Big Brother 12, Week 7

By Eric Hughes

August 30, 2010

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Big Brother began with an elated Ragan, who still couldn’t believe Matt evaded eviction with his sneaky Diamond Power of Veto. Said Ragan: “I have spent the last week crying like a 40-year-old woman watching Oprah. Boom! My best friend in the house is going to stay here and help me take down this beast that is Brendon.”

He added: “I’m having a full-on, freak out gay moment.” He really was.

And you know his excitement is genuine because Britney admitted only moments later that she was scared she’d walk into the have-not room and see Ragan hanging from the ceiling.

Enzo, meanwhile, after referring to Matt’s power as – what else? – a grenade, feared he couldn’t be trusted by Matt because Enzo had informed him prior to the vote that the Brigade was probably going to vote him out. Awkward.

Newly christened Head of Household Britney showed off her room to the rest of the house. The highlight, of course, would be Britney’s borderline creepy prom/pageant picture that Britney immediately wanted to stow away. It never really was explained whether it was planted there as a joke or not. Even so, Matt seemed to enjoy it a ton.

Also a highlight: Lane’s reaction to a photo of Britney’s boo, Nick. “Nick. This is the guy I've been compared to? I take it really personal when Britney says, ‘Oh, Nick has a beard. It's just like yours, Lane.’ Liar!” (points to face) “This is a beard. Whatever he has some 12-year-old painted something on his face.”

Nick, you just got Lane-d!

Up in the HoH room, Matt planted the idea in Britney that Enzo needed a taste of the block. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first time Matt has campaigned to evict a member of his own alliance.

Then, some really strange things happened on the episode. Among them:

-Lane hosted a contest with himself to prove he had what it took to lift all the barbell weight in the backyard. He succeeded and dubbed himself “the beast.”

-Matt opened up to Lane and Britney about having a dream featuring a shirtless Hayden. Matt, who’s married to a woman, said he doesn’t mind dreaming about Hayden; He’d just rather Hayden have a shirt on in his next dream.




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Lane: “Back at home in Texas… if you do have a dream like that, you do not tell anyone.”

Come to think of it, Lane had many gems in this episode alone. Here’s what he had to say about the week’s food competition: “So when we walk outside in the backyard, I see that it's an old west. I see a horse and I'm thinking, ‘I've got this. Are we going to saddle it or are we gonna ride it? What are we gonna do?’ And then after that I see the saloon. Two things are gonna happen: You're gonna drink and you might get into a bar fight. Nothing's better than this!”

For the competition, two teams of three downed shots concocted from ingredients – hot dogs, salmon – that do not go well together. The catch was only one of three players would drink the “bad” shot, and the other team had to guess which of the three received the faulty shot.

The names of each shot were devoted to the season’s houseguests. Brendon, of course, elected to drink the Rodeo Rachel shot, which mixed together liver, gizzards and cupcakes.

Ragan: “Of course Brendon chooses the Rodeo Rachel shot. For the record, the true Rodeo Rachel shot is silicon, nasty hair extensions with just a dash of weird chin acne.”

On Wednesday’s show, with Brendon and Enzo on the block, Brendon said Britney will regret nominating him for eviction. He shared a moment to himself in the have-not room, actually, and pouted that it’s hard feeling like the whole house is against him.

For the week’s Power of Veto competition, contestants were given veto points, which increased or decreased depending on the selections of gifts and consequences. (Gifts decreased their scores; consequences increased it). The player with the highest score at the end won the PoV).

Among the prizes were things like $5,000, which Hayden claimed. (Hayden: “Five thousand dollars is more money than I made in the past two years.”)

And among the consequences:

-Enzo gave away all his clothes – save for those on his back – to charity.
-Brendon got handcuffed to Britney for 24 hours. Also, once every hour, he was forced to take a “chum bath.”
-Enzo got access to a penguin suit, which he’d have to wear for week consecutively.
-Finally, Brendon’s head got shaved.

Enzo supposed Matt made off with all the goodies – the gifts weren’t revealed to the house – and gave his hypothesis to Britney. She took his claim seriously because she ended up replacing Brendon’s place on the block with Matt.

On Thursday’s show, a good amount happened in just under an hour. That’s because Matt was evicted from the house, and an entire week of Big Brother was played within the episode’s remaining running time.

When Julie announced that the evening would host a double eviction, Enzo - no surprises - said, “Wow. Grenade.”

Not much of note happened that night, mostly because everything unfolds live and is pretty unceremonious. Hayden became the new HoH for all of 40 minutes and quickly nominated Brendon and Ragan for eviction.

By the end of the night, Brendon would exit the house, finally terminating team Brachel’s pretty historic reign in the house.


     


 
 

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