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Ratings - Asshat edition

They added three new items to the Goofs tally in one swoop with the HOH pics, they still haven't fixed Judd's last name spelling on CBS site, and I think they spelled Kaitlin's name wrong on the show but I have to check that. Extended fishies for their Tuesday 'meeting' hit coincidentally when some photo frenzy auto-retweet scheme was announced.. it had to be a coincidence, right? The marketing department can't be that good if they can't even spell their cast names correctly. The Aaryn & David Comedy Show had a segment on the show - yay? I think it's hilarious but it was jarringly out of place considering the press storms around her and the other mouthy ones. As far as that shitstorm goes, I keep being asked what they will or won't do about Bigotgate. Obviously I have no idea! But at this point they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. They are running an 8pm or 9pm 'family' show (hanging on phallic popsicles slapping a giant tongue with lots of bikini zooms and bedmances is 'family'), but the 6pm news is full of the same nasty themes as we've encountered this week, so it's not about being before or after the kiddies' bedtime in my opinion, and that's a poor excuse for doing nothing. I doubt they'll let the ugly leak out onto the first glitzy live show of the season, especially when it's already packed with normal eviction show events, and they also should insert Hatgate 1, Jeremy's fight with everyone, and now Hatgate 2/Asshat, plus the headline-making stuff. But I'm guessing they might just run a silent 'we don't condone bigotry' text disclaimer at the end of the show, similar to what they did with the horrible BB13 Shelly Moore situation. We'll see.
Her whole shtick lately is verbally beating up David to his face and trashing Elissa behind her back, with selected follow-ups for the others on her hit list. She tried to tell Judd that Elissa's awful for not hating Ragan after what he said to Rachel on BB12, but in a flawless TKO, Judd informed her they're friends now. Aaryn might take David's blindside tomorrow worse than he will, and it'll be great fun if she has to suck up to Elissa, Helen, or Andy as HOH. But if Aaryn should win, I'll be staying off her feed. Real world update: she's been fired from a modeling contract	It'll be interesting to see where she gravitates with a new regime. I really hope she doesn't win HOH because I'd like to see McCrae get back to mingling and playing his own game, and he might get sucked back upstairs if she wins. She's been talking lately about her passion for musical theater and her showbiz jobs - why would someone go in there and announce they have acting experience? That's just stupid unless she doesn't plan to use that acting experience to her advantage, which would be even more stupid. She's also been name-dropping, ugh. And still saying everything is 'retarded' - CBS made a big deal of that one with BB9 Adam Jasinski when they didn't have to (it was pre-feeds), so why do all these guys get a pass?
He talks about his improv acting work more than Amanda, and improv skills are even more useful and ultimately deadly in there. However, he also talks a lot about just wanting to 'make it to jury' so he's clearly more interested in a nice summer vacation than in winning the cash (and don't think the hardcore players haven't noticed that). He told his poopy pants story yet again, so as far as I'm concerned he can head off anytime rather than repeat that one anymore.	I don't have much on her but she came alive tonight with her new hairstyle, and she stepped it up a notch when she made a Hatgate joke to the HOH crew. She'll need to do better than that to get ups though.
NOMINATED Time to head back to the beach, dude.	NOMINATED She's had a lot of slings and arrows aimed her way in a short time, and her style seems to be to shrug it off as no big deal than to make an issue of it, which is very good strategy in there, in my opinion. She owned Jeremy when he made his Hatgate 2 confession and lame apology-like thing, and it was a delight to see.
Remember how she was all crying over her clothes, her cosmetics, her body, and she just wanted to go home? That's over, and she's still there. Real world update: she's been fired from her pageant company	She's got a very smooth style of having seemingly ordinary convos but she's actually working, gaining information as well as confidence in a very non-threatening way. Today she really made the rounds, inserting herself in various groups to set herself up for safety so she won't have to win HOH tomorrow.
He seems like he'd be a great guy to know in reality, but this isn't. He needs to step it up in a big way or he's in danger of requiring a Daily Howard Sighting to remind us he's still there.	Won: Permanent Have-not pass This guy repeats gossip like a middle-aged catlady in a housecoat, and he gets downright giddy when he does it. Hatgate 2 will land right down there with Shannon & Hardy's toothbrush in the BB annals, but he had to go and do it when I was trying to find and listen to McCrae & Judd talking about me, thus making it personal. Asshat.
NOMINATED I know she made an appearance here and there today but she never really stood out enough for me to zero in on her and pay attention other than when she rehearsed her 'save me' speech for the HOH crowd. She doesn't seem worried about possibly being the dreaded first eviction, and she doesn't have to be, but she shouldn't take their word for it! BB campaigning really is a lost art anymore.	His stories and snappy responses are coming out more, and they're good ones. I bet Aaryn didn't expect him to be the one who knows about post-season hamster goings-on, but he put her nicely in her place when he told her about Ragan & Rachel having long since buried the hatchet and become friends, after Aaryn tried to smacktalk Elissa for not hating Ragan.
I guess the honeymoon's back on with Jeremy, which is why having two days' worth of episodes on the same page here gets confusing with young and fickle hamsters. She and Jeremy put themselves on the tally tonight, so I guess she has no problems being with a guy who's an asshat, figuratively and literally.	HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD Wanting to throw the HOH key with a 'fuck you' to tomorrow's winner (with permission ahead of time), talking Hamsterwatch with Judd, and describing while avoiding HOHitis after his long week at the top make for easy ups. He got the underdog edit from CBS and that's ok: it's called character development for the army of writers and story editors that translate the feeds into a tv show. Ian was pretty well thrashed in the tv edits early on too.
He just seems sketchy to me and I think he might end up being the designated (strategy) villain if he outlasts all the bottom-feeders. He's relatively active throughout the day and night, but I'm not a fan of his flippant but soulless style, so he'll have a hard time earning ups. His blue hoodie and hat are the new purple velour tracksuit.	He's one of the more polarizing hamsters: some have him in with the ickies & headline makers and want him gone, and others excuse his stuff more easily. I'm in the latter group, for now at least, as I don't see him as being malicious and he's funny on other topics as well. He's also a lot smarter game-wise than he appears, but that was clear when he told his audition story.