There are only two reality shows I ever want to be one. One of them is MTV’s Road Rules, which doesn’t exist so that dream will never come true. Which I don’t get, as one would imagine that Road Rules would be a better testing ground for future candidates in those Challenges and Duels competition shows. Much better than using the Real World to accomplish that.
Whenenver I hear Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn, I instantly remember the 90s and the Real World clips start rolling through my mind’s eye. No other song does that for me better than Torn.
Such a good song!
The other reality show that I would love to be on is CBS’s Big Brother. There’s something about it that just speaks to me. I feel like I could reall excel at it.
The only problem for me will be having to tolerate Chenbot. Is she the worst part of the show? Yes. Could her part easily be done by the voice over guy who does the Wednesday and Sunday episodes? Yes. Is she married to CBS Corporation President and CEO, Leslie Moonves? Yes.
We have been getting the live feeds for the past few years and watched every episode of Big Brother After Dark when it aired on Showtime. We don’t get the TV Guide channel, so we no longer can watch it.
There are some great websites that do an amazing job of following the house guests :
Jamie : http://big-brother-16-blog.blogspot.com/
Dingo : http://www.hamsterwatch.com/
Matthew : http://bigbrothernetwork.com/
These two are the best websites for to follow the show with!
Just for my use of not having to go back to Wikipedia every year, here are the winners of previous seasons :
Season One Eddie McGee
Season Two Will Kirby
Season Three Lisa Donahue
Season Four Jun Song Ex-Factor
Season Five Drew Daniel Project DNA
Season Six Maggie Ausburn Secret Partner
Season Seven Mike “Boogie” Malin All Stars 1
Season Eight “Evel” Dick Donato Rivals
Season Nine Adam Jasinski Couples
Season Ten Dan Gheesling Back to Basics
Season Eleven Jordan Lloyd Cliques
Season Twelve Hayden Moss Sabateur
Season Thirteen Rachel Reilly Returning Cast
Season Fourteen Ian Terry Coaches
Season Fifteen Andy Herren Three Nominees / MVP
Season One is the season that I watched on my own. It doesn’t quite count as the format is nothing like what it is now.
Season Two has the second best play of the game as the winner, Will Kirby. Some would say he is by far the greatest player to play the game, but he is a close second to Dan Gheesling.
Season Two through Six, I didn’t watch at all and am obsess with finding a way to watch these episodes!
Season Three is when Power of Veto started.
Season Four is when Big Brother started becoming the show we will recognize it to be.
Season Seven is the season I started with, it is also the season my wife and I started dating. So I missed most of the season but the first episode I saw had NPH (Neil Patrick Harris) on it so I was hooked. So I’ve been a Big Brother fan since August 29, 2006. He was promoting the great How I Met Your Mother, which was a new show way back then!
Janelle’s moment in the first elimination in the finale where she let go of the strap and regrabbed it as she was readjusting herself still haunts me. She didn’t know the buzzer started and so she was eliminated in the very first two seconds. I still say they should have just restared the competition. That is brutal!
Season Eight was Evel Dick’s season, though I mostly remember it for the season with Eric and Jessica as I really like Jessica. She was my first Big Brother crush. Which the show does a pretty good job of finding that one lady that I’m really going to like. Sometimes I pick the wrong one at first but one eventually rises. Those two are still married, as far as I know.
Evil Dick use to host this great show online that was essentially a recap show where he and other former houseguests would come on and talk about the show. I use to really love it but then it started being overly into advertising and it moved to a different website and I couldn’t follow it anymore.
Oh, Season Nine. Its winner, Adam, got fired from his job – this being the first season where I learn that what happens in the game can have serious implications on your real life. He ended up going to jail after his season too, something that started happening to more contestants.
Season Ten gave us Dan, by far the greatest player to ever play this game. Though I didn’t give him that title until Season Fifteen but he really is the greatest player. Is he my favorite player? No, that goes to another player but he is by far my favorite player to win the game.
Season Ten also gave us Jessie, who will have a bigger impact on season eleven as a returning hosueguest but I want to say that ever since this season – he has shown up as a special guest every year since then. He doesn’t mind making a fool of himself and I imagine production likes that about him. He may have missed a year but I want to say he is pretty constant.
Another constant that I really like is the Zingbot 3000 – boy do I like those zings!
Season Eleven gave us Jeff and Jordan, and I do love me Jeff Schroeder, he will probably be my third favorite houseguest.
Eleven also gave us Chima, who had a very violent outburst and essentially self destructed and was forced to leave the game, only the third person to be expelled. This season also had Russell and Ronnie and this weird moment when Russell was being a bully to Ronnie and then later said it was a mutual agreed act. But Ronnie was seen in the confessional, crying and wanting his wife. Why pretend to the edit that might not happen?
