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Friday, September 8, 2006
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So I guess this is my last Big Brother recap of the season. How very sad. How very sad for so many reasons. I won’t get into it now, but I’m sure most of you know what I’m talking about already. Honestly, I really don’t know what to say right now. It’s been an up and down season, with more downs than ups, but enough ups to make up for the downs. Gosh, I didn’t know I could write “up” and “down” so many times in one sentence and not be talking about the secret code to Contra. Nevertheless, Tuesday’s episode was magnificent, truly wonderful. We knew it would be hard to top it, and going into tonight’s live eviction, we also knew there was danger that at least one person could spoil everything. For Janelle fans, that would be Boogie. For Boogie fans, that would be Janelle. And for Erika fans, that would be… well… no one. She was pretty much guaranteed a spot in the final two no matter what. So who will be making it to the very end? Why, the answer is after the jump!Tonight’s episode began with the always welcomed image of Julie Chen, who appeared to be honing her alter ego: The Scarlet Temptress! Yes, the Chenbot was clad in a sumptuous red top that promised a night of seduction for whichever man was so lucky to enter her lair (We’ll assume it’s Leslie). However, as much as I’d like to dote on Julie’s latest sartorial choices, there’s much story to be recapped; so I’ll just move on.
Ravishing!
The Chenbot delivered her one and only “BUT FIRST!” of the night, and then she told us, “It was a big night Tuesday when the [voice lilting to brief falsetteo] PUPPET- [voice returning to normal] -master Will found his strings severed by the women of the house, and no one was more surprised than his Chill Town partner, Mike, whose jaw is still. on. the. ground.” We then headed back into the house where Erika enjoyed an empowered, Sisters-Are-Doing-It-For-Themselves moment in the diary room. She cheered on Janelle’s big eviction, saying, “You get ‘em, girlfriend! Let’s get these boys!” And with that, she suddenly transformed into a licensed joyologist as she kicked her leg in the air and screamed, “I love this game!” She then added, “I love it I love I love it I love it I LOOOOOVE IIIIITTTT!!!”
While Erika rejoiced, Boogie reeled with shock over his master’s eviction. “I’m totally flabbergasted,” he said, barely able to endure the traumatic experience of suddenly being an unclaimed sidekick. Adding insult to injury was Erika, who walked by him after the eviction and said, “Checkmate.” If I were her, I’d revise that to “check,” but I still appreciated the haughty sentiment.
A bitter Boogie then told us, “Showmance can be very effective for you. It kind of turned into a ho-mance, and I’m glad that America now knows that Erika is in fact a ho.” Ouch! To think this is the same guy who Giada De Laurentiis once invited over to a backyard BBQ (why I never got a screencap of that is beyond me). Boogie then continued, “So I’ve used that girl up for all I need. I’ve got myself in a position to win this game, and that’s all she was good for.” Wait, doesn’t that mean that he’s the ho? He just said he used her to advance himself in the game. Sorry, Boogie. Idaho? No, you da ho!
Erika then came on screen and told us her baby plans with Mike were now on hold. THANK GOD. Every day that goes by without his seed permeating humanity is a good day. Boogie then bashed Erika some more, saying, “Erika’s been moping around. She had her ugly long face on all day.” This comes from a man with a hook nose and a chin you can safely place a whiskey tumbler on. Not saying there’s anything wrong with that, but people in glass houses shouldn’t throw armbands.
Of course, Boogie wasn’t about to show the girls how bitter and vengeful he was. Instead, he tried to act cool with everything, complimenting Janelle on her eviction and saying how it was such a great move and so bold and blah blah blah. We could tell he just wanted to bash her head against the counter and scream, “YOU TOOK AWAY MY MASTER! YOU TOOK AWAY MY MASTER!!! HE’S MY LIFE!! MY EVERYTHING!!! YOU TOOK THAT FROM ME!!!”
We then watched the “endurance” challenge again, and I put endurance in quotes merely because it lasted less than two minutes. I was still highly amused at Mike’s idiotic decision to take himself off the block, but my heart sank a tad when I learned that Erika was planning on throwing it so Janelle could win. Apparently, just seconds before Janelle had taken her hands off, Erika was about to step down, but alas, it never happened, and so Janelle was in the uncertain position of having to fight doubly hard to win HOH tonight. Nevertheless, once the competition was over, Mike retreated to the bedrooms and finally vented his frustration over losing Will. He slammed his shirt down angrily at the floor, proving once and for all that he was the man in charge… of his wardrobe. He wasn’t gonna take any shit from NO SHIRT!!! No siree! Boogie’s in charge, and no vestment would be the boss of him!
Boogie then sat on a bed, and for a moment, it looked like he might be tearing up. I’m telling you: sidekick orphanage is a tumultuous experience. I wish it on no one. “I really had a dream of the two of us standing in the finals,” Mike told us, adding, “And by ‘finals,’ I mean ‘wedding altar.’ I love him. I love him. Good God, I love my doctor.”
Outside, Erika told Janelle, “You’re going to be fine.” Unfortunately, in ErikaSpeak, that usually means, “Yeah, you’re screwed.” I would not be lying if I told you a wave of anxiety overtook me at that moment. Erika further cemented my fears when she said that Janelle will most likely win the second round — “I have all the faith in the world that that girl will.” This was bad news. Bad news indeed.
Suddenly, we heard sad music, and we knew it was time to watch a mournful Boogie mope around the house. “I’ve never been in the Big Brother house in two seasons without Will,” he said, ultimately crying in the diary room. The power of a bro-mance can never be underestimated. Boogie then opened up a closet, pulled out a hanger with his and Will’s shirts on it, and clutched it against his heart, inhaling all the man fumes and musky memories. He then broke into tears and uttered, “Will, I swear…” It was beautiful.
Okay, maybe it didn’t get that Brokeback-y, but Mike did resurrect the phone bit one last time, calling his Master over and over again, but alas, no answer! Just like the way it is outside the Big Brother house. And with that, we faded to black. The Chenbot came back on screen, and I thought she’d be all smiles and cheeriness, but she too seemed incredibly somber as she took us to commercial. Looks like somebody ran her BoogieSympathy.exe application.
“Hello, is this the sidekick emergency line? My Master’s gone missing. Please send help!”
After the break, it was time for the second part of the HOH competition, which was certainly the most dramatic looking event of the season, possibly the series. At first, all we saw was a hanging Pontiac Solstice… and lasers! And smoke! And mirrors! And Lance Burton! Oh wait, no, that was just in my mind. Yes, this was a super elaborate timed event, the winner of which would earn “a new level of confidence” by taking home a new Pontiac Solstice. Well! How can you not be excited about that? A new level of confidence? Huzzah!
