Big Brother #14, Episode 19 Recap

We gather here tonight to say goodbye to a legend. Well, a self-proclaimed legend. A man whose third tour of Big Brother duty will end tonight, thanks to a hammock-shaking dweeb who took to heart the lessons of his coach.

That's right - after tonight there is no more Chilltown II. No more badly scripted joint diary room cliches. No more tween outfits that look silly on any adult, let alone one in his early 40's. Mike "Boogie" Malin will be making his final exit tonight, and it is unlikely that we will ever seen him again outside of this season's finale.

But that's not all we'll see tonight, as this is a double eviction show. Or Fast Forward, or whatever cutesy name Grodner has Chen proclaim this annual event. Besides Boogie's eviction, there will be an HOH comp, nominations, a veto comp/meeting, and a second person leaving the house. One more HOH competition will probably close the show, although the results will likely not be known until the feeds come back on.

Before we get to all that, we do have one segment designed to make us believe that Boogie may not be going. Like last night's episode, there is actually a plethora of usable footage, and it is too bad that all of this is going to be summed up in a five minute segment. For more on what actually happened, be sure to tune in to this week's Big Brother Gossip Show.

Back to tonight's show, and the opening segment that shows Shane "shocking" the house with by putting up Jenn as his replacement nominee. Both Jenn and Boogie are clearly fuming as Dan offers a handshake after the ceremony, but Boogie tells him to "save it". Jenn admits to generally just laying back (obviously), but she is now "going to be a force to be reckoned with".

Frank, meanwhile, admits that he's happy to be off the block, but is pissed that Boogie may be leaving. He joins Boogie in the bedroom, where he is still going off on Dan's handshake attempt. Ian then wanders in the room, and says that it is "not going to be an easy decision" to choose between his two teammates. Boogie is pissed, but Ian immediately defuses it. "I have to make sure...that he doesn't find out that I'm working against him", he explains in the diary room. (By the way, it is already amazing how much material they're not using.)

Dan now wanders into the living room and kitchen, but neither Boogie or Jenn even acknowledge him. Britney heads into the lounge to gossip with Ashley and Danielle about how uncomfortable it all feels. Boogie then starts poking at Shane, who does his usual runaround, incomplete sentences, which causes Frank to say "stuff your sorries in a sack, man". Boogie adds that he just "looks like Dan's bitch right now". The girls in the other room are shocked because Boogie is "terrorizing the house".

The conversation goes back and forth, while Dan lays in the living room reading the Bible. We just ahead a few minutes, and Boogie is now sitting next to Dan throwing some more wisecracks. Jenn then enters the room, and she begins participating. Oh, in case you forgot, Dan has to remind us in the diary room that he's taking all this heat for Ian. Boogie adds that the others should remember that if Dan makes the final three he'll probably throw that last competition so he won't have to make that fatal decision.

We jump ahead to Jenn and Ian in the bedroom, and she is still reeling about being nominated. "They're going to have meet a new Jenn City, and she's just arrived". The footage jumps to her interrogating the rest of the house, saying how she's a "wild card" that is going to "go out kamikaze style". Ian, though, points out in the diary room that since she's just a pawn she needs to chill out.

So that's it for the entire first three days of the week, as we go right to the announcement that tonight is a double eviction (which they already know, btw). The second evictee will also be the first to enter the jury.

It is final plea time, and Jenn goes first with a pleasant enough speech that asks them to vote to "keep your trusted and loyal homie, Jenn City". Boogie starts off by thanking his business partner and his child, and then goes right to pleading Joe for his vote. For some reason, he ends with a shoutout to the New England Patriots.

Voting begins with silly Ashley, who votes to evict Jenn. Britney is the second vote, and as expected she votes to evict Boogie. Joe then enters, and Boogies' plea doesn't work as he votes to evict Boogie. Frank then ties it by voting against Jenn, but Dan, Ian, and Danielle all vote against Boogie. Boggie is out by a 5-2 vote!

