Big Brother Finale Recap: The Rain Man Cometh

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   whatwhat
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 3:35 am

   I find it hysterically funny and ironic that the ONE vote Dan received was from the one person he played the hardest. So hard that she’ll probably still be calling him for moral support and reassurance for the next six months, thoroughly convinced that he still has her best interests in heart even after he’s cashed his check and moved the hell on with his life.

   Although the look on her face during the BY interview when the interviewer let slip what Dan said to Shane on his way out the door was pretty priceless.

   I think Dan deserved to win, largely because he played the entire house like his puppets and it was highly entertaining to watch. But I’m glad Ian got it, because he’s a total nerd and the nerds seldom ever get to win.

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   Pikey578
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 4:52 am

   All season long I wanted either Dan or Ian to win. So did I get what I wanted? Yes and No… I felt sad that Dan didn’t win since he was such a great player – he was the reason this season was so good. Ian made some great moves as well so I guess I should go away happy. It seems like the jury was a little bitter and didn’t want to award great gameplay.

   Thanks for such a great recap – it was one in a long line of great recaps for this show! I also loved reading the forums – Chooch, Gifford, Noody, et al were great and a lot of fun to read.

   Til next summer when we meet again for BB15!

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   itchy
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 6:20 am

   I admit to wanting Dan to win while watching the finale, even though it became pretty clear that he knew that he was screwed — his only real hope was beating Ian in that finale competition, and he completely fucked that up, didn’t he? His other hope would be that the jury wouldn’t be too bitter — but with Mr. Holier-than-thou Frank-the-fuckwad outtalking everyone else, he didn’t really stand a chance there.

   Ian’s going to have a rude awakening when he watches the season and realizes the only reason he made it to the final was because DAN brought him there. Of course, the 500 gs ought to help soften the blow to his ego.

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   classy drunk
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 6:40 am

   @ Itchy, any other broke college student probably wouldn’t care how they won, but since Ian is such a fan I am sure he’ll be slightly disappointed. Then he’ll get in his bed and wipe his tears with hundred dollar bills.

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   alicecarroll13
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 6:53 am

   Danielle will now go into big brother history as being more dumb then jordan..well at lest jordan won…i hope shane has the brains to score with Danielle before half of the guys in america score with her knowing how dumb she is..i wonder how much money the people in the jury house get??? like survivor…do people get paid waiting at the house sipping drinking and cooking steaks? next big brother should be like kid nation..a house of pagent kids each with a mom battle to the end!!

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   cam
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 7:01 am

   My favorite part was Chen’s coughing fit on LiVE tv (when the 7 were questioning Dan and Ian). Loved it. Then she sounded like junk for a while.

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   Mister_Dangerous
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 7:22 am

   Uh, I can’t believe anybody is surprised by this. Wasn’t Dan playing Russell’s game? The only thing Dan was missing was Russell’s sexiness and manliness.

   I’m glad Ian won because without Russell’s sexiness and manliness Russell’s game play isn’t very attractive.

   My favorite part of the recap was:

   “Oh no, now we move on to BOOGIE. Basically, Dan played well, but Boogie thinks Ian became a man in the house or something? It’s gross and condescending, especially coming from a “man” who calls himself Boogie and wears self-made T-shirts with his own invented catchphrases on them.”

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   mere2142
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 7:25 am

   Let’s hope ‘preash doesn’t become a thing. Ever.

   I was disappointed they didn’t do the face mash up challenge this season. Some of those would have been frightening!

   Thanks to all the recappers for all the hard work and laughs this season!

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   considerthis
   Posted September 20, 2012 at 7:40 am

   Still need to finish recap but what is up with Jeff and Jordan being everywhere?!?! They were in the audience last night – good God Groedner cut them loose.

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    Annie
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 7:51 am

    Very very happy for the win. When Ian decided to evict Danielle, I thought for sure he was toast.

    I liked the final quiz challenge, because there’s really no way Ian or Dan could have thrown it….it was basically just pure guessing and dumb luck.

    If you look back, right after Ian won the HOH you can see Dan putting the infamous “Grandfather’s Cross Necklace” back around his neck. At first I was like, wtf what that about? Now we know!! I didn’t catch the handoff from Ian to Dan though.

    Ahh Big Brother, I hate you, love you, really fuckin’ hate you, then love you again. See you next year!!!!!

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    AntSuck
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 7:56 am

    I imagine they didn’t do the face-morph challenge because it would have been super easy. Who could that thing with Carrot Top’s hair and a tampon string on its chin represent? And who could that thing be that looks like a stereotypical lesbian with stoner eyes?

