I am opening this thread as a place to talk about the upcoming show: shady rumors, posting links to articles about the new season, rampant speculation and of course to share the all-encompassing delirium that only comes with the beginning of a BB season. Because we all know what a let down it will be in September.

If you want a laugh, here is the link to the Big Brother 8 application. It's a pdf file, FYI.

"Have you ever been to a nude beach?" Oh, pleeeease tell me that has no relevance to this season.

I like the follow up to that: "What was it like?"

"Uh, it was like SPF 100, Julie."

"Butt first!"

Oh, I have read a rumor or two about this season, the main rumor being that the theme is High School Bullies vs High School Bullied. X-Factor, anyone?

I want to see some real players, like Dr Will, but versions in both sexes. I want to see conniving with style, not the whiners and petty high-school level tantrums of BB6. There must be some truly Machiavellian women out there who could lead those self-conscious lovely mindless guys by the nose, and some tactical thinkers who could manipulate silly fluffy fame-addicted floozies without their having a clue. I'm looking forward to multi-level players whom I won't end up despising.

Probably too hopeful a wish list. I'll settle for BB8 whoever is playing.

I am fascinated by the rumor that Romber will be joining BB8 in some capacity. I don't believe it, but I think it is hilarious.

The bully/bullied idea seems really idiotic. Not entertaining to me at all. I like all my hamsters to be tortured, not to do the torturing. I'm not sure if this is how they will tie in Will/Janelle as "house parents" by turning the house into some type of "boarding school" type idea?

I just hope that the producers realize that they should be running the asylum not the inmates. I want some Penalty Noms, taking away of stuff, and follow through with threats/promises. None of this winning of prizes and giving them to some other HG [like George and his slop pass].

As always I hope that the FOH is kept to a minimum. Why the producers can't get it through their thick skulls - we watch the show - even if we know what happened, we will still watch the show. Because we watch the feeds means we are totally invested in the show. Trying to keep things from us never works. FOH only pisses us awf! I get the music clearance issues, but the rest - just let the cameras run. We know it's a TV show, hearing the producers doesn't ruin the experience for us.[/end rant]

Hello y'all. I'm sharpening my tongue to ready myself for another year of this annual crapfest.

Did anyone else know that The Booger is listed in the June 25th issue of People Magazine as one of the hottest bachelors? No, seriously. Apparently, he is on page 136. Hurry up ladies, and get yourselves down to your local retailer before they run out of copies.

I realize this has nothing to do with the upcoming season, however, I felt that I needed to share this miscarriage of justice with others. It's been about an hour, and I am still giggling.

Jesus. That's like watching your dog eat it's own vomit, and then letting it lick your face and saying "Well yeah, but he's a really good dog."

I mean...good lord. Did they throw him on a bonfire so that he actually qualified as hot? Did they ignore the nose and the premature (if you actually believe his listed age) wrinkles and the fact that he's Booger fucking Boogtard, of Boogfuck, USA? Did they try and get Dr. Will, but Will said he'd only do it if Booger was on page 136? Is it some giant practical joke?

Then again, it is People Magazine, which didn't really have any credibility before this issue anyway. Perhaps I'll write a strongly worded letter.

Hey guys, I hate to wave the "on topic" stick (oh, who am I kidding?), but let's have further discussion of Booger, if we MUST discuss him, over in the Diary Room thread, OK? Thanks!

The Universe is laughing at you, uaintjak. Laughing.

Make sure you use a crayon, single syllable words and pictures. Don't confuse them.

I wish they would quit trying to look for twists. The whole bully/bullied is beyond stupid. Instead, I wish they would enforce long standing rules that they have never penalized in the past. I would like to see some kind of penalty or the inflicting of physical pain for singing, discussing nominations, ignoring BB to get up in the morning, etc.

I would also like to see more torture of the hammies. Wake them up at ridiculous hours. Make them take cold showers. Make them do shit to get simple privileges such as eating, peeing or even breathing. ANYTHING to make the hammies' lives more miserable.

More female nudity would also work.

