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Friday, September 2, 2005
1:35 am
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So, I’ve been saying it for a number of weeks now, but I have to say it one more time: things are looking grim for me in terms of Big Brother. The side in which I have chosen to invest all of my emotional well-being is now down to two people. Their enemies number four, and were in control of the house this week. When Howie and Janelle were put up for eviction, I thought it was going to take a small miracle to save them both from eviction. Well, that small miracle came when it looked like the Friendship had decided to once and for all get rid of James, and backdoored him into the nomination chair. On paper, it looks like you can chalk up a win for the Friendship, but as long as either Howie and Janelle are in the house, our hope springs eternal.Before we get any further, however, we have to take some time to talk about what Julie was wearing. I was lucky enough to get to handle two Julie episodes in a row, and I have to say that I was completely floored. I never thought that we would reach such stratospheric levels of wardrobe excess as we had with the Saturn V pantsuit, but today we got pretty damned close. Honestly, where do I begin? When Julie first came up on the screen, it literally took me five minutes just to comprehend what I first saw.
Julie appeared wearing a cardigan, but this was no ordinary cardigan – it was embroidered. The front was adorned with symmetrical embroidery, but this was no ordinary embroidery. It looked like two fireworks had been released and were trying to explode off of her chest. I am not sure how they got all of that intricate design, but let me foster a guess. Julie and Les are having sex, and for some strange reason (yes, stranger than me always wondering about their copulations), she likes to wear a sweater. Les doesn’t like this, pulls a little bit of a Houdini! on her, and at the, umm, “height of his arousal,” makes a little bit of a mess. He then makes her roll around in rainbow sprinkles. Having donated her wardrobe to victims of the hurricane, she is forced to wear it on air. There is no other explanation for this, trust me.
One word for this top? Espantoso!
As strange as the shirt sounds now, it took me another five minutes to get a handle on that trim. All around the edges of the fabric there hung small little balls of string. I was beginning to think that Julie walked into some gay pride acorn festival in Mexico, and they had made her master of ceremonies or something and she was forced to wear the shirt. But then when we zoomed out, we got the pants. Oh those pants. All black with bell bottoms, like she had just pulled them off of the set of Saturday Night Zorro and she just finished her disco routine with John Travolta and didn’t have time to change. And how about those wonderful new locks? Goodbye Chelmet, hello bold curls! Is Julie going to be in a L’Oreal commercial soon?
But the best was saved for last. I bet those wardrobe people think they are tricky. We thank them for the cleavage today, but who the hell do they think they are kidding with those pants? We knew that there is a camel toe hiding somewhere in there, so we got this shot and had it digitally enhanced. Who do they think we are? Amateurs? They can’t sneak one by us like that and think they’re going to get away with it. We’ve got Photoshop! And great imaginations! Take a look for yourself.
After a peek into the house, Julie gave us the rundown, and reminded us that April was a pharmaceutical rep from Texas, which makes sense. It is a really easy job for her since a lot of her neighbors like to buy drugs from her, and when she gets back to the 2nd floor northeast wing of that nursing home, I’m sure they’ll throw a party. It’s either arthritis medicine, timeshares, or Rascal mobility scooters, and you can tell April chose well.
Obviously, I have given April a lot of shit. I think most of the shit was stuff that she deserved, because she is one of the fakest, hypocritical bitches I have seen in a long time. I’ll give credit where credit is due, however, and April really did step it up this week. She won HOH, nominated, Janelle and Howie, and then backdoored James when she won power of veto. She was one of the few people in the house to have a plan (some would argue that it was Maggie’s plan) and execute it to success.
When James was backdoored, he knew that he had few options, but he was lucky because he did have Ivette. After he was nominated, Howie tried to make a few jokes, saying “at least you get to pack with me.” James was NOT pleased and said that it “was not the time for jokes.” It was, however, time to get some comfort from Ivette. They embraced, and there was Maggie, who had a real problem with the scene saying that she couldn’t believe what Ivette was doing. Yeah, I hate it when other people try to comfort their friends and make them feel better; they are just horrible people.
