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Ian won HOH in Big Brother 14 Episode 26 and proceeded to nominate Jenn and Shane. Tonight will be a special eviction night.

With Shane nominated again, Dan, who passed up an easy shot at him last time, has decided that now he still wants to get rid of him.

Danielle says she thinks Shane’s playing her. He’s kissed you twice all season. If he’s playing you, he’s doing a bad job of it. I think Ian’s had more action than she has.

The veto competition requires them to solve a puzzle within 20 seconds, and if they fail to solve it, the board demagnetizes, so they’ll have to fly back and forth between platforms to reset the clock. So the question is whether this is more puzzle or physical. Seeing as Ian’s doing so terribly, the answer seems to be physical. With Frank out of the house, that bodes well for Shane. Ian ends up getting disqualified because his clock runs out a second time after his puzzle is demagnetized, giving him the opportunity to give hints to Shane. Shane wins the power of veto.

Veto winner Shane is allowed to select one person to bring on a luxury reward, and he picks Danielle. They get to leave the house and meet and watch the gold medal US Olympics women’s gymnastics team. Strangely, this seems to have nothing to do with either CBS or a movie they’re trying to promote. Apparently they’re just making the money from the tour’s sponsors. In what is essentially their first date, I think Shane may have just sealed the deal. One of the most critical decisions of the season may well be whether Danielle chooses Shane or Dan, which is precisely why Dan should have gotten rid of him when he had the chance.

At the veto ceremony, Shane removes himself from the block. In Shane’s place, Ian nominates Danielle. His rationale is that he doesn’t want a couple to have both the votes. Is anyone buying this?

Votes
Shane: Jenn
Dan: Jenn

By a vote of 2-0, Jenn has been evicted from the Big Brother house. When she gets out of the house, she jumps at the chance to eat peanutbutter and jelly, the punishment have nots used to suffer before this stupid slop nonsense.

A fairly lame alliance with the lamest alliance name ever, minus Britney, survives to the end. Not for lack of trying to turn on each other, though. Just for lack of trying to turn on each other well.

The HOH competition is a series of true or false questions based on photographs of competitions they saw earlier in the day. Everyone gets the first question right. Everyone gets the second question right. Shane and Danielle get the third question right. Shane and Dan get the fourth question right. Danielle and Dan get the fifth question right to make it a three way tie again. Danielle and Dan get the sixth question right. Everyone gets the final question right. Dan and Danielle participate in the tiebreaker question. Dan is off by 42 seconds, but he goes over. Danielle, who is off by over 7 minutes, wins HOH.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 28, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Two players who have spent most of the season on the block were finally eliminated in Big Brother 14 Episode 25, as Frank and Joe were both evicted.

Ian says he had to get rid of Frank because he was his biggest threat to winning the game. I’d say Dan’s the biggest threat, only none of these people can see it.

With Frank out the door, Jenn will be retaining her alliance with Dan and Danielle. Even though it was a fake alliance, it’s not like she has any other choice.

Going back to Thursday, it’s revealed that Dan’s actual target may have been Ian. Lucky for Ian this was a live show, meaning a quick and easy to film veto, which in this scenario was a puzzle, the first and likely only veto tailor made to him.

After Ian’s safety was assured, Dan came up with another plan. Target Shane. That fell through, too, as Dan trusts Danielle’s word that he’ll keep him safe. Maybe he will keep Dan safe. But not above her.

Of course, the result of this is that Danielle was the pawn, something she was not expecting. It’s not like anybody will vote her out anyway. Nobody considers her a player. A side effect of this is that Jenn feels lied to as well, but she’s in Danielle’s same boat. She may have been manipulated into making a big move, but she’s only slightly more threatening than Joe was. That said, Ian’s angry that she stayed over Joe, since Jenn’s stronger than Joe, who was both the weakest and most unpredictable link.

Now Dan’s worried. He tried to get rid of Ian and failed, a plan that was revealed to everyone in the house other than Ian. Once Dan’s done talking to Danielle about how worried he is, she immediately tells Shane that he was going to be a nominee.

The HOH competition is a trip down memory lane. They will be asked a series of questions and must get their balls in the numbers based on the day those events happened. For every day they are off, they will receive a penalty point. The player with the fewest penalty points will win.

The first event happened on day 36. Shane knew the answer but is unable to land his ball properly. Ian, however, is spot on. Danielle is off by 13 days, an indication she will not be a factor in this competition. Jenn does better, receiving 3 penalty points. On the second question, Ian receives 1 penalty point, Jenn has a perfect shot, and Shane scores another 2 penalty points. Jenn is way off on the next question, so she joins Danielle in not being a factor. Shane gets 2 penalty points for a total of 6, but Ian’s off by 6 for a total of 7. Shane gets another 3 penalty points for a total of 9, and Ian retakes the lead with a total of 8.

In the final round, Shane forgets that he was the first person to use the power of veto (on himself). Ian remembers this, but because he’s 6 points off anyway, they end up tied. In the tiebreaker, after begging God (who’s a big reality TV fan), Ian wins HOH.

Jenn’s one obvious nominee. The other one has to be a Quack Pack member no matter what. Now it’s just a question of which one. Does Ian target Dan to hide their final two alliance, which he still wishes to keep intact despite the fact that Dan just nominated him? What’s up with Ian sticking to alliances that screw him? Or does he go after the physical threat, Shane, who after a first few weeks of being a big target all of a sudden landed on easy street when the attention shifted toward bigger threats (this is the reason why he needed to keep the targets in the house, rather than eliminate them like he wanted)?

