Recap, Week 8 (8/31)
HOS KICK BROS' BUTTS Dani & George out, Janey HoH A week of BIG BROTHER packed into one night begins as Danielle is evicted by Chilltown allies in a 3 to 0 decision. The door has barely shut on Dani when host Julie Chen asks the HouseGuests to assemble for the HoH Competition. America's Prom Queen Janey trumps the HoH Competition and immediately nominates Erika and George for eviction. There's no time to mope as the HouseGuests then prepare for the PoV Competition. Erika pulls no punches to win the precious medal, and in the ensuing PoV Ceremony removes herself from the block. Janelle replaces Erika with Boogie. In the final moments, another eviction vote is held, and by 2 to 0, George is sent to the Jury house. So fasten your seatbelts, America, as tonight is a roller-coaster ride for BIG BROTHER: ALL-STARS! TWO COOL CUSTOMERS Erika's still torn up over having to nominate Danielle. "I know Danielle feels betrayed," Erika winces as guilt seeps into her expression, but then defends herself: "It's BIG BROTHER, you know. Who can you trust but yourself?" Danielle has a different opinion, however, and scowls, "I never thought Erika would put me up. I just got seriously played." Will and Boogie run through Chilltown's alliances in the storage room. Will predicts the boys might just make it to the Final Two. "Janelle is in love with me, Erika is totally cool with me," he points out, therefore neither will vote them out. Erika and Janey appear to believe that they are in sincere alliances with Chilltown, but while the girls are sleeping, Will and Boogie start to play, working their "secret ninja moves" on George. Even Boogie sees the humor in Chilltown's situation, grinning, "So this week, Chilltown gave out honorary memberships to everybody in this house. How many are we actually going to honor? Zero!" One after the other, Danielle asks Boogie and Will whether they are keeping her this week. Both reassure her, and Will tells her to relax. "This game is a trip," Danielle sighs. Will shakes his head at Danielle's belief that the boys really will vote to keep her. "Do you really think you're safe this week? I mean come on," he grins, wondering if she has forgotten his "Puppet Master" title. LUCKY CLUCKER? Erika oversees a tense gathering of the HouseGuests as they await their Thursday routine to commence. While some nerves are frayed, the hair is sprayed and make-up perfect, and everyone finds a smile for host Julie Chen. Greeting them as usual, Julie surprises the HouseGuests by revealing there's a change of plans today. In the space of the next hour, an entire week's worth of competition will take place, leaving four of them counting their blessings and two on the way to the Jury house. It's called BIG BROTHER: Fast Forward. Julie announces that the eviction vote will begin in a moment and asks for final words from George and Danielle. When they are done, Julie asks Janelle to cast her vote. Janelle votes to evict Danielle. Will is next, also casting his vote to evict Danielle. Last is Boogie, following suit in voting to evict Danielle. It's a unanimous decision: Danielle is out. Julie breaks the news to Danielle, who rises and hugs everyone farewell, telling them as she walks out that she will be voting for the best player, so kick butt and good luck. Julie greets Dani outside the house. Inside the house, George is pulling a quick change as the others absorb the new lay of the land. Outside, Julie asks Danielle how she is doing. Danielle admits that she has learned to expect the unexpected, especially with Chilltown. Danielle appears in good spirits, but when Julie asks who she would like to see evicted next, Danielle doesn't hesitate. "Erika." DA HO-HO IS DA HOH AGAIN There is little time to regroup as Julie swiftly announces the HoH Competition. The Battle of the Sexes consists of a series of questions about events that have taken place in the BIG BROTHER house this summer. The answer will be either Male or Female. To indicate a Female answer, the HouseGuests will step forward. If they think the answer is Male, they will step backwards. One point will be awarded for every correct answer, and the player with the most points at the end of the eight questions will be the new HoH. Standing on a large circular platform with high partitions separating the four players, the HouseGuests take their positions. The first two questions find everyone answering correctly. Next question finds Will and Janelle in the lead with the only correct answers. Janey gets the next two questions right, increasing her lead to 2 points, which she holds until the