Julie announces the results,, and Boogie calmly says goodbye. Ian apologizes, and hands him what appears to be sunglasses. When he hugs Frank, he loudly tells him that Ian is not to be trusted. "I know that already", Frank replies.

Boogie departs, and Julie starts off by asking what Ian told him. "He said that I will be seeing some things that I won't like. Apparently, I didn't get his vote. He referenced something I said to an evicted house guest during All-Stars, which was 'get to steppin', and he said it with a bit of conviction in his voice. He might be playing for the other side."

Boogie adds that he is pretty shocked by this, and that no one is to be trusted. He loves the kid, but if "he did me wrong, it is just going to reflect on him". The final goodbyes start off with silliness from Frank, but Britney imitates the Chilltown phone gimmick. "Oh hey Janelle, Boogie is not here." That's the Britney I love! Dan says that he has a high respect for him, and that he wanted to work with him. It wasn't him that "ratted you out". No, it was Ian, who talks about how he has been watching him since he was ten. While he does have "respect and admiration for how you played this game", he admits to the Quack Pack alliance. "This week, I masterminded your demise. I learned from one of the best, and that is why you're sitting with Julie right now." Boogie claps for him, and tips his hat. "The Quack Pack? Ohmigod!"

It's now time for the HOH competition, and it is a "Before/After" question competition. Julie reads off an event, and they have to pick if it happened before or after the second one she reads. The first question is about the lemon/limes and the zingbot, and Ashley is immediately out (shocker!). Willie's expulsion and Janelle's first coach win is the next question, and now Joe, Dan, and Jenn are out. The third question is the breaking news bulletins versus Jojo hosting a competition, and Frank screws up and is out! It's the game reset versus candy canes, and they all pick "before". The fifth question is about Wil's speech, and now Britney is out.

It is between Danielle and Ian for the tie-breaker. Julie asks how many seconds it took for the lime team to win. Danielle guesses 1200, while Ian goes for 1000. Ian is the new HOH!

Everybody rushes in as we go to commercials, and when we return Ian is shown making a one-week deal with Joe. Julie calls for them to gather in the house, and a nervous Ian puts up Frank and Ashley. "I'm really sorry, guys."

After yet another commercial, it is time for the veto competition. It is basically this year's version of the infamous comp from last year that saw Jeff laughingly screw up. They have to find clovers in a big pit of balls. After two found clovers, they get to grab the veto.

Ian is the first with a clover, followed by Frank and Joe. Danielle and Shane then both find one, but suddenly Frank finds the second one AND the veto. He has saved himself once again!

Shockingly, Frank does indeed use the veto after we had to endure him wondering about Ian's next move with Shane and Britney. Ian replaces him with Joe ("pop a squat").

CBS is clearly paying a lot of bills tonight, as we have yet ANOTHER commercial break before the next round of final pleas and voting. Ashley goes first, and she is obviously on Xanax. She is slurring her words as she babbles about how she has been underestimated. Seriously, I can't understand her. Julie finally shuts her up. Joe then gets up and doesn't speak. It's all hand movements. Yeah, you're really funny.

Jenn is the first vote, and she votes to evict Ashley, as does Shane and Britney. Frank, though, votes against the "terrible chef", but Danielle seals the fate by voting against Ashley. For the record, Dan also votes against Ashley. What a waste of a double eviction night! Ashley meanders through her hugs and out the door. Just awful.

Before the dumb interview, we get a peak in the house as Frank is wandering around complaining about everybody. Julie interviews Ashley, but I have no idea what she is saying. Thankfully, it's a short interview...and the show is over.

Your thoughts? Are you happy Boogie is gone? Or that Frank is still there? Most importantly, what types of meds is Ashley on? Let us know!

The Night Owl

Nothing happened tonight.

I could probably end this blog with that, but I will drag you through some of the monotonous details since I did after all watch it happen.

The looming eviction is of course going to be a double, so early on in the night the house guests all got a few minutes each to play a new game that was kind of a vertical version of labyrinth.  All of them including Ashley were really good at it, so I really think this could be anybody's game depending on who gets nervous and who slips up.

