Two Days in the Valley

Big Brother

By admin | Sunday, August 21, 2005 | 1:49 pm | 45 Comments

julie8-20-05 This was the episode of Big Brother that I was waiting for. Janelle was Head of Household and had the power to decide who was going to be up for eviction. It wasn’t hard to tell by her initial reaction that Janelle was gunning for Jennifer. I don’t know what it was that first tuned me in to that theory, but it might have been all the times Janelle managed to call Jennifer a bitch after she won. Sadly, this is a double eviction week, which means that Janelle’s time in power would be less than 48 hours. It also means we had to pack a lot into this episode including a veto competition, veto ceremony, live vote and eviction (sort of) and a new HOH competition. So let’s not waste time, and get started.I saw The 40 Year-Old Virgin last evening, and it was great. Even bumped into Mischa Barton as I was leaving the theater. On my way back, as I was pumpin’ the G-Unit in the car, I couldn’t help but smile realizing that I had an episode of Big Brother on the Tivo waiting for me when I got back. Yes, it would have been better if the Tivo was Tyra Banks, or perhaps, oh, I don’t know, Rosario Dawson, or even Jennifer Garner and her huge man jaw, although her being preggers might complicate things. Hell, I would have taken Ellen Degeneres (no sex, but at least she would make me laugh).

But as I lamented that I turned on the Tivo, I realized that I had something more than just a house full of hamsters pissing each other off. I got an extra night of Julie Chen! Yes, a new eviction meant a knew Julie Chen. Instead of the white almost-camel-toe pants, the Chenbot went with a more flowing black set of pants. And what about her top? On Thursday, she had the trapezoid, I called it the “Aztec scoop” (sorry anthropologist, it looks more Teotihuacan than Kukulkan). Julie had a similar black top as Thursday, but it’s like she took a drawstring and pulled the scoop closer together. Perhaps she didn’t pack enough for her long weekend in Los Angeles? Whatever it was, her assets were begging for a little support. Hey wardrobe, don’t be afraid to show off what our girl is working with! Les may have won her heart, but we can always dream.

First we had to deal with the immediate aftermath of the Kaysar eviction. Jennifer mentioned that it was a pure strategy move, and I have always agreed with that position. April, for some reason sporting her K-mart pink leopard hooker shirt, said that they sent him home once and they wanted to do it again. James, who I am liking more and more and looks to last a long time, said that he cared the first time Kaysar left, but didn’t this time. I was thinking a lot about that and when it comes down to it, I’ll just blame Howie. It may not hold up to intellectual rigor, but at least it makes me feel better. Why was he so obsessed about James? Rachel chimed in with the always-stupid “It’s so sad to see him leave, I wish he had more votes” type argument, or in this case any votes since Kaysar was a unanimous decision. But why do these people complain when they could have made him feel better by, you know, voting for the person?

The Friendship didn’t have long to celebrate their victory in voting off Kaysar because there was still an HOH competition, and they haven’t managed to win two in a row all season, and that includes this week, when Janelle won. Again, it was pretty evident that Janelle was going after Jennifer. If her celebration after her HOH win didn’t tell you, or when she said “Pack your bags Jenny,” or if the fact she nominated Jennifer, or the fact she said “Bye bye bitches!” after the nominations still left you with some questions, perhaps when Janelle said “Now I want to screw her over royally” was enough to persuade you.

How did the Friendship react? Well, they were all in a stupor and a realization came over them that perhaps getting rid of Kaysar had some ramifications. Kaysar left the first time promising his friends would make his presence felt. Howie sort of screwed the pooch when it came to getting revenge for Kaysar, but Janelle wasn’t going to let the same mistake happen. She had spent a week making life hell for the Friendship, and she was going to make sure she finished the job. Maggie complained how they were bad winners, as if the last week in the house wasn’t enough to tell them what would happen if the Friendship didn’t hold HOH. April also complained about the decorum in the house, accusing Janelle and Howie of being immature, and she has a point. April is so old, she would probably think Bob Dole is too immature.

Even for a lesbian, that is some good technique.

Everybody in the Friendship is pretty tough, but not having the HOH bedroom means that they are back living in the world of the common folk, or at least in the main bedroom. Even though they aren’t in power anymore, Howie decides that he is going to take a little more time to torment them. You see, he is the best looking guy in the house (perhaps true now that Kaysar is gone), he is the star of the show and nobody better mess with him. He was so proud of himself that by the end of his little speech, he was referring to himself in the third person.

Then April decided to take the gloves off. She has heard it about her looks (I think she is old, not ugly, I hope my wife looks half as good at age 50), she has heard it about her husband, she has even heard Howie insult her dog! It takes everything she has, but she says “Well, Rachel admitted that she gave you HOH.” Listen, Howie has already admitted that he doesn’t like to think for himself, I don’t think those words will ever hurt him. Besides, wasn’t she just telling Jennifer that Kaysar didn’t “give” her HOH, that she outsmarted him? What exactly are you trying to say, April?