final question. It's 8 for 8 as Janey claims her fourth HoH. As soon as Janelle is given the HoH medal, Julie asks everyone to return to the house. Janelle has four minutes to come up with her nomination choices. Will goes to work on her immediately. Julie calls everyone to the living room. Janelle seems flummoxed as she stands to give her nominations: George and Erika. NUTS FOR KNOTS There's no rest for the wicked as the newly nominated Erika and George join their housemates for the "I'm Knots about Veto" PoV Competition. Each of the HouseGuests is attached to a rope with two large knots in the middle. At the end of the rope is a veto symbol. The first player to untie the knots, remove the Veto symbol from the rope and then hit their individual buzzer will win the PoV. Julie tells them to start and the players get busy untying the ropes as best they can. Erika and Will take an early lead and are knot for knot until Erika pips Will at the post and claims the Veto for herself. DEJA VOODOO Erika has won the PoV, and she uses it to remove herself from the block. Janelle is faced with the choice between her showmance, Will, and his trusty sidekick, Mike Boogie. It is no surprise when Janelle nominates Boogie to replace Erika. Julie then announces there will be an immediate eviction vote, and the boys are asked for final words. George repeats his farewell from earlier, and Boogie thanks his business partners. Will is the first to vote, opting to evict George. Erika follows and votes to evict George as well. George is evicted in a 2-0 vote. In a sadly smiling farewell, George departs. Julie catches up with him outside the house, asking how it feels to have made it to the final five. George is excited and grateful for having come this far, and admits that the Slop diet was hard on him. Julie says she has a surprise for him, and reveals the KFC man himself is waiting for George with a big bucket of friend chicken in his arms. George is giddy. UNO, DOS, TRES, CUATRO Having been caught by surprise with two competitions and a double eviction, the surviving HouseGuests, aka the Final Four, are still catching their breath after the departure of George. The next HoH Competition is shaping up to be a life-and-death struggle between Chilltown and the bombshells. Who will win, and how will the game change now that Chilltown will have to turn on one of their showmances? Find out who is crowned the new HoH on the next episode of BIG BROTHER: All-Stars, Sunday, September 3, 8PM ET/PT, only on CBS. http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother7/show/wk08/thu01.shtml

Big Brother: All-Stars, August 31 - Seven Days in One Hour by Mike DeGeorge -- 09/01/2006 It's a full week's worth of events tonight as we have a live eviction, Head of Household competition, veto, and another live eviction inside of sixty minutes! Will Chill Town complete their betrayal of Danielle? Will George finally get his fried chicken? Do we ever figure out who Yoko is? Will the producers screw up anything in an hour of live TV? And what the heck is George wearing? Mike has all the details. Previously, Will turned on James, ticking off Danielle. Erika won HOH and guaranteed Danielle’s safety, nominating Janelle and George. Will and Mike searched for Yoko. Janelle, of course, won veto and Erika betrayed Danielle at the urging of Chill Town. Erika is looking less like Yoko and more like Pete Best. Danielle went on a drunken rant, always the best kind of rant. Julie Chen, wearing some sort of freaky leather jacket (Moonves must have a birthday coming) tells us that not only will Danielle – oops, I mean, one houseguest – be evicted, but we will play a full week’s game tonight. A new HOH will be decided and make their nominations immediately, veto will be played, and a second houseguest evicted. Erika says Danielle has a right to feel betrayed, but it needed to be done. Who can she trust but herself? Ironic, since she’s making that decision by trusting Mike and Will. Danielle never thought Erika would put her up (which was a huge mistake, she should know better!) and is angry because it doesn’t make any sense. It makes sense if, well, let’s just say Erika is playing the game emotionally and leave it there. George sits by himself in the nomination chair, a perfect picture of his season in summary. Wait – add a bowl of slop, and you’re there. He tells us that maybe he’ll get to enjoy the fried chicken and beer that Julie promised him when he left. In the storage room, Will tells Mike that they are the ideal final two. They have everyone in the house on their side except Chicken George, and