Big Brother 12 Week One Eviction Recap

For the first eviction of the summer, Big Brother pulled out all the stops in terms of entertainment… okay I gotta stop there with that half truth, but the first live eviction did have several eye raising moments that caught our attention, especially the reveal of the Saboteur and the crowning of the new HOH.

Julie Chen greeted us feeling happy as hell that she isn’t pregnant anymore and I have to admit that I am glad she’s had her baby as well, since I got tired of playing ‘Guess What Trimester Julie Is In Now!’ because I was losing badly. Anyway…

After the POV ceremony, Annie went on a frakking rampage by storming through the house like a brat in a heat tantrum. Her ‘victims’ were Britney (who could’ve cared less) and Brendon, who was on the verge of tears. I kid you not. After trying to be macho about it, Brendon finally informs Annie that her ‘shot’ at him, which was really a sarcastic comment about their alliance, really hurt him, especially since Annie is begging for his vote now. Oh cry me a river. But Annie is the one who starts crying at the prospect of going home, while Brendon comforted her by channeling his inner Edward Cullen and completely forgetting that he already has a showmance with Rachel. To make matters worse, Brendon later brought up his “heart to heart” with Annie to Rachel… in the middle of a hot make-out session. Rachel was rightfully pissed about this mood killer and didn’t hold back her disgust and all I can do is shake my head until Rachel utters these words:

“Why are you getting upset about some girl you met eight days ago that is trying to come in between you and something that is real?” Seriously?!?!?!? On the other hand, I have to disregard that comment since Brendon continued to whine, “My feelings were hurt” and “this is about me! not you!”. Brendon, get over yourself.

Thankfully, we are salvaged from that torture by the reveal of the Saboteur!!! And it’s… Annie, which sours a lot of grapes, not because she is lame, but because now we have no reason behind Andrew’s psychotic/erratic behavior, which scares the crap out of me. Annie showed us how she managed to pull off her tasks as well as introducing a new on dealing with an electronic sound maker that she strategically placed in areas of the house to annoy the other HGs. Enzo said that the noise was interrupting his sleep and that the “Meow Meow” had to get nine hours of sleep. I so don’t want to know what his ‘meow meow’ is, but I think he is referring to himself… which is still disturbing.

The Saboteur/Annie appeared on the screen to the housemates and claimed that they escaped eviction this week, which sent the Brigade in a tizzy. People started suspecting Brendon since he just escaped eviction, but this was just a ploy of Annie’s to stay in the house and to deflect the target onto Rachel. Annie later cued the other housemates in on Brendon’s real job, which gave them incentive to go after Rachel to hurt Brendon, but she then added on too much afterwards about how people will be making deals about this new revelation to save her. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to decode the look on the HGs faces as she said this.

Back to the live portion of the night, Julie conducted her first eviction night torture fest with the houseguests and Enzo keeps dropping slimy one-liners and we get to rehash Brendon losing his pants during the luxury competition. Julie then zeroes in on the Brendon and Rachel pair up, which had Rachel giggling like a 12 yr old school girl. It was annoying so Julie moved on.

The time came to vote and Julie asked the girls to speak for themselves for a final time. Annie carried out a long drawn out speech, while Rachel kept it in a decent time length. But the votes were 10-0 for Annie, CBS/BB12’s twist, to be sent packing.

Now the only fun part about Annie’s exit interview was the goodbyes she received that seemed as if they belonged later in the season than now, because they were tainted with animosity that usually comes late in the game. Rachel was the last one to speak as she told Annie that she was glad that Annie was gone, because she tried to come between Rachel and her man. Jerry Springer would have been proud. Annie came back with the revelation that Brendon tried to talk to her first before he went to Rachel, meaning that Rachel was having her sloppy seconds. Julie Chen nearly does a Z formation snap and I nearly die from it.

It’s on to the HOH competition and it’s a guessing game called Majority Rules that consisted of factoids on the HGs that they had to guess the right answer to in the majority. Whoever was wrong and in the minority were tossed out the competition. The game dwindled down pretty quickly (one question eliminated only the three Brigade members participating) and ended up in a tiebreaker with Britney, Monet, and Rachel. Julie then asked the girls to estimate how much caramel was used in the luxury competition and while Britney went too low and Monet went too high, Rachel was just right and WON THE HOH!!!!

The Brigade members better watch their backs cause their little “secret alliance” could be toast come Sunday.

Oh, and we only saw Kristen a total of probably three times tonight. Should we start keeping tabs on that girl?

One last factoid. Julie Chen announced that they will announce to the houseguests Sunday that the Saboteur was Annie, which I think is a bonehead move, IMHO. I say let the paranoia carry on to the sequester part of the game, letting more drama reign throughout the house. In other words, CBS/BB completely dropped the ball on this twist this year and they might want to think to do damage control to keep the show somewhat fresh. Maybe we can play ‘How Many Times Can You Spot Kristen?” or the rest of the summer?

That is all until Sunday. What did you guys think?