A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to find myself a primo spot in Julie Chen’s live audience for Big Brother. It was an experience that was both massively entertaining and wildly surreal. As soon as it was over, I wanted to go back, but I soon learned that contrary to what the show’s staff says and encourages, repeat visits are a no-no with the ticketing company. Well, I wasn’t about to let some arbitrary, bureaucratic decision by a third party hinder my Big Brother experience. That’s right, my friends and I headed straight back to the CBS Radford studio lot and plopped ourselves back in the BB audience. It wasn’t easy though, and the chain of events that led to our seating verged on saga status. But we made it, and we were lucky enough to see one of the most amazingly idiotic exit interviews ever.
The full story  including Jessie’s Early Show interview, the story behind that “whoop” during Libra’s vote, and how I won a free t-shirt  after the jump…
For this second outing to Big Brother, I again gathered up some of my more obsessed friends: Jash, Dan, and Intern Nick from TVgasm. IndianJones, unfortunately, was not able to attend this week as the demands of his job necessitated that he be elsewhere in this fine city. (I only mention this because IndianJones is a tag whore and likes to get his name tagged in as many posts as possible. Mission accomplished.)
Anyway, unlike last time, our logistics were a bit more precarious. First off, we weren’t going to be arriving all together. Jash, Dan, and I would be driving in my fair chariot (word up, Camry) from Hollywood, but Intern Nick, descending from on high like a prodigal son, would be coming in from the dusty plains of Van Nuys. The plan was to meet up at the studio and all check in together. Already, I was a bit nervous. There were too many moving parts to this plan. Granted, there was only one moving part, but that was enough to cause concern. Raising the difficulty level of this entire rendez-vous was that we had to leave our cell phones in the car once we parked (they’re prohibited on stage). This meant that once we arrived at CBS, there could be no further communication. WE WERE OFF THE GRID. The level of difficulty was shooting through the roof.
Well, we arrived at the studio at 3:15, and there were already a bunch of people there. We told the ticketing woman that we were waiting for one more, but she merely shot me a nervous look and said, “We’re filling up really quickly.” I asked how many spots were left, and she said not many. She really had no reason to lie, and judging by the numbers they were giving out to the people checking in before us, I could see we were running out of time. Last visit, our numbers were in the mid nineties. The people in front of us had spots in the low nineties. There are only about 108 seats in the studio; so I knew we had to act quickly.
But there was one obvious problem: WHERE WAS NICK??
According to Jash, Nick is very prompt, but alas, he was not living up to his reputation. A mild panic set in: abandon Nick? Or risk everything for unity?
Well, it’s no surprise how I felt: EFF NICK! I’m seeing the mother effin’ show!! Sorry, I’m very cutthroat when it comes to Chenbot experiences. Besides, how could I even consider not going to see the episode where Jessie would most likely be evicted?
Of course, I didn’t quite articulate this, but I’m sure it registered fairly obviously on my face. Maybe that’s why Jash, being the friendly soul (occasionally) that he is, volunteered to wait for Nick while Dan and I checked in. It was a risky move, and I’m not sure I would have done the same, but I guess that’s why I’m sometimes considered a superficial bastard. Actually, the truth of the matter is that the audience people had conflicted stories on what we could and couldn’t do. Some said we all had to check in now. Some said we could check in at different times and sit together. And some said, well, nothing. It was very confusing. The point is that Dan and I got into line, and Jash went off to search for Nick.
Well, by 3:45, there was no sign of Nick. “That’s fucked up,” I said repeatedly. After all, Jash had essentially given up his chance to be in the audience for Nick, who was beyond late. At this point, the standby line was so huge; there was not even a remote chance Jash could get in. By four o’clock, Jash resigned to the fact that he’d have to kill two hours in Studio City while we went in for the taping. To facilitate this experience, I gave him my car keys; so he could grab his wallet and cell phone out of my Camry. Oh well. Sucked for Jash.
By 4:15ish (don’t know the exact time as my cell phone is my watch, and as such, it was stuck in my car), the audience coordinators started loading people into the studio. I should note, by the way, that where we lined up was a decent walk from the studio. This is an important fact for later.
