In the next scene, Josh tells the others that he's concerned about Cassandra's visit. It's another one of those nonsensical issues he creates when he's had an extra Budweiser or two. There's a certain amount of information that he'd rather not have. He goes into the Red Room.

"I've decided that I don't want to know anything about myself from her," he says.

He really just makes it too easy to make fun of him.

He thinks this information would distract him, maybe keep him from having fun.

Wait, who's having fun? Where? When? Are we missing something from the shower cam?

Fortunately, Cassandra hasn't watched a single tape or one show since she left the house. (Why would she? Like she misses them ....) She won't be able to tell him what a horndog he looked like back in the halcyon Jordan days, what a chucklehead he looks like when he philosophizes, or how dumb he sounded when he said that he'd never slept with a woman who didn't have an orgasm as a result of his amazing sexual powers.

He has nothing to worry about.

The announcer says the houseguests are going to experience "Big Brother -- the board game."

Wait, did he say "bored game?"

It's what appears to be a genuine board game with dice and turn-cards and little plastic pieces. We're guessing that it's kind of like Life, except for that instead of growing up and starting a family and becoming a lawyer or doctor you sit around all day and take naps.

Jamie is psyched. There's a game! About them! That means they're all famous! The look on her face when she finds out this is all a ruse will be the greatest thing on television since the kicking deer in the debut episode of "When Animals Attack." We decide that the deer should be present when Jamie learns the truth.

All four of them sit down to play the game. Judging from their wooden faces a few minutes later, the game isn't likely to show up under many trees this Christmas.

By the way, have licensing standards had slipped this low in the game world? After having been force-fed a diet of commercials for the new CBS fall season, we're aghast at the possibilities. The C.S.I. Game, complete with plastic fecal samples? Craig T. Nelson Twister?

When we come back from commercial, Eddie is in the Red Room saying that he's really looking forward to Cassandra's visit. "If I know Cassandra at all," he says. "I know that within 24 or 48 hours she had seen all the tapes and read almost any and all articles written about the show for any interviews that she might undergo."

Sorry, Eddie. We guess you don't know Cassandra that well. Maybe you should have slept less and talked to her more while she was in the house.

A new challenge. One hamster is going to be the saboteur, and will secretly mess around with something in the house each day. The other have to track him or her down.

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