Big Brother

Originally Aired Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Episode Rating: ***** (five stars out of five)

Episode Overview: With Janellle and Chicken George on the chopping block, an all-importan Power of Veto competition is conducted.

Episode Highlights:

• Will's man-crush, Neil Patrick Harris, makes a special guest appearance.
• Janelle completely dominates the Power of Veto competition.
• Erika stabs Danielle in the back.

Recap:

Well, finally, we got ourselves a little drama. And some Doogie.

Janelle is not at all pleased with Erika for nominating her and, weirdly, she is offended by Erika's compliments towards her. Chicken George, on the other hand, feels okay being nominated. He's used to it.

There is little in the way of aftermath of the nominations. Georgie, however, is the first person to look at ChillTown and say, “Hey, wait a second. Why the hell haven't you guys been nominated?” Well, actually, George didn't say exactly those words because he's bad at talking. However, he's right. ChillTown are floating along and everyone seems oblivious.

Will coaches Janelle on talking to Erika and it works. Janelle is convincing in expressing to Erika that she is against ChillTown.

Will and Danielle are both very suspicious of each other, but seem to respect each other's games. Danielle, it seems, is also suspicious of everyone else, especially Janelle.

As per the food competition, the HouseGuests are given access to a large trampoline in exchange for one day of slop. Who is happiest about this development? Dr. Will Kirby, of course. Will is the embodiment of youthful exuberance while jumping on the trampoline. What else could you expect?

Danielle tells Erika that she'll be taking her to the final two and she is also her strongest ally. Stay tuned.

Also stemming from the food competition is the “Christmas in August” prize the HouseGuests won. And who is going to be playing Santa? None other than Doogie Howser himself: NEIL PATRICK HARRIS. What?!?! Did someone slip some peyote into my cranberry juice? Will is a big fan of Neil and seeing as the former Doogie works for CBS (on “How I Met Your Mother”), I suppose Neil's appearance isn't as random as it seems, but still. Watching Neil Patrick, Will, and Boogie jumping gaily on the trampoline, giggling like Dutch schoolgirls, was surreal.

Chicken George admits to Will and Boogie that he was struck by lightning years ago. Okay. That explains a lot.

ChillTown has a plan: have either Will, Janelle, or Boogie win the Veto and then have Erika nominate Danielle, then vote Dani out. Boogie, in bed with Erika, begins to plant the “nominate Danielle” seed.

All HouseGuests will participate in the Veto Competition. They are all sent to individual rooms, so every HouseGuest can compete without anyone else seeing. The comp: A big screen is set up and shows short snippets of different facial features of the evicted HouseGuests. Each series of snippets shows the features of two HouseGuests. The contestant must identify which two evictees are being shown. Once they've done this successfully five times, the clock stops. Boogie is the first one out and he throws the challenge. Will wants to win, but sucks at it. Chicken George has been struck by lightning. Danielle and Erika seem to do reasonably well. Janelle crushes it, winning it easily. She is truly ridiculous when it comes to challenges.

Will and Boogie are ecstatic and hopeful that they'll be able to coax Erika into putting up Danielle for nomination. Boogie works on Erika some more and she reluctantly starts to lean towards nominating Danielle. However, that doesn't mean she feels okay about it. She has been aligned, loosely, with Danielle for the duration of Big Brother All Stars.

Erika tells Danielle of her decision. Let's just say she doesn't take it too well. Later that night, Danielle gets drunk and flips out at Erika. Erika cries some and leaves Danielle, locking herself with Will in the Head of Household room. Danielle rings the HoH doorbell repeatedly, but Will and Erika don't let her in.

At the PoV ceremony there is much crying by Erika and she seems legitimately upset that she had to nominate Danielle. Danielle just sits, sunglasses on, stone-faced.

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