Anyway, the CBS pages took the majority of the people in line off to the stage, leaving about twenty of us to stay behind. We were such a small group that soon murmurs surfaced that maybe, just maybe, we might not get in. The longer we stood out there, the more certain it became. And when the Big Brother staffer closed down the little tent that he had been under, it seemed like we were being left behind. Was this cruel cosmic justice for us deriding Nick? And could it be actually possible that after all this chaos, we too would be shunned from the Big Brother experience? Like a dueling cowboy with his hand hovering just over his gun, I was ready to pull a fast one on the audience coordinator. You see, I actually had a connection, but I wasn’t going to use it unless I had trouble. This led to all sorts of further drama: would I pull the connection properly? Would she respond to it? Would I make things worse? It was all so stressful.
And then: a breakthrough. Just when all hope had seemed lost, the pages corralled us up and took us to the stage. THANK GOD. Things were looking good. As we marched slowly across the lot, we then encountered Jash standing around with Nick. Oh NICK. You late, late fool! The two of them smiled at us and said that Nick had actually been here at like 3:10 (oops, my bad), but instead of going to the audience loading area, he had walked directly to the stage. That’s right: he was here, but not here. “The stage?” I asked in shock. “Why did you go to the stage?”
Alas, our march forced me to move on before hearing the answer. It seemed like a silly thing to do. I felt bad for doubting Nick’s punctuality (sorry Nick), but I still was a bit puzzled about Nick’s misplaced studio wanderlust. Nevertheless, our procession finally arrived at the Big Brother house, and as we stood there, waiting to go in, I turned around, and there at the end of the line were Jash and Nick! Had they just snuck onto the line? Nope. Turns out I found out later that one of the audience coordinators who was familiar with the situation told them to just get in the line. Somewhere along the way, they were then confused as VIP guests (they were looking quite dapper), and long story short, they were now officially part of the audience. It took some maneuvering, and there were some gaffes along the way, but in the end, all that matters was that we’d all be sitting in the studio, watching the Chenbot and smiling our asses off.
Anyway, as we loaded into the studio, Dan and I were placed stage left, and Nick and Jash were placed stage right. It was actually perfect because this way anytime anything funny happened, we could all glance at each other and make eyes much easier than if we had been seated four in a row. Nevertheless, poor Dan was miffed because my seat was closer to the central aisle, and based on our experience last time, that meant I’d probably get more screen time. Dan, sadly, was all but omitted from last week’s show and was looking for greater on screen glory this time around. I kind of felt bad having the better seat. Oh well.
I should note that sitting two rows in front of us and a little to the right was an AWFUL woman. She was big and loud, and she seemed to think the entire show was based on her. She kept making loud comments and whatnot â€â€Ã‚ almost like a deluded sense that she was the life of the party. Needless to say, she was the product of many glares from not just me and my friends, but everyone behind her. There was one girl who just turned around and looked up at us as if to say, “I mean, COME ON!” Look, I’m sure she’s a very nice woman, but she was entirely too desperate for attention. But more on this loud woman a little later.
Not long after we took our seats, a producer came out to warm up the audience. Last time, we were treated to some rather dull movie trivia that did little to get people excited. This time around, however, the producers decided to wisely up the stakes by a) giving away Big Brother t-shirts, and b) employing Big Brother trivia  a much better fit. He also asked us several more questions about the house guests (Who would we want has HOH? Who would we want nominated?). It was a much more engaging experience from to to head, as Jessie might say.
Anyway, to get a free t-shirt, a member of the audience would have to be summoned to the stage and then have to answer three Big Brother trivia questions. The first guy who was called up was so excited you’d have thought he’d just been selected for The Price Is Right (which, by the way, was our code word for the last BB show we went to  lest anyone discover we were repeat visitors and get us ejected). Anyway, the first guy got his t-shirt without a problem. Then one of the producers said that there were some web people in the audience who most certainly had to answer some trivia. For a split second, I thought he might have been referring to me. And then I thought maybe Nick, as he still is with TVgasm. But alas, he was referring to two very excitable women who apparently run the site, bbfanatics.com.
WELL.
These ladies got up there, and even though the trivia was a little harder for them, it was still super easy and obvious. And yet they struggled on EVERY QUESTION. Sometimes they had a split decision, even with the audience helping them. I’m not out to disrespect any other Big Brother site as we’re all a happy family, but c’mon, ladies. You were not representing the online community well, especially when there were two other bloggers from two larger television sites in your presence (I’m not normally this egotistical [yes I am] but incidents like these kind of bring it out).
