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Do over week started in Big Brother 16 Episode 36 with Caleb winning HOH and nominating Frankie because Derrick and Cody told him to do so.

Frankie knows Caleb’s attempt to explain his nominations is… lies. Eventually, it comes out that they think he may make a big move. A big move like he did not make last week when he was HOH and also held the power of veto. Cody and Derrick are upset that the finger has been pointed at them. The finger was supposed to be pointing only at Caleb.

Team America is over. Let’s hope a nail is put in the coffin of this stupid twist for the future. They do receive a final set of instructions. If they win the game, they will win an extra $50,000.

The veto competition is the mixed up faces competition from last week, which Frankie won with a time of 5:54. The only person who even came close was Derrick. The pictures are new, including one with six faces instead of three.

Cody barely beat Victoria last time, but he puts up a seemingly impressive time of 2:21. Caleb completely screws up on the second picture, forgetting to turn off the first set of names, so there is no way he is recovering. Victoria is about as competitive as you would expect from Victoria. Frankie quickly falls apart, and his hope to save himself is dashed on the second picture. Derrick comes close but not close enough. Cody wins the power of veto. That goes to show how important being able to study for a competition like this is. Of course, anybody smart would know that this competition is coming like it does every year.

It goes without saying that Cody does not use the veto.

Because Cody and Derrick are the only votes, Frankie’s only play is to tell them Caleb is his target. I don’t think they are going to fall for it, whether it is sincere or not.

Votes
Cody: Frankie
Derrick: Frankie

By a vote of 2-0, Frankie has been evicted from the Big Brother house. It’s hard to feel sorry for him since he did the same thing to Zach with seemingly less reason. He is probably the happiest evictee ever. I’m not sure how Caleb just helped himself by keeping that duo together along with a dud that everyone would love to go up against in the finals.

The final four HOH competition is before or after. Everybody gets the first and second questions correct. Victoria and Cody get the third question correct. Everybody gets the fourth question correct. Cody and Derrick are correct on the fifth and sixth questions. Derrick gets the seventh question correct, tying him for the lead with Cody. The tie breaker question is the number of seconds in the juror luxury competition. Julie needs an answer right now. Well, perhaps you should have given them chalkboards instead of making them flip and flip and flip numbers because I guess you are trying to promote football. In the end, Derrick wins HOH.

This works out perfectly for him. Just nominate Victoria and a “pawn”. He can’t get any blood on his hands because the veto winner is the one who has to decide who goes home.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 38, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Unsurprisingly, last week was revealed to be a big stupid waste of when we learned in Big Brother 16 Episode 35 that the reset button meant that everything would be done all over again. We start off with the seed challenge that is exactly the challenge we watched last Sunday.

Frankie wants everything to be done exactly the same as it was last week. He’s alone in that thinking. Now they are talking about getting rid of him. Oh, this again?

We already know Victoria won’t win this challenge, but the other two have had one shot to practice playing it. The only difference here is that the rain is flowing a lot faster. Victoria falls out of it early. Cody and Caleb jump ahead of Frankie. Close to the end, Cody drops a seed. Caleb hangs on to win HOH.

Cody wants Caleb to be man enough to put Frankie on the block because he wants him out of the house. Perhaps he should have done better in the challenge then.

Caleb doesn’t want to put Frankie up on the block, knowing all week that he’s the target. He’s hoping Derrick will volunteer, and Derrick’s immediate response is that he now wants to get rid of Caleb. They try to convince him that Frankie will get rid of one of them, despite his HOH last week in which he targeted Victoria.

Victoria is still pretending she hates Derrick, which apparently they both think will help his game. I know she has no chance to win, but she’s been given a second lease on life in the BB house. Why is she still playing as she was last week when she was defeated?

The jury returns to make a mess out of the house, the one that already smells. Jury members will be participating in the luxury competition, and those remaining in the house will be able to bet on who wins.

Cody: Zach
Derrick: Donny
Victoria: Hayden
Cody: Nicole
Caleb: Jocasta

Nobody picks Christine.

Their reward will be $5,000, for both the jury member and their fellow houseguest. Donny thinks perhaps this will make up for the money that Frankie made them lose with the play. Of course, America would not have voted against with them if not for Donny’s plea and stupid plan, so that one turned out about as well as he made it.