Also, production did this fun montage with Kevin watching Jeff being the sexy garden boy and that was fun to watch.
Season Twelve, 2010, is when we started really getting into Big Brother, as the live feeds are like $25 and are live almost all the time. When it goes to fishes, is maddening how often it happens but it is well worth it. Those two websites are great about giving you time stamps of when to go back and watch. This season gave us Britney Haynes, by far, my favorite houseguest of all time. She can come back every single season, to either play or host or mentor, I don’t care.
Poor Britney suffered from not being part of the Brigade alliance. Which was a great alliance, not the most exciting to watch but they had the best strategy I’ve ever seen. Have a core group of guys, each guy has an outside friend, so you can have eight votes right there but definitely will know everything that was happening.
Season Twelve might go down as my favorite season as well, as it gave us Brendon and Rachel, and this entire season was so fun to watch. So many different individuals playing the game together and apart and so much was happening! Matt and Regan, Enzo, the whole cast was pretty decent. Lane. Annie and Kathy were the dead weight of the season, Monet too now that I’m looking at the cast. Andrew had a good speech.
Andrew gave a great final speech as did Matt, given several opportunities to make speeches, each one better than the last. I like players who just have fun with the format.
I want to say this was also the season where Chenbot started interviewing the HoH on Eviction Night and those were extremely awkward. As awkward as the forced conversations with Chenbot with the houseguests proper. She really is the worst thing about the show.
If I could ever be on it, I’m not sure if I could pretend and go along with it.
Season Thirteen gave us Jeff and Jordan as well as Brendon and Rachel back. Another fun season to watch. Evel Dick left under mysterious circumstances. He eventually started hosting that show this season.
Oh man, the fear I had of Porsche winning over Rachel because of how catty the jury was, was intense! The game is all about trying not to let floaters or the weaker member of a duo win and that’s always disappointing! The main person takes all of the heat and gets eliminated and the other person is left stating that they were crucial to all decisions – it just makes for less than stellar speeches. Survivor has this problem too!
Lawron made some funny poor decisions too, during this season but it gave us Brendon back for a time – so it worked out.
Season Fourteen, Dan Gheesling became the greatest player of all time this season. Dan’s Funeral, and so many other spectacular moments! Dan’s game though, did make it so that he could never win but Doctor Ian Terry was a great player himself. Plus, more Britney Haynes!
Season Fourteen also gave us Wil Heuser, who is so fun on YouTube. No one has time for two L’s.
youtube.com/user/TheNewWilShow
I keep worrying, with how production didn’t hide how much they loved Frank – that he was going to force another All-Star situation.
Ian’s “get a stepping” to Boogie is pretty classic.
Another awesome moment is when Dan went into Joe’s room, to sleep and Joe started talking to Dan as if he was someone else and started talking to Dan about Dan. Dan realized he had to shut that down fast and Joe’s attempt to recoup the moment and Dan just telling him to go to sleep is such a great moment. Only on that show could that happen.
Season Fifteen saw Rachel’s sister, Elissa, come in to play. I was a fan of Amanda at first, but then she started going crazy in the hosue! Really hurt McCrae’s chances.
Wil made this awesome video for the finale :
Pretty much summarizes the season.
His impression of Chenbot is pretty dead on. I never notice her “but first” until he pointed it out.
This season and the fallout with Aaryn and Amanda’s silliness and how much this show ruin their personal lives (both were fired from their jobs and such) really must wake up future contestants that they got to keep their racist nonsense at home. Especially once it is pointed out to you.
GenaMarie’s obsession with Nick was also insane for how little interaction they had together!
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So excited about Season Sixteen! Get ready to expect the unexpected!
On June 16th, Chenbot announced that the house theme is Urban Treehouse. It looks pretty fun.
On June 18th, last week, Chenbot herself revealed on her show that the following twists will occur :
2 Head of Households (HoH) – I imagine it will only be like that for the first few weeks
4 Nominations each week – two per HoH – so the three nominees from last year must have tested well. I thought it was a failure as nothing shocking came from those.
The two HoH will have to compete in “Battle of the Block” which is silly as they already competed to become HoH. I wonder if the loser gets their nominees taken off the block. Sort of like a Super POV.
Also, America will have a larger role in the game than besides voting for what types of food the Have Nots get to eat for the week.
On June 19th, they announced the cast. Looks like a bunch of twenty somethings but at least it is a brand new cast. I like the concept of All Stars and returning guests but I enjoy having a brand new cast and having the old houseguest show up for guest appearances and such.
I should also tell you dear readers, that I’m hoping to follow Big Brother on the blog and throw my voice into the cyberworld. So you may want to skip those posts. Or play along! I feel like my love for the show expands every year with how we do something different and big for it, each new season.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 