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A double eviction night started with the elimination of Mike Boogie in Big Brother 14 Episode 19. After that, Ian, who did so well keeping the secret until then, insisted on making an enemy out of Frank but failed to finish the job, instead getting stuck with eliminating Ashley after he won HOH.

Ian blames Britney for his nomations blowing up in his face. The problem with all of these guys is that they are playing Britney’s game, which is just screwing every last one of them over while she laughs her way to the bank.

Shane, having nominated Frank twice, evicted his closest ally, and destroyed the Silent Six alliance, is the first person Frank wants to talk to. Oh, sure, trust him and Britney again. This is the definition of insanity. Not having learned his lesson from what that went down last week, he still blames Dan for everything. Before the HOH competition, Britney makes a deal with Frank to keep him safe, which she doesn’t plan to honor, but it’s not like it matters because some other idiot will be getting the blood on their hands anyway.

The HOH competition has them using strings to raise balls and try to get them into the hole with the highest score. Danielle scores 8. Frank gets 5. Shane scores 17. Jenn scores 6. Joe scores 10. Britney gets 7. Dan tries to go for broke, and broke is what he gets, scoring a 1. These scores create the rankings for the head-to-head portion of the competition, and the lower the score they had in the first round, the more people they must beat. This is a double edged sword because they may have to beat more people, but it also gives them multiple opportunities to perfect the technique.

The head-to-head round has them competing to get their balls to the hole at the top first. Frank beats Dan. His next competitor is Jenn. Frank beats Jenn and moves on to go against Britney. With another easy win, Frank moves on to compete against Danielle. Once again, Frank wins and is now matched up against Joe. After another lopsided victory, Frank moves on to the final battle against Shane. Frank wins HOH.

Seeing as the entire house just tried to get him out, it would be safe to say that anybody could be his target, but Frank’s been hell bent on getting rid of Dan for weeks. To kick things off, he nominates Dan as the lone have not for the week.

Before we get to nominations, it’s time for pandora’s box. Frank is greeted with a lot of dollar signs. He decides to open it. Inside he does indeed have the opportunity to win some cash of varying denominations up to $10,000: $1.05, $7.11, and lastly $3333.33. So what’s the catch? A second veto will be unleashed into the house. They have to get 50 cents from the falling balls with which they will be able to use the crane to fetch a veto ball from the box in the arcade room. Dan fails then lies about it, saying he won so the others stop searching for a while. Ian fails. Britney snags the ball, gets oh so close, then loses it. Dan meets the same fate. Ian’s next attempt is successful, ensuring himself safety after his boneheaded moves last week.

With Ian having won this special veto, Frank says he might not nominate Dan right away. He asks about putting Ian up against Danielle, knowing that Ian will remove himself, allowing Dan to be backdoored and forcing Ian to use the veto on himself rather than using it to remove Dan. Ian looks at Britney. Apparently, he is incapable of coming up with an answer on his own.

Britney does not like this plan to force Ian to waste his veto. She’d much rather have two vetos in play on their side, thereby saving the entire alliance and making Frank waste his week by eliminating someone like Joe or Jenn.

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

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After Frank won the veto in Big Brother 14 Episode 18, Shane named Jenn as the replacement nominee. So it’s Boogie, winner of All Stars and member of the most notorious alliance in Big Brother history, up against someone who I wasn’t even sure was still in the house until last night. Good luck with that. In addition to one of them evicted, before the hour is over, someone else will follow that person out the door, as tonight is a double eviction night.

Jenn promises to be a force to be reckoned with. I am scared.

Immediately after the veto ceremony, Ian tells Boogie and Frank this is not going to be an easy decision.

As the rest of the house argues, Dan just sits there reading the only reading material allowed in the house, the bible. Ian takes a front row seat to watch the chaos.

Votes
Ashley: Jenn
Britney: Boogie
Joe: Boogie
Frank: Jenn
Dan: Boogie
Ian: Boogie
Danielle: Boogie

By a vote of 5-2, Mike Boogie has been evicted from the Big Brother house. The coach twist, which he alone didn’t want to end, bit him. His main problem is that he chose to back one horse far more than the other two, leaving them in a position to desire to flip. His parting words: Ian is not to be trusted. A little late for that. Still, he can appreciate that Ian got the best of him.

At long last, one of Shane’s nominees has been eliminated. Four of them are still in the house.

The HOH competition is before or after. Ashley is out on the first question. Joe, Jenn, and Dan are eliminated on the second question. Frank is out on the next question, putting him in a very dangerous position. Nobody is wrong on the fourth question. Britney is out on the next question. In the tiebreaker question, both Ian and Danielle are ridiculously over, but as the least far from the mark, Ian wins HOH.

Frank and Ashley have been nominated for eviction. A former partner and a former showmance. With friends like Ian, who needs enemies? He would have been better off handing that HOH to Danielle, though with an answer as high as he gave, perhaps that’s what he was trying to do.

Joe, Danielle, and Shane join the HOH and the nominees in the veto competition. They will have to retrieve two clovers and a veto symbol from ball pits. Ian is the first to grab a clover. Frank gets one, followed by Joe. Then Danielle and Shane get on the board. Frank finds a second clover. Then he gets the veto symbol. Frank wins the power of veto. Oops. That didn’t work.

Frank pulls himself off the block. Ian nominates Joe as the replacement nominee.

Who do you eliminate between these two? Neither is a threat, making this arguably a complete waste of an HOH, particularly for someone who just made a big enemy and whose alliance no longer has any use for him. It’s the big mouth up against the little Bambi deer.

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

By a vote of 5-1, Ashley has been evicted from the Big Brother house, and she is the first member of the jury. This was just silly, but better than making an unnecessary big move. This alliance will have to turn on itself within the next week, but there was no need for it to happen just yet.