The only reason I'm not too keen on the bullies/bullied "twist" is that I was really hoping we'd get a full cast of hammies that didn't know each other. I think season 3 was the last time they were all strangers and I miss the dynamic of everyone coming in as complete strangers. Even with a previously contentious relationship, there's a certain comfort level when they go into the house knowing at least one other person. After All-Stars, where everyone knew everyone else, I was hoping we'd get a batch of hammies all unfamiliar with each other. Oh, well.

I also hope for more hammie torture. There is a tragic lack of that on this show. One of the best weeks of All-Stars was the night they had the wake-up calls all night and then had to do a difficult competition at dawn. More things like that. please.

Greetings!

I am SO looking forward to the unique recaps/opinions that define "Hamster Time". I am moving on June 30th, and hope to be settled in before BB starts this year.

I intend to fully participate in this forum this year and look forward to the insight brought by each member.

I don't know about you guys - but I can hardly wait!!

AnnieMoon-no need to panic just yet.I took it to mean that the cast would just consist of people with those character traits, not bullies and their specific targets. So hopefully we will get 12 actual strangers.
If I recall, in Season 5, none of them had ever met before. Cowboy and Nakomis were related, but didn't know it at the time.

I'm just so happy BB is back. Can't wait! I've heard no rumors yet, but I always love the shock and awe when the rug gets pulled out from under the guest feet.

I hope you're right. I think having people who were the bullying or bullied type in high school would be more interesting than having, say, Jackass Q. Douchebag and Whiny O'Pussy both from Our Lady of Perpetual Famewhores High School.



Natalie and Adria knew each other. And not only were the in the house together for a period of time, but they each got some privacy and downtime away from all the tedium and drama when they were switching out.

I agree, it's always a lot better when they don't know each other beforehand. The best interactions in season 6 were Kaysar and Janelle and their chess matches (well, and Howie going Busto, but that's another story). The dullest were between the people who already had a history.

All-Stars was sort of different, cuz everyone knew each other (except mostly Season 6 didn't seem to really know the others very well), and also because Danielle never shut the fuck up.

Ah, Howie going Busto - the memories! Those were the times.. *looks up video*

Anyway, who knows about the whole bully/victim thing - that could be entirely rumour. One thing is for certain though, most of the people they pick will be terribly lame and we will have a great time skewering them with our rapier wit. That's all I need to know.

My bad-I think I tried to blot them from my brain.

Heh, I don't blame you. I would like to forget therm as well. Also, hi, fellow Virginian!

*waves to AnnieMoon* I'm up in Fairfax, but one of my best friends lives in Petersburg. Are you a native Virginian?

-on topic-uhh . . . could we get a mix of ages, states of origin, lifestyles and income levels this time? Not the prevalance of 20 something "bartender" famehos we've been over burdened with of late?

I've been wanting the same thing, but really, besides actor/actress/model wannabe and bartender, how many professions done by "real people" would give three months off in the summer going into fall?

I can't wait for the new season to start and to read the entertaining posts here. You guys are the best!

Survivor is so much easier to cast. Get your bartender, your fireman, your old woman, your old man, your blue collar person, your hick, your token minorities, your boob job girl, your flake, and your annoying person, and you're good to go.

But here's another vote against fame whores with boob jobs and acting resumes because that is seriously getting old.

Of course, I don't want my hammies TOO real - then I may feel some small twinge of empathy, and I don't want that getting in the way of the famewhore "hate".

No empathy allowed! You're too much of a softee to be a mod! You might need a bigger stick.

Careful.. guys are pretty senstive about people using the words "softee" and "needing a bigger stick" in once phrase!!

Seriously, I have no doubts that they will pick a good selection of perfectly obnoxious people, so not to worry.

Dear God in Heaven....

Please spare us more CBS Romber tie-ins. I'm SO tired of them!

Big Brother 8 showed up today in the Tivo todo list. So I went over to Directv.com and unchecked that HBO and checked that Showtime, then I setup the season pass for the showtime thing. I believe my days starting next week will consist of

6:00 AM - Get up
6:45 AM - Leave for work
5:00 PM - Drive home
6:30 PM - Arrive home, Watch previous night's 3 hour block of Big Brother from Showtime
9:00 PM - Watch the feeds for a couple hours and do some recapping
11:00 PM - Go to bed

Repeat.

The cast should show up this week at some point. Don't they go in on Sunday next week?

