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[thalia ann]

As far as I'm concerned, kissing up to the HOH before s/he makes the eviction nomination is not necessarily made a bad thing. OTOH, at this point, anything that would make Brendon would walk out of the house, is, by definition a good thing.

Edited by thalia ann, Jul 24, 2011 @ 8:27 PM.

[Cali Doll]

Jeff and his DR comments about Rachel being engaged was freaking hilarious.

I really cannot stand Rachel and Brendan and this showmance crap. It makes me want to turn the channel. It was funny, though, seeing how completely childish they are in crying over the Jeff and Jordan prize.

[LonePirate]

How much longer do we have to endure the endless Brenchel relationship drama? We endured it all last summer and now they are inflicting the same crap upon us again this year. If only Brendon actually had the courage to walk out that door and dump that moody witch on the show, I would immediately elevate him to hero status. He may not be a saint but I do not know how he tolerates her.

The other 1/3 of the show was almost as incomprehensible. It will remain a mystery until the end of time of how Jordan arrived at the correct guess based on bars of soap and opera glasses. At least she snubbed Brenchel by rewarding Shelly and Kalia.

Jeez this season sucks beyond all words.

[I'm Wrong]

Wow, Brendon, I finally agree with you about something: it is a relationshit! Now please make good on your next threat to leave the Big Brother house so you can put both me and this show out of your misery. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.

[kiki38]

Another eppi of the Brendon and Rachel Dysfunction Hour! YIPPEE!!!!

Loved that the latest Brenchel fight was overheard by the hammies: I always wondered if/whether the other hammies could overhear that stuff.

Actually thought the new CBS show looked interesting: Can't imagine what the non-Hoff Hasselhoff has to put up with.

[katesus7]

How on earth is David Hasselhoff still a thing? Seriously? Although I loved that Jordan was kind of a savant in that competition. And I really loved Brendan berating Rachel for giving Porsche a clue, when Porsche’s guess was Michael freaking Jackson.

Brendan and Rachel are great competitors. I loathe them, but I’ll give them that. But that really doesn’t matter to me, because they have ridiculously bad sportsmanship. They’re smug winners, and whiny, bitchy losers, so I hate them no matter whether they’re winning OR losing competitions. And they need to break up, and find someone the opposite of each other to date, because they are completely horrible together. Brutally awful. Just terrible.

But they sure know how to suck up all of the TV time. And they’ll most likely be doing it for weeks to come, the way this stupid season is going.

[CK17]

Michael Jackson? Really?

Really?

Edited by CK17, Jul 24, 2011 @ 8:18 PM.

[qeratify]

Michael Jackson? Really?

Really?

I don't understand how Porsche got that... Brendon was mad at Rachel for telling Porsche that their guess was Michael Bolton, so then she ran to the DR and guessed Michael Jackson? WTF...

Sick of the Brenchel show. There's 11 people in the house, can't we get to know the new people?

[Cali Doll]

Sick of the Brenchel show. There's 11 people in the house, can't we get to know the new people?

I agree. I just can't figure out why TPTB believe we want to see this. It feels like I've been watching this crap for months and it's only been a couple of weeks! Brendan/Rachel are ruining my favorite show.

[I'm Wrong]

Sick of the Brenchel show. There's 11 people in the house, can't we get to know the new people?

CBS is really laying all its eggs in one basket, that's for sure. And it's a pretty stinking rotten basket, in my olfactory opinion. Every week it's the same - no one watching only the show could possibly understand why the noms/POV/votes go the way they do because all the time that would normally be spent showing strategy is all but completely sucked up by the Brenchel black hole.

[Slider]

After that? Kill. Me. Now. I wasted an hour of my weekend on this shit?! See ya'll next July when the Dating Game is (hopefully) over.

[StarryDreamer]

I love that Jordan got the luxury competition. I can't figure out how she even made the connection though. What did the soap have to do with "Bay"? It was also pretty damn funny that she knew him by his Baywatch character Mitch Buchanon and not by his real name David Hasselhoff.

Also, Porche's guess was completely inane. Normal David Hasselhoff mentioned in his speech that the TV show was about an average person swapping spots with a celebrity who shares their name. How could a Normal Michael Jackson swap with celebrity Michael Jackson when he's dead. I have to say though, that in knowing the premise of the show, Hasselhoff is the perfect guess even without a clue since clearly only a B/C/D level "celebrity" would be up for it.

