By: Kimba
Despite a very late night for the HGs, it is up-and-at-‘em no
later than 8:30 am as the food competition will soon be underway. As we see them
straggle out of bed, we see that outside there are crew members assembling some
weird contraption that appears to involve water and ping pong balls (did BB get
a bulk deal on these balls this year?). The HGs, of course, are in lockdown and
when they are finally suited up in their blue or red overalls, they sit down in
the LR to patiently wait and make small talk.
Around 9:30 am, the
competition gets underway. Alie, dressed in a red suit and bright orange
construction vest, leads the groups outside and explains the rules of the
game—which is certainly not made obvious by what they see. Each group has their
own set of pipes; using them, they must correctly connect them in consecutive
order from the water source and through a set of eight rings. Their object is to
get the water flowing through the pipes to the end of the course where a slide
is set up and a rubber duckie awaits. The first team who causes their duck to
coast down the slide wins. What makes the game a bit harder than it seems is
that the water, though not initially turned on, will be turned on full blast
some time in the middle of the game. Not only will it cause leaks, it may cause
some of the connections to burst.
The game begins and very early on the
blue team seems to have created a slight lead for themselves. They work quietly
(amid the occasional laugh) and diligently together. Over on the red team,
things are not so peaceful as Jee shouts out orders—to be fair, he seems to be
the only one working hard. Once the water is turned on, however, all members of
both teams begin to scramble as leaks start squirting out of their connections;
“oh *****!” Despite hitting a few snags trying to get the right-sized pipes and
correct connectors, within a few minutes the blue team wins and its members are
jubilant: Jack, Jun, Justin and Nathan. The red team, Dana, Erika, Jee and
Robert, are all silent. As they work in the aftermath of the competition to take
down the pipes, there is various chatter, but the one thing interesting said is
that several people agree that the teams were unfair because the blue team had
three guys to the red’s two. I don’t know, I figure that having Jun, who does
basically nothing in competitions, and Dana, who can actually win them or at
least tries, on two different teams evened thing up fairly well.
Of
course, Dana jumps right into bitch mode, and would her bitchfests be Dana-grade
if they didn’t involve slamming another HG? Now, looking forward to a week of
PB&J is no fun, of that I am sure, but does she really need bitterly eye
Nathan and say, “What, does everything he do have to work out for him? I swear,
I’m turning into a ***** atheist!” Well, I suppose she ~is~ one of the only two
HGs to have to stick to the PB&J diet for a second week…hehehe. As for the
other two-time loser, Robert, he says that he will be willing to take a penalty
nomination in order to eat; “***** them!” I assume he means BB. All I can say is
that if it meant so much to him, maybe he should have actually ~tried~ to win
the competition.
As the HGs head inside to change their clothes, the
feeds switch to FOTH and we see David being interviewed. A tear is shed, a
sniffle is heard, but as soon as we get back inside the house, David is
ultimately forgotten. And so it is the way with evicted HGs until the final
show.
The morning lumbers on and amid eating and chatting we hear Dana
complain and complain as Jun listens on and nods her head. Dana is concerned
that she will lose more weight and she is too skinny as it is (I will second
that); she also can’t believe that she has gone from being HOH to possibly being
nominated and having to eat PB&J all week. “This house sucks.” Well, Dana,
it’s a good lesson to you and all HOH's who think their power is
boundless—eventually you won’t be HOH anymore and ~anything~ can happen. Cuz,
well, that’s the way the game goes.
It must be a hard lesson for her to
learn, however, because within just under an hour of losing the food
competition, Dana thinks she can be the exception and cheats on her diet. That’s
right, Dana lies in bed next to Justin sucking on ~candy~, and unless that candy
is made from stale old jelly, Dana is blatantly breaking the rules. She might
have gotten away with it, too, if Jun didn’t come in and say out loud, “We have
candy?!” Dana and Justin shush her before Dana smiles and secretly says, “I
found it.” We sit watching the feeds agog at her nerve and wait for BB to give
her the scolding she deserves. As we wait, Dana, Jun and Justin continue their
earlier conversation and think of ways of imparting their misery (er, well, it’s
really only Dana’s this week) on the others: Dana hopes BB gives them lots of
fish this week since the Golden Boy likes red meat; Justin jokes that they
should “poison” their food and Jun chimes in, “Yeah, Alie, it’s okay to leave
the chicken out on the counter for a couple of hours.” This acrimonious talk may
have continued further, but BB finally calls Dana into the DR. Go BB! Give it to
her!
Er, well, nope. No, BB did not “give it to her.” In fact, as she
comes out, all she says is that she “got in trouble.” Well, whoopee. That’s the
way to really enforce your rules.
The late morning falls to card games
and napping and rubbing other bodies under the covers—well, that would be Justin
rubbing Dana. Jee and Nathan discuss the women in their lives. Jee thinks that
his girlfriend could be the “one” and that he will have to “give it up” and
propose soon. Nathan curses his luck at attracting women who seem innocent
enough to begin with but always “turn.” There was one woman he met before he
came to BB and because he told her he’d only be gone for a week to a month, he
thinks that unfortunately she will be with someone else when he gets out.