The list of hamsters has POSSIBLY been leaked at

http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php/topic...4.html#msg32704

Although I'm not sure if that's legit. I think the hammies go into isolation tomorrow.

I've seen that list on 3 boards now, but I'm at all sure that it's legit. Still, it gives us something to look at until the cast announcement is made!

According to BB Casting Director, Robin Kass, the list is a bunch of hooey.

Evidently I missed pigs flying, hell freezing over and some incident that killed all but the 25 men who appeared in that issue.

Am so, the gathering begins...nice to see all of you (mostly) again. I wish I had this board for every show that I watch during the year, I have been relatively snark free and am looking forward to reading you/writing!!

---Boogtard hot? Are you kidding me? *please see my avatar*


Ahhh so glad to see that snark hasn't left the building. I also cannot wait until the fights begin. The tears, the agony, the bloodshed. I'm sure we will find out real quick who the houseguests are, just remember, first impressions count for nothing on BB. *evil laugh* What if............. What if it's Romber? EEEEEK - could their relationship stand it - a possible break-up or will it all be a farce? What if???

You definitely can't go by the first impression when looking at the bio's before the show starts. I remember my work friends and I totally dissing Kaysar because he answered "i have no favorites" for everything.

Wow...if it's Rob I'll be excited because quite frankly, I love him. He just cracks me up. He would totally be the first house guest to go though. Amber on the other can just not bother showing up.

Yeah, based on the bios/pictures for BB6, I thought Kaysar was Mayor McBlandy of Boresville (which, okay, he kinda was most of the time, especially in All-Stars), Janelle was a transgender, Michael was hot and brilliant, and I predicted Eric would be my favorite.

I still can't wait for the new bios, though, so I can happily pre-judge all these bitches, even if my first impressions turn out to be wrong later.

If, in doubt, do what I do. They all suck. I leave it up to the HG's to change my opinion of them.

Anywho, from BigBrotherAccess.com:

The rumored Hamster list from TVSquad.



I totally hate Unidentified Male already. He's nothing but a blank slate!

That list looks really familiar; is it the same as the one linked to up above? If so, it sure is making the rounds!

It is. I suspect it might contain some truth and the producers were just trying to distract us with their denials. They cannot bully us!

Oh, good point, MrsG! I was momentarily swayed by their declaration that the list is "hooey", but these are the same people who keep promising us exciting new twists, etc., so they obviously have no credibility.

Unidentified Male just better not be Booger!

As for some other first impressions:

The name 'Tiffany' give me an impression of a flighty white girly female of little brains or sense, which is contradicted by the description of 'oldish black woman' which I tend to think of as no-nonsense, stable and my kinda player. My head might explode reconciling the two.

Gabby Ngyugen - I already don't like where this is going, but I suppose it's better than Sullen Ngyugen. Maybe she'll be the life of the party. Maybe she'll be the lose lips that sink my favorite alliance, a la Amy.

'Mitchy' Vance - 'Mitchy' and 'Vance' are both tool names.

Jared - he will be hogging the mirrors, pushing Tara out of the way.

Andi - she'll adopt one of the young and beautiful women as a big sister and live through her vicariously

That's all I got for now, and I will be the first to laugh at myself in a few weeks.

Now, I need to find a new avatar ...

Ooo! Maybe it's the Subway guy! I'll bet dollars to doughnuts he was bullied in school.

I actually believe the list. There is a Tara Bourke (20) with a myspace. Looks like BB8 material to me. She hasn't checked her page in 3 days. What college kid goes that long unless they're being sequestered by a network TV show?! If there hadn't been a myspace for at least one young person, I'd say it was hooey.

BB's casting director says the list is completely bogus. I guess we'll know for sure very soon!

How soon? Because I just can't take it any longer! Let's get this show on the road cbs!
Wow....I think I need a drink.

Just read an interesting article from Reality TV Calendar.

Apparently there will be even more of a play-from-home aspect to the show this year. Of course, it will probably be something lame.




Sidenote to Reality TV Calendar~ take your popup ads and shove them.


Oh, and WTF does The Fonz have to do with BB, anyway?

That still of the Fonz is from the Happy Days episode that spawned the phrase "jump the shark"

Okay it's supposed to be press day today - where is the info on our new famewhores, uh I mean houseguests?!