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Big Brother

By Schoonie | Monday, August 13, 2007 | 9:10 am | 40 Comments

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Previously, on Big Brother, the live show cut off in the middle of an argument between Dick and Jameka. And for those of you wondering why Kail wasn’t told about America’s Player and crying conspiracy or whatever, here’s your answer: she’s boring and no one cares. We color in at the oh-so-gratifying moment of Dick completely freaking out over Kail’s eviction. While Kail hugs everybody in her bunny suit, Dick calls everybody a liar and molts all over the place. It’s great. After Kail walks out the door, Dick starts in immediately, calling everybody a liar, bitching about Eric’s existence in the house as if it is somehow offensive to Dick’s sensibilities to be near him. I’m sorry, he thinks he’s coming off as some sort of badass, but what he is doing is whining. Everybody just stays quiet while he berates them, probably because they’re so tired of being around him that this is pretty much the only thing to do. It’s like when a three-year-old is throwing a tantrum; you have to just let him scream himself out until he passes out on the floor.

Now we flashback to the HoH competition’s final round where Jess bested Jen, and then the greatest celebration ever (well, other than “bye bye bitches”) commenced, where Dustin and Eric completely throw Jess around the yard like she is a dodgeball while Dick and Daniele sit idly by and cry silent, tasty tears. The thing is, Dick has this coming for being such a pain in the ass. He deserves to have every action taken this week thrown in his face as just, just comeuppance, so it’s not so much that I’m a fan of Jessica’s crew (even though I am, save for Amber), its that Dick eating his just desserts is something that I could watch all day.

Dick finishes his cigarette while the houseguests all stand around the backyard talking about the competition and waiting for Chen to give them directions. Basically, while Kail’s boring-terview was going on, this is what was happening inside the house. Dick strolls right over and starts calling Amber a liar (an idea that he got from…the banner plane, so way to think you’re smart again) Amber gets all self-righteous and tells Dick to stop harassing everybody and about how “brutal” it is, but I have a problem taking her side when her hair has been imported from MTV’s 2003 Spring Break coverage.

Jameka has now officially had it up to here with Dick, so she chooses this time to tell him where to stick his mouth. She tells him that she hasn’t lied, and even if he thinks she has it kind of doesn’t matter. Then Dick says, “Isn’t it funny how I can be more honest than the people who read the Bible in the house?” as if his “honesty” doesn’t occur only when it suits him to berate someone. Jameka’s pretty much hyped now, so she gets all up in his face about God, and how Dick’s the one that made it personal and not Jameka, and she just talks nonstop about everything and reams Dick out, not giving him an opportunity to respond and taking advantage of Dick’s greatest weakness, which is the fact that he thinks that he’s the most logical and forward person in the house and pointing out the hypocrisy inherent in the fact that he only does it when it suits him and to be personal. Dick just stands there like an idiot because he doesn’t have a response and he eventually has to resort to fake mocking her hand motions, because…he just doesn’t have anything else. Jameka tells us that she was doing everything she could to make sure that “her hands were in front of her and not anywhere on his body”. You guys, I think she means that she wants to feel Dick up. Love connection!

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And then Amber, as you will notice throughout this entire episode, decides to insert herself into an argument in which she should not be a party. I mean, I get that Dick was talking about her too, but Jameka is doing a fine job, so keep your trucker hat out of this. Then Dustin gets in and screams at Dick, but he is unable to avoid Jameka’s wrath and she just keeps moving into his line of sight, which is awesome. After some more yelling about Jesus, Jameka retires into the house. She is putting away some clothes, and Dick follows her into the room and tries to start it up again, so Jameka hustles out of the room to avoid another confrontation. Good for her. Jameka tells us that she thought it was dirty that Dick brought religion into it and that she just wants him to come at her with something of substance instead of personal attacks, because that’s cheap and she knows it. So, Jameka is awesome, on a side note. I know she’s churchy or whatever, but she does it in such a way where it’s meant to be a private, quiet moment instead of a spectacle, AMBER, and she doesn’t back down and I’m pretty much on Team Jameka at this point.

After the commercials, Dani is holed up in the round room crying about how her plan wasn’t successful and how she hates everyone in the house and wants to go home and how her bunny suit is chafing her and how she doesn’t like the color of the walls and whatever else. I feel like CBS really wants us to like Daniele, but I just don’t. And watching Dick comfort her is not doing her any favors.