Doesn’t Maggie look like she has a crush on Ivette? And is jealous of James?
What James would really like is some answers, like why did they have to take off Janelle instead of Howie. He wanted to know if it was April’s idea or if the reached some consensus. Ivette’s answer was just like you would expect from somebody in a cult. “It’s not something that we really talk about.” You see, first they are asking questions about the nominations, then they are wondering why you shaved your head, then they ask why you would move to the Caribbean, and then they start to question why you would drink the Kool-Aid. It’s a vicious cycle, and no true believer would ask questions.
With that method tried, James starts to become more direct. He knows he has to sway Ivette, and then presumably she could get Beau, and then he would either have to get Maggie or Janelle on his side to avoid sending it to a tie and having April decide. Sound theories when you think about it, but when you think about it a little more, you see what kind of uphill climb James has. How is Maggie going to vote for him? She is absolutely scared to death that he might come back and start to attack her. It’s not something that she is going to risk. Ivette tries to approach her, but she is just playing lip service at this point.
From there, he decides that maybe he will have better luck with Janelle. He argues that Howie hasn’t been winning any competitions and that she would go much farther in the game if she aligned with him and voted off Howie. Again, a good theory, but Janelle is just too close to Howie to betray him like that. She gives a non-committal answer, but when James goes out to Ivette, he says that Janelle made a pinky swear to give him a sympathy vote. What is it about pinky swears and reality contestants that makes them so prevalent? I just don’t get it. Whatever happened to handshakes and signing your names in blood?
We finally get to our first Julie Chen visit with the houseguests, and we get some more of those stupid “questions from the fans” from CBS.com. Now, these things are usually pretty stupid, but I have to say bravo to the viewer who sent in the first question, and the producer who decided that it should go on air. After Janelle once again thanked everybody for winning America’s Choice, Julie turned to Maggie and said “Maggie. You look great. What have you been doing inside the house to lose weight?” If you were stunned by that question, you should have seen the look on Maggie. When you think about it, it’s not even a compliment. Sure, she looks great, but if it’s because she lost weight, it must mean that she was really fat to begin with. And if she didn’t lose weight, she must be wondering if it was a cruel joke. She also said that it was also helped with lots of laughter. You tell them Maggie! I know that every time I laugh at you, it puts a smile on my face, so maybe you have a point.
How many beers and how many paper bags does it take?
Perhaps the worst part about April winning HOH was realizing that we were going to have to deal with meeting April’s friends and family back home. For some reason, CBS is still trying to convince us that April is less than fifty years old, and first introduces us to some of her sorority sisters, Melanie and Kelly, who spend their time doing impersonations of Carrie Underwood and Monica Lewinski. Although they tried to convince us that they went to school with April sometime in the mid-nineties, the only pictures we saw were from the mid-80s. Again, who are they trying to fool? We are also supposed to be impressed because she graduated Magna Cum Laude, or as Kelly said, Magna Come Loud, which was also Jennifer’s nickname in college. Ahh, the circle of life, it all comes together this SUMMER OF SECRETS.
Senior Week 1985. Back to the Future was awesome!
But that was nothing like the main event. We got to finally see April’s husband. You can see why they love each other so much. He is too young to realize that she has all of that plastic surgery, and her vision is so bad that he doesn’t have to worry about what a huge slob she is, because she can’t tell. Her husband is really upset with Howie for calling him fat and making fun of April, but this guy is clearly all talk. Besides, he’s not fat, he’s big boned. And no, that is not a joke, he actually spoke those words. He’s just big boned, he’s not fat. Whatever you say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, chubbs. He then tried to wow us with some fat guy schtick about how he was going to do martial arts and kill Howie for making fun of his wife. It might have been more believable if it didn’t remind everybody of that SNL episode where Chris Farley tries to beat out Patrick Swayze for a spot with Chippendale’s.
