So Libra backs off Jerry and returns to her bed, bitching about all of it. She caps it off with an awesome "AND THAT WAS FOREVER AGO!" because she's actually eight years old, apparently. Who still says that in an argument not having to do with kickball? The editors continue to cut to shots of Renny looking devious, but again, Renny's not really doing anything out of order or lying at all. Renny's not some mastermind, show. So Libra takes a quick breather, and then follows Jerry into the bathroom, demanding to know who told him what Libra said. Jerry tells her "the other old person", and then on cue Renny comes storming into the bathroom to defend herself. Libra again is all "I never said that you two lost it for us, I said it would be fair to balance the teams!" Renny totally awesomely replies with "Well, genius, what do you think that implies?" Libra, who has been trapped by a logical argument, continues to bitch about the actual words instead of the meaning, because she is completely missing the point. Renny is abruptly (and awesomely) like "YOU'D BETTA NAWT!" and wagging her finger all over the place, and all of a sudden the argument is over in the most awkward manner possible, and Renny and her leopard nightgown go storming off down the hallway. YOU'D BETTA NAWT FOLLOW HER!
Upstairs in the HOH room, Steven approaches Jessie about the plan to backdoor Libra, a plan which is growing increasingly more satisfying for yours truly. Jessie tells him to talk to Michelle about it, since Michelle is the one with the Power of Veto. Michelle ends up in the room with them, and when Steven brings up the plan, Michelle seems hesitant to stick her neck out. Steven makes a very sound argument that it's not sticking your neck out if the whole house wants it to happen, because Steven himself would have a vote, Angie, Memphis, Renny, Jerry, and Michelle herself is enough to get Libra out right there. Michelle is then like "Well, why should I listen to the person who might be just trying to save himself?" and Steven, in a masterful move, is like "Fine, then. Take Dan off and put Libra up and leave me on the block." Michelle still waffles about using the veto as we go into commercial, but Steven just made one of the best strategic arguments I've ever seen on this show, which is very impressive. It also probably means his ass is gone on Wednesday, but whatever.
Time for the veto ceremony! Michelle gives Steven and Dan the chance to make their arguments. Steven tells Michelle that the stigma of Brian is going to stay with him whether she takes him off or not, and tells her to do what she thinks is best for the house. Basically, he's making the argument that he's screwed anyway, and then reminding her that everyone hates Libra. Man, this guy is good! Dan then makes his typically dorky argument about how he'll sleep in the bed he's made, and then he uses alliteration and calls Michelle "The Portuguese Princess of Providence", making me wonder if he's an English teacher. Anyway, Michelle declines to use the veto, telling us that she's not going to go from having no enemies at all to making enemies of half the house, because she's not stupid. I'd say it's stupid to leave someone like Libra in the game, but after Steven's performance tonight, he's probably just as threatening.
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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