Big Brother 15: Top 10 Moments – Part 1

The end of Big Brother 15 is just days away so while we wait to wrap up this season, put it on the shelf, and get ready for next season, let’s take a look back over some of the top moments from this summer. Branden and I have compiled a list of the most memorable or game-impacting events of the season and will deliver them to you in two parts.

If by the end of the list tomorrow there’s something we’ve missed then we want to hear from you on what should have been added. With a longer season than ever, squeezing the top events down to ten spots wasn’t easy and not everything could make the cut.

#10: Moving Company moves in and then right back out

Big Brother 15 Nick Uhas

What happens when you pull together five of the biggest guys at the start of the season for a powerhouse alliance called The Moving Company? If you said on Week 1 that they’d fall by Week 2 and be quickly picked off with just two lasting to the second half of the game then we’d have called you crazy. That’s exactly what happened when Jeremy, Nick, Howard, McCrae, and Spencer formed what should have been a dominating alliance at the start of Big Brother 15.

Instead of winning competitions and block voting to keep themselves safe when winning didn’t work the guys were split apart when Nick went up on the block in week 2, couldn’t talk himself out of a wet paper bag with Elissa, and then McCrae flipped to keep his new girlfriend happy and possibly safe. Soon Spencer and Howard splintered off as well when they realized the Moving Company ship was sinking.

They could have been a dominating force but were instead destroyed from the inside out. Jeremy’s jerk attitude to his closest allies, Nick’s inability to talk game, and McCrae’s hormones brought the group down and ended it before it ever had the chance to get off the ground.

#9: Showmance Mania

Big Brother 15 Showmances

Speaking of hormones, my goodness. What was in the water this season? We usually get a couple or two, but this season thought it was the Summer of Love. We had 4 showmances, 1 fauxmance, 2 flirtmances, and 1 someone-please-like-me-mance. It was like the wires were crossed and HGs thought the season’s ultimate prize was a night in the sack with each clamoring to win the crown.

McCranda kicked it off with their showmance. Jeremy & Kaitlin started up early but wasted no time getting hot & heavy. David & Aaryn kept it light and slow (“No tongue!” Aaryn, afraid of on-camera romances, would yell at David. But of course racial slams were A-Okay in her book. Go figure.). Howard & Candice even kinda, maybe had something going that slowly picked up steam.

Nick & GinaMarie’s fauxmance could have a top ten list of its own. This bizarro relationship featured a madly in love girl with a guy who did his best to keep her off him. While Nick has admitted to forging the relationship as his part of the Moving Company’s plans he’s been more than generous when declining to admit what we all suspected: it was completely fake on his part. As for post-BB, we’ll have to wait and see.

Judd had a few flirtmances of his own with Jessie and Aaryn. Both were formed out of game moves, but I imagine he didn’t mind the extra homework. Unfortunately for Judd the Jessie situation boiled over quickly and Aaryn’s seemed mostly directed to disrupt Jessie’s sanity.

Ah, Jessie. The “please someone look at me”-mance. Desperate for a showmance Jessie bounced around from target to target early in the season, but sadly none every took hold except for her late night smooches with Judd and even then it was hardly what she came in search of on Big Brother.

Early in the season when I touted the overload of romance and was told by a reader that they weren’t interested in late night hookups, but really showmances are so much more than that. You get to watch HGs do the stupidest moves all in the name of love. Or at least normally you do. This season most seemed to be willing to let their other halves go, except for GM who never wanted to let go and McCrae who saw the damage his relationship was doing to his game but kept on anyway.

#8: Conspiracy Theories

Amanda wins the Veto

First it was the game was allegedly rigged for Elissa with production giving her food in the DR, calls to home, and a roadmap of the season. Then it was the hoax about Amanda being best friends with the show’s producer and everything being rigged for her to win. Apparently that included losing every single competition she faced except for one. Even after Amanda was booted we heard claims that production had decided to indirectly support Amanda by helping McCrae. They were all bogus, but my goodness people just couldn’t let it go.

Aside from being allegedly rigged for players there were the claims that things were rigged against. Remember Helen falling during her chance to come back in to the game? Oh she was pushed by a mysterious hand, some readers claimed. She was pushed bute never yelled out “Hey! Someone pushed me!” Right.