Basically, the way this worked was that the first person to finish this challenge under five minutes would win the car. However, if neither Mike nor Janelle could complete the task within five minutes, Erika would take home the car / new level of confidence. So here’s how this game worked. There was a giant rig hanging above the yard, and the names of six past Big Brother winners were located all around it. Above each name was a small moveable mirror. Once the player was in position (Janelle and Mike would be suspended in a harness up at the rig’s level) a laser beam would strike the mirror of the first Big Brother winner (Eddie). The clock would then start, and players would have to adjust each mirror to aim the laser at the next winner of the game. Once the laser was reflecting to all the winners in the proper order, players had to press a button to signify that they were done.
Okay, first complaint about this challenge. Actually, only complaint, really. It was too easy! Yeah, it looked great, but putting the Big Brother winners in the proper order? Not difficult at all. “Order challenges” are all about confusing the house guests — making them go back over and over again until they get it right. That’s where the excitement is. Nevertheless, first up to tackle this hanging puzzle was Janelle, who right out of the gate told us she was having trouble pulling herself around to different mirrors. Plus, she struggled with Jun’s mirror — unable to tell if the laser was properly hitting Drew’s target. Eventually, she slammed down the button and smoke filled the backyard. I couldn’t tell if she had done well or not, but all the fiddling with Jun’s mirror had me very concerned.
Next was Boogie, and off the bat, he was doing well. The producers even cued up some rockin’ guitars to emphasize how fast he was going. I could only hope this was massive misdirection. He did have a few problems with Lisa’s mirror, causing him to say, “I went back, tightened Will’s thing, repositioned it.” And I’m sure that’s not the first time he’s said that about Will! Rimshot!!! I’m here all night, people. Tips in the jar.
Well, Mike pressed his button, but unlike Janelle, he received no triumphant cloud of smoke. I couldn’t tell if that was a good thing or a bad thing. I decided it was bad. Turns out I was right. Mike’s time was an impressive 1:57. Sadly, Janelle choked and pulled off an underwhelming 3:45. DAMMIT! Looks like Mike’s won himself a new level of confidence!
“Mom, I got the car for you!!” he yelled victoriously. Finally, Bonnie Malin has something to be proud of.
Boogie then hopped in the Solstice and whooped it up as the producers raised the car back up to the heavens — kind of like a really lame version of Grease. I personally was hoping one of the chains would snap and the car would plummet to the ground, but alas, it held firm, allowing Boogie to stare at the camera and yell, “GM Pontiac Solstice BABY!!!” Who did he say was the ho again?
Later, Erika and Boogie talked about maybe going to the final two together. Mike noted that if Erika were to win and evict him, she’d lose Chill Town votes in the jury. “I HATE HIM!!!” Erika complained to us, but sadly she added, “And I hate the fact that I’m still attracted to him because I hate him so much!!!” Don’t worry, Erika. I’m sure your attraction will be summarily expunged once you hear all the things he’s been saying about you (and/or you return to the outside world and realize that there are in fact men out there who don’t look like Igor with a headband).
The Chenbot then returned to the screen and asked Janelle if she missed Will. Janey said yes, and when Julie posed the same question to Mike, you could almost see his heart break all over again. I’m shocked he didn’t get down on his knees right there and plead, “Let him back in, Julie! Take me, not him!!! I don’t deserve this!!!”
Adding insult to injury, The Chenbot declared, “The bro-mance is over!” Nice use of BB slang, Julie! Whoever updated her User Dictionary deserves accolades!
Next, Julie suddenly got all personal by asking Erika why she and Boogie weren’t sharing a bed anymore. Huminah huminah huminah. “It’s really hard. It’s really hard in here,” Erika said. Double-entendre intended, I’m sure!
Finally, The Chenbot wrapped up this inane banter, but not before executing a perfect ChenFlub: “Thank you house guests. I’ll be back to talk… with… [hourglass on screen]… you in a lit- little bit,” she said, stumbling through her words. A lovely touch to what was turning into a miserable episode.
After the commercial break, we checked in on the jury house, which seemed to be located on some suburban street in Simi Valley. Life with the evicted souls seemed to be okay, surely less intense than on Tuesday when George and Howie nearly scuffled. We saw Dani and Chicken George cooking up breakfast for the gang (that is, when they weren’t busy holding items for James, who seemed to be clearing out the fridge with reckless abandon). A little later, they all stood out by the gate, waiting to see who would be next to join their ranks. Dumb quips were made all around (ie. James saying, “Do we have enough ice cream for Janelle?”), and then George told us, “I’ve been waiting for the pizza delivery man for like five days, and I still haven’t seen him!” Looks like the slop-induced delusions continue. Cut to five years from now as George rocks his body back and forth, muttering, “The pizza man is coming. The pizza man is coming. He’s coming to see me. He’ll fix everything. Yes, he will. The pizza man will.”
Well, Will walked through the gate, and everyone was thrilled, especially Marcellas and Howie, the latter of which planted a big kiss on his cheek. “I got the worst boot in the history of Big Brother,” Will said, perhaps stretching the truth a bit. It was actually one of the best evictions in the history of the show. Not sure what the worst was. Probably James vs. Sarah last year. Or Jase over Will this season. Thoughts?
Anyway, everyone gathered by the TV and watched Will’s downfall. Danielle seemed perplexed as to why Mike put Will on the block. She took some sort of satisfaction out of seeing the sidekick betray the Master, but I’m not sure she realized that was Mike’s only move. It’s like going up to a baseball player who’s just advanced from first to second and declaring, “AH HA!!! I knew you’d run to second base!” Forced analogy. I apologize.
We then relived Janelle’s wonderful eviction speech, and when she said, “For Marcellas and Howie,” James completely entered his bitch-mode and complained, “Completely trying to get votes!” Of course, had she mentioned his name, he would have loved it. James Rhine? More like James WHINE! Zing!!!
For the record, Danielle also agreed with James (I personally thought it was genuine, just based on what Janelle had been saying in the diary rooms), but Marcellas and Howie didn’t care. The two clapped and slapped five, and Marcellas relished having Will’s ouster dedicated to him, even if Howie’s name was somehow attached.
But enough with this silly sequester house. It was now time for round three of the HOH competition. The rules were simple. Julie would begin reading a statement from each former house guest in the jury, and the players would have to guess how each person completed the sentence (it was your standard chose-between-A-or-B situation). For the first question, Julie read, “George said ‘The most annoying thing about the house was’ a) ‘Howie’; or b) ‘the mess.’” Erika and Mike both answered B, which was correct. 1-1. My heart rate: embarrassingly fast.
Question two: “Danielle said ‘The moment in the house I’m afraid to have my friends and family see is’ a) ‘when I was drunk’; or b) ‘when I cried for two days straight.’” This time, Erika and Mike both answered A, and again, they were correct, bringing the score to 2-2. My heart still beating hard.
Question three: “Will said ‘The most shocking moment in the house was’ a) ‘the fast forward eviction,’; or b) ‘my own eviction.’” At last, we had a split. Mike said A, Erika said B, and the correct answer was… (hold on, random flames on the screen)… A.
FUCK!
Score was now 3-2, advantage Mike, and my heart was rapidly sinking. This couldn’t be happening. That new level of confidence seemed to be working indeed!
