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Season 6 Episode 5

BB6 Episode 5: Veto Competition 2

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Aired Wednesday 8:00 PM Jul 19, 2005 on CBS
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BB6 Episode 5: Veto Competition 2
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Hours before the Power of Veto contest, two fights break out beween Ivette & Kaysar and Eric & Michael, forcing the Big Brother producers to break up the fight. Later, at the competition for the Golden Power of Veto, Eric, James, Michael, Janelle, Howie, and Rachel compete in a challenge called "High and Dry," involving zip lines and water jugs. James wins the contest, thus giving him the option of removing one of the candidates for nomination from the chopping block. James, knowing what would be best for him in the game, chooses not to remove Michael or Janelle. One of these two will be evicted in the live ceremony on Thursday. Who will be evicted from the Big Brother 6 house? And who will be the next Head of Household?moreless

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  • The biggest Big Brother fireworks in years send tensions to the boiling point.

    9.0
    By jekyll, Nov 26, 2011
    A typical Tuesday veto show turns anything but, as two separate arguments force the producers to intervene, while.

    The bulk of the episode follows two plot lines: the general anxiety over the veto competion and the continuing undercurrent of distaste towards Michael and his disrespectful treatment of the female houseguests. However, a major flare-up between Eric and Michael, followed near immediately by another heated argument between Kaysar and Ivette, forced the producers to essentially call a time-out to get people to cool off. This is the sort of action that has not been seen in several seasons, and it made for a very intriguing and exciting episode. You never really felt anyone was in danger, but the tensions were so high you still had to wonder what might have happened had the scenarios been allowed to play out a bit longer.

    In the end the veto was not used, leaving the more unpopular than ever Michael to battle Janelle to avoid eviction.moreless

  • Who won the Golden Power of Veto? Who Cares! Did you see that awesome fight?! Ivette, Kaysar, Michael, and Eric make this episode the best of the new season.

    9.7
    By theaterguy007, Jul 27, 2005
    Don't ask me why the fight started. In all honesty, I don't know. Maybe if Bush hadn't cut into the first fifteen minutes of my show, I might be able to tell you. The point is, the fight was spectacularly awesome - and spectacularly stupid.



    In the gold room, the night before the Veto Competition, a little snoop named Rachel puts her ear up to the door to hear what Janelle and Michael are talking about - Cappy. Michael is rightfully pissed off because Eric's been brainwashing all of the women in the house to think that he's a sexual predator. Michael, letting off steam about Eric, says something about Eric's grandparents that I couldn't quite make out. Rachel hears, reports back to Mr. Captain (sir, yes, sir!), earns a pat on the head and a dog biscuit, and then goes back to the hot tub. Eric, on the other hand, is fuming. You can't mess with this guy's family, okay? Even though I don't think Michael was insulting his family at all.



    Later, Michael burps in Ivette's face, who says, "I hope your mother enjoys that." Michael fires back a comeback almost as lame as those, "Your mom!" lines a few years ago by saying, "I hope YOUR mother enjoys that!" While, sure, it wasn't a good comeback, it was not offensive (am I missing something?), but apparently, it sets Ivette off, because her Latina ass if furious. "I'm gonna kill him if he comes out here," she says to Eric out in the backyard. Eric agrees, and Kaysar comes out to try to help out his secret "buddy."



    "What's the problem?" he asks Eric and Ivette, who look about ready to hit Kaysar, for reasons that I still am uncertain of. "Don't come at me," Kaysar warns them. Cause we all know what nation he's from. And I'm not saying nothing, but with those WMDs, you really never know. Just kidding, Kaysar. Mostly. Ivette starts flipping out again, saying that she's gonna get all Cuban on Mike's ass and that it's not her fault if she screams - she's Latin, after all. And it's not Eric's fault if he tries to attack Michael with the sharpest thing accessible to him - a spoon. After all, he did "insult" his family (nowadays, just mentioning someone's grandparents in passing counts as an insult).



