The Early Show (Boogie and Erika):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOKnH9Y7P1E

The View (Janelle, Erika, & Boogie):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7BhZ0q5x4

As soon as I saw the Chenbot's shirt, I couldn't wait to read this recap! Excellent!

In the end it came down to a choice between the pimp & the ho.... it was a Kobyashi Maru choice.

Finale Pictures:

Link (the small afterparty)

okay - as much as I LOVE my Tivo, it really sux when it fails. I wasn't home last night to notice it wasn't working - and I missed BOTH BB and Rock Star.

Anyway, as much as I didn't want Erika to win, I wanted Mike to win even LESS. I can't believe the ONLY person who voted for her was Marcy. That just stinks. She really, truly must be ashamed after hearing those horrible comments from Mike. There's no way ANYone could be okay with that or just let it roll off their back. And those comments just made me, literally, pray for some rule-breaking or something that would make stupid MB's win invalid. DAMN. THIS is exactly why I don't believe in Karma.

Oh, J-Unit. I absolutely LOVE you!! You said everything I was thinking only SOOO much funnier. You're the king, J-Unit, the king!

Julie's shirt was...wow.

And what is up with Diane's hair? It looks like Barbie hair.

Rosie rips into Boogie. And Janelle just sits back and laughs. Such fun to watch.

Some of the men are happy about Kaysar's hair, too. Bald, he was not all that cute.

Some hot guys in the front row of the audience, just behind Julie Chen (I know, we are never supposed to avert our gaze from the Chenbot--I apologize). I'm guessing hand-picked to sit there. Was anyone in the audience actually a friend of any of the houseguests or were they all fillers?

Howie's line (I paraphrase) "If you want to continue this discussion, you can reach me on howie.com" actually made me laugh out loud. And I am not a Howie-is-so-funny kind of person.

Any chance of wrap party gossip?

The "Passion" screencaps still crack me up. Is that wrong?

Thanks to B-Side and J-Unit (and anyone else involved) for another wonderful season of snark. While the show started out slow, and the choosing of the winner was more an afterthought because no one cared, it ended up being a very entertaining season. I will miss Janie and Will. The rest, not so much.

I thought the finale was going to be a lot more boring but it was awesome when CBS showed Erika how she had been played and then no one but Marcellas greeted her as she came out. yay Schadenfreude!!!

Thanks for the recap, J-Unit. Even though I don't watch the show I enjoyed all the snarky fun that you and B-Side provided. I'm sorry the douchebag won instead of the ho mainly because it was a lesser of two evils kind of thing. Hey, Erika always looks a little unstable, maybe she murder Booger for humiliating her in front of the world. That would be good Karma.

I generally find Rosie to be one of the most annoying people on the planet, but she was brilliant in that segment. That was probably one of the most uncomfortable segments I've ever seen on a talk show. Thanks again to J-Unit and B-Side for all the great recaps. Here's to next summer and getting to know some new houseguests and hopefully a better season.

On to Survivor and jokes about racial groups!

JR

Wow. The Chenbot shirt was the best part of this show. I kust knew you were going to zero in on it, J-Unit.

So the suffering is over. Can't say I'm happy and, other than my moralistic side saying Erika was a ho and didn't deserve the win, I think the poor girl was skewered, spat on and ground under the former HGs' feet. So she blew Mike Boogie, so what? She never really had any friends in the house, other than maybe Danielle, and I just knew that was only going to last until the LOD commanded her ouster. Never have I seen anyone so badly humiliated in public and, Janelle, get your fat ass off her. You were at least as bad. The stuff that was slung at Erika was gratuitous and cheap. The poor woman deserved better than that, because, as J-Unit points out, her opponent was a dirty pimp that took advantage of Erika's weaknesses. Call it the game if you want, call it strategy if you must, but only while the game is on. Once it's over, keep the insults to yourself, because each and every player has a record they can regret. There, glad that's off my chest.

I'll miss the Chenbot, but I suspect she'll surprise us with a little Les popping out of her Chengina this winter, so she'll make a few headlines, no?

I hope TVG will keep its spies busy for the next few weeks seeing who pops in Boogie's restaurants to celebrate. I would bet there's a job waiting for our favorite VIP cocktail waitress at one of them, and it won't be serving drinks.

Pardon my grammer, that would be "maybe she WILL murder Booger..."

