The Season of the Alliance
The Quack
Pack, Silent Six, the coaches, the newbies, Janelle’s team, Boogie’s team,
Janelle and Britney, Chill Town, Dan and Danielle, DDBS (Dan, Danielle, Brit,
Shane), Joe and everyone. That’s just some of the alliances we’ve had this
season and most of them are all but expanded (Joe is still around making deals
with everyone) and for that reason we are bound to see a lot more teaming up,
breaking up and then teaming up again this season.
Since Frank
is HoH and all by himself, last episode he nominated his biggest rival and main
target Dan and plans to get him out this week. The only thing that could stop
him is how the house votes, so while Dan plans a way to save himself, Frank
will be trying to get the votes to make sure Dan goes home.
This episode
starts with Dan and Danielle reacting to their nominations in the diary room “Like,
how do you try to even campaign against the one person you didn’t want to play
this game without?” Dan is a lot less dramatic about it saying “The thing that
Frank doesn’t know is I got a trick up my sleeve. I’m hoping I can pull Ian to
use the Veto on me and save the day for me, one more time.”
Frank gets
his time in the diary room and says “Dan’s been doing a lot of swinging and
missing when it comes to trying to get me out of the house this summer. Me, on
the other hand, I wanna just take one shot at him and knock it out the park.”
One shot Frank? Isn’t this the third time you’ve pushed for Dan to go up, hasn’t
he been target all summer?
Before we
find out who’s playing in the Veto competition this week, Dan and Danielle are
outside strategizing. They discuss the best case scenario - Britney or Shane
win the Veto and then Ian and the other Veto holder will use the power to take
Dan and Danielle of the block, leading to Frank having to nominate Joe or Jenn
next to the fifth member of the Quack Pack and the QP having the votes to
control eviction - but they never talk about what they will do if Frank wins or
even if one of the floaters wins it. Wouldn’t you plan for the worst case
scenario first?
The Veto
players this week are as always the HoH and the two nominees, Frank, Dan and
Danielle, and then the players selected by random draw, Shane, Britney and
Jenn. (Jenn is in another individual competition? She has been in almost
everyone and still hasn’t won anything. What a joke.) Frank also picks Ian to
host the Veto competition.
During the
Veto player selection we see a diary room interview about Dan’s plan in the
Veto competition that pretty much sums up how he plays the entire game. He said
“The plan is to keep all five quack pack members safe. To do that I have to throw
this competition to either Britney or Shane and that’s not happening. The only
person I trust in this game is myself. If me winning this Veto means a Quack
Pack has to go home, then so be it.” Does this mean Dan is going to actually
try in a competition?
The first
new alliance of this episode is created when Jenn “City” (what?) goes to Frank and tells him that he’s not “rolling by
himself.”
The veto
competition this week is sponsored by Draw Something, the telephone app. If you’ve
ever played Draw Something on your phone you know how to play this Veto
competition. Viewers from all over sent in their own drawings to Big Brother
for this competition. The main objective is to guess what is being drawn on the
big screen in front of them. They are given the number of letters in the word
and a bunch of letters that could be in the word (just like the phone app). The
first contestant to buzz in and give the correct word wins a chance to get the
points. In order to get the points though, the contestant must accept a
punishment (the picture is a clue of the punishment) to earn the points. The
player with the most points after ten pictures is the winner and gets the Golden
Power of Veto
.
Here: are
the Quick Veto Notes:
·
Ian
looks like even more of a dork in his beret and sweater vest.
·
Ian
makes a note (or the editors made sure to put that in after words) that you
cannot help the other contestants and if you do you will be disqualified.
·
The
first picture is an avocado. Frank buzzes and answers correctly. His punishment
is to be dyed green; he accepts (“Perform it, yo!”) and earns two points.
·
Drawing
number two is “hunger”, Dan answer first and gets it right. In order to earn
five points he needs to eat two of four trays of gross looking food (each tray
had something different). Dan ate the Ick Sticks and the Big Brother sushi
netting five points.
·
Jenn
answers first for the third drawing, it’s a clock. She has 90 seconds to take
off her clothes and burn them for four points. She is super excited and
suggests that she’d be willing to be butt naked (no thanks Jenn). She easily gets
four points.
·
The
forth drawing is worth six points and Britney buzzes in first. The drawing is
of a shackle and she gets it right and accepts being chained to a house guest
of her choice (Danielle) for 24 hours. Brit gets six points.
·
Drawing
five is of a shower and Frank answers first. His punishment is to have a chum
shower every time a bell goes off for the next 24 hours. He accepts, earning
seven points moving his total to nine.
·
Frank
gets the next one right too earning three points for wearing a carrot costume
for a week. His total is now 12.
·
The
seventh drawing is of a bench, it’s worth ten points but you have to sit out
the next HoH competition. Frank answers it first and accepts the punishment,
meaning he has 22 points in the Veto competition but won’t be playing for HoH
in the next two HoH competitions.
·
The
eighth rounds picture is ‘spots’.
Danielle answers correctly and for her punishment accepts having her
other houseguests splash her with paint for two minutes. She earns six points.
·
The
ninth picture is “trip”, which means the person who answers will be sent on a
trip to the Big Brother 24 hour Solitary Dance Party. Dan answers correctly
earning him eight points and add to his total bringing it to 13 overall.
·
The
tenth and final picture is of summer and is worth 11 points. Britney buzzes in
first but can’t think of the word.
·
Frank
whispers the word to Britney and is DQ’d from the game. Frank had the lead, the
only person who could have beaten him by points was Dan and he still has to do
all the punishments. Worst move by Frank so far.