they will work on him. I still think George is the best Yoko, as he has so little chance of winning HOH, and even if he does, most of the jury members would remove their own spleens with a screwdriver than vote him the winner. Erika enters and Will comforts her. Will tells us that it’s hilarious – he’s the one who set Erika against Danielle and no one is mad at him. He tells Erika that they’re all together and not to worry because they’re ninjas, no one knows what they’re doing. He is so evil. Erika “thinks” they have her back. She’s not convinced. Will gives much the same speech to Janelle, who is convinced that no one else knows she’s with Chill Town. Will suggests making the same speech to Chicken George and Mike nearly falls over laughing. Indeed, they talk to George later on in the kitchen. He says he will step it up when they need him. He also wants his own shirt. Heh. In the diary room, he says, “can you imagine, ME, a member of Chill Town?” Not sure if he can’t believe it or he’s telling us that he doesn’t have their backs. Mike tells us that they plan to honor none of those honorary memberships. Danielle asks Mike if she’s staying, and he assures her that they are. She knows they’d tell her if they weren’t, right? Absolutely. In the diary room, she says she’s “hopefully” safe this week. They never EVER learn. She asks the same thing of Will and he gives her the same “relax” line, and she buys it. He thinks he needs to reintroduce himself to the house, since they don’t seem to have been paying attention all season. They call him the Puppet Master for a reason. It’s time to tell the houseguests about the double eviction! Holy geez, what is George wearing? Green bodysuit, red cheek makeup, a plastic flower necklace, and the Santa hat. I really don’t know what to say. Julie tells them they’ve never experienced a live show like this one. It’s called “Big Brother Fast Forward.” Ironic, because that’s what I would do on Thursday shows if I weren’t recapping. George and Danielle can make final speeches. George says that if they’d like to save the greatest veto competitor in BB history, he’d like to stay. Okay then. Danielle doesn’t want to go home, and would appreciate if they would keep her. It’s a live vote, of course, and Janelle is first. She votes to evict Danielle. Will votes to evict Danielle. Mike votes to evict George… no, seriously, he votes to evict Danielle. Julie makes it official. Remember, Danielle thought she was safe, so let’s see if she Howies. She sure looks like she knows she’s going, and she nods her head. She hugs everyone and tells Chill Town that it’s “all good” when they try to apologize. Before she leaves, she informs them that she’s voting for the best player. Will tells the others that Danielle is a class act after she leaves. She meets up with Julie in the tool shed as George hurriedly changes his clothes for the HOH competition. George thanks them for keeping him. Danielle says she wasn’t sure she was safe. Julie reminds her that her mantra in season three was “nothing personal, just business,” but this season obviously was personal. Danielle says it was because she knew them. Julie asks how she could lose to a guy in a green leotard! George’s exit interview is going to be fun. Danielle says that when you’re a great player, you know they’ll come after you sooner or later and keep the guy who isn’t a threat. Did she get vindication for season three? She thinks she did, although she wishes she would have “scumbagged” a bit more, maybe she’d still be there. She wants Erika knocked out, because right now, it is personal. Farewell tapes! Janelle calls her one of the best players ever. Mike will remember their LOD time fondly, and is sorry that he had to lie to her. She’s a great player, George is not. Will calls her the best player to have never won, which I can’t argue with. He apologizes as well, claiming that he felt animosity toward him from her after James’ eviction, and she nods her head. George says it was a wonderful experience to play the game with her and be her friend. Erika is upset that Danielle said she wouldn’t vote for her (oy…) and hopes she’ll reconsider. Danielle looks to be fighting emotion by keeping her face set. She forgives Erika, but she made a huge error. Danielle had her back, and Chill Town or Janelle won’t. Head of Household is up now. The four competing houseguests (Chicken George, Will, Mike, and Janelle) are on the pie chart of death! It’s a large circle, cut into four parts by high walls. There are bullseye-type rings, with the inner ring labeled “male” and the outer labeled “female.” They