This recap includes some flashbacks to last week’s episode.


Black & White screen: Julie tells the HGs that it’s double eviction night. Memphis is stoked. Michelle is not. In the DR, Dan says he hopes his alliance will come out unscathed. So far, so good: Michelle is evicted 3-1. Ollie is the only one who voted for her to stay. Jerry gives her a hug and says, “God I love ya, baby. Stay in touch.” Ew!

Jerry DR: “With Michelle being evicted, I could see any alliance I had with anybody in the house dwindling, you know… going down one by one, leaving me more vulnerable.”

Keesha DR: “I can honestly say I felt really bad for Michelle. But I was one of her biggest targets, so I couldn’t keep her in here.”

Renny DR: "Even though I was crazy about Michelle--I would like to have given her my vote, but I couldn’t vote for Michelle because I did remain loyal to the alliance... which has helped me get this far in the game.”

Ollie DR: “Michelle, I want you to know this: I will avenge your leaving.” HAHA!

Michelle waves goodbye and walks out, after hugging everyone but Dan & Memphis. Renny is a little tearful.

Memphis DR: “Thank God Michelle’s gone. It’s about time. The things that came out of her mouth were ridiculous. She’s a complainer. She’s a pain in the ass. She thinks she deserves this money more than anyone else. So… don’t let the door hit ya on the way out. See ya. Have a nice life.”

Keesha DR: “So Michelle leaves. Six of us left. No time to digest anything. It is time for another HoH competition.”

We see a b&w flashback to last week’s AWESOME HoH competition wherein Jerry and Keesha are the last two standing and Keesha knocks Jerry’s old ass out of the competition with the tie-breaker question (even though Memphis was less than confident in Keesha’s math skillz, Jerry’s were worse). Keesha wins HoH! (Oh man, it was wonderful.)

Keesha DR: “Yes!!! Thank you!!! Yes!!! I just needed it so bad… for me and my teammates.”

Dan DR: “After Keesha won, it was pretty obvious who she was going to nominate. It made me feel pretty good.”

Keesha nominates Jerry and Ollie because they suck and aren't on the cool team.

Jerry DR: “Well, you’re up on the block, you never feel safe. You never know what’s happening in people’s minds. It’s all happening this quick and I kept saying to myself: ‘play your hardest, keep your composure, don’t offend anybody, you know?”

Ollie DR: “My back’s against the wall and it’s me against the world sort of mentality. And I think I perform the best when my back’s against the wall.” Well, once again, you think wrong, Ollie. Surprise, surprise.

Flashback to last week’s veto competition: Dan wins the Veto! He hauled ass, I must say. Was Ollie the only person who didn’t find a single veto in the haystacks? Ollie just proved once and for all that he Sucks.

Dan DR: “My whole 'weak' strategy, I mean, at this point it’s a wash. I won my first veto, I won an HoH and then I follow it up with another veto. I mean, no one’s dumb enough to believe I’m a weak player in this game at this point. I gotta change gears, and figure out what that gear is.”

Dan pulls Keesha aside and asks who she wants them to vote out. She says Ollie. Dan says alright, done, and tells both Memphis and Renny who the target is.

Memphis DR: “I was stoked, man. I had a grin from ear to ear. I pretty much knew that I at least wasn’t going to go on the block or go home this week. Pretty much the best scenario that could happen, happened.”

Dan DR: “Our plan is going pretty much exactly how we want it. The dominoes are falling and aligned. And we’re taking everyone out one by one.”

We see a shot of Memphis and Dan celebrating Renegade-style in the bathroom, then a shot of Ollie in the Doom Room with his head in his hands. When everyone gathers back in the living room, Dan chooses not to use the power of veto, obviously. Ollie mutters to Jerry, “and we don’t get a week to campaign, do we.” Jerry sputters out some garbled words of doltish agreement, then says, “life is short.” Jerry is clearly not worried that he is going home at this point. Ollie looks pissed as hell. Predictably, Ollie is evicted, by unanimous vote. He jumps off the couch before Julie can even finish announcing it. He says, “see y’all later,” and jets out the door like a bat out of hell.