A little later in the night Britney had some sort of meltdown over it being her husband's birthday and her not being there.  She also buddied up to Ashley after figuring out that Ashley was decent at the new game and that she might possibly win HOH.  For the most part she was just emotional though and nothing all that interesting came of it.

A little later than this everyone was in their seperate corners...meaning that the entire house except for Frank, Boogie, and Ashley were hanging out together upstairs while Frank, Boogie, and Ashley hung out outside.  Upstairs the chat was mostly about who would win HOH and what they would do.  They all discuss the fact that it would be fine if anyone in the room won and they are only worried about Frank and Ashley.  Downstairs Boogie was dealing with some sour grapes about leaving and decided to discuss in depth how much he hated each of the house guests except for Frank and Ashley.  The things the three of them said were pretty hateful, mostly about Jenn, so I will spare you the details.

The rest of the night was spent talking about things like "your favorite moments in the house" and sometimes going back to "we just have to win HOH".  Other than that...nothing really happened.

I am excited to see how things play out tonight. I have no doubt Boogie is the one being voted out. I am definitely curious to see the second HOH, veto, and eviction though. It could prove interesting. Who's ready?

Big Brother #14, Episode 18 Recap

I'm sure this will shock a good percentage of you readers who are tired of my negative attitude this season, but I'm actually kind of excited to see tonight's episode. There was a ton of activity in the house between Friday night and late Monday morning, the time frame this episode covers, so we shouldn't have ANY filler (but probably will).

So much happened, in fact, that it is inevitable that some quality material just won't be used, particularly from the post-nomination fireworks that went on throughout most of Friday night. Sadly, this will also happen tomorrow night, as three days of explosive actions and paranoia will be dwindled down into one short segment before the "fast forward" activities commence.

Let's jump right into tonight's show with the emotional fury that kicked off immediately after Shane's (not so) shocking nominations of Frank and Boogie. Shane explains that he had to go after them after he heard that Boogie and Frank were coming after them, but Frank calls Shane his "best friend" and he feels "blindsided". Really? Boogie's response? "Shane done lost his mind!" He still thinks that there is a chance both of them will stay. Ian, meanwhile, is beyond happy but hopes that nobody discovers he had a part in this.

Frank heads into the bedroom to talk to Boogie, and they decide that it was Britney, with the backing of Dan. Boogie says he has nothing to lose, so "I'll blow the whole thing up". Frank reiterates that Dan definitely has something to do with this.

They head out, and ask to talk to Shane. This is a mind-numbing conversation, as Shane talks about how his name had come up in conversations from others. "Are you claiming that you know something beyond what the whole house knows?", asks Boogie. Shane throws out Joe's name as their source (which isn't quite how the conversation went), and that combined with the cube with the question mark in the arcade game is why they went up.

Boogie is furious, and Frank presses Shane until he does throw out Britney's name. Apparently, she influenced him to make a "big move...obviously, I don't have a good social game". "Yeah, we know", says Boogie. Shane basically lets the entire cat out of the bag, and the conversation finally ends with Boogie saying they could work together again if he "fixes" this.

Britney now comes up to the HOH to find out what was said about her, and Shane stupidly tells her all. Seriously, we covered this all on the last Big Brother Gossip Show. Britney is obviously not happy, and lets him know it...and she now "has to run downstairs to do damage control".

She heads into the bedroom to talk to Boogie and Frank, and honestly we had a better clip of this conversation last Saturday. Boogie brushes her off, saying "you're using him as your puppet". Boogie does try to get more info out of her by asking who else was giving Shane info, but Britney continues to just deflect all the blame away from her. Shane walks into the room, but Britney tells him to leave...and then she claims that a "super reliable source" gave the info. Frank comes right out and says it has to be Dan.

