Author: Shane

GinaMarie won HOH in Big Brother 15 Episode 29, and finally someone had the balls (is this anatomically accurate?) to nominate Amanda and McCrae.

McCrae says Amanda’s important to his game, but in reality she’s the biggest hindrance to his game. If they can’t get rid of her, people will just as soon take him out instead.

Amanda suspects a new alliance. She has three out of the four names correct. The person she does not suspect is Andy. He may not have done very much, but he has successfully pulled the wool right over a lot of people’s eyes up until he votes them out.

GinaMarie defends her nominations to Amanda. Aaryn did a lot for them, and then they cut her loose when she needed them most. She’s not wrong.

After shouting throughout the house, Amanda seems to have accepted her lot in this game. She hopes McCrae can still win. An eavesdropping Elissa suspects that Andy is working with Amanda and McCrae. You sure missed the boat on that one, even if he is still someone who merely floats toward the power.

Elissa, Spencer (Amanda’s choice), and Andy join GinaMarie, Amanda, and McCrae in the veto competition. The object of the game is to spin around 15 times and then bowl (then spin some more and bowl some more). Amanda easily beats Elissa in the first round. Andy challenges Amanda, who just got done throwing up, hoping to appease everybody in the house (telling Amanda he threw it and telling the others he was trying to get rid of her). Amanda humiliates Andy, who did not even have a chance to throw the challenge. GinaMarie, too, picks Amanda. This is stupid. Why can they keep picking the same person over and over again? The good thing about being repeatedly chosen is that you can master the strategy, as Amanda wins again.

Finally a change of pace. McCrae picks Spencer, and McCrae ends up winning. That leaves Amanda and McCrae in the finals, ensuring that one of them is going to win. Is he allowed to beat her? For the first time in this competition, Amanda falls behind, but she pulls even and then ahead. McCrae comes from behind to win the power of veto by less than a second. Amanda knows her days are numbered. She even seems to be catching on to the fact that Andy has turned because his excuse that he wants to throw it to her is really weak.

GinaMarie is not willing to nominate Elissa, who did not nominate her last week. That means one of her alliance members will occupy the seat next to Amanda. If you’re going to be a pawn, there are few better people to be up against. The good thing about this is it throws people off the scent of the Exterminators.

McCrae takes himself off the block. In his place, GinaMarie nominates Spencer, who is now on the block for a 7th time.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 28, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Concluding Elissa’s run as HOH blowing up, Aaryn was evicted in Big Brother 15 Episode 28. This brought us to an endurance competition for HOH.

Their task is to get a dozen eggs out of the cage and hop them to the other side of the yard. GinaMarie starts off early in the lead. Andy is performing well and is in second place, but the lead she’s building does not seem like it can be beat. He doesn’t want to win anyway since that would mean picking a side, which he has struggled to do all summer. Everybody else is competing to not have to wear a chicken suit. GinaMarie wins the HOH. In a tie for last, Judd and Spencer must wear chicken suits. While Elissa celebrates GM’s win with her, Amanda is quick to show her claws.

GinaMarie says she’s no Aaryn. Try as they might, Amanda and McCrae can’t make her their puppet. And unlike last week when Elissa foolishly left one of them off the nomination block to save the other, she plans to nominate both of them so that at least one of them will go.

Amanda does make a very logical proposal. The nominations should be people who nobody would care if they left. That would pretty much be GinaMarie’s whole alliance plus Elissa. Of course, although Amanda or McCrae would be upset if the other left, everybody else would be thrilled.

We now return to our regularly scheduled program of Amanda being a bitch. Seriously, what is she trying to accomplish? Then she starts crying about how mean Elissa is. Really?

Hidden in a sea of balloons is $10,000. To win, they must retrieve a 1 chip, a 0 chip, and a K chip. With a whole lot of dumb luck, Spencer finds all three chips before most people even find one.

As we saw in her last nomination, GinaMarie does and says what she wants. These two should have been nominated weeks ago, but everybody was too afraid to do it.

