Erk to the Diary Room Episode 34 - Camping Out and Welcome to the Jungle FNL
The task this week was supposed to be based on World Environment Day. For some reason, BB thought that meant that the HM's needed to rough it outside and they had to camp and be on staples (again).
Under normal circumstances, that might not have been too bad for the HM's but this last few days, there has been a lot of rain at the BB house and also along a lot of the East Coast of Australia. The rain and the lack of shelter outside meant that the task was that little bit harder for the HM's.
So the HM's only had a couple of minutes to grab what they could before BB slammed the doors of the house shut. I dare suggest that for most of the week that there were Ninjas wearing HazMat suits working in the bedrooms. Boy it must smell in there by now with no windows that can open and no fresh air in there. Maybe they should have spent the week locked in the Rewards Room or something. I'd like to see 20 people share a little space like that room.
Now this year, BB has said that the house and the HM's have to be friendlier to the environment but part of the task this week was transferring one lot of water in a barrel to another. And they didn't have buckets to do so but little shells. 2 HM's had to watch barrel A because BB would activiate it at will. Now I didn't think that wasting water in an inane task was good for the environment but it could have led to an interesting incident but according to the Daily Show, it did not happen. According to people who saw the incident on the live stream and then relayed the incident to Behind Big Brother, Lara Bingle (my new name for Laura) threw a shell as part of the task which all of the HM's were doing. The shell from Lara hit ETB and Lara said sorry but ETB actually hit Lara in the arm.
Now you might remember that KTB was warned during her short day for threatening violence against ETB but here we have ETB actually hitting a HM as a reaction to an incident. It appears to have gone un-noticed in the official BB world but some forum members on Behind Big Brother have called for ETB to be booted. Now it can't be said that the hit was meant in fun or that Lara wasn't a participant unlike a time that Joel, Zoltan and Thomas were joking around and one of Joel's shirts got ripped a few weeks ago. It could have been a perfect way to re-inforce the expected standard of behaviour in the house to the HM's but BB has seemingly ignored it. I wonder if the fact that ETB is up for eviction is a factor, after all if she is evicted early, those votes to her would be in effect wasted and there would be one less evictee.Also, there is the ETB's dead dad situation. I wonder if BB had that in his mind.
While all of this was going on, BB set up an "Ice Room". Filled with luxuries, there was 4 HM's picked (Travo, Ian Thorpe, Mr HTB and RTB) to go in. Part of the task was for the newly re-titled Ice Mates (IM's) to chip away at ice and fill an esky. BB showed footage to the non IM's of the IM's chipping away at ice and filling buckets and filling an esky (or a chillybin to any Kiwi readers out there!) full of ice. The room was set to sub-zero temperatures but the IM's also had use of an air hockey table and various food and part of their task was to ensure that the HM's did not catch on. Again, I have to question the expense and the environmentally friendliness of this part of the task simply for the sake of a task.
Needless to say due to the cold conditions in the Ice Room, the IM's could not stay there for long periods and when they exited into the backyard, the HM's felt sorry for the IM's, unaware at first of the IM's luxuries.
Midweek, BB told the IM's and HM's that BB needed ice production to be stepped up and two HM's had to become IM's. In a good strategic move by the IM's (mainly thought of by Mr HTB), they decided to take Brilly and JTN into the room. Again, JTN was proving to be smarter than the average HM and the nerd entered the Ice Room.
Meanwhile, the HM's are struggling outside but to be fair, the IM's were sleeping outside too. And in a rare move by Channel 10 this year about showing anything resembling adult comments or boobies this year, the same shot of ETB in a pink bra (with it looking like a couple of soccer balls under not much material, not that I'm complaining) was shown on 3 separate occasions - once in the daily show itself and then twice in the "previously on BB" snippet at the start of the show.
On Thursday night on Up Mike with Late, Late promised that the HM's would be seening the IM's on the screen and it would be revealed that the IM's are living in relative luxury. BB even got Dougie the Pizza Boy to deliver some pizzas to the Ice Room. So Late kept promising and the night got longer and later and after several false starts, it finally happened about 15 minutes before the end of the show. The HM's saw the IM's on the screen and the HM's thought of revenge (including urinating on the IM's stuff, which wasn't shown on the daily show) but BB said that the HM's had to keep the fact that they saw the IM's on the screen to themselves. If the HM's did it, they would be rewarded.
But because of all the stuffing around, by the time that it happened and that the IM's returned to the HM's and after some short banter, it was time for Up Mike to finish. So now we we have to wait until either Up Mike on Friday or Sunday's show to find out the conclusion and to find out if they passed the task. Again, BB has reused ideas and went for the Masters/Servants or Haves and Have Nots idea. Will the HM's be rewarded by a visit to the Ice Room? It only seems fair and BB can get more use of the Ice Room before it is taken down.
FNL was it's typical self and my usual comments stand. They decided for the first game to reuse the "Giant Fan at the end of the Slip & Slide" game of previous years with predictable results. Jamie outlasted ATB, Rove (aka Joel), Travo & the Brazillian on a game of hanging onto the monkey bars for the longest time (another reused idea) as a way to get back into the game after being eliminated and boy oh boy I have to give Jamie this, he was very pumped up. In the end it didn't help him as Mr HTB beat Zoltan in the final game but Mr HTB elected to take Jamie into the Rewards Room as he is the only male that hasn't been in there for the weekend.
And as I type this, Up Mike has just started and the non IM's are now in the Ice Room enjoying it while the IM's are sitting on the couch watching the action in the Ice Room - as I predicted!
There is a double eviction on Sunday and I'll predict now that the Brazillian will be gone as she is the only evictee up for eviction and she will be joined by ETB as a lot of people are sick of her. But really, the other spot could really also be filled by RTB or Jamie or Ian Thorpe as well. I think that Travo and Mr HTB are quite safe at the moment.
Myspace friends: Up 2 to 134
Stand Up Update: Could go to two venues as a punter next week
BB Update: Mr HTB wins FNL again!
Erk Pod Update: Episode based on the above to be recorded Saturday or Sunday
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