stand on the middle ring, of course. They will be asked questions about events in the house this summer, the answers to which are, of course, male or female. The one with the most points after eight questions wins HOH. During a live show, did a male or female tell Julie that Kaysar is even more gorgeous without hair? Everyone says male, everyone gets a point, as it was Marcellas. Was the second houseguest evicted by an 8-2 vote male or female? All answer female (Will changes his guess at the last minute) and all are again right. When Danielle used the veto to remove herself, was the person who took her place male or female? George and Mike say female, Will and Janelle say male. It’s male – Marcellas again. Of the past seasons’ houseguests who made an appearance in the house, were there more males or females? Tough one. Everyone but Janelle says female, and Janelle is the only one who gets it right! She’s leading with four points to Will’s three. Mike is not happy. Was the second ghost to appear during the séance male or female? Everyone says female this time except Will, but the answer is female. Janelle is way ahead, five points to everyone else’s three. In the first HOH competition, was the first person to throw the meteor male or female? Everyone says female, everyone gets it right, Nakomis was that houseguest. If Janelle gets the next question right, she wins. During the slop cookoff judging, did a male or female say that the slopcakes tasted like low-grade dog food? Everyone says male, it was Marvin, so everyone gets a point. Janelle has just won, but they’re continuing. Did the majority of veto wins go to males or females? Hell, Janelle won ‘em all! They all answer female, of course, it’s right. Janelle wins Head of Household with a perfect score! The houseguests are sent back into the house for nominations to take place in a few minutes. Janelle grabs Will and takes him into the insect room. She’s one of the best players ever, and she can’t handle the pressure of nominations right now? He tells her to nominate Erika and George, worst case scenario, Chicken George goes home. He also tells her to stop shaking. They whisper a lot more but I can’t make it out. Most of it seems to involve not wanting Erika to be upset. Janelle mentions nominating Mike, but Will seems to talk her out of it. When we return from break, they’re still talking. Will asks Janelle who Erika would have put up had she won. He tells her that Chill Town has to get them before they can come after Chill Town, Chill Town just does it quietly. Janelle turns to leave, but Will says to wait until Julie calls them. The longer they sit in the room, the more drama it will cause. Julie calls them about ten seconds later. She has to ask George to sit on the couch instead of the nominee chair, and he tells her that he’s used to the chair. Well, don’t get too used to the couch, buddy. Janelle says that this is a really horrible position (she’s a terrible liar, as her mouth says one thing and her face is singing “na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye.” She says she hasn’t had time to talk to anyone (oh GEEZ, and she called James a bad liar?) so she’s going to nominate… she pauses like she’s picking a name out of the air… George and Erika. Neither seems too surprised. It's interesting to note that not only was Danielle right about Chill Town turning on Erika, it happened immediately. Not surprising, yes, and had Erika won, Janelle would probably go. But still. Time for the power of veto competition! Everyone plays, of course. They’ve all got a rope around their waist, which is connected to a stump and a veto symbol about ten feet away. The rope has two large knots. The name of the challenge is, “I’m Knots About Veto.” Yuk yuk yuk. The first person to free their veto symbol and take it to a platform behind them wins. They also cannot unclip themselves until they, or their veto symbol, is past the red zone where they’re currently standing. George immediately runs for the second knot, which doesn’t seem to be the best strategy. After about a minute, he realizes his mistake. By that time, several people are on their second knot. Erika and Will are neck and neck, with Janelle close behind. Someone yells that they need James’ help. Mike has all but given up and George is still working, although he’s got no chance. Hard to tell who Mike is rooting for. Erika gets her symbol and runs outside the red zone, but is having trouble unclipping her rope. Will joins her and has similar trouble, and decides to just reach for the platform. That doesn’t work, as they must be unclipped and