Anyway, the women eventually got their t-shirts, and then the trivia continued. Someone else from the other side of the audience got up there, answered her questions, and got a t-shirt too. It was then that the producer announced there’d be one last person chosen. Dammit, I had to get picked  not only for the t-shirt, but to show the audience that we internet people are not total idiots (not that the ladies were idiots, but again, they were the only ones who had trouble with the trivia. Just sayin’). I knew, however, that the chances of me getting picked for trivia were slim to none. All the contestants minus one had come from my side of the audience. Surely, the producer would pick someone else from Jash’s side.
But no! By some miraculous feat, the producer looked over at me and Dan, who were both stretching our hands upwards like two kindergarteners begging to go poddy. The guy pointed at us and said, “Okay, these guys want to do it. You guys choose amongst yourselves–” and I swear to God, before he even finished, I stood up and declared, “I’M DOING IT.” I actually felt bad at my cold hearted ruthlessness, and had I been thinking clearly and not so consumed with representing the online community, I would have said that we could have both gone up, but adrenaline is adrenaline. What can I say? I was like fat girl hunting down cake, to paraphrase 50 Cent a bit.
Well, I got up there, and I have to admit, for the first few seconds, my heart was beating with excitement. I literally didn’t even look at the audience, I was so pumped. I was just trying to focus on hearing the question. I’m starting to realize I’m really nowhere as cool under pressure as I’d like to be. But that’s okay. It’s my challenge, and I’ll embrace it.
Anyway, the producer asked me which houseguest thought the earthquake last week was just a truck backing into the house. Before he was done, I blurted out, “JERRY!” I kind of screwed up his pacing, but nevertheless, I got it right. One down, two to go. But then suddenly, I heard a clamor behind me and a flurry of activity, punctuated with various people saying, “She’s walking. She’s walking.” The producer suddenly handed me the t-shirt and said, “CONGRATULATIONS!!!” What? My glory was being aborted? But I hadn’t even plugged my website yet!! A second later, suddenly yelled out, “Ladies and gentlemen, JULIE CHEN!” I turned around around there she was. She was not only closer than before, but I was standing in her area. I debated whether or not I should just loiter there and make a lame attempt to shake her hand (I was already in her vicinity), but her gait was too slow, thus making my lingering a bit too awkward. I sadly retreated off to the side, still relishing the bizarre notion that I was being ushered off a stage to make room for Julie Chen.
When I got back to my row, Dan had happily taken over my seat, which was fine. It was a small price to pay for selfishly bowling him over in my quest for a free t-shirt. With trivia over, the stage manager took over emceeing duties, informing us on all the things we should and shouldn’t do. I asked if we could clap when we found out America’s Choice for eviction, but I was later told that no, we couldn’t. Nevertheless, while the guy tried to explain the rules, that AWFUL woman in front of us kept asking him dumb, jokey questions. It was as if she thought she were some amazing comedian, and while I can’t really remember what she said, I can only convey that every time she opened her mouth, we all rolled our eyes. She was just plain terrible. AND LOUD. (Which was kind of funny because she was seated next to some deaf people. They lucked out that night). I just hope she’s not reading this. If you are, well, take this all as constructive criticism.
Anyway, the show progressed much in the same way as last time; so I won’t bore you with the technical details. I’ll say that I did a much better time of not bursting out in loud laughter, but I can’t say the same for Shelly, which is the name I’ve given the awful woman. After Libra placed her vote, Shelly let out a “Whooohooo!” which is the noise you all heard on your TV set. What a dumb idiot. She was the only one who made that noise, and I hope she felt dumb for doing it (probably didn’t. She seemed to lack any and all self-awareness). During the commercial break, the stage manager actually had to reprimand her. He did it in a nice, jokey way, but we all could tell he was a bit annoyed.
Of course, when it comes to annoyed, no one topped Jessie, who marched out of that house with one of the more vivid scowls of recent memory. He was absolutely standoffish and charmless in his exit interview, and while you saw what he said on camera, what you missed was how he kept staring at himself in the monitors overhead and how he totally just ignored the audience behind him. Hey, he’s not obligated to recognize us, but compared to Steven, who waved and cheered and seemed to relish the moment, Jessie was a total lemon. I pretty much laughed silently through his entire idiotic interview (c’mon, you can’t do word association? Really?). And let’s not overlook his strange (ie. WRONG) use of the term “face value,” and the his proclamation that “arrogance” and his name should not be used in the same sentence. Dumb.
