chula, the lone houseguest not nominated this week casts the sole vote. Then whoever wins HoH next week simply chooses the next evictee.
Then, on the last show, the evicted guests all return to cast the vote for the winner.
I’m saving my examination of the possible outcomes for tomorrow, after I post the recap of tonight’s show.
Did you learn anything about yourself, Marcellas?
Yes, I did. I learned how wonderful I am.
Actually, he said “I am…fantastic!”
Just another example of his selfless, generous gameplay. 
Gotta recap coming up…I just rewatched the show and took notes. Expect it by lunchtime at the latest. I have no idea how I’m going to do this kind of thing once I actually get a job…
Two hour show, so I’m doing this post in two parts. Part I will consist of the first hour of last night’s show.
“Previously on Big Brother…”
Roddy walks out the door again.
Apparently, Roddy worked his mojo on Lisa just before the live show last week and made her feel guilty as hell. Marc competed for the PotKettle Award with his statement “It takes a person that’s only about themselves and only wants to see what they want {to see}.” I"d like to mark this as Exhibit A. We will be coming back to this quote later in the recap.
The general consensus among the houseguests seems to be that it was just rotten of Roddy to continue to make Amy feel like crap about not using the veto right up to the end. I agree. But that’s not a surprise.
We get our weekly Dani countdown…“Seven down, three to go…”
I’m vindicated in my previous guess that Dani and Jason were blindsided by Amy and Lisa’s first-round elimination in last week’s HoH competition. I’m not sure if the other two were incredibly clever and threw it deliberately or if they were just stupid. shrug I’ll leave that question for the philosophers.
Marcellas and Lisa both felt safe with Jason as HoH (I’m inserting a parenthetical Nelson-Muntzlike HA-ha here for Marc). Jason got Moulin Rouge as his CD. I repeat, are we sure the boy is straight? Amy tells Jason she wishes he’d won HoH last week (two weeks ago now) because he’d promised not to put her up that week. Jason says there were no promises to anyone this time, though.
The houseguests wake up to yet another “Expect the Unexpected” on the plasma screen. Jason walks past, mumbling “Not while I’m Head of Household…” Dani takes one look and throws up her hands in a “Whatever” gesture. Amy in the Diary Room: “As long as you’re not bringing Chiara and Tonya back to kill me I think I’ll be OK.”
Jason reveals the Golden Veto. The holder of the Golden Veto can take him or herself off the block or can take another person off. Dani: “Sssssssscandalous!”
The food competition this week is the Dinner Party…from HELL!! They are divided into two teams. Jason cannot compete (a serious detriment in this particular comp). Dani and Marc are one team and Amy and Lisa are the other. They must finish the food placed in front of them in one minute.
First round, A&L get uni, which is sea urchin. Specifically, the genitals of the sea urchin. M&D get escargot, which Marc thinks is no problem, being the “high-class boy” that he is. Sorry, guys…neither one finishes in time. PB&J for two days for both teams (and Jason).
Second round, D&M get boiled pigs’ feet. A&L get poi. Again, neither manage to finish it all. PB&J for four days for all.
Third round, double round. They get two minutes but it’s double the amount, too. D&M get jungle curry. A&L get haggis. Again, there is no joy in Hamsterville. Nobody eats real food this week. Jason is not happy. He proves his nickname of Yum Yum Eat 'Em Up by sampling a bit of every single thing without a single grimace, pucker or spit-out.
Now, to be fair, I think a lot of the problem they had was amounts. I mean, you can buy pigs’ feet in the supermarket here in Central Pennsylvania, and I hardly think people who’ve been in California very long would have problems with sushi or curry. None of these foods is terribly horrible, just not particularly common in the general US cultural mix. People in the cultures these foods come from don’t eat them on a dare…they’re just a standard part of the cultural cuisine. It’s not like a Fear Factor type of thing where they were eating pig uteruses or calf’s brains.
Just as an aside to the Sweet Home Alabama commercial that just came on…if I were straight, I would most likely be all about Renee Zellweiger. She’s absolutely adorable.
Nomination jitters. Marc disses Amy to Dani. Class act, Marc. Jason, Dani and Lisa discuss who needs to go. Dani wants Marc out because he’s the one who told Roddy she was after him. Jason just wishes he could give everyone a free week. Awww, Jay…
In the end, Jason nominates Amy and Marcellas. Amy remarks that there are 12 weeks in the game and she was gone for two. Out of the remaining ten, she’s been nominated five times. Truthfully, she and not Roddy should be getting the Susan Lucci of the House award.