Conversation over, she heads into the lounge and whines to Shane that she "quit her job and left her husband" to come here, and it's not right that he threw her under the bus. Shane backtracks a little bit, and says that he couldn't let it out that the others (Dan and Ian) were also involved. "Did you want me to throw everybody under the bus?" Britney actually makes the most sense here, but that's mainly because Shane's under-100 IQ makes it impossible for him to create a coherent sentence.

Ian now walks into the room where Frank and Boogie are sitting, and they stupidly let him know that they believe Dan is the person who "convinced Britney and Shane to take a run at us". Ian plays along, claiming Dan is a "wolf in sheep's clothing". Oh, Ian is loving every second of this.

After commercials, Boogie and Dan are lying around in the bedroom, and Boogie is being not-so-subtle with his wisecracks. Dan claims that he would not do anything against them, and Boogie points out that last week's targets were more dangerous than Wil. Dan screams in the diary room that he can't expose Ian, but also denies that he had anything to do with the nominations.

Dan then heads up to the HOH, where Shane is talking to Frank and Britney. Boogie follows them to have "an open forum". Dan says to "fire away and I'm sure we'll answer honestly", which made me choke on my whiskey a little bit. I guess Britney has been taking diary room lessons from Joe and Dan, as she now screams.

This meeting finally ends with Boogie saying that Dan's silence says everything, but Dan swears on his wife that he's not lying. Frank laughs, saying he has lied to him before, but he's supposedly not this time. Boogie isn't buying it. "I think I got it."

Once Frank and Boogie leave, Dan complains that he can't keep "taking the heat for that kid", but Britney says Ian has been giving them great info. He says that he'll take heat for the group as long as that kid appreciates it. "Otherwise, I'll throw him to the wolves. I don't care."

It is now time to pick veto players, and this should be interesting as there are TONS of rumors over what happened here. Shane picks first, and gets Jenn. Boogie then reaches in the bag, and pulls out the House Guest choice pin. He chooses Ian, but Ian doesn't know he's being chosen because he probably won't win not because he still thinks he's an ally.

A long shot is then shown of Frank reaching into the bag, and he also gets HG choice...and chooses Ashley. Now here's where the controversy lies. He had originally pulled out Ian's chip, but Ian was already in the game. He pulled a second time, and this time got HG choice. Reportedly, CBS asked for a second take, and Frank palmed that chip to make sure CBS got the proper shot. Is that how it happened? I guess we'll never know. Either way, both Boogie and Frank are happy because Dan isn't in the competition.

They head outside to "Big Brother Candy World", which pleases that dumb hippy Ashley. They get five minutes to stare at all of the exhibits, and even Shane has figured out that it is a "counting game". Ian, meanwhile, knows he has to throw it as a win will create an expectation to save either Frank or Boogie.

So the game goes like this - they have to make guesses on the number of items, and the winner is the person closest to the correct answer. The first to "win" three lollipops wins, and the one farthest from the answer is out.

The first question is a candy chick mural, and, of course, whenever they have diary room commentary form Ashley you have to have the "silly" music. Frank, Shane, and Boogie "stay" in this round, and Frank wins the first lollipop. Boogie is already out.

In the second round, it's a lollipop tree, and after more stupidity from Ashley, it is between Frank, Shane, and Jenn. Frank wins once again, and Jenn is now out. The third question is a giant vat of candy hearts, but this time Frank folds. It is between Shane and Ian, and this time Ian is out of the game (but he's obviously not too upset).

For the fourth round, it is candy heart drops on a wall, and Frank again folds. It is between Shane and Ashley, and this time Ashley gets the lollipop...but Shane is now eliminated. If Frank had stayed in, he would have won.

Instead, it is now between Ashley and Frank, which causes Dan to yell some more in the diary room. We have a giant gumball machine, and dumb Ashley folds to give Frank the automatic veto (which he would have won anyway since his answer was closer). Yes, Dan and pals, we know it is your "worst case scenario".