Nominations
Andy is safe.
Spencer is safe.
Elissa is safe.
Judd is safe.
Amanda and McCrae have been nominated for eviction.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 30, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Elissa found out some very simple Big Brother rules in Big Brother 15 Episode 27. If you nominate two people, make sure it’s two people who you actually want to go home. Second, if you’re target is at least one member of a couple, nominate them both. And the newest rule that I don’t recall having been an issue before, don’t change your mind half an hour after nominations and decide that you’d prefer to get rid of one person out of spite rather than the other person you had previously spitefully been targeting (of course, playing the game less emotionally would help, too). Since none of that actually did happen, Amanda miraculously won something, took McCrae off the block, and Elissa was left nominating Andy against her former but still very much in danger target Aaryn.

We start the night where we left off last night. Amanda is being a bitch. The problem with this is that she’s just making everybody uncomfortable. The only person who finds this amusing is McCrae, who doesn’t have a choice.

Andy, Spencer, Judd, and GinaMarie form a new alliance, Exterminators. This is just an alliance of convenience from a bunch of lone soldiers who don’t trust each other but have the same goal: break up the couple. Tough talk coming from a group of people who have repeatedly had the opportunity to do just that and not even come close.

Aaryn reveals the alliance to Spencer and Judd. Spencer says there’s no way he’ll get rid of his new alliance member Andy. So her new strategy is to continue try to convince Amanda and McCrae, which seems like a lost cause, but she’s dealing with Amanda here. She tells them that Spencer is going to come after them, and Amanda immediately shouts across the yard for him. They both smell his lies right away, and Aaryn agrees to a final three deal to try to seal their votes.

Brendon & Rachel get some more of the spotlight, and they have been married. Danielle & Dominic (who is he, and they were in a showmance?) are also married. Jeff & Jordan 4 years later still are not married, though. It’s a good thing CBS wanted to give him a favorable edit and never aired Jeff’s homophobic slurs because they continue to get good mileage out of this showmance.

Spencer thanks Julie for asking him a question (about why the bedroom is so messy). It’s only been ten weeks. That’s how you know you are irrelevant.

Votes
Judd: Aaryn
Spencer: Aaryn
GinaMarie: Aaryn
Amanda: Aaryn
McCrae: Aaryn

By a vote of 5-0, Aaryn has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Whatever hope she may have had went up in smoke with that new alliance. After a rough start following a couple of questionable but still blown way out of proportion comments, she actually became more likeable than half the people in this house (if for no reason other than that there are some real jackasses in there), making it way further than it seemed she was going to several weeks ago. To get back into people’s good graces, she played their games (Helen and Amanda specifically), rather than her own. I’m not sure how much choice she had in much of that, but it was ultimately her downfall.

Unlike Jeff, whose more offensive and deliberately hostile comments never went mainstream and as such Julie can treat him with kindness and invite him back every year, Julie’s been waiting for this opportunity to get the claws out for Aaryn. I preferred the way Kaitlin responded to this criticism when she refused to take the bait, but Aaryn is very apologetic, which is the smart response and something she’ll be doing a lot over the coming months as she looks for a new job. Meanwhile, there are members of the audience that clearly consider what Aaryn said to be unacceptable (and to be fair it was), who boo and snicker at her even as she apologizes. How is this behavior any better? If it weren’t for double standards, Big Brother wouldn’t have any standards at all.

For the HOH competition, their feet are tied together, forcing them to hop (while wearing bunny ears). Their challenge is to retrieve eggs from a cage by slowly maneuvering them from the other side.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 29, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Following her endurance HOH win in Big Brother 15 Episode 26, Elissa nominated Aaryn and McCrae for eviction, causing Amanda to cry again.

Elissa asks whether what she said to Aaryn during the nomination ceremony was mean. If you have to ask, it probably was. Not wanting to be a replacement nominee, GinaMarie says it was fine, however.