Their task is to tear the house apart looking for knock out pucks, which they can use to get rid of fellow competitors. Jocasta eliminates Christine. Nicole goes after Zach. Then she targets Donny after debating about it for half a minute. Why are these people watching it yelling so much? Shut up already. Nicole then knocks out Jocasta. Hayden now has a choice to eliminate himself or not, and Nicole tells him to not be an idiot. Hayden and Victoria are the winners.

Frankie’s plea to Caleb is that he should not get rid of the biggest target because that makes him the next big target.

Nominations
Victoria & Frankie

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Frankie won veto in Big Brother 16 Episode 34, allowing him to keep his nominations of Cody and Victoria the same.

Derrick has Victoria tell Frankie that he’s voting her out, complete with fake crying. Frankie falls for it. I don’t get how this helps her. Apparently, Victoria doesn’t care if she goes home, as long as Derrick wins.

For his birthday, Zach receives a new pink hat from the jury house. I guess the effects of Victoria’s destruction of her own property did not last very long.

Everybody is thrilled to see Christine. They blame her for getting them out, but they also blame Derrick for running the house, though in his case they don’t dislike him. Frankie is also getting a lot of credit. The other two aren’t mentioned.

It took us long enough to get to this point, but it seems pretty clear the boys have decided to stick together rather than making a big move.

But we won’t bother with that. The button countdown clock has finished counting down.

They will now start replaying the entire week. Well, that was a waste of time, more than usual. Everything will be done again, even the competitions. And Cody, he gets to wear the dinosaur costume.

The thing about this competition is that it was pretty close last time, especially between Caleb and Frankie. Cody was coming on strong at the end. Victoria lost by a longshot as usual.

After they wasted the first half hour or so of the night for no good reason, there is not going to be enough time to complete the HOH competition. Another 5 minutes, and this will be over. Looks like anybody’s game, except Victoria.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 30, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Frankie won HOH and nominated Cody & Victoria in Big Brother 16 Episode 33, but all of this is just a waste of time anyway since the house opted to press the reset button.

Now we get a montage mocking Victoria, who has been a disaster both socially and competitively but nonetheless has still managed to stumble her way into the final five because nobody considers her a threat.

Caleb is going to be honest with Cody. I think we know where this is going. He acknowledges he did consider the possibility of getting rid of him. Well, then, I guess that makes Caleb the new target. It’s not like they can get rid of Frankie this week like they want.

All players will play in the veto competiton. I assume it’s the mixed up faces challenge. It is, and they are dressed like freaks (actual freaks). No doubt Victoria is going to lose because that’s what she does, but overall there is no indication how they are doing.

Cody – 12:14
Caleb – 8:39
Victoria – 17:18
Frankie – 5:54
Derrick – 6:17

Frankie wins the power of veto. I can’t see a reason why he would choose to get rid of Caleb over Cody, though he could in theory nominate either Caleb or Derrick and ensure that an actual threat goes home.

Team America has been pretty lame, but the missions keep on coming anyway. Their mission is to convince people that there is a rodent in the house and keep them up all night. Having just been made fun of by Jeff and Jordan for being slobs, they just finished spending hours cleaning the entire house, but people buy their story regardless.

The silly part about this is that you can’t “catch” a mouse/rat. You have to trap it. So Caleb makes a homemade trap. Then there’s Cody, who has seen too many cartoons and thinks rodents like cheese. In the end, the mission is accomplished because all they need to do is run around and freak out for a few hours.

For all his talk about all his power, Frankie unsurprisingly does not use the power of veto.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 35, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

During the double eviction in Big Brother 16 Episode 32, Nicole was evicted, then Christine followed right behind her.

Cody was perhaps the closest person to Christine in the house. Having heard the boos she received when she walked out the door is making him wonder.

Their challenge is to transfer seeds to a spade by walking back and forth on their seesaw shovel. If they fall or drop any seeds, they need to start over again. Frankie starts with the lead. Caleb is keeping close to him. Cody and Victoria are are out it pretty early. Victoria never recovers, but Cody starts to make a comeback. With just a few left, Caleb loses a single seed and has to restart. Frankie wins HOH. This was a pretty good competition for a change.

Having just won HOH, Frankie is one of the most vocal about going and pushing the stupid rewind button. Cody also strongly supports this. The others try to be the voices of reason, but eventually they decide as a group to push it. The result of pushing it is a countdown clock starts ticking.

They get a visit from Jeff and Jordan. The reason for this visit is so that Jeff can finally propose, presumably setting up a CBS wedding special. I think this show may have a better track record now than The Bachelor.