Later, during the HOH competition, it’s a shame that you couldn’t really hear the audience because we were murmuring like crazy. Everyone was really into it. In fact, everyone was really into all the segments. I still maintain my belief that the producers should keep the audio on the audience up during the taped packages.
Nevertheless, when Michelle won HOH, everyone clapped vigorously. I would have preferred Libra as HOH (imagine the craziness!), but I like Michelle, and I expect similar drama. Besides, Big Brother is really at its best when two sides of the house go back and forth on the power scale.
After the live show ended, Jessie returned to the stage for his Early Show interview, and he could not have been more of an awful subject. Chenbot had to squeeze the answers out of him, practically. He acted all “whatever” about everything, including the reveal that Dan was America’s Player. He actually predicted that Dan was the twist, and when Julie confirmed it, Jessie merely shrugged and said, “I told you,”  as if he were informing her, not the other way around. It was ridiculous (actually this response may have been in regards to the news that Michelle had just won HOH. I don’t remember). He also had a strange explanation for his strategy, noting that just because he napped a lot this past week didn’t mean that he had bad strategy. In fact, he had napped a lot every week, he said, which just proved that he was consistent. Yeah. I know. That’s when Julie elaborated and said something to the effect of “Do you think you should have taken so many naps?”
Jessie also bemoaned the weight he had lost, informing us that now his back was super shredded. I’m not even joking. And in terms of Dan, Jessie complained that he always looked at himself in the mirror. All the time. This, of course, was coming from the guy who spent half of the Early Show interview not looking at Julie Chen but instead his face on the TV screens (he also asked as he sat down initially, “How’s my hair?”). I really wish I could remember all the idiotic things he had said, but there was too much to take in. When the interview was done, he didn’t even wave goodbye to the audience. He just stood up and walked off, leaving the Chenbot behind in a cloud of dust. She merely stood up, turned to us, and mouthed “Thank You” in a way that seemed to connote “Seriously, how awful was that?” I don’t want to put any words in “Mrs. Chen’s” mouth though. I’m just saying that’s the way it seemed…
All in all, it was a fantastic experience yet again. Thanks to CBS for putting on a great show.
Oh, and as for Dan and his quest for televised fame… well, he certainly ended up on TV, but with almost all the close shots, the camera would zoom in and crop him out, somehow keeping me in frame. Shouldn’t have switched those seats…
Here are some pics:
Congrats on the T-shirt, B! Plus, your recap/saga provided a bright spot during a boring Friday afternoon at the office.
Sorry about Shelly–I hear ya. Two months ago, I got to attend a sneak preview of The Rocker, complete with a Q&A with Rainn Wilson (aka My Future Husband If Only He Weren’t Married). I got to ask a question and say hi to him afterwards; however, the experience was marred by the deluge of IDIOTS who kept asking HORRIBLE AND STUPID QUESTIONS (such as, “Did you French kiss Christina Applegate? You got paid to do it–she’s like a whore!” to which Rainn took a moment, then responded, “Um, I’m MARRIED”).
It’s like, people, have some respect.
What a glorious story!
I hope that Dan wasn’t peeved at you for taking the stage without discussion. I hope that you try each week to get to the show. Imagine if you actually DID meet the Chenbot!
That “awful” lady even looks loud in the picture.
So excited to see this posted before I left for the weekend. It allowed me a good giggle before I have to spend the weekend with the family (gasp!).
Congrats on the t-shirt, and thank you for pointing out the awful woman. Always nice to have a mental picture.
B-Side, these are great. For those of those many, many miles away from the action, it is a cool thing to read about.
“What’s the first thing that pops into your head when I say Jerry?” He sits saying nothing because, in fact, nothing is in his head!
Can you figure out a way to get Dan’s sister voted INTO the house? Hubba, hubba!
Sorry, it should say “those of us”.
And I mean the housemate Dan’s sister, not your buddy Dan’s. Not that there is anything wrong with his sister, if he has one.
Was Julie’s skirt as spectacular in person as it was on my TV?
hmmm…loud, obnoxious lady in the audience. I’m thinking Beth may have scored those tickets after all.
In his lame “word association,” Jessie’s word for Libra was “deviant.” Unless he thinks she has sex with animals, I think he meant “devious.” He’s such a tool. Congrats on multiple victories in your glorious attendance!
On MSR, Ed Hill interviewed Jessie and he actually asked about the deviant word. It sounds like Jessie DID mean “deviant”…not sure what he is talking about (with Libra and Steven) but he seemed to mean the word. Of course, trying to follow him in an interview is an adventure in itself.