Big Brother is all about pulling out clutch wins and saving yourself against all odds. We see it season after season, but it doesn’t take a conspiracy to manipulate your fellow HGs or fall victim to gravity. If you’re desperate for rigged reality then check out The Joe Schmo Show. It’s hilarious and features a small, scripted cast of actors who have to pull off convincing one player for two weeks that everything is real. Considering the number of screw ups and near reveals they face in two weeks just imagine controlling 14+ people for 3 months with 24/7 cameras and trying to convince millions of people. Exactly.

#7: MVP Twists and Flops

Big Brother 15 MVP

It was a good idea. Adding a third nominee was totally different and really did mix up the game in the first few weeks, but things quickly fell apart. Elissa kept winning the power and everyone knew it. Then they switched it up to America nominating a HG, but then Judd went and nominated their target leaving Elissa, the previous 3x MVP, in the crosshairs.

Had production taken a few simple steps this twist could have avoided unraveling on them. First: no HG can be MVP two weeks in a row. Second: the MVP can not reveal he or she has the power. If they do, then it’s an automatic loss of power & up on the chopping block you go. Considering production managed to keep DPOV and the Coup D’Etat a surprise then they could have done the same with the MVP role.

Most Big Brother twists flop in fantastic fashion and this season was no different. Production finally threw in the towel and gave up on the twist. No one knew who was the MVP for three weeks like they did the first three weeks so it fell on Howard, then Judd, then Judd, then Judd, and OMG, it’s gotta be Judd! Either keep it secret from the start or let it be known who’s deciding the whole time. Flop.

#6: A Juror Returns

Judd competes to return to Big Brother

It wasn’t the first time a Jury member returned to the game, that honor goes to BB3’s Amy who returned in the season where all HGs were part of the Jury. But it was the first time in the current styling of Big Brother’s Jury.

After having seen Gary on Big Brother Canada get voted back in from Jury and make it to the F2 while losing by a poorly aimed voted I didn’t think they’d possibly make the same mistake. For the most part it seems they didn’t as Jury members were prohibited from talking game when not on camera for footage at the Jury House.

When it came time the first four Jury members: Candice, Judd, Jessie, and Helen were all given an equal chance at the opportunity to get back in the game. It was an exciting endurance competition and our highest viewed comp of the season, according to our site stats.

Judd ended up getting back in to the house after a two week leave of absence and surprisingly lasted longer than most of us expected. But, much like Pet Sematary, the Judd that came back to us wasn’t the same Judd. He was angrier and more bitter, but still managed to entertain us with his time back in the game. Ultimately his luck ran out when his drive to compete did the same. He quit in the middle of a Veto competition that was still anyone’s game and he went home when the one player who couldn’t win did just that.

While the idea of bringing back an evicted Jury member is a little questionable it was a fun event to watch and it gave us the added bonus of needing a second Double Eviction. I’ll take it.

Top 10 – Part 2…

Okay, that wraps up the first half of this season’s Top 10 events from Big Brother 15. Tomorrow we’ll take a look at the last half of this list, but while we do feel free to speculate and share your thoughts on what should round out our list.

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  1. 1. I always wanted to see Big Brother add a third nominee, but with the HOH doing the job. It puts more blood on the HOH’s hand and it makes it more interesting. But MVP just didn’t work for me. However if the MVP were tried again, the MVP might have worked better with competition instead of the Have Not’s.

    2. I didn’t care for the Jury return neither because it wasn’t revealed early. Survivor: Redemption Island comes to mind. It was from the beginning and it was a good chance for two people.

    3. The Moving Company…Nick was the brains of it and when he was gone, so was it. They just couldn’t agree on anything and the women in the house ended up destroying it.

    Twists are twists, some work while others don’t. Now I can’t wait until next year will be.

    BTW: BBN should add the flop of the live feed. HOH comps that run beyond the Thursday night live eviction should be turned on so we can watch it. Damn Trivia. The feed just wasn’t worth $23.99.

