There are worse things in life than watching people you don't like twisting in the wind. That's what happens tonight.

Karen, Josh and Cassandra were nominated for banishment Wednesday. The audience has a week to vote one of them out via a dumb 99-cent phone-call process. As a consequence, Karen, the neurotic mom, is acting even more bipolar than normal. And Josh has become virtually comatose, not a bad thing.

Cassandra is being gracious but is not without her own secrets. "I think she's so terrific," says Cassandra to Curtis about Karen. Cassandra doesn’t say she nominated Karen for banishment.

But Cassandra's mad at Karen and Josh's behavior. "We have to do this and it's their responsibility not to stress everyone out."

"I have enough faith that everyone is goodhearted and rational," ripostes Curtis.

Sometimes oxygen seems to be something that's wasted on Curtis.

There follows a thoroughly enjoyable montage of Josh being morose. He's living a filmic drama. Unfamiliar with the idea of a Gary Cooper or Humphrey Bogart, he settles on Adam Sandler, grim and determined to go it alone through grade school in "Billy Madison." He sulks in the pool, mopes in the backyard with only a foul pug for comfort and stands looking pensively out of the chicken coop.

Brittany's the only one who's buying what he's selling. "How can you be OK without talking about it?" she asks dramatically.

"That's how I am," Josh says. "The only person I question is myself."

Brittany looks at him uncomprehendingly.

"Try not to look at me any different," Josh says. "I'm still the same person." Brittany kisses his temple tenderly. If only she could tell him that she voted to banish him!

Distraught, she goes for a bedroom cuddle in the dark with Eddie: "He's hurting and it's all because of me!"

"You gotta be strong for Karen," Eddie says. "Don't worry about Josh." Brittany uses her shirt to wipe her tears off Eddie's broad chest.

Indeed, Karen is going batshit. She's convinced Curtis voted her for banishment on Wednesday. (He didn’t.) Now she barely talks to him and spends a lot of time glaring in his general direction. He's not telling her the truth; it allows him to play the martyr with the other women in the house.

He plays the wounded guy as well in the Red Room during his Big Brother confessional. "As patient and kind and caring as I think I am, it will have limits," he says portentously. "I feel slighted, and it's unfair, but I'll wait and see."

"I think it's unfair for her to condemn me for something I haven't done," he says, emotionally, for him. "I think how you respond to something like [being nominated for banishment] reveals something about your character."

Poor Curtis -- so unfairly victimized by Karen, who thinks he nominated her for banishment when he didn’t!

He doesn't mention that he did nominate her the first two rounds of banishment votes. Did we mention Curtis is a lawyer?