Big Brother 4, September 2: Burning the Candle at Three Ends

Of course, Alison, sad as it is, pretty much is the center of attention this week because she has the power of veto which means that most of the episode tonight and probably tomorrow will be dedicated to the glory that is Alison, who is a star but only in her own mind. This also means that Robert and Jee have to do some fancy maneuvering to keep themselves in the house and sadly it has to do with them making deals with the she-bitch and the Golden Power of Veto. Jee gets his assignment from Charlie… I mean Robert… that he needs to go and talk to Alison about possibly using her veto power to save either Robert or himself because that would just leave Erika as a nominee against either him or Robert. Then they can get her out of the house. After all, Jee says (using an argument that is sure to win Alison over and make her use the veto), she’s most likely not going to win the grand prize anyway. She could get second, but of the votes in the jury so far, she’s most likely going on an 0-4 run.

Alison, in the diary room (because why would she say this to his face since it’s not like he’s going to vote for her should she make the final two), says that Jee made his final last ditch plea and he can go take a flying leap for all she cares because she’s not going to use the veto to save anyone this time around. Jee, she’s showing you the door.

Filler time. I wish it was like Miller time when we could all grab a nice cold beer and sit back and relax but as we all know (or at least as my fan club headquartered in Harrisburg, PA, knows) I am not a beer person. Therefore, I would be drinking a nice big bottle of champagne. But it’s filler time so we need to sit around and talk about how odd it is that two of the former couples are still in the house together – Robert & Erika and Jee & Jun. Alison proclaims that of all of the exes in the house she and Justin were the closest probably because they had split up most recently of all of the couples. Donny, her boyfriend (although we should all hope it’s ex-boyfriend the way Alison has been whoring around), apparently hates Justin since he was this award winning athlete at Pitt. Jee says that even though he and Jun are nice to each other in the house, they are most likely not going to be talking to each other very much if at all after they leave the house.

Now, remember this next conversation because it will come back to haunt one of them later… Robert discusses how if they all knew who they would be sharing the house with (meaning their exes) then they would have never walked in to begin with and left the game before it even started. Robert then goes on to talk about how it has worked out well for him since he and Erika have worked past their issues and their former relationship in order to cohabitate peacefully. I think he stops short of actually saying they have forgiven each other. Erika just smiles while all of this is going on.

I told you it was just filler.

Anyway, we’re outside the house now and Erika and Alison are sunbathing when Alison suddenly sits up as if someone had stuck and electric cattle prod up her butt and states that she wants Jun out of the house. It’s one of those spontaneous, out of the blue moments of Alison’s where it appears that she’s had her allotment of one clear, articulate thought for the day and she has to immediately share it or she’ll forget it. Of course, as this is all about Alison and her getting to the finals so she can lose, it has a hidden agenda to it. If for any reason that Alison can’t make it to the finals on her own, she wants to make sure that she has her bases covered with Erika and Jun. Either one can take her with them to the finals but she just wants to make sure she gets there. This will be a recurring theme tonight so when you hear me talk about it again (and I will), don’t think that I rewound the VCR and started the tape over again.

Spotlight on me for a moment – Here’s my favorite dream scenario that came out of that conversation: Alison winds up winning the final Head of Household and has to choose between Jun and Erika and both of them are expecting her to take them to the finals and Alison can’t make a declarative statement as to which one she’s choosing and her head explodes. Okay so maybe the last part is far-fetched but can you see her in that position thinking how much she’s screwed herself over by playing both ends against the middle?

Sigh. That would be loverly.

Anyway, everyone wonders how and when Jun will return and of course this means that Jun is arriving at that moment, which she does through the front door. Showing that they are not an alliance, the women all gleefully hug each other in the manner you would do to someone that you haven’t seen in about ten years when you happen to run into them at a Stuckey’s off Exit 32 on I-95 when you both reach for the same pecan log. Basically, the screaming is so loud that I think small dogs in Ethiopia could hear them and howl as their ears are ringing with pain. The guys just stand there and let Jun get mauled by the ladies.

For the rugby viewers/readers out there, we know that she was mauled because is rugby a maul is “tall.” Sorry, I had rugby practice last night. Helping coach the newbies for a few hours leaves stupid phrases like “rightie tightie, leftie loosie” running through your head, too.

Jun goes into the details of her trip, including the fan in the mosh pit who came scurrying over to tell her what a fan of the show she was and I was hoping that she would also tell her to backhand Alison for being an evil, conniving bitch but sadly that information didn’t get passed on in a timely manner. Interesting to note that Jun picked up on the fact that Alison and Erika were both jealous of her experience just by looking at their body language and at their eyes. Remember this now. It’s important.

Finally, Jun learns that Alison won the veto and Jun is glad that her faction is still in power of the whole shebang and that it seems almost inevitable that Jee and Robert are going to go up against each other to stay in the house. Interesting to note again that the women are most likely going to vote off Jee and aren’t giving Robert any consideration in possibly winning HoH, which of course is the WRONG thing to do in this case and I really hope he pulls it out so he can sit back and watch the women fight over who gets to be nominated. That will be fun.