Marc isn’t happy. We’re treated to several very Happy-Fluffy-Marc-World comments. They have to be…they have no basis in objective reality that I can see.
To Jason - “Honestly, I think I’ve done more to help you during this game than Danielle has.” WTF?!
To Dani - “I’ve played this game about loyalty and kindness and conscience…” I repeat, WTF?!
Muttering to himself while stalking through the living room - “I’m the one out here who’s showing moral fortitude and brains and smarts.” Okay, it’s becoming repetitive, but…WTF?! Is this man even aware of anything he’s done in the last 10 weeks?
Marc actually releases Dani from using the veto on him if she wins it, because he knows he can beat Amy.
We get to witness the absolute height of self-absorption as Marc complains about his nomination being a major betrayal and how he’s profoundly disappointed and “Why me?!” to Amy of all people! The poor girl’s been nominated FIVE times, evicted once, and she has to endure her supposed best friend going off about how his nomination was absolutely unfair and should never have happened? :rolleyes:
Dani and Jason are very nervous about the Veto.
The Veto Competition is a Mission:Impossible-type deal. There are eight rows of large panels in three columns, each with an evicted houseguest’s picture on it. The competitors have to walk/crawl on each evicted HG in order, each row representing a week. For instance, they have to hit Lori the first row, Tonya the second, Amy the third (that had to have been like walking over your own grave for her), etc. The catch? You had to avoid breaking the laser beams that were criss-crossing the playing area. Breaking a beam cost 15 seconds, as did touching the black underlay carpeting. Stepping on the wrong houseguest cost a full minute.
Amy did surprisingly well. She tends to look heavier than she is, because she’s sort of hippy, but the girl is very flexible and agile. Lisa just blew it off and walked across without caring about the beams. She didn’t want the veto, anyway. I’m sensing mutiny within the ranks of the JDL alliance. Marc won, but not before we got to hear him complain how BIG the clingy outfits they had to wear for this comp made him look…“all thighs and ass and abdomen” Boo-hoo. :rolleyes:
We now go to the live portion of the show. Julie Chen kindly recaps the previous hour for those of us whose memory deficits would cause us to forget in the preceding 3 minute commercial break.
For Jason’s sake, Dani tries to figure out what Marc is going to do. She tells him that Amy is out no matter what he does.
Marc dithers over the veto. “I can either show people what friendship is and take Amy out, or I can show people what self-love is and use it to take myself out.” Self-love. Uh-huh. I thought that was what Josh was doing in the toilet room all the time…
There’s definitely mutiny in the ranks. Lisa wants Marc to stay, because she thinks he’d go after Danielle and Jason first. Marc and Lisa make a deal to try to get Final 2 together. Dani weaves a web of (necessary to save Jason, admittedly) lies around Marc in an attempt to make him feel safe enough to not use the veto: “I got your back, Marcellas.”
Veto meeting, live. Amy tells Marc “Do whatever you want to, Marcellas. You know I don’t care.” Of all the houseguests nominated, I think Amy (except for the time she actually was evicted) is the most philosophical about it of them all, except maybe Gerry.
Marcellas doesn’t use the Veto. Has there ever been a more stupid hamster? While I’m glad he’s just voluntarily (though unwittingly) stepped out in front of the tractor-trailer called Eviction, it was a totally idiotic thing for him to do. He says he didn’t want to make the rest of them have to make terrible decisions live on the spur of the moment.
Lisa profile. Two friends (they say…the one has got to be her sister, though) tell us about Lisa. They think Eric/Lisa was genuine, but admit that Lisa wasn’t in the game when Eric was in the house. They think that as long as she keeps a low profile she’ll do okay. Too bad she stuck her head up later in the show.
Final thoughts from the nominees. Both say they love everyone in there.
We finally get to the live voting. I’d swear they began live voting weeks earlier than this last year…
Anyway, Dani casts her vote to evict Marcellas. Lisa casts her vote to evict Amy (yeah, mutiny. Big time).
Jason must break the tie. Jason apologizes and says that Marc made him feel threatened (gamewise) after he nominated him, so he had to vote to evict Marc.
Marc gets up from his chair without a word and heads for the bedrooms to get the things he forgot to pack. Amy comes up out of her chair behind him with her hand over her mouth and an absolutely sincere expression of total shock on her face. She seriously thought she was out of there. You can hear her almost hyperventilating into her hands as Marc gathers his stuff (some clothes and Boo the gnome) and heads for the door. Marc composes himself enough to say goodbye and hug everyone (even Jason). As he leaves the house and heads for the studio, Marc breaks down and begins to cry. Julie greets him with a hug (is this a first? Can’t remember.) and invites him to sit down on the couch. He goes back to his bags to get Boo.