Edited by StarryDreamer, Jul 24, 2011 @ 8:45 PM.

[petramom]

I was thinking Jordan had already read something about the Same Name show before she came in the house. Because I'm pretty sure that first clue was supposed to be "soap opera." While I suppose the universe of soap stars who also could be called "international superstars" is pretty much limited to David Hasselhoff, Jordan said she'd figured it out because you "watch" with the "opera sunglasses" and somehow soap made her think of "bay." Or something. Glad she won, whatever the reason.

I am fascinated by David Hasselhoff's wardrobe choice. I don't know who makes those jeans, but I'm guessing their value on the hipster market just took a nosedive.

[jessied112]

I'm just watching the episode on Youtube now, so I'm less than ten minutes into it. But when I saw everyone hiding from Rachel when she came out to announce her HOH room, I was hoping that they were legitimately hiding from her...until I saw Brendan's creepy eyes and saw Dominic signal something and then the pillows started flying. Then I got disappointed.

"...surprisingly, I had no idea Rachel's engaged. I don't know if anyone knew that around here but Rachel's engaged! I just found out!" Oh Jeff, the only part I like about you is your DR's. If I can be entertained by only your DR's (which happen to be the only funny moments on the show), then we got a problem with this season.

[slasherboy]

What was that stuff on Brendan's knees? I was so distracted by it, I couldn't hear what he was saying. Not that I care.....

[Skittl1321]

Scabs from cuts he got during the ant have not comp. Kalia also got pretty cut up.

Cracked me up the guesses that were women's names. You thought that guy was named Kiera Knightly? (I think that was one...)

Edited by Skittl1321, Jul 24, 2011 @ 9:42 PM.

[LolaLilaLilly]

Dear Big Brother:

I like to snack when I watch your show. Ice cream, pop corn, chips and salsa or nachos. Stuff like that. I may be skinny but I love my nutritionally useless snacks. Seeing Brendon's scabby knees all of the time is ruining this experience for me. Please tell the man to wear some pants or use some damn band-aids or something, thanks.

Best, Lo.

That said, as a kid of the 80s and 90s I love me some Hoff, and Jordan was rock-dumb for not inviting Brenchel to the oh-so great screening of yet another "Rich People Find out Real Life Sucks" show.

[Plethora]

What was that handshake thing that ADom did, that was pretty funny.

Also when B/R go on the block I hope whoever is HOH is a real asshole and says "This is purely strategic and has nothing to do with the fact that you tried to evict me"

Edited by Plethora, Jul 24, 2011 @ 10:24 PM.

[TWoP Howard]

It will remain a mystery until the end of time of how Jordan arrived at the correct guess based on bars of soap and opera glasses.

That has to be the quintessential Jordan moment. She gets the meaning of both the clues wrong, but gets the right answer faster than anyone in spite of that. It seemed as if everyone else looked at the soap and the opera glasses and came up with soap opera, but Jordan saw soap and "opera sunglasses (hee!)," and that led her to "Baywatch" and the winning answer. I had to go back and look at that twice and laugh all over again.

On the other hand, Porsche’s answer of "Michael Jackson" put her in a league of her own. Setting totally aside the glaring fact that he’s not alive to be in the house, how did she get his name from the clues? Lawon’s guess of Barbra Streisand was pretty dumb, too.

I want sushi.

[mguy77]

The HOFF was on a soap opera The Young & the Restress on CBS. I had to look it up on the wikipedia to see where that 1st clue origins came from. He played the role of Dr. William "Snapper" Foster Jr from the mid 70s to just prior to Knight Rider. How Jordan pulled the rabbit out to guess the correct answer from Baywash to Baywatch from what she said to Jeff is beyond me.

Edited by mguy77, Jul 24, 2011 @ 11:45 PM.

[Scrunt11]

I'm not saying I want Jeff or Jordan to go home, but I so wished Rachel nominated them. Just simply for the fact that it would have been different and stirred stuff up. I don't want to see Dominic go home, and it looks like he will unless they win veto. In which case, Lewon and Kalia are up, and I don't wanna see Lewon go home either, and he so will if Dominic or Adam wins veto. This feels like a lose/lose week to me. Meh.