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Jess is talking to Jameka and Amber about how she can put up whomever she wants and the person they want will be gone, because their alliance controls the numbers. So, good on them for keeping Eric last week. But, the thing is: I could really see Amber winning the game at this point, which is terrifying to think about. Dustin and Eric are bigger targets than her when the other side wins HoH, so unless she has a complete mental breakdown (which is entirely possible), she’s probably making the final four. And that will only legitimize all of her bullshit up to this point, so I’m really hoping that doesn’t happen.

Jessica gets the key to her HoH room and rallies the house to come see it. She’s gotten pictures of her brother and family, a bunch of junk food, and a giant sunflower. I mean, it’s HUGE, you don’t even know. Like, I’m waiting for it to eat one of the houseguests.

And then, we get MORE footage of Daniele crying in the round room. Dick promises her that he will be such an asshole that they’ll have to vote him out instead of her. People think that it’s some sort of strategy to do that, but whatever. He would have done it anyway, it only makes him feel like a martyr this way. Hate them! Quit feeling sorry for yourselves and play!

And now, what is possibly the worst fight ever to take place on this show. It’s definitely worse than anything in Season Six, and that’s saying something. Amber waddles through the living room (have you seen her walk?) with Jameka, who takes a seat at the dinner table. This is somehow offensive to Dick, so he starts in on her again about her Christianity. Jameka now considers this a personal attack, so she goes right for the jugular and attacks Dick’s mom. Like, she literally goes “your mama” at one point. It’s amazing. And then, Amber AGAIN comes in from out of nowhere and interjects herself into someone else’s argument, like, get off my screen, Weepy McBraidsalot. Dick gets pretty mean himself and talks about how Amber found God during her drug recovery (which, if you have not heard the story, she started doing crystal meth because her dog had to have surgery and she was sad about it), but it’s inappropriate to bring this up, and finding God while in drug recovery is actually pretty legitimate, if you ask me. What’s illegitimate is flaunting it in front of everyone and screeching about it at the top of your lungs like God is some sort of dinner theatre. So Dick tells Amber that she’s a fucking mess (correct) and that her daughter is going to end up a mess, too, which is waaaay below the belt. So Jameka scores the worst hit of the entire fight when she says, “At least her daughter talks to her and doesn’t have to be raised by somebody else.” Everyone I was watching the show with turned and looked at each other like, “Holy crap, BURN.”

Dick is visibly shaken at this and pretty much has no response, so he goes back to the same old well again and makes fun of Amber’s weight, which is sort of inappropriate and stupid. If Dick were actually good at berating people at all, he would be a lot more entertaining, but half the stuff he says doesn’t even make any sense, so he resorts to repeating the same thing over and over again. This argument shows that Jameka, were she to do the same thing as Dick, would be much more effective at it and better. Basically: Dick’s boring.

Amber, magically, doesn’t even cry or anything, because Dick is pretty much impotent at this point. Man, when you can’t make Amber cry, it’s time to hang it up. That’s like being such a bad cook that you can’t even make toast.

Amber, at her very Amber-est, is in the HoH wearing headphones, crying her ass off, and praying at full volume (in stark contrast to Jameka). She starts blabbering about asking for strength and the ability to stand up to people (which is something that it’s okay to pray about), and then starts praying about losing weight, to make her better at competitions, and to keep the milk fresh past its expiration date. It’s…really gross. The best part is when she sneezes and then says “Excuse me” to Jesus, because when you’re talking to the savior, it’s always important to have manners. He gets really pissed when you use the dessert fork on your salad.

My stepmom, during this segment: “What do you think she’s listening to?”
Me: “Probably 2pac.”

In the round room, in which Daniele is apparently showering and changing at this point, she makes an offer of amnesty to Jen in which they agree to watch each other’s back. Well, in order to watch Jen’s back, you’d have to…leave the room.

Time for the food competition, which involves the houseguests dressing up like rockstars in crazy wigs and leather pants (Jen’s Jem and the Holograms outfit is definitely the best), and breaking guitars in the backyard. Team 1 is Dick, Dustin, Daniele and Jen, and Team 2 is Zach, Eric, Jameka and Amber. Basically, the guitars will have either a slop card or a money card inside, and the first team to get twenty dollars signs gets to eat for the week. Guitar smashing begins, and Team 2 takes a pretty good lead from the beginning. According to Amber, this is because God has told her which guitars have the dollar cards in them, and her choices were made via divine intervention. God would like everyone to know that he would really, really like Amber to enjoy some tasty Cheetos this week. Amber is his favorite! The snack foods belong to her!