Cut to the house. Everyone’s upset. Dani’s sobbing in Lisa’s arms. I can understand this…I think everyone in there truly liked Marc. They just needed him to go for their own good in the game. I don’t think it’s just Dani showboating to keep herself from looking like a heartless bitch (though I’m sure there will be dispute on that…).
We go back to the studio, where Julie whaps Marc upside the head with her prompt cards and says that it was “probably from your mother.” We get treated to even more MarcDelusion: “I didn’t play this game selfishly.” Julie asks him what he learned about himself. Marc replies “I am…fantastic!” Self-esteem is good. This, I’m not so sure about.
Farewell videos…nothing out of the ordinary, other than the absolute non-necessity of actually feeding this raging queen’s ego. Amy: “As you so often said, you are perfect.” Bleah. We get more MarcDelusion: “Everything I did in that moment was for them.” Note to self: Add St. Marcellas’s feast day immediately after St. Roddy’s on the Church of the Big Brother calendar.
They’re now advertising for contestants for Big Brother 4. Honestly, I would consider it if I thought there was a snowball’s chance on the Sun’s surface that they’d pick a 430-pound man with sleep apnea and bad circulation for their pretty people show. Maybe next year, after I lose 250 pounds…
The Head of Household competition consists of questions about the four remaining houseguests. The answers are all numbers between 0 and 4, like “How many people opened veto boxes at the end of the veto competition called ‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’?” I’m not going to try to remember the questions or answers completely. Suffice it to say that Dani won (for the very first time). You can almost hear Jason start breathing again when Julie announces her name. Jason’s almost incoherently joyful. He’s safe.
The America’s Choice question is “Who do you want to have a live internet chat?” Of course, “live” is open to interpretation, as I believe last year they had an intermediary taking the questions and typing them to the person who won (Will? Hardy?), so as to filter out any unwanted information. Either way, I’m not wasting a buck on a phone call, so we move on…
Looks like we’re back to a more-or-less regular schdule this week. Saturday and Wednesday at 8 PM EDT, Thursday at 9PM EDT (so as not to conflict with the Survivor premiere…and I’m still not completely decided on whether I’m taping one hour or two that night, so don’t start counting down yet).
Our eavesdropping reveals a dastardly plot to evict the lizards. Amy is creeped out by their nails clicking on the glass at night.
Analysis to follow…
Okay…what does this mean for the next two weeks?
First of all, it’s a dead-on safe bet that Lisa and Amy are going up. Dani is not going to even risk Jason’s place in the house. I think she’s more than content for second place to Jay, unless she has some sort of idea that she can pull a Will and get the win for her superior gameplay. I don’t see this year’s crowd doing that, however.
If Amy and Lisa go up, I’d have said that Amy was gone before last night’s show. However, knowing that Lisa was the one who put Jason on the spot by forcing a tie, I’m not certain anymore. Jason may just decide she’s no longer reliable and vote her out.
On the other hand, Amy has an absolute talent for making people completely exasperated with her, and she’s been staggering along (no booze joke intended) from week to week mostly on the strength of the other houseguests’ stronger distaste for her fellow nominees. Any week in which Amy is nominated is a crapshoot at best, depending mostly on whether or not Big Brother distributes alcohol.
If Jason evicts Lisa, Amy could very well win HoH next week and send Jason off home. If she did that, she’s got a damn good shot at winning the $500K, since Dani has very little chance (in my opinion) of getting near enough votes to make up a majority.
If Jason evicts Amy, and Lisa gets HoH next week, I think she may evict Dani, which would be a mistake for her. I don’t think Lisa can beat Jason. But Lisa doesn’t seem quite bright enough to realize that and she may just go by the more irritating houseguest.
If either Dani or Jason get HoH next week, the effect is the same. Whoever survives the Amy/Lisa matchup goes. Dani and Jason have come too far to start backstabbing each other now. If the Final 2 are Dani and Jason, Jason wins it. No question. Anyone with access to tapes of the season so far is going to see a Danielle who is talking about them behind their backs, blasting them in the Diary Room, and lying to everyone.
Being the perverse person I am, I’d love to see an “Amy Wins” scenario. It would do my heart good to watch the annoying drunk beauty queen snatch victory from the jaws of Danielle…
YES!
I would, too!
And it would serve Marcie right, too!
Oh, and JayJay, I think the actress you’re thinking of that you would schtup if you were straight is Reese Witherspoon, not Renee Zelwegger.