    Anyway, I don’t like it that Ian won, but Dan deserved to lose after evicting Shane. Once Joe was gone, Shane was obviously the best jury goat, and for Dan to get rid of the best remaining goat and keep the actual threat was what killed him.

    This season’s jury will go down as the worst jury since season 3. One thing I definitely don’t get is why Joe of all people hated Dan so much and was so holier-than-thou. Did Dan ever even have a deal with him? And lol when Joe said there’s a “manual in life.” I wonder what it says about people who yell at the top of their voices to cameramen three feet away, and who are so insecure as to wear a faux-hawk and a tampon string their chin?

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    AntSuck
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 8:10 am

    And I’m also surprised that no one brought up that Shane told the jury he was strategically AND PHYSICALLY in cahoots with Danielle. Yes, Shane, we get it that you want us to think you’re straight. The harder you try to convince us you’re straight, the gayer we’ll think you are.

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    considerthis
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 8:13 am

    You could see the fear in the outsed houseguests faces as they slowly started to realize their one shot at fame was evapotaing faster than Danielle’s eggs. The line SOMEONE HIRE ME in the recap says it all.

    Biggest offenders were Wil (who wants to be BOTH Wayland AND Madame), Shane who decided to start firing off one liners and raised the Romeo factor to make one last play to capture America’s heart, JennPity – cannot believe she sold one million anythings (is that really true), and of course our next Guy Ferrai. Too bad they are all aboard the bullet train to obscurity.

    LOVED the answers provided to Part 3 of the HOH competiton – wish there would have been more! Great Job BB/Gasm Team – until next summer!

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    crankyguy
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 9:19 am

    I can’t open pages 7 & 8. Anybody else?

    Brenchel was in the audience — she was holding the “Frank the Tank” sign, and he had on glasses and was at her left.

    Why is anybody giving Ian credit for creating the Quack Pack? I thought it was just as Dan said, that Ian was brought into Dan’s alliance of four (in a dog suit) under Britney’s sponsorship as the fifth wheel expressly because Ian promised to feed them information about Boogie and Frank. And, he didn’t even come up with the name; Britney did. Ian acted liked it was all part of his master plan.

    @considerthis, you just helped me realize why I hate Joe so much. Subconsciously, I was reminded of the doucheist chef in the world every time I looked at him.

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    mehrcat
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 9:22 am

    Thanks to all 3 recappers for their great work all summer!
    Ian might be the boy genius at Physics but not biology. If he HAD climbed up those windows like a snake, he’d still be on the ground.
    Danielle, “I am a little confused”, gets the award for understatement of the year.
    Frank should get an award for his pronunciation of the “Wholly Babble”. That’s just how we atheists fell about it.
    Boogiebored turned up wearing yet another piece of headwear! Does he not know that shampoo would be cheaper.
    Wil was showing far too much cleavage for that sports jacket. I used to think that gays had good dress sense.
    Danielle voting for Dan is surely an example of kissing the hand that punches you in the face.
    Glad to see Ian win, Dan’s shouting really pissed me off.

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    mehrcat
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 9:28 am

    P.S. Missed page 8 of the recap. It wouldn’t play!

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    Annie
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 11:21 am

    The design on Boog’s shirt was Frank and his ‘fro. Just fuck him and get it over with already.

    I did notice Shane said he and Danielle were physically in cahoots….poor Shane, does he not realize Danielle is a fucking psycho and he needs to just get far, far away from her? Oh, and that he’s gay?

    THANK YOU to all all the ‘cappers! Dan, Miki, Flipit you had me rollin’ all summer. Thanks for turning this shit show into an entertaining masterpiece!!!!

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    itchy
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 11:50 am

    Yay! I’m not the only atheist here! Hooray! Thank you J… whooops!

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    themiki
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    @itchy — apparently we have the same taste in both women AND supernatural gobbledeegook.

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    NotAlway'sPerfekt
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    Itchy@18, LOL!

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    wow
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    I hate the live jury questioning. Ian’s final speech really was all anyone on the jury needed to feel justified in voting for him despite dan obviously having played a superior game. He did a really good job in laying out his case.

    Count me in the atheist club too Itchy!

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    zerocool
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Yay Ian won, although I would’ve been happy if either of them had. Clearly mist only works if you are in the general vicinity.

    I was really surprised that Frank had won fan favorite, I thought Ian would for sure. But as someone pointed out in the forums, Ian & Frank are the two winners and they’re the only ones (besides Jodi) that actually applied to be on. So maybe America is trying to say something to Grodner? Think she’ll listen? I don’t.

    Till next year!