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Post Ollie Eviction:

Dan DR: “At this point I couldn’t have written a better script for myself. Michelle leaves and then Ollie leaves about an hour later! Our final four alliance is still intact and the only person we have left to get out is Jerry.”

After Ollie leaves, Jerry says, “Good run guys… all I ask is that you be kind to me this week… Don’t not talk to me! All I ask is a little talk... you know... just talk to me...” Ugh.

Jerry DR: “Now I truly am all alone... facing four people that have been in an alliance for a long time. And I’m note sure about survival.”

Jerry, to the group: “Did you four guys ever think you’d be stuck with me?” Dan, Keesha and Memphis titter uncomfortably, then manage to slip away from Jerry fairly quickly. Renny isn’t so lucky. When the others ditch him, Jerry corners Renny in the kitchen. “I knew that Ollie would vote for Michelle,” he rasps. "I knew when the vote came 3-1 that I was okay. When you’re 75 years old, you look on life—you can’t let one little instant like that take your mind. You won’t live as long as I am if you do. You won’t be as healthy.” Renny has no comment in response to this, but she seems to be trying real hard to not run screaming from the room.

Renny DR: “I find it hard to talk to the Colonel! We have nothing in common! I mean, I hate to say it—and it’s not because he’s older—you know, but he’s not my kind of person.”

Renny says, “Look at the time! My God!” and scurries away from Jerry. She enters the Hippie room, where Memphis and Dan are. Memphis tells Renny that they’ll try to keep Jerry away from her. Dan tries to get a bouncy group hug going, but Renny is still too exasperated from her Jerry encounter to join in the celebration. Keesha enters the room, breathing a sigh of relief over winning HoH. Dan continues celebrating by jumping on the bed. They all high-five and go to the living room. Meanwhile, Jerry begins unpacking his clothes alone in his room.

K: “Jerry’s gotta feel so odd though.”
M: “He should feel lucky though.”
K: “Yeah, I’m sure he does.”

Memphis DR: “I was happy. Seeing Ollie go, I thought it’s a cake walk to the final four. Jerry’s the only person we’ve got left to beat and then it’s the four of us to go all the way.”

R: “Dude, he may win the game!” Memphis laughs at the ridiculousness of this statement.
D: “Don’t say that.”
M: "He knows he's not safe now!"

R: “You can’t get rid of him, seriously!”
K: “You never know. Don’t jinx it, man.”

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Backyard Bullshit:
There is a scene that’s way too annoying to transcribe, but the gist of it is that Renny is too loopy to be able to tell the hour properly between time zones. She keeps insisting that New Orleans is two hours ahead of California, but then says that when it’s 8 in L.A., it’s 6 in N.O. Dan laughs at her quite a bit, while insisting that he is not laughing at her. She gets very irritated with him until she realizes that she’s being an idiot, then she laughs at herself.

Then there is a whole segment about Keesha’s terribly annoying laugh. Oy vey.

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New HoH Competition:
The backyard is done up like a carnival skee-ball booth. The game goes like this: the slots at the back of each booth are numbered 1-52. This is the total number of days that the HGs have been in the Big Brother house. The players are asked a series of questions about events that have happened in the house. They must guess which day the event occurred, then aim their ball at the slot for that day. Points are accumulated according to how many days away their ball lands from the correct day. The person with the least amount of points at the end wins HoH.

Memphis DR: “This HoH competition is very important. Me, Renny or Dan have to win this. Then, we’ll get rid of Jerry and we’ll make it to the final four.”

Dan DR: “The HoH competition is set up possibly the best we can have: it’s three vs. one. If you can’t win three vs. one then one of us probably deserves to go home.”

Jerry DR: “I have to win HoH in order to survive this week. I am alone in this house. The whole house is against me and I have to play my heart out to win this thing.”

This competition is a little too boring to get too detailed with who had which scores for which rounds and such, so here’s some general stuff about it:

The first question asks which day Jerry called Dan a Judas during the POV ceremony.

Jerry DR: “I remember the day I called Dan a Judas. I didn’t remember the exact number of the day, but I will always remember him as that.” Really, Jerry? …because I remember last week when you told Dan that you were taking back the ‘Judas’ thing. I guess you’re now taking back your take-back? You suck. Semper fi.