Question four: “Marcellas said ‘The most annoying thing about the house was’ a) ‘absolutely everything’; or b) ‘Mike and Will’s love affair.’” Oh, c’mon, Erika. B! B! B! But alas, both said A, preserving the 3-2 lead.
Question five: “James said ‘The hottest girl in the house was’ a) ‘Diane’; or b) ‘Marcellas.’” Sure enough, the answer was B. Both got it right, and now we were at 4-3, with Mike still in the lead. This was looking very, very bad.
Now we were down to the last question. “Howie said ‘The most shocking moment in the house was’ a) ‘when Chill Town threw me under the bus’; or b) ‘George winning HOH.’” Erika and Mike both answered B, and at that point, it didn’t even matter the results (they were both right). The worst case scenario came true (for me at least): Mike won the final HOH! DAMMIT!!!
“That’s for you, WILL!” he yelled out, hoping that somewhere, his Master was listening. Even though nothing was for certain yet, one look at Janelle, and she could tell she was on the way out. As we went to commercial, Mike then yelled “What’s up, CONCORD!!!” which didn’t really have the same caché of a rapper giving a shout out to Crenshaw or Inglewood. I don’t know why, really. Concord does have some mean streets. Just look at Boogie. He’s seen the gritty Concord ghetto and lived to tell about it. He’s a survivor, man. A survivor.
After the break, it was time for Mike’s big decision. The girls each had a chance to make one last plea, and Erika started things off by saying, “You know I’ve always had your back.” Well, at least starting about three minutes ago. Nevertheless, she reiterated that Mike had a better chance winning against her than Janelle, but when it was Janey’s turn to speak, she challenged that notion. She said that since Erika duped Chill Town, she’d be seen as a hero and would therefore be hard to beat. Janelle then argued that since she was so easily influenced, people wouldn’t vote for her. Yeah, um, no. It was a nice try, Janelle, but unless you could have cast some magic spell, there was no way you could talk your way out of your inevitable fate.
Sure enough, Mike stood up, and after wishing happy birthday to his Dolce business partner (seriously, shut up), he said that he wasn’t out to play for vengeance. Hence, Erika was safe, and Janelle, well, “I love you but have to evict you, sweetie,” he said. And that sound was hearts breaking across the country for the second year in a row.
“It’s fine,” Janelle said. “I love you too!” Translation: I HATE YOU.
The trio then walked Janey to the door, and just before she left, Mike gave her “one last spin” and asked “Who’s the prettiest girl???” I’m not sure, but wasn’t that a Will thing? Was the sidekick trying to take over the Master’s schtick? I could be wrong though. Nevertheless, Boogie then said “You deserve to win, sweetheart” (THANKS) and promised, “We’re gonna have a lot of fun. Champagne at Les Deux!” he said, referring to one of his restaurants in Los Angeles. Amusingly, he pronounced “Les Deux” like “Lay Doo” (which sounded like he was saying “The soft ones” in French). Yes, that’s right. Mike Boogie doesn’t know how to say his own restaurant properly. Well done!
As soon as Janelle was out the door, Erika and Boogie kissed passionately on the lips, which I guess meant that baby was back on the fast track.
“Did that just happen?” he asked, echoing the sentiments of millions of people across the country, I’m sure.
During the post-eviction interview, Julie revealed that Janelle’s won more competitions than anyone else in a single season (no shocker there), and when asked what her major flaw was this season, Janelle said it was that she trusted too many people. Yes, starting with Kaysar and his insistence on keeping Chill Town around. She then said her biggest mistake was putting Marcellas up because Chill Town screwed him out of the house, and as for her true feelings towards Dr. Will? “Oh Julie!” Janey blushed. “I’m not going to say that right now… I’m too embarrassed!”
We then watched the goodbye videos, which started off with Boogie lamenting Janelle’s ouster. He said he was really hoping for Chill Town to go all the way with Janelle because the three of them were the few people who actually seemed to “get it” in life. Alas, it was not meant to be. “I’m really sorry that Scrub-ika had to get in the middle of it and ruin it all for us,” he said. Can’t wait for Julie to read that one back on the live finale!
And with that, Janelle was ushered off into the trivia books. I tell you, I watched this episode earlier for the Live Blog, and it was painful then, but it was even worse having to sit through it a second time to take notes. At least the first time I had some sense of optimism mixed with my dread. The second viewing, however, was purely awful. Probably the worst hour of the summer (except for maybe that time I watched 200 Pound Tumor).
Anyway, the show ended with the Chenbot chatting it up with the finalists. Julie asked which votes they felt they definitely had. Mike said Will, Erika said Howie, and I said “Feh!” As for the jurors they were most worried about, both said Danielle and James, with Erika putting more emphasis on Dani. And with that, Julie bid us adieu, and we watched the two remaining house guests revel in their victory under the closing credits.
Just before they went off the air, Mike suddenly yelled out, “Cheers Restaurant in Concord, NH is off the HOOK right now!!!” And so now we go live to Cheers Restaurant in Concord:
Partay!!
Looks like I’ll be rooting for Erika, which isn’t such a bad thing — especially after she showed her scheming chops on Tuesday’s episode. But it’s hard to feel excited about her when someone like Janey’s shown the door. Oh well. What did you think about this episode? Sad to see Janey go? Happy to see Boogie make it to the end? Will Erika go home with the money?
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Since you decided to go out now, I’ll just say, “Class act.”
The pain of watching Boogie & Erika in the final two is even worse that watching Maggie & Ivette….Will was right. Janelle would regret his eviction. SHE would have beaten Will in one of the competitions and would have won the final HOH comp and been in the final two. Will’s eviction was wonderful but in the end, she should have shown Erika the door instead. So sad…the only thing we all can do is vote AC – $25,000 extra to Janelle. Sad, so sad.
“So sad…the only thing we all can do is vote AC – $25,000 extra to Janelle. Sad, so sad.” I don’t know you norma rae, but spending 50 cents per text vote so that a cocktail waitress that you have never met can win 25 grand, in my opinion is sad, so sad. PS B Side, get over it, she was not a very smart player this year. She didn’t deserve it.
PPS. Please, please please, you have to get a screen cap of booger with Giada.
Disappointing, yes, but only because I can’t think of any two people that should have never made it to the finals. I would think the shadow of Will looms large in both their backgrounds. Without the genius Dr. it would have never come to this. Sure it made me sad to see Janelle go, but, hey, she caused her own demise as you rightly point out, going along with the keeping of Chilltown. But, again, that was thanks to Will’s genius.
As to the final outcome, I really don’t know. I don’t know who get James’ vote (the dick!) and Will can easily sway CG. Danielle appears to be a swing vote, because I think Erika has Marcellas and Howie. It will be interesting!
I agree with the above posting. There’s no way I’m going to waste any money trying to get Janelle the $25K. The self-professed blunderer doesn’t deserve it.
In all, a redeeming end to a very dull, upsetting season. Chen’s CPU was overheating rapidly last night and I’m glad this show finally ended. I really love it when Julie tries to be a hard-hitting journalist/interviewer only to get the question messed up and sounding wooden. Of course, the fact she’s interviewing semi-idiots in a “reality” game doesn’t help her cause.
