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Recaps!  Step up and get your recaps!  Recaps here!

• Big Brother Craze’s liveblogged minute-by-minute recap
• Television without Pity’s weecap
• TV Squad’s recap
• CBS.com’s recap and full episode video

Yeah, I’m reminded of how stupid it was for Dustin to offer to go on the block. I mean, that goes down in the book of “Stupid Reality Moments”. He did ask for it, in case you need reminding of that. In case you’re feeling he’s been unjustly wronged. Ahem. Anyhow, on with the show. These live shows are always a jumble of information and I don’t want to get “lost”.

The good news is that Jessica trusts Eric again. I thought it was shitty he had to deceive her in the first place. And Zack and Jessica had a date night/dinner thing which… I don’t really remember WHY but whatever. They had beer. In… wine glasses. Interesting. It was all to talk strategy, where Zack tried to convince Jessica to talk deals with Dick. Last week? The mere notion would have been laughable, but this week? He gave her his word he’ll vote out Dick unless she tells him he doesn’t have to. That’s Zack for you, loyal to the end. To who? To whomever can carry his rather large self through this game, apparently.

OMG, so surprising that America has chosen Dustin as Eric’s vote this week. Eric was “real surprised” too. He tries to talk to Jessica about voting out Dustin but she all takes her shirt off and they’re laying in the HoH bed and she’s just TOTALLY flirting or whatever with him, trying to distract him. Basically, blows him off and tells him she’s tired and going to bed. He takes off and talks to… DICK! Yes, Dick! Strategy, my mate. And in turn earns some words of respect from Dick. Mostly because Dick is recognizing that Eric is integral to his survival in the house. About time, eh? This can only be good, I feel. So then Eric starts talking Jessica into the “get rid of Dustin” thing. It feels like at last, Eric is putting his head into the game. Almost too late, but at least he’s there now. Jessica doesn’t seem sure at first and I don’t blame her. He makes some EXCELLENT points about aligning with the strong vs. aligning with the weak.

Would Daniele have taken Dick off the block? DOUBTFUL. She didn’t in week two when they were both nominated and she won the veto. So there’s your answer. And guess what? Amber is trying again! YAY! This should be a drinking game. I’d be so embarrassed if I were Lexie. You gotta love Joe trying to highlight Dustin’s selfishness. Cuz, you know, Joe was SO NOT selfish. Har. He does have a good point about Dustin being so arrogant. Didn’t like Joe that much but he does have some valid points there.

And the moment is here. Dustin… is gone. Dustin looked shocked as hell. Amber looks ready to burst into tears (of course). Didn’t get a good luck at Jameka’s reaction. Everyone else looks resigned (because, duh, everyone else voted for him). AWESOME. Amber looks like she’s been kicked bya horse. Jameka? PISSED, from her body language at least. Dustin admits to Julie he’s stunned. Apparently, he got NO wind of this operation. He does and doesn’t regret offering himself. WTF? He’s happy to be on the jury, at least. He admits to feeling a little worried today, at the last minute. Eric, in his taped goodbye, was STILL trying to play Dustin, which of course Dustin wasn’t buying. Amber? Crying. Natch. I can see why they didn’t reveal the America’s Player twist because DUH, he’s in the jury and it could have bearing should Eric make it to the end. So yeah, no more revealing that until the end of the game. Aww nuts.

HoH competition! The shenanigans from earlier this week (check out Big Brother Craze for the deets) were shown before we open on the competition where, of course, this all applies. The HG’s are asked questions about the visitors. Last one standing wins. Simple enough, right? Jen, again, proves she’s too dumb to live. Yeah, there was NO WAY Amber was going to beat Daniele at a battle of wits. So Daniele is HoH! This is good news, I’m sure. I’m thinking Eric and Jessica are safe. I’m hoping. Fingers are CROSSED, yo. Amber? Is crying. Julie awesomely cuts her off. HA! Love it. So who should Eric try to get evicted? I say “TAKE IT EASY” on the poor guy for a change and pick Jameka and Amber. PLEASE.

Aaaaand… we’ve got recaps!  If you missed last night or need a refresher course on what went on, then do check out these awesome wrapups:

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

This show is so twisted. Can I just say (don’t think I mentioned it the other day), I love how Jessica said “You’re welcome” when Dick said “Thank you” after the nominations. CLASSIC. Dude. Dick is off his nut. I like the idea of riling everyone up and getting them up early before the Veto competition but he’s just SO OBNOXIOUS about it. Good gravy. He goes over the edge, you know? I know he wants to be the one evicted, but please. Does he have to do that? It’s getting on my nerves and I don’t have to live with it. Just when I start feeling sorry for him, or for Daniele, he goes and pulls stupid stunts that make me go, “Nope! He’s an ASS!”