Dan is in the lead for several rounds, but Jerry starts catching up to him about halfway through when he gets a perfect score during one round. In a subsequent round, Dan’s ball bounces around the slots and ends up 11 numbers away from where he had aimed.

Renny is the worst player, by far. She has never played skee-ball before, and can’t really aim the ball well. (And it doesn’t help that she got drunk with Keesha a couple hours beforehand, I’m sure.)

Memphis kind of sucks too, but not nearly as badly as Renny.

Final scores:
Dan: 31
Jerry: 29
Memphis: 33+
Renny: 51+

Jerry wins HoH! booooooooo!

Dan looks disgusted and depressed at having lost this competition. Jerry gives out a dusty old “hoot!” when he is announced as the winner. Dan actually got a perfect score for the last round, but his earlier screw-up was too severe to beat Jerry’s cumulative score.

Jerry DR: “Don’t ever underestimate an old man! On top of surviving two evictions in the same day? Man, what more can you ask of me today? Man, I’m wound up!” He is very happy. Congratulations, Jerryatric.

Dan DR: “When Keesha announced that Jerry was the head of household, my heart sank in my stomach and I knew it was gonna be a rough week for me. I put Jerry up, I’ve double-crossed him twice. I have a pretty good feeling I’m going up."

J: “I love you guys, Ya gotta know that!” You lie, Jerry.

In the kitchen, Jerry says he has no idea where he’s going with this thing. He tells everyone to just talk to him and he’ll figure it out, ‘cause he has no idea.

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Keesha, Memphis and Dan talk game in the hippie room:
M: “It’s gonna get dirty, isn’t it?
K: “I don’t care what he says. You always have in mind who you want to put up.
M: “It just sucks.”
K: “I guess it is down to five.. from here on out.. it’s just..”
D: “I can see him putting up me and Renny, and he’s got reasons, you know?”
M: “That’s the thing with Jerry. We’ve all fought with him. He’s gonna try and do something.”
K: “He’s gonna use this for his leverage.”
M: “But he’s not making no deal [with me]. If you want to beat me out there, then beat me. But I ain’t making no deal.”
K: “He’s gonna try. I don’t know who’s going up. With Jerry? …I don’t know
M: “He’s a loose cannon. It’s completely up in the air.”

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Jerry’s HoH Room:

Memphis DR: “With Jerry winning HoH and getting all the power, everybody knew that it was time to pucker up, ‘cause we were gonna have to kiss his ass.”

There are lots of pictures of Jerry’s boring family. But—wait a second—Jerry has a 20-year-old daughter?? Does his wife know? The HGs make nice (*I* think, sincere) comments about Jerry’s stuff.

Jerry DR: “People who win HoH all of a sudden become very popular. Everybody starts saying nice things. People are looking of ways to survive the game (sic). I don’t even know who the hell I can trust.”

Keesha points out a toy snake in Jerry’s goody basket. Jerry says, “Hissy! Oh! I gotta tell you a story about hissy!” Keesha let’s out an exasperated sigh and seeks solace in her glass of red wine. “It’ll give you a thing to think about the rest of your life,” says Jerry.

Memphis DR: “I have to sit here and listen to another story of Jerry’s. Which more than likely is not going to be exciting, or make any sense, or be funny.” And this is, in fact, exactly right. Jerry’s story is stupid and boring and makes no sense. It is so lame and long that even BB editing can’t shorten it enough. But the moral of the story is: “Hiss. Don’t strike and bite.” So there you go. Thanks, Jerry.

Dan DR: “At the end of a long day, the last thing we wanna hear is a boring story from 1935. But then I think to myself, you know, staying awake might mean the difference between me winning $500,000 and me being sent home this week. So I was fighting my eyelids… but I think my eyelids were winning.”

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Keesha and Memphis talk game:
Keesha and Memphis discuss possible scenarios. They both agree that they don’t want to see any of their alliance go, because they’ve all helped each other, but it’s unavoidable at this point.

Memphis DR: “If Keesha wins, I want her to take me. If Dan wins, I want him to take me. So I’m trying to cover my bases here.”

