February 11, 2009 4:36 PM

"Big Brother 8": Home Of The Brave

By
Marianne Goldstein
(CBS) 

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WEEK FIVE RECAP

Memo to Eric: A wise man once said, "You lay down with dogs and you'll get up with fleas." Eric teamed himself up with Evel Dick and now he needs a double dose of Frontline.

It all goes back to Nick. Who really voted for him to stay? And who voted for Mike to stay the week before? Both weeks there were two votes against Kail. No one will take responsibility for their actions except for Zack, the House Pariah, who admits to casting anti-Kail ballots the previous two weeks. Last week, Nick was incorrectly charged with being the second vote and it led to his eviction. Of course, it's been Eric, America's Player, who was doing America's bidding by voting against Kail.

Evel and Daniele suspect that Eric is the rogue voter. They devised a plan to eliminate him -- Daniele, the HOH, will put up Kail and Jen. But she will eventually back-door Eric in a clean, surgical strike. Her father is thrilled. She's daddy's little girl, after all!

They confided the plan to Jessica, who is the closest thing to a friend Daniele has in the house. She warned her close friend Eric, and, though sworn to secrecy, he confronted Evel, which gave Dick an excuse to bully someone other than Jen. Jen, happy to be out from under his thumb, stirred things up and plotted against Eric.

Suddenly, the other houseguests are waking up to the fact that Dick is unpredictable, volatile and dangerous. Whoa! Who'd a thunk? Under the guise of being a pierced, tattooed, nail-polished rebel who doesn't care what people think of him, Dick really doesn't care what people think of him. It's a novel strategy.

Moreover, Dick has been handling the houseguests, instead of it being the other way around. And now his entire Late Night Crew is trapped into being his obedient puppets. Or are they?

And then there were the banners. One flew over the house during the HOH competition: "We (heart) Nick. Amber and Eric are liars. LNC (Late Night Crew) is the Nerd Herd." To have someone from the outside world call them out during the game is bad news for Eric and Amber, who scrambled to defend themselves, even throwing dirt at each other. There were apparently other banners, as well (according to the live bloggers). It just gives ED more justification to target Eric.

Who will win POV? Will they use it to protect Eric? Can Eric wiggle his way out of this one? Will the rest of the LNC band together against Evel Dick and Daniele? Stay tuned!












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by peninsulapar August 8, 2007 3:28 PM EDT
I for one am really tired of the abusive foul mouth Evel and his ongoing conduct. It is beneath the dignity and quality of CBS to showcase his excremental posturing. Out with the distractor.
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by cindalbee August 6, 2007 12:50 AM EDT
I want to share our thoughts with CBS/Big Brother about Eric's task of "Sleep-walking"....I really feel you owe the $10,000 offered to Eric for the task of making someone in the house believe he (Eric) was sleep-walking. America chose Joe. BB said he did not complete the task because he was not "kicked" out of bed by the person America chose (Joe). However, the task was to make the chosen "houseguest" believe he (Eric) was asleep and had been sleep-walking and was unaware he had crawled into someone else's bed and not his own. He most certainly accomplished this task. It was later stated that he was supposed to have been kicked out of the bed. However, that is not the way it was told beforehand. Joe was thoroughly convinced Eric had been sleep-walking. Therefore, his task was accomplished and he should be given the $10,000. On the subject of the tasks given to Eric...It would be really nice if BB would recap the number of tasks assigned and the number of tasks accomplished for America to see how much Eric has won to date for being "America's Player".

On another subject%u2026what is being done to insure the integrity of the game and stopping outside influences as happened with the airplane pulling the banner the evening of the HOH competition this week on Thursday, August 2nd. This has jeopardized Eric%u2019s position as America%u2019s Player.
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by gigi112 August 4, 2007 6:24 PM EDT
We want Nick back! We want Nick back!! We want Nick back!!! I've had about enough of Waaaaaaaaaamber!! And ERIC - what a disappointment.
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by gigi112 August 4, 2007 6:19 PM EDT
PLEASE bring NICK back!!!! Get rid of Jen and Kail and let NICK come back in.
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by dgermenis August 4, 2007 1:14 AM EDT
Big Brother is the worst show on TV. The program is a huge waste of time.

And Julie Chen, make up your mind - do you want to be in New York on The Early Show or a million miles away in LA to do Big Brother? I don't like it when you're in LA. Get back to the NY studio or quit The Early Show gig. On second thought, just stay in LA.
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by kuamane August 3, 2007 2:29 PM EDT
nick you stayed under the radar for a little while . but getting mixed up with that dizzy blond was a mestake . i would have played her and jen! its a game .. you let your non pro football skills take over . had you played REAL football here in the U.S you would have still been in the game ... BUT HEY now your BENCHED !!! dummy ...
keep the mohalk its you ... DUMB!!!!
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by mike_id45 August 3, 2007 1:26 PM EDT
Nick you're such an idiot. You played this game with your (GF in the house, fathers name)How could you let a girl play you that way? She used you, then she booted you out. How can you have good feelings toward her an dick? They are rotten people. Dick is an ugly person inside and out. When Dick was young you can see he was goodlooking but his inside ugliness and vile personality came throught to his ouside. Don't let that happen to you.
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by ang2ques August 3, 2007 12:33 PM EDT
Now that u are out of the house, did u know that a few hours later, everyone know that the decision u made was wrong? And how do u feel about the Banner that was shown at HOH that read AMBER AND ERIC ARE LIARS?
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by sadie9101 August 1, 2007 7:46 PM EDT
Is it me or what? Every time I see Evil Dick on the screen he just looks like a dirty old man trying to re-kindle his youth with those nasty tattoos and piercing and dirty looking hair. He is a poor example of what a person should be like at his age. No wonder his daughter was ashamed of him.
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by nukstr-2009 July 28, 2007 3:04 AM EDT
i think Evil Khail, Dustin, Jamica, and Amber are terrible, they sit on there high horses and laugh at people and JEN needs to stay with this weeks nomination
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