The HOH competition is circus themed, as evidenced by Keesha's half-assed circus getup, complete with cane. As they head to the backyard, Dan tells us that the odds are good that their alliance will win because it's 3 on 1. You know what that means. Choke! Each question is about what day an event happened in the house. You then basically play skee-ball to land as close to the respective day as possible, and the lowest score wins, kind of like golf. After the first question (about the Judas moment), Dan is ahead. Dan stays in the lead through the next 4 questions as well. Jerry starts gaining on him when he gets a question about the earthquake exactly right, but Dan is still in the lead by 2 at this point with two questions left. After Dan has a horrible misthrow and is off by 11 on the next question, Jerry takes the lead and keeps it through the end, despite a good effort from Dan on the last question. Of course Jerry yaps for years about how you should never underestimate an old man. Oh my God, we get it, SHUT UP.
After the competition, Memphis and Keesha commiserate in the peace room. Memphis points out that pretty much everyone's fought with him. Memphis then tells them he's not going to be making a deal with Jerry, no matter what. I'd say remember that, but...you know how it goes by now.
Time to see Jerry's HOH room! He carries a GIANT bag of medication into the room with him as everyone gets to see his pictures of his poor, poor family. Just think about how many of them probably get called Judas on a given day. And the laundry they'd have to do, all the jorts and sleeveless t-shirts! Man, somebody mail them something nice. He spies a toy snake in his HOH gift basket and calls it "Hissy", and then tells everyone that he has to tell them the story surrounding the snake. Of course it's some ridiculous and long...well, hold up a minute. It's just like this:
I know I've already made my fair share of Grampa Simpson references this season, but: I believe that pretty much covers it.
Awesome Filler Segment Number 3: In the middle of the night while Keesha and Memphis sleep, Renny gets up and sleepwalks over to the dresser to get some candy bars. She's entirely out of it as she opens door and then closes it, wanders around the room with no knowledge of where she is, and tells them not to steal her stuff. The next morning in the kitchen, Renny is like "I woke up this morning with an Almond Joy in my bed, and I have no idea what happened!" Man, it's a good thing she's not on Survivor; she would have sleptwalked (sleepwalked?) right into the waiting jaws of a tiger.
Renny and Keesha talk in the peace room about what they think Jerry will do. Renny thinks that his best bet is to put the 2 guys or 2 girls up. Meanwhile, Memphis and Dan talk about the same thing outside. Memphis thinks the smartest move is to make a deal with Jerry that will guarantee them Final 3. I think the assumption is that since Memphis won't get Jerry's vote anyway because they hate each other, he has no problem screwing him after this week. So Memphis goes upstairs and tells Jerry that the easiest way to do things is for them to go to Final 2 together. Sadly, Jerry does not tell Memphis to use the X Factor hand signal whenever he wants to talk. Memphis continues to fill him full of shit, telling Jerry about how he doesn't trust anyone anymore and he needs Jerry to get to the end and whatever, and of course he eats it up because he's Jerry and he's an idiot. Jerry tells Memphis that his goal is to put Dan up and send him home, so Memphis needs to make sure that happens after the veto competition. Memphis sells the Dan eviction, telling Jerry that he has no problem getting rid of him because, he says, "the son of a bitch put me up!" Jerry and Memphis shake hands while Memphis tells us in voiceover that he has no intention of getting rid of Dan. This is actually fairly shrewd play by Memphis and Dan, since it keeps both of them from going up, which would be the worst possible scenario because then their fates are in the hands of Renny and Keesha, which is bad.
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Comments (13)
Thanks Schoonie for laboring on Labor Day to get this recap up.
I was not happy when Jerry won HOH - I wanted him gone!
I want Dan and Renny to be the final two. Dan better hope he wins veto!
1 of 13 | Posted by taxgirl | Posted on September 1, 2008 10:51 AM
God Damn is Jerry annoying. Yeah Jerry, you've survived all these weeks on the block because you're an awesome player.
I'm so bummed because every time they show my beautiful Keesha, all I can see is that missing tooth. I guess Hooters' dental plan is a little lacking.
It will be a shame if Dan gets sent home this week. He is by far the best/smartest player this year.
2 of 13 | Posted by Dirty Sanchez | Posted on September 1, 2008 10:55 AM
The HOH competeition left my husband and me laughing from the outset. The minute we saw a carnival game, we started talking about how easily they can be fixed...so we knew Jerry would win it. And sure enough...after a throw from Dan where his ball made a suspicious leap to another number down the row, Jerry was ahead. What a shocker.