So Eric ran the show while Jessica, Dick, Zack, Daniele, Jameka and Dustin played for the veto. And once again, when Dick sarcastically said “Thank you” to Jessica, she returned with a smooth, “You’re welcome.” Awesome. Anyhow, it’s a sort of croquet or whatever. Anyhow, looked nasty because it also involved eating/drinking nasty stuff. Jameka didn’t do so hot. Dustin rocked it though. Zack was pretty much just dumping the entire contest. Didn’t even TRY. Love it. Daniele tried, bless her. And Dick, like Dustin, just rocked it. Jessica used a wise strategy, drinking the thinner, easier drinks first. Still, she wasn’t quite able to get some of them. (Yeah, nice puke shot there) I’m not going to go on and on about this so the long and short of it is, Zack sucked the veto competition while Dick won it. Yeah, big shock there. Again, something Big Brother was hinting at the entire episode. Though Dustin did come close, VERY close.

And guess what? SORE WINNER. Oh yeah, all these people are. He’s doing his job well, I can give him that. Dude, he’s 44? Color me surprised because he’s acting about 10. And Daniele? Dear? If you’re tired of people taking Dick out on you (which, are they? Sounds like all they’re doing is ignoring her, which considering is the best possible outcome for her.), then maybe ask him to take it down a notch. And if he won’t in order to help you feel a little better, then maybe he doesn’t care that much about you. But she wouldn’t do that. Anyhow, what follows here is a nasty, nasty blow up in the HoH room and Daniele is just LOSIN’ it. And again this is somehow about God and I am just not getting how that’s factoring into things here. (And, can I just ask what Jen is doing in the HoH room? Is she on “their” side now? Wait. Zack is in there too??) Eric stated it best. Daniele, of course, missed the point he was trying to make. Jameka did apologize, but I don’t know if Daniele’s approach was good. She could have toned it down a bunch and made her points a LOT clearer. But it was all apparently for show and strategy so whatever. Respect LOST there, Daniele.

The good news is that as a result of all this, Daniele DID ask him to tone it down and he said he would. So hopefully things will be a little “calmer” from here until Dick’s eviction (am I wrong? Is this not a foregone conclusion at this point?).

So America chose for Eric to give Jessica the silent treatment. SIGH. I heard this was part of some master brilliant scheme to somehow stick it to Big Brother but I can’t help but think that not only are we sticking it to ERIC but to ourselves since (duh) he’s OUR player. Obviously these people just can’t handle this sort of power. So yeah, now Jessica thinks Eric and Dustin are scheming to destroy her or somesuch nonsense. Way to go, AMERICA. You suck.

So yeah, the veto ceremony went as expected and Dick gave his veto to Daniele. Let’s say it all together now: “AWW!!” *barf* So Jessica selected Dustin to go up next to Dick. Which was sort of what they were all planning all along. I don’t THINK that Dustin is vulnerable, but you never know. He is being a little overconfident though, which doesn’t bode well. And Jessica STILL thinks that Eric is allied with Dustin. GAH. Why do I WATCH this show? *bangs head on wall*

First off, we must get our dose of recap goodness! You know the drill:

• CBS.com’s recap and video of the episode
• Television Without Pity’s weecap
• TV Squad’s recap
• Big Brother Craze’s recap

(Fyi: I sorta liveblogged this, just jotting down my thoughts as I was watching so pardon me if it seems a little disjointed.) Yeah, just in case we didn’t already suspect this, Dick is a really, really, REALLY poor loser. The little snit he threw after the HoH competition was just ridiculous. And calling Jameka a hypocrite? Was a little uncalled for, I think. What did she ever do to him? He sure got her riled though. See, I don’t understand why people rise to his occasion. There’s just no arguing with him because he doesn’t fight fair. I’d probably just ignore him, if I could. Easy to say from this side, right? I just thought it was hilarious how Dick tried to pretend like he didn’t really care but it was entirely obvious that he REALLY cared. Zack said it best, “The peasants are revolting and they’re not scared of him anymore.” True DAT!

Seeing as how I’ve turned into a hopeless “Big Brother” addict, I’ve been peeking at the live feed spoilers over on Big Brother Craze. So at the start of this episode, I knew who had been nominated as well as who had won the power of veto. I found it definitely colored my reactions to what was going on but I’m trying very hard to put it out of my mind so I don’t “give anything away” over here.