Large amounts of kudos to J-Unit and B-Side for the excellent work in trying to make silk out of a sow’s ear. While the show floundered and nearly sank, you guys kept up the snark and made the reviews far better than the show. Thanks to all you clever ones in the “Comments” section. I’ll miss the really good ones until “Survivor” starts, as I’m sure I’ll see the familiar names there. Didn’t mean to sound like I’m on an acceptance speech here, but what can I say? I just wanted to thank all the little people (Grin).
ugh.
i too had that same sense of dread from the moment erika said “i have faith that she will win.” darn her and her forboding predictions.
i’ve never thought of myself as the type of person to get caught up in shows like this. i mean, of course i watched it religiously and went all “strategy-crazy” every week trying to figure out janelle’s best move and how she could get to the end. but last night after the show was over i felt very weary. weary is the only word that aptly describes it. i was tired, and sad, and downright deflated.
for either erika or boogie to win big brother all-stars just isn’t right. it’s not.
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!
~Sorry, Boogie. Idaho? No, you da ho!~ fucking love this. B-side you are the shit, this was one of your best. On a daily basis I laugh reading these blogs. Keep it up!!!
This season has been painful to watch. Hoping that past favorites would have learned from their previous mistakes and come back to the house with their A games. Instead we got a bunch of whiny wanna-bes and women haters (I’m adding Howie into this group).
Whoever said that this season wouldn’t have been as fun to watch without TVgasm is right. I found something joyful about each and every episode because of the snark and insightful comments. And thankfully, I have the pic of Booger after Will’s eviction burned into my brain. I bring it out whenever I need a smile.
First, not nearly enough emphasis on Boogie CRYING. Bromance is one thing, CRYING on tv, quite another. For a guy who was enormously aware of his (& partner’s) tv persona, crying in the confessional is just not cool, man. Dive under a blanket and sulk like every last one of the losers who get outplayed… Then again, we are talking about Mr. Shack. No shame. Hope that can feed you for life, Boogie! The worst part is that the “floater” theory which pissed me off in the beginning to cover up a “can’t vote out Chill Town” strategy, ends up being true. There are no bigger hangers-on and floaty specks of followers than Mike and Erica. Honestly, neither should carry the All Star title.
Does anyone like Boogie? Anyone? What a douche! I hope he doesn’t win because I’d really like to see that loser get bumped down a couple of notches…oh, and I’d also like to see Janelle urinate on his face…but that’s probably just me
Sooooooooo…how do you think Mike and Erika will spend their time now that, as he claims, the “ho-mance” is over? Did you notice how Erika was already re-attaching herself to Boogie? BLECHHHH! I don’t want to watch those two together anymore!!!!
I can`t believe that these two are in the finals. I agree that the whole “Let`s get the floaters out first” idea sucked! I`m in shock that my two favorite players, Kaysar and Janelle, made such awful decisions this year. This year would have been so different if they would have gotten rid of Boogie and Will in the first two weeks.
Who knows maybe we would be looking at a final two of James and Danielle! Now that would have been interesting!
I`ll be looking forward to watching the questions from the jury and seeing Erika`s face when she finds out that Boogie called her a “ho”. That will be almost as good as Boogie`s face when he realized that his Master had left the building.
But as far as finding out who wins this thing? Ahhh, who the hell cares! They both suck(literally)!
I’m done. spent. TVGasmed out.
Hmmm. Where’s Jack Daniel?
I feel like running over a dumb blonde.
Is there any reason to watch Tuesday except to see the evicted HG’s? Although I must say I didn’t really care if Janelle won or not based on her performance of the past 6 weeks. But I would prefer her to Boogie or The Thing That Walks. The sequester house seems to be much more fun than the BB house right now.
Two observations. I said yesterday that the Chenanigans were over but when Boogie got the answer right and Erika wrong The Producers tried to go to FLAMES. I guess they wanted to fix the competition in Janelle’s favor again but forgot they were on live tv. What Hootzpah! Janelle, Bye Bye Bitch. Still love ya, though! And loved the slogan on that baby blue shirt she wore last night. What was it?…
Baby Make It Nice
My new catchphrase.
Or maybe I’ll stick with Howie’s Flick My Bean Baby.
Upon that very close up of Boogie near the end of the show I think we have a former patient of the Hair Clinic For Men. Yes. Hair perfectly lined along the front with near precision and plugged look. Damn, how did he get through the whole season and nobody notice. Boogie is a middle-aged, balding, freak of nature!!! YEAH!!!
PS. I just realized the most beautiful woman in the house was actually Danielle. That girl is HOT when not drunk. James looked pretty good too.
Fie on Will and Marci
That’s why he wears all those stupid hats and headbands. Hiding the hairline!
Gotcha baldy!!!
Vote Danielle for the cash. Janelle doesn’t deserve it.
Just as I feared. Once again, Janelle had a brilliant streak and then she failed when it counted the most. Twice. I’m not sure Erika didn’t throw the HOH so she wouldn’t have to choose.
I don’t even want to know how it ends.
Pamsey…I was frickin’ sittin’ on the couch, clapping like a seal when Boogie did his lone-phone schtick in the diary room. You totally called that one (Tuesday’s recap/comment #62).
Boogie going on and on about Erika being a ho showed exactly what a “class act” he is. What a knob. Again, couch-seal-clapping errupted when he was crying over Dr. Will. “I can dish it out, but can’t take it.” indeed.
Boogie is definitely going to get James’s vote. James often said how he hated floaters and Erika didn’t deserve to win.
I think he might get Danielle’s too as she was in the LoD with him.
Perhaps the worst ending in BB history. Neither one deserves to win, neither one was an all star to begin with. Booger is vile and I find it amusing that he tells everyone “class act” when he is completely without class. Skeletor only deserves to win because she needs the money, but other than that, they both suck badly.
What a let down.
Lets hope Will & Janey do Amazing Race to redeem this entire season.
If Boogie wins planet earth would need to be taken out of rotation of the solar system for fear of our infecting other intelligent life.
Bummer.
I’ll join in the chorus of thanks to J-Unit and B-Side for the recaps that kept this season watchable during some very dark and dull weeks, as well as all the great posters here where we could all get whatever laughs we could at the expense of the houseguests and our beloved Chenbot (who by the way set a new gold standard last night for robotic delivery). The prospect of Boogie winning this thing is almost as dispiriting as last season’s final two. Unlike Survivor, which seems to get more exciting as it heads toward the end, for some reason BB and The Apprentice in my mind always lose steam. In an “All Star” season that lacked much mojo to begin with, that ain’t good. Anyway, I will of course still watch the finale, not so much rooting for Erika but against Boogie, and mostly just hoping to see Boogie get destroyed by the jurors in questioning. Sadly, I don’t know how much of Boogie’s hurtful comments about Erika will come out at the finale, as most of it was said in the privacy of the diary room. Alas, she will have the joy of hearing this stuff from her mortified friends and family and watching the tapes when she gets home.
