"Big Brother" -- the story so far
Jordan the ho! Eddie the good son! Curtis the cipher! Episode by episode, a complete guide to the antics of Mega, Karen and Brittany the cuddle slut.
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The producers of "Big Brother" create six episodes of prime time a week (broadcast Monday through Saturday), and feed continuous streams onto the Internet as well.
Wednesday's show is a one-hour live affair in which either banishment nominations or the actual banishee is named. On Saturday, there's a half-hour of recap and then a half-hour of new footage. Specials and sports programming occasionally cause preemptions, and once in a while the half-hour show is extended to an hour.
The story so far:
Episode 69 (Thursday): Three very drunk hamsters: Josh gets naked for Curtis and Eddie!
Episode 68 (Wednesday): The latest banishment from the game show on which everyone's a loser!
Episode 67 (Tuesday): Curtis has a big 32-incher!
Episode 66 (Monday): Finally: Some naked trampoline jumping!
Just posted! The last episode! (Friday): Finally -- the ultrathrilling, very, very exciting final episode of "Big Brother"!
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Episode 65 (Saturday): Look, we're serious: Are you sure we can't vote to banish Julie Chen?
Episode 64 (Friday): Jamie: "A sab-a-twah is amongst us!"
Episode 63 (Thursday): Please don't feed the hamsters
Episode 62 (Wednesday): Julie Chen wields a mean cue card
Episode 65 (Saturday): Look, we're serious: Are you sure we can't vote to banish Julie Chen?
Episode 64 (Friday): Jamie: "A sab-a-twah is amongst us!"
Episode 63 (Thursday): Please don't feed the hamsters
Episode 62 (Wednesday): Julie Chen wields a mean cue card
Episode 61: "My name is George, and I'm a hamster!"
Episode 60: A rising tide of pugs! Ugh!
Episode 59: George does the math
Episode 58: The great toilet-paper crisis
Episode 57: Don't worry, Jamie; no one will notice. Hardly anyone watches "Big Brother"!
Episode 56: Question: Are we allowed to vote to banish Julie Chen?
Episode 55: Rebellion? Who said anything about a rebellion?
Episode 54: Revolution! The housemates pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred hamsterness
Special report! The revolt fizzles: Big Brother plays hardball, and the residents back down.
Special report! Reality bites back! : House residents plot to depart en masse from CBS TV show.
Special report! What went wrong: In Europe, the "Big Brother" houses featured catfights, sex and nudity. How did America's turn out so different?
Episode 53: Hamsters über alles!
Episode 52: George: "Curse you, Red Baron!" Eddie: "I'm disabled!"
Episode 51 (Thursday): The fallout from Brittany's bombshell. Plus: Another damn plane!
Episode 50 (Wednesday): CBS to house hamsters: "We'll give you $50,000 to leave!"
Episode 49: Josh gets sloppy drunk. Ugh!
Episode 48: CBS's new hit show: "Dummies for Dummies"!
Episode 47: Jamie: "I gave Donald Trump a blow kiss!"
Episode 46: Has Josh ever made any sense?
Episode 45: Brittany: History! Jamie: "I am a great actress!"
Episode 44: A banishment shocker: Live, from Rockford -- it's Lady MacGeorge!
Episode 43: Things get really, really weird
Episode 42: Jamie: Being a beauty queen is hard!
Episode 41: Mud baths! Dry humping! Square dancing!
Episode 40: It's the morning after, and Jamie's not sure if she made the right decision.
Episode 39: A new nomination round: "Oh, my god! The world is so horny!"
Episode 38: Josh isn't gay! Neither is Curtis! Nor George! And not Eddie! And did we mention Josh isn't gay?
Episode 37: Eddie gets a rubdown by a secret masseuse!
Episode 36: Now even Jamie's getting paranoid
Episode 35: Brittany: I am the new alpha female!
Episode 34: The houseguests begin to unite against CBS
Episode 33: Karen the Unhinged continues to obsess
Episode 32: George visits Brittany's hair salon
Episode 31: Josh and Karen freak out after the banishment vote
Episode 30: Karen puts two and two together -- and gets five!
Episode 29: Julie Chen -- the Christiane Amanpour of reality TV!
Episode 28: The key to this game is detachment!
Episode 27: The perfect Miss Jamie's fatal flaw
Episode 26: George blows it
Episode 25: Eddie, please put that thing back in your pants
Episode 24: Girls against boys, just as the good Lord intended
Episode 23: The second banishment vote!
Episode 22: Time for heartbreak and degradation!
Episode 21: Only the sexually provocative will survive
Episode 20: Oh, Brittany, please shut up!
Episode 19: Josh to Jamie: My heart will go on!
Episode 18: Sex tease Jordan slices up Josh
Episode 17: The second round of banishment nominations
Episode 16: Eddie: "I'll kick Curtis' ass!"
Episode 15: Banding together to preserve Brittany's virginity
Episode 14: Jordan gets the boys panting
Episode 13: Mega? Mega who?
Episode 12: Mega gets booted!
Episode 11: "I don't want to be Mega poophead anymore!"
Episode 10: Jordan's big secret
Episode 9: Mega gets nasty
Episode 8: Tensions after the vote
Episode 7: Who's gonna get bounced?
Episode 6: Mega and Jordan check out each other's butts
Episode 5: Lesbians and chickens
Episode 4: Karen trashes her husband
Episode 3: Mom and Dad freak out
Episode 2: The arrival of Mega
Episode 1: Meet the residents