And in grand “Big Brother” tradition, the paranoia sets in almost instantly and everyone starts questioning what was five minutes ago set in stone. You can almost count on it happening, every season, every time. It’s interesting to watch these people tear each other apart. But it’s not as much fun as watching Dick and Daniele throw their pity parties. Dick promises to sacrifice himself over Daniele. It’ll be interesting to see if a) that situation arises and b) he’ll actually do it. I think he would. As awful as he is, I do believe he loves his daughter and is 100% loyal to her.

(DEAR GOD! EVEN JEN’S UNDERWEAR SAYS “JENIUS”. KILL ME NOW.)

America choosing for Eric to try to sell out Dustin was just about the most retarded thing ever. Are they TRYING to get Eric evicted from the house? Really? Of course then Dustin starts yammering about he thinks that he should go up against Dick only to see Dick go home and how satisfying that would be. So of course, Eric just JUMPED on that and why wouldn’t he? Shoot, I would have too. Course, then he tried to sorta sell out Dustin as well at the same time which is a little bold of him. But whatever. It’s all good. Anyhow, now we’re supposed to pick who he should give the silent treatment. WTF??

As for the nominations… yeah a big ol’ DUH right there. Not surprised. They were sort of gearing us up for this the entire episode. Next up? Power of Veto! Who will win it and will they use it? Dun dun DUNNNN!!!

You want recaps? I got recaps. This is the place for the recaps, yo.

• Television Without Pity’s weecap
• TV Squad’s recap
• Big Brother Craze’s liveblog
• CBS.com’s recap and video (so you can watch Dick’s stunned expression over and over and over….)

Before I saw the eviction, I truly thought Eric was done for. I hadn’t read any live feed spoilers at all. And I thought, “Poor Eric.” And you know, he wasn’t entirely innocent. But he wasn’t as guilty as they’re painting him either. I truly feel as though both America and Big Brother failed Eric here. America, for whatever reason, has made Eric vote the way he has in the past evictions. And Big Brother set up this imperfect situation. And what happened to preventing planes from flying overhead? I would think that during an HoH competition they would be extra vigilant about this. Because that’s what it all comes down to here. The only reason Eric was vulnerable this week was because of that stupid plane. And because Daniele fell for it hook line and sinker. And because for some bizarre reason she felt this need to avenge Nick, who wasn’t even her actual boyfriend. Explain this to me, because the logic here just simply fails me. Eric was unable to defend himself because he can’t reveal his position as America’s Player and I felt like he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Argh! All these people are liars. Why don’t they just stop and realize that?? Look at Kail, for pity’s sake. She’s one of the biggest liars in the show. And of course we know Amber’s “big lie” but has it escaped everyone’s memory that Amber was also implicated on that plane’s banner? Holy moses, why do I even WATCH this show?? (It’s fantastic, that’s why. Horribly, horribly fantastic.)

But, all belly-aching aside, Eric escaped by the skin of his teeth. And I’m incredibly pleased about it.

Dustin is a smart, smart, SMART player. I lurve him, honestly. Dick is pissed and confused and this totally shakes up the house. I LOVE IT. Amber still drives me nuts (can I cut off her cornrows? please?). Jameka has so much class. I feel so bad that she has given up competing for HoH. She should be safe anyhow, but still. That’s a lot to have given up. LOL, so much for Kail’s “big secret” as Jessica had her number BUT GOOD. She didn’t even hesitate before answering about who the multi-business owner was. Jessica won HoH! That is so fantastic you don’t even know. HA! Oh, sweet vindication! I like Dick trying to start something with Dustin right after the competition too. He’s obviously feeling pretty annoyed right about now. And WHY was he going after Jameka at the very end of the show? What’d she do to him? Dude, Dick better be up on the block this week.

Sorry for the late entry today.  The network sort of went kerblooie today with all the heat and whatnot and I’ve been unable to even open my blog, must less make a post.  But looks as though all is well now!  Better late than never, right?

