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Big Brother Season 3 Episode 18

Episode Title: BB3 Ep #18
Countries: USA,
Airing Date: August 16, 2002
Runtime:44 mins
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Big Brother (US): BEST IN SHOW: AMY RETURNS, TAKES HOH With Roddy vacating the HoH contest quickly, Gerry, Marcellas, Jason, Lisa, Danielle and Amy settle into the bathtub and try to remain comfortable while squid splash all around them. Making things worse, Chiara informs them that "A good Head of Household has to weed out troublemakers" and dumps a bucket full of seaweed and pond scum into the tub, splashing it all over Marcellas in the process. Uncomfortably settling in to their changed surroundings, Amy tells the group that when she was in a "remote part of Mexico" a little girl recognized her from her time on the show. Perhaps inspired by their dirty surroundings, the HouseGuests recall the House fight they felt was the best so far: the Danielle vs. Lori argument regarding Gerry's personal hygiene. Back in the tub, another 20 minutes has gone by, meaning it's time for Chiara to add more ingredients to the soup. She pours in two more buckets of pond scum and algae, which quickly turn the vile solution "slimy" in Marcellas's words. Still soldiering on, the HouseGuests ask Amy for news and gossip from the outside world, but Amy wants to know what's happened in the House. Amy tells the group of Julia Roberts's recent marriage and Danielle tells Amy the tale of Marcellas's valiant efforts with the chicken livers in a recent Food Competition. Jason and Gerry, despite what they're sitting in, both begin to worry that their mutual need to urinate will be their undoing. Chiara reminds the group that if someone goes to the bathroom in the tub, they're surrounded by "seaweed and dead squid. Urine is the least of your concerns." LISA COMES INTO HER OWN Since becoming involved with Eric so early in the game, Lisa was occasionally thought of as "Eric's girlfriend," but since his eviction has become more assertive for herself. Amy is told of the date that Josh and Chiara arranged for them on the basketball court and the subsequent eviction of Eric at Gerry's hands. Amy had her own House relationship severed when she was cut off from her best friend Marcellas, but not before they had a fierce argument about what Marcellas thought was Amy's attempt at campaigning against him. But now, with Amy back in the House, Marcellas says he doesn't even remember fighting with her. Prior to Amy's eviction, the HouseGuests, led by Chiara gathered in the living room and had a "roast" where everyone told Amy one thing they liked and respected about her. Gerry and Marcellas abandon the tub, both saying they need to use the bathroom. Feeling the cool night air against his skin after leaving the tub, Marcellas runs through the backyard shower in a desperate attempt to clean himself of the filth he was sitting in. ALLIANCES: THE DIRTIEST WORD IN THE HOUSE In the tub, Danielle is starting to look a little sickened by the concoction she's marinating in. She later says this was strategy and that she used to work as a "fish clerk" and wasn't bothered by anything that was put into the tub. She exits the tub and says in the Diary Room that she wants to "let other people do my dirty work for me." With Jason still in contention, Danielle knows that her alliance is still represented. However, many other House alliances have fallen by the wayside since the game started 41 days ago. On the back porch Josh and Marcellas, are shown having a long discussion, which Josh turns to the topic of the Original Six alliance and how they wanted to vote Marcellas out the first week. Josh points out to Marcellas that if Gerry hadn't saved him with the Power of Veto that week, he definitely would have been kicked out. Marcellas gets up and retreats to his bedroom, where he tells Chiara and Lisa about his talk with Josh. Chiara goes back out and confronts Josh, asking him why he can't be considerate of someone's feelings and play the game at the same time. Josh goes inside and apologizes to Marcellas, but the damage is done. OPERATION REVOLVING DOOR Still in the tub, Jason, Amy and Lisa are reminded the hard way that in the BIG BROTHER House, one should always "Expect the Unexpected." Twenty electric eels are added to the swamp-like fluid in the tub, a development almost as shocking as when the Power of Veto was introduced to the game. With Marcellas and Lori up for eviction, Gerry wins the first Veto Power and uses it to save Marcellas from nomination, making a speech whose repercussions are still being felt. Also changing things considerably was the idea of one of the evictees returning to the House after their exiles in exotic locales. Inside the House, Chiara and Roddy, in anticipation of someone's imminent return, came up with "Operation Revolving Door," whereby everyone in the House would agree to nominate and re-evict whichever HouseGuest came back. When approached with the idea, Danielle at first agrees, but later wonders aloud whether Chiara and Roddy expect anyone to believe one of them would nominate and evict Eric if he was the one to return. Denouncing their "strong-arm tactic," Danielle and Marcellas both say they wouldn't go along with Operation Revolving Door. In the bathtub, Lisa decides enough is enough and bails out. In the Diary Room she says that she knew if she became HoH she would have to nominate Roddy and Chiara, and that "wasn't a card I wanted to show yet." THE CAMERAS With just Amy and Jason left in the tub, Amy confides that one thing she missed most while in Mexico was the cameras following her everywhere. Each HouseGuest has noticed the particular sensation of being followed by the cameras as they move around the House or hearing the cameras whirr and click as they film from behind the walls. Despite being conscious of the omnipresent cameras, some of the HouseGuests sometimes forget that they're being filmed 24/7. They groom themselves and each other, make silly faces and pass gas with little to no concern for who's around them. Another noxious smell, this the one emanating from the bathtub, finally gets to Jason. He looks across the tub at Amy and says, "Welcome back. You're the new HoH." Jason stands up, disqualifying himself, giving the HoH power to Amy, the prodigal HouseGuest. As Jason wrestles with Amy in the slimy tub, Chiara expresses her reservations about Amy's rise to power. "I want to be happy for her," she says, "but I'm annoyed."

Phil Proctor