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Amber’s team wins, but one of the guitars has a ‘slop pass’ in it, which is one by Dick. He tries to give it to Daniele, but she tells him to give it to Jen, which would be a good move if it weren’t so obvious, thereby negating its effect. Jen just stares straight ahead stoically, refusing to give Dick any sort of acknowledgement, which is awesome.

And now, footage of Zach dancing around the backyard for Jessica in his bunny suit. The goal of the segment is to tell us that Zach is slightly less creepy in his bunny suit than normal Zach. Amber tells us that she sort of thinks Zach is cute in the suit, but will not allow herself to succumb to the temptation that a creepy dude in a bunny suit brings. I…really want to see that prayer session.

Eric goes to get his America’s player instructions. Apparently, America wants him to get Dustin nominated. WTF? Dick is in the house, being, you know, himself, and so is Amber, and America wants Dustin? Whatever. So Eric and Dustin hang out in the hottub and Dustin is exceedingly drunk. Dustin waits until Dick finishes his cigarette and goes inside, and then calls him white trash so that he can’t hear, which is stupid. Then he screeches at someone off screen about how he wishes Jessica would put him up against Dick so that he can watch Dick get evicted by a 5-1 vote. I’m not sure it wouldn’t be tied, honestly, but whatever. At this, Eric looks over at him like, “Oh, really? This might be easier than I think.” So he goes to Jessica’s room and repeats the information to her, but you can tell that his heart sort of really isn’t in it at all. Dear America: if you keep this up, Amber is going to win. Do you really want that? Let’s at least give Eric a shot. Think about how many bad hairdos 500,000 dollars buys.

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After the commercials, it’s time for Jessica to nominate people. We get the Pensive Stare of Who Should I Nominate. Dick tells us that he’s going to terrorize the house if he and Daniele get nominated (um…this is different how?). Jessica brings the nomination box in and pulls out Jameka’s key first. Then Jen actually gets her key, which I thought did not exist because we haven’t seen it in so long, and then Eric, Amber, Dustin and Zach get theirs, so Dick and Daniele are nominated. She straight up tells Dick and Daniele that this is revenge for trying to evict Eric, so they can basically eat it, which is awesome. She tells us that she’s actually going after Daniele because she is a better player, which I think is a pretty good move, although getting rid of Dick would be fun for everyone else. This season is good, y’all.

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Like most people in America, Schoonie watches entirely too much reality television.  Unlike most people, Schoonie gets to share his opinions with the world, which is pretty rad.  Currently living in Chicago, Schoonie's been with Tvgasm since 2006.  He spends his free time writing Survivor fan fiction (Letters to Penthouse, all featuring Rupert!) , playing with his cover band, and playing with his other cover band. Also, this one time, Lisi fell.

40 Comments

  1. 1
    pq
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 10:00 am

    i have to give it to Jameka, she finally told Dick about himself. i don’t care if she had to stoop to his level to do it–it needed to be done. i don’t know how they have been able to stay locked in a house with that man–just watching him 3 hours a week is too much for me. i hate confrontation, and i have never actually been in a fight, but if he got up in my face screaming like that i don’t know what i would do. he is absolutely abusive, and he seems proud of the fact that he is primarily targeting the women in the house.

    i would feel sorry for Danielle, and maybe i will once Dick is gone, but she is such a whiner–plus she takes no responsibility for her actions in the game. too bad she didn’t team up with Jen sooner, now i think it may be too late.

    the only way Amber would win is if she went up against Zach–and maybe Jen, but i don’t think so. she really is a waste of space.

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    cajah
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 10:15 am

    Jessica is right that Daniele needs to go. Dick with his bad smoking habit cannot withstand an endurance competition, whereas Dani obviously can. And as it gets closer, particularly the final 3, endurance is important.