“Big Brother” was sure something last night.  If you missed and would like to be brought up to speed, check out these wonderful recaps:

• Television without Pity’s “weecap“
• TV Squad’s comprehensive recap
• Big Brother Craze’s (as always) fantastic recap
• CBS.com’s full episode video and recap

Now, what did I think of all the drama?  Well, I hate to say that I was right, what with Eric getting “backdoored”.  Not that it was hard to figure that out from Sunday’s episode.  I’m surprised that Jessica is on the fence about Eric as much as she is, as I thought she and he were good buddies.  I don’t like it, not one bit.  I’m a little disappointed that Daniele was so quick to believe that airplane and that she just KNEW it was Eric.  Forget for a minute that it WAS Eric who was the wildcard vote the last two evictions.  The whole point is that she is attributing this huge conspiracy theory that isn’t even halfway true.  And Eric can’t defend himself because he can’t reveal he’s America’s Player.   My husband seems to think that the best chance he has is to come clean, admit that he made the votes, but come up with some other story for why he made the votes.  And he needs to stop rising to Dick’s baiting of him because he’s just not going to win a shouting match with him.  Just not possible.  I don’t want to see Eric leave, but I have a feeling that’s what is going to happen.  So much for being “America’s Player”, huh?  I can only hope that Daniele feels like a tool when she eventually learns the full story.  UGH.

Yeah, I used to like Dick but now I think he’s… well… a dick.  Go figure, huh?

The POV competition was brutal.  And poor Jameka giving up competing for HoH for FIVE weeks.  WOW.   That’s a large sacrifice when she wasn’t personally at stake.  I felt bad for her after the competition was over.

I don’t know, I’m just distracted about poor Eric.  He deserves a lot better shake than he’s getting.  Buncha lemmings!

Thanks so much to Lessa from Big Brother Craze for explaining everything to me the other day.  I was feeling very confused with what was going on.  But now I think I get it and after last night, I understand even better.  And, as always, here are your recaps:

• CBS.com’s full episode video
• Television without Pity’s “weecap” (they’ve switched formats for the BB recaps)
• TV Squads in depth recap
• Big Brother Craze’s liveblog of the episode including a reveal of who won HoH, if you want to know!

And what were my impressions of the evening? First off, I was amused how Dick emptied his iced tea on Jen’s head after she and Daniele had their argument.  Dick has proven himself to be very protective of Daniele so this move by him didn’t surprise me in the least.  I would have been more surprised if he had done or said nothing after that exchange.

Also?  The shaving of the heads.  For whatever reason, Nick decided to get himself a full-on mohawk.  Ever the clown, Eric followed suit with a faux-hawk.  I like Eric’s look a lot better.  Besides, it suits him.

Amber and her constant crying.  I don’t think I’ve seen a single episode yet where she hasn’t been sobbing at some point.  This time it was because Nick was nominated.  But then, weirdly, she’s in the diary room sobbing that maybe Nick SHOULD leave because then maybe she’d cry less and she needs to stop crying so much.  Ya think??  Dear God, woman.  Pull yourself together!

So Nick was evicted.  Kail got two votes, one from the ever loyal Zack and the other from America’s Pawn, Eric.  Eric vows to get Kail and/or Jen OUT of the house once and for all, because he has gotten the message that America wants them GONE.  It must feel frustrating to have your own strategy discounted though.  He’s doing a good job though.

The HoH competition was endurance based where the houseguests had to hang upside down on pendulums and get sprayed with bird poop “foam”.  As we left the show, we didn’t know who ultimately won, but thanks to the beauty of livefeeds, Big Brother Craze has already published who won so if you want to know, definitely go check them out!

I’m back from my exciting excursion into the outside world.  I’m not entirely over the whole thing yet but it’s time to get back to posting the reality goodness.  I’m sorry I wasn’t around to post some recaps of Thursday night’s BB8 episode for you all, but hopefully you were able to get that information elsewhere.  And while I’m on the subject, here are some great recaps of last night’s nomination episode:

• Big Brother Craze is updating!  And they have a fantastic recap, go read!
• Television without Pity’s recaplet
• TV Squad’s recap
• Watch the full episode at CBS.com

And what did I think? It was good, though I felt like I was jumping in mid-stream.  I really wish I hadn’t missed the show on Thursday night, it totally threw me off.  There was the “fight” between Dick and Amber about her dog.  She said she loved her dog as much as she loved her daughter and Dick was incredulous about this.  I’ve heard a lot of division on this issue.  I think Dick interpreted her to mean that she had the same feelings to the dog as she did to the child.  That they were 100% equal in her heart and mind.  And if that’s the case, then I agree with Dick.  I love my dogs.  Beetoe is my little princess and I would be extremely upset if something happened to her.   She is definitely a member of our family and anyone that tries to tell me elsewise would get an earful.  BUT, she’s not on the same plane as my children.  They are held far above her in my heart and mind and I think that’s how it should be.  Anyhow, enough of that.

