Big Brother 11 Episode 5

The scramble for votes to save Braden managed to get both Casey and Michele to alienate their clicks, but it was not enough and Braden was still eliminated after a tie vote in Big Brother 11 Episode 4. With Jessie out of power, Ronnie went on to win the HOH competition.

Love BB’s editing. Ronnie voted to save his cliquemate in accordance with his original word, yet he’s now being branded a double crosser and a betrayer.

Michele’s worried that Chima is going to figure out that Michele turned on her and now she’s going to come after her. Well, she should be. Don’t vote against your cliquemate for no good reason.

Chima will never volunteer as a pawn again. Ya think?

Immediately after Braden leaves the house, Ronnie denies any involvement, to half of the house. He will throw Michele under the bus to them. To the other half of the house, he tells them the truth. Meanwhile, the Brains clique has become one big joke.

Ronnie’s not going to be able to hide any more. Now that he’s HOH, he’s going to have to reveal his hand.

Chima tells Michele they’re on the same team. Oh, and Michele’s one of the crazy paranoid bitches in the house that thinks people are talking behind their backs when they’re not.

Laura swears that they were set up by Ronnie, and now the half of the house that was dumb enough to go along with that stupid plan has all become (again) the targets.

Ultimately, whichever way Ronnie may have voted, he’s an overplayer. That makes him highly unpredictable, but it also means sooner or later he’ll reach the end of his rope as nobody feels they can trust him.

Laura wants everybody convinced that Ronnie is a genius, setting it up so that both sides of the house hate each other and never go after him. One flaw in this theory: he didn’t throw HOH. The flaw about talking about him behind his back: he didn’t throw HOH. Ronnie, of course, is immediately told that Laura’s trying to get people against him. If he needed a reason to nominate her, he’s got one now.

The houseguests are given a luxury competition, which means a promotion for a movie. Like Big Brother would actually pay to give them something. The special host for the competition is Dan, the Big Brother 10 winner. Jessie ain’t happy to see him, but I’m glad it’s not anybody from a season prior to that because some of those people are so played out and best forgotten. Kevin wants Dan’s number. They’re splitting up the competition into heats between girls and guys, and one girl and one guy will watch the movie.

What tattoo would sink Lydia’s relationship with her boyfriend? His ex-girlfriend’s name or the logo of his favorite boy band?
Ex-girlfriend. Jessie and Casey are the only ones correct.

If Jordan was out line dancing at a country bar, what pick up line would get her to go out with you?
Are you from Tennessee? ‘Cause you’re the only ten I see. Kevin, Casey, and Jessie get a point.

If Chima were writing a story about how her boyfriend cheated on her, how would she seek revenge? Egg his sports car or hop on a flight to Australia with his best friend?
Egg his car. Jessie and Russell are correct.

Swim suit model Laura would be more worried about a bald head or a hairy back?
Hairy back. Russell, Jeff, Ronnie, Casey, and Kevin are all right.

Michele likes her men smart and sexy, but would she pick a firefighter or a surgeon?
Firefighter. Russell, Ronnie, Casey, and Jessie are correct. That ties Jessie and Casey at 4 each.

Natalie likes sensitive guys, but did she think a suitcase of stuffed animals or a picture of the guy’s mom was too sensitive?
Picture of his mom. Ronnie and Casey are right, so Casey wins.

Jeff loves football. Which type of football fan would be more attractive to him? Cute super fan or not so bright super hot cheerleader?
Jeff went with the cheerleader, hopefully one that looks better dressed as a woman than he does. Natalie is the only one who is right, although Chima should get a point just for saying she should have known he would go after a dumb girl because he’s not that bright.

Jessie wants junk in the trunk or a big pair of high beams?
Junk in the trunk. Natalie, Lydia, Chima, Laura, Michele, and Jordan are all right.

Kevin’s personal greeting card would be a love poem or a funny limerick?
Limerick. Chima and Laura get a point.

Ronnie wants tickets to a comic book convention with his wife dressed as a space princess or a weekend at a five star hotel with his wife in sexy lingerie?
Comic book convention, and he looks far scarier as a woman than Jeff did. Lydia, Natalie, Chima, Michele, and Jordan are all correct.

If Casey is DJing at a local club, does he get a girl’s attention with the robot or rump shaker?
Robot. Michele, Laura, Lydia, and Natalie are correct. That puts Natalie in the lead with 4 points.

Russell would end the relationship sooner than expected because he has to turn off the fight in the final round or because he has to watch the DVD of your favorite musical repeatedly?
Musical. Chima, Michele, and Jordan are right. Michele, Chima, and Natalie are tied at 4 points each.

The tiebreaker: if Dan were on a first date, how many minutes would he wait for the first kiss?
243 minutes. So does he like have a stop watch? Michele says 55, Chima says 120 minutes, and Natalie says 60 minutes.

Chima wins, which means that two people who don’t like each other will be going to the movies. An additional responsibility from this win is that Casey and Chima will decide which clique is the have nots. The brains are automatically safe. He wants to vote for the athletes, while Chima wants to vote for the popular. He unhappily lets her have her way because her cliquemate is HOH, meaning that the popular group of Jordan and Laura will be the have nots.

As if this whole have not twist weren’t stupid enough to begin with, now America can decide which food they can eat. America’s Vote is: sauerkraut and seaweed, cabbage and cocktail weenies, or pickled eggs and pickled herring.

Casey, Laura, Jordan, and Jeff want Ronnie to nominate people from the other side. Michele is noticeably absent from this ambush. Ronnie’s response: backdoor Russell. Otherwise, he can win veto and save himself. Nobody there is comfortable being a pawn to achieve that goal. Use one of them instead. Jessie promises Ronnie that Russell won’t come back to get him.

Nominations
Michele and Chima are safe because their fellow brain is HOH, a concept apparently lost on Michele.
Jordan is safe.
Casey is safe.
Lydia is safe.
Natalie is safe.
Jessie is safe.
Kevin is safe.
Russell is safe after having been allowed to sweat for a while.

Laura and Jeff have been nominated for eviction. Laura wants to say “I told you so.” While I give her credit for figuring it out, she got herself nominated by not being able to keep her mouth shut. Jeff thinks Ronnie’s playing the game well, but nonetheless he’s being played in turn. Laura was nominated because Ronnie knows she’s the one who’s going to figure him out, not that the others haven’t already figured it out as well. Jeff is merely a pawn. Whatever the case, nobody on that side trusts Ronnie, although nobody on his side really trusts him either. That said, Ronnie’s plan is for Russell to be heading home next week. So last week you helped weaken one side of the house, and this week your plan is to help weaken the other side? The only logic in this is to keep the two sides at war, but with neither sure in their trust of him, it can only get him so far. The thing I’m left struggling with here is the numbers game. Even if Russell does go up, somebody else is going to have to defect from the other side in order to get 5 votes against him. With a house this divided, that’s easier said than done.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 11 Episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.