Big Brother, July 15: The Great Unraveling

“As far as Alison goes,” begins Jun as they bring in a dolly crane to get a complete shot of the high horse, “I don’t think she has the prettiest face.” She thinks Alison needs a nosejob while Dana has huge saucer eyes (OK, so she has a point there) and she definitely wouldn’t want her hair - it’s a little frizzy. “Not that I think I’m perfect,” clarifies Helen of Troy. She’s soft and jiggly, but she’s a real woman that kind of way! And I’m sure that’s what everyone else says too - no one would ever think her “jiggly” ass sagged or anything. “Mom, you’re not hearing this at home!” they laugh. Oh, but she is. And I’ll bet she’s beaming with pride instead of looking into ways to go grocery shopping incognito, too. “It’s girl tawk!” concludes Dana; then the three pore over their many modeling offers. Elle or Vogue this month? Decisions, decisions…

Now we get the Montage of Scott Sliding Down The Slippery Slope to Insanity. We’re faced with an onslaught of Inappropriate Scott Quotes from “Enough with the breadcrumbs - can you put the macaroni and cheese in the goddamn oven?” to “I wanna play ‘Chicks Get Naked and ******’!” Jun tells us she can’t stand to be in the same room with him right now. “Scott’s repulsive!” says Alison, the very picture of appealing with her hair completely ratty and unkempt. On the back porch, Dana, Jun, and Robert excitedly talk about using the veto to pull Jee of the block and put Scott up in his place; they think they can get the rest of the Original Eight to go along. Dana stops Jun from going to talk to Nathan about it, saying they’ll “tell him in bed latuh.” Sure enough, we see Nathan’s harem of Dana, Alison, and Jun flanking him in the Head of Household Room. “I’ll show you my sexy pajamas,” threatens Dana. I thought the whole point of this was to attract Nathan to the idea, not repel him. Nathan says he wants Scott out of there too - he doesn’t know how much more of him he can take. He goes to talk to Erika and Jack about the matter, saying that Scott’s gotten worse to the point where the girls feel threatened. Jack wonders if perhaps he could be “rehabilitated” if they talk to him. Nathan thinks that Scott’s just a loose wire waiting to explode. Jack agrees that Scott’s been behaving badly and being disruptive; he and Erika have been trying to talk to him about it. Nathan asks Erika if Scott called her a f**king bitch, then apologizes ten seconds later, would she put up with that if he kept doing it over and over? Erica supposes not. Nathan admits that he could probably put up with the guy, but he’s sick of everyone else coming up to him and bitching and griping about him. “We look to you as our leader,” Jack tells him, making Nathan sound like some kind of Martian. “Scott’s day is definitely numbered,” smiles Nathan in the Diary Room. Aren’t they all? It was Day 5 at the top of the episode. Elsewhere, the Anvil of Foreshadowing gets a mosh pit going and starts slamdancing.

Scott tells us he went to sleep because he was feeling a little depressed over how he let his feelings show for Amanda; it left him feeling weak and vulnerable and he hates feeling that way. Dana tells us he’s been disappearing in the middle of the day for five hour naps for some time now. Michelle notes that you can tell he’s miserable because he sleeps all the time. Scott tells us he feels like he’s trapped in a bad nightmare. He’s sitting on the back porch with Jack and Erika when he starts screaming that he feels like a f**king circus animal for the show: “Turn around! Let the cameras get you from this angle! Let me see the crack of your ass!” Then he continues in an odd cartoony voice, “I’m not an animal - I am a human being.”

Dana’s in the bathroom with Justin, Robert, Jee, and Alison when she starts hearing loud thumps. She tells us she ran to the kitchen and Scott is throwing the kitchen chairs all over. Big Brother orders him to the Diary Room but he shouts, “You come in and get me! You can’t f**king handle me - it’d take three of you!” and runs out to the backyard. Jack and Erika try to talk to him on the human chess court; he tells them he’s just blowing off steam. Inside, Amanda and Dave tell Dana they think Scott was just kidding; Dana snaps that kidding or not, she’s scared and storms off. She tells us that no one felt safe. Outside, Scott tells Jack and Erika he can’t deal with “this whole thing” right now and tells them he wants to throw one of the chess pieces at the window. He picks up the king (which looks to be a good three feet tall) and starts swinging it as they tell him to put it down in alarm. He tells them he was just kidding and puts it back down. Erika tells us it’s a very difficult position to be in for all of them. Amanda tells us he was saying hostile things, but he was grinning or smirking so she didn’t think he was serious. He goes to talk to Amanda and tells her he’s just blowing off steam. Amanda tells us she assumes it all stemmed from his frustrations about her. Amanda tells him she doesn’t get the whole back and forth thing - he loves her, he hates her. He tells her he loves her and the rest is just kidding. Amanda tells him everyone else is freaking out and see him as a threat and he might have to leave. “Good!” he snaps. She asks him why he wants to leave. He tells her he hasn’t been able to deal with her being there. He says he wants to get back together, but obviously she doesn’t want to, so he’ll go on with his life even though it’ll be emptier without her. She says then obviously when he said he enjoyed spending time with her, that was a lie. He says no, it’s mixed emotions - he loves spending time with her but hates it at the same time and he’s freaking out. She doesn’t want him to feel that way and tells him not to throw away his chances because she’ll be leaving soon, and she knows how important this game is to him. He tells her it doesn’t matter to him anymore. In the Diary Room, he tells us he no longer gives a sh*t about the game and in some ways it would be good if he left soon. He shakes Amanda’s hand and thanks her for talking to him.