Of course Howie doesn’t have a comeback, so he just goes on a little bit more about Hurrican Howie. This whole time Rachel was trying to get him to shut up, and James was doing his best to control Howie. Since James is the only other man in the house (yes, I remember Beau, but Beau is a bigger queen than Latifa) he tries to get in the way. Seeing that he is restrained, April says that she has a good life and is not on welfare! Ouch! I think April is splitting hairs, but I guess receiving a Social Security check is not really welfare. And even if Howie is on welfare, which I am still trying to figure out, is there some public assistance program for male strippers trying to be meteorologists? It’s got to have an acronym, right? Perhaps GIGOLOS (Guys Investment for Getting Obvious Lummox Office Skills). I also like MIMBOS (More Income for Men Being Opressed as Strippers). Anyway, after hearing that, Howie got upset and says “Hey, you have a good life, but your husband doesn’t because he has you.” SLAM! And you can say the same about her dog!

That’s about the worst the personal attacks got. Either Howie calmed down later in the episode, or the producers decided they had enough. Whatever the reason, it seems like people started thinking about the game, and strangely enough, the person both sides wanted on their side was James. Rachel mentioned that she’ll ask James to help them get rid of Jennifer, and they’ll help him get rid of Maggie. What a great idea Rachel! Bring James into your alliance! He’ll be sure to help you guys out since the last time he was in an alliance, you spent a month trying to get rid of him.

Truth be told, James knew that he was in a prime position to be playing both sides. It started when he tried to restrain Howie, which both sides thought was a good idea. It then continued as he started taking the high road on a lot of issues in the house. When Janelle received her HOH room, she invited everybody to come up and visit, but the Frienship was having none of it. Maybe they knew it didn’t matter because she was going to be HOH only a couple of days, but they didn’t want to visit. You can kind of understand why they don’t like Janelle, since she verbally abused all of them the past week, but if you are going to be complain about Janelle and Howie being poor winners, you shouldn’t go about it by being a sore loser.

janelle_littledogpic James used this moment to kind of ingratiate himself back into the Sovereign Three. He went up to Janelle’s room, said that he was put up four weeks in a row and he has always come up to see the new HOH room. Since the Friendship wasn’t around, he could act like he didn’t really care about them. Anyway, Janelle’s room was predictably girly, and like any young woman living in a metropolitan area, it turns out she has two little dogs. I really hate little dogs, and especially can’t stand it when people bring them to a restaurant and I nearly gag when people eat while holding their dog in their arm or sitting them on their lap. This happens all the time in LA, and it FREAKS me out.

James spent time in the HOH room, but he doesn’t want to be seen with either side all that much. He doesn’t want to look like he was taking in information and reporting it back, although that is precisely what he was planning on doing. James and Ivette have an interesting bond, based on nothing more than Ivette’s instinct, apparently. She says being friends with James might bite her in the ass and teach her a huge lesson about trust, but she is going to trust him anyway. I tend to believe that James and his relationship with Ivette is mostly for strategy reasons, but I also think that she is the last person in the house that he would betray at the moment.

With the Veto competition rolling around, it was time to talk numbers and strategize. Part of the reason why Janelle chose Jenny and Maggie was because she was trying to break up the Friendship like Kaysar had done so many weeks ago when he put up Maggie and James, then nominated Eric. The focus should have always been splitting the Friendship apart, of course, but Howie lost focus and then everybody started gunning for James, meaning the Kaysar alliance lost three members, two to eviction and one to the other side, and if Kaysar hadn’t come back into the house, the numbers would be even more bleak. Kaysar stupidly(and yes, that is the only word for it, STUPID) thought that getting rid of a weak player would be more important to the Friendship than breaking up his alliance, and he paid the price.

But enough of that, you know how I feel, and I am sure I don’t have to remind people every week how upset it made me. April and Jennifer began talking(they snuck behind two couches like the little rat-faces that they are), and the only way to save Jennifer looked like it was going to be taking herself off of the block. They would then try and take out Ivette, because really, it was her fault that the team was breaking up because she was always more friendly with James than with them. April then started complaining that Ivette is playing for herself, and didn’t care about group sacrifice. OH FOR SHAME. Imagine that, Ivette is playing for herself! It’s not like this is a game, with the possibility of a million dollars for the winner. How dare Ivette? Why doesn’t she sacrifice herself for the team, like April is so willing to do? You remember unselfish April, so unselfish that she complained about being the pawn and let Ivette sweat it out on the chopping block so she wouldn’t have to hear it all week from James! Better to hear it from James than Howie, don’t you think April??

The veto competition was a modified hockey game. Their were six hockey goals that had the faces of the Veto participants covering most of the space. The only opening was a small space at the bottoms where their mouths were. Each person had to get a puck into the mouths of each goal, and the person who did it in the shortest amount of time won. Now, it’s unfortunate that they used hockey, because if it was just throwing a ball into their mouths, I would have had lots of balls in the mouth jokes to work with. With this game, I guess I can say “oh that’s a nice facial”, but the joke really doesn’t last that long.