Ian is once again greeted by Pandora’s box, which worked out well for him last time. The TV screen promises a message from someone who loves him. That could potentially be about $100,000 for every minute of video, but it’s a risk Ian’s willing to take. He’s been duped. It’s not a messsage from his parents. Rather, it’s a message from Rachel, last year’s winner. She suggests the most important thing to win the game is think about Brendon. The other houseguests receive messages from their loved ones instead. Between Jessie and now Rachel, Pandora’s box isn’t even seeming all that scary, just annoying.

Nominations
Danielle is safe.
Dan is safe.
Jenn and Shane have been nominated for eviction.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 27, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

After Dan won the power of veto in Big Brother 14 Episode 24, he saved Jenn just for show, pitting Joe against Frank on the block. Tonight is another double eviction night.

Frank’s sixth nomination of the season is looking like his last. Trusting Dan seems to have come back to bite him in the butt, but I’m not sure it really matters because Frank was going to be a target regardless, as usual.

Dan is under the impression he’s added Jenn as an ally. Wonder how she’ll feel when you get rid of her biggest ally. The only potentially useful emotion she’ll feel is solitude, as the concept of trust has to be off the table.

Dan’s main concern, which he accidentally expresses to Frank, is Joe winning HOH. Joe’s the only person he doesn’t have a deal to the end with, and nobody else seems to want to get rid of Dan no matter how much of a threat he is. It would take a miracle, but in this show any idiot can win some of these competitions. Joe tells him he’d nominate Shane and Danielle because you have to break up that couple (of sorts), but the reality is he’d put up Dan and whoever’s on his side.

30 minutes later, Joe starts repeating the conversation he just had to Dan. He thinks he’s talking to Shane. Lucky for him, Dan tells him who he’s talking to before he gets very far. If Dan just let him talk, he could have gotten the real scoop.

Votes
Dan: Frank
Danielle: Frank
Jenn: Joe
Shane: Frank

By a vote of 3-1, Frank has been evicted from the Big Brother house. He departs quickly, saying goodbye only to Jenn.

The HOH competition is about quotes from contestants when they were on the block. Jenn is the only person to get the first question right. Jenn, Dan, and Danielle get the second question right. Everybody but Jenn gets the third question right. Jenn, Dan, and Danielle score a point again. And again. And again. Nobody gets the last question right, so we go to a tiebreaker question about how many minutes Jodi was in the house. 481. All she went through to get here for just over 8 hours in the house. As Jenn and Danielle guess less than half that, Dan wins HOH.

Joe’s not even going to wait. He’ll just take a seat in one of the red chairs. The second nomination is more interesting. Ian has been nominated alongside Joe. Presumably Joe is the target. He’s not exactly anybody that needs to be sent packing, but his lack of allegiance to anyone other than Shane is serving as his undoing.

The veto competition is a maze. Ian wins the power of veto.

Ian pulls himself off the block. Dan nominates Danielle in his place. I did not see that coming, but it really shouldn’t matter.

Votes
Shane: Joe
Jenn: Joe
Ian: Joe

By a vote of 3-0, Joe has been evicted from the Big Brother house. Now people can run their TV at full volume during the diary room sessions.

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Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 26, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

In the typical shift of power that happens every week, Ian became HOH in Big Brother 14 Episode 23 and nominated Frank and Jenn.

Ian warns Joe that if Jenn or Frank come off the block, he will be the replacement nominee. He made a deal to keep Shane and Danielle safe. Not that Shane was exactly in a position to bargain. You say no, and he falls minutes later. Because he intends to keep that deal, he simply does not have any other options than Joe. What about Dan, the guy who ratted you out last week?

Dan does not have any interest in upholding either his alliance with Frank or their final two deal. As Dan does, so does Danielle, not that she needs any encouragement to get rid of Frank.

Ian selects Dan to participate in the veto competition at random. Frank selects Danielle. Jenn selects Joe. This leaves Shane on the sidelines.

Frank seems to have reluctantly but foolishly agreed to throw the competition to Dan. Though the odds of Dan winning a competition don’t seem particularly good, consider who he’s up against.

Otev is back as an alien. They’ll have to search for corn cobs containing the answer to a riddle. This dumb luck is anybody’s game. Fumbling her way toward the mat, Danielle is eliminated first. Ian is eliminated next. Joe is the third one out. Jenn is out fourth.

During the time before the final round, Frank declines to throw the competition to Dan. It would have been smarter to just say he’s going to throw it. Perhaps then Dan would not try too hard. This is an easy one to throw, too, though winning it is not so easy because it’s just about being the first person to accidentally stumble on something. Dan doesn’t know the correct answer, so he’s just going to grab an ear of corn and hope one of his two guesses is correct. Dan narrowly outruns Frank to win the power of veto.

After the competition, Dan makes another final two deal, this time with Ian. That makes three.

Though Dan and Frank don’t want to consider pulling Frank off the block, that won’t prevent it from being raised. Ian suggests saving Frank as a possible option, but it takes about two seconds for Dan to convince him Jenn should come off the block.

At the veto ceremony, Dan pulls Jenn off the block. Ian nominates Joe as the replacement nominee. Dan says he just sealed Frank’s fate without having to get any blood on his hands. What about when you vote to evict him?

Frank’s the clear target here because nobody wants him to be against in the end, which is why they have been trying to get rid of him every single week. On the other side of the coin, Joe’s merely a vote, only useful if he’s on your side (like Shane), and he can’t win anything, including the end game.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 25, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.