Big Brother Recap – 7/10/15

We’re still early in the season and we don’t have strong alliances forming just yet, but I’d still say that things are starting to heat up in the house now. I think that these folks are going to give us a good season. I still don’t know who I like, who I’m rooting for, or who I dislike, but I kind of thing that’s a good thing. Too often I get caught up in rooting for the one person I like the most and it kind of takes away from the season because then I get frustrated with watching things going on around that person and the other houseguests going against them and it makes it difficult to watch once the person I liked is voted out. So maybe this will be the one year I make it through the entire season actually invested in the entire season. Then again, who am I kidding? I always only like things for a little while…

Before I get to the recap, if you haven’t checked out my interview with Zach Rance from last season, go check it out in the blog below this one. Or, I’ll do the right thing and just hit you with the link right here. Yes, because I’m that nice of a guy. Anyway, for those who didn’t see it yet, I definitely confirmed one thing from doing the interview via webchat – and that’s that I am a technical Froot Loop Dingus. I suck at technology. Not like my 65-year old mom sucks at technology type suck, but suck enough that I forget to hit record right away, thinking that the fact we’re both talking to each other means it should be recording. However, I AM happy that I at least realized this during the interview and not when it was over, because I probably would have thrown my computer out the f*cking window had that happened. And please don’t think I’m joking when I say that – ask my wife, I like to throw pieces of technology when they don’t act the way they’re supposed to or I make a mistake while using them and instead of being mad at myself, I displace my anger on the device and throw it as hard as I can at something. No TV remote, cell phone, or video game controller is safe from my wrath. Anyway, I digress – what you missed from the interview is me and Zach bonding over N*Sync and Air Jordan shoes, so at least I didn’t miss any of the game talk. So, check it out, here’s the link, as promised:

So, the show starts off with the quick recap of letting us know that Jason and Steve won the Battle of the Block, and we get to watch them celebrate the victory by disagreeing on being Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum. Steve needs to relax a little bit and recognize a joke when one is being told. They also need to work on their rhythm and accepting high-five’s from other people. I’m surprised the two of them didn’t break each other’s noses with those sad attempts at slapping hands together.

Speaking of Froot Loop Dingus, we get our first live TV mention of the phrase! Shelli is the winner of that distinction. And it’s funny that it happened, because I paused the TV right before and lo and behold there was a box of Froot Loops on the counter, so I made mention of that to my wife and then here’s Shelli breaking out the FLD! I know that the houseguests have used the phrase before from reading updates online and such, and let’s be honest, that phrase is going to stick around as long as Big Brother has seasons, but this is the first mention of it on air. Unless I’m wrong and missed it in one of the previous episodes. If I did miss it, feel free to let me know in the comments or over email. I like being told I’m an idiot and having my terrible memory pointed out. For all I know, I probably wrote about it in a past blog and everyone reading this blog right now thinks Reality Steve is having his own twin twist for the blog and you folks can’t understand why I can’t remember things I’ve said in the past.

Becky reiterates her happiness with being dethroned from the HoH seat because she still believes that Shelli is going to carry out her plan to backdoor Audrey, so she still gets the person out that she wanted and no blood on her hands for doing so. And she still gets to compete in the HoH competition next week on top of it, so she’s feeling like her Big Brother life couldn’t be better right now. The more I watch her, I actually think Becky has a good shot at being the first female winner since Rachel won a few years back. And yes, I had to look that up because I most definitely don’t have a Steve-like memory of every season Big Brother has ever had. He probably could tell us word-for-word what Rachel said to Julie after winning all those years back. But, getting back to Becky, she’s an obvious threat in the competitions and she seems to have a solid social game and status in the house. Plus, she has a tragic story to tell that could sway a vote or two from the Jury. I’m stopping short of saying she’s my favorite to win, because seriously, only one person has been voted out so far, so there’s a long way to go. But for right now, I’ll count her as someone to keep an eye on.

I feel bad for Da’Vonne. As a competitive person, I know how crappy it would feel to have everyone in the house gunning for you, and to especially have them gunning for you for (what she believes to be) calling out someone else’s crappy game play. Her attitude isn’t the greatest, however I don’t think she’s come off as an in-your-face all the time woman, but in the game of Big Brother, you can’t have multiple dust-ups with people in the house, because this early in the game, people are looking for any small reason to make you a target and will use that in discussions with other folks to get them against you. She made the mistake of coming off too confrontational and now it’s going to bite her in the @ss. But it still sucks to be in a game where everyone is working against you and you can’t do anything about it. And to have to rely on someone else to win a competition and feeling as if that person was throwing it on purpose, I can truly understand how that would be frustrating and how easy it would be to get into said dust-ups. Hopefully she does what she says she’s going to do and fights to stay, however it’s not looking great for Mama Day. The only source of sanity she has is that it does seem that Jason and James are on her side and they try and cheer her up by telling her they don’t believe Shelli will send Da’Vonne home over Audrey. How little they know…