'Big Brother 12': Matt's genius plan
"Big Brother 12" is proving to be filled with gamers, as strategy both good and bad dominated the hour.
Previously: Rachel won HoH and nominated Britney and Monet; Hayden and Kristen flirted; Andrew is still a spaz.
Post-Nomination Reaction
Britney and Monet hate Rachel (which is pretty much why they were nominated), and Monet even says she initially wanted to punch Rachel in the face. The most frightening part of that statement is the disconnected, calm way in which it was delivered. Monet just might be a serial killer. They have a little pity-fest for themselves in the Have Not room, which is perhaps the ugliest set to ever grace network television. They then turn from sad to catty, calling Rachel a "stupid hooker," and many more horrible things I refuse to repeat. Rachel later admits to Britney that her true goal is to get Monet out of the house. I say we have a double elimination and evict them both, because they are HORRIBLE. There are sore losers, and then there are just jerks.
Matt the Liar
Part of Matt's strategy is to tell everyone in the house that his wife has a horrible disease called mel-a-something-I-can't-spell-and-therefore-cannot-Google. He plans on using this lie to get sympathy and get himself farther in the game. He does promise that, if he wins, he will make a "sizable" donation to the foundation for this disease as a thank you for exploiting all of the people who actually suffer from the malady. Andrew hasn't heard of this disease, and says that it is not a correct medical term. Then again, Andrew is only a podiatrist. (Zing!) Will he call Matt out? That would be wonderful.
Power of Veto Competition
The competition is Big Brother Stock Exchange, and the players are Britney, Monet, Rachel, Brendon, Enzo and Lane. Each player is locked in a stock holding a briefcase. The goal is to be locked in for an hour. The catch? You have to decide when you think that hour is up, and the player closest to the one hour time without going over wins veto. My favorite part is that part of the way through the competition a dollar bill starts hitting everyone in the face to distract them. Ha! Houseguest torture is my favorite. Everyone goes over (Enzo by only 14 seconds!) except Britney, so she wins POV.
Once she has the POV in hand, Britney's one goal is to convince Rachel to backdoor Andrew so Monet stays in the house. Monet goes up to Rachel to run the hard sell on Rachel about Andrew as well, and if Rachel takes this deal she is even dumber than I thought. Andrew is definitely not coming after her. He was so happy Rachel won HoH people thought they were in an alliance! Brendon points this out when Rachel brings him the idea.
Instead, Rachel tries to get support in the house to put Andrew on the block as a pawn and vote Monet out. Matt then proves that he might not be a genius after all when he offers to go on the block as a pawn in Andrew's place. The Brigade thinks this is a good move for their alliance. Well, yes...as long as Matt doesn't accidentally get evicted. Rachel decides that Matt offering to potentially be voted out of the house is completely suspicious and thinks he is using his offer to screw them somehow, which I don't quite understand. And then she cries.
Power of Veto Ceremony
Once Britney takes herself off the block, Rachel keeps things simple, does the safer thing and nominates Matt with the clear statement that she is trying to get Monet out of the game. Matt thinks he will gain trust in the house by doing this. Monet vows to do everything in her power to get enough votes to stay in the house. I guess we'll find out tomorrow if Matt's "genius" plan payed off!
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Previously: Rachel won HoH and nominated Britney and Monet; Hayden and Kristen flirted; Andrew is still a spaz.
Post-Nomination Reaction
Britney and Monet hate Rachel (which is pretty much why they were nominated), and Monet even says she initially wanted to punch Rachel in the face. The most frightening part of that statement is the disconnected, calm way in which it was delivered. Monet just might be a serial killer. They have a little pity-fest for themselves in the Have Not room, which is perhaps the ugliest set to ever grace network television. They then turn from sad to catty, calling Rachel a "stupid hooker," and many more horrible things I refuse to repeat. Rachel later admits to Britney that her true goal is to get Monet out of the house. I say we have a double elimination and evict them both, because they are HORRIBLE. There are sore losers, and then there are just jerks.
Matt the Liar
Part of Matt's strategy is to tell everyone in the house that his wife has a horrible disease called mel-a-something-I-can't-spell-and-therefore-cannot-Google. He plans on using this lie to get sympathy and get himself farther in the game. He does promise that, if he wins, he will make a "sizable" donation to the foundation for this disease as a thank you for exploiting all of the people who actually suffer from the malady. Andrew hasn't heard of this disease, and says that it is not a correct medical term. Then again, Andrew is only a podiatrist. (Zing!) Will he call Matt out? That would be wonderful.
