If only we got to vote on who we wanted to host. Where's Phil when you need him?

Welcome back, Ms. Chen. Please leave your glitter at the door. You aren't a high schooler putting out on prom night.

I'm hoping Julie will stop being in denial and truly embrace her Bot-ness. It's bad when the Diary Room couch has more personality than the host.

Snarky Jeff Probst would sure serve the show better...too bad they're most likely filming Survivor Cook Islands about now!

How could you even think of getting rid of the Chenbot? She's an American Icon now.

I mean...I could see sticking her in the house, but replacing her? No way!

She looks nice tonight...but gawd is she annoying. Her voice is one I could do without.

well we can't do anything about it at this point, so I guess it's time to just embrace the Chenbot.

I'll be the lone voice that says.... Cool, Julie.

I liked her outfit. She tried to be more enthusiastic. Which, well, sometimes it worked, at least for me. As the Chenbot, She's a good counterpoint to all the hamster drama. I don't think the BB host should have too much "personality." Leave that to the hamsters.

You could be thankful she's not donning an evening gown and croaking "Thanks for the memories" on the show's finale... Oh. Wrong host.

Since Julie has not left Big Brother to do the evening news, or anything, we just can't imagine her parting gesture to her adoring fans. I'm sure a spaceship will somehow be involved when her time comes.

I agree. She was really enthusiastic tonight. It was almost as if she really cared. Or maybe she just went easy on the botox tonight.

"A Veto is a choice between two hamsters, each with its own pros and cons..."

And for the latter...eek.

A BB without the Chenbot would no longer be BB!

She didn't say "But first" even once! She knows we are watching her veeery closely for bot-like behavior...

Ah, Chenbot. You actually listened to all of us and ate that sandwich! I thought she looked good and much-less skeletal on Wednesday's show. I also could not imagine BB without her. Her uncomfortably stiff interactions with the hamsters on the live shows are awesome.

Man i think she gets worse every time another BB house starts.

"Nakomis congratulations you're the...new...head of...household....OH NO I mean Kaysar is. Sorry Nakomis."

*ugh*

I think this was the most egregious error so far....

Is the Chenbot red/green colorblind? Inquiring minds want to know!

I have to say, despite the Kaysar/Jekomifer faux pas, I think Julie actually didn't do too bad.

A) I liked her outfit
B) I don't think she said "But first..."
C) She FINALLY asked some tough questions of the evictee (though this is more the producers and writers than her)

I love that she called Allison out on her nasty quotes. About fracking time they started doing that.

I'm not trying to start any rumors but...
Julie's shirt tonight kind of looked like a maternity top.
I'm just sayin'.

Eh, I think she must have eaten a Tic Tac before the show.
Anyway, I almost felt like I was watching the
Mrs World Finale. Without the Scarlett O Hara dresses.

Oh, she did. I remember we made a big deal about it in the chatroom.

Julie actually admitted "I am the Chenbot" before the season began.

Now, why oh why oh why did she have to bring up the mandana? Booger and Howie can wear one if they want, but I like mandana-free Jase and would have prefered to keep him that way.

Did Julie actually use the term "fatass bitch" during her callout of Ali (when she was reciting the Ali quotes about Janey.)? Or, I am I just fantasizing? If so, that, alone, was worth any pain from this season...

Actually, that's quite interesting that you mention that. Theories are flying around currently that the Chenbot could be pregnant! Read a very funny analysis here, complete with pics evidence.

"Read a very funny analysis here, complete with pics evidence."

Your article had a link to Julie pre-plastic surgery. I thought it was interesting at first so I tried to use it as my avatar but it really just creeped me out after about a minute of using it.
Her transformation to the Chenbot is very disturbing.

Oh please! She swallowed a Tic Tac before the show.

I like Julie, but it seems she's really conservative and quiet, CBS just didn't want to waste time looking for a better host.

Plus, the whole "being married to the big cheese at CBS" thing doesn't hurt, either.

Had to bump the Chenbot's thread to throw her some love for being a snarky, snarky bitch last night.

Well played, Chenbot. Well played.

The Chenbot really seems to have been upgraded this year. She's been quite entertaining with the Chenterviews on the couch.

If only someone could upgrade here style software.

Bwah!

After a while it just sounds like she's saying "butt thirst."

Maybe she's reading this website because last Friday on the Early Show she was making fun of the "chenbot" including the phrase "but first" I was laughing so hard, I think she reads this site, she and other hosts from the Early Show were drinking from coffee mugs with the phrase "chenbot", it was hilarious!!!

I've decided Julie is to blame for this mess of an HoH. If she had caught the problem when Mike's light didn't work, maybe they wouldn't have to redo the competition.