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    beccs98
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 11:00 am

    I’m finding reading these recaps so difficult because i H-A-T-E the whole eric/amber/dustin/jameka crew (i like jessica, except for her association with these people). I was actually rooting for Dick in that fight, not because i particularly like him, but just couldn’t support the alternative. you say dick repeats himself over and over in fights? What about Jameka’s “Just like your daughter and your mama. Just like your daughter and your mama”. I realize she’s a good person and all and I’d much rather hang out with her than Dick (teehee), but …so obnoxious.

    And Dustin and Amber are so exhausting, i hate them on my screen. Go Jen!

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    beccs98
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 11:02 am

    I’m finding reading these recaps so difficult because i H-A-T-E the whole eric/amber/dustin/jameka crew (i like jessica, except for her association with these people). I was actually rooting for Dick in that fight, not because i particularly like him, but just couldn’t support the alternative. you say dick repeats himself over and over in fights? What about Jameka’s “Just like your daughter and your mama. Just like your daughter and your mama”. I realize she’s a good person and all and I’d much rather hang out with her than Dick (teehee), but …so obnoxious.

    And Dustin and Amber are so exhausting, i hate them on my screen. Go Jen!

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    JasonR
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 11:17 am

    Great recap Schoon. BTW, so sweet that you enjoy trashy reality tv with your stepmom. The family that ridicules idiots together, stays together.

    At least on the east coast the show started 10 min. late and my dvr cut out and I totally missed the nominations . . . so pissed, but happy when I heard who got put up.

    Poor Eric. It’s obvious the Eric haters are the only ones voting on these “America’s Player” things. What would the producers do if Eric just said, “F-you America, I’m not doing this and getting my ass voted out of here.” Would the producers come in and drag his ass out of the house?

    I don’t really get the Eric hate. I kinda like the guy, and given the shitty hand he’s been dealt he’s really been playing brilliantly.

    I don’t watch the feeds, but if I were him I would have tried to get out of trouble with Amber by saying that he was trying too hard to impress Dick by showing what a shrewd player he was, but that he never really intended to disclose the info, which should have been evident by the fact that he never told Dick the big secret. Whether it was true or not I think Amber would have bought that.

    LOVE Jessica. More tube tops during competitions, please, you squeaky little savior of BB8, you.

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    CWJ
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 11:38 am

    Schoonie, I can’t believe you didn’t mention in your recap that during the Jameka/Dick/sort of Amber fight, Jameka resorted to calling Dick’s mom a bitch. Dick’s mom is an ordained minister. I’m just saying…

    Beccs98, I totally agree. I’m looking forward to weeks ahead when the Dustin crew is going to have to start turning on each other. That’ll be fun to watch.

    Go Jen! Too bad if she wins, she only gets 250K. Still a nice summer’s earnings.

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    sparky
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 11:52 am

    You don’t have to take Beginning Pysch to connect his attacks on Christianity with his mother. Obviously something went very wrong in that home.

    And somebody please tell me WHERE is Daniele’s MOTHER? Why don’t those two ever talk about her?

    As for America’s Choice: Did I call that one or what?

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    dmbislove
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 11:53 am

    Ok I know that I’m probably in the minority here, but I’m still on Dick’s side. I don’t see Jameka’s praying as being private because it seems to me she is really dramatic about it. She was laying on the floor at the top of the stairs at one point praying where anyone could have come along. I don’t see anything wrong with it, but I don’t think it’s fair to say she keeps it private. And I think with her argument with Dick I would have had more respect for her, had she kept her insults strictly directed at Dick. Yes he brings her religion into it, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard him speak about her family. Calling his mother a bitch when she has not even met her is way wrong. She should have just stuck with making fun of him for not raising his own daughter.

    I was actually cheering when I read that America wants Eric to get Dustin nominated. I can’t stand him, and to tell you the truth, I really don’t like anyone from his alliance, except for Jessica. They do remind me of the nerd herd from BB6 and I wish they all would go.

    One more thing…a lot of people keep saying that it’s not Eric’s fault for being America’s Player, but as far as I know he could have declined the offer right? I don’t feel sorry for him, it seems to me if he didn’t want to be America’s Player, he didn’t have to.

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    JasonR
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    dmbislove, if I remember correctly, Eric was TOLD at the last minute he was “America’s Player” and that he was pissed about it, but if he wanted to be on the show he had to do it.