Meanwhile Justin has made his way over to the HOH room where he and Alison
discuss her impending nominations. She tells him that the others of her alliance
want him out, and she wants to know if she ~doesn’t~ nominate him this week,
will he do what he can to ensure that she will not be nominated next week? He
tells her that he will do what he can. She also asks if he will vote Dana out
for her, and though he doesn’t necessarily say yes to this, he does say that he
would vote Dana out before he would Jee or Robert. Things turn a bit personal
now as Alison accuses Justin of never sticking up for her when Dana badmouths
her—“I don’t understand why. I’ve never done anything bad to you ever.” Justin
flounders and tries to tell her that he ~does~ try to stick up for her
sometimes, but that in all honesty he can’t do it all of the time or it would
cause attention to him. Yeah, Justin, that might fly ~if~ you weren’t the one
initiating the badmouthing most of the time!
During this time, Nathan is
called to the DR and while he is gone, Jun encourages Jee to stack the cards in
his favor; Jee, however, only choose to cheat “a little” by stacking only a few
cards since otherwise Nathan “will know.” Jun also heads over to the HOH room to
try to eavesdrop on Alison and Justin’s conversation. If she did, indeed,
overhear anything in the short time she was over there, it might actually raise
her eyebrows. Not only do Alison and Justin strike a deal, but Alison says that
Nathan is a “dumbass” whom she will not consider herself indebted to after this
week. Furthermore, she can’t understand why he thinks he is the “best” since
~she~ won the last two competitions. If you think that is bad, Alison then tells
Justin that she thinks Nathan is gay—and it is not a joke. She says, “There is
no way he is not…seriously.” She also states that Nathan may be attracted to
Justin. Now, whether or not Nathan is gay is not the bad part—it’s that Alison
doesn’t take his word that he is not and makes a big joke out of the possibility
that he is. What, does she think that any guy not attracted to her must be
homosexual? As she continues to ramble on, she tells Justin that if she can’t
win, she’d want him to win, and that she wants him to stop repeating everything
she says to the others (it looks like she really is trying to strike up an
alliance with Justin). Well, don’t hold your breath, honey, because though he
doesn’t blab about his supposed deal with her, he ~does~ tell most everything
else to Dana and Jee within ten minutes. Alie, haven’t you realized YET that he
is NOT on your side and doesn’t want to be?
Alison calls Jee in next and
the bits of convo to note are: Jee says that it is possible that Erika is being
a bit two-faced being so friendly with Alie; Alie points out again that she is
only on Nathan’s side as far as this week goes as a return of favor for last;
when Alie asks Jee if he would put her up next week if he won HOH, he says no;
Robert comes in and explains to Alie that they “waited on Dana” hand and foot
(Alie’s words) last week only because she saved them…and then FOTH. Why FOTH?
Perhaps because Robert, a PB&J eater for the week, JUST ATE A COOKIE! BB,
stop being a wuss and do something about these HGs flagrantly ignoring the
rules! When Alie laughs about it and points it out, Robert only smiles and puts
his finger to his mouth to say, “Shhh!”
BB steps up to the plate and
trips right on over it again when Robert comes back from the DR saying that,
yeah, he got into trouble, but “they were pretty cool about it.”
Afternoon conversation to note: Alie and Erika are convinced Jee and Jun
have an alliance. Jack works really hard to convince Alison to put Justin up
along with Dana, while Alison tells him that she may, in fact, want Dana out
more and that may influence her nominations. Erika and Nathan both add their
support to Jack’s, but of course none of them know that she ~thinks~ she has an
alliance with Justin. Nathan continues to pout about it, but eventually and
reluctantly he accepts that Dana and Jun will go up with Dana going; if a veto
is used, Jun will go (THAT I don’t understand. Dana, yes. But if she vetoes
herself, put a Stooge up and get rid of him!). The Stooges all agree that they
will not use the veto on Dana and risk one of them being put up. Jee explains
how cruel the Korean school system was: when he skipped school once, he and his
friends were made to stand with their knees bent and arms held straight out
until they cried; furthermore, if a child got nine out of ten on their test, the
teacher would hit his or her hands nine times with a ruler (why, some of them
ask; Jee’s answer: “Because you only got nine right.”). Jun says she will not
cook meals for everyone if she is put on the block.
At quarter to five,
nomination-time arrives. We go to FOTH, and when we come back we find it
happened just like Alison said it was going to happen: Dana and Jun are
nominated. Apparently, the nomination speech was worded to suggest that Jun is a
“decoy” used to get Dana out. Surprisingly, there is little talk about it
afterwards. Instead, the feeds circulate to show us people playing cards and
Alison taking a vote to see who everyone thinks is cuter, her boyfriend or
Nathan (she thinks her boyfriend; and so do the majority of those polled). A bit
later, Nathan tells the others that Alison made out with David the other night,
and she ~swears~ that she didn’t. She gets very flushed as she denies that
anything happened, and when she stomps off to her bed to lie down, Nathan comes
in and tells her not to lie. Her response? “I’m not a liar!” Ooookay. Then she
says of her boyfriend, “I guess I should have broken up with him before I came
here.” Um, you think?