BTW, if our beloved Janey had spent more time hitting the gym instead of the Haagen Dazs she would have won that challenge.
Does she really have it bad for Dr. Will or was her response to Julie’s question just a way to duck the question?
Let me see what kind of competition would favor Boogie over Janelle:
Memory competition… no, Boogie is a dumb ass.
Speed competition…no, Boogie has the coordination of beached whale.
Endurance competition… no, for some reason Boogie thinks he’s Richard Hatch.
Wait a sec…we will do a speed, memory competition that requires all upper body strength!
Maybe I am smelling too much conspiracy….but something besides Boogie stinks here.
Personally, I think Janelle’s response to Julie regarding how she feels about Will shows that she’s fallen for him. I think she’ll be sequester-mancing him for the next week.
If Mike yelled “Concord Newhampshire, this one is for you” one more time, I would have driven to SOCal, walked into the big brother house, slaped the shit out of Mike till my hand hurt, then slap him some more for making it hurt.
Flippin DOUCHE!
what a sucky final 2.
even though she doesn’t deserve it because she got played, i want erika to win just for the simple fact that i can’t stand boogie.
vote danielle to win the $25K. she deserves it the most.
I keep coming back here for sustenance from my fellow snarkers. From what I can see there isn’t a single Booger Lover in the entire site, so it would be just if Erika would win, but that’s still up in the air.
Pissed me off seeing Booger win the Solstice. That sweet car shouldn’t go into the hands of a Mom. Should be driven by some young, cool person. . In fact, it shows what a slug he is if he hasn’t already bought Mom a car on hiw own, restaurateur that he is.
Googled Dolce Group and his mention in the website consists mainly of his showlebraty status. Hm.
I too caught the pronouncing of Les Deux. In Bugs Bunny’s words: “What a maroon”.
I’ll watch the Final, just so I can get pissed all over again. The ultimate floaters won! And, yes, it makes me sick to see Erika doing her leech act again. I won’t even feel sorry for the woman when she gets to see the truth behind the showmance.
On to Survivor!
Great recap! Does your comment about this being your last recap mean you are not covering the last show! Say it isn’t so!
I loved the “joyologist” reference. Perfect!
Also loved the “camera shot” of the Cheers bar in Concord!
This is my first BB season so I didn’t know the players or the history. So some of the happenings and comment about them were confusing to me. I think I’ve been converted and will watch in the future. Thanks TVGasm, for adding 3 hours a week of TV viewing to my summer schedule!
As much as I disliked Will’s overconfident personality, he definitely deserved to win. I was happy the girls finally came to their senses (or so it seemed). I was rooting for either Erica or Janelle to win HOH because of the possible drama of: would they honor their agreement or wouldn’t they?
I’m sad that Boogie won HOH and I don’t want him to win it all. I agree with plenty of other posters that the final should have been Will and Janelle.
Since I’m not familiar with the jury process, what kind of questions get raised? Will most of ChillTown’s strategy come to light? I hope so. That would put Boogie in a bad position.
Oops forgot one thing. What the hell was Janelle wearing for her exit? It looked like something Vincent (from Project Runway) would design and get off on!
I’m with wormfood who wrote: weary is the only word that aptly describes it. i was tired, and sad, and downright deflated
Ditto to all of that. Just about every episode of this season made me sad, but this past week has been the most diappointing. Boogie and Erika are such awful people; it’s demoralizing to watch them get rewarded for it.
And I meant to say: but it’s always a joy coming to this site every day for the Snarkgasm.
Julie Chen’s boobies looked crosseyed.
I’m bummed as fuck that Erika and Boogie are the final two.
LOL@Foxbase Alpha’s “crosseyed boobies” comment. I never noticed Julie’s tats.
All I’ve noticed about her are her painful looking rheumatoid arthritic hands and how she or her makeup artist globs her lip gloss on. Sometimes it’s so goopy and wet looking. Ewy.
PS…I love the Molly Shannon pic. That was one of my favorite SNL skits. One time, she was doing the “I love it”s on a chair. She got a little too wild, and when she went up on one leg, the chair nearly tipped over backwards on live TV. Funny shit.
Janelle’s Early Show interview
(Keep in mind that the interview was about about 4 or 5 am on the west coast)
Link
It’s funny how Kaysar wanted so badly to get rid of the floaters at the beggining of the season and now we’re at the finale with two of them playing for the win. And the least deserving of them (from a gameplay standpoint) will go to the ass-kissing, non-stop crying, ultimate floater of them all.
I disagree with the idea that Janelle should’ve kept Will to have a better shot at winning the final HOH. She would’ve lost the final HOH anyway… she knows she’s not the best at endurance and CT wouldn’t have thrown her that comp. Then in the second comp she would’ve been competing against Boogie or Will who are both physically stronger than she is.
What was important for Janelle was to align herself with a strong competitor to take her to the Final 2. Clearly she had to turn to Erika. The odds favored one of them winning but unfortunately they lost.
Why doesn’t BB make the last competitions the best since they’re the most important? Ugh.
Exarius #37
Thanks for that clip.
Is Janelle on Extacy or just plain drunk? She can barely get out a simple sentence without slurring and drunk-swaying in her seat.
That bitch is fuuucked up.
B-Side, excellent recap. Funny as usual. Thanks for enhancing the BB expirience this summer!
I’m not a Mike fan (bleh) but I feel like he deserves it more. Erika did NOTHING, until the end but one move doesn’t make you a winner IMO. Sad to see Janey go – her and Dani would have been my dream final 2.
Oh and no mention of the shot of the volcano spewing lava? I did a real LOL at that – they had to get their use out of it.
I can’t finish that interview. Janelle is slurring her words and she looks like she’s been through some stuff. Either she went on a bender last night or something is wrong with her lip.
It’s the worst ending to such a killer run.
It just hit me…
Janelle = Terry from Survivor
Ultimate competitor, but couldn’t scheme their way out of a wet paper bag.
For the love of god Mike Boogie, just come out already ! If he truly does give his mom the car, she definitely deserves such a token for the public humiliation she’s had to endure the last few mos.
Isnt that the same car they were pimping on The Apprentice a few seasons back?
Worst final two ever – I could really care less at this point but I suppose I’ll have to watch now since I already devoted so much of my life to this nonsense.
Once again, Big Brother’s season ends with the two most UNdeserving HGs waiting to see who gets the big bucks. Shades of Maggie and Ivette.
God, I hope SOMEone who actually DOES care about Erika sits down with her when she watches this season and see what a GIGANTIC fool she made of herself. She’s gonna need someone there to pick up the pieces of what’s left of her 36-year-old life.
As to how Janie looked and sounded this morning…looks like she was gotten up about 3am to get ready for a 5am interview. Probably after not a whole hell of a lot of sleep if any. Girl looked pretty good to me, considering. God know what the hell Erika would have looked like. Yikes!