·
The
(second) last picture is still worth 11 points and now anyone has a chance to
win the Veto. The picture is of a ticket and Jenn answers correctly meaning
that Jenn has 15 points and wins the Veto. (WHAT? Jenn won a competition?) She
also accepted to take a slop pass for the rest of the summer.
·
In
a diary room celebration of her first win Jenn yells “Awh! Shucky, Ducky Now!
Looks who’s got the gold.”
After the
competition Frank and Jen come together and solidify their alliance. Jenn
reiterates to Frank what she said earlier, that he is not alone in the game,
and makes sure he realizes she is sincere.
Dan breaks
down in the diary room after losing the Veto competition. While in between sobs
he says “In the end, there are three things I love in life my wife and my
family, coaching and playing this game.” He enters the 24 hour Solitary Dance
Party after the competition and seems to be ok with the fact that he has 24
hours to be alone and scheme.
Over the
next couple minutes we get quick looks at everyone’s punishments. Britney and
Danielle awkwardly use the washroom with the other standing just outside the
door because they are chained together. We see Frank wearing his carrot costume
and then having to jump into the chum bath every time the bell sounds, even
when he’s sleeping.
I guess the
24 hours goes quickly because we are now shown the houses guest banging on the
door of the Have-Not room to wake Dan up and let him know he can come out now. When
Dan comes out though, he looks pretty beat up and the smell in the Have-Not room
leaves everyone believing that Dan got sick over night. Dan walks around the
house like a zombie and then he lets everyone know that when he feels better he
would like to have a house meeting.
At the house
meeting, that Dan calls his “Big Brother Funeral” (he wears all black), he
starts by saying something nice about all the houseguests.
Joe: Joe, being around you, you taught me
a lot about how to be a good husband.
Shane: You know Shane’s walking, living
proof that there actually is a Captain America. You’re such a good dude, I just
appreciate our friendship.
Jenn: The one and only Jenn “City”. You’re
the first lesbian I’ve ever met and I just want you to know just how much you’ve
touched me.
Britney: I know that we’re always going to
have this bond that maybe only you and I understand as new people being married
in this house and being separated from the people we love.
Ian: The more and more I was around you
the more you remind me of myself because you love this place with everything its
worth. And you, you single handily made this experience for me.
Frank: There’s a couple things I’ve said
about you that I’m not proud of, you know, there’s something in the bible I
want to read to you upstairs and apologize to you face to face in private.
If you’re
paying attention you’re right Dan hasn’t said anything to Danielle yet, he
saved her for last and I’m sure it will be the most emotional and heartfelt.
Danielle: The last time I played this game I
learned a lot of tough lessons early on, and I learned that you gotta find one
person and put 100% of your trust in them. I thought I picked you and you would
have similar qualities to Memphis Garret and, through my own fault, I was
wrong. We don’t need to get into it right now but in this game you’ll never
earn my trust back. You know what you did and in this game you’re dead to me.
So don’t come to me and ask about ‘cause it’s over.
BOOM! Dan
just dropped a bomb on Danielle in front of the whole house and no one knows
why. All Danielle can do is sit there and cry, while Dan and Frank go upstairs
so Dan can apologize and the rest f the players stand around dumb founded.
In a diary
room interview with his hair all slick back we see Dan looking like an evil villain
and he explains what just really happened, “Did I really go crazy in solitary
confinement? Or did I come up with a master plan to get myself out of this
mess?” OOOOOHHHH!! Yeah, that makes more sense Dan doesn’t seem like the kind
of person to all of a sudden sprout feelings, he was just playing everyone.
Danielle isn’t going to be too happy when Dan lets her know this is the second
time he has made her cry for the good of his game.
Dan has just
created one of the best diversions in Big Brother history, while the house
guests are downstairs trying to figure out his motives for the speech and at
the same time trying to console Danielle he is upstairs with Frank letting him
on everything. Dan tells Frank that Ian was the guy spreading all the info
about Boogie and that Britney and Shane wanted to win the veto in order to mess
with Frank’s nominations. All this truth
telling from Dan is just his way of trying to get back on Franks good side and
surprisingly it works. Not only that we have our second and third alliances of
the episode formed. Dan and Frank decide to make a final two pact and also plan
on bringing Danielle and Jenn in on it. Now all that has to be done is Frank
has to convince Jenn to use the Veto on Dan so he can nominate Britney and Dan
has to get Danielle back on his side after blowing her up in front of the whole
house.
Dan brings
Danielle into the arcade room to do damage control. He tells her that in order
to save them both he had to make her cry in front of everyone. Danielle starts
crying again saying “You broke my heart. You humiliated me in front of the
whole house.” She stops crying almost on command and asks him if he could have
at least given her a heads up and he says no “Because then you wouldn’t have
cried.” Danielle can only reply with “You are one sick person, Dan.” 
Now that
Danielle is on board all Frank needs to do is get Jenn on board. Frank tells
her everything that Dan told him about Ian and Britney. Jenn is on board to go
after Ian next week but she is hesitant about using the Veto on Dan because she
doesn’t really trust him but Frank assures her that he and Dan both have her
back and that’s good enough for her. 
At the Veto ceremony
both Ian and Jenn have a chance to use their Vetoes. Ian is up first and
decides not to use it because he wants to build up trust with Frank. On the
other hand Jenn does use her Veto, making probably the only move she has made
all season. Knowing this was all going to Frank had a nice little speech
planned out when he replaced Dan with Britney on the block, He said “Ian, you
voted Mike out last week and then put me and my other closest ally up on the
block. She went home. You won the veto so I can put up. I got to do the next
best thing and put your closest ally up on the block, you made apparent who
that is, so according to a not so wise young man ‘Britney pop-a-squat.’” 
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