And crazy is what we got this episode!! First, she’s off telling James, someone who she probably never talked to before, or at least not about the game, how pissed she is at Shelli for betraying her for throwing her under the bus to Jason. First, she has no room to be pissed at anyone for throwing her under the bus because she’s talked so much crap about people and has even made up stories about people in the house, so that’s first off. Second, Shelli betrayed you?!? Ok I can live with that, because Shelli kind of did by telling Jason (someone Shelli isn’t even aligned with) that it was Audrey who was telling her that he was gunning for her if he won HoH. But still, Audrey should know better than to tell someone who she barely talks to about game. She should know that he’s just going to go run right to Shelli, or someone else, and tell them exactly what you’ve been saying.
And what do we get…James heading right up to tell Shelli everything she just said to him…telling her all about how Audrey wants to split up her and Clay and that the rest of the house is stupid for not agreeing with the plan. And here’s the thing, Audrey isn’t wrong here. The house does need to realize that Clay and Shelli need to be split up, but at the same time, you have to understand who you’re playing the game with. Nobody in the house is recognizing that at this point, so yes you can have conversations about it, but it needs to be regulated to the extent where you’re just bringing up thoughts and ideas and letting them stew in other people’s heads until THEY come up with the idea that those two need to be split up. You can’t just go on a rage to people you never talk to and spew out that you’re pissed at so-and-so and they need to go, and so does their closest ally. So yes, Audrey is right, but at the same time she’s just a bit too emotional and she needs to put them in check more often so things don’t always come back to bite her in the @ss, which they have been ALL game long so far.
Then, if she wasn’t already screwing herself over enough, she goes and has ANOTHER argument with Clay. And this argument was over practically nothing. They were fighting about whether or not something was said and the two of them went on for about 15 minutes too long and it just ended up sounding like a “No I’m not – Yes you are,” fight between two 5 year olds, fighting over whether or not one of them is a poo-poo head and eats turds for dinner.
Again, Audrey, you have to understand that you may feel like you have nobody in this game, but on several occasions, both Shelli and Clay have told you that you’re good with them. And on several occasions, they’ve PROVEN to you how good you are with them by guess what, NOT NOMINATING YOU FOR EVICTION!!! Why are you fighting with them about their loyalty to you? And then telling them that they’ll watch this season back and regret how they’re acting towards you!! I’m at a loss with this chick and I can’t imagine ever being able to have an actual conversation with her that didn’t end in complete frustration. And I don’t mean this in an offensive way, but you’d really assume Audrey has been a woman her entire life the way she argues with these people because I can’t imagine a man being this way. Ok, that’s taking it too far because there are men that are like that, but you know what I mean…
So of course, Clay runs up to the HoH room to tell Shelli and Vanessa what just happened. The three of them are just in complete shock that they’ve been protecting her this entire time and she just keeps going against them and battling with them. This is all more fodder for Shelli to put in the back of her mind when it comes time to possibly put Audrey up as a renom.
Audrey is just losing it and I read up that the houseguests actually thought she may self evict herself from the game. Victim sh!t right there. I actually think it would be the best thing for her to go home. Don’t even let her get to jury. She needs to go home, for real for real. That will be the best thing for her. This game just isn’t built for her with the paranoia levels she builds up to. You can just see her breaking down and her spirit isn’t even in this game anymore, to tell the truth. So, it may be the best thing for Shelli to change her mind and put her up on the block…if anyone wins Veto that will change the nominations. But all Shelli has to do is tell whoever wins it to do it because she wants Audrey out and that’s that.
I’ll give it to Jason, Bobcat, and Liz – they owned that Wackstreet Boys punishment!! I wonder how long they had to work on that choreography. I wonder if the same hip-hop dancers from the HoH competition were the ones that taught them or if they just had them watch a video in the DR one day. It seems as if the song and dance weren’t too long (or difficult), so I’d imagine they could have pulled that off in under an hour, but who knows. Still…it was pretty funny! I was more of an N*Sync guy myself, so the real Wackstreet Boys already existed in the form of Brian, Nick, Howie, AJ, and Kevin. And, just like everyone else in the world, I had to Google the last one because NOBODY remembers (or gives a sh!t) about Kevin! The ol’ 45 year old man in a boy band!
The Veto competition selection ceremony went off and ended well for Jason, or so he believes – he thinks that 50% of the people playing in the Veto would use it on him if they won (himself, James, and Meg) and that he could talk the other half into using it on him (Shelli, Vanessa, Johnny). Of course, he was a bit off since there’s no way Johnny would use it on James and not himself, but I get what he means. I think both Meg and James would use it on him as long as Shelli agreed to put up Audrey in his place. Little does Jason know that Shelli may want to get Audrey out anyway, so he doesn’t even need to worry about winning or not.