Well this is possibly the worst final two we could have ever imagined! My vote still goes to Boogie, cause I honestly can’t think of any possible reason why Erika should win! I think that Boogie will get votes from Will, James, Danielle, and Erika will get CG, Howie, Marcelles and the deciding vote will be up to Janelle.
Yes I am still heartbroken over Will’s eviction!
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She’s gone where the goblins go,
Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
So I agree that this is the worst Final 2 possible, but I can think of some reasons why Erika should win.
Neither have really done much all game, but almost everything Boogie’s done has been Will’s doing. He had no strategy of his own… it was all Will. The only things he accomplished on his own were winning the last two HOHs.
Even though Erika has done very little she has at least accomplished things on her own. She didn’t come in with a real teammate as Boogie did, and she had a bigger target on her back and managed to escape eviction multiple times.
I would rather see the floater win over the lackey… though maybe I’m just biased because Boogie is so gross.
um, sorry, but i’m pretty sure the wicked witch is ERIKA. i mean, have you SEEN her? ew.
and as for janelle’s interview… it sounds more like she’s got a swollen lip than she’s drunk. it’s actually really weird. maybe she went and got an extra shot of collagen for the show.
just kidding janelle, i love you in spite of how dumb you were this season!
Huge disappointment.
Here’s the deal. Booger was Dr Will’s sidekick, and I’m not certain he ever had a thought on his own that contributed to him still being around. Whatever he wins, he should just hand it all to the Master. Is he desrving of anything? Nope.
On the other hand, Erika is still there for one reason and one reason only. She’s a ho. Seriously, she slept her way to the final four. And, when it looked like an all-girl final was a possibility, she was full of herself. “Check mate.” Wait a minute. Boogie’s in the final? Time to ho up with him again.
So, who wins, the sidekick or the ho?
Who cares?
Zharak (#38), we can (and have) called Boogie many things, but you can’t really call him a floater. A follower with no game of his own? Absolutely, but definitely not a floater. Mike chose a side from day one. My definition of floater is the people that just try to get by on being nice and non-threatening and just suck up to whoever is in power that week and agree to go along with whatever their plan is just to keep themselves out of the line of fire. Boogie certainly doesn’t fit the definition of a floater.
I’d rather Erika win, but to paraphrase what I believe Marcellas once said, how do you choose between chlamydia and syphilis?
Also, I’m all for removing the taboo of men kissing each other, but what is the deal with Howie’s smooching obsession with Dr. Will?? Am I wrong to think something more is going on there?
And during that Early Show interview I was honestly expecting Janelle to scream: “YOU GUYS LIKE MY BODY?!?!”
Housecalls today: Janelle reveals Will kissed her SEVERAL times off-camera!!
(Janelle was in a better mood than her early show interview at 4 am)
Gretchen and Jase talked with Janelle about the flirtmance with Will. Apparently, he DID kiss her off-camera “several times”!!! And get this – Will told Janelle that he was gonna break up with his girlfriend (Erin Brodie) AND asked Janelle to move in with him!
Jase made a comment about how that’s the only thing a woman would love to hear from a man (something to that extent), and would be difficult to not to believe it since they were spending 24/7 with each other.
So as much as you can say that Will was lying to Janelle and had no feelings for her, at this point, no one would believe him. Would you believe the biggest liar in the game or Janelle’s side of the story. I got the feeling from her interview that he basically threw his relationship with Erin “under the bus”. Jase (and Boogie and Erika for that matter) believed he had a thing going with Janelle. But by virtue of Janelle revealing the context of the whispers, if I was Erin Brodie, I’d dump him in a heartbeat. **Keeping in mind that when she did For Love or Money she was NOT in a pre-existing relationship. (I can only imagine people coming up to her and talking about Janelle and Will)
Anyways, back to the interview…It seems that Janelle will NOT be going to the sequester house
for unknown reasons. She is going to join the rest of the jury for the roundtable discussion and questions to the F2, but the producers for some crazy reason are not sending her to the house.
Janelle said after BB, she will not go into entertainment, namely acting. She did say she would do The Amazing Race. (Funny that Will was asked a couple of days ago if he would do Amazing Race with Janelle, and he said if the right offer came along, YES!)
All in all, it was a great interview in so many levels. Will’s relationship is SOOO screwed now that he can’t defend his actions. And nobody would believe him since he is the ultimate liar. Also, I would like to point out that Janelle was much better than her earlier interview (on Early Show with Chenbot). If looked like she just half asleep/drunk and was slurring words, which always seems to be the case when having these 4 am interviews cuz Will was also slurring his words during his talk.
I’ll post the video later when it become available.
Can you believe this?
http://www.petitiononline.com/ks322003/petition.html
(Currently over 2600 signatures)
However silly it may be, it would actually increase ratings for CBS. (Plus it’ll give fans someone to root for, unlike Rob & Amber or Alison)
no need to restate the unanimous disgust at the erica/boogie final. i did find it interesting, however, when i noticed that both the survivor and big brother ‘all-star’ editions ended up with a final 2 consisting of the 2 people generally agreed to be the most unlikely and undeserving ‘all-star’ contestants. it’s easy to understand how boogie got in–in all likelihood, will had a ‘give me my wingman’ clause written into his contract before he’d agree to go into the house. but erika? america’s choice? unless she was campaigning door to door with a tube of strawberry-flavored astro-glide, a spit-bucket, and a gallon of mouthwash, i just don’t see how she could possibly have had the votes. in any case, there’s no question that tuesday will be perhaps the most anti-climactic finale yet.
and for all of you boogie haters: prepare yourselves for another wave of restaurant promotions and shout-outs to the peeps in concord (ralph waldo e-unit and henry david t-side, anyone?), because that lame-ass, jive wigger is going to win the money.
james will definitely vote for boogie; his post-eviction/pre-sequester interviews indicate as much. ditto for danielle, who erika supremely screwed over and who will not respect erika’s ho-bag gameplay. will is obviously a given, and he will have no trouble persuading janelle. howie may hate boogie, but he doesn’t like erika much either, and might vote for boogie because he played the game. marcellas is probably 50-50, and george might give it to erika because she needs the money more, but 4 is all it takes, and i think boogie’s got it sewed up.
and i couldn’t care less. the stars of the show went out third and fourth. maybe janelle would have had a better chance if she’d kept will–the boys would probably have given her round 1 of the HOH comp just because they’re too cool to stand prone on a fake volcano getting slimed with science project goop for three hours, and janey is tough to beat at trivia comps–but she knew either way she was in a win-or-go-home situation, and god knows she lasted a lot longer than she should have. at least she got the satisfaction of sending off the puppet-master.
Wow, I remember Janelle talking about missing Xanax in the house but is she really that much of a pillhead that she has to go on live tv totally high? That Early Show appearance was horrific. Not to mention the fact that she was wearing the black version of her astroturf shirt.
Crazy Train (42), I thought the same thing when they demonstrated the volcano’s spewing lava at the beginning of the show. Had to show what the prop people are capable of!