That boring interview gives us the perfect segue into an interview with April, and you just know that the Big Brother producers were ecstatic to have some questions for April. Whenever the HOH interviews go on, Julie asks some stupid questions and the HOH gives some stupid responses. April, however, is one of the most gossipy houseguests in recent memory, and she is just willing to give some answers. She first talks about how awesome and competitive she became, and how she is not a weak player, and she was just laying low and playing under the radar. It sounds believable, but then again she hasn’t seen her performance in the pool veto competition, so she can actually say that with a straight face. She then goes on to say that she and Maggie are a pair, and that the house is all pairs now. But after that, I was kind of disappointed, she was given the opportunity to trash some of her roommates, but she declined, even when she was talking about Ivette.
Before we got to another live vote, we got a chance to go into the sequester house. While they usually send people off to some tropical location, this time they were some place in wine country. There were rolling hills, and a lodge, and hot air balloons lifting off in the background. I remember the first time I saw this sequester segment when it was called, you know, Sideways. Jennifer was there alone, and I tell you what, I never thought Jennifer was that bad looking. She is a dancer, and I don’t care what people say, that means she has some flexibility. As long as she is willing to do something more than just lay there and closer her eyes, I am sure it would be fun. But I would, of course, leave before she had a chance to wake up in the morning and ask me to breakfast or something. God, I hate that. I also hated her stupid knitted top which looks a lot like an afghan my grandmother knitted for our dog to sleep on in the winter. See for yourself.
Anyway, Jennifer said she basically didn’t care who came back, as long as it wasn’t Rachel. Oh thank you Big Brother, for the wonderful irony of seeing Rachel come back into the sequester house. The look on her face when Rachel walked around the bend was great, and this is why we need a sequester house episode. Yes! For as long as TVgam has been around, I have been advocating more time in the sequester house. While it was good listening to them try and make nice to each other, it was great watching them as they watched a tape of the action from the previous week. And CBS, why so cheap? Can’t you make DVDs by now? Why stick with the VHS?
Back to the vote, our nominees got a chance to save themselves off of the block with one more impassioned plea towards their housemates. Howie started off by cutting off Julie! Fortunately for him, Julie’s interruption retaliation anti-personnel mines are out of service and his life was spared. He basically did his schtick, saying how wonderful he was, making another Hurricane Howie joke, which I am guessing he will probably retire once he gets out of the house. Julie had to do a laugh interruption, and it was one of her best yet. Yes, you will have to play it a thousand times to truly appreciate it. [click for audio link]
Howie threatened to show his balls if he was evicted.
We then got to the voting, which was live. Julie was in prime form with her color commentary, and did a very good job when Beau did a premature “Hi Julie” when she was still giving her lines. The vote, however, wasn’t close. James was evicted unanimously, and was shown the door. BTW, have you noticed how fatigued Howie gets during these evictions? He’s up there, patting people goodbye, and when they close the door, he walks away, like he just got done with a marathon and is trying to do a cool down. He’s breathing heavily, but you don’t know why. Perhaps he is just trying to get himself psyched for the next competition.
James had a very normal Chenterrogation. Once again, Julie asked him about Howie’s move putting up him and Sarah. Once again, James told us what we and many others have been saying for a long time now, namely that it was one of the stupidest strategy decisions he could have made. I really hated James in the beginning, but his resilience and his odd Ben Affleck + Toy Story face have grown on me. I can’t say that he was a favorite, but he was a schemer and he found a way to survive. He was also very gracious to the other people in the house. Yes, he did call them stupid for making so many mistakes which let him stay so very long, but he was very appreciative of Ivette and their friendship, and even had nice things to say about Maggie.
The goodbye messages weren’t really spectacular, and it was time for the HOH competition, so I was pretty dejected by this point. Like I said, the odds were stacked against my team, and with back to back wins by the friendship, I really was losing my will. I will watch the show, but how am I going to be able to enjoy it? The new game was called “Play it Straight.” There was a small bowling lane set up, with dropoffs to either side, divided into sections. As you got farther to the other end of the lane, the section numbers increased from 1-6. The seventh segment was zero, but if you were able to get it all the way through the segments and through the hole on the other side, it would be ten points.
