In the kitchen, Keesha tells Steven that she likes him too much to see him go home this early. He asks her whether she would use the veto on him, and (to her credit, later) she is extremely vague about it, all "I just might have to do that!" but not making any promises to him. He should have reminded her that her dog would hate her if she didn't take him off the block.
The players for the Veto competition are chosen. You can see that Jessie is extremely short as Steven and Dan stand next to him. Well, that explains quite a bit. Anyway, Jessie chooses Michelle, Dan gets HG's choice and chooses Libra, and Steven gets lucky and pulls Keesha's name out of the bag. Jessie picks Jerry to host, because he hates us all.
After the players have been chosen, Keesha tells April, Libra and Michelle about how she loves Steven and really wants him to stay. She then leaves the room, allowing them to talk about her, because that's how they roll. At one point, April ostensibly says "I just don't know if I can trust her", but it really, really sounds like "I just don't fucking trust her." I think April may have slipped one in past the sensors. And that's not the only thing that's getting slipped in, from what I've heard!
Jerry comes out of the Diary Room announcing the veto competition in his scary hoarse serial killer voice. The competition is to decipher a bunch of vanity license plates to spell out words that have to do with the Big Brother house. Each houseguest has a buzzer, so when you've figured it out you buzz in, a curtain drops over the plates, and you have to recite the states on the plates from memory. If you're right, you get points toward the veto. If you're wrong, you're out. Dan tells us that he's planning on throwing the competition, which he says might not make sense initially, but will make him look like the weaker player, therefore make it more likely that Steven will leave and that he'll be safe. You know what else will make it more likely that Steven will leave and that you'll be safe? Winning the veto, genius.
Dan knocks himself out on the first question, but he at least does it in a way that isn't obvious. He oversells a little to the other houseguests when he hits the bench, but overall I'm pretty sure he's not dumb, except for this one thing. It would have been smarter to win the damn veto, but whatever. Rest easy that this man is teaching your schoolchildren, parents of Michigan. Jessie then gets knocked out on the very same question as he completely goes blank after the curtain drops. HE WANTS YOU TO THINK HE'S DUMB!
Steven gets the next question wrong and knocks himself out, leaving Keesha as his best option for staying in the game. The third question ends up being for a slop pass. However, if you buzz in and win, you get knocked out of the competition. Since Keesha and Libra have been on slop for two weeks running, this is a very tempting opportunity for the both of them. Both, however, choose to continue competing for the veto despite the temptations the pass has to offer and the fact that Michelle is trying to knock them out so that she can win. Libra makes a particularly big show of not taking the slop pass, and then she promptly gets knocked out on the next question. Ha! That leaves only Keesha and Michelle. On the next question, Keesha draws a blank after the curtain closes and Michelle ends up winning the veto by default.
Back from the commercial, the other houseguests bitch about the fact that Keesha didn't take the opportunity to eat for the week, calling it suspicious and talking some more about how they don't trust her. Libra tells us in confessional that this house is "all about perception", and that Keesha is doing a poor job of being perceived well. Remember Libra saying that in about fifteen minutes when she is screaming at the elderly.
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Comments (20)
Libra's already broken her word from the first episode that she's not the stereotypical crazy black woman on reality shows. Ekk.
1 of 20 | Posted by foxbasealpha | Posted on July 23, 2008 9:19 AM
Sorry to dish on Libra again, but looking at all the ages of the contestants on the CBS Big Brother page shows that Libra (31) is the 4th OLDEST in the house behind Jerry (75), Renny (53) and Steven (35).
2 of 20 | Posted by foxbasealpha | Posted on July 23, 2008 9:30 AM
Wait, Libra's only 31? DAMN. I would have guessed that she was like 40.
3 of 20 | Posted by schoonie | Posted on July 23, 2008 10:02 AM
"I think April may have slipped one in past the sensors. And that's not the only thing that's getting slipped in, from what I've heard!"
How clever you are to just slide (sorry) that in there. I wonder if they'll show anything about it on the show tonight...I think it could lead to the demise of what some people are calling the best player in the house...Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
4 of 20 | Posted by JustJesse | Posted on July 23, 2008 10:18 AM
Renny's comment about "what does that imply" summed up the entire argument for me. Black, white, brown, old, gay, man, woman, what-the-f-ever...there are always differences in people. How you deal with those differences, pardon the word play, makes the difference. Had someone else said "we had two black players on our team, it would have been more fair to distribute it better" would have caused Libra to have a motherf-ing breakdown, as it should. The whore does not see how what she said was WRONG, period. For that, I have zero respect for her now.
5 of 20 | Posted by wattage | Posted on July 23, 2008 10:18 AM
Schoonie, great recap and I am so glad that someone else besides me noticed Memphis' disappearing mustache!! It made no sense because the scenes seemed to be pretty much in sequencial order, so it was making me crazy!! Nobody at work that watches it noticed that his mustache kept reappearing. Good job. I had a feeling that Michelle wasn't going to use the Veto, they always do that, make it look like they are and at the last moment don't. The Renny/Jerry/Libra fight was pretty funny especially that Keisha pretty much started it all and sat back innocently....