Funny how Booger was pissed at Erika until he found out he was in the final two. Back into each other’s arms in a flash. Ugh! I agree that she better have some great friends to wipe her tears when she finds out how the world (not only people in America watch!) see her!
In case you’re still upset about last night (or just insanely bored), read this interview with Janelle at EW.com. It speaks a lot about her personality and why people love her so much.
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1533111_3_0_,00.html
Completely agree with CrazyTrain (#42) & Zharak (#44). Boogie isn’t a floater because his plan from the beginning was to serve his master. And give him some credit- he did it well! Operation Double date was something to behold (the way you slow down as you pass by an accident, you can’t help but watch in horror).
Thank you TVGasm!
Exarius (#55), the last person evicted doesn’t usually get sent to the jury house. They have all that media to do and by the time they’re done, it’s time to bring the jury members back for the finale.
#62 cajah,
I just found out that when the 3rd to last person gets evicted, they only join the jury at the roundtable discussion (just like last year). But I’m not sure what happens after that (possibly a hotel
with the other jurors for 2 days til finale). I remember hearing that Janelle did go to the sequester house last year where she said everyone was drunk and she had a nasty fight with Beau.
jack (57) FYI ralph waldo and henry david were in concord massachusetts, not concord new hampshire. As far as I can tell, Boogie is the only “famous” person from concord NH.
Thank you for the link, Exarius. Just finished reading the interview and THIS is exactly why I like Janelle. She is in fact genuine. A small town girl with a small town attitude. I love the fact that the first person she called after the show was her Mom. Gooooo Mom!
Jedi Janie is and always will be the best Big Brother has ever offered us. EVER.
God, If Boogie wins thats just… disturbing. Erika needs the money for her facelift.
Jack (#57) – “no need to restate the unanimous disgust at the erica/boogie final”
I think it’s time to crack open a dictionary and look up the word “unanimous”, because doesn’t mean “majority” like you seem to think it does.
If anyone even cares, here’s how I think the voting’s gonna go (Guaranteed Will/Janelle/James/Danielle):
Marcellas: Erika
Howie: Boogie (#1: Will/Janelle will convince him, #2: he still blames George for his eviction, #3: he wants in on Boogie’s parties)
James: Boogie
Danielle: Boogie
George: Erika
Will: Boogie
Janelle: Boogie (implied she was voting for best player in Entertainment Weekly interview)
Winner: Boogie by a 5-2 vote
(lose-lose situation)
The aftermath:
- Boogie will probably suffer in street cred.
- Erika will need serious therapy after hearing what Boogie has said about her
- Janelle will have won America’s hearts, as well as $25000
- Dr. Delicious will be single in 5 days (unless he can manipulate his girlfriend into believing he had no love for Janelle – even though everyone now knows he does)
- The Amazing Race 11: can anyone say “Holla” for Will and Janelle (in case you’re wondering, they’ve both agreed individually that they would do it together) = another Emmy for TAR
tabby (67)I think it still counts as unanimous. The “minus one” opinion would be, as the pollsters say, statistically insignificant
All this time you were pretending…
So much for my happy ending.
hb
Exarius (#68)- Oh god, please don’t let them ruin TAR. It was bad enough with Romber, it would be unwatchable with Janelle alone. With her and Will, the cries of how lovely they are together would make the internet unbearable too.
Yeah, I don’t want to see any more reality show transplants on Amazing Race. Especially not Will and Janelle. They are so boring. I don’t understand their popularity. Individually I like them, but together they’re blah. I’ve lied in my own bed and hugged a guy many times before. It’s not that interesting to see somebody else do it. I don’t care how attractive the couple is.
Oh, how your memories are SO VERY SHORT! By far, the worst final two EVER in BB history was Season Four’s Final Two of Jun and Alison…. I remember the jury members not wanting to pick either one and hating having to choose between an unworthy slut and an unworthy floater. Hey, wait, kind of like this season! Never mind, I take that back.
(#18) HicksPub to Pamsey… the thing is, when Pamsey did it, it was HILARIOUS. When Boogie did it, it was just pathetic.
I would root for Erika because I don’t want to see Boogie win, but Erika has behaved in a way that sets women back decades. I hate for her complete lack of identity or self-respect to be rewarded. But then I could make more money stripping than educating children so why would we stop at paying Erika half a mil for being Boogie’s jizz-rag.
The whole outcome just disgusts me. Like everyone, (except Tabby Lavalamp) I don’t really even care anymore who wins. Counting the seconds to Survivor!
This is my first time posting here so sorry for the length.
Living on the west coast and being a big fan of spoilers I checked out a BB All Stars spoiler site at about 5:45 PM on Tuesday and when I saw that Will had been evicted it felt like the air had been sucked out of the room. The dream of seeing Will and Jannelle in the final two was over.
I hope everyone who had a Janellegasm after Erika molded Jannelle’s silly putty like mind into one that was thinking clearly and watched her do the smart thing (at the time) which was to evict Will is now very happy. That opened the door to the worst case scenario, the Big Brother All Stars finale is the equivalent of a Survival Finale in which Richard Hatch and Tom Westman have to decide who is the winner between Jonny Fairplay and Kati Gallagher.
Now I have to admit that I started out hating Will in Season 2. When there was a house full of people and he started talking about them being like puppets that he would control I was thinking what an arrogant bastard. The addition of him and Boogie starting the tradition of naming alliances also was extremely annoying. Without “Chilltown” there would be no “Three Amigos”, “Sovereign Six”, “Friendship Alliance” or “Legion of Doom”. When he lost his then squeeze and ally Shannon in the second eviction and Boogie not that long afterward I thought he is a dead man. He didn’t seem willing or able to win an HOH to save his life and every other nomination saw him in the hot seat without a veto (veto’s were not introduced until season three). Once you were nominated back then you stayed in the seat or you left the house. By the end when you knew he was going to easily beat what appeared to be a bipolar Nicole I was impressed that he had maneuvered himself through lies half truths and manipulation into a position where he was facing the only person the jury disliked more than him.
After watching him work this season I am now convinced he is one of the best if not the best player of not just Big Brother but any interactive competitive reality show. By interactive competitive I mean a show that involves group dynamics leading to you being chosen the winner by a group of your peers. Thank goodness the producers of the show decided to include him when he was inexplicably left out by the people who voted and obviously thought Big Brother must have started in season five. Remember that seven of the people voted into the house were from season’s five and six. For me he made the show watchable this season. He walked into the house full of seasoned Big Brother contestants (with the exception of Chicken George) and immediately used the exact same MO that everyone there must have seen him use to win season two.
I at first admired then was amazed at what this guy accomplished this season without winning a single HOH or POV and with the albatross also know as Mike Boogie around his neck. He comes into the house as the only former winner with a gigantic target on his back even before he can unpack his things. How many times did you hear somebody mention “Will’s got to go” before the first set of nominations. First he convinces a much stronger season six alliance that CT is in fact a powerful alliance and not just two friends hanging out in the house. He offers his help to them while at the same time telling the so-called “floaters” that season six have to go. While everyone is skeptical they all seem to buy it.
