Big Brother 12, Week 4
By Eric Hughes
August 9, 2010
BoxOfficeProphets.com
The carnage elicited a number of responses from the other houseguests, who ate up the fight’s entertainment value. Among them:
-Give ‘em some gloves. Give ‘em some jello. Throw it all in there” – Enzo
-“I want some popcorn. I want to shush the guy next to me” – Lane
-“This couldn’t be better for me personally” – Matt
-“The irony of them being in a boxing ring was not lost on me” – Britney
It all started after Andrew revealed to the houseguests during what would be his eviction speech that not only are Kristen and Hayden the show’s second showmance (after the far more obvious Brachel), but that they’d said some pretty rude things behind what they thought were closed doors.
Enzo, yet again, brought up how Andrew had been “throwing grenades left and right.” I don’t know what’s with the guy and grenades. I do know that I’m uncomfortable.
Rachel later said that her tiff with Kristen was intense. And after talking it over with Brendon, it was decided that she’d go and apologize. The thing is, though, Kristen didn’t accept. Rachel extended an olive branch, and Kristen was like, “whatevs.”
Anyway, so the time comes for Rachel to show off her HoH room, and ta-dah, Kristen lazily says she won’t attend. I don’t really blame her. In fact, the other houseguests were probably jealous that she had an excuse to bail.
Why? None of them like Rachel.
-“Rachel’s HoH again, so here goes the brownnosing” – Enzo
-“Who wants to see my HoH room? Nobody. In fact, we’d rather go hang ourselves. But guess who’s ‘most’ excited? Me” – Britney
-“Yo, you got a remote!” – Enzo
-“I wanted to commit suicide the entire time” – Hayden
The houseguests assembled in the living room and learned they’d be competing for a chance to catch a sneak preview of The Other Guys. You know, the Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg flick.
Big Brother does this every year. It’s actually kind of lame. Houseguests are paid to say that the trailer “was the funniest thing they’d ever seen” and yada yada. Bah, it irks me.
The game they’d eventually play had the houseguests splitting into three groups of three and running around an obstacle course within the confines of a “vehicle” powered by foot. (Think The Flintstones, but even more primitive).
The Ragan/Kristen/Kathy car moved the slowest. Ragan related having Kathy on his team to Weekend at Bernie’s, in that he felt like he was just carrying around a dead body. I dug it.
Enzo pretended his team (with Hayden and Brendon) was on a bank heist, and they ended up winning.
Because she was the week’s HoH, Rachel would get to see the movie too. Pathetically, Brendon admitted how excited he was to “finally take [his] girl on a date.” I’m sorry, watching a sneak preview within a sequestered room of the Big Brother house with two other people does not constitute a date.
During the nominations ceremony, Rachel, wearing all black (a la Morpheus), put up Hayden and Kristen for eviction. Among other things, Rachel told the couple to “bring it.”
On Wednesday’s show, Brendon attacked Rachel for her “bring it” comment and talked some sense into her. “Guess what’s going to happen? They’re going to come after us.”
He tells her she has to go apologize, which she does. It doesn’t go over so well, and then Brendon and Rachel have an argument about nothing, which they seem to do all the time now. I don’t know. So many unlikables in the cast this season. It’s tough to even feign interest in the drama.
Next was the Power of Veto competition, which had houseguests shooting pinballs into a playing field and hoping they landed close to (or in) the slot with the PoV necklace. Furthest person from the PoV slot got kicked out, and last man standing won.
Britney, who would win the competition, couldn’t get over Brendon, who announced the game’s rules and conducted play-by-play totally in character. As if Dumbledore were leading the charge.
“Why do you have to be so dramatic?” Britney said. “You’re a homo sapien, Brendon. You’re not a wizard!”
The game, actually, would prove to be pretty serious. Lane said you could cut the tension with a machete. Britney said there was dead silence.
There was so much animosity in the air between Brachel and Kristen/Hayden that the idea doesn’t seem too far fetched. Well, they’re also playing for half a million dollars, so there’s that too.
So Hayden, Enzo and Brachel go to watch The Other Guys. Honestly, not much of interest to report here, other than that Rachel thought it was “the best movie [she’d] ever seen.” I trust her opinion like I do Fox News.
Hayden concocts a plan to keep himself and Kristen safe by getting Kathy evicted. He approached Britney about it – since she had the power to veto one of Rachel’s nominations – and said he’d have her back to the end of the game. Britney said she’d go through with it so long as she knew Rachel would put up Kathy.
The plan backfired when Rachel said she was unsure about who would be her replacement nominee. So nominations remained the same.
On Thursday’s show, Kristen agonized over the thought of having to campaign against Hayden to stay in the house. Typical wounded soul, Kristen gushed about the dilemma, and said the situation she was in was “really, really hard.” And typical dude, there was nothing of the sort on Hayden’s end.
Then things got interesting, but for entirely different reasons. Britney, Ragan and Matt were in the HoH room when they came across Rachel’s hair extensions. So, naturally, Britney put some in her hair and did imitations of Rachel.
Eventually, Rachel bursts into the room and Britney’s heart dropped. She’d been caught. Right? Well, no. Rachel actually didn’t put two and two together and actually was “flattered” that Britney was imitating her. She took it all in stride.
-“When I walked into the HoH room and saw Britney and Matt, I was like, hilarious” – Rachel
-“I can’t believe that Rachel is so clueless that she doesn’t even understand that all we were doing was making fun of her” – Britney
Later, on live TV, Julie asked Britney to name the most difficult housemate to live with, and why. Her choice? Ragan. Reason? His flatulence, and the fact that it smells really bad. So, Ragan denied it and said, “every fart has come from Britney’s legs.” Julie was pretty uncomfortable and did her “this is a family show” spiel.
In the end, Kristen was evicted from the game.