There was also a food competition last night.  Basically, the houseguests have to reconstruct giant Humpty Dumpty’s and the winner is Jessica and Jameka. Besides being guaranteed real food for the week, they also get to select the houseguests who are to go on slop for the week.  They select (a little predictably) Dick, Zack, Kail, Nick and Jen.  Jen of course says she’s happy to be on slop because maybe she’ll eat less and lose some weight.  BARF.

The nominations come along and Dustin appears to agonize over the decision.  America has dictated that Eric campaign to get Jen nominated which he does with much fervor.  Nick is tossed around as a possibility.  And how about Zach?  All good ideas, but Dustin eventually settles on nominating Jen and Kail which I heartily agree with. One of them NEEDS to go home this week.  I doubt anyone will be stupid enough to “rescue” Kail this week, what do you think?

Next time on “Big Brother”:  Can we make Eric promote the catchphrase “Sweet Chicken?”  Time will tell!

And here I thought JEN took the cake! Kail was still vehemently denying any lying on her part (durrr). When it came time for the veto competition and after Kail was almost immediately eliminated from the endurance-style challenge, she actually encouraged Mike (the only former alliance member who showed a shred of loyalty to her) to try to upset Dick from his “post”. Everyone else in the house was trying to distract Jen. And, hello! Obviously if Dick gets off the post and Jen gets veto, he’s going to put up Mike, right? Because Mike is now OBVIOUSLY working with Kail, right? Tell me I’m not the only one who saw that. Durrr…

Meanwhile, Dick started getting uber-paranoid. He noticed that Nick, Jen and someone else (forget who at the moment) were up in his HoH room alone and he was worried that they were scheming against him. The mere notion of them plotting in HIS room sent him through the roof. Daniele tried to call him out on that, and that just resulted in a huge fight between daddy and daughter. For what it’s worth, as harsh as Dick can be, I don’t think Daniele gives him enough credit. She tends toward selfishness when it comes to her relationship with him and never seems to want to consider his side or how he’s feeling. She’s a nice gal, but I think she’s still a bit immature.

Oh and Eric? Totally rocks. His assignment was to vandalize a houseguest’s property and America selected (durr) Jen. So he squired some mayonnaise on one of those annoying shirts of hers that she had wrapped around a pillow. This one said “Jenth Degree”. Of course, Jen was insulted but trying to play it off as no big deal. She’s so transparent she’s practically cellophane here. Oh and she automatically assumed it was Dick or Daniele that did it. Anyhow, major points go to Eric cuz he pulled it off awesomely.

And here is my recap roundup for last night’s episode. You know, the usual suspects.

• TV Squad’s recap
• Television without Pity’s recaplet
• CBS’s Big Brother website, full episode video

I may not be around tomorrow, I’m leaving (on a jet plane!) early in the morning to go to the BlogHer conference in Chicago! I’ll be there through Sunday and I hope to be able to post at least on Friday, but again, I can’t make any promises. Be good, reality TV watchers!

Last night was the nomination portion of this week’s entertainment and virtually no one was surprised by how it all shook out.  But in case you are the sort that would be surprised (or you didn’t get to see the show at all), check out these sites:

• Television without Pity’s recaplet
• TV Squad’s recap
• CBS’s full episode video

Things that amused me about last night’s episode:

•  the “wrestling match” between Jen and Eric.  I forget who challenged who and Eric claims he thinks he could have taken her but that he was surprised by her competitive streak.  I know all of America was cheering along at home when he body slammed her though.  However, he was undone by a kick to the groin.  Oh and Jen?  Total nutjob.
• Daniele breaking down in the hammock to Dick about her developing feelings for Nick.  She feels real bad because she has a boyfriend back at home and she doesn’t want to hurt anyone.  Dick handled it really well and it was nice to be able to see them connect like that.
• The food competition which involved diving into enormous pools of spaghetti but garnered the entire house some really good food for the next week.  Yay, no slop!

So yeah, Dick nominated Jen and Kail.  I think Kail will be going home.  Wise, though Jen is far more annoying she’s truly not much of a threat right now.  And Kail is getting on my nerves, slowly but surely.  See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya.

Once again, I’m going to provide you with a beautiful listing of capable recaps for last night’s “Big Brother”.  You can’t go wrong with these recaps.