  10. 10
    dmbislove
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    Another thing that I forgot to mention…Someone had mentioned a site on a different recap that had a link to Daniele’s live journal postings, and it appears that she was fine with Dick recently. She talked about going to movies with him, meeting his girlfriend’s and things like that.

    Also I guess her boyfriend was engaged to someone else but she was in love with him and wrote him a letter telling him her feelings. He broke of his engagement to be with Daniele. Not sure if they messed around before he broke off his engagement or not. I will look for the link again.

  11. 11
    sparky
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 12:09 pm

    The real issue isn’t Dick vs. Jameka, it’s Dick throwing tantrums because he doesn’t get everything he wants, it’s Dick’s own hypocrisy about his behavior, it’s Dick’s completely screwing up his daughter’s life and then making it worse by coming in and ruining her game. He pretends he was protecting her from Nick but the truth is that he’s jealous of anyone she might have any kind of relationship with, and he wants all her attention. He’s making her a pariah in the house so he can have her all to himself. Yes, creepy. He’s a ranting infant. His hurling abuse at people is just diaper-flinging in verbal form. And he’s obviously been getting away with it all his life.

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    sparky
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 12:19 pm

    The real issue isn’t Dick vs. Jameka, it’s Dick throwing tantrums because he doesn’t get everything he wants, it’s Dick’s own hypocrisy about his behavior, it’s Dick’s completely screwing up his daughter’s life and then making it worse by coming in and ruining her game. He pretends he was protecting her from Nick but the truth is that he’s jealous of anyone she might have any kind of relationship with, and he wants all her attention. He’s making her a pariah in the house so he can have her all to himself. Yes, creepy. He’s a ranting infant. His hurling abuse at people is just diaper-flinging in verbal form. And he’s obviously been getting away with it all his life.

  13. 13
    Shollia
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    You know why Dustin was chosen? B/c the people that watch the feeds are fickle as hell and have chosen him as the person to hate.
    It’s really pathetic, but for some reason Dustin is the one to hate now.

    ANyways… that fight between Dick and Jam was REALLY annoying. Jam kept repeating things over and over and over again, Oh she was still good though, but it was just annoying actually watching it on the feeds.
    No matter what Dick said, you could tell she really got under his skin which was AWESOME.
    Oh and when Dustin yelled at Dick when he was walking inside, this was RIGHT after the Jam vs Dick fight. What it didn’t show was that when Dick and Dani were eating dinner at the table inside, Dustin, without his mic on yelled through the sliding glass door at them.
    I don’t like D&D but it was funny as hell watching coward Dustin :P

    Oh and you have no idea how annoying Dani was when she was whining about how she hates everyone and blahblahblah.. She just kept going and going and going.

  14. 14
    c-rock
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    Schoonie! LOVED the Jem and the Holograms reference…glamour ‘n glitter, fashion ‘n fame! But what’s w/all the Jameka love? She whacked. Her fundamentalist prayers are totally out there. IF she’s so X’ian, why does she yell and scream so at Dick? Dick’s rants are what makes the show so good this season!
    And as to Amber’s dog related reason that you cite for her turning to meth; during her rant-y “prayer” (w/headphones on, so respectful) she was blabbing to God about how she was sorry she turned to drugs in order to work harder for her daughter, etc. Not to get off or anything. RIIIGHT.
    Also, re Dick’s not being able to make Amber cry …oh yes he can …she was praying about that too as I recall.
    GO JEN and ED!

  15. 15
    slutty_whore
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    #13, Dustin has been a prick since the beginning, starting with his rehearsed speech during Joe’s eviction and his angry videotaped statements toward him, Mike, and Kail. Dustin, as has been pointed out in earlier posts and Schoonie’s article, is a coward. Not only that, but the week he was HOH, he didn’t even fight to keep his nominations in place during the POV competition, instead choosing $5k and a trip (to take his G/F, WTF?) which led to the whole Nick debacle and the splinter of the LNC. Dustin may be good to look at, (as a gay man, I do think he is attractive), but he is an asshole of the Nth degree. You can judge someone by the company they keep and if that company is Amber (they are BFFs in the house), then Dustin’s character leaves a lot to be desired.

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    Pegster
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Even Jesus himself would reach his breaking point and go off on Dick. There’s only so much a person (or a Messiah) can take.

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    pq
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 3:21 pm

    i really, really, want to like Jameka, but i think she is a little annoying. all that religious talk gets old fast–and yes, i know how that sounds. i do think she has had a few really good moments this season and her going off on Dick was one of them.