I didn't catch the rules of the game entirely, but assuming the slowest person was only eliminated if everyone got the question right then Mike could have answered last and it not impact the game because that was the round Janie was eliminated by getting the question wrong.

So if Julie had caught the mistake with Mike, when it happened again with Howie they could have just done another question. No one else seemed to have problems with their buzzers so this would have solved the problem and given us a real winner.

I still don't understand how she missed it with Mike but caught it with Howie.

For the same reason she declared Nakomis HoH....she's the ChenBot!!! Judgeing from tonights fiasco, I'm assuming that the people that built the ChenBot are also the ones that wired the HoH buzzers.

Blah. I almost didn't start watching BB because I couldn't stand her. She is not very... observant... Of course now that she's married to Les, she'll never lose her job.

But the bubblehair looked faaaaaabulous last night!

Who was the snarky bitch on the show last night, and what did they do with the real Chenbot?

Who cares!

I don't know, I don't care. Maybe the real Julie Chen escaped from a creepy mansion in Connecticut, destroyed the Chenbot in an epic battle over a Tic-Tac (aka "fuel"), rolled in some glitter, fluffed her hair, stalked up to Les and said "Stepford THIS motherfucker!" Then marched right onto the set and decided to take her ire towards her husband's robot lust out on all the BB famewhores.

Actually, I like that story, and I'm sticking to it.

And I love this new Julie Chen. This is a woman I can imagine getting wasted on a beer at The Well, and confessing all kinds of dirty secrets: "And don't even get me started on what Jase SMELLS like. And you know that shampoo we put in the shower? I'm not saying *I* peed in it, but..." And then we'd howl with laughter and she'd share her glitter application secrets and we'd totally be snarky, bitchy BFF.

Anyone else finding it way surreal when Julie does "real" news in the morning? She uses the exact same voice and we keep expecting her to say "The power in the middle east is up for grabs!" We're only just starting to get over seeing Serious Foreign Correspondent Anderson Cooper as host of The Mole.....

'Doom Song'


Doom.......Awesome! Just. Fucking. Awesome.



Eh, I cut Chenbot a break on this one.
Although, Chenbot has been upgraded this season.........the "Chenbot 7.0" only programmed for certain tasks.....so being a Judge for technical malfunctions (when she's currently programmed for asking the HOH comp questions), is just too much for a Chenbot 7.0 to handle.
I blame the programmers of then Chenbot.

Well, actually it's the responsibility of the Official judges who oversee the competition.......and it's their responsibility to notify TPTB, who in turn then send that info to the Chenbot 7.0.
All of that responsibility takes time, I guess.

In the immortal words of James: Dumbasses.


But first....... let's go Chicago where FMC will feed and walk the dog! Let's see what Murray-dog has to say about which bushes he'll pee on today.....!

I TIVO'd that episode, and after reviewing it a few times, the next shot to Julie after Ericka was declared the winner seems like she was caught off guard cuz she's looking to someone off to the side for a millisecond as if she was talking to them. Maybe it's me, but her face seemed less than composed and I think she did notice the problems, but the show must go on when live.

On the morning show with Kaysar the day after his eviction, Julie says something at the end of the interview mentioning Janelle as being the new HOH. Can't remember the context, but it was said. I wonder how many people who don't have internet thought she screwed up?

I am so tickled that Julie is now smacking the evicted HGs with their own words. James strode out all puffed up and proud and Julie hits him with, "you have called Janelle a whore, etc. How can you call her your friend?" James face was priceless. I could just see the Chenbot's microchips glinting as she thought, "now that's DOOG TV, motherfuckers!"

I'm actually enjoying Julie this season, instead of wishing they'd dump her and replace her with Will. (No, I'm not kidding.) But her pants on the last episode (Thursday) - those satiny white shapeless wrinkly things were so unflattering. The woman is a stick and they made her look downright hefty. Burn them!

I just can't believe she actually agreed to host that self-snarking "But First" competition. Hee! I 'bout died when she introduced it. Next they'll be asked to assemble the parts of an actual Chenbot.

Can't believe none of the hammies got the joke.

At least one of the Hammies got the joke, and I want to say it was Dani.

I have always found the Chenbot endearing for her robot-like ways, but this season's version that gives the evicted Hammies hell as soon as they leave the house is fabulous. You can tell they all come out the door expecting the old harmless version, then BAM! "You called so-and-so a fatass bitch whore, what do you have to say about that?" Hee.

That blouse? Was it a Diana Eng original? I couldn't spot the magnets, but that was so her design.

I actually thought she was going to go in the house as the mime & mime to them CBS decided since America hated them, they were giving the prize to Janey & Will to split.