When Willie Ruled!
When I wrote
my first Big Brother Blog post, I predicted that Frank had a very good chance
at winning this installment of Big Brother. He has personality, he’s a humble
enough looking guy; at the same time he is an athlete. He should easily be able
to get through this game if he found a strong alliance which with his charm shouldn’t
be that hard. After this week’s episode and his lack of effort to position
himself securely in the house has me rethinking my prediction all together.
This week’s
episode started with a seven minute long recap (are you sure it was only 2
minutes?), an introduction into this week’s episode (a new competition?), and
an explanation as to why Dan decided to send Jodi home.
Dan said the
reason he got rid of Jodi was because “Kara and Danielle get along very well.”
Oh, really Dan? It has nothing to do with the fact that Kara is a Playboy
Playmate and Danielle is a 23 year old nurse from the south?
Boogie asks
Dan if he wants to “Will it up” together. (I refuse to believe Mike Boogie came
up with that slogan. Dr. Will had to have thought that up. He was the greatest
character ever and would not use Boogie’s name to sum up his or even Boogie’s
success in the 2 seasons they were in together.) Dan likes the idea but is hesitant
to “Make a deal with the devil.”
The instant
Britney sees Boogie and Mike talking she runs to Janelle and tells her they
should be in an alliance. I think as soon as soon as Brittney saw Janelle enter
the house she planned to align with her.
Janelle
likes the idea only because she can use the fact that Brittney doesn’t trust
men in this game to manipulate her. (Brittney got betrayed by an alliance of
men called “the Brigade” in her season on BB.) Brittney seems to adore Janelle;
you can see it when she listens to her talk.
Willie gets
his HoH room and every one follows him, with a sort of faked enthusiasm. Once
they walk into the suite their fake enthusiasm turns into real shock. This year’s
Head of Household room comes with the regular giant bed (that you don’t have to
share), goodie basket, and your own little fish tank. The exciting thing for
the “coaches” this year is they get their own suite just off of the Head of
Household’s.
That night
they show Ian, who can’t sleep, walking around the Big Brother house doing some
really weird things. He walks around the kitchen making weird faces, and
contemplating life out loud. He continues to “explore” the house (in his pink
boxers while everyone else is “asleep”) by lying on the ground hiding under one
of the couches. He gets out from under the couch and goes back to the kitchen where
he walks back and forth flexing like Hulk Hogan. He proceeds to spank himself
with his Big Brother key while saying “Grandma’s gonna give me a spanking when
I get home.” He continues to walk around the house; all of a sudden he stops,
leans over, braces himself on a chair and lets out a big fart. 
This
behaviour doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me is the fact that this guy
claims he is such a huge Big Brother fan and he forgot that the HoH room has a
TV that can see every room in the house. I wasn’t the only one who had that
thought actually. Willie, Janelle, Britney and Ashley are all in the Head of
Household suite watching Dan do all this wacko stuff and has no idea. This
leads to more than one house guest voicing their concern about his mental stability.
Willie even say’s “this is like the best movie ever.”
Willie
admits to his team and to Janelle that his brother is the super villain from Survivor
Russell Hantz. No one seems surprised or even concerned, with JoJo even saying
in a diary room interview that “it doesn’t affect me, I can deal with the villains.”
Willie wants
to bolster the power he has in the house by getting Frank on his side on top of
the six person alliance he’s already in. Frank accepts a two week bargain with
Willie because Boogie hasn’t talked to him about strategy yet. After making
that deal Frank tells Boogie that out of ten he’s a 1 on the “concerned that I’m
leaving scale.” He also says that he probably shouldn’t feel like that (Duh).
When Julie
Chen’s face pops up on the flat screen TV when you’re not expecting it you know
something is up. This time is no different. It’s time for the “coaches”
competition. The other twist is that the winning coach get’s to pick one of
their players to be safe from being evicted that week. Janelle is pumped she
has a chance to keep up her competition legacy and Britney is terrified because
as she say’s “I’m just really not good at competitions, I’m not. I’ve got the
strength of the six month old.”
J-Chen drops
another bomb, telling the house guests that the competition will determine the
have-nots for the week.
The “coaches”
competition theme is Kentucky Derby (I guess) with the house guests all dressed
up like rich people going to watch a horse race in the fifties. The coaches
wore suspenders that didn’t hold up their pants but actually held up a horse
that they were “riding” I guess.
The
competition started with two of the four contestants on opposite sides of a
slippery and bumpy “horse track”. The objective was to chase down the other “rider”
and rip off their horse’s tail. (I wonder if Peta got involved.) The first two “coaches”
to go where Britney and Mike Boogie, they got off to a great start. Britney kept
her distance for awhile without actually getting any closer to Mike, then she fell,
couldn’t really get back up, and Mike took advantage and caught Britney
securing his spot in the final round.
The second
heat was Dan against Janelle. Dan admitted to wanting to throw this
competition, which I still don’t understand seeing as he has the least amount
of players left. (Maybe he wants to look weak? Maybe he forgot that you have to
make it to the end to win?) Janelle wins after Dan fakes like he can’t get up a
slippery incline for like four minutes. It was embarrassing.
The final
heat was Mike Boogie taking on Janelle “the Comp Queen”. (Does she actually
call herself that?) This heat was oddly similar to the Boogie’s first round and
he won easily.
With the win
Boogie got to choose one player to save for the week and he chose Ian. He picked
him because Ian has been scaring people in the house with his antics and Boogie
is worried he will be nominated. He reacts as anyone would by being completely
nervous and looking shell-shocked while leaving Boogie waiting awkwardly for a congratulatory
handshake.
The “coaches”
then had to each pick one player from each of their teams to be a have-not. Britney
chose Shane, Dan picked Danielle (because Kara is a Playboy Playmate), Janelle
picked Ashley and because he was just saved for the week Boogie picked Ian to
be a have-not.
When the
house guests re-enter the house they see the slop in paint containers sitting
on the table. Ian automatically has a bowl and Ashley uses a quote from Billy
Madison (has anyone on TV ever quoted Billy Madison?) trying to make light of
the situation. Then they go and check
out the have-not room and it’s horrible. The walls are painted black and white
in a swirling type design. The beds are slanted crescent shapes covered in a
layer of sheet metal with rivets cover the sheet metal. Danielle seems like the
most unhappy to be a have-not screaming about the bed over and over “It’s so
hard!” which got a good laugh out of Janelle.
Dan and
Boogie seem a little overconfident and wait until the last minute to start to
talk to the other side of the house about strategy. It seems weird that the
only two previous winners are the ones sitting back and relaxing the most.
Maybe they really know what they are doing.
Willie
decides that he wants to pit Dan and boogie against each other by nominating
the strongest member of both of their teams. That means that he would have to
go back on his deal with Frank but that might not be hard for a Hantz to do.
At the
nomination ceremony everyone looks a little nervous not know what Willie is
going to do. Ian being safe decided to wear a duck on his head, which isn’t
weird at all. Willie ends up keeping his word to his alliance and “coach” and
breaking the promise with Frank by nominating him and Kara. He explained his
decisions by saying that he hadn’t even talked to Kara and that he and Frank “we
were cool at the beginning, then separated. I don’t know what happened, it just
got weird.” That whole scene didn’t just surprise me but it “flabbergasted”
Frank.
On Wednesday
we see what happens after the nomination ceremonie and who wins the Veto
competition. Even with Frank on the block this week I have a feeling they will
vote Kara out and keep Frank around at least a week longer. (We’ll have to wait
until Thursday to see that.)
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