After another round of commercials, we move to the token appearance of Jenn for tonight's episode. She's sitting with all of the "floaters", and Boogie says that he needs to rally the troops to go against Dan, Britney, and company. "I've got to get these guys fired up." He tells them all about how Dan works on them not by competitions, but by his social game. Jenn says that Boogie is making sense if she is to have any chance of winning the game.

Boogie is now seen in the HOH with Britney, making amends of sorts. He thinks that if he can get her trust, maybe he can get Dan on the block. "Part of my problem right now isn't going home or losing the game, but losing friendships." Oh Lord. He "does a Janelle", by adding fake tears as he talks about hoping that she continues to work with Frank, but Britney isn't buying it. "Come on, Boogie. Tears?"

Oooh, a second Jenn appearance...as she is now talking with Jenn. She points out that Dan is "the most dangerous player here", and that he should think about the long term.

One more attempt from Boogie, as he heads upstairs once again for a final talk with Shane. "Dan is such a scary person to leave in this game." He gives Shane a history lesson on how Dan lets everybody else do his dirty work, and Shane claims that he has been thinking about this. Meanwhile, Danielle is freaking out to Britney that this conversation is taking so long. Boogie, though, is hopeful that being the last person to talk to the "idiot savant...minus the savant" will be the voice that makes it happen.

So it is now veto meeting time, and after all of the background conversation on who it should be that replaces Frank, Shane gets up and puts up...Jenn. Boogie is obviously not happy, nor is Jenn as she almost rejects a handshake from Dan and says she is now fired up. Boogie claims he still has hope, though, as he believes he has a couple of votes. One of those votes, however, is Ian, who has a "hand in his going home".

That's all, folks! What did you think of tonight's show? Did they accurately show most of what happened this past weekend? Was the nomination of Jenn a smart move? Tell us. Tell us now!

The Night Owl ...Flip Flop Flip Flop Flip Flop Flip Flop

Lots of back and forth tonight but nothing about the outcome has changed.  Eagle Eye Joe has been hard at work causing lots of drama but not doing any of the calling out he promised he would.

When I fired up the feeds tonight Joe was hard at work in the storage room letting Jenn know that Ashley was planning on voting against her.  A little prior to this Jenn had talked to Dan, Danielle, and Joe about their votes and they all promised her that she is 100% safe and that she is a pawn.  This seemed to make Jenn feel better about life.  She then went outside to do some pilates with Danielle, and Danielle elaborated more on what she knew about the things not only Ashley had been saying, but also the things Boogie and Frank had been saying about Jenn.

Feeling a bit salty about Ashley in general, Jenn went upstairs to hang out with the not remotely silent six..or the quack pack..whatever you want to call them.  Jenn made nice with Shane and the rest of the crew and they all discussed their disappointment in Ashley flipping and deciding to try and roll with Frank and Boogie.

A while later Britney, Daneille, and Jenn were in the HOH just hanging out and talking when Ashley decides to enter.  Jenn is pretty cold to her and Ashley actually catches the vibe.  While she is upstairs, old Eagle Eye is busily telling Frank that he isn't going to vote to keep Boogie.  Frank tries for a good long while to sweet talk Joe and convince him and then enters Ashley.  She knows that Joe had to be the one who said something to someone about her vote since she had not told anyone else and she can tell Jenn is pissed off at her.  Joe doesn't tell the exact truth.  He goes on for a while acting like he didn't say anything to anyone and acting as if he is entertaining the idea of keeping Boogie.  He starts asking Ashley a bunch of questions about lies he still believes that Wil told and not shockingly per her character lately, Ashley lies about the supposed lies.  I am completely thrown off by her lately. 

Eventually Joe says that he told Shane that Ashley wasn't voting to keep Jenn, but didn't tell Jenn....yeah okay Joe.  Anyway, Ashley gets upset because she says she was going to vote with the house and keep Jenn on her side if she couldn't get the votes to keep Boogie.  She spends a while talking shit about Jenn and then eventually turns her frustration at Joe and complains to him about having a big mouth.