    Dick is a bully and he doesn’t stop if you ignore him–see Jen. he “goes there” all the time and i have no problem with Jameka playing the dozens w/him–although she may also have a point cause he is a very f’ed up man and his mom may or may not have had something to do with the way he treats women. he is intentionally hurtful and mean and he tries to cover up the fact that he’s a bully by calling it gameplay. if he was really just up front and in your face he would have called out Nick instead of going behind his back to try to get rid of him. i didn’t see him all up in Nick’s face when he thought Nick was playing both sides–no yelling and harassing him, although he said he thought Nick was lying. no, Dick goes for people he considers weak, and i can’t really admire that crap–so i have to give props to Jameka for calling him on his bullsh!t and giving him a taste of his own medicine.

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    cajah
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    I like Dustin. Yes he’s cowardly, but he was smart to take the trip & the money. Anything that reminds me of Dr. Will puts a smile on my face.

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    CheriesTake
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    Oh the magic that has become Jameka!
    Poor Dickwad had no clue he was unleashing Jam’s inner “Madea in a street gang” when he decided to call her a liar! Her tattoo (of a gun?) should have tipped him off. But then he’s not the sharpest hypodermic in the needle exchange program. She had his ass running from one side of the yard to the other. He was so flustered he was just yelling random shit,”God doesn’t exist, hypocrit, liar, magic ping pong ball, mary had a little lamb……………Somebody get this bitch off me!”
    BEAUTIFUL!

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    CheriesTake
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    The scarifice Darling Dick is making for his beloved Dani brings tears to my eyes.(Sniffle, sniffle.)
    He’s actually going to make everyone in the house HATE him so that he can ensure that he goes home and Dani stays. Never have I seen such dedication to a child from her Daddy. And here I thought he was just an unstable, depraved, woman hating, gay hating, disgusting, brain damaged from years of obvious substance abuse, frustrated serial killer asshole!
    My bad.

  21. 21
    johncon966
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    I would have to say seeing Jameka take on Dick was awesome. She has been under the radar since the beginning of the show and I was happy to see someone finally put ED in his place. Jen still cracks me up and I think she is in a really good place right now because as the weeks go on I think the Jess/Eric/Jameka/Dustin/Amber alliance is going to blow up leaving Jen and possibly Zach as swing votes eveyone will be trying to secure.

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    KikiC
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Where are the screencaps?

    …I’m waiting to read it after they get put in. I LOVE screencaps as I’m reading the recap!It just isn’t the same without them (and their snarky comments).

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    guinevere
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    I couldn’t be happier america was targeting dustin.

    god, i really wish we could get eric out, though. they haven’t shown some of the truly AWFUL things he’s said over the feeds… he calls zack a rapist/child molester, said daniele was probably about to go “slit her wrists”, and he, dustin, and amber had a whole conversation while dick and daniele were eating dinner where they made disgusting comments about how they thought dick had the hots for daniele.

    eric (quoted): “I swear to god, i said the other day, i’m gonna walk in on them fucking.”

    this isn’t all. he goes off on horrible rants on almost everyone in the house, including his own alliance. plus, the producer’s clearly interfered to keep him in the house (there were comments on the feeds…)

    what would the do w/o their 99 cent boy?

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    MiJo
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    What’s the dirt about the producers interfering to keep Eric in the house? I hadn’t heard anything about that.

    I agree, Dustin needs to go. Like #8 said, that alliance reminds me of the nerd herd! They’re so smug now because they think they have all the power, but soon or later they’ll have to eat their own.

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    MiJo
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    What’s the dirt about the producers interfering to keep Eric in the house? I hadn’t heard anything about that.

    I agree, Dustin needs to go. Like #8 said, that alliance reminds me of the nerd herd! They’re so smug now because they think they have all the power, but soon or later they’ll have to eat their own.

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    MiJo
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 8:06 pm

    What’s the dirt about the producers interfering to keep Eric in the house? I hadn’t heard anything about that.

    I agree, Dustin needs to go. Like #8 said, that alliance reminds me of the nerd herd! They’re so smug now because they think they have all the power, but soon or later they’ll have to eat their own.