6 of 20 | Posted by featherhead | Posted on July 23, 2008 10:23 AM
Oh my gosh!!! I can't stand Jessie. If he says one more time, people think I'm a meathead but I'm so smart...I'm going to rip my hair out. You are a meathead. You do have a target on your back. The only reason people are being nice to you is because you are HoH. Just wait until you aren't.
Ugh...anyway. They really should have gotten Libra out. She really could be a threat. She is actually fairly smart. However, she is imploding, so maybe it would be best just to sit back and watch.
Anyhoho, great recap!
7 of 20 | Posted by jenday | Posted on July 23, 2008 10:37 AM
Team Badass???? More like Team Dumbass.
8 of 20 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on July 23, 2008 10:51 AM
Guess if I was there, I'd be toast, coz I said to avoid the old people in challenges too . . . whoopsie!!!!
Thanks Schoon, and Flip and Fozz for your lightning fast recaps this time around!!!! So fun to jump in with all the hot topics!
For me, I ain't hatin' on Libra, but she did have her mouth wide open for a lot of this episode, I actually think Jerry continues to slide, if I was 75 up against some 20 and 30 somethings, I would gladly own my age and limitations and not try to insist I was equal, nor would I call a young woman a bitch for stating the obvious! I was glad to see Renny get in on the action though!
Jessie is meh to me, guess he's not raising my ire as I could care, but I'm glad he's bringing out the hater in all of you!!!!
9 of 20 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on July 23, 2008 11:25 AM
Wouldn't it be just DELICIOUS if instead of winning a bunch of money at the end, it turned out they lied and instead the winner got a lifetime supply of TREET (fake-SPAM) and Corn-Nuts™? (and Diet Cherry 7-Up?) Then all the horrible things they do to each other would have all been for nothing!
And THEN, ha ha, PSYCHE! They really DID win a million dollars... in Zimbabwean dollars ($1 USD is currently valued at $495,932,559,520 ZD).
There'd be rioting.
love, J-Mo :)
10 of 20 | Posted by J-Mo | Posted on July 23, 2008 1:00 PM
Wow, Steven is 35? He is so adorable. He looks much younger.
JustJesse can you elaborate on your comment at all or does that count as a spoiler? I assume you are referring to April and Ollie? Hard to believe either of them would be called the best player in the house though, they both seem useless to me.
11 of 20 | Posted by BRaps | Posted on July 23, 2008 1:36 PM
Okay, forget the disappearing mustache, what about the disappearing houseguest?
In the spirit of Where's Waldo?...
Where was Ollie?
12 of 20 | Posted by badassbtch | Posted on July 23, 2008 1:42 PM
Jerry: Look Libra, you liberal leaving baby abandoning no butt having sista, did you call me old?
Libra: Look JerryATRIC you civil war veteran sick wife leaving social security collecting early bird special getting 15% off on Monday's at Ross backstabbing pervert, no I did not
Jesse Bravo for the win! That would be all kinds of wrong and totally awesome. I predict that this will be the season with the least deserving winner. The game plan every week seems to be "form an alliance to get out anyone who is playing the game"
13 of 20 | Posted by Fayellis1 | Posted on July 23, 2008 2:12 PM
I have a man crush on Schoonie for being so flat out funny, but, dude, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
Are you saving it, or is it too easy?
14 of 20 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on July 23, 2008 6:14 PM
Ollie's kind of faded out because apparently he's spending most of his time exploring his new life as a man (as opposed to his former life as virginal jesus-freak crushed by overbearing jesus-freak parents). What's going to be lots of fun is watching what happens to him when April dumps him -- she's going to move on, you just know she will.
They're going to have to do something to rescue this show. I mean, at this point, I prefer the clowns from the last season (technically Season 9A...this is 9B).
Although I am fascinated by the freak show that is jesse. I mean, isn't it cool that his personality so perfectly matches his freakishly shaped body and that awesome caricature that is his face? They really could build an entire cartoon series around this guy...the new Freakazoid. My kids would love it.
15 of 20 | Posted by itchy | Posted on July 23, 2008 11:57 PM
So I know everyone is gaining on Libra but to be honest, he comments were taken out of proportion. IF you always had the old people on your team you would lose! And lets not forget that April blantly bitched that they always had the old people on their team.
If they balanced it out more often, than either of these geezers could have food for the week. Its really not a bad proposition.
And to remove Libra this early in the game would be a stupid move! She's not a threat! Steven is!
16 of 20 | Posted by sowhat1234 | Posted on July 24, 2008 6:08 AM
Sorry Sowhat1234, I disagree. Some challenges are physical, some mental. You could say the same for women, men who are not athletic, or people who are just plain stupid. You never know what a challenge is going to be, so trying to divide up the oldies is just as useless as trying to divide up the women evenly, etc.
17 of 20 | Posted by wattage | Posted on July 24, 2008 7:31 AM
Libra's only 31? I would have guessed 40, too! I guess black does crack.
18 of 20 | Posted by ReeseWitherspoon | Posted on July 24, 2008 8:31 AM
Uh, I would service Jessie's feet.
19 of 20 | Posted by Mr Dangerous | Posted on July 24, 2008 6:14 PM
Jessie - even his name sums it up. Jessie is a ridiculous name for a man, period.
20 of 20 | Posted by bitchristine | Posted on July 27, 2008 7:23 AM