Howie went first, and he got a goal almost immediately. The problem was the object of the game was not to score goals, but to keep the puck inside the area, and Howie was having difficulty, uhh, handling his stick(that’ll work). Perhaps Howie needed that last finger for more control, because he clocked in at almost three minutes. April was next, and she knew how to handle the stick a little better. At her age, she has probably seen a million, of all different sizes, so she was able to beat Howie’s time. Howie was even hugged her after he was done.

I kind of like Janey with her hair up.

The rest of the participants showed their various techniques at stick handling, some kind of bending over while they did it (Maggie), others spending time on their knees (Janelle), some looking completely clueless, but doing pretty good nonetheless (Ivette), some bending over and working at it doggystyle (Jennifer). As soon as I heard it was hockey, I figured that Janelle would have an advantage. After all, she is from Minnesota, what she called Hockey town. Now we all know that Hockey Town, USA is Detroit, but we’ll forgive Janelle. She had brothers who played hockey and so she probably picked up a thing or two. Indeed, she posted a time of 1:46, which became the time to beat. Many people tried to win. Maggie wished that Eric was there, because he played hockey and it was his game. Oh really, I couldn’t tell by all the hockey jerseys that he wore EVERY DAY that he might like the sport. She started off strong, but faded quickly. The same thing happened Ivette. It was finally down to Jennifer, and she too was unable to beat Janey’s time.

Jennifer assumes a familiar position

After Janelle’s win, we get another little segment with Julie before we get back to the veto strategery. Everybody wants to get rid of Jennifer, but James is making the case for Maggie. Maggie is the only one who James fears, because she can see right through him. I think James is smart, but it doesn’t say much for his law enforcement training that he is so convinced that Maggie is a cop. Janelle can really do whatever she wants, because even if the vote is tied, she will cast the deciding vote. After contemplating Maggie and even Ivette, Rachel does a little regulating, and tells her that they can’t play stupid. Unlike Howie, it looks like Janelle is going to use her head and stick with breaking up the Friendship.

At the veto ceremony, Janelle gives Maggie and Jennifer the chance to make their cases. Jennifer starts to make herself out like some martyr, but Maggie knows she has no chance of being vetoed so she didn’t spend a lot of time on a speech and said she would really love to be vetoed. Awwwww, how nice Maggie. I would really love to get a blowjob from Angelina Jolie every night, but we all can’t have every wish, can we? And just when I finished laughing my ass off at Maggie’s stupid wish, Janelle uses the veto on Maggie! (hurry up Brad, I’m waiting!) Seriously, WTF is going on here? What does she get from saving Maggie, especially since this is coming out of the blue with no deal on the table? In her place Janelle says “I vote to evict” oops, she meant to say she nominates Ivette, and that is what happens, but you know that paranoid Ivette is going to worry that she is being backdoored.

For once, all of us were as clueless as Maggie.

Everybody is really stunned, and I think Janelle didn’t even tell Rachel or Howie, but it became clear that her only motivation was to get Jennifer out of the game. Maggie was happy that she might get to “stay another week”. Uhh, unless there is another eviction tuesday, you have at least four days Maggie, don’t complain. Ivette rightly started wondering about Janelle’s little Freudian slip. Really though, it makes sense. She was worried that James would campaign against Maggie and he might get enough votes. He puts up Ivette, who Beau and James are guaranteed to vote to keep, and assures that Jen’s eviction will be a blowout. Ivette starts complaining about the last time she was a pawn and she had a bad feeling, of course, the last time she was a pawn, she WASN’T EVICTED, so she should hope to be a pawn every week at this rate.

Once again, we are back with Julie. This show wasn’t live, but since they were trying to save time, the votes would be live! After some more words from Ivette and Jennifer(who started crying about the great friendships that she made, and the creative name they came up with their alliance), the voting begins with Beau. He goes to the diary room, and as he is walking, Julie begins her little color commentary. I LOVE THIS. For some reason, she keeps her voice down like she is at a golf tournament. “Does Beau evict his partner Ivette, or will he choose to evict his friend Jennifer?” It’s suspense like at the Westminster Dog Show “Will the dog sniff the other dog’s butt, or simply go in to lick his own balls?” I can hardly stand the anticipation.

Unfortunately, after Julie took Beau’s vote, they cut off her little commentary on all of the other voters, showing us only who they voted to evict. This also took away another one of those great Big Brother moments. In live evictions, when the votes have already played out in favor of one person, Julie legitimizes the extension of the spectacle by saying something like “Well, obviously that is enough votes to remove Jennifer from the house, but let’s see what the other houseguests think about it.’” I guess I can back it. Although America always knows who voted for who a secret ballot inside the house is nice.

As predicted, April was the only one who voted to keep Jennifer, who tearfully said goodbye. The evictions are clearly getting more bitter, as Jennifer, like Kaysar, didn’t bother to acknowledge the other team. She went over to sit next to Julie, who still has her spring-loaded handshake arm up to full spec. Jennifer pulled the picture of her boyfriend out of her bag and into next to her on the couch, I guess as a symbol of her love to him. It doesn’t quite make up for her telling millions of people on the internet she sucked off half of the athletes at her college, but it is a nice gesture. In her Chenterrogation, Jennifer tries to make it out like she is a sacrificial lamb and she knew that getting rid of Kaysar would lead to this. If there is one guarantee about houseguests when they leave, they always forget the stupid actions that got them evicted.