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    MiJo
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    Sorry about the multiple posts. I kept getting server errors, so I assumed my posts weren’t getting through. Boy, was I wrong!!

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    bluebee
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 4:24 am

    Beautiful.

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    bluebee
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 4:27 am

    But then he’s not the sharpest hypodermic in the needle exchange program…..

    thanks, CheriesTake… that was beautiful.. cracked me up!

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    realitytvluvr
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 9:02 am

    Hi there. Avid TVG reader/not-so-avid poster here… but I can’t keep this in anymore! ;)

    Schoonie! Rooting for Jameka? Really?? Although I’m not a big D&D fan, I cannot take the LNC anymore!!!! I can at least tolerate Jessica – but her blind loyalty to Eric and the rest of the LNC is annoying. Let me just say that…

    Dustin… appears to be smug, lying hypocrite! Change your shirt and shut your mouth.

    Amber… She’s never lied??? Really? Bcuz I seem to recall her laying on Nick’s junk a couple weeks back and telling him she didn’t know he would be nominated…lie? yep. can’t stand her and her Moon-Pie-Crybaby face.

    Jameka… Enough already with all the self-righteous religious BS. She loves God and Jesus and all that…we get it! Now shut up about it and just play the game already!

    Eric…and his eyebrows, and his nipple rings (ew) and his faux hawk… I’m over it. You know, I was actually rooting for him early on…maybe not to win – but at least to hang in there – bcuz he got a seriously raw deal with this AP thing. However, after reading #23 above, I may have to re-evaluate…

    Jessica… Oh, my little tiny-brained one. Didn’t like her much in the beginning but she’s grown on me. She’s gotten much farther than I ever thought she would, but she can’t keep her mouth shut and it’ll catch up to her eventually.

    As for the rest….I can’t figure out if Zach is socially retarded, or if he’s a perv. I’m over D&D, and I have grown to LOVE Jen now… hope she wins. :)

    Ok, I feel better now. Thanks.

  31. 31
    JasonR
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 10:07 am

    guinevere (#23), the stuff you just told us about Eric makes me like him even more. Look at the recap above and these comments. We’re all going off on and making fun of the houseguests. Why shouldn’t the people IN the house be able to talk shit and make fun of each other?

  32. 32
    schoonie
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 10:34 am

    So, I’m about to go there re: Eric. Here’s my opinion:

    First of all, the amount of money that CBS gets from the text message voting is miniscule, at best, especially by CBS standards. You can vote online for FREE, people. That negates that argument right there. There’s also an argument that says that the producers wanted Eric around so that America would have a jury vote, and that’s much more likely. My theory is that they wanted him to stay because Kail is boring. Either way, the show is more awesome for keeping him and ditching Kail, and with all the negative things he has to do because of the dumbass American voting (like, say, voting for Kail twice or having to try to get Dustin put up), I’d say he maybe deserved a little slack anyway to even things out.

    Either way, I don’t see how anyone can fault Eric for being mean to Dick and Daniele. First of all, they are taped 24-7, and it’s unedited, unlike other reality shows. If they taped me 24 hours a day, I’d probably look like an asshole too. Either way, if I had Dick following me around all day saying rude things to me, I’d probably make a few jokes about him fucking his own daughter when I got the upper hand, too, because he’s an asshole and he deserves it. The fact of the matter is that Dick started the personal attacks in the house. He threw the first pitch. If you’re dealing it out, you need to expect some to come your way too. It may be in poor taste, but it’s certainly not uncalled for. There would be complaining if CBS aired the comments from families and whatnot, and there’s complaining because CBS isn’t airing the comments, so either way somebody is going to give them shit. But here’s the point: YOU ARE PAYING TO WATCH THEM on the internet. If you don’t like what they are saying, cancel your feeds.

    Or you could enjoy the alternative, which is to quit taking a show about people who wear bunny suits so seriously and make fun of them with good humor instead. Which would be the route I have chosen.

    Except when it comes to Amber. She’s the one exception.

  33. 33
    schoonie
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 10:37 am

    Oh, and sorry there are no screencaps yet! My baby brother was born the other day and I went home to see him and wrote this recap there, and amid all the hubub and baby action I just…forgot. I’ll get them up this afternoon after work, I promise!

  34. 34
    southerngal
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    Good point Schoonie… I also feel D&D both deserve everything Eric and anyone else says negative about them. I literally fast forward the show everytime Dick’s stupid face shows up on the screen. I swear that show sends my blood pressure through the roof!

