility but still voted him out. Hold on…I thought the only deal he had was with Dani and that was just a “we won’t nominate each other” thing. I really think Roddy had a tendency to assume that simple agreement or assent was the same as a promise or someone giving their word. Not in the real world, and definitely not in this game.
Roddy’s strategy was to use his charm and charisma to exploit the weaknesses of his opponents. Which is basically what I’ve been complaining about. No, as Roddy said, it’s not against the rules. Neither is overt lying as people accuse Dani of having done. But the emotional manipulation is slimier by far than outright deception.
Roddy was aiming as much for the evicted as for those still in the house. This is why he was hyperaware of the cameras. It also proves he was constantly playing the role he chose and therefore it’s entirely possible that we never saw the real Roddy the entire time he was in the house. Roddy says that he may have been too confident. The correct word is “arrogant”, Rod.
Lovely. He didn’t feel bad about mindfucking people he called friends, he just felt bad that it didn’t get him to the end. Real nice.
He carefully sidesteps Julie’s question about his relationship with Chiara. We get farewell messages. Blahblahblah. Amy gives laud and honor to her cultleader again. Where’s the kool-aid?
Roddy’s dad and brother are there. Brother Mancuso is a living illustration of exactly what Roddy’s bald spot’s going to look like in 10 years. He’s also very grabby…he grabs Rod’s ass, grabs his waist, grabs his shoulder, grabs his arm, picks him up in a hug…you know, they make gay porn videos on this brother-on-brother theme all the time…hmmm…
Head of Household competition is called Freeze Frame. They have to watch a short clip. When the clip freezes, they have a multiple choice question about something that happens next.
First clip is Gerry’s exit. Does Gerry blow a kiss, give a thumbs up, or salute on his way out the door? He gives a thumbs-up. Amy and Lisa are eliminated, and Dani kind of gives Jason a panicked look. Despite her comment earlier in the show, she does not want this HoH, and she’s silently begging Jason not to throw it so she can.
Second clip is the luau luxury comp prep. Josh is getting into his grass skirt and says “I know I look damn good in drag!” Jason gets it and Dani quite deliberately gives the wrong answer “Grass skirts always me me itch.”
Jason wants the Moulin Rouge soundtrack for his HoH CD. Are we sure the boy’s straight?
There’s no show on Saturday (US Open), or Wednesday (9/11 memorial programming).
Since there are less people voting, there’s some dead air time at the end of the show which they fill with a mostly pointless conversation between Julie and teh remaining hamsters. She does get some hard questions in again, however.
Julie must have been thinking to herself “Amy cannot be serious!” ever since before the eviction, because she comes back to her and asks again would she really have used the veto on Roddy even if it meant her ouster? The answer is still yes, and I mourn for the non-Stepford Amy who is now lost to us.
Julie digs into Marc again, asking him who he thinks is really responsible for him being in the house still. Marc, being his usual bitch self, squirms enormously and twists himself in knots in an effort not to acknowledge his debt to Gerry. He’s such a bitch and I’m so eager to see him go this week.
Julie asks them what they miss most about the outside world. Dani pipes up “SEX!” and then tries to hide her face. Thanks, Dan…I needed that image. 
Julie says that there will be one last twist to the game, to be revealed in the two hour show on Thursday, with live veto and voting. That answers my question about when they start voting live, no?
Our eavesdropping (which is also unusually long) reveals Dani apparently edging to the bathroom to masturbate, talking about her needs. Ewww…I’m sure it’s just them joking around but, GOD, do I need these images in my head?!
Ugh…there are fewer people voting, not less people. You think you know a language when you’ve spoken it your whole life…