We also had a great Chenbot moments towards the end. When talking about her eviction, Jennifer mentioned that other seasons haven’t quite seen this type of division in the house and Julie said “That’s for sure” then had this great “hahahaha” laugh, said “that’s well put”, and then got serious more quickly than Tom Cruise on Access Hollywood. But the laugh, the laugh is priceless. I could describe it all for you, but I know you are dying for some video, so here it is:

Click on the picture for a clip of the Chenterview

After that Julie, almost stumbled when she said that we’ll see Jennifer at the finale. And this reminds me, did anybody notice that odd necklace that Julie was wearing? Perhaps some of our female and/or gay readers will elaborate, but did that not match the rest of her outfit at all, or even her other jewelry? Maybe her nephews made them for her? I don’t know.

With Jennifer out, it was time for the HOH competition. Every single one of these things causes me to lose more hair. At 26, I’m getting a little thin upstairs anyway, and this doesn’t help at all. Thankfully, there is no Amazing Race to contend with, so the rate of balding due to reality competitions has slowed significantly.

With that, we only have the HOH competition left. It was called “On the House” and everybody had to answer questions about objects in the house. Get a question correct, and you win a point. Answer a question incorrectly, and you are out of the game. Not surprisingly, Howie was the first person eliminated. The odds were already in favor of the Friendship, and this just made it worse. Beau got a point, so the Rachel couldn’t just sit back and wait for people to answer questions incorrectly to be eliminated. Soon, Rachel was also eliminated, as she buzzed into a question about the safes in the gold room before Julie finished, and had no idea what it was. Our last and final hope was James, but Beau beat him on the last question, giving the Friendship HOH once again.

BLAST!

beau_wins_hoh8-20-05 This is absolutely killing me. I fear that our Janey is going to suffer the fate of Jennifer and be evicted after her week as HOH. It was great to see Janelle and Howie, get in the faces of the Friendship, but this is the worst case scenario, and it might have paid to be a little more tactful the last week or so, and not rubbed it in everybody’s face. Janelle is a target for almost everybody, and the only thing that might save her is that the Friendship might look to split up Howie and Rachel before they go after Janelle. Then again, Ivette hates Janelle personally, as does Beau, so it might be her last week in the house. The Karma Boomerang is really flying all over the place. Why oh why couldn’t Beau have been the HOH for two days? With his highness of no personality in power, I hope we hear more about beau than his love of pastel polo shirts from Ralph Lauren.

Who will Beau put up? Who is going to go home this week?

(Note on the spoilers, if you really know who is going up, don’t post here, use the forums! And thank you to the people who send us e-mail, but warn us not to read it in the subject line lest we get an unwanted spoiler. That’s the kind of forward thinking we are looking for.)

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Amanda

Posted August 21, 2005 at 2:01 pm

This really sucks for the good guys! When there are only two left, it will be almost immpossible for the to go back and forth getting the hoh. Gosh. Jen is such a bitch, what ever happened to getting out James? Even though I like him much better than the evil Friendship! Go Janelle.

“Bye bye bitches.” lol
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katieshole

Posted August 21, 2005 at 2:01 pm

I’m thinking Bore will nominate Rachel and Howie, and will then backdoor Janelle after veto. I think he’s still in a tizzy when Janelle called him a whore, which he clearly is, and an ugly one at that.

When will that fat assed nasty self righteous bitch maggie get out of that house?! I hope soon. I hate her so much.
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EH

Posted August 21, 2005 at 2:08 pm

great recap – thanks! so glad you gave us the laugh again – loved it. did anyone else think james threw the hoh competition?
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scorpiella

Posted August 21, 2005 at 2:53 pm

#3 EH
I wondered about that too. I think James winning HOH would have ruined his game. If he did throw it, he’s smart. I hope Janelle will be safe this week but I feel like she would be okay leaving since she was the one responsible for taking out Jennifer.
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mikey

Posted August 21, 2005 at 3:08 pm

I have a 5-week-old baby at home now, and I try to keep up with the recaps, but it can be hard to focus on the computer screen as I try to rock the baby to sleep or put a pacifier in her mouth. To help me out, I’ve begun to use Mac’s “speak text” service to read the recaps to me while I hold the baby.

The funniest thing of having the Mac computerized woman’s voice read the recaps to me is that she reads “HOH” as “ho”. Based on the context, this can sometimes be really funny — and accurate. There are “ho” rooms, “ho” competitions, and, in the last paragraphs above, stories of Jen’s 1 week reign as “ho” and “why couldn’t Beau have been the ‘ho” for two days?”.
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Ed

Posted August 21, 2005 at 3:22 pm

Good point, Elsa, but I don’t think he intentionally blew it. I think he panicked, just as Rachel did.