    Congrats on the new brother Schoonie!

  35. 35
    dmbislove
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 12:15 pm

    JasonR-

    Thanks for clearing that up. I wasn’t sure how that worked. I guess if they asked him if he wanted to be America’s Choice and he said no, they wouldn’t be able to let him in the house for fear that he would tell someone about the twist.

  36. 36
    aholic
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 10:28 pm

    OK, Schoonie….with talk of stepmoms and baby brothers…I’ve gotta know. How old are you? And how about a pic? We eventually got to see B-Side and J-Unit, and I’ve seen Flipit on TV. Now it’s YOUR turn!

  37. 37
    dresdendoll
    Posted August 15, 2007 at 12:11 am

    This is my first time commenting here and I’m about to post a comment clarifying the perspective of avid, feed-watching BB fans who support DDJZ (Daniele, Dick, Jen, and Zach), so I hope I’m not quartered and drawn in tatters for it. I certainly won’t be disparaging fans of the remnant LNC; just the LNC itself.

    I think the issue a lot of people take with the Turd Herd isn’t their bashing and trashing of Dick and Daniele. Big Brother fans thrive on the incessant bitchiness and two-faced character assassination that’s inherent to the game. It’s quite a warped, unhealthy fascination, really. The issue is their hypocrisy in the entire matter. Not that hypocrisy is unique to BB8, but we still loathe it when we see it. The LNC cower and cry foul when Dick goes on his invective tirades and they try to censure and cast opprobrium on him for it, yet in the comfort of their own circle, they engage in roughly equivalent raving. They aren’t vociferous or public about it, but they’re still very much guilty (especially Dustin and Eric). Returning Dick’s behaviour in kind isn’t in itself reprehensible; most would do the same in their situation. However, if you’re going to claim the moral high ground and sit atop the hierarchy of morality condescendingly and point fingers accusingly when your character is besmirched only to engage in similar denigration, it just kind of makes you look like a moron and strips you of your credibility. Which has, in turn, given validity to some of Dick’s actions.

    I hope that made sense. Either way you look at it, any housemate of this year’s cast is pretty hard to wholly like, and Jen and Zach seem to be the only ones who haven’t given people egregious reasons to dislike them.

  38. 38
    dresdendoll
    Posted August 15, 2007 at 12:17 am

    This is my first time commenting here and I’m about to post a comment clarifying the perspective of avid, feed-watching BB fans who support DDJZ (Daniele, Dick, Jen, and Zach), so I hope I’m not quartered and drawn in tatters for it. I certainly won’t be disparaging fans of the remnant LNC; just the LNC itself.

    I think the issue a lot of people take with the Turd Herd isn’t their bashing and trashing of Dick and Daniele. Big Brother fans thrive on the incessant bitchiness and two-faced character assassination that’s inherent to the game. It’s quite a warped, unhealthy fascination, really. The issue is their hypocrisy in the entire matter. Not that hypocrisy is unique to BB8, but we still loathe it when we see it. The LNC cower and cry foul when Dick goes on his invective tirades and they try to censure and cast opprobrium on him for it, yet in the comfort of their own circle, they engage in roughly equivalent raving. They aren’t vociferous or public about it, but they’re still very much guilty (especially Dustin and Eric). Returning Dick’s behaviour in kind isn’t in itself reprehensible; most would do the same in their situation. However, if you’re going to claim the moral high ground and sit atop the hierarchy of morality condescendingly and point fingers accusingly when your character is besmirched only to engage in similar denigration, it just kind of makes you look like a moron and strips you of your credibility. Which has, in turn, given validity to some of Dick’s actions.

    I hope that made sense. Either way you look at it, any housemate of this year’s cast is pretty hard to wholly like, and Jen and Zach seem to be the only ones who haven’t given people egregious reasons to dislike them.

  39. 39
    CheriesTake
    Posted August 15, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    Huh?

  40. 40
    CheriesTake
    Posted August 15, 2007 at 11:37 pm

    Sorry, I am back now. After typing “Huh” I fell out of my chair and had a seizure. Wow, the last time I heard words like that my satelite dish went nuts and all I could get was Jeopardy!
    Jees-a-loo, lighten up Francis er dresdendoll.

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