Now the much stronger season six alliance wins the first four HOH’s. CT was never put up together. Will was the pawn in Jace’s eviction and Boogie got himself off the block while Will convinced Jannelle not to put him up thus insuring Diane’s eviction. By the time the season six HOH streak was over there were 10 people in the house and four of them were from season six. Also by that time James had rightly splintered off from his alliance (he was the outsider looking in of that group) and CT had picked up some muscle and brainpower in the form of James and Danielle. The Legion of Doom was born and on top of that the so-called “floaters” still were against season six. Down go Kayser, Marcellas and Howie. The season six alliance is dead and Jannelle is now an even larger target to everyone.
Dr. Evil now shifts gears and decides that he and Boogie cant compete against Danielle and James and decides he needs a secret weapon to destroy his former allies. That comes in the form of Jannelle who helps him get rid of James, Danielle and George.
I was very surprised that after the veto competition that Jannelle won in the final four that will did not sequester Jannelle from Erika just as he had kept Erika away from Danielle. As I mentioned before Janelles mind seemed like silly putty (whomever talked to her last left the lasting imprint). All of the live feed people out their help me out with this? Maybe he really though he had Jannelle’s vote wrapped up and that a desperate Erika could not change her mind. As the saying goes “Pride cometh before the fall” and in Will’s case it was mixed in with a healthy dose of arrogance as well.
After this all of the Jannelle fans can feel free to rip me to shreds. I will admit that I was probably one of the three people who watched BB6 and was not completely enamoured with Jannelle. She is definitely beautiful and has the spirit of Amazon warrior but she came across to me as plastic, fake and bitchy. I never bought the dumb blonde act was just an act. She was definitely almost a savant with Big Brother info but for everyone who thought she was smart think back to James trying in vain to explain both her and Howie what “pull the wool over your eyes” meant, Howie’s fake answer to the clues “spool of lies” the Jannelles answer to the clues, that phrase known so well by all You sow what your reep.” I always got the feeling that she thought she was much smarter than she actually was. In BB6 Jannelle did not win her first HOH until the very popular and very overrated Kayser was evicted for the second time in one show. Instead of sending Maggie home (who was the glue holding a very weak alliance together) she used her POV to change the nominations and send home Jennifer who had blatantly betrayed Kayser. Revenge may have been sweet but it ended up costing her in the end. That season Jannelle spent a good amount of time on the block but she was never the primary target until she was put up with special needs Howie. At that time there were only six people left in the house. It was then that the warrior within her allowed her to cut through some pretty weak competition to the final three where she fell short and was evicted.
Like Will she came into BB All Stars a large target on her back but some advantages he didn’t have like three of her castmates along for the ride to start out with. So to offset that target you enter the house with three people to run interference for you and the Kayser mystique that he was actually a good player. Sorry Kayser fans, he is a really nice guy but he was in the BB house three times in two seasons and never got onto a jury. I won’t go as far as to say that Will used her from day one but when he convinced her not to put him up in place of Boogie after he took himself off the block that was the end of the season six alliance. Then her friend Marcellas is evicted followed by friend and alliance member Howie and she still seems enthralled by Will.
Lastly the number of HOH and POV wins. As I mentioned before she won fewer competitions in BB6 when you have a cast that are all actually trying to win. It is easier to win more competitions when some of your competition is either not trying to win like Will or you are getting help from other competitors (Boogie almost teller her where the doll she needs is in the doll competition). I honestly don’t believe Will was trying to throw all of the competitions but not trying to win is almost as good when competing against people like Jannelle and James. Once the field was trimmed down to six people Jannelle is going to win an HOH or a POV almost every round.
All of that aside I feel that both Will and Jannelle played a great game in there own way and it would have been great to see them in the finals.
Wouldn’t it have been great to watch the jury spit venom at Will while they praised Jannelle for her competitive prowess? The ultimate debate between the master strategist and the winner of competitions. I would want Will to win but I wouldn’t be disappointed to see Jannelle come out on top either.
Will Vs Boogie would have been fun because then the jury could spit venom at both of them and Will would have eaten it up while he convinced them he did them a favor by sending them to sequester. Boogie would lose his temper and start calling the jury members bitches and ho’s and probably save a homophobic remark for Marcellas.
A Jannelle Vs Boogie final would be a very deserved 6-1 win for Jannelle.
Jannelle Vs Erika would be a massacre and a 7-0 sweep.
But because of Jannelle’s epiphany we now get the worst case scenario a Boogie Vs Erika final. It’s one of those which bowl of crap smells worse scenarios.
I can’t believe I am saying that he should win because I can’t stand Boogie. This guy must have a radar for finding women who have low self esteem combined with some form of dementia that makes them think he is some way attractive. You look at the guy and you can feel the bile rising in your throat. He is a misogynist, sexist, zero class, pseudo human. That aside he deserves to beat Erika. He was definitely not the brains behind CT but he won a POV when he needed to get himself off the hot seat. He won the HOH after Howie was evicted against Jannelle (who could have easily put one or both of them on the block). That bought Will a week to cool her off and send her after James and Danielle. He won the HOH, which guaranteed his entrance into the final three. Finally after Will eviction which he took much harder than Will did he stopped crying, picked his jaw off the floor and beat both Jannelle and Erika in the final POV competition. Erika won an HOH and two POV’s. She only really needed to win the one POV and she was so clueless at the time she didn’t even know she had to win it. Boogie was not a floater. He picked a side and stayed with it. Erika was something that can’t be defined as a floater either. She was a leaf that happened to land on the CT bandwagon. Her one moment of desperation that brought about clarity does not entitle her to the win but in the case of these two who really cares.
thanks for the recaps guys! The jury questions will make me want to watch the finale, but I’d love to see Boogie lose b/c money-wise the runner up gets shat upon and it’s what he deserves. I’m looking forward to the “social experiment” that is the new Survivor too.
Housecalls interview
Exclusive Housecalls clip: Janelle tells what Will was whispering in her ear, to prevent the internet from hearing.
For the entire 30 mins (not great quality though)…
Part 1
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To Sparky who said “As far as I can tell, Boogie is the only “famous” person from concord NH.”:
I’m pretty sure Christa McAuliffe (NASA’s teacher in space) was from Concord, NH. She, however, had a little more dignity than Boogie.
Laguna Beached (#77), actually, Erika doesn’t need money for a face lift, she just needs FOOD and lots of it! Poor thing is wasting away…
I googled Mike “Boogie” and here’s what I got:
Brainless, dense, doltish, dopey, dorky [slang], dull, dumb, fatuous, half-witted, mindless, oafish, obtuse, senseless, simple, slow, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
Related Words: feebleminded, retarded, simpleminded; foolish, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, moronic; ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, untaught, unthinking; absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, harebrained, insane, kooky, loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, silly, unwise, wacky, zany; fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who wanted the car to plunge to the earth wit Boogie’s punk-ass in it. He is such a tool. I hope Erica wins even though she’s a A-1 Loser herself. Vote for Janelle, bitches!