First of all, bravo producers. If John Platt reads this blog still, well I have to thank him. CBS knew what they were doing. They placed the Friendship players at the beginning, with Howie and Janelle last. Depending on how well the one alliance did, the underdogs would have to overcome to win. True to form, Beau got 11 points, which is a great score. 6 and 5, almost as good as you can do without risking zeroes. Now I am not sure if you can imagine what it is like to be in the TVgasm offices at times like this, but it was unimaginably tense. When B-Side and I say that our hearts are beating, not thumping, and we are on the edge of our seats, it’s not just to have some sort of dramatic effect. That is the feeling in the TVgasm offices. I could barely stand to look as Janelle stepped up, and then Janey rolled a 6! Oh my God, could she do it? We learned that it was going to be double eviction, could she win again? Sadly, no, Janey wasn’t able to repeat her 6, and scored lower than Beau, meaning it would all be up to Howie.
Oh Howie, so very maligned. When Janey failed to deliver, I was nearly sick. How in the world could I stand another week of Beau as HOH? It was not fair. I slumped in the couch, and waited for Howie to screw up and leave us reaching for the 150 or so Ambien it was going to take for us to make the pain go away. And then Howie rolled a 6! Oh my god. Could it happen?! One more roll left. We need a six, Howie. Please, a six. I would staple my left nut to my leg if you would just roll a six! Howie took his position, moved his ball down, and….six! I jumped from the couch, trying to avoid crushing the iBook, and screamed “YES!” High gives were passed all around, and we took a moment to digest what just happened. In the very last seconds of the game, Howie proved his worth and turned the atmosphere in the room around 1000 percent. Oh was it ever so lovely. It was orgasmic, like I had just shaved my nuts and rolled them around in Gold Bond. I was sooo excited. Howie saved the season for me, at least for another couple of days.
Until this time, Julie did not reveal it would be double eviction. The houseguests were clueless. They were all in the living room, where she tried to throw them off with some more “questions from the fans,” which I am sure simply come from some interns. She was ready to drop the bomb of the double eviction right after she got Howie’s response to if he was thinking about who he would nominate. He then said “What, is there another double eviction?” This sort of unexpected response usually makes Julie’s head explode, but after a brief moment to process the questions, she said “You took the words right out of my mouth,” and then told Howie he would have to nominate on the spot. I was beginning to get worried, because even though Howie’s only ally was Janelle, and I was pretty sure he couldn’t mess up, you can never be sure. He picked Ivette and Beau, the last pair, and it looks like the Hurricane might tear them apart.
Thankfully, there is really no way Howie can screw up this week other than promising things to people and going back on his word. But unless Janelle suddenly stabs him with a fork or something, she is going to be safe. One more of the Friendship will be sent packing. Even though I have to go into work early and suffer from even less sleep than normal, it was all worth it for this episode.
Who will be evicted this week? Who will Howie nominate if Beau or Ivette win veto?
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If Beau or Ivette win, and I don’t think they will, Howie will put up Maggie.
Well, it looks like we dodged a bullet. Like you, I was on the edge of my seat, almost biting my nails when Howie finally rolled that double 6! I immediately wanted to see Beau’s expression, because he had looked so smug after he rolled that 11. Whew!
Re the sequester house. How bad an actress is Jen? It sure twists my stomach to watch her asides to the camera after she says something “nice” to Rachel. Love seeing her squirm, though. Sadly, she’ll soon have moral support when another “Friend” from “her Group” arrives at the house. James is just goping to mope around and play the middle, but I kinda hope he’ll be pulling for Janelle or Howie.
You’re right: someone in CBS should somehow find a way to let Howie know about the Katrina disaster so he’ll stop making references to hurricanes. I kinda cringe now when he does it.
All in all, very satisfying. It would be awesome if Janelle can win HOH Saturday, though.
I wanna see Ivette cry some more. I think that they should cut in the footage of her bed-thumping meltdown every time something doesn’t go her way. And the footage of April praying at the toilet should be cut in to visually embody the Friendship’s “hope” any time they think something might go their way. If they can cut in all those crappy black and white recaps, they can at least do this. I wouldn’t mind sitting through it.
I’m SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that Ivette and BoBo are up on the block. My only problem is that cult leader Maggie is still in control of the Fiendship. If one of the queer folk get the veto, Maggie should GO!!