The evening dissolves now into the usual. There is
dinner (Jun made one last meal, apparently; we’ll see if she actually stops
cooking tomorrow). There is basketball; Dana and Erika play and chat about the
game. They both agree it has been an intense game and it needs to lighten up a
bit. There is some chasing and yelling as Nathan torments Alison’s elephant;
David would be proud. There is dancing as Alison gets down on the chessboard.
There is some outright hilarity as Jun tells Dana, Justin and Robert that, as of
tomorrow, she will start trying to win competitions—namely the POV tomorrow.
Alison explains to Jack and Erika why she put certain people’s key in
certain positions: Jee was made to give Jack his key since Jee wanted Jack
nominated; Robert was made to give Erika her key since Alison overheard Dana say
that she made Erika give Robert his key last week on purpose. Nathan comes in
now and the four go over every possible veto scenario there is. While Alison
wants anyone who wouldn’t veto Dana to get it, Nathan thinks the best situation
would be for Jun to get it, veto Dana, and have Justin put up—that way Justin
would go and the Stooges would be pissed at Jun. Meanwhile, the Stooges are
talking outside and they are actually quite angry that Dana has been campaigning
to get Jun voted out—Justin says that Dana asked him to get the guys to work on
Erika and Jack to keep her in. They reason that if she would turn on Jun that
quickly, she would turn on any of them in a heartbeat; thus, for that reason,
and to keep having yummy dinners cooked for them, they agree that it is best for
Dana to go this week.
Night time chatter: The Rat Pack while playing
cards mull over how “ignorant” Alie is because she assumed Robert would like
chilli because he is Cuban and how she called her boyfriend a “red man” and
joked that instead of making a “family tree,” he should make a “family tepee.”
(I agree, that is poor humor.) The group then falls to making fun of each other
using derogatory names. Nathan, meanwhile, is in the hot tub with his group
deciding that having Dana go is actually a better idea than voting Justin out
since she actually has won competitions. The group then, instead of calling each
other names in fun, choose to study the details of yesterday’s competition in
case they’ll need to know that information for future competitions. As various
members of the two groups converge: conversation is about pigs and what kind of
pets they make (this came up when they talked about America’s choice and how one
year the viewers voted for the HGs to get a pig—Ophelia!). They then list the
dogs they have had or want; Robert: a Pug; Dana: mostly Pit Bulls, a Great Dane,
a Lab; Jee: a Chihuahua.
Surprisingly, Erika and Robert are being more
than civil to each other (the trend has been noticeable lately), they actually
get up and dance together when Erika mentions that she had been teaching Salsa
to Alison. Apparently Robert is a very good dancer and they dance very well
together; the watching HGs clap in appreciation at the little show. Alison and
Nathan, meanwhile, are talking about how they both said mean things about Erika
in the first week, but have since admitted it to her and apologized. They both
really like who she is now (oh, has she changed over the past few weeks? Or have
you made the choice to try and get to know her?). Dana and Jun…well, what else?
Blather, blather, I want to hit Alison so badly, blather, blather, *gag.*
Blather, blather, did you see Erika and Robert dancing? Blather, blather, *****
freaks, blather, *takes gun to my head and pulls the trigger.* Blather, blather,
maybe the oven cleaner, that nasty *****, would kill the turtles, blather,
blather, *aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.*
Other bits of interest: Jack jokes to the
others that when Dana sees his DR-sessions, she is going send some Italians
after him from Bayside. Alie mocks Justin’s dancing and the others laugh—it
involves a thrown-back head, pivoting and no rhythm. Dana denies that she has
been campaigning against Jun. She only wants to win the veto, she says, and then
goes on to say that if she does, she’ll use the veto medal to “choke Nathan.”
After a brief chat with Erika and Jack that doesn’t amount to anything, Dana
leaves and the two muse over how she brought all of “this” on herself and that
Jack tried to warn her (he did, we can all attest to that). Robert, meanwhile,
isn’t exactly living that loving feeling for Erika for very long; he tells Jun
that Erika is a “***** dumb bitch.” (I suppose it’s something that he gets along
with her in person, but to bash her like this behind her back…it’s been awhile,
because Dana stole the limelight, since I’ve had a chance to shout: Rat
Bastard!) Then, to his guys, he says that he is scared Erika will come after him
once he is home since she knows his address—in fact, he is glad she will be
sequestered so he’ll know where she is. When the others laugh at him, he says
seriously, “She’s done ***** to me. When I tell you in sequestering, you guys
are gonna go ‘holy *****, I can’t believe she’s that ***** crazy.’” (Note here:
There has been an outside source to actually confirm this; whether it is the
truth or not, I can’t confirm.)
The chatter peters out by three in the
morning, and though some fall asleep before others, the house falls silent and
another day is officially done. Dana has been nominated and all is right in the
world. Sleep well, HGs. Tomorrow is a new day.
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