It was obvious that Boogie was gonna win by at least a 5-2 vote. I agreed with what most of the jury said. Basically, Boogie "deserved" to win over Erika since he had more control over her throughout the game. Erika seemed to be trying to take credit for a lot of things she didn't do. At the end of the day, Chilltown masterminded the strategical aspect, Janelle dominated the challenges, and Erika perfected the art of kissing everyone's ass. (not to mention James became the ultimate whiner while George contemporized farting, Danielle: drinking, Howie: berating people, & Marcellas: flipfloping)

As for the show itself, the first week was awesome, followed by 3 mediocre/boring... weeks. It picked up when George won HOH and evicted Howie (could you imagine if Janelle had gotten evicted instead of Howie, the show would've ended in mid-August!) I think the key pattern was Janelle winning the vetos every week and Chilltown manipulating everyone else.

Even though no challenges were crapshoots (therefore required brains), the majority were terribly planned, poorly executed and generally not too exciting (ie, 2-faced veto, graveyard, past houseguests competing in activity).

But overall, I enjoyed the season even though it was a heartbreat to see Janelle get third place. I actually don't feel bad that Erika got pummmeled on the show since she said some nasty things on the live feeds.

And FYI, the jury (NOT the final 2) gets a $30,000 stipend, so at the end, Janelle actually got more money ($55000) than Erika :)

I really don’t have anything to say about last night’s show except the Chenbott looked beautiful in her upgraded Armor All bullet-proof outfit. And I hope the show is renewed for season 8. I think I’ll leave it at that and just post some of my favorite BB7 moments.

Funny S6 stuff and fights
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CYq2KsoEuJQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Tz25L-eUTo

Where Howie got his manic laugh from.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-u_fRe67bMM

The funniest thing I have seen all year. Please don’t flag this video. If you don’t like it then don’t view it. I love Dani, this guy doesn’t.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zzgunin-L-Q

Damn, how did Nikki get in here? Well it is BB7. Classic Nikki…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E8G1XN-ZRzg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZWh3-TjBQWY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sTXNIygObMA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jkR1G3PvfY0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E3xtvy_c7S4

Howie is Hi-Larry-Us. Flick My Bean Baby. Put your fingers in it… two, make it three. ROTFLMAO
http://youtube.com/watch?v=baDh0W2PSeU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TdT7HfI7GiU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P59WwkzhjbU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rGyVpMcw6l8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rJHii15UONA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=35SbielVl90
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tY8NdtS8fSs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pLDlkT9Z87I
And my favorite Howie moment happens when Will got him to confess that he would give a guy a blow job for $10,000. Danielle finally got it through his dense skull that this was going out on the live feeds so Howie upped the price to $25,000. Hi-Larry-Us stuff but I can’t find it. Please post if anyone runs across it.

Janelle, the stupid drunk. Only the first 30 seconds are worth watching. Again and again and again…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=heGJ_VcsOZY

Chengina, heh heh.

Finale Pictures: Link (the small afterparty)
Posted by: Exarius(#4 of 16)

OMG...WaterBottle was there and Will was holding her. That tramp!

And Booger - you're still a douchebag.

hb

Chenbot's shirt was its attempt at origami.

Erika still has no clue what Booger did to here. She's convinced herself that she was playing him too. It's a defense mechanism.

No one greeted Erika at the door. If I were her brother, father, or third cousin even I would have been there and taken Boogie down.

Did anyone else notice that Danielle said (screamed) "Shut UP" to the ChenBot?

I am pretty sure that's a offense punishable by death.

Blecch. Worst BB season ever. I wasn't wild about the "all stars" concept to begin with, but when it degenerated into total showmance mode... I mean, I don't watch BB for the romance.

Looking forward to a new cast of unknown idiots next year. And CBS, please, no more wannabe models, actors or bartenders. Enough!

exarius, thanks for the links... Rosie ripped Boogie a new asshole -- it was fantastic.

Tony A.: chengina, lol

J-Unit: I think the word you were looking for was "dickie." It's like an origami dickie, and it was HIDEOUS. And did you see how it kind of pulled around her boobs on the side. I found the whole contraption distracting and upsetting.

Goddamn! Dude! I haven't even watched the finale. I was out late and recorded it. I have laugh my ass off and I'm not even done with the second page.

I guess the traffic on I-10 was worse than I imagined, probably because you need THREE people in the car to qualify for the HOV lane. What the fuck is that? It's practically communist!

That shit cracked me up!