I LAAAAA LOVED your blog!!!! I found the entire thing interesting and comical [big loud lady lol]. Can you email me so I can keep up with all your blogs?? http://www.caustongreenejr@aol.com. my name is tabatha or tabby, I would really appreciate it! Congrats on the t-shirt, and the pics added to the blog! Ohhh and in your pic with the t-shirt you reminded me of Brad from As The World Turns, seriously check it out lol. Well please get back to me and again I truly injoyed the blog!!
The Chenbot was on fire last night, she had to bring her A game to handle that Jessie interview.
Now it’s time for me to watch Jessie on housecalls. I’m sure it will be just as awesome.
I’m such a Big Brother fan and LOVE your updates.
I want a Big Brother t-shirt too!
Nicely done, Brad..is it?
“When the interview was done, he didn’t even wave goodbye to the audience.”
Sheesh B-Side, he has to get respect in order to give it. I would give you more similes and analogies but you don’t have a rationalized mind.
‘Dan’= pseudonym for IndianJones, who can’t be pixilated on live broadcasts.
What are you saying Tabby, that you can’t take the time to come back here and read B-Sides blog, he has to mail it to you?
Really now. He is to busy purchasing new shorts and eating out with his friends. Hanging with Spencer to manage all that.
It will be here waiting for you when you return from the program.
thank you Erica!
hb
tabby is so deviant
Hey ‘B’ So that very excitable man was you! heh Excellent recap of the show. Well, except for the part about the two ladies who struggled on EVERY QUESTION. First, there were only 3, not 8 or 10 as this makes it sound. Second, two of the three questions had 3 answers, not just one. Third, you forgot the woman who went second and didn’t know her answers without help. And finally, while they may have been super easy and obvious to you, in some defense, I’ll say that I missed the first 10 days of the feeds and shows due to moving cross country, setting up my place, and finding a job. I did know the competition questions the first guy got, and your question, but questions about the goings on in the house I wasn’t sure about.
As I said though, excellent recap! Guess all internet people aren’t idiots. Maybe we’ll see each other at the finale.
BB1
“I should note that sitting two rows in front of us and a little to the right was an AWFUL woman. She was big and loud, and she seemed to think the entire show was based on her.”
Doesn’t that describe something like 75-90% of the Big Brother viewing audience? 😀 (No really, if you’ve never checked out JokersUpdates or other similar sites, or the contestants’ (especially BB6) official sites… Oh, how I envy you.)
– Tabby Lavalamp who has nothing to do with the above “tabby”
Hi B-Side, I am a long time lurker who checks in every day when I should be working to get a laugh from you. I had to sign in to thank you for sharing your Chenbot encounters with us. It makes it even more fun getting the behind the scene scoops.
Jesse’s interview was awesome. He is such a perfect tool. The only disappointment was he didn’t take his shirt off to make everything better, like he did during the earthquake. Maybe its because his giant back is shredded now.
Thanks again B-Side!
ok, so if there were 3 possible answers for some of those questions, doesnt that make it easier?
math is quite deviant.
No, not 3 possible answers – 3 answers. i.e. what three houseguests have had birthdays. Simple question if you’ve been watching the feeds or shows. Not simple if you weren’t watching.
So, BB1 – the women were from BBfanatics.com?
Shouldn’t it be called BB-when-it’s-convenient.com?
I think the point is, the so-called “BBfanatics” knew less than any regular fan. If you’re going to dedicate a website to Big Brother, watching the show should be required.
Any rationalized mind knows that, toe to head.
Great recap! All of us die-hard BB fans are envious, but enjoy it vicariously through you.
I enjoyed it from toe to head. And, that is saying a lot, because on face value I am rational.
I read your blog all the time! I wish I had recognized you and said “hi”! Thank you for the recap, being there I can say that you were spot on with the entire experience! My friends and I could not stand “Shelly” either! She was sitting like 5 people to my right and everyone around me was making comments about her under their breath. She was ridiculous! She got out a pad of paper at one point and started writing things like “Can you even hear anything that is going on!?” and tapping on the shoulders of the deaf audience members and waiving it in their face! When the stage manager (Eric i think his name was, who was amazing btw) jokingly threatened to throw her out of the audience when she asked if she was allowed to lunge at the isle for Jesse I clapped and let out a little cheer which made me the recipient of a dirty look down the isle from “Shelly.”