And speaking of people just spilling the beans all over the place, Meg skivvies her way up to the HoH room to talk with Shelli and Vanessa, who go right into how Audrey is the worst and she may need to go and such and such Meg we’ve always been best friends and we’re so happy to share our alliance talk information with you even though you’re on the other side of the house vote! Ugh…these people. I get it that at any given time, people could be telling you something that’s not true just to appease you, but the way they’re talking about Audrey, even Meg has to know they’re being sincere and that it goes beyond the game at this time. But Meg had to leave that room feeling pretty good about getting her ally off the block this week, even if she or Jason didn’t win the Veto.
If I didn’t know any better, I may sniff a little crazy coming from Shelli. This crying stuff needs to stop. I get it that you have emotions and all that and it’s tough to make these decisions sometimes, but crying?!? Before you even need to make the decision?!? If she was crying AS she was making the decision, maybe then I’d give her a pass, but she was still days away from having to do anything and here she is crying herself to sleep. Clay’s a better man than I am, because if there’s one thing I don’t do well in life it’s deal with a crying woman. Ask my wife on that one – I’m TERRIBLE. I’d have probably been nice at the drop and hugged her and asked her what’s wrong, but as soon as she goes into how she hates how she MIGHT have to make this decision in a few days, I’d be out. Mentally and almost-physically. If I couldn’t put the tears fire out within a minute, I’d most definitely pull off a slick move like “Oh baby, I really hate that you’re going through this but my stomach is REALLY killing me and I need to drop a major deuce right now…” And, of course, that works on so many levels because I can always say I said it like that because I was trying to get her to smile/laugh and also because I get out of having to deal with the tears for a legitimate reason.
Speaking of Shelli, why throw the Veto comp? If she wants all the power in her hands and doesn’t want to have to make that crazy sad decision, why not just win it and keep the nominations the same?!? Or if it came down to it and you did want to get Audrey out, you could use it and put her up. Yes it would hurt, but at least you’d have the power to do it. Throwing the comp does what for you though? I get it for a Season 17 lame “blood on my hands” reasoning, but even if someone else uses it, you’re still going to get blood on your hands by putting up someone else anyway. I’m just at a loss why she threw it. Sure, it worked out in the end with Vanessa winning, but then why be happy about that? Something’s missing here that maybe I just am not stupid enough to realize. She doesn’t want to win and have to possibly change the nominations but then IS happy that someone she’s aligned with wins so that they can possibly change the nominations?!? Am I the only one here that is a bit lost? I can’t be, can I?
Oh goodness, here’s Audrey again!! She literally asks people to talk to her and then gets offended when they tell her what she wants to know. People always hate hearing the truth and never want to believe whatever is being said can be true about them, but Audrey is delusional. She thinks that Shelli, Vanessa, and Clay are against her and that they’re, you know what, I have no idea what she was trying to say that they’re doing to her. She’s just sad that she doesn’t have a best friend in the house to talk to all the time, and part of that is her own doing, but still, you don’t fight with the people who are keeping you safe and then act buddy-buddy with the people who aren’t in power EVER!! I just don’t get Audrey. I know I keep saying this, but I don’t know what else to say. She’s fighting with the people who are winning all of the comps and who are the ones getting out everyone else BUT her, yet she’s not starting fights with the other folks in the house. She just seems like a girl on the first day of high school that doesn’t have anyone to sit with at lunch and immediately goes and yells at the “cool kids” table for having 10 people at a 6 person table and not allowing her to be friends with those other 4 people! Is that scenario crazy enough to describe Audrey? I’m not sure, but it sure seems like something she’d do. And then do it again the next day, and the next day, and cry to these people on the fifth day why they’re not all friends yet and inviting each other over to swim in their parents pool!!
Let me run off at the mouth one last time here…I don’t know about you readers, but would anyone else be offended if they went into someone’s bedroom to have a conversation with them and that person, who’s indoors mind you, went and put their sunglasses on?!? I don’t know, maybe I’m just old school, but that to me would rub me the wrong way. Maybe I’ll stop short of being offended, but it would definitely rub me the wrong way. And I don’t even look at people’s eyes when I talk to them, but just the idea that they thought they needed to put on sunglasses to talk to me would just irk me. And especially if it was someone I was already upset with or didn’t like. Anyone else feel the same? I mean, this season seems to be the season of the indoor-sunglasses-wearing douche, but still, there’s a difference if they’re already wearing them and if they just put them on at the beginning of the convo. Maybe it’s just a respect thing, I don’t know.
Lastly, let me just say that Audrey is nuts! How is Clay making the fight about him? She’s the one who initiates all of these conversations and incessantly rambles on about how she feels and what she thinks, yet Clay is making it about him by trying to calm her down and then leaving the room so things don’t escalate more. Sure, Audrey. You keep believing that. Wow.