I also cringed when Howie mentioned Hurricaines and feel that the producers should alert the houseguests like they did for 9/11. This is still a national dissaster even though it’s New Orleans and not Manhattan. That said…
Jen’s acting was horrible. Does she not realize that this is a game and she should get over the resentment. It does not become her. Rachel was gracious and seemed to forget the past only to have Jen smirk and be happy about Rachel being evicted. What a sore bitch Jen is.
Cold not be more estatic that Howie won HOH. Again, more jumping up and down and fists pumping in the air on my part.
My hopes were pretty low when it came to the HOH comp. last night. I thought I would be okay if anyone BUT Ivette won (because really, who wants to see her cry in happiness? What fun is that?)
But then Howie, oh thank you Howie. Neither Ivette or BoBo are great veto competitors so I am going to go out on a limb and predict one of them is def leaving.
And Jen? “MY group” this, “MY group” that. Girlfriend, just wait til you get out of sequester. I really hope you’re not banking on some sort of “acting” career because frankly, it ain’t gonna happen.
i have NOT been able to get that ben affleck/toy story/james comparison out of my head since you first mentioned it.
every time i see james, i see him with a cowboy hat on, and tom hanks’ voice. weird.
Thank you. I live in Cleveland and they were playing the Browns preseason game last night. So I was unable to watch. It was on at 2:05am, but I have to work for a living. Excellent rehash of the episode. Down with the Nerd Herd!
Time for some “supposes”. If a Friendship member gets the veto she (yes, they’re all shes) will surely take off Beau and put up Janelle, forcing Howie to nominate Maggie, unless he pulls another boner and nominates “Busto” just because he hates her. BUT, come to think of it, you have to try and figure out who the least deserving person to go on is. I’d rather see Maggie get to the end than April any day. Sooooo, I’d think they would still vote Ivette out, since we all know Maggie inherited Cappy’s mantle and is the acknowledged leader of “Jen’s Group”. God, she pissed me off last night every time she said that! I think we’ve all agreed that it will be delicious to watch the Nerd Herd begin to evict each other after they’re done with the S2. The fact that we’ll have to watch one of them being crowned is bad, but then that person will emerge to America’s scorn and will watch the episodes I’m sure their families have taped.
How lame is April’s husband? “Big Boned”, indeed! Have to admit the dog is cute, even if Yapril gave him such a stupid name. Then, too, you have to feel sorry for the guy. Listening to her every day would make me pour a can of gasoline over my head and light the match (Airplane).
End of ramblings: With some luck and skill Janelle and Howie can triumph. They’re only one more HOH away from thinning the Herd and then can duke it out and try to survive together. That would make Howie the winner of $500K.
Not much zing in this review, J-Unit. Should have waited until you got some rest before getting it done. I actually look forward to your reviews more than the show itself. Get ready for Martha and the Donald!
does anyone think howie’s airlats are getting bigger?
Oh, the grammar! How many times in one episode can they say “Him and I” or “She and me”…it makes me cringe every time I hear it!
What?! This was on? NYC had NFL Preseason show…
Ah, one of the few perks of Los Angeles not having a football team: uninterrupted Big Brother!
An unusually high number of ‘ball’ and ‘nut’ references in another fine recap.
I hate the friendship. People who aren’t clever enough to come up with a better name for themselves don’t deserve to win.
I was waiting for a comment on April’s obvious nose job! She had a pretty good honker in her college days, but I think she looked better with that than the Michael Jackson nose she’s sporting now!
I too was looking forward to a comment on the nose job. This picture doesn’t really do justice to the enormity of what it once was. I am glad someone else noticed. I think that MJ nose is a huge contributor to how old she looks now!
Once again I think Howie made a mistake, but not nearly as big as nominating James and Sarah. Think about it, if Ivette and Beau are left on the block, Beau will be gone. This really does nothing to hurt the friendsheep. He should have put up Ivette and Maggie, because the friendsheep still have the voting power, and of course they will not vote out Ivette over Beau. It would have been better to put up the two power people in the cult and let them divide the team. April would stick with Maggie and Beau would stick with Ivette and Janelle would have the deciding vote. Maybe Janelle or Howie will win veto and take Beau off and replace him with Maggie.