If the Sheep want to back door James, there is simply no better opportunity than now. I doubt they’ll do this. They are understandably going to break up the H/R couple, imo.

I wish I could fully express my evil feelings towards Jennifer. She is the somewhat hot chick/cheerleader who had no sense of self, tried to maximize her social skills/advantage, ran over anyone in her way who was not “cool”, and then complains when her life is without any real joy.
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Kujo

Posted August 21, 2005 at 4:29 pm

It sucks that in all likelihood, somebody from the “Friendship” will win BB6. I just pray to God that it isn’t Ivette, April, or Beau. I hope James, Howie or Rachel wins now.
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tookie

Posted August 21, 2005 at 5:06 pm

I definately think James blew the HOH on the last question- why would he want it now? with bo – he would figure he is pretty safe since ivette has been his girl. i must admit my stomach did a sinking feeling when seeing bo-bo-bore shriek at his win.

if you catch the live feeds, rachel, howie and janelle are always reviewing things in the house – past comps, furniture, colors and rachel just remembers EVERYTHING – i don’t get why she CROAKS under the pressure.
i’m annoyed at them all right now , every… last…. one.
april – for a multitude of reasons – most of all anything that comes out of her mouth.
ivette- for her arrogance
maggie- for her “let’s have integrity” schtick
beau- need i say? really?
howie – because he went into brain fart mode when the entire sarah/james thing went down
jan- just because there’s enough annoyance to share
James – i’m annoyed because i have gotten over being annoyed with him
and rachel because i would like her to actually WIN something when they friggin need it.
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floopeygirl

Posted August 21, 2005 at 6:12 pm

J-Unit — you crack me up! Brilliant recap as always.

I don’t disagree that Jen tried to play strategically, but James poses a bigger threat then the King. She totally blew it there. Especially with the deal that was cut the week earlier. Even Maggie told her that the agreement was to get rid of James and Jen ignored her.

Which also shows just how unstable the Sheep are … they have no definitive leader and will turn on each other soon enough. That could be fun to watch — olh I have to get those internet feeds going just for this turn of events.

Strange how April equated Janey being good at hockey as an obvious career of a couple of former boyfriends then realizing the fact that Janey is from Minnesota (hello hockey country) and has brothers. She can dish it out, but she sure can’t take it. What a hyprocrite. She should be next to go … just on the annoyance factor alone.

Maggie was stunned to get the veto, and her face was priceless. Looks like she crapped in her pants when her entire speech was ‘well b/c i want the veto’ .. loved it. Also made it look like she could switch teams and the prolly freaked out the rest of the nerd herd.

Beau being HoH means NOTHING. It means that this is the week of Ivette and her ghetto shit being in charge. Yawn. Snore. Whatever. Won’t be all that exciting.

And as for the rest of the bunch … Tuesday’s show can’t come soon enough. (which brings me back to wanting those live feeds dammit!) The POV should be an interesting one this week.
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FYI

Posted August 21, 2005 at 6:25 pm

Great re-cap!

I’m disappointed that Beau is HOH this week and would have loved it if Howie got it again, if only to rub it in April’s face.

This could go one of two ways…either they put up Howie and Rachel to break up a couple or they get rid of Janelle because she is a good competitor. Unfortunately, I think James is completely off the radar for this week as both groups are trying to “avenge” themselves now. They are out to get each other and James has fallen by the wayside.

And as for James? Liar that he is, and they all know it now, he is in the best position. Both sides want his vote now. Idiots.
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Scoutieout

Posted August 21, 2005 at 6:36 pm

This probably won’t happen, but I am hoping that The S3 can get in James’ ear about getting Maggie out. Then he can put the pressure on Ivette to help, who in turn can persuade Beau to take her out. Best case scenario: Beau should put Maggie and April up. For the veto comp, Beau can pick Ivette, one of the nominees can pick James, and the other nominee has to pick from the S3. Just make sure Maggie doesn’t get the veto, and voila! Wishful thinking, though…in reality I doubt Beau would ever put Maggie or April up.
12

TinkerbellAPixie

Posted August 21, 2005 at 6:43 pm

The ONLY joy I can derive from the idea of Janelle being evicted is knowing the pure hell she would put Jennifer through in the Sequester house.
13

Cathleen

Posted August 21, 2005 at 7:45 pm

I was sorry to see Jennifer go. I think she made a great move eliminating Kaysar. Howie blew it for them all anyway and is acting like such a conceited ass now, I hope he goes next. They are all hypocrites for getting so upset about Jennifer “breaking her word”. Every single one of them were liars when they came into the house, denying that they knew anybody else.
I think James is going to win.
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Dennis

Posted August 21, 2005 at 8:34 pm

No one lied about the partnerships at the beginning. That was a scripted part of the game. Not admiting to knowing someone in the house, with a half mil on the line, is very different than swearing on your life then breaking your word.

Beau as HOH is going to be interesting or a disaster. If he continues the trend, he’ll go for Janelle. Not enough left to go after him next week so the flip flop may be over. If so, the rest of the season will be very boring.