    So Michael comes out of the house, Eric says something to the extent of "What's your problem?" and Michael says something to the extent of, "nothing, you little midget with a small penis." Smooth, Michael. Real smooth. Cappy's on fire now - and firemen cannot put out their own flames. You can insult Cappy, but you do not insult these two things: his family and his penis. They're just off limits. It's not Eric's fault.



    So basically, the two lunge at each other, and the secret voice from the unknown, who actually sounds really upset and worried that something might happen (imagine how much Julie Chen's head would wobble if someone broke their face!), tells Michael to go to the storeroom and Eric to go to the gym, to "think about what they did." That Big Brother guy sounds like my mom. If they're good for the rest of the night, they'll get a cookie and maybe be able to watch the end of Survivor.



    Kaysar, still looking cool, calm, and collected, still doesn't really know what the deal is. So he asks Ivette, who brings up the fact that Kaysar hates women. How this comes up, again, like many things, I have no idea. Kaysar stands up, towering over Ivette, and for the second time, before things get physical, the BB guy sends Kaysar to the hammock, Ivette somewhere else, and tells all of the other houseguests to seperate as well.



    A little later, once everyone has time to "think about what they did," everyone reports to the living room to talk about their feelings. Cappy just tries to be noble, saying that he would never be physical with anyone. On TV. Yeah, that whole foaming at the mouth thing with the clenched fists and the sputtering of, "I'm gonna KILL him! I'm gonna KILL him!" was just for dramatic tension. Michael just wants everyone to know that he's not a sexual predator.



    Honestly, I don't think that Michael's molested any of the girls - if he had, Big Brother would most certainly show that on TV. I do think that Eric is full of crap, but he's very good at brainwashing everyone younger than him into picking someone to vote off. He very much started a clique of his own, probably just like he did in high school. You see, to me, Eric seems like one of those guys who would say something to your face and while a lot of people are in the room, just to look good, but would then be secretly plotting the best way to take you out with a dodgeball to the face. Just my opinion.



    After the Veto Competition, which doesn't really matter seeing as how excitingly idiotic the rest of the episode was, which James wins, he throws away the chance to dethrone Eric by keeping Michael and Janelle as the nominees for eviction. Nice job, James. Let Cappy rule. Did you watch Survivor: All-Stars? Did you see the first few episodes of Big Brother 5? You can knock off Jase and Scott and Holly! Boston Rob and Amber...well, they're another story.



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  • What happens when you put people from opposite ends of the personality spectrum in a house together 24/7? Conflict. Conflict Conflict.

    10
    By danasdude, Jul 20, 2005
    Spoilers abound below****



    Sexual harrassment is a touchy subject. (No pun intended) Michael is going to find out a few things when he returns to the world outside the Big Brother walls. His "stares" do mean something. His "innuendo" could get him arrested. And from the looks of this show, he doesn't have long to wait to get back to the real world. His only hope to remain in the house would have been the power of veto. Either that, or a healthy dose of humilty. I am sure his explanation to women will be that his housemates never gave him a chance to explain his actions. It was not his fault that he leeched all over them. It was their responsiblity to tell him not to kiss their stomachs and touch their necks. My question is this, why would the Big Brother producers step in to stop violence, but not step in to stop sexual harrassment? The real game here is to see who has the social graces to get along with people in confined spaces. In that game, Michael is already the loser.moreless

  • Head of Household elects himself King!

    8.5
    By cowluv48, Jul 20, 2005
    Eric as head of household is driving me nuts! I can't wait for him to give that position to someone else. He seems to think it means he's the last word in everything that happens in the house. Where did he read those rules? And what's going on with Michael?? He made a few misconstrued advances toward a few women and now he's been charged with sexual harrassment. If the girls had a problem, they should have gone to Big Brother and stated their cases, not run up to Eric on his throne. I hope in the near future, someone treats Eric like he's been treating Michael.moreless
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