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The ill-fated from the beginning alliance was officially flushed down the drain in Big Brother 14 Episode 17 when Shane nominated Frank and Boogie.

Rather than take credit or blame or give any reason for the nominations, Shane gives the most ridiculous nomination speech in history. He later blames it on influence from other people. Like Joe and… people in this house.

He declines to throw Dan or Ian under the bus, but he does reluctantly admit the obvious that Britney’s pulling his strings. She’s upset that her name is mentioned, as she thought this was going to be a week in which she would not get any blood on her hands, which is why she (like the other coaches) did not even try to win HOH. In turn, Shane’s not happy that she expects him to take all the blame (again). Upon hearing this, Britney goes downstairs to talk to Boogie and Frank, and she lets Shane know he’s not welcome to participate in their conversation.

Frank returns to his mindset from last week. He doesn’t trust Dan again/still. Britney only helps to cement this by refusing to reveal her super reliable secret source. As these people all look like idiots, they continue to protect their mole, who is just skating by with no enemies and no target from either side of the house nor anyone in the middle. Dan’s just about fed up with him, though.

Shane picks Jenn at random to play in the veto competition. Boogie picks Ian as houseguest’s choice. Frank picks Ashley as houseguest’s choice. Frank and Boogie just got lucky by ending up in a competition with the three weakest competitors in the house. Granted, they still have to beat Shane.

They see candy everywhere. They’ll have to figure out how much candy is in larger containers based on how much candy is in smaller containers. Ian plans to throw this game of dumb luck. Historically, the trick here has been to just keep folding and watch all the people who are making an effort get booted.

Frank, Shane, and Boogie stay, while Ashley and Jenn with their ridiculous answers fold, as does Ian. Frank scores a point, but Boogie is narrowly eliminated. Ashley continues with her strategy that cannot be explained in our Earth logic, and she folds, with Ian (who would have been eliminated had he not folded) following suit. Frank gets another point, and Jenn is eliminated. Frank goes over the top this time and folds, and as usual Ashley folds as well. Shane gets a point, and Ian has been eliminated. Frank comes up with a huge number, but this time he’s right about it. He didn’t need to fold but does anyway. Despite being off by 13,000, Ashley gets a point, while Shane is off by even more and is eliminated. She is very pleased with her pretty lollipop point. Frank is correct on the next counting question and wins the power of veto.

Boogie hopes to rally the floaters to get Dan nominated in Frank’s place. The other side made a big move too early, and there are enough votes to turn the tables. He also wants to convince Britney to get onboard so that she can again tell Shane what to do. He should just stick to talking, though, as the fake tears aren’t going to work.

At the veto ceremony, Frank removes himself from the block. The replacement nominee is Jenn. It’s perhaps the most dangerous player in the house against the most invisible.

Shane has now nominated half the players in the house. Maybe this week one of them will actually be eliminated. Wonder if that question mark will blow up in his face.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 19, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on CBS.

Wil was eliminated in Big Brother 14 Episode 16, leading up to an endurance competition for HOH.

The first thing I notice about the HOH competition is that there are three coaches left in the house. How many of them are trying to win HOH? Zero. That should send a message to the newbies, but I don’t get the sense any of them is smart enough for it to click.

To nobody’s surprise, Boogie is going for the $10,000, which he’s pretty much guaranteed to win because nobody else wants the cash. Britney, Joe, Dan, Jenn, and Ashley compete for safety. Only 3 houseguests out of 9 are actually trying to win HOH: Danielle, Shane, and Ian.

Danielle’s falling a lot, and Ian is as well, complete with his own sound effects. That makes it easy for Shane to coast right to the HOH prize.

Britney, who doesn’t look like she has fallen at all, is killing the others in the safety battle, which she ends up winning. The others can now switch to HOH, but Shane is more than 1/3 of the way to his goal by that point. In the meantime, Mike Boogie wins the cash prize, bringing his total for the season to $16k.

Had he not started off going for safety, Dan might have had a shot at this. Shane falls about half way through, and he starts to slow down as a result. But it’s not enough for Dan to catch him. Shane wins HOH.

Frank considering nominating Dan, though he did not do so, is sufficient excuse for him to be nominated, and if he were nominated, alongside him would be his coach Boogie.

Normally when the HOH room is unveiled, everybody pretends to care, even though they really don’t. Frank and Jenn are in bed and don’t join the party, though Jenn at least goes upstairs to say a few words.

Boogie thinks he can still trust Ian, but everything he tells Ian just gets back to Britney. With that, Boogie’s question of whether Ian would nominate Britney or Shane if by some miracle he were to win HOH gets into Britney’s ear. As if she needed more ammo for the Boogie/Frank nomination, she gets some more. Shane’s worried that he gets blood on his hands, which she honestly understands. That would explain why she didn’t even try to win HOH, nor can she really be faulted for not doing so since she has other alliance members who are stupid enough to take the hit.

Now that Frank and Ashley have made out, Ian finally makes another move and asks her out on a second date. She realizes that they’re just friends, which isn’t going to change even if Frank gets eliminated this week.

Shane talks to Joe, who tells him he’s onboard with whatever plans he has and will even jump in front of a bus if necessary, though I don’t see any buses in the Big Brother house.

Ian believes that, in a game of good vs. evil, he would be on the evil team. Villains don’t tend to name their alliance Quack Pack.

Prior to nomiations, they find a box with balls and a question mark inside. Britney assures Shane there’s no chance this will impact nominations. Really, no chance?

Nominations
Britney has safety.
Danielle is safe.
Dan is safe.
Jenn is safe.
Ashley is safe.
Joe is safe.
Ian is safe.
Boogie and Frank have been nominated for eviction.

So much for that alliance.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 14 Episode 18, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.