Callaphera

I've always liked Zingbot, but hearing what he zinged Christine and Cody with makes me love him. Zingy should visit every week!

Ah, wouldn't that be the one that some channel picked up, based on him and his brothers, kinda like Duck Dynasty? Of course, that particular channel decided they didn't want it and Discovery or some other big cable channel picked it up for five seasons, and then never aired it. Unless there's another show now. I wouldn't be surprised. Caleb is just that awesome. He amuses me so much now post-Amber. He was probably just as ridiculous during Amber, but now that his focus is strictly on him and his amazing exploits, I can't get enough of him.

Please, Victoria, please please please if you could win a competition, let it be this one. I want her to win Veto so bad, I don't even care what she does with it. They wouldn't do Veto tonight, would they? Isn't BBAD coming on soon? Poor Zingy isn't going to have a lot of material with some of those left in the house. He could probably do two hours on Frankie, though.

Well, I guess it wouldn't matter if she used it if she won. It's the longest long shot, because it's Victoria, but she and Donny are the only ones I don't mind. I want them both safe. She has to know she's the replacement nominee, much as I'd like to see Cody get evicted. I'd like to keep Caleb just for his stories.

Definitely wasn't expecting that result, but that's awesome! Poor Victoria, though. Let's hope she or Donny win Veto and don't use it, if they're picked to play.

Even better, they only used the activity bracelets for the one week to choose Have Nots. They used it for the one live show, and I guess production caught onto the "shaking my wrist to up my activity", so they still wear them, but I think every HOH since has chosen the HNs. They still turn in the bracelets, but insofar as I've seen, they have no impact on the game anymore. Another twist that fizzled and died a quick and quiet death.

As I near my 31st birthday this month, I'm horrified to think that this is "mid-life". I expect to live far past 62. I'm no Frankie fan, but no, not middle-aged. He does look older than his actual age sometimes to me on the feeds, like he partied a little too hard in his 20's. I feel bad for Nicole, but can she please can it with the waterworks? We have a long way until Thursday yet. Every time I check on the feeds today, she's in tears again!

They clearly didn't change the comp itself, but I wonder if there was some re-rigging of the chains to make it easier for one person to do alone when they heard Caleb was parking his ass on the sidelines. I know, probably not, but there's a chance. I wouldn't put it past them. From Jokers: and Ah, it's much better now that Caleb is back. Bitching about slop already and probably already counting his fans. I wonder if he was disappointed that it was only 4 or 5 out of 100, or if he's just pumped that he's about to "famous". You know, unless something better comes up. I do appreciate that they weren't allowed to talk game. I can't remember past excursions, whether they were allowed to or not. Unless they're lying and all they did was talk game. It sounds like it was a Dallas Cowboys pre-season practice or training camp they attended.

For once, being a West Coast Canadian pays off! I have the Teen Choice Awards on my usual Canadian station (Global), but my CBS affiliate from Washington State still has tonight's episode listed for the right time. ETA: Of course, then I switch over to check and get golf but there's still two hours. Fingers crossed. I haven't even bothered to watch the feeds today. It feels like there's no life in them when I can't hear Caleb making up ridiculous claims and trying to "sing". Is it just me or does his singing/voice exercises/whatever the hell he thinks he's doing sound completely off-key? Yup, big country star he'll be. I was laughing the other night when he claimed he was asked to come sing somewhere in a famous bar/club in California... but he decided not to. Maybe Lowe's needed him again to man the lumber yard. I have this mental image of Caleb in his uniform with a pricing gun in one hand and it never fails to crack me up. He could've had such a career if it wasn't for those pesky shifts at the home improvement store.

The best Christine/Cody moment happened last night in the living room. Christine was on the couch, Cody face planted near her crotch across her lap and she was rubbing his back both under and over his shirt. Cue the cameramen zooming in and out on her wedding ring. Christine practically pissed herself laughing at something Cody said while Nicole and Donny sat there kinda stone-faced. Cody gets up and leaves, and Donny turns to glare hardcore at the back of Christine's head. I don't know if it was because of the Cody snuggling or her uncontrollable laughing, but Donny was having none of it. The camera zoomed right in on him, too. Then I was the one practically pissing myself laughing. He really doesn't like her it seems and that one heated glare seemed to speak volumes.

