Watching Reality TV

Let’s do the standard recap lineup, shall we?

• Big Brother Craze
• TV Squad
• Television without Pity
• CBS.com’s recap and full episode video

Now, onto the good stuff.  Jessica is back in the HoH room!  Now she and Daniele are tied for most times as HoH.  The women are kind of kicking butt and taking names in this game aren’t they?  Boy, Jen sure went out on a sour note, didn’t she?  Of course, I get nervous when people say things like, “Never” and “Safe” at the beginning of a new HoH week, don’t you?  Dick and Eric both feel 100% safe.  Even Zach said he felt safe.  The ones who don’t feel safe are Amber and Jameka, rightly so I’m sure.  They’re praying, in case you couldn’t have guessed that yourself.

Eric and Jessica are involved in some pretty blatant flirting by now.   Goofballs.  They’re about the last couple I would have figured on cropping up in this house.  Eric knows his place, funnily enough, he admits that next to an ogre (Zach) and a 44 year old pervert (Dick), he looks pretty good.  Har!

I will have to admit, Jessica cheering/dancing squad is full of some strange looking women.  Or maybe it was just a strange picture.  There’s much speculation about Jen’s last remarks about Eric.  I somehow missed what was said so the significance is lost on me.  … Okay, a little sniffing around on Big Brother Craze (thanks, guys!) during the commercial revealed to me that Jen had said something to Amber about Eric having a girlfriend and not telling Jessica about it.  If he does, this is the first I’ve heard of it.

After the commercial, Eric is explaining things to Amber.  He’s upset that Jen’s little “fib” (is it a fib? do we know?) might upset his position with Jessica.  It doesn’t SOUND like he has a girlfriend, but more a girl acquaintance?  I’m thinking we need to hear from this girl in question what the real story is, don’t you?  Cut to Dick hassling Daniele about eating and taking her vitamins.  HA!  He nags her about everything, turns out, and after their “feud” she finds it odd.  Or rather, annoying.  He’s your parent, Daniele, he’s supposed to be annoying.  She seems kinda like a high maintenance brat doesn’t she?  Am I not totally reading this right or what?  Dick is obviously at least trying with her, but she’s just so “bershon” about it all.  Meanwhile, Eric and Jessica speculate that the fighting between them is fake and all for “show”.  I don’t know, that’s a tough one to call.  Jessica ponders maybe getting one evicted this week.  HMM!  Yeah, not likely.

Ooh!  Luxury challenge!  This sure beats food, as far as I’m concerned.  All the houseguests get duded up in their “outfits” and outside is a big bubble bath lookin’ sorta thing.  The winner gets a Big Brother shopping spree.  (Woo!)  To win, they have to get into their “birthday suit”.  That’s when everyone gets quiet.  It’s a big spelling sort of thing that does require some “disrobing”.  Girls still look unsure but the guys are “game on!”.  Amber gets naked super quick, surprisingly enough.  So does Daniele!  Woo!  Who cares about the guys, right?  I still can’t believe they had them get naked.  That’s hilarious.  The women won, surprisingly enough.  They don’t even to seem to care about getting dressed again too quickly.  Thankfully, Big Brother supplies them with robes to wear.   So the girls go on a major spree and it’s funny to watch them just tearing through these clothes and throwing them on.  Daniele probably ended up with the most clothes and even she admitted that she needs them less.

Now there’s talk about Amber being a model and she thinks the way she talks is one of her big selling points.  I’m sitting here going, “WHAT??”.  Mmm, right.  Zach tells Jessica she should put up Dick and Daniele.   Proving that he has no idea of the alliance, which is good.  He puts himself even ahead of Jameka, since she can’t win HoH (huh?).  Trying to save his booty is what he’s doing.  And America says that Eric should get Amber nominated.   Eric is all for that, since it’s a pretty easy task.  And his reasoning to Jessica for nominating her are good ones and rooted in truth so that’s good.  And now?  We need to decide who in the house that Eric should kiss.  HA!!  Dick!  Pick Dick!  Aww, you know they pick Jessica.  But STILL.  I think it’d be totally hilarious if people picked Dick.  Does this mean I’m disturbed?

So here come nominations and she says she’s looking to take out “power players”.  Somehow I truly doubt that.  Why can’t she call a spade a spade and admit she’s getting rid of the deadweight?  She put up Zach and Amber, of course.  I think that was a good move.  It was high time Zach was on the block.  And Amber, she’s an easy vote.  Now, depending on who wins the veto, the lineup could change but with each week that passes, unless the HoH wants to backdoor someone, the nominations are more and more likely to remain unchanged.   Amber?  CRYING.  Yeah.  Again.