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A double eviction night in Big Brother 13 Episode 22 brought us the eliminations of Daniele and Jeff.

Flashback to Thursday morning because we didn’t have time to catch all the drama in the busy show. Jeff denies throwing the competition that got Brendon sent home (not that he was alone in that), which Rachel heard from Shelly. Eventually, Jeff calls Shelly out for playing in the middle. He’s finally sick of what’s been going on all summer. Barging into the room, Shelly puts her foot in her mouth, revealing the plan to keep Daniele. She tries to blame Adam, but nobody’s stupid enough to believe this.

Shelly burned the bridge to her alliance, which has her worried, but ultimately I can’t see how she’s in much danger. She’s a strategic disaster who can’t win any challenge of any kind. Her only value is that of a vote, which makes her a good person to take to final two.

Jordan’s as disgusted as I am with what the house has become, a bunch of people who have slept through the summer dumb lucking their way to the end. Add in the sting of betrayal, and you’ve got one angry Jordan.

They walk out into the back and see a bunch of snakes. The HOH competition is to move a ball across a snake. Jordan scores 18, Porsche scores 11, Rachel scores 13, Shelly gets 16, and Adam gets 4. This determines the rankings, matching Porsche against Adam. Adam performs poorly again with a 10, and Porsche beats him to move on to the next round against Rachel with a 14. Porsche scores a 20, the second best score possible, eliminating Rachel who scores a 7. Having had the most opportunities to practice pays off, and Porsche scores snake eyes, eliminating Shelly after her score of 15. In the final round, Porsche gets snake eyes again, beating Jordan’s score of 16.

In this competition, something interesting happens. Porsche tells us it’s newbies against veterans. I haven’t seen those battle lines since about week four when Daniele started plotting her demise.

Now that Porsche has won HOH, Adam flips back to the newbies.

Porsche gets Pandora’s box and is shown a picture of champagne and $10,000. She opens the door, and the next card tells her she’s won the money, which she will split with another houseguest. She says the word shocker as she reads this, a word that has now lost all meaning. The next card tells her that she’s unleashed the duo twist on the house for one week, and all of the original duo rules apply. Duos will be nominated as a pair, and they will be removed from the block as a pair if the veto is used. Porsche picks Kalia, who is now safe for the week. Rachel picks Jordan. That leaves Adam and Shelly.

If Jordan or Rachel win the veto, the other one is safe, too, which is great news for them because otherwise one of them was going home for sure, so at least this way they have a fighting chance. Meanwhile, Shelly, who otherwise made herself safe by stabbing Jeff and Jordan in the back, is now in danger of nomination in that scenario. The worse news for her is that Jordan and Rachel would then control the vote, making revenge very easy to seek.

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Jeff won the power of veto in Big Brother 13 Episode 21 and used it to remove Porsche from the block and nominate Daniele against Kalia, the most satisfying outcome of the season since ED’s elimination in episode 2.

Daniele needs 3 votes to remain in the house. She’s not bothering with Jordan and Rachel. With the assumption that Porsche will keep her, that leaves her with only two options, Shelly and Adam.

Her pitch to Shelly is that she will not nominate her ever, on her grandmother’s life. Reality TV translation: I will nominate you. Then again, it would make sense to drag Shelly along because it’s not as if anybody would vote for her.

Shelly approaches Adam telling him they can’t beat Jeff and Jordan. Adam doesn’t know if he can trust Daniele, nor has she provided any reason to convince him she’d flip from her ally Porsche to him and Shelly. Oh boy. I can’t wait for this conversation to blow up in Shelly’s face, for her to get amnesia again, and for her to whine and complain about it for weeks and decide she hates Adam’s guts like she hates Rachel.

Believing she won’t be able to convince Adam, Shelly now approaches Rachel instead. This should end well. She tells her that Jeff threw the Cornhole game. That’s the game that sent Brendon home. Shelly acts surprised. Oh, was it? Rachel’s willing to humor this idea because it keeps Jeff and Daniele at war. Let’s be real here, though. Jeff may have been one of the people who helped in Brendon’s exit, but Daniele was the one who nominated him. Twice.

Daniele’s speech is about how she loves and respects the game and is the only person in the house who does. I see. Apparently she’s being kicked out tonight, having failed in her attempt to resurrect her really bad gameplay.

Votes
Jordan: Daniele
Porsche: Kalia
Shelly: Kalia
Rachel: Daniele
Adam: Daniele

By a vote of 3-2, Daniele has been evicted from the Big Brother house. It’s nice to see Shelly finally pick a side after lying badly all summer. In Rachel’s goodbye message, she tells her she could care less about her stupid jury vote and calls her a horrible bitch. Wow.

The HOH competition is before or after, based on a series of questions about the events of this summer. Everybody gets the first question right. Adam is out on the second question. Porsche, Rachel, and Shelly are out on the hit or miss question regarding Dominic’s elimination speech. Jordan is out, and Kalia wins HOH, which I take it she’ll use to bolster her claim that she’s done something this season (she hasn’t).

In this live nomination, Jeff and Rachel have been nominated for eviction. Jordan’s the biggest threat in the house if you ask me, though nobody seems to realize it.

Porsche, Shelly, and Adam join Kalia, Jeff, and Rachel in the veto competition. The challenge is to find two yellow clown shoes from a ball pit. I see they’ve dumbed this one down for the sake of fitting it into a couple of minutes. Rachel finds the first shoe. Shelly, Porsche, and Adam are behind her. Then Jeff. Porsche finds her second shoe and wins the power of veto.

