Month: August 2008

Following April’s eviction from the house, we left off in Big Brother 10 Episode 18 at the start of an endurance HOH competition.

It’s like a carnival ride. The contestants are being swung up and down and back and forth into a wall. Jerry is the first one out after 41 minutes. Keesha falls at 1 hour 5 minutes. In addition to not being able to feel their legs, the rain is making for a cold competition. Michelle drops at 1 hour 59 minutes. Memphis hangs in for quite a while longer but drops at 3 hours 19 minutes, leaving Dan and Ollie to fight for HOH.

Ollie’s desperate for this after what happened with April. Meanwhile, Dan had been playing the Dr. Will game until Renny’s HOH, but he doesn’t trust Ollie either. Let the deal making begin. Problem is neither guy wants to step down. Dan swears on his girlfriend that Ollie’s safe, but he’s not interested. Dan wants to make it look like he’s still weak, even if he wins HOH. He makes another deal. Dan picks one nomination, excluding the two people Ollie wants safe. Ollie calls all the shots after that. Ollie takes the deal, and Dan wins HOH. He knows it’s a crap deal, but he’s confident it will work out nonetheless.

When Dan goes to his HOH unveiling, he’s still thinking strategy, turning on some tears to make the other houseguests think he’s a weak player.

Ollie lets Dan know his target: Memphis. So much for the secret alliance. This is a genius move if it works because it throws anyone off the scent of their alliance, but it’s dog dumb if Memphis ends up going home.

Dan knows he needs two votes to keep Memphis safe. Keesha’s an easy vote. The problem is Renny really can’t be trusted. She lets him know that Memphis can’t be trusted, but she seems to be comfortable with bringing Memphis to the final four and then cutting him.

Memphis emphasizes it’s a stupid deal. Dan realizes it’s a stupid deal but just wonders whether it’s worth the risk.

Jerry tells us that his approach doesn’t involve sour grapes.

Nominations
Ollie is safe.
Renny is safe.
Keesha is safe.
Michelle is safe.

As planned, Jerry and Memphis have been nominated for eviction. This is one of the craziest nominations ever, but Dan’s positioned himself nicely in the house regardless of what happens. The ironic thing is that his only real danger now is his ally, who’s pissed off that he nominated him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 20, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

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Dan seemed to have some interest in fixing the nominations in Big Brother 10 Episode 17, but after some threats from Renny, he decided not to use the power of veto and left April and Jerry on the block.

Votes
Keesha-April
Memphis-April
Ollie-Jerry
Dan-April
Michelle-April

By a vote of 4-1, April has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Ollie will apparently be moving to Arizona where April lives after the show, but they say it’s not to be together.

The HOH competition is an endurance competition. The last person hanging on their jungle vine will become HOH.

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Julie tells us that next week will be a special double eviction episode.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 19, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Renny’s HOH win was followed by nominations of April and Jerry in Big Brother 10 Episode 16. I don’t get the sense anybody would miss either of them very much.

Nobody thinks Renny made the right move. Dan believes she may have a secret deal with Ollie. Ollie’s planning to use veto and take April off so that Renny, whose target is April, wastes her time as HOH. Keesha, Memphis, and Dan know they have to fight for veto. Renny tells Keesha that she likes Ollie and doesn’t want to put him up.

Renny chooses Dan at random for veto.
April chooses Keesha.
Jerry chooses Ollie.

April and Ollie are jumping up and down. Everybody else panics and gets angry. They think Renny’s screwing them on purpose.

The backyard is haunted. Ollie’s most scared by the crows. They must examine all of the items for 5 minutes. Then they have to answer the amounts in questions afterward. Players can stay or fold. If they stay, they get a point if they’re closest, but they get eliminated if they’re furthest. Whoever folds continues to the next round but without any points. Ollie, Dan, April, and Keesha fold on the first question. Jerry is closest, so Renny’s eliminated. Ollie and Dan fold on the second question. Jerry scores another point, while April is eliminated. Jerry folds on the third question, though it turns out he was closest. Dan scores a point, but Keesha is eliminated. Ollie and Jerry fold on the next question. Dan scores a second point by default. Nobody folds on this last question. Dan is closest and wins the power of veto. Quite a change in strategy for the guy who’s been playing the role of weak player for so long (quite successfully). His mistrust for Renny is pretty apparent.

April believes she can convince Dan to use the veto on her. Why? Just… why? She hopes to be able to bribe him with the $5k in gold bars plus a promise to not nominate him next week. Dan’s not even thinking anything along those lines. His only consideration is if he should use the veto to save Jerry and force Renny’s hand so she will make the nominations she should have made in the first place. Jerry, having called Dan Judas last week, promises to be loyal to whoever keeps him around this week. Memphis doesn’t trust Renny enough to believe she won’t put him up.

Dan asks Renny if she made a deal with Ollie. She denies any deal, but she again repeats that she likes Ollie. She also doesn’t give any indication that she’d put him up if Jerry were taken off the block.

Dan has decided not to use the veto. He uses the ceremony to bring up the money he was offered. April thinks she’s going home and plans to be a total bitch (apparently, this is a change).

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 18, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

Following Libra’s eviction, power shifted once again as Renny won HOH in Big Brother 10 Episode 15.

Keesha’s happy she’s at least a little more liked than Libra is, as if that’s saying something.

April’s already plotting how she will act if she’s nominated against Jerry, who she has also decided she hates.

Renny doesn’t want Keesha to be close to anybody but her, and she wants her to stop being so friendly to Memphis. While the goal here is to get Keesha to be worried about Memphis, their discussion just leads her to be concerned about Renny.

Ollie and April try to convince us they’re far beyond just a showmance.

Renny wants Michelle to be on her side. She wants her to swear on a bible, on her parents, and in blood that she won’t turn on her. As for Keesha, well, that alliance with her continues to fade.

It’s a gross food competition. They will be eating slop, pig ears, and crickets. After saying grace, Dan downs a plate of crickets to earn a point for the red team. Michelle, who loves pig ears, instead opts for crickets, and she earns another point for the red team. Jerry eats a bowl of slop with much difficulty and earns the first point for the blue team. Memphis eats pig ears to earn a second point for the blue team. Michelle happily eats some pig ears to earn a third point for red. April, a vegetarian, selects pig ears for some reason, which she eats to win the food competition for the red team. April, Michelle, Dan, and Keesha are on food. Jerry, Memphis, and Ollie are on slop, in addition to the one item America voted for, giant lollipops.

Ollie’s afraid of birds. Yep, nothing quite as terrifying as the deadly man-eating crow.

Renny tells Dan she may need him to be a pawn. She believes that putting him up will minimize her enemies. The others all tell her this is a stupid idea. Eventually, she comes up with the idea of bouncing this off Ollie to see where he stands, and he interprets this as meaning April is her target. He says he’s there to win, but he still pushes for her to get rid of Jerry instead of April.

Nobody feels safe because Renny’s a bit of a nutcase.

Nominations
Dan is safe.
Keesha is safe.
Ollie is safe.
Memphis is safe.
Michelle is safe.

Jerry and April have been nominated for eviction. She tells April it’s because she’s a big threat, and she tells Jerry it’s about revenge for him nominating her. Keesha doesn’t get why Renny didn’t nominate April and Ollie. April’s very excited about being on the block against Jerry.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 17, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

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