By: PaulyAceIV
In Case You Missed It:
The house, with a seemingly heavy heart, voted 2 to 1 to evict former FBI man
Jack Owens of Birmingham, Alabama. Jack was a well respected figure in the
house, but Jun and Allison each voted to evict him because of the help it gives
them to reach the finals as an alliance, currently taking Erika along under
their wing.
The two members of the Stooges alliance were in a must win
situation in the next HOH, which dealt with missing items in the house. Early
on, it seemed clear Robert, the Los Angeles former restaurant manager, wasn't
going to be victorious here. In the end, Jun, the investor from Queens, took
her very first HOH title.
As it turned out, her timing was quite good
indeed. For being HOH in this round, Julie Chen told her in the Diary Room that
she had won a trip back to New York City to watch, in person, last night's MTV
Video Music Awards, one of the bigger events on the pop culture scene of the
summer. The catch? She had to leave immediately. Jun was taken by limo to
catch a flight back to the Big Apple, while the four other houseguests were left
to wonder...
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS JUN?
Jee must have felt, as
baseball player Yogi Berra once uttered, that it was "déjà vu all over again."
The Angels, as Allison now dubs her troika with Jun and Erika, felt Day 54 was
a huge win for them. She apologizes to Jee and Erika shortly after Jack left.
Shortly after the show, Allison approached Robert, but Robert rebuked her.
Allison's reply was that she hopes he gets over it soon.
But Robert
sinks further into a manic funk. "We should have taken all those b*tches out,
man!", he tells Jee. Robert feels the villainous women, who he calls "three
sluts", will now be assured of victory.
Jee tells the Diary Room that he
thinks Robert has issues with women.
The HOH contest is looked at
closer. Apparently, Robert, on at least two occasions, was a spilt second shy
of buzzing in first. Could that have been the difference in the game?
The latest twist was replayed where Jun disappeared from view. "Another
twist in the Big Brother game. How wonderful!", Jee uttered. Jun went to the
Diary Room, and the houseguests were left to wait. And wait. And wait. And
wait.
Allison went into the Diary Room, and didn't find Jun. The
houseguests than began to get nervous about her whereabouts. Allison then
thought this might have something to do with another week of Peanut Butter and
Jelly, or maybe Jun got to meet her boyfriend, Bob, as some kind of reward.
After a commercial break, a huge apple appears in the backyard. A note
attached to it announces that this is the first of three clues. The three clues
lead to an answer, and the first person to make a correct answer wins power of
veto for the week. Each houseguest can only wager one guess, and if multiple
correct answers are made, the houseguest that rings a bell in the backyard
earliest, signifying that they would like to make a guess, wins.
Allison
and Erika talk inside, while Jee and Robert guess outside. Erika thinks of two
locations right off, New York, or the New York New York hotel on the Las Vegas
strip. Everyone starts thinking of what events go on this weekend, like the
start of the football season, with many college teams playing this weekend.
Allison erroneously thinks Labor Day is the start of the Monday Night NFL
games, which actually begin on a Thursday this year, the 4th of September. Jee
and Robert bluff the girls thinking they have the correct answer.
Jee
wonders about how one of the five people in the house will, in less than four
weeks, be $500,000 richer. Erika discuss plans to travel, while Jee dreams of
what he'd do with the money. Robert is dreaming of a Porsche like his attorney
has, and a Rolex, while Allison hopes to start a family with Donny, pay off his
brother's college loans, and have a happy life.
In the next segment,
Erika talks about how hungry she is, and how Jee promised to eat PBJ sandwiches
with everyone else. Allison, however, has caught Jee in a web of his own
deceit, as he's eaten chips, sandwiches other than PBJ, and Mountain Dew soda.
This leads to Robert, in Jun's absence, hosting a food competition, the
"Big Brother Ballroom." In the old desert bedroom was a room full of scores of
yellow and red balls. Amongst the balls are specially labeled spheres with all
the letters of the alphabet on them, which had to be placed in alphabetical
order within the five minute allotment. Each letter can appear more than once,
and any item not appearing in alphabetical order cannot be won.