Now that she’s made her nominations, Elissa wants to get rid of Amanda instead. Fine time to make that decision. She lies to Amanda about this. Badly. Oh, and she also wants to work with Aaryn now. This is a good plan, one that Aaryn proposed to her before the nominations, which she chose to ignore out of spite.

Amanda, GinaMarie, and Judd (Aaryn’s choice) join Elissa, McCrae, and Aaryn in the veto competition.

Aaryn’s choice of Judd is a clear red flag. It seems strange she did not choose her other alliance member, Andy. She does pose a valid argument that Andy might remove McCrae from the block instead of her. Of course, Amanda immediately goes after her for this move.

Since most of the other women have been voted out, Amanda needs a new target. Tonight’s shouting match is with GinaMarie, who has an even bigger mouth than Amanda does. When she goes to discuss the situation with Elissa, Elissa can’t help but laugh at her.

Zingbot tells McCrae that he’s always wearing shorts because Amanda wears the pants. McCrae is offended that GinaMarie finds this funny (it’s funny because it’s true). GinaMarie’s starring in a new movie with Nick, Fatal Attraction. Andy is a ghost, pasty white and a floater.

Their task is to roll a ball back and forth on a ramp 250 times in a row without dropping it. If they drop it, they go back down to 0, making a slow but steady strategy the best. It’s this that allows Amanda to take the lead while everybody else keeps dropping. Judd had been in second place but drops it at 165, leading to him removing himself from the competition. GinaMarie is coming very close to catching Amanda. If the competition were longer, she’d easily pass Amanda, who is taking a lot of breaks. Interesting. The two people who win nothing are making a run for this. Amanda wins the power of veto.

Well, that just blew up in Elissa’s face. She should have put the couple on the block. Now they are both safe.

Elissa jokes about throwing the competition. So of course Amanda starts yelling again. To make matters worse, she then starts being an idiot like Evel Dick. Her strategy to get GinaMarie nominated is to torture Elissa so that Andy can console her. For some reason, Andy thinks this is a good plan. In doing this, he acknowledges an alliance (or alignment) with Amanda.

Amanda removes McCrae from the block. In his place, Andy has been nominated. Shockingly, the plan did not work.

Aaryn and Andy both desperately need Amanda and McCrae to keep them safe, but both seem like they are ready to end this alliance once the voting is done. The two clearest votes are Judd and GinaMarie for Aaryn, and I don’t get the sense after tonight that Amanda will allow McCrae to vote for Aaryn to stay. With 5 votes this week, it may come down to Spencer, the game’s biggest wild card.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 28, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Helen was evicted from the house in Big Brother 15 Episode 25, which concluded with the start of an endurance competition for both HOH and a return to the house for one jury member.

Amanda’s angry that someone will be returning to the house. She knows the entire jury is pissed off at her, and she also doesn’t think it’s fair that people who got duped are being given a second chance. Having done everyone else’s dirty work, Aaryn is not happy either. Then there’s Andy, who pretended to be everyone’s friend/ally until he stuck the knife in them.

Helen talks to her now fellow jury members during the challenge. She tells them Andy can’t be trusted, and they need to get rid of Amanda.

At the 20 minute mark, both Spencer and McCrae fall. Andy is the next person to drop. Jessie, who was tied for the lead, falls next, and she tells Amanda she hates her as she leaves. Helen’s the next one to drop. Candice falls, which mean that Judd is the jury member who returns to the game. Aaryn visibly panics when this happens. Elissa is easily leading, though at any time anyone can fall, which Elissa does but doesn’t actually touch the ground. Judd was in second, but he is the next to fall. After surviving another close call, Elissa wins HOH.

She realizes that it was an empty threat to claim she was going to get rid of Andy because there are bigger fish to fry. Judd left angry and blaming her for his eviction, but he’s not the target either. All this is moot. This is personal. Elissa has hated Aaryn for months, and now’s her chance to get rid of her. Granted, Aaryn’s a big threat having won HOH four times, but as I see it, the couple is the biggest problem.