On the other hand, taking Jerry to the final would be good strategy for anyone else. His only argument to win is, "I'm old."
3 of 13 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on September 1, 2008 11:15 AM
Cheer up. In the Keesha's laugh montage she didn't have always have the gap -- so she has a false tooth she wears on occasion.
I still say that they'll be smart to take Jerry to the final two. He's such an asshole, pretty much anyone could win against him. I'm so proud of myself for recognizing what a dickhead he was from the very first episode, I could just go to a shopping mall and whip out an AK47.
I didn't think about the HOH game being rigged -- I have no contact with the Big Brother viewing audience, other than through TVgasm --why would BB want Jerry to win? Is it possible that in middle America Jerry's a hero?
Shit, that means another four years of goddamned republicans fucking everything up...
4 of 13 | Posted by itchy | Posted on September 1, 2008 12:12 PM
I understand liking Dan, Renny, and Memphis. But, Keesha? Really? What single thing has she done that is redeemable? She's Danielle-lite, and I really hope she somehow goes home this week.
5 of 13 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on September 1, 2008 1:25 PM
Schoon: I found it interesting that with editing, Dan's bell now rang when he won (and he only had to bang on it once, not twice.) If it had rung during the live show, Chenbot wouldn't have been so flustered!
I think Keesha's voice is way worse than her laugh. Jerry's imitation of her laugh WAS creepy though!! Yikes!
Is Renny the first houseguest to sleepwalk? I don't remember ever seeing anyone else in all these years. She was so funny!
6 of 13 | Posted by trink621 | Posted on September 1, 2008 1:35 PM
itchy...I don't think it was so much the producers wanting Jerry to win as wanting to throw a monkey wrench in the alliance's plan.
Keeps things interesting.
7 of 13 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on September 1, 2008 1:36 PM
Dan's ball leaping down 10 spaces was VERY suspicious. I am not a big conspiracy theorist...but that one just didn't look right at all.
Oh well, I wanted a Renny/Dan final two, but if it works and somehow they do get Renny put up after the Veto- it is the smartest thing. No one would win against her in the F2.
8 of 13 | Posted by serjen | Posted on September 1, 2008 2:20 PM
I think Memphis is hilarious, and Dan too. I cracked up when he was talking about Jerry's hissy story and how his stories are "not exciting, usually don't make sense and aren't funny."
And then Dan saying at the end of a long day, how the last thing you want is to hear one of Jerry's story. He is the typical old guy who thinks he is more important than everyone else and just because he's old, he can say and do whatever he wants and people care what he thinks. (Thankfully my grandma doesn't have the internet or else she'd know i was talking about her too!)
9 of 13 | Posted by DP Hooker | Posted on September 1, 2008 2:39 PM
I am sooooo thankful that the editing team chose to give us the abbreviated version of Jerry's Hissy story. It was boring enough as it was! The looks on the houseguests' faces as they feigned interest were great...especially Keesha's when Jerry finally finished.
10 of 13 | Posted by trink621 | Posted on September 1, 2008 4:17 PM
Cattyfan--that's what I was thinking too. Although it could have been interesting to see this alliance implode.
I thought Keesha played pretty well -- she won a lot of key competitions, influenced a lot of crucial votes and definitely helped steer the course of the game. And of course she's pretty easy on the eye, in that weird sort of reality television show way.
At any rate, she's been much more important to the show than Memphis who, frankly, hasn't done squat this entire time.
I'm still hoping it's Dan for the win. He's the only one who seemed to have an existing and consistent game plan. And he's pretty likeable for a religious republican idiot.
11 of 13 | Posted by itchy | Posted on September 1, 2008 10:57 PM
When I first read Dan's CBS BB profile I thought I would HATE him. Surprisingly, I don't.
I would have preferred to see the fantastic four (did they ever decide on a group name?) be the final four but Jerry's win will make the final episodes more interesting. They ALL did their parts to get this far. The most important being; sticking to their word and being loyal to the other three. Dan, of course, deserves to win.
12 of 13 | Posted by Mr Dangerous | Posted on September 2, 2008 7:49 AM
Keesha's damn tooth. It's just scary....HOLD ME Fozie!
I HOPE DAN GETS BOOTED OUT!!! Yeah he's a good player I just want RENNY TO WIN!!!
GOOO RENNY!!
GO BUCKEYES!!
13 of 13 | Posted by thisismarty | Posted on September 2, 2008 11:47 AM