They're asked whether Brittany's mother and George's wife faced off on a "CBS news show." The answer's true. The question makes it sound like they were on Dan Rather.

We suspect a more honest phrasing of the question would have been, "Did the two appear as some sort of promotional, manufactured fluff on one of CBS's many low-rent infotainment franchises, probably on a small-town affiliate?"

We start to realize what a cruel mindfuck the challenge is. The game -- with the headlines suggesting to the housemates that "Big Brother" is something more than it is -- is setting up each remaining hamster for a massive meltdown.

All four probably think they'll be leaving to be caught up in a swirl of David Letterman appearances and guest spots on "Hollywood Squares." What a colossal disappointment it will be when they walk out of the house, finish up with Julie Chen and go home to maybe get a guest spot with the local morning zoo. They'll find out what we've known all along: No one really cares.

The challenge continues. They're shocked to find out that there are nude pictures of "Big Brother" houseguests on the Internet. (A couple of pictures of Brittany at Burning Man are out there.) The group figures that their faces have been Photoshopped to other bodies.

Jamie says she hopes her face was put on a nice body. Eddie hopes that he would have been put on a two-legged stunt nude.

One question is about whether the location for the new big reality show is the Mir space station. The hamsters say no, of course. They get it wrong, because it's another misleading question: The new show, envisioned by the guy who did "Survivor," is really to be set in a space training camp. The last contestant standing will get shot up to Mir.

They're happy to hear that Rosie O'Donnell is a big Eddie fan; again, we would be surprised if O'Donnell has done anything but casually mention the fact. Jamie is visibly glad -- though twisting inside -- that she hasn't spawned a lip-gloss trend. They're also excited that Brittany signed a deal with a "major" Hollywood agency.

The hamsters win the challenge by a whisper. Of course, "Big Brother" could have easily generated this outcome: The producers gave the questions to the inmates beforehand and have watched them rehearsing their answers. Ho-hum.

As a bonus for winning, each hamster can ask for the correct answer to one of the questions they have been studying this week. Eddie asks if there is a NWBA fund in his name. (True.) Josh, amazingly, wants to know if a feed of the shower cam was leaked live at the Latin Grammys. Whoa, it's false.

Curtis wants to know if Karen has her own show on the Food Network. (Nope.) Jamie wants to know if there's a "Wizard of Oz" Internet parody with "Big Brother" hamsters standing in for the Dorothy and the others. She says she thinks it would be "hilarious" if it were true, but we figure she just wants to know if she was indeed portrayed as the Glenda the Good Witch of the North. True.

They all have a laugh. She doesn't know that her face is a target in an Internet game.

Recent Stories