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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

'Twas All About The Deal

It's no shocker what tonight's episode focused on. It was all about Keesha and her annoying dolphin laugh and Keesha's crazy wigs. Oh I'm just kidding around with you. Of course it was all about (and I mean all about) the deal that Dan and Ollie made in the HOH competition.

It started with Dan talking with his fellow alliance members (Memphis, Keesha, and Renny) about the two parts of the deal so far. Of course, Memphis wasn't happy with being on the block (and who could blame him) but he had no dog in that pony show. Keesha and Renny weren't sure how smart this plan was for Dan to take and and all of them realized that they had to win the POV. But back to smart, even ol' Jerry in the diary room said the deal was terrible and that he'd never trust anybody to live up to it. And then we see Ollie in the diary room gloating about all the power he has. Eat it up big boy because it won't last long!

When it came time to pick players for the POV competition, Dan told us his biggest worry was if Michelle was picked. Because if she won she'd take Jerry off the block and be safe from being chosen as the replacement. And guess what? Michelle was chosen by Jerry because he drew the houseguest's choice button! Jerry trusted that Michelle (if she won) would take him off the block, believed that Ollie would be safe from replacement because of his deal with Dan, which would then cause Dan to have to put up either Keesha or Renny.

The POV competition wasn't all that exciting. I was really expecting more from how they were talking on the feeds after it was over. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there was no leaping in this competition called "One Giant Leap". Why couldn't we have seen big red bouncy balls like on the game show Wipeout? Then we'd have some leaping. But I digress. They were on a stupid zipline going back and forth gathering puzzle pieces. Did we have a zipline competition at the start of the season?

There were three parts of the POV competition. Keesha won the first heat and Memphis won the second heat. Both of them competed against each other to ultimately win the POV. And yes, Memphis won. By the way, I'll have you know I was keeping a close eye on Memphis' 'bulge' tonight. On the feeds after the competition, they were talking about how it was so huge because of the harness they were in. I didn't see it though. Perhaps I blinked one too many times.

So now that Memphis won the POV, Ollie's all nervous and wants to make sure that Dan is going to follow through with his plan. He knows that Memphis will use the POV on himself and told Dan that he wanted Keesha to go up in his place. Thankfully, Dan reassured the viewing audience at home yet again that he wouldn't be going through with the plan and thinks that Ollie is insane for thinking he would. Well duh!

Prior to the POV ceremony, we saw Dan running around the house telling everybody that he's going to ask them during the ceremony who they want him to replace with Memphis with. Like fools, they all eventually went along with it. Ollie needed a little coaxing (he didn't want to say Renny's name) but agreed to it since Dan was going to be putting his neck out like that for him. Renny needed the most massaging when it came to this (as we saw on the feeds) but Big Brother didn't leave us hanging too long as they stiltedly stuck in the clip of her saying the first time that she'd do it.

At the POV ceremony, you could cut the tension with a green plastic knife. After Memphis took himself off the block and Dan stepped up to take over the ceremony, he shot Dan a look as if to say he couldn't believe what was about to happen.

Dan began his spiel with a gambling analogy. Anytime you gamble you take a risk. And in this house if you gamble with someone else's safety, you better know who's making the bet for you. Dan then told Ollie that he'd lost the bet and then immediately told Michelle she was on the block. Could you see the daggers Michelle was shooting out of her eyeballs at Dan? And the look of shock on Ollie's face was awesome. Even Jerry looked mad. Why I have no idea because the geezer should have realized at that moment he was probably safe for another week.