Sparklepony (#20), the problem with casting these shows is, although we are all sick of aspiring actors and bartenders, how many people with a real career or a family can, or are willing to, leave their job and/or family for two months, only to risk losing both by having your every move watched and scrutinized? And all this for a 1 in 14 chance at what is about $300K after taxes? Will is probably the only professional to ever be on BB, and Danielle the only real mom. Even Eric the firefighter almost lost his job when he went on the show.

Since Survivor is a much shorter duration show, you get a larger cross-section of contestants.

The finale was actually good, except for the whole 'Mike won' part. *sigh*... Oh well. I'll be watching next summer anyways.

Great recap, J-Unit! Thanks for staying with it all summer. :)

-sparky (#7);
I spotted Mike's mom in the crowd as well as Dennis (?) & Erika from Amazing Race 5 sitting in the crowd, front row behind Chenbot. I think Erika from AR5 is Erika's best friend. As for everyone else, they probably are fillers because who the hell decided to wave a 'Bunky' sign? :)

I feel so sorry for Erika, I really do. If Boogie wanted to have sex with her, fine. If he wanted to talk bad about her, fine. But why did he feel the need to do both? And just mean, mean, mean way about it too. I don't think Erika is a ho. I think she generally liked Boogie and they had sex. She shoulda realized, "hey, people are watching this!" (that might be where the "ho" part could be applied) but Mike is just as big of a ho then.

I kept thinking, thank goodness for Marcellas, the only one to hug her. And for the sympathy vote. I just felt so bad for her.

I wonder if Diane was thanking her lucky stars she got evicted when she did. There is no doubt in my mind that if she was still around he would of started that showmance with her, after the comments he made about her being attractive. As if she wasn't humilated enough after Drew, Boogie would of loved to sink her even lower.

I've always loved Rosie but I love her even more for that interview.

Hey, Jase? Your mother has a Chilltown t-shirt!

What a tool that guy is.

Oh J-Unit! The "passion" reference cracked me UP; I was so not expecting that! I nerd-snorted and everything. HAHAHAHAA! Great recap, thanks.

thank you, j-unit, for emphatically reminding us what this show is really all about: chen-anigans. all summer long, as we've collectively gone from initial excitement to concern to boredom to disgust and back again, we have had one constant--our beloved chenbot. a whole house full of erikas and boogies and their collective spawn couldn't take away from the sheer joy of that first 'but first'--notice the little knowing twinkle in her eye?--and the 'but first' HoH competition was sort of like the chen-worship version of vatican I. when julie crowed 'i am the chenbot!' on the early show, it was like when jesus revealed himself to the disciples. WE HEAR YOU, JULIE!! ALL HAIL, MIGHTY CHENBOT! SAY THE WORD, AND WE'LL ALL FLOOD THE STREETS, CONSUME THE BRAINS OF YOUR ENEMIES, BUY STOCK IN VIACOM, AND STEAL ALL THE HAND-TOWELS AND TOILET PAPER FROM THE RESTROOMS IN MIKE BOOGIE'S RESTAURANTS !!(according to the live-feed watchers, boogie would probably get along fine without the hand-towels. hey mr. big-time restaurant owner: do you need one of your line cooks to explain that sign by the sink that says 'lavalos manos, por favor'?)

i know, i know, over the top, but face it: we are all a flock of john hinckley jr.s to the chen-bot's jodie foster. if i wasn't already converted to the church of chenbotology before last night, the origami-camel-toe ensemble sealed the deal.

fellow BB pilgrims, always remember: even when the cast is dumb, the comps are rigged, the alliance names are gayer than shit, and two assholes end up in the finals, we are still granted a live weekly audience with our mistress. the pope's got nothin' on julie chen!

our man j-unit seems pretty cynical about the finale, but i have to say, i was pleasantly surprised. i don't think i've ever seen a harder reality TV smackdown of well-earned shame than the one they laid on erika landin last night. BWAHAHAHAHA! just desserts, as far as i'm concerned.

tony, i appreciate your compassion, but erika, of all people, should have known better. all of the houseguests already knew from experience what happens when you go on a reality TV show (in the words of jase: 'tvgasm will light you up!'), and erika even has experience on the production side. to her credit, her head didn't explode, and rosie o. and others have launched a quick backlash against boogie to rehabilitate erika somewhat before we all forget about her and she goes back home to live with her mom and her cats. she'll live. i'm with will: she just disgusts me. 36 my ass. erika makes april from last season look like a debutante. between the obvious eating disorder, the fake tits, the haggard complexion, and the jersey mall hair, it's pretty clear that 'dignity' is something erika gave up on a long time ago. i'm really glad she didn't win.

this season was a bummer, but as long we've got the chenbot, i'll be tuning in. maybe next summer she'll have a little mini-cheni to show the world. if that happens, j-unit, b-side, and madeyoulaugh will have to find their own camels (with or without toes) and three sacramento kings uniforms (raid mike boogie's closet--he's got 'em in black, sky blue, and faux-gucci) and then journey over to the CBS backlot to present the holy child with gifts of frankinsense, gold, and myrrh. praise chenbot! amen.