If the Evil Friends oust Janelle, Howie, and Rachel one by one, I doubt I’ll pay much attention to the rest of the season.

If Beau is smart, which I doubt, he and Ivette should work with Howie and Rachael to try to preserve the only two teams left. Doubt that will happen, though. And if the Evil Friends focus on what’s left of Kaysar’s team and ignore James, then James likely will win.
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c-godd

Posted August 21, 2005 at 8:44 pm

thank goodness for the recap. our cbs affiliate last night preempted bb6 for the stupid broncos game (i HATE the broncos. go browns!!!) and then told adelphia and tivo they’d play it at 1:05 am. set up the tivo and went to bed. turned it on tonight only to find out the stupid cbs affiliate lied! they didn’t put bb6 on until 1:35 am, so i got a 30-minute infomercial on picking stocks, then the first 30 minutes of bb6, which cut off right as jen was starting to play hockey.

damn!!!

anyway, thanks for the usual great recap. btw, what’s up with ivette complaining they don’t play hockey in miami? hell, she invented ghetto-hockey…
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Rick D.

Posted August 22, 2005 at 5:32 am

I think the S3 made another mistake with this eviction. Think about it, the only thing holding the friendcult together right now is Maggot. Ivette and April can’t stand each other, so if Maggot were gone they would probably turn on each other, splitting up that team and giving the S3 a little bit of an advantage. That said, I am really glad J-blo is gone. She was so annoying trying to justify to herself what she’s done and said in the house.

If Janelle gets evicted this week, wouldn’t you love to be in the house when she and Jen are in there together alone? I think it’d be great to see the two of them together for a week with no one else around, talk about cat fight.

Rick D.
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America's Next Top Fan

Posted August 22, 2005 at 5:40 am

I hope Howie and Janelle verbally abuse the Friendsheep again this week causing them unrepairable psychological damage. Cause at the end of the week one of the S3 is going home anyway so make it fun. As King Kaysar would say, let’s terrorize their asses! And the chances of a S3 member winning is pretty much as good as the Chicago Cubs winning the world series this year or next year, or the year after that or… oh fuck it!
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America's Next Top Fan

Posted August 22, 2005 at 6:06 am

Rick D (#16)

I agree. The S3 made another emotional eviction and didn’t take out the head (Maggie) or tail (Ivette) of the Friendsheep. You have got to make your evictions count in this game. JBlo is no threat except for handing out Blow Jobs and I’m sure Howie doesn’t want a STD. BeauBitch…oh well he probably already has one.

When Janelle put up Ivette I thought she was tring to accomplish two things. Get rid of one of the leaders of the Friendship and leave James without a suedo partner, forcing him back into the S3 camp. I was shitfaced when they voted out Jblo. Shitfaced I tell you!
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Tony A.

Posted August 22, 2005 at 6:20 am

Woe is me! Dennis # 14, you called it right–the S3 is toast, UNLESS the remaining two after this week can manage to win HOH in two consecutive weeks. Kind of a longshot, but there it is. No doubt the Sheep will pick them off one by one if given the chance.

I agree that it will be interesting to have Jen and Jan alone in the sequester house for one week. Even better if Howie follows out the door. Jen should be a blithering idiot by the time the show ends. Look at it this way: the last 4 weeks will be supremely entertaining watching the Sheep pick each other off. The irony level should rise by quite a bit. Unfortunately, that also means that either Ivette and Maggie will be the finalists, unless James manages to survive. His chances are about zero once the S3 are all gone.

All in all, it will be entertaining, especially with TVG doing the recaps. I watch the show faithfully, but it doesn’t mean a thing until I read the recaps, which are always hilarious, plus the comments, which are usually interesting.

One thing we can all agree on: the big fuckup was committed by Howie, when he nominated two supporters in James and Sarah.
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jack

Posted August 22, 2005 at 6:28 am

once again, we’ve been treated with a delicious dose of good luck (janelle’s HOH win, jen’s ouster), only to see it followed by yet another crushing reversal.

beau is without a doubt the most annoying and meritless of the friendsheep, but his job is straightforward and easy. it doesn’t matter which of the three he targets, one of the final sovereign three is going to sequester, and it will take a ridiculously improbable run of luck for the other two to last much longer.

so now the question is when and how the friendsheep will turn on each other, and who will take the upper hand. ivette–perhaps thanks to her new bond with james–is playing more shrewdly than the others, but she seems to suck in competitions. april will only survive if james can position himself to carry her to the finals, since she’s the one friendshipper he could possibly beat, but he’ll need someone else to get rid of ivette to avoid losing her vote. maggie seems to be sensing that her position is becoming increasingly vulnerable as james’ born-again act seems to be working, at least on ivette and beau. she might be wise to work a secret deal with the 2 sovereigns that survive this week’s eviction, but that’s not likely.

sadly, you gotta like beau’s chances. he has offended the fewest people, he’s protected by ivette and james, and, should he end up on the block or in the finals, would likely have the votes to beat anyone else he might end up against.
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America's Next Top Fan

