We learn that, due to some eleventh-hour vote brokering before Wednesday's eviction, the entire house basically decided to switch their votes to Amanda and Alex instead of going with Allison's idea of ousting Matt and Natalie. And who led the revolt? Well, Allison, of course. Between Allison's vote-switching and the "we're lesbians" rumor, Joshuah had it in for Allison. So before the HoH competition, they tried to show how not bothered they were by everything by simply standing around inside wearing sunglasses. Way to play it cool.
So after Joshuah and Sharon win their HoH competition, they have an obnoxious little end-zone celebration. Afterward, Allison is talking to Matt and Adam about the HoH competition, and something she says -- I have no idea what -- sends Joshuah off on one of his fake apoplectic rages, complete with screaming in her face, calling her a bitch, and the ever-popular "ugly." Does he really think it makes the other person look bad when he does this? James comes to break it up, and after the two antagonists are safely separated from each other in different parts of the house, Ryan comes and, rather reasonably, asks Joshuah what it is Allison said to piss him off just now. Joshuah doesn't actually have an answer. Or he does, but it's not like he can say, "Theater!" But later, in the DR, he talks about how offended he was about Allison lying about her sexuality. Fair enough, but...wasn't that, like, a week ago? And how fake is it to wait until you're HoH to go off on somebody for something you've been pissed about for a week or more? A bit later, Allison is talking about the scene with Ryan and Matt in the living room, and Joshuah stomps past with a very threatening manner. Once that particular ray of sunshine has passed, Matt offers Allison a hug, but she's not into it. She would rather rage tearfully in the DR about how she's not going to take this from anyone. Remember that later.
On her way out of the DR to take off her makeup, Allison's spotted by Ryan, who follows her to the sink to tell her that her getting upset is just what Joshuah wants.
Joshuah, meanwhile, is cackling with Natalie and Sheila about how he really didn't say anything that bad to Allison, and a spittle-flecked tirade about how he's going to make her life hell is "nothing." He says that either he's sending her home, or she's sending him. Well, it's good to have a plan.
Later, in the kitchen with Ryan and Allison, Matt offers to talk to Allison about it. Allison is actually now pissed at both of them as well, for not sticking up for her. Even though neither of them was there. She keeps pushing, and Matt asks Ryan, deadpan, "Wanna go slap him around?" Allison is too into her righteous snit to realize that Matt's kidding, and threatens them both, "You'd better never meet my father." Yeah, that dude's got some explaining to do.
Time for the standard "everyone come look at our HoH room" bit, which is unusual only in that Allison goes to bed instead of joining in. And the couple photo of Sharon and Jacob, which she hates. And Joshuah's "Princess for the Day" tiara, sent to him by his coworkers.
Since nobody's trying to beat anyone else, everyone works together. James and Chelsia, playing for beverages and snacks for the house, come within a couple of pounds. Sheila isn't thrilled to be outed as a 131-pounder ("I think those hats weigh fifteen pounds," she protests in the DR), but they're happy to have their asparagus load come in within ten pounds of Sheila's weight, meaning that the house gets fruits and veggies for the week. Matt and Natalie come up seventeen pounds short, so there are no carbs, and the feast they could have won is off the table. So to speak. So it's down to Ryan and Allison for meats and cheeses. The big scale wiggles around to give some suspense, but they made it, thanks to a double handful of stalks Ryan stuck in the crate in the last seconds of the challenge. Cue the asparagus-fight! Chelsia DRs that after all the tension in the house lately, throwing fresh produce at each other was just what they needed. Meanwhile, Los Angeles County food shelves are watching this going, "WTF?"
Joshuah sits for a portrait, which Natalie is trying to execute with nail polish on a paper towel. She makes him look like a catatonic drag queen, but he loves it anyway. Way to suck up to the HoH.
Allison goes the opposite direction, however, going in to the kitchen to start an argument with him. Which is pretty much about how ugly and uneducated and poor the other is. Finally, Allison asks Joshuah what pissed him off so much yesterday, and he refuses to get into it with her, retreating to the HoH room instead.
Where Sharon tells Joshuah to call a meeting of the whole house, except for Allison and Ryan. "Be discreet," Sharon advises. Joshuah is not discreet. But he gets the other three couples up there, and they're only too happy to agree that Ryan and Allison should be nominated this week. So who else? Meanwhile, downstairs, Ryan is blaming Allison for the situation. Allison claims that she could flip Joshuah back if she wanted to. Ryan doesn't see it, so Allison decides to give it a try. Probably more to prove Ryan wrong than anything else.
Later, Allison goes up the HoH room alone to apologize and ask what's up with Josh. He finally says that he's hurt that she pretended to be gay so that they could "all be gay together." Allison is clueless enough to be surprised by this, but she seems to get it. Or pretends to, at least. She starts going into her apology, but Joshuah is already tuning her out. He DRs that she's "groveling to the gods," (where gods=Joshuah), but that they're not friends. And so we go to commercial with a big fake hug between the two of them.
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Nominations. Allison feels vulnerable. Adam is worried about being the pawn, as is Matt. And James is worried about becoming a target as a result of the success of "Operation Condor." Just can't win for losing in this game, can you? Since we're down to ten people, only two couples are going to be safe this week. The first ones spared are Adam and Sheila. And the second safe couple is Chelsia and James. Sharon says that they nominated Ryan/Allison and Matt/Natalie as the two strongest couples. Joshuah makes a lengthy, meaningless speech and disbands the meeting.
Matt tells the DR that he's pissed to be nominated a second time in a row: "They should just stitch my name on that seat." Ryan blames Allison for his nomination in the DR. It's tempting to say that if he and Jen and Parker hadn't leaned on her so hard earlier in the game, she wouldn't have thrown a shoe like she did, but I'm sure if it hadn't been that, it would have been something else. Allison looks forward to winning PoV and rubbing it in Josh's face. Wait -- that apology wasn't sincere? I'm so disenchanted. Joshuah rants about Allison in the DR, and says that he can't wait to send her home. Hey, the sooner everyone goes home, the happier I'll be.
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