From the looks of it, my virus plan didn't work out.

Classic! Great stuff.

thank you.

OMG, I just thought of three magic words which would make BB8 the best season ever:

All. Midget. Cast.

Boogie is a fucking dirtbag for treating Erica that way. She should of slapped his face on TV, but then there would of been a lawsuit.

I'm not a Rosie fan, but I did like how she ragged on that piece of shit boogie.

I was so disappointed in BB7, lets hope BB8 is better.

KH

No offense, but how is B-Side not recapping the finale? (and every single BB episode for that matter?).

J-Unit's work is solid, but B-Side is the undisputed champ when it comes to bloging BB.

"Will admitted that being part of Chilltown was a tremendous advantage, but everybody knew what they were doing as well, and getting to the end wasn't luck, it was strategy."
Really? It was strategy that one idiot after another had control of the HoH room?

Anyway, it's ironic that after this abortion of a season we end up with the best final two ever.
Now can Janelle just crawl into whatever hole she came from and never darken my television screen again? Please? My nightmare is that some CBS executive will listen to her cult followers and put her on TAR. The only way that wouldn't be an abomination is if they team her up with Ivette.

And what's wrong with floaters? Okay, this needs discussion so I'm taking it to the forum.

Congrats, Boogie. You're a pig, but luckily most of the jury is sexist enough to judge Erika far more harshly despite how similar your games were.

Throws up violently on computer screen.

No one has mentioned the meltdown that the Chenbot had when Booger came through the door. She said something to him, appeared to want to question him on the win, but he just ignored her and kept shaking hands. Then she just stood there with the smile.exe file pasted on her face, camera focused on her instead of Bogus, and got bumped around by a couple people. It was hysterical.
Erica seems to be trying to save face now. She denied to Rosie that she loved Booger, but we all saw her say in the diary room "I think I found my mate in the BB house." Oh well, her cats will be glad she is home.
Did Nakomis have a black eye or was I seeing things?
Glad this train wreck is over now. On to Survivor.

Thanks J-unit and all for another snarky season of snot rockets and guffaws--this recap being no exception.

I thought the chenbots shirt looked like a selection from Daniels line on project runway . . . you know that asian/military look, whaaa! to those uninitiated!!!

Always great to see Janelle, but I was not satisfied with Booger getting enough grief for being a dick! Erika aside, no women should be treated like that and spoke about that way but a bent-nosed nerd with expensive friends. Keep trying Booger, maybe one day and ounce of cool will rub off on you. Can't wait to see Doily Mom tooling around in that screamingly inappropriate car.

I did enjoy Rosie's skewer, but doesn't all that talking over annoy any of you, and frankly, for all the dissing, it kind of left our girl Janelle out of it--which is not fair. Perhaps I'll have to fill out that petition, coz I really would like to see the 2 of them AR--and if it's an All-star, can any of you petitioning mention the Clowns, Al + Jon from Season4--they're my faves of all time, and were ROBBED!!!!!

Lastly, J-unit, even though the audience doesn't cheer for "But first," you must know we all are. What a special joy to have those moments to share through the nethers with all of you!!!

See ya on the Survivor, AR posts (and I might even do next top model this year)

sniff, I miss you all already : (

Jack for president!

ooops, didn't Howie say that Booger (or Bogus) or Fuckface was hated by America? Maybe I heard it wrong.

Sorry Tabby, guess I didn't refresh before I posted, but I thought you were kidding about the winning 2 . . . until the blight mention . . . guess you weren't a fan, and perhaps your views will prevail, but oh well, I'd still like to see them on AR, and I bet it would be different to see them on the challenges when manipulation wouldn't help much.

TORAL! Bravo, J-Unit. Bravo.

Nice how after Mike Boogie won, he didn't even shake Erika's hand or even look her way. He just did his victory whoop and got ready to gloat. Hell, he couldn't make eye contact with her for the rest of the show... Klass act, Mike, klass act.