And if that all wasn’t enough, Audrey decides she’s just above the law of the game and she doesn’t feel like participating in the Veto meeting. What. The. F*ck. Seriously…there are thousands upon thousands of people who want to play the game of Big Brother, and I do understand that we don’t know what it’s like in that house, but to act the way she’s acting is just stupid. I wish they would just send her home for that baby stunt. She barely participates in anything the house does, and for her to say she’s not showing up because she knows she’s going to be the renom is lame. She’s lame. Production is lame for allowing her to do that. And this season of Big Brother is lame. Ok, maybe I didn’t mean that last one…yet. It hasn’t been a great season so far, but it’s not lame. Some of these people are coming around and starting to play, but overall, it hasn’t been great. But for Audrey to pull a stunt like that is pretty poo-poo. I hope they made her eat a turd for dinner.
Of course, we all knew what was coming when that happened. Vanessa used it on Jason (?!?) and the replacement is Audrey. I get the idea that being up against someone likable like Bobcat makes it seem an easier vote, however, if Audrey was a good player, she might try and make the argument that Bobcat is a proven winner in the Veto’s and that he could be a threat down the road compared to how she’s always going to be the #1 target in the house and she’d be an extra vote for them in the future. I’m sure it would fall on deaf ears, which is why it really doesn’t matter who’s up against her, but it was still a bit shocking that they didn’t use it on Johnny. If I were Johnny, I’d also be a little pissed off about this since he’s thrown comps for their alliance almost every week, so the least they could do is show him some loyalty and take him off the block when they have the power to do so. If Johnny does anything else for them this entire season, I’ll have lost all respect for him. He needs to just join forces with Meg, James, Jason, Jackie, and recruit Becky to make an alliance of six to match the obvious six that they are. Now…one of them just needs to win HoH…
…and we’ll find out if one of them does win HoH in this blog, right, since you’ve all not watched the show yet!! 🙂
Simply said, for JC’s sake, Ms. Chen is an abject fool.
I keep looking at her knees to see if there are thick callouses on them. Mon dieu, if she were asked to add two numbers her 5″ eyelashes might fly off her face. Every show she pulls a boner, sometimes so big the editors can’t even protect her.
Lastly, I love your nom de ether for Dentist John. Bobcat so fitting. I noticed that even Crazy Audrey recoiled at the sounds coming from his oral cavity. The producers should offer us a warning before the pain of his sound attacks.
I envision Vanessa convincing Jackie that 2 weak people are the biggest threats so that Vanessa’s nominees kill them in BoB and Jackie has a quick end as HoH. Not exactly the 2 enemies as HoH I have been hoping for all season. Then again, I’m not sure the house is divided like that as it has been in the past.
I really really wanted to like Audrey as a BB game player. I really really did. At the beginning I did a lot, but as we all know things kinda went off kilter. I was thinking about it, and I think theoretically, she knew the game. When she spoke in DR and to Julie and at times to others she spoke with such clarity, brilliance about the game and what was going on in the house. Truly, she clearly picked up on the weaknesses and strengths of people so well, she saw these people, saw through them, and as we also know, having that kind of observational talent is crucial to lasting long. But alas, as many before her that also have these talents, the problem was what to do with that information. The practical playing of the game. It’s almost like the ‘book smart’ type player, who has studied the game, watched all the seasons, considers themselves a superfan – is theoretically knowledgeable about the game. However it doesn’t translate to knowing how you’ll play, or how you’ll be in the house. She really did have the skill set to go far – maybe it was just all too much.
I think then, for future bb players to take note, the current definition of ‘superfan’ is not sufficient. To say you are a superfan as prep for the game has continually not translated into good gameplay, for the most part. I think if you are a real superfan of bb and will be going on, you will practice by simulating conditions similar to what you will be going into. Like that older lady that went on survivor and built her own sauna and spent hours in it preparing herself for the heat likely to be where the game is played. So future contestants need to start simulating game play – grab some random people, lock yourselves in a house for a week, no tv, books, music, etc., play some games, eat some food, battle for HOH, vote – and analyze how it all went down for you. THAT is now what I would consider a superfan of bb. I think even if a person locked themselves in a house for a week with none of what they can’t have – tv, phone, internet, etc. – would be a learning/prep experience. How many people could even do that?
Just as the “conventional wisdom” on Bachelor seems to be that the white lead will not eliminate all people of color until the third or fourth episode, I wonder if the contestants really wanted to avoid being the one to nominate the first transgender contestant – especially after the fallout of the racist season. I think they all came to the strategy of making sure they were recorded as saying “I love her as a person and her courage but in here, that bitch is crazy!”