It’s all pointless anyway because this week does not count, but Frankie must now nominate at least one ally because they have finally run out of enough pawns. Granted, this is the guy who got rid of Zach and last week was the target, so he won’t be broken up about that.

Nominations
Cody & Victoria

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 34, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Christine did something for a change, removing herself from the block after winning the veto in Big Brother 16 Episode 31. In her place, the only other female Victoria was nominated to go against the previously evicted Nicole. What, you thought it was going to be a guy? Expect the expected.

Caleb reveals to Frankie that he and the rest of the alliance brought up Frankie as a replacement. Cody receives the blame for this, of course. Nobody here is smart enough to blame Derrick, though between the two, Cody is just more vocal about things. So Frankie approaches Derrick, who blames Caleb, but says it was not really serious.

Votes
Christine: Nicole
Derrick: Nicole
Frankie: Nicole
Cody: Nicole

By a vote of 4-0, Nicole is evicted from the Big Brother house. She keeps going on about how they are being big babies getting rid of somebody who is not a threat, but she is neither predictable nor loyal to a single one of the guys.

Tonight is a double eviction night, so we head right into a true/false competition for HOH based on bleeped out words evicted houseguests have said. Derrick is the only person correct on the first question, and he wins HOH. He couldn’t have thrown that if he tried. That was among the most pitiful HOH competitions I have seen.

His target remains Frankie. Victoria is the obvious pawn, and he’s not about to show his hand by not nominating Christine alongside her.

Nominations
Victoria & Christine

The veto competition will have them navigating a ball through three crop circle mazes. Frankie is the first one to advance to the second maze, but everybody is on his heels. Frankie retains the lead going into the final maze. Nobody is anywhere near him by this point. Frankie wins the power of veto. Derrick’s plan just went all to hell as usual. These people always seem to have these grand plans, but they end up settling for the boring and predictable result when it does not work.

It’s clear the veto won’t be used here because Caleb would be the replacement nominee. With Victoria not being an actual option, Christine will be heading to the jury house.

Votes
Frankie: Christine
Caleb: Christine
Cody: Christine

By a vote of 3-0, Christine has been evicted from the Big Brother house. She departs without saying a word to anyone and is greeted by boos.

Julie announces a twist. Big Brother Rewind. If the button is pressed, the entire week will be erased and replayed. Lame. Is there even a point to watching next week then?

Because of Thursday night football, the show will be moving to Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday effective immediately.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 30, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Caleb won HOH in Big Brother 16 Episode 30. Then there was a tornado warning. Then when we returned, two more girls were on the block. The tornado warning (issued four minutes after an EF0 tornado briefly struck basically one neighborhood… awesome early warning system) was one of the rare unexpected moments so far this season.

Caleb’s target is Nicole, but Derrick would rather see Christine go home. The secondary target is Victoria, who can’t win either a competition or the game in general.

For her part, Christine’s talking tough and saying she won’t nominate Victoria next week. She’s kind of stuck, though, because not only is she not a key part of either side of the alliance, but the girls don’t like her either.

Everybody other than Frankie will play in the veto competition. They will cut wires based on videos, following instructions such as cut the first striped wire shown. Cody is the first one blown up, and he gets to dress like a dinosaur for a week, which backfired on BB because I’m not sure they want him that clothed. Everybody is correct on the next one. Caleb drops next. Then Victoria. Everybody is safe again, and they all seem to be guessing by this point. Derrick and Nicole both blow up, and Christine wins the power of veto.

Undeterred by that plan being completely out the window, Derrick still does not want Nicole to go home. He needs to think about who his other target is. Aside from Victoria, his only other option is Frankie. Luckily for him, he’s been feeding Caleb about that for the past few days, and the fact that Frankie went right up to Christine after the competition helps. Derrick doesn’t even need to say anything. Caleb starts the post-challenge conversation. All he was whispering is how great he would have done in that competition, but it’s not like the content of what he said is relevant. Cody still finds a way to somehow make it a big deal.

Nicole tells Derrick that he’s the closest thing to Dan Gheesling she has seen. I’m not sure that’s a fair comparison, though he is this season’s smoothest operator, but it is enough to scare Derrick. He doesn’t want everybody else to think the same way. So he goes to Caleb to make a case for getting rid of Nicole. Not at all suspicious.

At the veto ceremony, Christine removes herself from the block. Her replacement nominee is Victoria.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 16 Episode 32, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.