I'm trying desperately to come up with two entertaining nights from this season. Clearly, Devin's Bomb Squad meeting in the HOH room ("Deny, deny deny! Even though all eight of us are in a room, we are not in an alliance,deny deny deny!") and subsequent house meeting/cry fest about how he has a daughter. The other was the night Zach flipped his shit after being a HN for eight hours? I think I missed that one. I had hoped that the BS meeting/house meeting was going to set the tone for other wacky shenanigans for the season, but no. Denied. Thanks again, Derrick. I don't think he's actively thinking that they need to evict Nicole because she has a vagina, but I think that tone was set early on. So far, five women and two men have been evicted, and Devin would have stayed longer if he hadn't been a little cray cray and "Not without my daughter!" (sorry, I don't think the daughter jokes will ever get old). It's hard to say with the female houseguests they casted this season whether they would have made it further. Amber was screwed by Caleb's obsession, I'm still not sure why Brittany seemed to be public enemy #1 for awhile there, and Joey, Paola, and Jocasta have just... been there. But there have been tones of misogyny from the men through some of those votes to my ears and eyes. Obviously everyone sees it differently, and my views have probably been coloured by previous seasons. I expect the misogyny now. If the ants are the 17th HG, misogyny is the 18th HG and wins every year. Believe it or not, if given a choice between re-watching last season or re-watching this season when it's over, I'm already pretty sure that I would choose last season. Horrible people, horrible things being said, but wart-chewing and all, it was entertaining. And this is a TV show. It's supposed to be entertaining. The only thing I've found entertaining about this season's broadcast shows is seeing the comps played out and the commercials throughout the week that claim "The house has flipped! Alliances shifting! Cowboy stalking!" when we only get one of those and the other two get a quick, "Hey, should we...nah, never mind, we have the numbers." But would he? Would anyone? You have to figure that some combination of Nicole, Donny, and Victoria is going in the coming weeks, barring any amazing Veto or HOH wins (I'm ignoring BotB because they wouldn't put up two targets together). A jury member came back last season when there were four of them. So chances are two more people to jury and then a comp to get back in... and they have next-to-no allies. One. Probably Victoria. Assuming Hayden comes back, the numbers are still against him, Derrick will say he's not trustworthy because of how he tried to flip the house, and Hayden gets a six day vacation from the jury house and Jocasta's poop stories. The returnee angle was probably just to ensure the producer's pet comes back if he was voted out. Whoever comes back will be fucked if Derrick is still in the house.

Looks like Zach won Veto in the OTEV comp.

He has no competition, though. I think I might like him more if there was someone with equal or close to power in opposition to him, but his only real game competition in the house would have been Frankie if they hadn't banded together in the beginning. He's good, but watching one person steamroll through the game to the end is unexciting and drawn out. I appreciate a good player, but I want a good game overall. To me that means a little back and forth between sides of the house, a little drama, and something I can't see coming when the next person wins HOH. Derrick's had it way too easy so far that it makes it hard for me to root for him. He got lucky to get a house full of people that were content to play to jury and now that some of them want to make big moves, like Nicole, they can't. I think the BotB made it that easy, although casting had a part in it, too. It's as exciting as watching The Brigade again, and The Brigade made watching paint dry seem exciting towards the end. Derrick's game has gone much of the same way, and if/when (heavily weighted to when) he's Final 2, his name might as well be inked on the cheque before the vote. I wouldn't be against bringing Derrick back for an All Star round, however, just to see how he could measure up to some of the better players. So yeah, I appreciate his game, but I don't like the stranglehold he has on how the game is being played.

Well at least I was close! I was trying to follow quad cam with headphones on, and honestly, Zach's pout-fest was more entertaining than the rerun of The Frankie Grande Story. That makes me think she didn't know, because I'm not convinced that she's that good of an actress/secret-keeper. I really hope someone asks her about it after BB16 is over, but I doubt it. The Victoria mystery has stuck with me since it happened. I hope to hell that Donny wins Veto today, but that bum ankle will slow him down if it's physical. Nicole admitted to Victoria that she wouldn't use the Veto if she won it. You think she would to save Donny and make sure both of them are safe and Zach is still up there, but I guess there's the off-chance that she told Victoria that since Victoria would be the replacement nominee. Probably not. I don't think Nicole is thinking that far ahead, and I think she still trusts Christine. I wish Donny, Zach, Nicole, and Victoria would band together, but it's too little, too late now.