• Recap on TV Squad
• Television without Pity recaplet
• Weekly wrapup on MSNBC
• Video of the episode on the CBS “Big Brother” website (it’s not up yet but will be shortly)

To make a long story short?  Joe went home.  It was no big surprise, I could see that happening.  Dick may be a polarizing personality in the house, but I don’t think he’s truly pissed anyone off yet.  Well, anyone besides Jen and Kail.  Kail slit her own throat by starting it up with Dick on last night’s episode.  He ratted her out on her duplicity (of course he did!) and she tried to play it off cool but I think she knew she screwed up.  Her “alliance” saw the writing on the wall with that one and distanced themselves from her so that when it came time to vote, hers was the only vote against Dick while the rest were for Joe.

Joe went out as best as he possibly could have.  I haven’t really liked him since moment one and eventually I would have been screaming for his blood.  But he went out on a high note last night and for that he should be proud.  It was probably the best time for him to go because he was made a sort of martyr in his eviction and the war-cry for Jen’s head on a platter this next week is going to be something to behold.

Speaking of which: Dick won HoH.  HA!  That was positively classic.  He was almost spot on in guessing how many hours Jen has worn her unitard so far (no trick questions this time).  I can tell you right now who will be going up on the block: Jen and Kail.  Who will go home?  JEN.  And when she exits the house there will be a collective sigh of relief through the house and across America.  I doubt she will ever understand why or how much she was detested.  That would be giving her far too much credit.

So am I happy with last night’s episode?  You betcha.  Bring it on!

Since there are better men (and women) than me to recap each episode of “Big Brother”, I’ll leave that to them, and merely link to their recaps (much like I did with “Hell’s Kitchen” yesterday).  Instead, I’ll give you some of my opinions and what I was thinking after last night’s show.  So without further ado, if you need a brush up on what happened last night you need to be checking no less than three websites:

• Television without Pity’s recaplet
• TV Squad’s recap
• The Big Brother Craze website here on 451Press (there’s no recap as of this writing, but there will surely be one soon)

They all can surely give you a far better (and more accurate) (and more interesting) idea of what happened last night than I can.  And that is probably due in no small part to the fact that Jen made my eyes bleed on no fewer than five separate occasions.  My husband insists that Jen isn’t so stupid, that’s she’s made some rather brilliant strategic moves as HoH.  Such a statement makes me want to wail at the heavens.  I think Jen is brainless, self-centered and dangerous as HoH.  Boo, I say.  BOO!

And is Amber a drama queen or what?  She was selected to be in the Power of Veto competition and this stressed her out.  She was stressed out further when Jen actually threatened to put up on the block the houseguest Amber cares about most if she won the Veto and used it.  Which is pretty mafioso, even for Jen.  So Amber spent large portions of the episode crying (again) and with a puffy face (again).  I’m starting to think less that she’s a sensitive person and more that she’s something of a crybaby.  Buck up, woman.

She didn’t win Veto and the “present” she received from underneath the Christmas trees was a pair of shackles.  She had to select someone to be bound to for 24 hours and she chose Kail.  I think that was a pretty good idea.  They both move in different circles so this would give both of them an idea of what the others friends are like.  Plus, it brought them closer, from the looks of it.

Jen’s “present” from the competition was a red unitard she was required to wear (and only the unitard, nothing else) for one whole week. She tried to play it off like she WANTED to do this whole unitard thing, and instead of being ironic or sarcastic about it, I think she was being honest.  Or “jenuine” as she might say.  GAH.  By the end of the show she had altered the top of the unitard to be more of a tank-top style and I know that further alterations must be on the near horizon.  And I fear that, to be honest.

Dick won a plasma tv and Joe won a slop pass.  I think I’d rather have the plasma tv.  Daniele, however, won Power of Veto and predictably used it to get herself off the block.  For a while it looked like Jen would put Nick up on the block because she has a one track mind and quite honestly refuses to listen to anyone else EVER.  But then she chose Joe.  While I’m growing fonder of Joe, I still find him more annoying than not and hope he’s out instead of Dick.  I just love watching Dick give it to Jen with both barrels, you know?

Eric was assigned to “sleep walk” into a fellow houseguest’s bed.  America selected Joe as the victim in this situation (and I totally think they should have selected Dick).  Eric gamely went along with it and tried to climb into Joe’s bed.  It didn’t work so well since he apparently shares the bed with someone else (not sure who) and he was trying to lie vertically in the bed instead of horizontally across the bottom.  Still, Joe woke up enough to be freaked out about it and question Eric about it the next day.  Eric claimed to have no recollection, must have been someone else.  Apparently he failed this task but I think he should get SOME points for it because he sure tried hard.  Shoot, Eric even tried to have another crack at getting Jessica up on the block but the immovable object that is Jen wouldn’t hear any of it.  BOO.

