Crow Sings on 'BB3'

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Amy © CBS Television

It's Wednesday night, Aug. 21. Instead of the usual pointless Wednesday night, this episode of "Big Brother 3" featured the food competition, the nominations, the veto competition, a Sheryl Crow concert and tears. Lots of tears.

Lisa starts off the crying jag explaining why she did not vote Eric back in the house last week. She knew that if he returned, all would be forgiven with Chiara and Roddy, and Lisa doesn't feel that way. She's kicking herself over it, though.

Chiara, on the other hand, realizes that her goose is cooked now that Amy is HOH. She's rightfully peeved at Roddy for hopping out of the tub of gunk so early and blowing the competition. The couple now has to go into high gear covering their assets.

Roddy begins charming Marcellas, who seemingly eats it up. Roddy pulls the Gerry-style "I'm deeply enlightened and unusually supportive of all people black and gay" routine. It's clear that the only thing Marcellas blames Roddy for is his bad taste in women.

The Food competition puts the women in swimsuits and the men in Speedos. Seeing Gerry in a banana hammock may be a good way for people to lose their appetites. The object of the game is for the players to stuff as many food and cash vouchers they can into their swimsuits while locked in a wind-filled booth.

Watching the guys stuff bills into their teeny swimsuits is a hoot, with the exception of Gerry's turn, which seems more like a horror film. Food was won for the week, and the players pitched in their cash for an anniversary present for Gerry's wife. He tells them that he's going to buy her an orange tree with the cash and that he'll think of the houseguests' sweetness whenever he eats an orange. What a lucky lady his wife is -- to get a tree on their 28th anniversary.

Mrs. Gerry is probably marveling at how long her husband has stayed in the house so far. Everyone else is, including Gerry. Despite his disgusting personal habits and oddball pontificating, he's managed to dodge nomination every week. As Marcellas puts it, "Gerry is the prison bitch. He seeks out the powerful people and weasels a way to be close to them."

As the guests gather to spontaneously bemoan their lack of music in the house, Amy skips into the room and tells everyone to get dressed up. For the next competition, there are 18 CD covers hidden in the house. The guests must find all of them and arrange them to spell out their prize. Unfortunately, they can't find all of the CD covers in time, so Sheryl Crow and her band dejectedly pack up and go home.

Ha ha.

>The CD cases spell "Sheryl Crow Live in the Backyard." Everyone runs screaming out of the house as the singer launches into "All I Wanna Do." It's probably the smallest audience that Crow has ever entertained, not considering the television audience. The players dance awkwardly -- it's got to be hard to know that millions of people are now seeing firsthand that they have no rhythm.

Crow tells them, "We are going to play until you vote us out," and breaks into "Soak Up the Sun." More self-conscious dancing. She shakes hands with all of the players before she sings "Steve McQueen." Then she's outta there -- Chiara has no chance to plot against her. As she and the band walk out the door, the houseguests declare their love. It's probably the only time they have all really meant it.

Now that the celebrity guest is gone, they are free to conspire again. Marcellas tells Amy how awful Chiara has been, and essentially suggests Kiki and Roddy for nomination. Amy is all ears. Her goal is to get Chiara out of the house.

Roddy is still her Cheese McMuffin. She tells him that she plans to put Chaira up for nomination at the suggestion of Marcellas. Amy also drops the dime on Jason while she's at it, revealing that he threw the HOH competition on purpose and told her to listen to Marcellas.

This should be easy enough for Roddy to solve. He tells Marcellas to take his clothes off and get into the hot tub. Marcellas melts -- he is putty in Roddy's hands. Just to seal their deal, Roddy calls him "Mr. Handsome," which sends him into a giggle fit. Marcellas' credibility is now officially shot to hell.

Not knowing that her alliance partner is being played for a fool in the hot tub, Danielle goes to Amy to try to talk her into putting Roddy up with Chiara. Amy had been considering Jason as the second choice, "putting the sinner up against the saint" as she says. Danielle won't have her boy on the block.

Before she announces her nominations, Amy freaks out and starts to cry. Fortunately she used a waterproof magic marker to line her eyes that morning.

Amy nominates Chiara and Roddy, and tells them that it "was not about revenge," which it most certainly was. Chiara runs to the hammock to cry about how unfair it is for someone to do to her what she has done to everyone else. Roddy hugs Amy and tells her "she is off the hook" with him.

Danielle and Jason plot a way to get Roddy out. Let us take a moment to honor the only two people who have not turned on each other so far. Jason truly is a saint, but Danielle is a player. Her aggressiveness is starting to turn off the others. Apparently, she has used the "I've got to win this money to save my family" line a few too many times.

She desperately wants to win the veto competition to keep the nominations the same. The slip-and-slide game requires swimsuits again, but fortunately, Gerry does not have to wear a thong. The object of the game is to get oiled up and slide down a sheet of plastic farther than the competition. Gerry uses his bulk for momentum and ends up winning the veto necklace.

So far, he's the only player that has ever used the power of veto, and it got him kicked out of his powerful alliance. He doesn't make the same mistake tonight. The nominations remain unchanged.

Before the veto decision, it was virtually tied up that Chiara was gone. However, Roddy confronts Danielle about her scheming and quotes back to her exactly what she has said to Marcellas. She realizes that Marcellas has spilled his guts and that Roddy is on to her. This changes everything. Chiara may not be such a lock by Thursday night.

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