Meanwhile upstairs Jenn is getting along better and better with th rest of the house which in my opinion is a good position for her to be in right now.  After Joe's conversation with Frank he ends it by saying that he isn't voting to keep Boogie and he runs upstairs to talk to the rest of the house.  When he enters the room and starts talking, Ian starts crying. 

No one is sure why Ian starts crying so Britney decides to take him downstairs to the arcade room to have a chat with him.  Ian says he feels like a jerk and that he feels bad for Boogie.  He says he doesn't want to change his vote but that he feels like a terrible person voting Boogie out.  Britney says "you DO realize who you are voting out right? The guy that wears 5 ponytails in his hair to veto and wears shirts that say 'ChillTown party of two at 42'".  Ian says that  he understands, but that he still feels bad.  He agrees again to not change his vote though.

Everyone in the house except for Frank and Ashley are now set to keep jenn and vote out Boogie.  Everyone except Frank and Ashley agree if they win they will put Frank and Ashley on the block.  I have a feeling Ashley is going to flip her vote back just so that she can try to gain back favor with Jenn, but as of now that is where everyone stands...fun fun fun. Flip flop flip flop...

Update on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 1:51AM by Ash

FIGHTS!!!

Okay so of COURSE when I decide to shower and go to bed the whole freaking house explodes!

First Frank goes up to the HOH and starts complaining about how everyone is treating Boogie.  His voice cracks and Ian cries and apparently from what I hear it was the best 30 seconds of HOH time we have had in a while.

When I actually get back to my computer screen Ashley is on her way up to the HOH to confront Jenn.  She enters and asks to speak to her. Jenn says "You know what? You can suck it Ashley! What is there to talk about? What's funny?"   She goes on to explain to her that she feels disrespected about Ashley's flipping her vote especially after she took care of her when she was all broken and how she wanted to roll with her when Wil walked out the door but that Ashley was free to roll with who she wanted to.

CUE THE DRAMATICS:

Ashley starts sobbing and goes into this victim speech of "I've voted all my friends out! What do you expect me to do? I'm alone!"  I guess she never thought of sticking by the person who has had her back this whole time...I guess voting her out was the best option for her personal game.  Whatever, I don't buiy it.

The amazing part? When Ashley starts sobbing Jenn actually takes her out of the HOH and comforts her and hears her out.  She makes clear that she still doesn't trust her, but she makes an h onest effort to make her feel better. It's more than I could do folks. Just sayin....

What a Pussy!

All night long, Joe has promised a big scene where he tells Boogie and Frank that he is voting against them, and that the he is creating the "line in the sand". His fake friends camped out in the HOH have been egging them on, and that reminds me that Shane isn't much different than Willie when it comes to his HOH. He NEVER gets out of his throne!

Back to Joe...he has spent most of the night pacing around the house and backyard, often checking to see where Frank and Boogie were. Oh wait, he was actually getting supplies for his pork chops.

Meanwhile, Boogie and Frank were doing their own thing, casually taking showers. Yes, Frank does shower. In fact, he was priding himself on taking the longest shower in the house. After their showers, they dug into his pork chops. Joe was in the diary room checking his blood pressure while they were eating, and when he came out they were nothing but complimentary on his wonderful cooking.

Well, that's all it took for Joe to cancel his provocation...at least for now. He sat with them in the kitchen, joking like they were the world's best friends. When they finally wandered outside, Joe admitted to Ashley that "I think that I'm just going to let it go tonight." Chicken shit!!! 

He's now complaining to Jenn that he can't get away from them, and he's convinced that Ashley is going to vote to save Boogie...despite the fact that she just said otherwise.

The only thing this is accomplishing, really, is that it is keeping Jenn on edge. She's completely safe this week, but Joe is raising just enough suspicion that she can't trust anybody.

I can't wait for a couple of these dingbats to realize that Joe is just a stupid blowhard that creates bullshit, and will never follow thorugh on any of his tough guy conversations. If a confrontation does happen, it will be entertaining for us live feeders but really does nothing for a week where the outcome is obvious.