So yeah, Jen ended up putting Joe up and I’m cool with that.  I’m thinking the house will chose him over Dick to go home but it’s hard to say.  The only thing I do know is that there are a lot of people who are going to be going after Jen next week and I just hope I’m around to see it.

(oh wait!  I’m going to be at BlogHer next Thursday!  Dangit!)

There are some out there who would say, “Feel sorry for her!  She really is that stupid.  She doesn’t know any better.”  I find that no excuse.  Jen is truly, truly stupid and truly, truly annoying.  The houseguests are only tolerating her at this point because she is inexplicably HoH this week.  No one wants to paint a target on their back, after all.  Though I have to applaud the drinking game that Mike, Zack and Dustin participated in where they took a drink of water each time Jen said “I”.  She stood there, blathering on about something I can’t even remember what it was.  And the guys were right there in front of her, taking a multitude of drinks and she didn’t even seem fazed by it.  It was a pretty hilarious segment.  Also hilarious: Jen gets out of the shower and puts her hair up in a turban.  She goes into a room where some of the guys (including Dick) are trying to nap and proceeds to start talking.  To herself?  Anyhow, the room clears alarmingly quick and she doesn’t even seem to notice.  That would have been the end of it, except Dick felt he had to confront her about her selfishness.  He was a little harsh, but I’m starting to realize that’s just how Dick is.  He doesn’t have a “mellow” button.

Worse was when the HoH room was revealed (and am I the only one who thinks it looks hideous this year?  AUGH!) and Jen was actually upset and disappointed because there weren’t enough recent pictures of her or pictures of her and her friends.  Darn all these photos of my loving family!  And in PictureGate 2.0, she actually took down a sweet photo of her and her mother because in it she wasn’t wearing any makeup.  SERIOUSLY.  And she did this in front of people.  It causes me to wonder if this woman has ever had any self-esteem.  She is so hopelessly self-absorbed and self-conscious that I wonder if she ever has truly felt confident about herself.  Her whole thing is one giant act.  It’s mind boggling.

Another interesting “interlude” is her talking with Kail about who she might nominate.  Kail is the only one in the household who remotely likes Jen and that makes me wonder about Kail’s judgment but perhaps she’s a better woman than me.  Jen actually has the nerve to suggest that Daniele and Jessica are unlikely to win many competitions (you know, except for that Veto that Daniele won last week) because they’re not that bright.  SERIOUSLY.  It was like watching her evolve into an enormous talking black pot.  Again, mind boggling.

Not much else really happened.  Unless you want to talk about the commentary that Zack and Dustin engaged in while Mike and Nick lifted weights in the backyard.  That was truly a funny sequence.  Even Mike and Nick had a hard time keeping a straight face and that makes lifting weights a little more difficult.  Between this and the drinking game, I’m starting to enjoy these guys quite a bit.

We had a food challenge last night as well.  It was girls against guys.  Well, mostly.  Joe was on the red girl’s team but he’s pretty much a guy anyhow so no difference, right?  They had to “guess the pie” by taking bites and trying to figure out what the ingredients were. Salmon and blueberry or pepperoni and mint?  Oh HELLS NAW.  I was surprised they got as many right as they did.  The men won by a pretty narrow margin but they won regardless.  So it’s slop for the girls (and the second week on slop for Daniele…aww).

We also had nominations.  As a surprise to NO ONE, Jen nominated Dick and Daniele.  Her reasoning?  Their feud brings negativity to the household.  Uh, no.  You’re jealous of the attention Nick gives to Daniele and your ego is smarting by the large helpings of truth and fact that Dick has showered upon you.  So father and daughter are up on the block.  Will Dick stay true to his word and not campaign for his daughter’s eviction?  I believe he won’t.  In fact, if he somehow got the Veto, I’m pretty sure he’d use it to take her off the block.  I’d hate to see either of them leave at this point, but I’d hate to see Dick go even more because he’s awesome.  Everyone else just seems disappointed that Big Brother didn’t make an exception in this case and allow the HoH to put herself up for eviction.