Yeah, Reese Witherspoon. So who the hell’s Renee Zellweiger?!
She was Bridget Jones.
Ahhh…now I have my blonde relative newcomer actresses straight…
I may have to help out as doorman at the bar tomorrow, so I’ll be taping Saturday’s show and probably won’t be able to comment on it until Sunday evening.
This will all be over in a week and a half… 
Although Survivor does start next Thursday…
Chula made a comment earlier on “how is Danielle going to win”. I so agree with you Shula. IF Danielle is in the final two, whoever she is against, the outcasted guest saw the show and saw how she lied to pretty much everybody… I think she just destroyed her chances to win because the last vote if from the “outside”…
Danielle may have destroyed her chance to win, but then last year I’d have bet that Will did – and he ended up winning. Sometimes, the other contestants do actually end up voting for good game play. Sometimes not.
If she is up against Jason, I think she loses. He played well (yes, sometimes allowing yourself to be a pawn is good game play) and didn’t trash people or lie (too much). So he is a better choice for most of the evicted houseguests.
If she is against Amy, I think she wins. There is still resentment for Amy even having a second chance, not to mention her boozing and obnoxiousness.
If she is against Lisa, she loses.
I would like to see Danielle win, just as I enjoyed seeing Rich Hatch win the first Survivor. She has played the game well. But I agree with those who have said this group seems more vindictive than others. They remind me of the Rotu alliance from the last Survivor, who gave the game to Vecepia rather than Neleh because they just couldn’t get over the fact that Neleh wouldn’t go down quietly and accept fifth or sixth place. They were so bitter that she beat them that they voted a much less deserving person into the winner’s circle. I see similar possibilities here…
I’m new to the reality TV thing, so it’s hard for me to figure out how the end is going to go down. What I heard about Will was that no one had realized how much scheming he was doing. This group seems to have very little respect for strategy. They’ve repeatedly made stupid moves based on misguided senses of principle or loyalty.
I’ve generally been rooting for Dani. She’s the only one who’s been consistently playing the game without letting personal issues get in the way.
chula, that’s exactly my take on this bunch. The whole game most of them have been playing good people/bad people (witness Chiara’s constant whine that “good people” should win…good being defined as “The Couples”) instead of the game.
I’ll admit that I went “bad people” on Roddy, but I believe I was justified. The emotional mindfucking that was his M.O. is the reality game equivalent of biological warfare…so far beyond the pale that it engenders a visceral sense of revulsion. By contrast, Dani’s lies and deceit are conventional artillery.
David wrote:
Damn. You stole my thunder.
Will was far more unctuous than Danielle. In fact, he gloated in his deceit, calling the other players stupid morons. Right there in front of God and everybody (in the confessionals). Danielle has at least always said that “it’s just business”.
Still, there was no Jason against Will last year. Jason has become everybody’s little brother. He might be a sexual virgin, but he’s an empathy whore. And I wonder whether Danielle is smart enough to know that.
I’m going out on a limb, and say that she gathers her wits about her, makes a deal with Amy, and then puts up Jason and Lisa. Amy is not much of a Jason worshipper. Oh, she likes him, but she doesn’t really covet a little brother (too much hassle and distraction).
Then, Lisa wins HoH, and kicks out Danielle. Lisa wins. I like that scenario. I’m pulling for Lisa.
IMHO:
Lisa and Amy will be nominated for eviction. Jason will evict Amy. Everything then depends on who wins HOH on Thursday. I’m so hoping that it will be Lisa. I think thats her only chance of winning. I have to agree with JayJay here in the fact that Dani and Jason have been together too long for Dani to throw it aside now. That relationship may just garner her a few votes in the end - should she survive that long (and is NOT up against Jason). The early evictees could be impressed that she held true to at least one person in the house - from the very beginning no less. The only way she wouldn’t be there is if Lisa wins HOH and evicts her. However, Lisa’s only chance of winning (again IMHO) is if she wins HOH and evicts Jason.
Well that was about as clear as mud.
In other words… I want Lisa to win.
Damn, I forgot about Evil Will winning last year… THat was a surprise.
I just hope Lisa wins too.
“Ahs sho’ nuff killed me a lotta doooooves this here doooove season”
What.
the.
fuck.
was.
that?
:o
Jason’s going to evict Amy, then Lisa’s gone, then Jason wins. Boring! Dani should have realized that her best bet was to drop Jason and start an alliance with Amy. No one on this show is very bright.
chula - thats why Lisa has to win HOH on Thursday - that way she will definitely be one of the final two.