After Amber got bounced out of the house in Big Brother 16 Episode 17, nothing else happened because incompetent planning failed to allow another couple of true/false questions (or even a chalkboard tie breaker).
And the next question is indeed a tiebreaker. They could not have done this during the commercial break at the end of last week’s show? Everybody goes over the correct answer, some ridiculously over, but Nicole and Donny do the least worst and are HOH. For the first time this season, the power has shifted away from the dominant alliance.
Jocasta returns to her over the top crying, and who’s there to comfort her? Derrick. This guy’s playing this game pretty smoothly.
Donny points out that there are three people who have never been nominated: his two fellow Team America members Frankie and Derrick plus Zach.
Zach pretty quickly volunteers to go on the block. He calls this reverse psychology. Nicole has no interest in nominating him. Rather, her goal is to backdoor Frankie, and Derrick tells her he would fully support that. Though he won’t nominate Frankie himself, Donny would support this plan as well.
Caleb knows he’s probably a target since he was the first person to nominate Donny, but he just wants to be put on the block with somebody not useless like Victoria.
They have not been talking much, but when they do, they seem to have settled on one strong guy and one throw away pawn each.
Nicole’s Nominations
Jocasta & Zach
Donny’s Nominations
Caleb & Victoria
Zach and Jocasta are comfortable working with each other. They know that Caleb and Victoria won’t be able to communicate. Caleb knows it, too.
In the battle of the block, they must create a path of dominoes to get to the end of the course. Among them will be three punishment dominoes that the winners must do. The pickier they are about the punishments, the longer the path to get to the end. Surprisingly, Victoria does not seem completely inept for a change. Zach & Jocasta are the first to push over their dominoes, but their chain falls apart at the end. Caleb & Victoria go next, and they win. Their punishments will be slop for two weeks, shaved head (Caleb I assume), and they will be chained together for 48 hours while wearing fig leaf bathing suits.
Despite Nicole’s stupid nominations (Victoria and Jocasta made more sense), the end result is that she remains in power and can now try to carry out her actual plans.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 19, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.