Memphis whispers, “Keesha, I’ve been waiting a long time to tell you this… I’m never gonna see any of these people again in my life. I’m serious. As far as I’m concerned, I need you here.” Keesha cracks up at this, and then makes a ‘Whoa, are you seriously serious?’ face. Then she says, “Same here.” Hmmm….

Memphis DR: “I don’t want to make a deal, but I want her to think that if it comes down to us three, I’m gonna choose her to go to the finals with. But I’m trying to put it in that way without saying it.”

Memphis continues, “Like, whatever needs to happen will happen. You know what I mean?” Keesha’s frown lines ponder this.

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More Random BS:
It is nighttime. The HGs are sleeping. Renny is sleep walking. Keesha and Memphis wake up and ask her what the hell she is doing. She says that she has to “put the towels in the dryer. Okay. Sookie sookie now. Where’s my candy bar? Hell! Ping pong ball? What the hell?” Memphis has to tell her not to eat the ping pong ball. We see some DR commentary about how wacky Renny is. The next morning, Renny says she doesn’t know what was going on last night; She woke up in the morning with “Almond Joys in my bed and all kinda stuff…” Can you tell that there wasn’t a lot of exciting footage to choose from this week? Yeah.

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Keesha and Renny talk a little game:
Keesha enters the hippie room, where Renny is laying down. Renny flashes a crazy-ass grin, but Keesha just looks forlorn.

R: “What’s the matter?”
K: “It’s just gonna be crazy from here on out.”
R: “What do you think he’s gonna do, Keesha? Don’t tell me he’s gonna put you and I up together.”
K: “Well, he knows that you and I are like that.” She crosses her fingers.
R: “That would be his best bet… to put up two guys or two girls.”
K: “I think that I’m really gonna need you this week. More than probably ever.”
R: “I know one thing: one of us is going home, duh.”
K: “You never know who’s going. Who knows..”

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Dan and Memphis talk game in the back yard:
M: “We gotta make it through this week. If we make it through this week, we’re money. You know that.”
D: “Okay, if you were him, what would you want?”
M: “I’d want not to be put on the block next week. I just feel like he wants to be promised that he’s gonna be taken to 3. That’s the thing.”
D: “If he asks you that, you gotta be prepared to say yeah. What if he asks you about me and you?”
M: “I’m gonna say, ‘Dan put me on the block, and I haven’t forgot about that.’ That’s all I’m gonna say about you.”
D: “See, here’s the thing. By making a deal, you ensure that one of us does not go home, because as long as we have one vote, he breaks the tie,”
M: “Yeah, exactly.”
D: “Isn’t it worth trying to make the deal to get through the week? I don’t know.”
M: “I mean I think it is, is it? It’s almost worth it. It’s our only hope, dude.”

Memphis DR: “For the Renegades to survive this week. Me and Dan can’t be on the block against each other. One of us on the block is okay. Both of us is disaster.”

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Memphis schmoozes in HoH:
Jerry says that he laid awake for hours and hours last night thinking about what to do. He says that he formulated some plans that include Memphis and he wants to go to final 2 with him. He reasons that forging an alliance would be the safest thing for the both of them. Memphis says he’s looking “to stay off the block, and we decide who goes home.”

M: “I am totally okay with that. I like that. I don’t have a problem with me and you going head to head with the [jury] votes. I would rather battle the best person in the game and, right now Jerry, it’s you.”
J: “Me too. Here’s how I want to play the game: I want to put Dan on the block. And then what we have to do is you have to fight like hell, one of us, to win the POV. If you then would take Dan off, it would ***k everything up again. He really in my eyes doesn’t deserve to be here. In yours he may, but--”
M: “No, I mean, I feel the same way. ‘Cause I don’t trust Dan. I mean, the son of a ****h put me on the block.”
J: “I know! How could you?”
M: “Yeah, I know, and, you know I took it very personally...”
J: “I know! I seen what happened! And now you’re here. And now you have a chance to go with me, and I don’t think, if Dan’s gone, that you and I couldn’t achieve that. I think that you and I together could achieve it.”
M: “I totally agree with you, and I think I will take you to the final two.”
J: “I will never—I will not break that.”
M: “Sounds good, Jerry. I think we really have a chance at winning this game.”
J: “See, I’m not vindictive! I’m a realist!”