I guess of the two nominees, Carol was the one who should have left.  She wasn’t very interesting and was a touch less sympathetic than Amber.  Plus, I honestly think Amber is a better player.  Though it might have been sound strategy to vote out Amber seeing as she would be more of a threat in the long run, the houseguests voted Carol out 10-1.  Jessica squealed with delight, of course, and I wanted to punch her in the face.  Previously in the episode, the women (poorly) tried to convince everyone that they had buried the hatchet.  When in reality, they still hate each other with a purple coated passion.  Carol, however, was the far more civil of the two and I honestly think she was just too reasonable to be on this show.  I don’t like that she went home instead of Jessica, but what’re ya gonna do?

Carol got to witness Jessica’s true true colors after eviction and didn’t seem surprised in the least.  Interested in pursuing a friendship?  I’d say not.

There was also a new HOH chosen last night.  Through sheer dumb luck, Jen won it.  It came down to a four way tie which required a tie-breaker question asking how many gallons of water the spinning teacup in the backyard would hold.   “Big Brother” gave us a big ol’ trick question because no one else took the gaping entrance in the cup into account so their answers were in the hundreds.  In reality?  It was 9 gallons.  Jen, who had guessed 42 or some such ridonkulous answer won.  And I wailed, gnashed my teeth and pulled at my hair.  Because there’s another week I have to watch that nutcase on my television set.

So our “America’s Player” can be told which person to campaign for eviction before the nominations on Sunday.   Seeing as how my most likely choice is the one making the nominations, I’m going to go with Jessica because she herself is like nails on the chalkboard.  But I’m willing to bet my baby’s weight in gold that she also nominates Danielle because of that whole Nick stupidness from earlier in the week.  Mark my words, ya’ll.

Okay, I’ve decided that Jen needs to go.  Her hysterics on Sunday over her photograph (yes, over a picture) were just the beginning.  This girl is pathological. For one thing, she nutted up when she saw Nick (whom she obviously has the hots for and has flirted rather shamelessly with) putting the moves on Danielle (whom Nick has confessed to preferring to the other girls in the confessional).  Obviously convulsing with jealousy, she went out and proceeded to mention Nick and Danielle as if she could give a flying crap.  Then, she mentioned that he tried to kiss her once, but she wouldn’t let him.  I’m not entirely sure, but I could swear she said he was ugly too.  Riiiight.  Joe, the nosey busy-body he is, overheard this and went to tell Nick right quick.  Nick wasn’t having it and he came out and confronted her on the spot.  Basically, called her out as a liar.  They discussed the rest in private and he pretended to forgive her but he was still annoyed.  And can you believe she was still trying to flirt with him?  She’s NUTS, people.

And let’s not talk about her shirts.  There’s the “Jenuine” above that is almost sort of clever.  But some of them made me want to tear my eyeballs out.  This girl BUGS.  And I’m not the only one.  Besides me and Nick, Dick can’t stand her either.  Same goes for Amber.  I have a feeling the number of people who despise Jen is going to multiply over the coming weeks.

So there was a Veto Competition this week.  I won’t go into the nitty gritty details.  It was a little confusing at first, the players had to hide veto symbols with their names on it and then the other players had to find the veto symbols.  Whichever symbol wasn’t found was the winner.  And that person was Danielle who I think hid her symbol in a pot of slop.  Yeah, I wouldn’t look in there either.  Unfortunately, she chose not to use the Veto at the ceremony later on.  I was hoping she’d take someone off because I wanted Jen to be put up in their place.  I knew it wasn’t a good plan though, and Danielle did the right thing for herself.  She doesn’t need that target on her back.  But I hate Jen so much and Amber and Carol are inoffensive as of yet and I don’t want to see either of them leave yet.

In other news, Eric’s first turn as “America’s Player” was hysterically funny.  He had to conjure a sob story to tell one of the houseguests and apparently America picked Kail.  It was some silliness about how his ex-girlfriend looked like Danielle and was an anorexic and everything.  I didn’t really catch the rest because I was laughing so hard.  I mean, this man NAILED it, with fake tears and everything.   And Kail totally BOUGHT IT.  This week, thankfully, we have something better to vote on him doing.  We get to select which houseguest he votes out.  Though admitedly I’d probably feel better about it if I actually wanted one of those people to leave.

Speaking of Amber, she’s a very religious sort.  She did a lot of praying on last night’s show, mostly to give her strength.  She has faith that everything is happening for a reason and if God wants her to stay in the house, she will.  But then, she also confessed to Nick that she’s a nympho.  And I decided that this is what this show really has needed all along.  A good, God fearing nympho.

I was amazed that Joe didn’t bug me more than he did last night.  I think it was the distraction from the crazy that is Jen.  Because everyone seems normal when compared to her.

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!