I also think April looked much better pre-surgery. Her face was much fuller. She has admitted to having multiple surgeries, and even admitted to having her lips done. What a mistake.
Rick D.
i really wanted a video clip of april’s big boned husband rubbing his stomach bone saying, “you want some of this pony keg?” bummer.
Man this show is draining me emotionally. THank god we survive for another day. Howie better not fuck it up again.
Janelle is looking so much hotter now that shes put on a few pounds. And the more i think about it, I think one of them is going to stay until teh end because the friendship needs one of them as a spoiler to get votes. that would be awesome.
THe awkwardness between rachel and jenn was delicious. I was eating it up like candy.
I have a huge idea…..lets make the last “secret” this…….14 new house guests that have been watching the whole thing on closed circuit TV and tell the rest of them its all been a dream ……the last of the 14 “new” house guests that haven’t puked committed suicide or killed someone IN the house wins a million and gets to crown a all star team for big brother 7…….”The quest for intelligent life and interesting people with no ugly dogs fat husbands and stupid catch phrases” ….better yet celebrity BB with a twist…..you have to be a REAL celebrity …………god help us if they let Ben and Jen part 2 in there
Wow, I completely missed the April nose job. I mean, it’s quite apparent even without the before picture, but wow, I didn’t even notice it.
J-Unit, excellent recap. However you missed a number of obvious jokes when Bobo kissed the bowling ball before he rolled. Dude, seriously. The most annoying homo on tv ever, who’s an admitted prostitute, kissing a ball, that’s blue, on national television and we don’t get any jokes on that? For shame J-Unit, for shame.
THat “big boned comemnt” by aprils husband was great. Apparently unlike most humans, he has bones in his ass and chin.
julie chen es muy caliente. seriously…even with the mini-explosions on her sweater.
Did anyone notice praying in the bathroom before HOH comp? Note to Ivette, HE WASN”T LISTENING!!!
RE: TM (#25)
Yeah someone should tell scankvette to stop praying, becasue she really does look like an even bigger ass (if its possible) asking God to help her when there is an entire region of the United States that is in dissary and despair.
The producers really should inform Howie so well, so that he’ll stop with the hurricane references. You can’t blame him at this point since he has no clue whats occuring in the real world.
Did anyone notice the audio after Howie interrupted Chenbot by guessing it was a double elimination week? The camera panned to a brief look at Maggie and you could hear some strange “Whooshing” sound and I was sure Chenbot was on major overload!
I’m on the East coast so the unbearable wait for the tvgasm recap is painful…. Not as painful as April’s many plastic surgeries though. I was resigned to another ‘fiendship’ victory this week simply due to numbers, I never had a single thought that my Sovs would pull it out so imagine my glee, my screeching jumping shrieking GLEE in that moment before Howie realized he won – BUT I KNEW!!!!! Just please please they have to get rid of Ivette they just have to. Poor Rachel in the swamp house though with those two raving beyotches. There has not been enough Jen-bashing around here BTW – she is almost worse than Ivette.
Long live Howie.
Copycat, I wondered about that, too (post #26.) If one of the houseguests was from the south or had family on the Gulf coast, would the producers have told them and let them call to check on their home and family? I wonder if before the game starts the players have to sign saying that they will not receive notice of emergencies. And if they can be told of emergencies, who decides when it’s bad enough to tell them? I would be livid if I found out weeks after the fact that just about the worst natural disaster in US history had happened and I wasn’t able to check on friends and family who were in the region victimized by it.
Hey, J-Unit, Detroit doesn’t have a football team either! I walked out at halftime…
Ivette needs to go, she NEEDS to go. She must go be with James in the sequester. I blame her for the 2nd eviction of Kaysar.
Ugh, and I want to evict Jennifer from life.