While
Robert reviews the massive haul the houseguests had attained. Once that was
done, the houseguests played around in the ball pit. Allison did a very nice
flip into the balls, while Jee discovered one of the items that didn't make the
cut...Lobster.
In another clip, Robert, feeling very hungry, just pigs
out on some of the food won in the competition, saying that "this is the money."
In the show's fourth segment, Jee and Robert talk about how they can't
wait to leave. Allison comes over to again attempt to apologize, saying there's
no way she could win. Jee tells her that she's made serious enemies in the
game, and that Jun or Erika would beat her in the final. Allison admits that
she's played a great game, and to that extent, the boys agree.
Back to
the ongoing POV competition, a second clue, a VHS videotape which was made
popular in the 1980s with the advent of VCRs, was revealed. Robert immediately
thought Jun became the favorite to win the POV, which under the rules, occurs if
no one correctly guesses the answer. Allison, meanwhile, jokingly calls this
the worst veto game ever.
Jun, wearing nothing but a towel, gets ready
for the MTV Video Awards, waves to the cameras, and says she'll see everyone
later.
Allison meanwhile, asks Erika where's the MTV Video Awards at?
Erika responds sometimes it's in New York, sometimes it's in Los Angeles.
Back across the country, Jun is shown in Manhattan, getting close to the
awards site, waving to people in a limo around the Times Square section of the
borough.
All the houseguests are anxious for the third clue, and lo and
behold they get it. Outside is an astronaut suit on a statue, which is somewhat
a replica of the statue anyone who wins the MTV Video Awards gets, the Moonman.
Erika now calls it the veto competition from hell.
In the final
segment, the houseguests continue to stare at the Moonman. Jee wondered how an
astronaut would be tied into New York, while Erika wondered if this had to do
with late night talk show host David Letterman. Robert thinks if the group had
20 clues, they wouldn't get it, but he rings the bell and is the first to make a
guess.
Robert's guess is Space Mountain, at Disneyland, in Los
Angeles.
Meanwhile, the girls continue to think about things, but Jee is
next to ring the bell.
The girls laugh, confident Jee will guess
incorrectly. Then, Allison asks Erika about the statue on the MTV trophy, and
both quickly ring the bell. Jee is shown making his guess and placing a golden
envelope in a gold box, followed by Allison and Erika.
Later, the
houseguests come to the living room. On the plasma screen is the words: where
is Jun? A picture of the Empire State building appears, and Jun is shown
popping out of a limousine, being interviewed on cable channel MTV. The
houseguests are in utter disbelief, having left their seats, and now stand just
in front of the plasma screen side by side!
Jun tells the houseguests
she's having a blast. Robert calls it the baddest thing he's seen in her life.
Allison had made a correct guess, and wins this week's POV.
Jee
and Robert now prepare themselves for the worst, as Allison kisses her new
trophy.
Analysis:
With Allison now the POV holder, the question
for the rest of the week is clear. Allison has pretty much assured herself of a
2nd place finish and $50,000 if the current alliances hold. If she uses the
veto on one of Jun's choice, she could throw fifty grand down the drain.
Allison does strike me as the kind of person who shies away from being
aggressive, so do not be surprised if she kicks Jun and Erika to the curb in an
effort to go for the big money.
A brilliantly produced episode by Arnold
Shapiro and company, which goes to show they can make any twist look good on TV.
Big Brother 4's show on Wednesday was their highest rated show of the season,
according to the earliest of the Nielsen Rating reports.
Robert and
Jee appear to be on the short end of the stick, while Allison and Erika appear
to sit pretty. But, assuming Jee and Robert are on the block, and Allison does
use the veto, Erika would automatically go up, since no one else remains
eligible. Now assume Wednesday night, it comes down to Erika and Jee. If
Robert votes to evict Erika, and Allison votes Jee, it puts Jun in a heck of a
spot as a tiebreaker.
The show isn't explaining that mathematically,
this should be the last week the POV can be played for. Could they have another
new twist up their sleeves to explain this? Or, are they just asleep at the
switch?
Nine episodes of BB4 remain now. With two extra episodes, I'm
sure the producers will think of something to keep us on our toes until the
end!
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