the veto symbol must be off the rope. Erika unclips and slams her button, and for a minute I think she hasn’t won either because she’s still holding her symbol, but I rewind and note that Julie only said they have to have the symbol free and in hand. Will flings his veto, obviously upset. Poor Will, he wants to win a competition and can’t! Back from break, Julie offers Erika the chance to say something to the others. “Uh, wow. Good luck?” Eloquent as ever. Obviously, she’s going to take herself off the block. Janelle nominates Mike Boogie, and he takes Erika’s vacated seat. Julie thanks him for taking the right seat. Either that was something I missed or Julie’s just really bad at improv. They sit around for a minute, confused, as I suppose Julie is getting instructions in her earpiece. It’s an Office-level uncomfortable silence! Finally, the meeting is adjourned. We take another break after a whopping minute and a half of action. Boy, someone didn’t plan this episode out very well, did they? I wonder if there’s a producer in the BB offices right now with a sore backside. We’re back – for now – for the second live eviction of the night as Erika and Janelle rush back to their places on the couch. George doesn’t have any more to say. Mike thanks his business partner for letting him go back into the house. He tries the “nobody likes me on the jury, everyone loves the other guy” ploy. Unless Janelle and Will have made plans to screw him over, I doubt Mike has anything to worry about. Then again, what did I say earlier about not learning anything? Maybe Mike IS worried. Maybe he SHOULD be. Will is first to vote, and I have to say I’m not entirely sure! Will votes to evict Chicken George. I don’t think Erika would evict Mike, and I’m right. It’s unanimous. Well, at least he’s already packed. Julie announces that Chicken George has been eliminated, and he stands up with a smile on his face. Probably thinking of that fried chicken. He says that it’s unbelievable that he made it this far. Not entirely, but I’m glad to see it, as he’s a good guy and he’s mentioned that they need the extra money that sequester brings. Mike says they’re going to miss him like they wouldn’t believe, and George thanks them for letting him play for as long as they have. It’s a sweet moment in a game that doesn’t have enough of them. Sorry. Just have something in my eye. George sprints out of the house, again, probably thinking of the fried chicken. When we go back to the house, Mike is face first on the floor in thanks. Will mentions that his thumb is messed up from the veto competition, and never one to shy away from attention, Janelle says she broke a nail. Ugh. They celebrate being the final four. Will wonders that, since there’s a lot of time left, is someone coming back? No, the finale was just pushed back, that’s all. Erika’s picture has been replaced by a black-and-white Jase. Julie congratulates George on the final five. He never thought he would make it that far. Being the donkey in the Kentucky Derby, he’s happy to make it to fifth. He’s bouncing around like a little kid. Julie mentions that the others thought his playing dumb was a brilliant strategy, and George almost falls off the chair at that. He says he had absolutely no strategy. Being on slop really messed him up. Julie brings up the outfits. He says he has the chance to do some wild and crazy things, and be himself. That’s how he wanted to play the game. Julie says that they made him a promise for when he left the game, and Chicken George’s smile is about to break loose from his face. A man dressed like Colonel Sanders walks in bearing a bucket of chicken. Now THAT’S product placement. George runs up and hugs the fake Colonel. George is excited, and the Colonel looks like he has no idea what he's supposed to do. I wonder if George knows the Colonel is dead. He is. I’ve been to his gravesite. I will admit that I was a little disappointed, as it’s just a bust of his head. I mean, if I were in charge of it, I would have made his headstone a KFC bucket and have a bunch of statues of chickens laughing and dancing on his grave. Maybe that’s just me. Julie makes the smooth transition, “Here is your Big Brother: All-Stars final four” as they cut back to the living room. Not only grammatically inaccurate, but Erika walks out of the shot and Will is nowhere to be found. Live television, folks! There will be another Head of Household on Sunday, then a special live Tuesday eviction episode and the beginning of the final HOH competition. http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=4&article=article9842.art&page=1