I tried to describe the “awful woman” to my roommate and other friends and I am glad I now have your blog to prove that I was not exaggerating. =)
Oh and we were sitting right behind the women from bbfanatics and were pretty jealous that they got t-shirts for not knowing any of the answers even after we yelled them out to them when they needed help 🙂
ps that is me in the grey button up in the second row =)
I was so excited to share airtime in the same shots with Julie and posted a screen cap here.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e275/mtt7738/julieandme.jpg
OMG i totally saw matthew! i was on the other side in a blue check shirt.
ANYHOW BB1…no matter–its not as though i am some ‘loser unemployed bb feed watcher’ yet working 60-70hrs a week i can find the time to watch three shows–which was all that was required to answer those questions.
for gods sake, bside is the person who POPULARIZED THE USE OF “CHENBOT”
btw, Big Brother After Dark is phenomenal tonight.
those bitches are so fucking entertaining.
good show ladies.
hb
plethLaura – yes, you’re right, it should be called BB-when-it’s-convenient.com. I’ll change the name immediately. Then we’ll be “rationalized’.
Matthew – Thanks for ‘yelling out the answers when we needed help†I guess you didn’t hear all the wrong answers that were being yelled, too. And again, we did know some of the answers. But I’ll let you join in on the bashing, cause it’s more fun for all of you.
jash – I’m not sure if you’re insinuating I’m a loser for being unemployed, if you knew me, you’d know the situation. Maybe you’ve never packed up a house full and relocated a family 2400 miles away. Watching a TV show hasn’t been high on my priority list, even Big Brother.
I suppose I should hang my head in shame, and shouldn’t have taken advantage of the opportunity to go to the taping. We didn’t ask to be called up, and not a single one of you who is trying to make us look stupid would have passed up the opportunity to go up if called on. I’m only responding for myself by the way. The other lady is one of the forum members who flew from back east to go since I had two tickets. She can reply or not. The mob mentality here is why I started my own forum three years ago. We have good people there who understand BB is a tv show. It’s a GAME. BBFanatics is only a part of the website, we have forums for other topics, too. I don’t make it my life, and the name of the forum was simply an easy name to get a website for.
BB1- I just typed out a comment in response to you but entered the damn captcha wrong and lost it all!
anyway the gist was that I was not making fun, simply stating that I was jealous that you got a shirt and I didn’t. In reality I wasn’t REALLY jealous, it was just something fun to bitch about. I thought the overall energy at the taping was very positive (minus the awful lady who has been noted many times now) and I was glad to see you up there having fun and getting a t-shirt. I hope you had as much fun at the taping as I did and please don’t take random comments on the internet so seriously.
PS- I hope “shelly” doesn’t come on here next and call me out.
PPS- HONK!
No worries Matthew. After 8 years on BB forums and websites I’ve learned to not take anything seriously, but I have learned to give back when I feel I’m getting it. It was fun, I’m glad I moved back to So Cal and got to go.
Sorry about the captcha thing. I have no idea what you mean though, I’m a rookie at this site. And good luck if ‘Shelley’ does show up! I’d be scared of her, lol
(Sorry if this double posts. It spun around for a long time and I resent.)
Matthew- I’m glad that you had fun at the taping and got some screen time with the Chenbot on live TV. Maybe B will send you his t-shirt as an act of BB solidarity?
Come on B! It’s just a shirt!
Jessie was AWFUL!
I cannot believe how horrendous his answers were and how uninteresting he came off as in the interview.
I love how this has now become the forum for everyone who attended the BB taping to come and talk about their experiences (not sarcasm).
Bring on more tapings!
BB1, defensive much?
You say: “The mob mentality here is why I started my own forum three years ago.”
This blog has been around less than a year. Are you psychic?
Defensive? I suppose I am when someone makes fun of me, then others pile on without knowing or telling the entire story. That comes from years of participating in forums where people hide behind their anonymity to say things they would never have the courage to say in person. And people who take each word literally without looking at the whole picture. For example, of course I’m not psychic. I meant the mob mentality being displayed here was the same as the mob mentality on other boards in the past. Everyone also seems to miss the fact that I enjoyed the blog, and earlier ones I’ve read since being told of this site Friday. There’s some good writing here. But once again the new person gets attacked, so I’ll back away now and let you all have it.