Posted August 22, 2005 at 6:31 am

Like the new TVGasm banners
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tv freak

Posted August 22, 2005 at 7:23 am

There is a slim chance that the S3 will survive. What if Beau puts up Howie and Janelle? Then Rachel wins veto and removes Howie. James joins with the S3. Beau nominates April. James, Rachel, and Howie vote to evict April. Ivette, and Maggie vote for Janelle. By a vote of three to two, April is evicted.
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Jill

Posted August 22, 2005 at 7:27 am

Sorry to ask a dumb question….but I just started to read the BB6 recaps. Does everyone in the house know who everybody’s secret partner is? Or is it still a SUMMER OF SECRETS? Thanks.
24

chris

Posted August 22, 2005 at 7:32 am

please bring back the old banner…seeing funny pics of reality show people was part of what I loved about the recaps…guessing which banner would be there each day was suspenseful and fun(lame, I know, but I’m bored at work) I especially loved the one of Cowboy from BB5 crying…priceless
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tj

Posted August 22, 2005 at 7:38 am

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
!I am so glad that Beau got HOH. I hope that Janelle and Howie are put up for eviction next! If only to scare howie enough to shut his mouth, cause you know that Janelle needs to go home she is such a skank! Go friendship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
26

America's Next Top Fan

Posted August 22, 2005 at 7:40 am

tj #25

Are you actually Crappy using an alias? Or are you George W. Bush?
27

ha!

Posted August 22, 2005 at 8:11 am

Re: the Ivette pic and caption – My theory is that Iv has seen ‘Old School’ and is simply heeding Andy Dick’s words: Mind the stepchildren! Too funny!

And complete unrelated: I think Claire did the right thing by eschewing the City of Angels for the Big Apple. The latter is the safer place to be these days….

ha!
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Greg

Posted August 22, 2005 at 9:01 am

Jill #23:

Yes, they revealed to the house that everyone had a secret partner. So far the only two pairs that are left are Howie/Rachel and Beau/Ivette.
29

tv freak

Posted August 22, 2005 at 9:01 am

The pairs are figured out by everyone, including the current houseguests.

ANTF, some people just like the friendship. I don’t but some people do. And what’s with the George Bush comment. That’s offensive to some people, especially Republicans, and Texans. Again, I’m not either, but I wanted him to win the election.
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America's Next Top Fan

Posted August 22, 2005 at 9:52 am

We’re Good, They’re Evil + God has ordained us + We’ll appear saintly but act atrociously = The Friendsheep or George W. Bush

Just take a little constructive criticism people. The Friendsheep is the George W Bush administration in disguise. God damn.
31

callygirl

Posted August 22, 2005 at 10:04 am

ANTF, the friendsheep are just following the grand reality tv tradition of trying to villify the opposition to look (and feel) better as a player. It’s been done since the first season of Survivor. And, although I like them, Kaysar’s group hasn’t been above a bit of moralizing themselves–they have also thrown around words like integrity and honor in an attempt to feel better after getting played by Jen.
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America's Next Top Fan

Posted August 22, 2005 at 10:20 am

Cally Girl #31

Great, the F-sheep want to villify the opposition and the S3 has been doing the same. All that is fair in Reality TV gamemanship. Just don’t go around proclaiming to be the second coming of Christ, which the F-Sheep has a lock on.

The S3 has been close to doing it also but hasn’t crossed that line…yet. FYI Kaysar was on Housecall on CBS.com and Marcellous repeatedly called him out on his superior attitude. Kaysar gave this BS answer and I wanted to slap him. But then I saw those beautiful eyes and fell in love all over again. Sigh..
33

plumes

Posted August 22, 2005 at 10:21 am

Just an aside question….. is Joie Chen on CBS News Chenbots sister? Joie looks like the Bot used to look like when she was still alive…

Thanks, and now back to the show…
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ashes

Posted August 22, 2005 at 10:25 am

It looks like the best case scenario will be for whichever of the 3 isn’t nominated (Janey, Rachel, or Howie) to win the veto and use it to remove 1 of the others (while also exempting him/herself from being the replacement nominee), forcing Beau to nominate either James or one of his “friends.” Of course, thanks to the James/Sarah rabbit hole Howie led the group down, they still don’t have the numbers to save whichever 1 of them is left on the block.
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ashes

Posted August 22, 2005 at 10:33 am

I just read post #32, and I think you’re wrong that the friendship cult is the only group in reality tv to moralize to such a degree. I mean let’s face it, as much as we all hate the cult, reality tv is littered with the carcasses of those who proclaimed themselves righteous and unjustly persecuted by greedy opponents while insisting that they weren’t in it for money and would never have played that way. It’s been a standard m.o. in every single final tribal council on Suvivor. We’ve complained about it on here before. So although you’re right that the cult is obnoxious and will get their comeuppance when they get back to the real world and see what a low opinion the majority of viewers have of them, there will soon be another group of players on some other show picking up the mantle of reality tv self-righteousness.
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lemoyneken

Posted August 22, 2005 at 10:51 am

I always like to try to screw with CBS’ games on this show. I noticed this one that would have been great if Maggie was able to pick up on it.

