Watching Reality TV

Oh dear.  Before we talk about anything we need to talk about Jen.  Does she have self-image issues or what?  My husband and I were pretty disgusted.  I just wish that my biggest problem was how I looked in a photograph.  After Kail got to show off her HOH room (which was rather anti-climactic, I thought.  Looked like just another room to me), the group gathered around the wall of contestant photos and Jen burst into tears.  Why?  She didn’t like the picture of herself and the level of moaning, wailing and gnashing of teeth over this picture was downright absurd.  I literally couldn’t believe she was this upset over what looked like a very decent picture.  Shoot, I should be so lucky.  In fact, I get rather excited when I take a halfway normal picture.  Whatever Jen, you’ve lost whatever small level of respect I might have had for you.

I’m still waiting for EvelDick (sorry, I was spelling it wrong before) to be truly “evel” and  have yet to see anything.  He tried to strike up a conversation with his daughter and she pretty much gave him the silent treatment.  He promised in the confessional room not to backstab his daughter while in the house and even shed a tear.  I’m not saying that he’ll never be evil, but so far he’s pretty darn sympathetic.

Jessica and Carol’s “feud” has been put on hold but I have to say it’s a pretty tentative peace.  Carol seems fine with letting bygones be bygones because, you know, she’s grown up and matured and has bigger fish to fry.  Jessica, on the other hand, has announced she won’t trust Carol one bit and is likely to be still upset about that $5 that Carol owes her.  Yeah, safe to say that Jessica still bugs the crap out of me.

Dustin truly tried to get a dialog going with Joe and clear the air so they can get on with the game and remove that giant TARGET from their backs.  Joe, however, seemed reluctant to let anything go because he’s an unbelievable nutcase.  He truly seemed to think that Dustin was obsessed with him and that he was purposefully here to ruin Joe’s life and follow him around like a lovesick puppy.  Oh, and he also thinks that he is responsible for everything in Dustin’s life, like, in a good way.  As in Dustin was incapable of wiping his ass so Joe had to do that for him.  Dustin obviously thought this was pretty outrageous and I have to agree.  I think Joe needs a reality check.

The food challenge today involved buttered movie popcorn.  I highly doubt that any of these people will ever want buttered movie popcorn again for the rest of their lives.  The teams were split up and had butter pumped all over their bodies which was then transferred to a giant box of popcorn.  The team who transfers the most butter wins.  Red team did pretty good with their 37 pounds (or so) of butter but the Blue team kicked their rears with like 77 pounds of butter.  Reason?  Amber’s hair.  She would soak up the butter in her hair and then wring it out.  Pretty clever.  And SO GROSS.

Kail made her first nominations as well.  She honored her budding alliance with Mike, Nick, and Zach (some of the burliest guys in the competition) and put up Carol and Amber.  I don’t think either of them really deserve to go, but I can understand why she chose them.  And our first job as the American public directing America’s Player (Eric)?  Which person should he make up a sob story to.  Seriously.  We don’t get to pick the sob story.  No, of course not.  Just who he should tell it to.  You know, I was starting to get my hopes up for this little twist but it’s turning out to be pretty lame indeed.  So I think my answer is officially: “I don’t give a rat’s ass.”

Coming up Tuesday: Veto competition!  Woot!