  2. What I would like to see is a follow up show a week after the finale – let us get the reactions of the houseguests who never knew how their bullying, bigotry and overall bad behavior left most of us disgusted with this season. I would like to know how many lost their jobs due to bad behavior. I would also love to see Nick’s actual feelings about GinaMarie. I believe she was delusional all season and I wonder how he felt about being brought up in almost every episode as her true love. Hmmm.

    • Oh joy, the wonderful “final 3” are farting, belching and talking about masturbating…CBS should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of behavior!
      They are making me hate one of my favorite shows!

    • Read an enterview Rachael had with Nick – she asked several times about his feelings towards GM and he carefully answered each time and didn’t give any negative comments. Guess we’ll have to wait on the answer after the show is over.

  3. To look back and see that Nick thought he had this game in the bag. His arrogant overconfidence was his downfall as were the stupid members of the Moving Company. Howard didn’t know how to play the game, Spencer is just a doofus, Jeremy was an idiot, and McCrae was sidetracked by some big boobs on Amanda. What a bunch of dummies!

    • True. Elissa already told Nick that she will put him up if he can’t guarantee her a vote to stay. Unfortunately for him, there’s no time-off from talking game with fellow competitors.

      There’s no guarantee he’ll survive that week especially if noms have yet to be finalized post-Veto so at the very least, he could have lied just to cover his bases and eliminate every possibilty of him going up as a nominee.

      His game ended the moment he refused to talk game with Elissa and TMC disintegrated from there.

  4. I think we as viewers might have enjoyed it more if Nick had lasted a couple more weeks but he was definitely overconfident and it showed. I wonder what the game would have been like if Nick had managed to get Amanda out before him. He let it be know she had to go so he went first. As for showmances, if I wanted to watch porn I can order that on my directv. The flirtmances not a big deal. Last thing on Nick, I wonder if he’s filed a restraining order yet?

    • It’s interesting that a lot of the viewers have the same opinion of Nick. I thought he had tons of potential. He had the brains, but not the social skills. All he had to do was lie to Elissa and his butt would’ve been safe. EVERYONE does it. You tell the person in power what they want to hear. It’s that simple. Ugh!

      Unfortunately the MVP twist took out some of the more interesting players and left us with an unimpressive group of competitors. But, this is what happens when you choose people who should be on MTV, and not Big brother. This season was a glorified Real World.

      • I heard a lot of good things about The Real World (made by the same people behind Survivor US), especially in the earlier seasons where they had this guy who was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in one of their San Francisco seasons. But it all boils down to good casting at the end of the day.

      • TALK ABOUT UGH S U PEOPLE THAT LOVE LYING AS A VIABLE STRATEGY…..U ARE DESTINED TO FAIL……LYIHG HELPS IN THE MOMENT BUT LONG TERM ”KARMA” OR ”WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND LAWS TAKE EFFECT AND YOU ARE A BIGGER LOSER…MAYBE EVEN YOUR SOUL….SO CAREFUL WHAT U CONDONE AND WISH FOR…..”WHAT U SOW U WILL REAP” ITS A UNIVERSAL , ETERNAL LAW…U CAN VIOLATE IT BUT IT WILL EVENTUALLY CATCH YOU”@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. In my earlier comment I didn’t mention the MVP or juror coming back. I liked the idea of a MVP but didn’t like the same person having it every week or them telling anybody that they are MVP. Maybe next year they could refine that and make the game more interesting. I like the idea of a returning juror. That would give HG something to think about. Especially if returning HG had a power or immunity for a week or two. They would have time to flip the house. I hope Matthew and Branden send some of these tweeks to BB, it would certainly make things more interesting. There are ways to improve viewership without adding outrageous HG like they did this year.

    • i would like to see any “voting” verified by an independant accounting firm so we know the results are manipulated,

      • If it’s the original game of Big Brother, they would definitely show the viewers results of a public vote and even go as far as revealing updated figures minutes before an eviction could take place.

        BBUK on the otherhand, I learned after watching its 14th season (my 1st) concurrently with BB15, had a habit of not revealing voting results during eviction or otherwise.

        BBAU and BBCan at the very least, is more than willing to show results when needed. Plus, BBAU have also allowed viewers to vote through a Facebook app which makes tallying results easier.

