Ruining Big Brother 18 – August 3rd

Daily BB House Stats:
HOH – Paul
HOH Nominated – Bridgette, Da’vonne
Veto Winner – Paulie
Evicted – #1 Jozea #2 Victor #3 Bronte #4 Tiffany #5 Frank
Battle Back Winner – Victor
Return Ticket Holder – TBD
Have-Nots – Corey, Paulie, Zakiyah
Have-Not Supplement – Trail Mix and Marshmallows

The August 3rd TV show revolved much more around houseguest strategies and dynamics than usual. The episode opens with Paul in the Diary Room saying he’s not really giving anyone in the house the whole story about what he really wants as far as Day and Bridgette. It seems like this is the theme of this episode, nobody in the house has the “whole story” on anything, it seems.

There are lots of fun and games bits, like the catcalling sillyness of the boys in the backyard. But the show then gets a bit more serious with a whole segment about Zaulie (Z and Paulie) showing their frequent zips between hot and cold. Z is the hot and Paulie the cold. He claims to “not deal with drama” but instead, we see him dealing drama out like poker hands in Vegas. His tone reads curt and Paulie’s resolute smugness grates on one’s nerves. The show validates Z’s point of view by showing this. At one point Paulie smugly says he’s “going to clip her” to Paul along with, “never cared,” which, even if true, is just a nasty thing to say even about just a friend. The segment ends with him condescending to her once again. Afterwards Paulie concludes in the Diary Room that he can’t deal with all her emotions and has to get her out. You know, Paulie, when you treat people with respect the whole emotions “type thing” handles itself.

Next the TV show revisits fun and games but even they can sometimes lead to emotions. Like when Paul puts shaving cream in Michelle’s coffee mug. She gets feisty/playful in response and hits him on the back with an apple. Afterward a bruise develops and Michelle feels terrible even though Paul insists it’s no biggie. The emotions keep flowing, though as contrite Michelle keeps hideous crying in remorse and being hysterically funny but not knowing why. The hashtag #SadMeech captures it pretty perfectly, though.

Back to business now as the Veto player pick meeting begins. Natalie, Corey, and Victor are chosen to play along with Paulie, Bridgette, and Paul, as HOH. Bridgette is happy because Natalie, her only real ally in the house, will compete. Victor’s also thrilled because he finally gets to play in a Veto competition. In between the Veto player pick and competition we see Paulie again being being nasty to Zakiyah. He keeps saying he’s going to put her up on the block soon. Meanwhile he’s all cuddled up to Paul as his “final two” BFF. This is why a lot of feedsters say Paulie simply copycats Derrick’s strategy from when he won BB16. Derrick had his bro, Cody and also his pretty pawn, Victoria just in case as a backup. So Paul serves as Paulie’s primary partner and Zakiyah his back up plan. It may not be consciously but it does appear that Paulie’s doing this.

The Veto comp is a “Ready Set Whoa” track meet where the players need to pay close attention to a screen because they can’t race until they see the word “GO”. The races are pretty tight and even require a photo finish to show who truly won each race. We already know, though, that Paulie ultimately wins.

At the Veto ceremony Paulie takes himself off using the “golden power of Veto” and Paul follows Paulie’s directons to put Day on the block. Funny part about the Veto ceremony is when Paul nominates Day then nods at her and says, “If you don’t mind?” uh, we’re pretty sure she does, Paul!

Bridgette tells us she, “hates all these people,” so, we’ve seen quite a performance from her. She’s pulled off an amazing facade of Betty Crocker, Alice from the Brady Bunch, and Dora the Explorer all this time in the house while filled with contempt for her peers. The final words out of her mouth are about how Da’vonne is at the top of her hit list and she’d like nothing more than to see Da’vonne walk out that door. These words are on the screen as we see her hugging Day after the Veto ceremony.

The feeds are a but more frolicky than usual on the evening of August 3rd because it’s the 50th day of the BB18 season and so the houseguests celebrate. They get booze and music while the feeds are inaccessible to us but we can see they had lots of fun. Zakiyah did a strip tease/pole dance type thing that got the boys riled. But it’s lovely to hear Zak in HOH declare that she won’t let any man determine her destiny. Not in this house and not in the world out there either. You go girl. Stick to those words. Day, Natalie, and Michelle are in HOH with her and they discuss how the “boys alliance” is totally annoying. Yes. Yes it is. Natalie keeps joking that she’s going to win the next HOH too… from your lips to the Big Brother god’s, ears, Natalie!

Now here’s a screencap that serves as a Campbell’s Chunky soup commercial. Tagline, “Campbell’s Chunky Soup – perfect for snuggling with your bunny boo”

Quotes of the day for August 3rd

Bridgette: I’m annoying in my dreams too.

Michelle about Paulie: He needs to get Derrick out of his ass.

– Katherine Recap