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    Derek Hazelton
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    @I love how some of the commenters, like@ itchy, hate a bitter jury, but part of winning the game is massaging the egos that were bruised by their evictions. Dan did a very terrible job of that last night and didn’t do any favors by trying to overtalk Ian during the jury questioning. Overall, Dan played a more skillful game this season than Ian, but let’s not forget that Boogie’s lack of a killer instinct kept Dan in the game, when clearly the move was to evict the one coach with one last player after Kara’s eviction.

    I also didn’t understand Dan’s argument that he HAD to be ruthless. Exactly why was that? He never explained it, and it seemed to be a mantra he was trying to “mist” the jury with, rather than being based in fact.

    I’m sure if Dan is asked back to play a third time, he will be one of the first people out of the house after the moronic behavior (as pointed out by Janelle) of the other players in the house.

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    PinkTop
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    Dan’s gameplay was good but not brilliant. Brilliant gameplay would have been sending the jury into the jury house liking you, respecting your gameplay, and voting for you in the end. Oh and how about NOT being a douche!?!?!? Dan – fail.

    Good for Ian. It wasn’t an ideal win, but I was satisfied. Happy to see douchebaggery unrewarded, and happy to know Ian can now afford the best training bras in the world.

    Gynecomastia surgery can’t come cheap either.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    My first BB year and I’m hooked. I love that Dan played everyone masterfully. And then ultimately played himself when they realized how they had been played.

    @AC13, a BB season with T&T moms (with or without the little divas) would be brilliant. Contact the producers. You might get a finders fee. There would be blood.

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    carol
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    I thought I was seeing things during Ian’s final speech, I am glad I’m not the only one that saw Ian’s BB boner. Janelle calling Danielle out on her lies – awesome. What was up with Shane’s hair cut? He looked awful.

    During the final questions and statements from Dan and Ian, I really wanted Dan to look at Ian and tell him to shut the f*** up. It was like Ian was a five year old and his older brother was telling the story of how the window got cracked to their parents and Ian didn’t want to get in trouble.

    Dan deserved to win, he actually played the game. This was just a bitter jury and voted out of spite. Ian was a fraction of the game player Dan was. In this type of game, it doesn’t really matter how many things you win. The fact that Dan only won one thing and Ian multiple yet they are both in the final 2, shows that Dan had to play the game not just rely on immunity.

    I hope that Ian never comes on another BB season. No one will listen to him, he still acts like an immature ass-hat. Any other season, he would have been gone about half way through. When the rest of his quack pack covered for him, they saved him from the wrath of Boogie. If there wasn’t the whole coaches twist this time, neither Dan or Ian would have made it as far.

    Maybe since Ian just won so much money he will buy some big boy clothes, maybe even a suit. Seriously, those were the nicest clothes he brought into the house?

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    whatwhat
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    @PinkTop The thing is, Dan was working on setting that up. He wasn’t working on setting up everyone loving him, though – he was working on everyone eating each other alive. There was an interesting point as Shane was on his way out the door after that blindside, where Dan pulled him aside and told him not to trust Danielle, because she had been playing him all along.

    But here’s the brilliant bit — he said “Ask Jenn. She’ll tell you all about it.”

    Danielle spent how much time complaining to Jenn about Shane? And the thing is – it was all an act. Danielle was trying to get Jenn to think that Dan, Danielle and Jenn were going to be the final three. By complaining endlessly about Shane, she was making it look like she wasn’t really that into Shane – that she was simply stringing Shane along because he was a strong player.

    That subterfuge was not Danielle’s idea – that was Dan’s. Not only did he trick Jenn into thinking she was safe and there was no deal going on with Shane, he set it up so that, in the event that he got Shane kicked out, he could send Shane back to the jury house. So he could talk to Jenn. And listen to Jenn tell him everything that Danielle told her, even though it was all an act.

    Had Dan sufficient time to pull this off, and had Shane been booted before the final three, he would have gotten that time with Jenn. And both Jenn and Shane would have immediately turned on Danielle and voted for Dan in the event that Dan/Danielle made it to the final two. And if Shane and Jenn were talking about it, everyone else would have heard about it, too.

    Dan wasn’t just playing the people in the house – he was systematically trying to feed his mist into the jury house, too. It just didn’t make it there in time. He played a really, really clever game, and worked people like chess pieces. It wasn’t the most ethical game in the world, but it was a brilliant one, especially in a house filled with people that were gullible enough to fall for everything he said.

    That said, I’m still happy Ian won, because out of everyone in that house, he was the last one I ever expected to make it to the end, much less win the $500k, especially after the first week. But I wish they had given Dan a little more credit, because the lies, deceit and backdooring is kind of what Big Brother is all about.

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    Robin
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    “I liked the final quiz challenge, because there’s really no way Ian or Dan could have thrown it….it was basically just pure guessing and dumb luck. ”

    With all respect Annie,

    I didn’t like the final challenge for the same reason. It was disapointing. I didn’t expect them to hang by a hot air balloon( they spent the hot air balloon budget on Julies Zingbot costume). But they topped off a season with a bunch of TAP- IT lights and dumb luck?