What I don’t understand is how the Girl Scouts can keep saying that the EVIL are always being rewarded and not understand that that means THEM. THEY are the ones who are winning. They think of themselves as the oppressed underdogs in this game. Furthermore it makes me want to vomit, all this nonsense about how god is guiding them: “god lets the other side win so that we don’t have to eliminate each other.” Plus what is Ivette thinking (stupid question) when she keeps talking about what the bible has to say about evil? Has she not come to the point where the word “abomination” keeps coming up? (Yes, Ivette, that means you.) PLUS, for all of you who persist in telling us that the Girls Scouts are more mature and better behaved, April keeps taunting BB, saying they suck donkey dick, and has also said she wants to slit Janelle’s throat. CBS: LET’S SEE THIS ON TV. I am NOT happy with the popularity scores way up there in the 20s, I want to see a bunch of scores of ZERO.
Okay, I feel better now.
two words about julie’s sweater – Dippin’ Dots!!!!!
Okay, last night I realized I have a little bit of a Big Brother obsession. My boyfriend proposed and after a few minutes of reveling in the excitement of it all I said “Can I still watch Big Brother tonight?” Luckily it was tivoed…He recorded the whole event and he says he can’t wait for me to tell our grandchildren what Big Brother was…
Sparky, take heart, the number of people around here claiming that the cult is more mature and respectable than the other players is even less than the popularity points of Crappy!
Julie’s sweater reminded me of a Christmas tree skirt. I was amused when Howie kept on interrupting the Chenbot – she really seemed genuinely MAD when she was asking him for his nominations. She must not have a program for Hurricane Howie control and it really pissed her off last night!
Once again, another great re-cap!
smithie 34,
Congratulations on your impending nuptials!
Where are you (gonna be) registered?
ha!
Hey, Smithie, congrats! Will TVGasm be live-blogging the ceremony?
Felicitations, smithie, and many happy returns! Maybe CBS would let you two get hitched in the BB house. If you join the Nerd Herd cult, your personal saviour Cappy could attend and bestow his munificent blessing, and you could watch his jealous high priestesses Maggie and Ivette squabble about who gets to officiate (‘My faith is purer!’).
The look of utter disbelief on Howie’s face made his victory that much sweeter. I think he might have done better to nominate Beauring and Maggie, so as to get the maximum amount of tension within the Girl Scout Troop prior to the [Golden Power of...{?}] Veto competition, then put up Ivette if either one gets taken off. Still, a big improvement over the criminally bone-headed James/Sarah nominations.
Ditto everyone who said that the houseguests should be informed about the hurricaine, they might have family/friends in the affected areas. Plus it makes Howie look much worse than usual, for reasons (for once) beyond his control, every time he evokes Hurricaine Howie. Incidentally, I hope that TVGasm readers and their loved ones have been spared from the ravages of this terrible catastrophe. I feel badly that I haven’t kept up wih my American Red Cross disaster response training, so I can’t be deployed as of now. At least I can donate.
Great recap, J-Unit, keep up the good work.
Thanks Ashes. I will try not to get so worked up over it. Still, to know that there are ANY people who think that way…
Meanwhile, if the others found out about the hurricane they would probably blame Janelle for it.
If they do tell Howie not to use hurricane too much in his speech, then they should clearly tell him that “strategical” is not a word, right?
Howie’s nomination of Ivette and Beau was perfect. This way one of them goes no matter what. If he had put up Maggie and Beau and Ivette had won the veto and taken Beau off both of them would be safe. I think Beau is the strongest player in the Friendsheep team. He has won HOH once and come very close a couple of times. Ivette is pretty much a waste of a nomination. The only reason I would want her off is because she’s such a nasty bitch.
Anyways, I was on the edge of my seat during the HOH competition yesterday. All my hopes were pinned on Janelle. When she screwed up I thought we were lost. I couldn’t believe it when Howie actually pulled it off!!
I felt the same way about Janelle’s HOH win. Isn’t it strange how little faith we have in the our favorite team? They always surprise us and that is why we love them so!!
(#39), I looked in the members list in the forums-three people listed Louisiana as their location: joney, mjcannary, and snonasom. I hope that they are okay.
adding to my previous post, possibly sitboy. The shcroder family who is sitboy’s team if he did make the race, is from those parts. A friend has said though that they are okay.
