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Ratings - Holy Wacky Wars edition

They still aren't giving them much booze, but at least they're delivering it when needed. Bonus points for whoever picked out the chiming laundry machine. No matter how heated, loud, or confusing the discussion in the backyard, the little 'la la la la' song pops up without notice, making everything that much more comical. Most of us, including myself, still can't decide if we love or hate this cast and this season. If nothing else, it's unique - let us count the ways. PS We could really use some real Diaries like the old days to help us sort out who's really planning what and who's really playing whom.
NOMINATED I don't think any hamster has gone from ignore to ups before on this page, but watching her slow burn and frustration during the house meeting was the best of the best. Also, despite all the past horrors she's said, she does come up with some good lines. Saying that GinaMarie's burp smelled like Christmas after Monday night's cinnamon challenge was a line for the ages.	She's the last one I'd have expected to sit out a house meeting/argument, but she made up for it later by stomping up to the hammock group, mouthing off about balls, figuratively dropping her mic, and stomping off again. Only to return a couple minutes later and plopping down on the hammock for round 2! That's what you call an encore.
So much is going on lately that he's not a part of, I think it's making him lose his mind a bit more than the rest of them. Just a bit.	Like Amanda, she missed the main event but inserted herself into it after the fact anyway. She's gone from being Howard's drapery to being Public Enemy #1 for both Judd and Amanda? I missed something there, but we know she likes to stir things up so it's not surprising she's being targeted. Ups for showing up for afternoon bikini hour in winter-wear, especially since it was pink footie jammies, and for wearing them all day and all night.
Won: Sit out 1 veto comp USED VETO ON SELF In one short day, she went after Andy and McCrae, of all people, over a very obvious (and repeatedly explained) misunderstanding, and she started a holy war over it. Then she went after Judd, got them all running in circles, and pretty much sealed her fate out here as the resident wacko - and we have a lot to choose from this year! The prophecy has been fulfilled.	NOMINATED Everlasting ups for the wonder that lives on top of her head, and the fluidity with which it completely changes its form every few minutes. Also for continuing to harp on how 'the pretty ones' are being targeted, and for being the voice of reason during all the various dramaramas - nobody saw that coming.
Won: 2 night 8pm curfew I liked her better when she had to go to bed at 8pm.	I still can't listen to his know-it-all monotone for long, but I did catch a bit of Monday night's sermon for Candice when he was talking about how he believes a wife should be subservient to her husband. That's all well and good if that's how a couple chooses to live, consenting adults etc, but Candice wasn't so sure. I have to wonder if something like that came up before the feeds: it could explain a lot about Amanda's antagonism towards him. A very lot.
Easy ups for just happening to be in the midst of the action again, and for nonchalantly changing clothes under a towel while nearly all the hamsters were having their meeting around her. And it isn't even her room! She's a Have-not this week.	Won: 24 hour solitary HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD He's had a rough couple of days but that's what happens when the HOH doesn't decree who they should all vote for, and lets everyone else use his room. Amanda even wore his HOH robe out to the backyard Tuesday night - who does that? The poor guy has had to mingle with the panic-stricken hamsters who are all needing guidance, and he's not giving them much. You gotta love it. PS He wrote a very nice blog, linked below, not counting the there/their/they're mixups. (That made me miss DogDave more.)
NOMINATED Easy ups again for being one of the instigators of the house meeting, always a fan favorite, and for quickly reinforcing secret alliance secrecy with Spencer and Howard before facing everyone about secret alliance suspicions. If that wasn't enough, her line about Elissa going on a 'weird, comfortable rampage with everyone' summed it up perfectly.	Won: $5,000 Ups for nearly everyone but my buddy, what's wrong with this picture? As he well knows, I'm in it for the entertainment, and a house meeting and resulting frenzy is about as good as it gets. But he didn't participate and that's fine: it can't hurt his game to stay uninvolved in such things. Amanda can't stay uninvolved, and that's good for McCrae too: she's like his big mouthed shield in there. So in fairness, he's stuck at neutral for now, and he'll be the first to understand why.
Ups for his ridiculously bad poker face, and for his musical talent playing bass runs on the hammock strings. He and Ian Terry could form a hammocksong band, and a new musical trend.	Won: Permanent Have-not pass He claimed 1/16 Cherokee but he besmirched that heritage regularly, along with many others. He caused and starred in the big Winegate fight, smooched with Kaitlin while laying his hand on Aaryn's leg, wore a diaper, and mistakenly boasted he'd win every comp. He was a boy in a man's body, but his tattoos were nicer looking than most heavily tatted hamsters' have been. He'll be most remembered for being the asshat of BB15.
Won: Nothing He came in saying he hoped for stardom but it probably won't happen as a result of this show. Overnighters got to know his blue hoodie & cap well, and he was usually the last one to go to bed. That's usually good strategy but it didn't help him. The over-the-top character he played in pre-season interviews gave him a rough start with most, but he didn't stick long enough for us (me anyway) to get to know what he's really about.	Won: Nothing He didn't bring much to the feeds and he seemed oblivious about how the show works, but those types are the ones who get blindsided and we always like to see that. The Aaryn & David Comedy Show was fun for a minute but all the controversy she fed took the fun out of that, so it's just as well he got gone early. Back to the beach and watching BB on the couch with mom.