Thursday, June 12, 2008

Travis Asks: Who Is Sideshow Bob?

The BB Hair Salon is open for business and Bianca is styling Travis' wig into blonde dreadlocks.

With the 'do almost complete, HMs started commenting on how he looked like Cecil Terwilliger, Sideshow Bob's brother from The Simpsons episode "Brother From Another Series".

Travis asked "Who is Sideshow Bob?" COME ON, TRAVIS! The one I would have picked to be the biggest Simpsons fan in there has never heard of one of the greatest recurring guest-role characters in the series? His guesses were "Is he related to Ned Flanders?" and "Is he the one with blue hair?"

Nobbi Seeks Trust

Now that Nobbi is aware of how he is coming across as a bully and realises Travis has lost faith in his once good friend, Nobbi seems to be trying to earn back trust, possibly for strategic purposes.

Maybe he realises he is this close to being evicted and the only way to stay in the game is to do a 180.

After cutting chunks out of Travis' hair a few weeks ago leaving him with bald patches, and BB telling Nobbi this, along with all the other recent events, was a form of bullying, yesterday Nobbi approached Travis about giving him a haircut. Travis made a joke about whether he wanted a haircut like his own, having a jab at Nobbi for providing his ridiculous style. But it seemed as if Nobbi was trying to win back some trust by telling Travis he was the one Nobbi trusted with his own do.

If Travis was spiteful he could really go to town before Nobbi even realised it.

Idea: Twist on the Message From Home

I know the HMs got their family video messages last night, so it's too late, but I was thinking of what could be a great twist on it for future reference.

Imagine each HM watches another random HM's message from their family, and it is up to them to relay it, or not, to the person it belonged to. They could make stuff up, or even accidentally get things wrong, or change the meaning of the message in translation, like a chinese whisper. It would make great footage to see who says what to whom about their personal messages.

Not A Very Hair-Raising Task

This week's task is a bit bland. While it gets them to play characters and get involved in conversations with HMs they don't usually associate with, it is very light on coverage-- they aren't actually doing much for very long. Normally the task can give the HMs something to do rather than sleep if they are bored, e.g. practising their dance moves, fielding the cricket pitch, playing with the dog, etc. But for a rainy week, they are very understimulated by this task.

And what is the point? They cut and style a wig on someone's head. Not that interesting. The radio ad played it up like they were really giving each other haircuts and had all the dramatic music and stuff, but it really is very lame.

The only real purpose for doing this task is to promote the Adam Sandler movie where he plays an ex-terrorist hair dresser, You Don't Mess With the Zohan.

Apparently the winner of FNL will get to choose a small group of HMs to watch an advance screening of the movie in the House. I'm sure they'll get hours of footage from watching a few HMs sitting on a sofa, not talking, but just watching a screen. I'm sure there'll be shots of them laughing and having a great time put into the Daily Show so the advertisers get what they paid for.

FNL Week 7: Friday the 13th Theme & Promised A-List American Celebrity Visitor

Mike Goldman has announced FNL this week will be themed by the date it falls on, Friday the 13th.

Games will include Deadly Bowling where the HMs are the pins, another eating gross stuff challenge, and something where the HMs dress up as characters from horror movies.

Mike has also promised that an A-List American Celebrity will be involved in FNL tomorrow. Not as an intruder, but on the show. He denies that it is Adam Sandler, Steve Carrell, or Ann Hathaway, all of whom are on the Gold Coast next week for a special episode of Rove from Movie World. He says it is one of his favourite celebrities. No one commenting on his live blog today guessed it. Who could it be?

Eyes on the Prize

The TV ads are telling us that the BB grand prize will be announced this Sunday night.

On Mike Goldman's blog he said the HMs will be surprised when they find out the prize is right under their noses. This could mean physically, as in the prize is somewhere in the House and maybe has been since the beginning, and will be unveilled to them on Sunday. Maybe they'll have to dig up the backyard looking for it.

Maybe the prize is the House! But who would want a TV set in the bush out the back of a theme park? Maybe it is shares in Dreamworld. Now that's just getting silly.

Surely the prize will be cash. Maybe it will go back to $1m like in BB04. But will any type of fines be deducted from it?

The only time we've heard of cash prizes before in any official capacity is when Corey left the House and "won" the HMs $60,000. However, the HMs have sometimes talked about prize money on the live streams only to have the audio cut off, so maybe they know more than we do... and they are trapped in a House with no outside communication!!

If the prize is not part of the game like it has been the last few years with the fines and everything, then it really shouldn't matter to the viewers what the prize is, so it is kind of good BB has held onto some information until halfway through the series. At least there is something to announce rather than everything being spilled on opening night. Hopefully the prize is something interesting and they announce it in an interesting way. I hope the HMs really are surprised!