They shake on it. The look on Memphis’ face says that he’s completely full of shit, but Jerry does not pick up on this whatsoever.

Jerry DR: “Memphis seemed very interested in the proposal. I seem to trust him more than the others just ‘cause I never see him really making a lot of promises.”

Memphis DR: “I have to make Jerry think that I have a deal with him. Because if this plan stays then I won’t be on the block and I’m gonna be able to keep Dan in this house, then the Renegades will be alive for next week.”

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Nomination Ceremony:

Memphis DR: “When Jerry won HoH, I was very concerned that I was gonna go up on the block. Now that I've talked to him I feel safer. I feel like I’m going to escape this week, surprisingly.”

Dan DR: “I’ve given Jerry so many reasons to put me up. Of the four people in my alliance, I’ve had the most problems with him. He hasn’t called anyone else a Judas in our group! I’ll be shocked if he doesn’t put me up.”

Renny DR: “I could definitely go on the block in the twink of an eye, because I put the Colonel on the block two weeks ago. If Jerry put me on the block, I mean, I know I’m going home.”

Keesha DR: “I am really worried about these nominations today because I believe I’m going up on the block. I’ve just got that gut feeling.”

Jerry DR: “None of my decisions that I’m gonna make as HoH are personal in nature. Every one of them is thought out, planned to get me further in the game and hopefully past next week to at least the final three and then the final two.”

First Key: Renny
Second Key: Memphis

Keesha and Dan are nominated.

Jerry tells Dan that he’s nominated because “it’s a matter of trust.” He tells Keesha that basically she’s just too strong a competitor.

Jerry DR: “The goal of this HoH was to try and get Dan out. Keesha is a pawn. Renny is very loyal to Keesha. I think she’ll vote to keep Keesha in the house if they try any games on me, so that’s where it stands right now.”

Dan DR: “When I found out it was me and Keesha on the block, I was happy because that gives me a shot with Memphis. I don’t want to see the Renegades go home. Veto is very important this week. If Memphis wins it, that could be the best case scenario because he could hopefully take me off and then the Renegades are safe and then we could run to the final four and see what happens from there.”

Keesha DR: “Being nominated sucks but I’m gonna fight like I never have before. The POV is going to be huge. Its going to get dirty, so… game on.” She actually looks bored. I think the producers told her to say that, lol.

Memphis DR: “It feels good to be this far and not nominated. I have a deal with Jerry. I have an agreement with Keesha. And I have a deal with Dan. Renny is the only person in this house that I don’t have a deal with. So this week, the goal is to get her out of here. If I can get her out of this house, I’m sitting pretty.”

fin.


Well, folks, last week was fantastic--practically orgasmic even--but I guess it couldn’t last forever. Old Jerryatric has ruined everyone's final four. Hopefully this won't cause too much damage! Maybe they can get rid of someone expendable (I think we all know who that would be), then ouster Jerry next week. Time will tell.

Thanks for the recap!

First of all, as a Renny lover I can see why you did not like the "backyard bullshit" being it shows what kind of deck she is working with...
I thought it was hilarious, especially how she got so defensive as the little wheels were turning. She knew something was wrong but just could not for the life of her figure it out. She is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Speaking of dull implements, Keesha's laugh had me laughing my ass off. I never noticed how "unique" her chuckle was!

I actually missed all the wheeling and dealing toward the end of the episode but from what I can tell from the recap it would seem like Memphis is a "Playa!" I hope he sticks with Dan and doesn't keep his handful of other deals. Funny that Jerry would trust him. I almost feel bad for him.

I also missed the story telling part with Jerry! That sounded funny! Haha! The diary room reactions were priceless.

This week it all comes down to who wins POV.

We know Keesha and Renny are one team and Dan and Memphis are the other with Jerry floating.

Renny wins: Takes Keesha off - Dan goes home.
Keesha wins: Takes herself off - Dan goes home.
Memphis wins: Takes Dan off - Renny goes home.
Jerry wins: Noms stay the same - Dan goes home.
Dan wins: Takes himself off - Renny goes home (I used to think Memphis would go, but think his deal with Jerry would stand.)

No matter what, it should be Jerry going home next week.

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Great recap. I just hope it all works out according to the plan.