I think one of the biggest problems, which is glaring right now, is that the people who get the golden key don't compete in anything. I would have been totally fine with the partners if the people who received those keys could compete for HOH and veto. It just doesn't seem right that people like Cassi and possibly Dom or Lewon go home, while Porsche and Daniele just kind of sit there. Especially Porsche. That girl is about to float her way to half a million dollars.

[DAngelus]

How on earth is David Hasselhoff still a thing?

I don't know, but after 3 clues I thought it was Michael E. Knight, who's spent the last 30 or so years as Tad Martin on All My Children and I was like "Really? A soap star from a canceled show on another network?", so the Hoff was actually a step up for me. The downgrade from a movie to a new CBS reality series episode was lame, though. Even if by "movie", we mean The Awful Truth, The Goods, The Other Guys and that sort of usual Big Brother promo fare.

Hilarious that Jordan got the right answer in exactly the wrong way. But her viewing choices were just bad. Publicly snubbing the HoH when you're in an alliance with them is never good, the fact that the HoH in question is Rachel notwithstanding. If Jordan had just substituted Rachel for Jeff, she could have had a nice "girls' night" without rubbing the Couples Alliance in the rest of the House's face, but as it is, she was basically saying "I want this to be something for me and my man…but not you and your man." Bad play, Jordo.

Brendon is a tool. How is Jordan winning the prize a reason for you to criticize Rachel sharing information with Porsche, exactly? Especially since Jordan had already made her guess before that happened. (Not to mention the terrible guess that Porsche came up with.) Do you not know that Rachel does not respond well to criticism, especially from you? Have you not met Rachel? So you're gonna pick a fight about that? Tool.

Still, it seems to work out well for Brenchel. The alliance with Dom/Dani is a natural, given that Dom knows Jeff's targeting him and Dani will love being allied with three bigger targets. I'm just sad that they (okay, I'm mostly thinking of Dani here) missed the opportunity for IMO possibly the best backdoor, ever.

What do I mean? This:

Step 1. Nominate Lawon/Kalia. Obvious reasoning, announced at the ceremony: they haven't been nominated yet, and Rachel doesn't want to see them float to the end.

Step 2. Tell Lawon (and Porsche, whose vote you'll need) your "real" plan: you want to kick out Kalia because Jeff/Jordan are obviously trying to recruit her, what with Jordan sharing the prize with her. Dom/Dani/Brendon/Porsche are enough votes for a tie, so if the nominations don't change, Kalia goes home.

Step 3. Hope that Adam/Dom, not Jeff/Jordan, are pulled for P.O.V.

Step 4. Throw that P.O.V. to Dominic!

Step 5. Jeff slowly realizes that if Dom uses the P.O.V., he and Jordan go up. (There's no one else to nominate.) Jeff threatens Dominic that he better not use the P.O.V. Dom laughs in his face. "It's just game play, you tried to get me out last week. You got got!"

Step 6. Dom uses the P.O.V. Rachel "reluctantly" nominates Jeff/Jordan, hoping to squeeze a tear out of her eye. Jeff growls, Jeff sulks, Jeff tries to talk the house into keeping him. Jeff goes home.

And all the blood is Dominic's hands, but no one can blame him for it. Jeff was a strong player, Jeff was coming after him, he had to do it. Brenchel "understand" and "make up" with him.

(Of course the problem with this plan is that Jeff/Jordan might get picked for P.O.V. Those who get cynical about P.O.V. selections would say that Grodner would fill the bag with nothing but Jeff/Jordan chips, but I don't know. The possible backdooring would be great T.V. So maybe it could have happened this way.)

But by nominating Adam/Dom, Rachel's pretty much closed this door. She'd be as foolish to backdoor Jeff/Jordan as they would have been to do it to B/R last week. You lose your allies, you move yourself up to undisputed "biggest target" status, and there's still a chance that you and your maaaaaan could get split up before sequester. I can't see Rachel making that move, even if she does win Veto. (I can see her being really tempted [and the show milking the drama], but I can't see her doing it.) Oh, well. Another "brilliant" idea of mine, shot to heck.

Edited by DAngelus, Jul 25, 2011 @ 1:22 AM.

[DebB]

They’re [Brendon and Rachel] smug winners, and whiny, bitchy losers, so I hate them no matter whether they’re winning OR losing competitions.