Power of Veto Competition
The competition is Big Brother Stock Exchange, and the players are Britney, Monet, Rachel, Brendon, Enzo and Lane. Each player is locked in a stock holding a briefcase. The goal is to be locked in for an hour. The catch? You have to decide when you think that hour is up, and the player closest to the one hour time without going over wins veto. My favorite part is that part of the way through the competition a dollar bill starts hitting everyone in the face to distract them. Ha! Houseguest torture is my favorite. Everyone goes over (Enzo by only 14 seconds!) except Britney, so she wins POV.
Once she has the POV in hand, Britney's one goal is to convince Rachel to backdoor Andrew so Monet stays in the house. Monet goes up to Rachel to run the hard sell on Rachel about Andrew as well, and if Rachel takes this deal she is even dumber than I thought. Andrew is definitely not coming after her. He was so happy Rachel won HoH people thought they were in an alliance! Brendon points this out when Rachel brings him the idea.
Instead, Rachel tries to get support in the house to put Andrew on the block as a pawn and vote Monet out. Matt then proves that he might not be a genius after all when he offers to go on the block as a pawn in Andrew's place. The Brigade thinks this is a good move for their alliance. Well, yes...as long as Matt doesn't accidentally get evicted. Rachel decides that Matt offering to potentially be voted out of the house is completely suspicious and thinks he is using his offer to screw them somehow, which I don't quite understand. And then she cries.
Power of Veto Ceremony
Once Britney takes herself off the block, Rachel keeps things simple, does the safer thing and nominates Matt with the clear statement that she is trying to get Monet out of the game. Matt thinks he will gain trust in the house by doing this. Monet vows to do everything in her power to get enough votes to stay in the house. I guess we'll find out tomorrow if Matt's "genius" plan payed off!
Favorite quotes:
- "Andrew's a shoe salesman, he's not a doctor, so I can probably outsmart a shoe salesman." - Matt
- "I would never wipe my face with a real dollar bill, that's sickening. I mean most of those, let's face it, come out of strippers' g-strings." - Britney
- "I don't think I can trust them, but I think we have to play very strategically." - Rachel
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With all the talk about Matt in this article, why did you put a picture of Enzo?
ummm, you do know a podiatrist is a foot and lower leg doctor, right? the same area where matt's wife's "disease" is...
ak, if the disease occurs to not even 1 in a million people, the average podiatrist will not have necessarily heard of it...
melorheostosis
Britney is awful but Monet is worse, yuck! Matt is pretty nuts putting himself up but it does seem a pretty sure bet (but famous last words, right?). and if i were Rachel & Brendon, I would wonder why he is so sure he'll be safe. anyway omg, i was dying when he was going on about his wife's (fake) disease to Andrew, who knows something is not kosher. Matt def crossed a line with this one and it could come back to haunt him later in the game. seems a bad move for a so-called "genius." whatev's!!
They all played the POV stupidly.
oh yeah, i like Rachel but she was acting very dumb tonight. I don't like Brendon much, but at least he talked some sense into her.
While I`d usually think that allowing yourself to be put on the block is a pretty stupid move, Matt is likely to stay. Unless the rest of the Brigade turns on him, there are 3 of the 5 votes he needs to stay. If necessary, Hayden can convince Kristen to vote to keep Matt and Brendan wanted to put Matt up as a pawn to get rid of Monet, so he`ll probably vote to keep Matt. So it looks like Matt will only get one eviction vote from Britney, but then again, you never know...
Wow, as usual; the women will NOT work together. It's always so painful to watch. The guys will stand together and MAY take a female with them after she stabs all the other girls in the back. Rachel is an idiot!! True, I wouldn't trust Monet/Brittany, but think for yourself and not Brendan. Matt crossed the line. Yes, we know there are lies in the house, but that was low by even Big Brother standards. I see this year they're not even showing the floaters. The cop? Hello, where are you? Oh, and Ragan is so below the radar.
My favorite part of the episode was when Britney was talking to Monet in the Have-Not room and says they only need 5 votes to stay (complete w/ subtitles)...while holding up 4 fingers.
Always great to see the BB contestants try their hand at advanced math like multiplication (Monet's 60 * 60 = 1200).
Yeah, Matt should absolutely be safe with the 3 brigade members and Rachel and Brendon.
I just don't understand why Brendon didn't do the same thing Rachel did - drop his briefcase immediately after Britney did. Then they would have virtually ensured that the nominations would have stayed the same. I guess it's tough to think on the fly sometimes.
I think Rachel is so fake and annoying. All she wants is Brendan and they don't even make a good pair!