"How Many Houseguests
Does It Take To Screw In a Light Bulb?" - August 2
Welcome to a totally
predictable episode of Big Brother 6. Well, maybe not
entirely predictable, but I bet you will be guessing a
lot of things before you read them.
As we rejoin the houseguests, Kaysar and James are
reflecting on being on the block. Everyone on their team
seems to be saddened to be losing a member, but before
any tears can come out everyone is strategizing how to
keep their respective partner in the game. Both Janelle
and Sarah quickly come to the conclusion that the only
way to keep their pair safe is to win the golden power
of veto so that they can remove either Kaysar of James
respectively, without fear of being put up in their
place.
Shortly after initial discussion, Ivette walks into the
bathroom bawling, followed closely by April. April wants
to know why Ivette is emotional and Ivette explains that
she is crying because she is again realizing that Cappy
(Eric) is gone and that this is just another one of
those cases in life where the Good Guys lose to the Bad
Guys. Ivette is convinced that Kaysar, James and Janelle
are evil and she might well be right, but under the
rules of BB6, its allowed.
Outside on the lounge chair in the yard, James tells
Kaysar just how sinister he thinks Maggie is. Supposedly
in having Sarah pull out the last key during
nominations, Maggie made an attempt to crush Sarahs
spirit. You see, James and Janelles names both start
with J-A leading Sarah to the false belief while pulling
out the key that James was safe. With that said, James
has a personal vendetta against Maggie.
Now the only thing left to happen is for James to
attempt to play both sides against each other. James
initiates a conversation with Ivette telling her that he
isnt so confident in his alliance with Howie and Rachel
and that he feels the evil people need to leave the
game. Ivette chimes in, agreeing with James
Later in the Gym, James consults Ivette again and
proceeds to swear on a bible provided by Beau that if he
gets HoH he will put up Howie and Rachel. Ivette seems
to take James at his word and with that it is time for
the Veto competition.
James is worried that Sarah will choke and ahs even told
Janelle and Kaysar that he has no chance. Regardless,
James motivates Sarah and makes it clear to her that
under no circumstances should she take anything that
happens in the veto competition to heart.
Maggie announces that it is time to select Veto partners
and she starts things off by selecting Beau. Kaysar then
proceeds to select Janelle, and then James picks Sarah.
Its time to play Couch Potato (wheres Marc Summers?)
Each competing houseguest will sit on a pair of rotating
couches, with the goal of the game being to turn your TV
on and then to channel 5. The difficulty of this game is
that the TVs can only be activated by throwing tennis
balls at the channel up, channel down and on/off
buttons.
Quickly, all of the teams strategized to team up on a
single television, and this game was significantly more
of a game than a competition. Whether you want to
believe it or not Beau, who played baseball for 9 years,
was worthless and Kaysar and Janelle didnt do much
better themselves. This basically left Maggie against
James and Sarah. While James and Sarah quickly turned
their TV on, Sarah continually hit the channel in the
opposite direction, hindering their progress. Once
Sarahs TV was turned to 6, Maggie kicked into high gear
and shut their TV off. Unfortunately, when James turned
their TV back on, it was not reset to zero allowing
James to finish the game with on final shot. Having
teamed up, Sarah and James earned Sarah the power of
Veto, and Sarah makes no qualms that she plans to remove
James from the block.
James begins to feel guilty that he was instrumental in
what is assumed now to be Kaysars demise. Janelle also
apologizes to Kaysar, but Kaysar is deep in thought
trying to figure a way out of his predicament. Ivette
has other ideas though as she campaigns to get Janelle
out of the house. She tries to convince The Friendship
(Maggie, Beau, Ivette, Jennifer, and April), but all
that is agreed upon is that the friendship must stick
together.
We now interrupt Big Brother 6 for a prize break. Its
Aprils birthday, so, Big Brother and Kmart award her a
purple nightie, belt, Kodak digital camera and dock, and
a cake. Most importantly, April received a letter from
her husband and dog Pepperoni. The tears flowed and for
one moment, everybody was happy.
Back in the Gym, Ivette is trying to verify that James
would put up Howie and Rachel. James says that he has to
take out Maggie because she wants him dead. James cites
how Maggie turned off Sarahs TV during the veto
competition as an example. Ivette is dumbfounded saying
that she has now lost the 60% of trust that she had left
for James. Apparently naivety has run amuck in the Big
Brother house.
Ivette runs back to the friendship and tells them how
appalled she is that James went against his word and the
bible. They all scoff in disgust and wish they could get
rid of him this week. Unfortunately they will have to
earn another opportunity.
Time for more prizes! Quarters have been scattered
throughout the house and the houseguests find them all
for use in the gumball machine. The machine dispensed 6
movie passes, allowing the lucky houseguests to compete
in the luxury competition to the new movie Four
Brothers.
The competing houseguests split into 2 teams:
Rachel, Sarah and Jennifer
Beau, Maggie and Ivette
Outside the teams were greeted by 2 marquees with
numerous sockets but no light bulbs. The teams would
have to screw in light bulbs to identify the secret
message with the first team completing the secret
message winning the movie screening.
This wasnt overly interesting but it did bring to mind
some "how many houseguests does it take to screw in a
light bulb?" jokes. With a slightly quick Pace, Rachel,
Sarah and Jennifer identified the message as Sold out
and finished ahead of their rivals. As a result they
were treated to Four Brothers in the HoH room complete
with candy, sodas and popcorn. After excessive gawking
at Mark (Marky Mark not Temptation Island/Russian
Roulette) Wahlberg, the teams got some sleep only to
wake up for the Veto ceremony.
First however, Kaysar had to take a stab in the dark.
Figuring that Maggie was trying to use her position of
power in order to solicit a deal, he decided to give her
what she wanted. Meeting her in the gym, Kaysar told her
that she would get a pass if she nominated someone from
her side of the house. Maggie remained stone faced and
silent leaving Kaysar to simply walk out of the room and
hope for the best.
Neither of the nominees had much to say with Kaysar
actually telling Sarah to use the Veto on James. Sarah
made an unnecessary speech saying that this decision was
difficult because she knew another genuine, intelligent,
kind person would end up on the block. With that said
she vetoed James and Maggie put Janelle on the block as
a replacement.
Now Janelle and Kaysar are on the block with only a vote
awaiting them. Who will survive to seek vengeance and
who will be the next houseguest forced to speak with
Julie Chen face to face. Tune in Thursday to find out. |