Month: July 2010

The twist, which was lame to begin with, completely fell apart in Big Brother 12 Episode 4. It was revealed that Annie was the saboteur. Shortly thereafter, she was eliminated from the Big Brother house. Then, Rachel, the other person up on the block with her, won HOH (I’m getting the sense of deja vu, almost as if I’ve seen this script somewhere before).

Now that his secret is out, Brendon decides to tell the houseguests he’s smarter than he may appear. Too bad he wasn’t smart enough to not get busted, unlike Ragan and Andrew.

Andrew’s just as happy as Rachel and Brendon are for her to become HOH. This is why you don’t react after an HOH competition. Anybody who’s watching will get suspicious. His justification is that he doesn’t trust Britney or to a lesser extent Monet.

Enzo feels comfortable for his Brigade, believing Rachel/Brendon will target the chicks rather than them. Because that would be a good move considering that Hayden was the one who nominated them last week.

Hayden would rather hang out with Kristen than anyone else in the house, mostly because he thinks she’s hot. She doesn’t like cocky guys, so whether they hook up or not, this will not end well.

Monet and Britney pretty much hate everybody else.

Rachel tells Hayden he’s the reason she’s there. Well, if he hadn’t nominated you in the first place, you wouldn’t have been in danger. Rachel just got lucky Annie was a nutjob. She’d like to be in an alliance with him, but he’s not biting.

Matt has decided to start this crazy rumor that Andrew is in charge of the HOH this week. Not doing himself any favors.

The have-have not challenge is to be human grafiti. The teams will tape their players to the wall. After 10 minutes, they will raise their walls, and the team whose player stays on the longest will be the winners. They can select four people to be the have nots for the week. As the wall starts going up, the others can then shoot them with water to try to make them fall.

Orange team: Matt, Andrew, Hayden, Kathy
Green team: Enzo, Brendon, Britney, Monet
Blue team: Rachel, Kristen, Ragan, Lane

Orange team picks Kathy to be on the wall because she probably can’t screw that up. Britney is also chosen, arguably for the same reason. Ragan is chosen to be taped to the wall for the blue team. Whatever the blue team was thinking, they weren’t thinking about securing Ragan on there. Nobody’s bothering to shoot him with water because everybody knows he’s going to fall off on his own before long.

After 16 minutes when the wall is fully raised, both blue and orange teams are going after Britney. Without any need for water, Ragan falls at 33 minutes, eliminating the blue team from the running. They can still shoot the water, though, which means they will continue to target green. Britney’s taking this personally, like everything else. After 78 minutes, Britney decides she can’t breathe (if we believe her, she’s choking to death), so her team rips her off the wall, giving the orange team the win.

Because the blue team helped the winners the whole time, the green team of Britney, Monet, Brendon, and Enzo are the have nots. That was a pretty easy/fair decision.

In addition to their slop, they get fish sticks and fruitcake. Could be worse.

Following the competition, it’s time for the reveal. Annie was the saboteur. They take credit for tanking the twist, when in reality it was Annie who did her own self in.

Britney tries pretending that she isn’t after Rachel and Brendon, but then again, she’s after everybody, so maybe she really wouldn’t have nominated them. Monet also says that she isn’t after Rachel, but she’s just as spiteful as Britney is. Both of them claim that Andrew would have been their target.

Rachel says that maybe Andrew should go home. Why? Of all the people in this house after you, he’s not one of them.

Brendon and Rachel continue to try to cement an alliance with Hayden. What idiots. Taking it a step further, they tell him that Enzo, Lane, and Matt need to go. So basically his whole alliance.

Nominations
Brendon is safe.
Kathy is safe.
Hayden is safe.
Ragan is safe.
Kristen is safe.
Enzo is safe.
Matt is safe.
Andrew is safe.
Lane is safe.

Britney and Monet have been nominated for eviction. I’m good with either of them going, but they’re not the most threatening people in the house.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 12 Episode 6, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Following Brendon’s veto win in Big Brother 12 Episode 3, the next person in his thoroughly unimpressive alliance was nominated, making for a battle between Annie and Rachel to stay in the house.

After the nominations, Annie continues her ranting and raving about Britney. Not content with merely cursing at Britney, Annie sets her sights on Brendon. Do you want to go home? Afterward, she starts crying. There’s no way she can get six votes. Yeah, not when you’re acting like this.

While Rachel is trying to stick her tongue down his throat, Brendon has other things on his mind. He wants to talk about his feelings and how he’s upset about Annie, who he thought was his friend. Rachel questions why he would get all worked up about some girl he just met eight days ago. So is she saying he should not get all worked up about her either?

Finally, we get the answer to the question. Who is the saboteur? Unsurprisingly, although everybody’s been so focused on all the guys, it’s Annie. If she gets sent home week 1, this will pretty much be the worst twist ever (aside from season 8’s excessive stupidity that basicaly ruined the season).

The next act of sabotage is to keep the houseguests awake by planting an electronic noisemaking device in the bedrooms. Then she does a new cryptic message about how the saboteur “escaped the block.” Wait. Brendon escaped the block. Does that make him the guilty party? If so, that’s even more reason to axe his showmance.