My favorite part of every episode is watching Rachel obliviously sob about how much she hates drama. This is a woman completely without self-awareness. Carrying on because she didn't get to see some cheesy CBS show that surely makes Big Brother seem like Shakespeare was pathetic. Seems to me the real winners were the ones who didn't have to watch that crap. Heaven forbid Rachel have a little self-respect and just let something go.

I am liking Jordan more and more. She's nice to everyone and smart in her own way. I find her completely charming. I'm also sort of liking Dani, who I never cared about before. She's the only one I see doing some smart game playing.

Edited by DebB, Jul 25, 2011 @ 2:02 AM.

[vb68]

How Jordan pulled the rabbit out to guess the correct answer from Baywash to Baywatch from what she said to Jeff is beyond me.

I'll say it. She's a freaking genius! :) (I also did think it was possible she was trying to cover up that she had heard about the show, but I'm sticking with my first theory.)

[Shades of Red]

Oooooooof. I haven't been watching Big Brother as long as most people here, but this was one of the worst episodes ever. I naturally hate the obligatory low-rent promo tie-in episode, but I actually took comfort in the fact that it involved one of CBS' own shows instead of some stupid standard-issue Will Ferrell bomb like last season.

The "competition" was stupid for a million reasons.

I like Rachel and Brendon, but their fight was horrible. Just horrible television, and horrible behavior by him. (I couldn't find much to fault her for in that exchange given how awful he was being to her.) So she gave a clue to Porsche, for an insipid luxury competition. One could argue that cementing the alienated Porsche's allegiance was a good strategic move, and obviously, if she had won, she would have picked Rachel and Brendon to join her. So Brendon's ire was just flat bizarre - - particularly since Rachel's move affected nothing.

Jordan's invites were dumb. Why not invite the members of your alliance? Just silly.

And then we have the obligatory slime trail left by the loathsome Dominic as he tries to cut a deal for the 18th time. Yawn. Bye, kid. At least I sure hope so. Oh, good to know that he snores, though, and also good to know that Jeff (whom I'm liking much less than two summers ago) likes to throw stuff at people who snore. Cool!

Loved it that "the Hoff" clearly had absolutely no idea what BB was or who these people were, and didn't stay for the screening of the show. I hope he had a ski mask and a gun when he collected his paycheck for this little appearance.

This was Big Brother at its worst. I wish there was a database I could consult later to find out how many people watched the show for the first time tonight, for whatever reason, and then discover what percentage of them came back on Wednesday. 0.005%?

Mindblowingly execrable.

Edited by Shades of Red, Jul 25, 2011 @ 5:33 AM.

[GustavMahler]

OK, Brendon and Rachel are BOTH crying because...of the drama/stress/pressure put on their psychotic relationship because they CHOSE to come on a reality show. AGAIN. Someone watching this from another universe would see that scene out of context and thing they HAD to do this as if it was paying taxes or car insurance or some such.

Every time I think either of them can't get any LESS self-aware, I am proven so colossally wrong.

And Jordan getting to the answer of David Hasslehoff in the wrongest way possible was made of so much win.

[Writing Wrongs]

It sucks for the new people. They get their wish to be on Big Brother and get totally screwed over by having the veterans back on.

It sucks for me to have to watch Brenchel again. During their crying/fighting scenes I kept asking myself, "Am I supposed to care or be moved by this?" They are so loathesome.

[tabbylynn]

RAcheal needs to win the money so she can have her dream wedding, to my understanding thats what they said they did this for again. I dont give their marriage 5 years. If that long.

I wish Grodner would get off this 'lets recycle the players the viewers hated the most, who cares? I loved them and thats all that matters' thing shes on. Jessie for 3 years, Racheal and Brendon 2 years now. I liked Jeff and Jordan the first seaon, but Jeffs coming off as a real douche this time. I dont know if I just overlooked it cuz I hated Jessies little group so much or what the hell happened to him.

[StarryDreamer]

RAcheal needs to win the money so she can have her dream wedding, to my understanding thats what they said they did this for again.

Which is total poppycock because they're wedding is being featured on "Brides of Beverly Hills" which is no doubt footing a good portion of the bill.

[gregg247]

Jordan is some kind of (odd) genius! That was amazing! You "watch" with binoculars and "bathe" with soap, so bathe+watch = Baywatch = David Hasselhoff.

She's like Lt. Columbo.

Edited by gregg247, Jul 25, 2011 @ 9:05 AM.