Did anyone else expect Boogie to end his kiss-butt "Howie - you entertain me...Janelle - you challenge me...Dani - you inspire me" speech with "and Will - you complete me."?

Rosie kicks rocks, man! The View just became the Rosie Show, Part II. Those ladies have lost all control. She will gain back her immense audience and start another show of her own.

You go, Rosie! Do it with P-A-S-S-I-O-N!!

"Let's not reward the fact that the PRODUCERS of the show decided to give Will an ally after the VIEWERS voted in Dr. Will. Who else did the viewers vote into the house? That's right, it was ERIKA."

Not to nitpick, but Will wasn't voted in by America. Neither was Boogie, they were producer picks. The 4 guys America picked were the 3 from S6 and Jase.

I was also disappointed that no one cheered during the But First. Although I did enjoy Chenbot's high fiving walk down the runway.

Oh, the appearance of Toral and PASSION! makes me want to believe in Jesus. I woke my neighbor up laughing so loud.

Also, just to bring the season full circle, here's a memory from July 6, 2006:

Let's sing the song!

I have a little Chenbot.
I made it out of clay.
And when it's dry and ready,
Oh Chenbot I shall play!

She has a lovely body,
With legs so short and thin.
And when she gets all tired,
she drops and then I win.

My Chenbot's always playful,
She loves to dance and spin.
A happy game of Chenbot,
Come play -- let's begin!

A letter to the bloggers from the gospel according to jack:

"and for all of you boogie haters: prepare yourselves for another wave of restaurant promotions and shout-outs to the peeps in concord, because that lame-ass, jive wigger is going to win the money."

O wise prophet jack, I did heed your warning. And because of you, I was properly braced for the outcome. Thank you.

J-Unit, awesome call about having Janelle on The Bachelorette - I might watch it finally.

Tony A: Are you a fellow Detroiter?

Why, yes, SaveFerris, I am! How did you know?

well done Greg

I thought I was reading a recap of BB when I read this:


"Just because you may eat like a sassy black woman doesn't give you the right to start wagging your finger like one."


Did Survivor-Race Baiting begin?

Wow, J-Unit, this is the first time I have to say I'm disappointed--way off the mark on the Bone Rack appreciation. As an avid feed watcher, the contempt from Janelle and the other HGs was surprisingly muted (or edited kindly?) in the finale, for she deserved far more.

Janelle's attitude at the round table, while admittedly a little drunk and sloppy, seems quite deserved. After Erika and her swapped notes on the boys and seemed to have regained their dignity, Ms. Bone Rack couldn't resist a little more Boogie loving and promptly fell under his dubious romantic spell once again. Sweet little Erika then proceeded to make an agreement with Boogie to throw the final HOH and evict Janelle. Finally Erika went on the largest egomanical rant about how she was solely responsible for every person's eviction in the house and that she would surely "smoke" either Boogie or Janelle in the finals. Her pitiful reply to Danielle's question was just one example of her warped thinking. In my view, Scarika received her just desserts (perhaps a little leftover from Janelle's stash?).

Just a NASTY final. What Rosie O'Donnell said multiplied by 100.

I don't dislike Erica. I know she gets a lot of "stick", but I thought she played a good, if understated game. She wasn't an ideal person for the final 2 though. I hate Boogie and was disgusted that she liked him, but if I was to judge all my friends on their dodgy relationship choices then I'd never get anything else done.

Janelle's bitter, personal comments were just nasty. I hate it when people go on about how she's put weight on (because it's shallow and panders to anorexiculture) but on the final she was ugly on the inside and it wasn't nice to see. It was depressing that only Marcellas gave Erika the vote. Mike wasn't a floater - he was a coaster - he coasted through the game on Will's shirt-tails and then was lucky enough to win a couple of contests at the end. Morally, he took the game to a new low - and although lying is seen as acceptable strategy, the way that he and Will treated Erika and Janelle was like something out of a Neil LaBute film. Sick and disgusting.

The prize should have gone to Danielle. A much classier player and a better strategist than either Janelle or Eric.

I'm DONE with All-stars shows. Bring on the unknowns next year. I never want to hear from any of this lot ever again.

Oh my gosh, does anyone know who Gelman is on Live with Regis and Kelly? Him and Boogie could be FREAKING TWINS! I can't believe I didn't see it until now...

Wrap party recap?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sickcandy/sets/72157594284939456/show/

J-Unit,
I was feeling most of what you had to say until you made that "sassy black woman" comment. Save that crap for your personal conversations not stuff I have to read!