Amanda’s speaking for her own safety, but nonetheless she makes a valid point. Putting a big target like one member of the couple on the block against Aaryn is dangerous if her target is Aaryn, and on top of that GinaMarie’s a vote for her and would remove Aaryn from the block if she wins veto (not that she will). That said, Amanda is Elissa’s second biggest target.

Since his old alliance screwed him over (in an admittedly unanimous vote), Judd has decided that his new alliance will be with Elissa. Likewise, Aaryn promises to keep her safe should she not put her on the block.

Nominations
Judd is safe.
GinaMarie is safe.
Spencer is safe.
Andy is safe.
Amanda is safe.
Aaryn and McCrae have been nominated for eviction.

In her nomination speech, Elissa lets Aaryn know it’s personal. She’s been targeting her since week one. If that were the case, she would have gotten rid of her by now. She’s certainly had enough chances.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 27, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Elissa won the veto in Big Brother 15 Episode 24, and Spencer was nominated alongside Helen.

Helen and Elissa agree to work with Aaryn and GinaMarie. Andy’s the swing vote that Helen hopes will save her. He doesn’t even seem to be considering it. Realizing this, Helen goes to McCrae instead. Yeah, that will work. He acknowledges that Amanda is pushy, but Helen is, too. Not getting anywhere with McCrae, she goes back to Andy, threatening him that he will be a target if he votes her out, which for the heretofore safe Andy is something new.

Now Amanda is angry again. This time at Helen. Neither McCrae nor Spencer defend Amanda when she says she’s not a bully. At least she’s not shouting for a change.

Votes
McCrae: Helen
Amanda: Helen
Elissa: Spencer
Andy: Helen
GinaMarie: Helen

By a vote of 4-1, Helen has been evicted from the Big Brother house. She seemed to be in complete control of the game for weeks, but she fell victim to someone who is now in more in control, Amanda. Despite having nearly unanimously been voted out, she leaves with her head held high, continuing her policy of kind comments for all.

Now we get to the next twist. The four jury members (Candice, Judd, Jessie, and Helen) will compete for the chance to return to the house. I like Judd because he’s goofy, but from a gameplay standpoint, the only worthwhile player is Helen, even if she was stupid enough to believe she had an alliance with McCrae.

Two competitions will be going on at the same time, one for the jurors and one for everyone. They all stand on moving platforms while being sprayed with water and must catch balls as they are thrown at them. The first juror to catch 10 balls will return to the house. The first person, juror or otherwise, to catch 10 balls will be HOH. The balls are thrown every few minutes, meaning that this competition will be going on for a while.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 26, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

With Aaryn in power in Big Brother 15 Episode 23, she again was charged with doing something nobody else had the guts to do: nominate Elissa and Helen.

Helen remains oblivious to the fact that McCrae and Amanda are in a showmance and will not be stabbing each other in the back at the end. And if they do, it won’t be for her.

After his pitiful HOH last week, Andy continues to play both sides, giving both sides equally high expectations of him, with an equal potential to be disappointed when he turns on them.

GinaMarie, Spencer, and Andy (Elissa’s choice) join Aaryn, Helen, and Elissa in the veto competition. Their challenge is to find love letters buried in dirt to be returned to Otev. GinaMarie is eliminated first. Helen is out next, which is the result everybody wanted. Andy gets eliminated when Elissa tackles him into a log. Aaryn is the fourth one to be eliminated. In the final round, the two people who want it the most compete, and Elissa beats Spencer to win the power of veto.

Though she celebrated when Elissa won, Helen finally has a clue. She realizes Andy did not try that hard during that competition.

Amanda warns Elissa about the plan to get rid of Helen. Elissa does not come right out and tell Helen this, but Helen suspects it anyway.

Amanda’s new victim for her latest shouting match is Aaryn, the HOH who has not yet picked a replacement nominee.

Elissa uses the veto on herself. In her place, Aaryn nominates Spencer. As with all her nominations, she says she was forced to make this move by the house. Though this may be true, she needs to take ownership of her HOH decisions, whether and Helen/Amanda make them for her or not.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 15 Episode 24, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.