The veto is not used. Jeff asks Shelly to rejoin him. I guess he has no choice, but Shelly’s the worst ally ever. She can’t be trusted, can’t strategize, and can’t win anything.

Votes
Jordan: Rachel
Porsche: Jeff
Adam: Rachel
Shelly: Jeff

We have a tie, which the HOH must break. Kalia votes to evict Jeff.

A rollercoaster of a night. The evil player gets struck down, followed by the good player. Either way, at least they both played the game, unlike most of the people left in the house.

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Jeff’s HOH win in Big Brother 13 Episode 20 led to the nomination of Porsche and Kalia.

Invisible Porsche thinks she’s the bigger threat. Slightly less invisible Kalia thinks she’s the bigger threat. Memo to both of you: you both suck.

Jeff and Adam discuss how people who do nothing (like Adam) aren’t going to get to the end by continuing to do that. If you don’t want to win competitions, I have no problem with that, as long as you can at least strategize or make a good faith effort even if you’re a trainwreck (like Daniele)

Daniele’s growing hatred for Rachel is hilarious. Rachel doesn’t have to even try to get Daniele to throw a fit any more.

Jeff, Kalia, and Porsche are joined in the veto competition by veto ticket holder Daniele, plus Jordan, Adam, and Shelly (Kalia’s choice). Daniele’s happy Rachel is sitting out. Jeff is not happy his useless ally Shelly is playing.

Jordan and Jeff sit in the HOH room watching the TV monitor. On it are Daniele and her shadow Porsche. Now would be a good time to start mocking people, followed by confusion over how to pronounce the word mischievous (you’re both right).

Zingbot 3000 is back. Jeff is told to take his facial hair back to the decade it came from. Porsche is told she should be named after a car with a roomier trunk. Rachel is told about how all she ever says is the f word, fiance. Daniele is asked whether she owns a car or if she just rides her daddy’s coattails. Let’s be fair. Her dad sucked worse than she does. Adam is called Uncle Fester, Shelly a dude, and Kalia an expert sleeper. Jordan’s told Jeff hasn’t proposed yet because she’s terrible at answering questions, a statement that confuses her.

There’s actually a point to all of this. The veto competition is to build the Zingbot a bride. Jeff is pretty sure Kalia and Porsche are taking a nap. They are. Meanwhile, Shelly and Adam don’t want to win this, not that they could anyway. Jordan realizes she’s terrible at puzzles, so she zings herself. Jeff really has no competition here and wins the power of veto.

Shelly still hasn’t learned her lesson, even if her 8 year old daughter has. She wants Kalia to know she’s still on her side.

Porsche tries to talk strategy with Jeff. Eventually, he decides on a deal of a week of safety, which she accepts.

Kalia says she doesn’t want to leave before somebody who has done nothing. Jeff says that this week will result in them being even.

Daniele wants Porsche gone and a final four or final three deal. After she destroyed her game early on, her fallback plan, an alliance with Kalia, depends on something new.

At the veto ceremony, Jeff decides to remove Porsche from the block. In her place goes Daniele.

Daniele promises revenge on Jeff. Her and what army? Remember last week when you said Jeff wasn’t your target and needs to get over himself? It’s a little late to be making him one now.

Meanwhile, Kalia realizes that her odds just improved, even if she’s left with nobody.

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After Brendon was evicted (again) in Big Brother 13 Episode 19, we left off at the start of an endurance HOH competition.

Daniele’s hopes rest in the victory of Kalia or Porsche. Seeing as it’s not a multiple guess competition, I think we can count out Kalia. Porsche, who hasn’t done anything all year, is looking strong, though.

Jeff realizes he’s probably the biggest target now that Brendon is gone.

After the bubbles have been coming down for a while, the rain starts. It’s just getting more and more slippery. To top it off, the suds are getting in their eyes. This certainly adds an element of challenge to the challenge, but it does seem kind of silly.

They’re about half way done in 45 minutes. Jeff’s in the lead with Porsche and Rachel behind him. As it gets closer to the end, it’s pretty clear who’s going to win. Jeff has a nice rhythm down and is increasing his lead. Realizing she’s going to lose, Rachel decides to start cheering him on. After an hour and a half, Jeff wins HOH by a large margin.

Shelly hasn’t learned her lesson from getting busted trying to make a final three deal with Rachel and Brendon. And by the way, could somebody please show her the video of that conversation so she stops whining about it and making a bigger fool out of herself? She wants Rachel gone, and she lets the other side of the house know it, telling them Jeff and Jordan are dragging an idiot along with them (an idiot other than Shelly I guess).

Not content with talking behind her back, Shelly confronts Rachel. She’s not happy that Rachel is “making eyes” at her. Huh? Jeff’s happy to see that Rachel bites her tongue and just lets Shelly ramble.

The have nots get hard boiled eggs and jalapenos. The jalapenos are stupid because there’s only so many of those you can eat (for some people, that number would be 0), but the eggs are not bad. Jeff must select three people to be have nots. Porsche and Daniele have not been have nots, so they are selected, and their best friend Kalia may join them.

Kalia asks Rachel to speak to Jeff alone. Her only angle is to target Rachel. He already warned her 2 weeks ago she’s the target, so she should expect repercussions.

Daniele assumes her alliance will be nominated. She’s okay with that.

Porsche approaches Jeff and offers to keep him safe if he keeps her safe. This is the first time she has talked game with him. It’s day 49.

Nominations
Rachel is safe.
Shelly is safe.
Adam is safe.
Jordan is safe.
Daniele is safe.

Porsche and Kalia have been nominated for eviction. He assumes their first action after being nominated will be to go take a nap.

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