Last night during Frankie's Big Reveal, she was saying in her pre-interview prior to entering the house, she had mentioned Ariana's music and they told her, "Well, you might get to meet her one day." She was all, "Now it makes sense!" I could be wrong, I was listening with half an ear because I was getting so fed up with Frankie's ego trip.

She sure didn't seem to, which means the theory about her "don't want to get someone fired" DR cry fest had nothing to do with it. We'll probably never find out what that was about, but I wish we would find out. I hate having an unsolved mystery. ETA: No, Caleb, tell me more about how much slop sucks, I don't think we heard you the 3463649 times before.

I like how, no matter what the conversation is around him, no matter who is talking, Caleb brings it back to himself and how hard slop is, or his "singing" career, or whatever Caleb wants to say about himself. The HGs out and out ignored him at one point when he was whining about slop and kept talking. Next break in the conversation? "No one understands how hard it is..." Derrick points out that Victoria has been a "beast" on slop right after Caleb complains again. Oh, just eat something and get yourself a penalty nomination, you big wimp.

They can say her name, she's a public figure. It just probably won't air on the broadcast show if that part is true. The edit will have to be good, if you go by Frankie's slip last night while talking to the women in the living room about how they can't air anything bad said about his sister. So it'll probably be Frankie being his usual obnoxious self, and every sentence will be punctuated by an unspoken "And I'm better than you". That's how his big reveal came off to me last night. You could hear that "And I'm better/more important/more famous/more special than you" with every smug nod he gave at the end of every sentence. Wow. I wasn't a Frankie fan before, but now I really can't stand him. We'll probably get to see a bit of the "Who cares?", probably Zach's rant to Derrick about how his game is fucked, and who is going to vote for him when Frankie is saying he's there for charity to build schools. It was probably my favourite moment of last night.

Interesting slip by Frankie. Paraphrasing, "I would freak if anyone had talked badly about my sister. And they can't air it." I'm kinda not surprised. Not a bad word about Ms. Grande is to be spoken on the broadcast shows. I did appreciate BB trying to fish Frankie's ass as he told everyone to download her album on iTunes.

Something hinky must have gone on. If Caleb really did just sit there and Frankie won anyway, it was either Fun Facts about Ariana Grande or Zach sucks. Donny does have a bum ankle, but still. Bull. Listening to everyone yelling in the living room is fun, though. Finally we get some drama.

Seriously, the BotB can't happen soon enough. I'm dying over Caleb's plans for the comp, and all the ways he's going to screw Frankie, and all the things he's going to say. If he actually goes through with it, this is going to be one of the funnier comps. Especially if Frankie is left danging in the air.

Heh. The HGs in the kitchen were talking about their activity bracelets, and how Derrick's was rating higher right now because of how he uses his hands while talking in the DR. Christine jumps in with "Yeah, they're going to mock me for my hand movements in there". Well, we're mocking and judging you for your hand (and foot) movements on Cody, but she was close!

Listening to what he's telling Caleb about how Frankie is playing for a "group" of people and how it's something good that he wants to share, I don't think he's going to bring up Ariana at all. However, if Victoria stands up and says something about it... Caleb hilariously keeps trying to one-up Frankie, like always. Frankie says he's playing for more than just him, Caleb: "Oh, me too." Frankie says he's been bleeding from the ass for the past twenty minutes. Caleb: "I have watery diarrhea." Sorry, Caleb, not winning this one. I'm waiting for someone to share a skydiving story, just so Caleb can say, "I jumped out of a plane, too, but my parachute didn't open."

I'm expecting at least two "Who is that?"s, Donny for sure, maybe from Derrick? And I'm hoping for a lot of "Well, he doesn't need the money" when he leaves the room. Oh, and Caleb will ask Frankie to set him up with his sister. If only...

Hopefully soon. Because right now, I can either watch Nicole sleep or Frankie and Victoria in the kitchen. What fun.