    What a mess. A train wreck kinda mess..but a mess indeed.

    Why do I watch this shit?

    Take care, Robin

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    JimmyT
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    Anyone else get the feeling that Dan threw the 3rd HOH comp? Those questions seemed pretty obvious. If his plan was to get Danielle to vote for him by having Ian be the bad guy and evict her, well I guess it worked LOL

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    themiki
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 10:00 pm

    I doubt he threw it. I’m pretty sure that he knew he had a way better chance against Danielle than he did against Ian. I honestly think he choked during the jury questions and final speeches. I think he could have long-distance misted his way to a win if he hadn’t come off as such a d-bag during all the live jury shit. For someone who could talk his way off the block and out of trouble with such skill, it was kind of sad to see him run out of mist and just crack.

    I liked Ian better anyway, and I’m glad he won, but I don’t think he would have if Dan could have kept his cool during that last hour of the season.

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    Chris Velazquez
    Posted September 20, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    Well, at least that cuntry bitch Dan lost, that’s about the only positive thing about this abysmal season. Wonder when the producers of this piece of shit will realize that the fucking gimmicks and twists stopped working several seasons aggo.

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    TinkerbellAPixie
    Posted September 21, 2012 at 7:35 am

    During the backyard interviews Dan said he threw the Final HOH comp, which is what I suspected, he had his “throwing it” face on. I really think he thought he could run away with the jury against Ian. Danielle dropping of HOH part 1 was a $50k mistake, Dan throwing the final part was a $450k mistake.

    I can not stand Ian – at all. His weird little ego is going to be inflated, so now instead of being a humble little OCD nerd, he’ll be an egotistical little OCD nerd. He wears humble much better. BLECHHH

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    crankyguy
    Posted September 21, 2012 at 10:19 am

    @TinkerbellAPixie, I totally agree wrt Ian. A nerd with a big head and an attitude is hard to take. I don’t think we’re allowed to stuff them in lockers anymore, and that’s a shame.

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    lovesthehobbitses
    Posted September 21, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    Janelle had said something along the lines of how much she respected Dan’s game because she was able to watch the show at home. Granted, we all seem to agree that Dan really did play a great game, but I wonder, from the POV of the jury, how much of an ass he came off as. From each of their perspectives, he was blindsiding everyone left and right. We at home got to see his master manipulation from all ends– his confessions and his talks with Danielle and how much in cahoots he was with everyone else. I’m wondering if he would have won if the jury were exposed to all his manipulation. Love Ian though!

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    AmyOops
    Posted September 21, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    As promised, I didn’t watch the last few episodes, and I’m really glad because Ian? IAN?!? For fuck’s sake.

    However, and sorry/yada yada yada, to the haters, but WOO HOO Frank won some more cash! Go Frank!

    Next season had better be like all veterans or all newbies, preferably the latter.

    Now I’ve gott a get to reading all the comments before mine

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    chooch850
    Posted September 21, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    The reason Frank won as “America’s Favorite” is because TPTB said so. They planned it that way. He was their dream player thru out the whole season and we live-feedcappers all know that quite well. If anyone can prove that America really voted for Frank to win that money, then I will believe it, if not, then Alison Grodner made sure it went to him and no one else.

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    Hantz Down
    Posted September 22, 2012 at 6:59 am

    I have to say that I do love Ian and was thrilled he won. Granted, I would have been happy if Dan won too because he was a puppetmaster which is the name of the game. But Dan had the advantage of having a complete idiot in Danielle t manipulate. I think that if such a dolt like her was not in the house, Dan would not have done as well. Plus Dan had the advantage of not having to play as a coach for weeks and had he just been a player, I think he would have been booted early.

    I think Ian had disadvantages of being awkward and a newbie that he still overcame and that is why he deserved to win. He has few social skills and ended up winning a social game (it also helped that he won HOHs and POVs).

    Dan lost it (for me anyway) during the questioning and speech. He was arrogant and condescending and the jury never goes for that unless you can wrap it up with a bow like Dr. Will. If he hadn’t tried to talk over Ian during questions to Ian, I think he would have done better. And for someone who rehearsed his speech to the jury, it sure was a mess.

    At least my ears can now rest with no more Dan or Joe yelling on my tv screen.

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    Bluedog
    Posted October 29, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    I don’t watch BB but I know a lot of the regulars on the other shows gasms watch.

    I am watching the news and hoping and praying that all my gasm friends are alright and that their homes are not being flooded.

    Just want to let you know I am thinking of you over here in Aus.