Not done yet, Annie tells the other houseguests that Brendon, who’s like a genius, is lying about his job. I don’t think he’s lying. If he were, he wouldn’t be telling America the same thing. High school swim coach isn’t the most glamorous of jobs. Regardless, this is why you should do a better job of protecting secrets in this house.

In a last ditch effort during the live eviction ceremony, Annie continues to trash Brendon. So much for apologizing earlier.

Votes
Monet: Annie
Andrew: Annie
Lane: Annie
Kathy: Annie
Kristen: Annie
Brendon: Annie
Ragan: Annie
Enzo: Annie
Matt: Annie
Britney: Annie

Holy landslide. By a vote of 10-0, Annie has been evicted from the Big Brother house. There goes the saboteur. The twist fell flat on its face, although I’d argue the questionable casting choice is more to blame than the twist’s lameness. She thinks that Ragan will go far in this game. Ragan’s farewell to her is that he thinks she could be the saboteur. Meanwhile, Rachel’s just happy to have the other woman gone. I hope Kristen makes a play for Brendon, too. Either that or Brendon wakes up.

America voted for Kathy as the saboteur. As for Annie, she got one of the lowest vote totals.

The HOH competition is majority rules. They will respond based on how they think the majority will answer.

Whose life story does the majority of the house think would make more money at the box office? Kathy or Enzo?
Enzo. Brendon, Kathy, and Kristen are out.

Who would win the Miss Big Brother bikini contest? Rachel or Kristen?
Rachel. Enzo, Matt, and Lane are eliminated.

Who is more likely to put a larger than life sculpture of himself in his yard? Brendon or Hayden?
Brendon. Everybody agrees.

Who has more Facebook friends? Britney or Monet?
Britney. Everybody agrees.

Who would you cheat off during an exam? Ragan or Matt?
Ragan. Everybody agrees again.

Who would you prefer to have pack your parachute before jumping? Andrew or Lane?
Lane. Andrew is out.

Who is more likely to talk their way out of a traffic ticket? Britney or Ragan?
Britney. Ragan is out.

The final question is a tiebreaker. In the have-have not competition sweet tooth, how many gallons of caramel were there?
330. Britney answers 41. Rachel says 80. Monet goes with 725. All of them are ridiculously far off, but Rachel is closest and wins HOH. The girl on the block wins HOH. How convenient.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 12 Episode 5, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Showmance Brendon and Rachel were nominated for eviction in Big Brother 12 Episode 2.

Not having learned their lesson about being this close this early, Brendon and Rachel head right off into a room alone together. Annie follows them in to offer her support. Lane follows them in to play dumb and pretend he doesn’t know what’s going on. Enzo just wants to watch over everything.

Afterward, the couple hide under the blanket and start doing… something. If they’re not doing something, well, that’s not how it’s going to be edited.

Now Brendon would like to threaten Hayden, and he wants to propose an alliance between himself, Hayden, Annie, and one other person. This only serves to make Hayden even more suspicious of Brendon and to think he’s already aligned with Annie.

It’s time to pick the players for the veto competition by random draw.

Hayden picks Enzo, his ally.
Brendon picks Andrew, a wildcard.
Rachel picks Monet, then rolls her eyes.

Once again, Brendon has a warning for Hayden that he’s either with him, or he’s against him. I think he’s against you, dude.

The backyard is decorated with pinatas and bats. It’s Cinco de Mayo. Yeah, the pinatas are stuffed with rotten mayonnaise. The object is to reveal letters so that they can spell a word. Longest word wins. Those who aren’t playing are allowed to watch while sitting in a splash zone. Hayden thinks he’s a baseball player. Andrew’s fine with this kosher food. Rachel has no real hope. Enzo continues to refer to himself as “Meow Meow.” Hayden wants to spell journeyman. Hope that works out better for you than it did for NBC. Rachel wants to spell a word she knows how to spell, chemistry. Brendon intends to spell whatever he can add ing or ly to.

Hayden: possible (8 letters)
Enzo: factory (7 letters)
Rachel: chemistry (9 letters)
Monet: cheaters (8 letters, and apparently a hint to somebody)
Brendon: understanding (13 letters)
Andrew: pastuerized (11 letters and misspelled)

Brendon has won the power of veto. Knowing that he will be coming off the block, the brigade wants to target Annie instead.

Whatever happens, the girls realize they are the ones who are all vulnerable. Attempting to scare up the votes against Annie, Enzo tells Britney that Annie needs to go. Britney tells Annie hoping Annie will have her back. Annie tells Hayden hoping to sell out Britney.

Lane thinks it might be a good idea to nominate Kathy, a non-threat who probably won’t leave but won’t have any effect if she leaves anyway.

The saboteur informs the houseguests that two people are actually lifelong friends.

At the veto ceremony, Brendon removes himself from the block. Hayden nominates Annie in his place. After she is nominated, Annie calls out Britney and says she’s a liar. Moron. You need all the friends you can get right now.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 12 Episode 4, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.