She Could Have Been a Contender - 
by J-Unit
This final HOH competition was a multiple choice/fill in the blanks featuring the evicted houseguests. Julie would read a partial statement from one of the evicted houseguests, and would give the contestants two possible answers on how they finished their statement. There are six people in the jury house, so there would be six questions. Right away, thing started going badly for Janelle, she missed Howie's question about what he hated most about the house. She guessed the Girl Scout troop, but Howie's answer was different. Julie had a small flub while saying Girl Scout troop, but to take attention away from her, she told Janelle "please hold up your paddle" in a slightly more stern way than we are accustomed with Julie, even when houseguests don't follow directions. It didn't get easier for either of them from there. Julie messed up a couple of more lines, and it looked like Ivette would run away with the game, as Janelle took four questions before getting onto the scoreboard. With one question left, and Janelle down by one, Janelle and Ivette both gave the same question on the final answer, meaning if they were both wrong Janelle would lose, and if they were both right Janelle would lose. RIght before Julie read the final answer Janelle switched her choice, and it ended up being the correct one!
As excited as I was, I almost couldn't watch the tiebreaker. The question was how many combined votes to evict have been placed in the game. Both girls took their time, and once again, right before Julie wanted the final answer, Janelle siwtched her number. When they both revealed their answers, Janelle and Ivette both wrote down 66. Another tie! Another tiebreaker. If you were like me by this time, you absolutely couldn't watch. It was like a Superbowl that came down to a last-minute Hail Mary. It was like a NBA championship game 7 that came down to the last free throw. Thank god for Tivo, which game me time to regroup, and continue with the show.
The final tiebreaker question was how many total hours they had spent in the Big Brother house from the night they first entered to 5PM that day. With everything on the line, Ivette and Janelle once again took their time. I think Janelle is intelligent in the game, but I am not sure if she bothered with any calculus in her time, so this was probably a difficult question, and the same goes with Ivette. Besides, like Malibu Stacy says, "Math is Hard!" This question also really tested Julie's patience. "Answers please," she said at first, then after a few moments, put a little force in her voice and said "I need an answer," and when there was still no answer, she almost screamed she needed one "right now." These moments were made even more tense by the thumping music in the background. Listen for yourself.
By this time, Ivette had shown her answer, but Janelle was still a little pokey. Julie then demanded that Janelle write her answer down and finally Janelle revealed her answer: 1900. Ivette answered 1875. Both responses were higher than the acutal answer, but Ivette was closer than Janelle, and so she won. As if Ivette's win was not enough, the celebration with Maggie was even worse. Not only did we see Maggie gloat, but she jumped into Ivette's arms, wrapping her legs around her friend. Since it was live, the whole country got to see Maggie's butt crack, and the sounds of millions of American's retching could be hear all across the land. And much like Ivette a few weeks ago, each jiggle brought another rush of bile from our stomachs.
Maggie goes commando for one night, and now I must go without an erection for a year.
Now, there has been some questioning about the final question and did Ivette actually win. First of all, I think it is ludicrous to believe that CBS would have it fixed so anybody other than Janelle would win. She is the ratings of the show. Second, it could have been a Julie Chen error, and she made plenty last night, but that was not it either. I am a full blown conspiracy theorist, and I won't discount anything, but people are simply misinterpreting what Julie said. The conventional wisdom is this. Julie said "It was day 76 in the Big Brother house". Adding up 75 days times 24 then adding the 17 hours you get in the 76th day until 5PM, and you get 1817. But the house guests were living in the house about a week before any of the episodes aired. So 7 x 24 is another 168 hours, which puts it well over 1900, which means Janelle was closer.
Unfortunately, the math is off. Again, I am the first to shout conspiracy when I smell something funny; remember how upset I was about a fixed food competition? There is no way I would keep my mouth shut if I thought something was wrong. Count up the days since Big Brother first aired, and you get 71. Julie said it was day 76, meaning she was including the time they were in the house but no episodes had aired. Do the math again and you will see Ivette won fair and square. It doesn't make it any easier, but nobody cheated.
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