HMs Passed Task, But Alice Cooks Staples

Last week HMs passed their task and won themselves a week of luxury foods. It is probably right then that the HMs are bitching about Alice's lunch menu today, cooking chicken patties and boiled cabbage-- bland foods basically made only from their staple ingredients they would have whether they passed or failed the task. Bianca and Travis said there are plenty of other ingredients left to make a much better lunch, but Alice took over the kitchen. Maybe Alice is the first HM in history to be satisfied with BB's staple diet.

FNL Week 8: Heavy Metal Night

For Heavy Metal Night there will be more games based on themed puns: Iron Maiden where HMs will be pushed around an obstacle course on an ironing board, Skid Row where HMs have to do the biggest skid, and a Pinata-type game with HMs smashing guitars into an amplifier.

What we definitely don't want to see is Nobbi win again. Terri or Bianca would be a good change. Terri would love Head of Household, getting everyone up doing chores all week.

I asked Mike Goldman on his live blog this week:

One of the FNL prizes is Head of Household, and HoH is supposed to be able to tell HMs to do certain chores whenever they want. The only time HoH uses their powers though is when BB instructs them to make decisions. Do you think this power is being wasted this year? I think maybe someone like Terri would utilise this power more effectively. I hope Terri wins an FNL this year!

His response was:

I want Terri to win too! It would be funny to see an old nanna smashing guitars tomorrow night on HEAVY METAL NIGHT!!!!! The power isnt being wasted they still have to be in charge and tell people what to do. That causes friction and that works well on BB.

Bit of a cop-out answer that just defends the prizes won out of his part of the show I guess. Where is the friction? Over the Vending Machine? Come on. Head of Household does not use the power available to them unless forced, therefore it is fake friction. I want to see a HoH boss the others around more. Of course it won't happen because it will just get them nominated.

This afternoon on live streaming I heard Travis say to Brigitte this is their week for FNL because they have come second more than anyone else. He thinks it will will be the two of them playing off against each other in the finale round. In his words "I'm always the bridesmaid, never the bride."

Also, news will come out tonight about Steve Carrell appearing on next week's show (Spy Week).

No word yet on what the "fun" prize will be for tonight's winner. No talk of another flight or movie yet. The girls are hoping for a movie if they win.

Ratings Down, But BB is Ten's Top Show

Channel 10's ratings are down overall this year, but BB is still Ten's top programme each night.

Last week:

Wednesday - Daily Show - #19 - 902,000
Thursday - Daily Show - #23 - 816,000
Friday - Daily Show - #17 - 774,000
Friday - FNL - #10 - 977,000
Sunday - Daily Show - 859,000
Sunday - Eviction - 1,009,000
Monday - Daily Show - #19 - 901,000 (GNW made #16 on the night's list)
Monday - Big Mouth - 646,000
Tuesday - Daily Show - 852,000

At least Evictions are back over the 1m mark (slightly) after the long weekend brought it down.

Nobbi Sabotages Fake Task

Nobbi has found a way to entertain himself today. Knowing that the Shark Attack task is a fake task and that their winning the luxury food package for next week relies only on himself and his Order of Moon Monks passing their mini task, he has been sabotaging the Shark task to stir things up. He has put objects in the way of the canoe so HMs fail to reach the bell in time, getting into the canoe and not rowing, and tieing the canoe up in a triple knot. HMs are quickly turning on him much to his delight. Whatever "floats his boat"!

Nobbi can't be held completely to blame for "failing" the fake task though. 6 HMs didn't even bother to participate in the task today, leaving Travis, Terri, Ben, and Alice to row the boat ashore each time the shark has threatened the backyard. Cherry and Bianca can't go into the sun, but Nobbi at least pitched in once, even though he didn't assist with rowing.

Task Cheat Cover-Up

BB edited the events of last night to cover up his own cheating in the Moon Monks task.

When Bianca got up to go and do the moon ritual at 2am, Ben actually followed her out to the backyard, as he had said earlier he was wide awake. Nobbi called BB on the Kombi Phone and BB said he would handle it for them. Just before 2:00, BB called Ben to the Diary Room and made up a cover story about thinking he might be be suffering from insomnia and gave him joke suggestions on how to sleep better. This gave Nobbi and Bianca a chance to do their ritual undetected and produce good Daily Show footage.

According to the Daily Show edit, Bianca got up alone at 1:56am and their ritual went off with no interruptions.

I'm sure at some point BB will turn the task on them and try to make them fail, probably by calling the shark task just before or just after the moon ritual.

Weird Tasks

This week's tasks are just bizarre. It's like there were 2 really crap suggestions left in the box and they combined them into a cover-task and a secret task to make them more interesting to watch.

Paddling a canoe on wheels across the backyard to ring a bell to raise a net to stop a shark attack! What the?

And the Moon Monks? Bianca and Nobbi have to secretly dress in robes every night at 2am and say a chant about loving the moon, and they are not allowed to go into the sunlight. And they can't get caught by their HMs. What were they smoking that day?

Still, I guess it's funny...

6 Nominated: Have the Rules Changed?

Tonight the Nominations saw Cherry, Terrence, Alice, and Rory making up the HM-selected nominees. Nobbi got to save 1, choosing his mate Rory. This left 3 HMs up for evcition.

But then it was announced to viewers that the next highest nominated HMs would fall into Rory's place, adding Brigitte, Terri, and Nobbi himself into the lineup.

But isn't BB's rule that at least 3 HMs must be up for eviction? Should Rory's omission from the nominees been replaced by the other 3 at all, or should it have been left at just the top 3? Maybe BB just did this to ensure Nobbi got himself nominated because so many viewers are calling out for a chance to vote to evict him.

Nobbi has rekindled a bit of his likability since the Travis-Alice incident 2 weeks ago, buying time with his 2 consecutive FNL wins. Does he have enough against him on the outside to get rid of him? Does he have enough fans to save him? Maybe with 6 up, BB could make this week a Double Eviction to make double sure Nobbi goes. kombi-Man's Eviction show will at least draw a crowd.