Great recap. Once question about Chenbot’s outfit … besides the fact it looks like someone with absolutely no sense of style (yes, that is a reference to Beau) went wild w/a bedazzler and didn’t quite know when to stop….
Ok, so we all know that the Crypt Keeper finally made good on MAGGIE”S plan from weeks ago, but has anyone questioned how she can go on national tv and call her self a pharmaceutical sales rep when all she does is sell Hillybill Heroin out of the back seat of her car?
J-Unit, great recap but now I know why I thought you were all gay. You’re not a lesbian anymore… you’re a gay man. ;>
I doubt Beau or Ivette will win veto and if one of the other four do, no one else would use it. I’m hoping Ivette doesn’t get it because I want her gone first, of the pair.
If Beau or Ivette do win veto, I think Howie would have to put up Maggie. April got rid of James so she should be safe for that. But Maggie should just be a pawn… 4 players all lost their secret partners, so you know none of them or the jury members want to see anyone win a million when there’s only one pair left. One way or the other, the skeeziest gay “couple” is broken Saturday.
I hope the other goes next week. As gay men, my partner and I are sick and tired of rooting against such pathetic queers. They’re giving us a bad name.
If Janelle can get HOH Saturday, she and Howie could go to the final two. That would give the 500K to Howie because the Cappies would never give it to Janelle. I can live with that. I like ‘em both and do NOT want a repeat of last year when the evil team won.
Nony, J-Unit isn’t gay- just ask his future wife Tyra.
As for being embarassed by people in the house, as a heterosexual female Cappy, Maggie and April make me ashamed. So I guess we are even.
And as for Julie’s sweater, I think it was a lampshade and maybe Liz on “the Cut” made it for her from trash on a barge.
ah, big brother. what a delightful momentary escape you are from our tragic, confused and confusing reality. despite howie’s unwittingly tasteless hurricane references, there’s something perversely quaint about the thought that our little hamsters are oblivious to the catastrophe in our beloved south (presumably, CBS would have informed ivette, beau, or janelle if anyone they know was impacted by katrina; the horrors of new orleans have overshadowed the fact that south florida took yet another deadly hit before the hurricane moved into the gulf). in any case, it puts a whole different spin on the pleasures of watching people get fat and squabble over half a million bucks.
and howie can be forgiven for his tastelessness, since he gave us all something to smile about towards the end of a pretty bad week. not sure he made the best nominations, though. it might make sense to split up beau and ivette–after all, beau might be wooed to betray maggie and april, knowing he’d have a sure win against howie or janelle–but ivette is totally inept in competitions, and would strategically be a better person to keep around than maggie or april, who has had the hot hand lately and can no longer be accused of being a floater.
ah, who cares. we get to see another friendsheep take the walk of shame, and i have faith that janelle can keep the streak alive. go janey!
Thank You! Thank you! We just discovered TVGASM and we are totally on the same page. I had virtually lost hope & sworn off Big Brother when Howie redeemed himself & won HOH!
Stay tuned.. But before I go, it bears mentioning what a totally hateful person Jennifer is. I mean, does she not realize that there are several cameras pointed at her face when she continues to show the world what a total phony she is? I would use stronger vocabulary but you can use your imagination. If my wishes come true, tonight we will bid adieu to Ivette. Everything about Ivette gets on my last nerve. OBNOXIOUS!!! God help her girlfriend.
jennifer continues to show her idiocy in this episode, just like in her exit interview, she said she was willing to put kaysar up and get evicted herself for the team, and in sequester, she keeps talking about how her team is winning and so on, umm, Jennifer, it is not a team game, you have no team. you LOST, and that is the end for you.
j-unit, you overdo it with the disturbingly detailed sexual stuff. it would be nice if you’d visit your sexual fantasies and/or nightmares upon us less frequently. ideally, never.
nice recap. aside from the les/julie copulation theory.
My mother made her self a hand bag with the exact same trim Julie has on her jacket in 1975!! I am dead serious… Who dresses this woman?