Since Maggie surely didn’t want James to win the HOH, the competition was down to Maggie, James, and Beau after 9 questions. Beau had 2, James 1, and Maggie 0. Beau has it locked up as long as James doesn’t get the last question right, and Maggie cannot win. James does get it right, forcing sudden death between the 2. But, during the competition, if someone jumped in and answered incorrectly, they were eliminated and no one else could answer. All Maggie had to do was buzz in as the Chenbot started the question. She would be eliminated and assured Beau of the victory. Instead, she had to sweat it out for a few more seconds.

Wish James had won so that missed opportunity could have been rubbed in her face.
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America's Next Top Fan

Posted August 22, 2005 at 10:59 am

I would love to be proven wrong on this! If someone can name 3 reality TV groups or people who have picked up the “hollier than though” mantle and ran with it with more intensity than the F-sheep please list them. I will in turn open my CD Rom drive, insert my pinky finger and shut it with such force that I will ex-communicate it ala Howie. This is a sacrifice I am willing to make to team F-sheep if they are not the greatest BS’ers in R-TV history.
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EROSion

Posted August 22, 2005 at 3:43 pm

Excuse me while I point everyone’s attention to one of the greatest (read: barfworthy) pics of all time:

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother6/_show/_w07/snapshots.shtml

Go to the second picture and get ready for a heartwarming image.

But whatever you do. . . DON”T look at #9!!!
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sg-dub

Posted August 22, 2005 at 4:00 pm

ANTF –

Teri and Ian, TAR3
Brandon and Nicole, TAR5
The Fitness Twins, BB5

And I hated all 3 teams with a passion.
40

Janey Rocks

Posted August 22, 2005 at 4:22 pm

I think taking out J-Blow was a good move on 2 parts- she was annoying as hell, and who wants to live with her BS? The other part, though, is that she was Yapril’s partner, the only one she could really trust. You can now expect Yapril to be stirring up some shit in order to keep herself alive, as she can’t trust anyone now.
Best Case Scenario- Rachel and Janelle in the final 2.
Worst Case Scenario- Maggot and Beau in the final 2. OH THE HORROR OF THAT WEEK OF TV!!
Agree with Tony #19- Howie completely fucked up the direction of this game. That meteor-shower for brains lame-o could’ve rode this all the way to the end.
I have a feeling that the remaining friendshits are all thinking in the back of their pea-sized brains “I should keep James around because I can get more votes than him.” And watch as James takes home the cash.

I have a hard time swallowing the words “integrity” and “honor” in a game show that involves sitting around in an isolated house with a bunch of other people. It is a psychological game, and nothing more. That being said, I hope the S3 cut some secret deals this week to save their asses!
41

Anthropologist

Posted August 22, 2005 at 7:02 pm

Well, I would agree with you that it is very Teotihuacanish (is this a word) but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it Aztec. Only because the Aztec were the “Romans” of Ancient America when it came to having their own “culture”. Plus, Teotihuacan culture was pretty much contremporary with the Maya (well, preclassic to early classic Maya, that is) and there is n’t conclusive evidence whether or not one controlled the other (although I know people who would disagree).

Anyway, I wasn’t happy that Beau won HOH. It pretty much seals the fate of Janelle who I would really like to see win the whole competition. Besides, I am tired of BB putting in the steoreotypical gay guy in the house. Not all of us are flamboyant, oversexed, sissy boy personal shoppers that hits on anything that walks and has pecs. I mean, it helps if they have money as well.
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amelia

Posted August 22, 2005 at 10:12 pm

if the HOH keeps switching back and forth like it has been there’s no way that someone from the now So3 can win. unless someone turns on like april…

and they’re out of luck if there’s one person in the friendship in the final. because the jury will be mostly frienship…
43

Tony A.

Posted August 23, 2005 at 4:17 am

Amen, Amelia # 42.
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ha!

Posted August 23, 2005 at 7:22 am

EROSion,

Thanks for pointing us to the HOH snapshots. It appears that Rachel, Kaysar, and Janelle were on vacation from the house during Jennifer’s term as HOH. Also, there appears to be more pictures of the HOH – past HOHs have taken more pictures than they posed for.

And for those who love Beautifully Buttered Biscuits, I give you:

http://www.ciaomarketing.com/clients/pangaea/

You can practically taste the glaze!

ha!
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boondocksaint

Posted August 23, 2005 at 11:32 am

As dumb as what howie did during HOH (and trust me, this is in my top 3 dumbest moves in BB history), I just have to throw this in…Kaysar is STILL defending what Howie did was right, bc it was his plan. As much as I like the guy, this was Kaysar’s legacy that Howie, who admittedly can’t think for himself threw into play. Kaysar has admitted, that his timing was off in putting james up, but still, it’s both kaysar’s fault for suggesting the idea (and wanting to do it AGAIN once he got back in) AND howie’s fault for not having two brain cells to think for himself