BB1- I’m glad that enjoyed the blog. B IS a good writer, and a true fan of all things Big Brother. I don’t think that he was making fun of you and your friend in a mean way, but if you took it that way then that is too bad. I hope that you get to watch more of this season now that your move is finished, b/c it’s shaping up to be a GOOD one! Enjoy the t-shirt! I’m wearing my Chenbot shirt now (that I won in a contest on B’s old site). I love it!
I’m so glad you were at the “Jesse show”, and got a t-shirt on top of it all.
Oh haha, it’s always always humurous to make fun of people. While on Jokers we can only comment on the post and not the poster, here I can say that I find your writing distasteful and rude. I’m sure your avid fans will now curse me and say they can’t live without your blog.
Hello Everyone – I am the “other woman†and BB1’s friend. I’m home now, and have had time to read B-side’s story of the taping, and all of the comments after. I wasn’t going to use up valuable vacation time on it then, but I do want to reply in support of BB1, our values, and our “fun†website – where I’ve met “friends†– not where I just reply to a stranger.
I enjoyed your writing style, B-Side, and will probably return. What I would like to see you tone down is your commenting on people other than BB HGs (they are always fair game). Is it really necessary to your story? Sure, it’s fun to pick on people we don’t know – but as you can tell, sometimes it can come back to bite ya. It really does not make you look like a better person. But I guess wisdom comes with age. It just seems you are more intelligent than the put-down of others calls for. We didn’t exactly *want* to go on stage. We chatted with someone outside that ended up being the person to call us on stage to do trivia… we were very shocked. As BB1 stated she was moving cross country and hadn’t seen a lot of shows, there *are* more important things going on – its’ called real life. As for me – I flake out in front of people. Always have. From the shock of being called “in front of an audience†to do trivia – made my mind go blank, and I want to add an LOL, cause I CAN laugh at myself. I’m 61, I’m allowed to be forgetful. I also hate replying so late in this – but I was NOT going to use valuable vacation time in this way; but I *do* want to support BB1.
I want to note also – our website bbfanatics.com is a “conversational†format – real time – talking with real people. Not read the thing – and formulate a reply that you’ve thought out for a while.
I really was disappointed in some of the negativity in some of the replies – people who were not there, forming negativity from a story and some explanations … amazing. To only site one, because I really don’t want to answer all of you… PlethLaura, was it really necessary to advise us on a name change (BB-when-it’s-convenient…). We are big brother fans – but we also have lives. I don’t MEMORIZE the show – I watch it and enjoy it… along with the feeds, when I can stand to watch their boring azzes.
In a nutshell – because of 3 trivia questions and 2 t-shirts, and a semi-jealous blogger, this whole thing started. Sad. There is so much more to life. I plan to enjoy mine. I’ve said what I have to say, and will comment no further on the matter. It isn’t important enough to go on and on about. Go do something – have fun!
Wow! I don’t watch Big Brother so I haven’t been checking the blog that often. I missed all the drama!
Wow, miss a few weeks of B-Side Blog and all hell breaks loose!
I’ve been really loving these recaps, this BB is AWESOME from toe to head! I wish you could’ve let the Chenbot know that YOU are the genius behind her beloved moniker – I’ll bet you would have had total access to the live show! Doesn’t she sport a Chenbot mug on The Early Show from time to time?
I can’t wait for tonight – this and Swingtown are my summer obsessions.
BTW- I did NOT want to waste valuable work time on writing this… (except it’s my favorite thing to do at work). I think you could avoid all the unnecessary blogging by just sending us all individual emails.
BSide,
I can’t comment for anyone else…but as for me, don’t change ANYTHING about your writing.
I followed you here from that OTHER website you founded….and have been commenting here ever since you started.
To quote Billy Joel- I love you just the way you are ;)I think people just need to grow a thicker skin and realize that it is all done in fun.
…the hell?! We ARE having fun.
More making fun of strangers please! Err, ummm….except me that is.
BB1 said rationalized
Exactly what KikiC said…I also followed you over from the other site and absolutely love your writing style. I`ve introduced many of my friends and co-workers to your site and they have all become fans of yours as well.
Keep up the great work!
Good Lord… B-Side is one of the nicest people i’ve ever met and HE’S getting grief for goofing on some random people at a taping of BB10? That’s too funny.
I suppose we are all lucky a dick like me wasn’t present.
And that’s only the tip of the arrow from a rationalized for real, toe to head.
ha ha – you said dick.
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