      • AND AMERICAN WAY INCLUDED …JURY SHOULD KNOW ALL THE FACTS…..THE WHOLE TRUTH”…..VITAL IF BB IS TO SURVIVE

    • TWO RULE CHANGES VITAL OR BB WILL BE NO MORE…..1. JURY NEEDS TO KNOW THE ”WHOLE TRUTH”….2. THERE NEED TO BE REAL PENALTIES THAT EFFECT GAME IF U DEFAME, SCANDAL MONGER(OUTRITE LIE ABOUT SOMEONE’) OR SLUR THEM RACIALLY, SOCIALLY OR PERSONALLY…ie. candace.race…andy..homophobic……ellissa personal about daughter and sex habits.and evern aaryn about sex habits ,and drug taking….DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER WILL STOP OR SHOW WILL DIE!!!!!!thats why everONE IS SAYING WORST EVER CAST..

  6. Nick seems to be nothing like he was in the house. He seems to be one cool person. And I think a few more weeks in the house he would have done real well! He was not arrogant at all.. He is actually hilarious. He is an actor.. So I think he just played the wrong damn roll that sent him packing way to damn soon!!! Damn Nick !! Damn! Lmao…

    • When you come into the BB house acting shady and not really talking with anyone..people get suspicious..and they did. He was overly confident in the MC..people were onto him very quickly and that is why he left week 2..acting or not!

  7. The 2 most unimportant incidents in the game that got played up to be important even though they did not matter and were talked about WAY TOO MUCH this season:
    1. Jeremy drinking the wine
    2. Candice mattress getting flipped

    • THEY PERSONIFIED THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS SEASON THO… l. greed AND MONEY GRUBBING.2. VILE SELFISH EVIL NASTY UNSCRUPULOUS BEHAVIORS…GALORE!!!!! …SO THEY WERE THE CORE REASONS EVERYONE IS SAYING””” THIS IS THE WORST CAST EVER!!”

      • AND RASISM, BIBOTRY, AND CHARACTER ASSAS INATION!!!!!!!BAD SEASON!!!NEED 2 REFORMS JURY KNOWS WHOLE TRUTH….2. PENALTIES THAT AFFECT GAME FOR DEFAMATION AND BULLYING….PENALTIES THAT DETRACT FROM ONES GAME.LIKE A WEEK OFF COMPS OR SOME THING.

  8. I can only hope the producers of this show will take a long look at this season and make some major corrections. Give us 16 total strangers like we’ve asked for and don’t bring anybody back, no relatives of previous hg’s, etc…. I would like it if they kept the MVP with all strangers. That way they all have a chance at getting it from week to week (of course that would only work if the viewers would actually reward it to the player who’s really playing the game).

    Lots of lessons to be learned from a miserable season.

    • definitely lots of lessons to be learned. Manners and morals brought back in the house or player will be ousted, MVP should stay private or penalty given, pandoras box used more etc

    • The main reason that the MVP twist flopped was because America turned it into a popularity contest instead of voting for the player that is playing the best game

  9. In the beginning it looked like a good cast. Who care that Elissa is Rachel’s sister really.. But I’m sure producers thought that as well . How were they really to know what was to come. Yes they should have stopped things at points for sure but you can’t blame production on people’s disgusting behavior.

  10. The moving company could have worked if they would have stuck together, had a bond and trust. I think it would have been wise to have brought Amanda in, but soon dropped her when the time was right. Spencer and Nick being vocal about getting Amanda out to McCrae was a mistake because he was going to run right back to Amanda. Nick was also too arrogant and he didn’t feel the need to try and work with Elissa and have her as an ally, because they could have worked together, but instead he was too busy trying to fake a relationship with GM and trying to be cool with the bullies and racists off the house.

    The showmances were a disgrace. The people BB chose were a bunch of horny nitwits. Next time get people that have actually seen the show (Kaitlyn), and get all around better players. I want real people, not someone looking to be famous and actually make them be competitive and win comps.

    I never believed in things being rigged, the HG were just really stupid this year. No secrets were ever kept, people were making way too many deals, not seeing that Andy was a rat…hello, once he was done nibbling on the cheese from one room he’d scurry off to the next room…lets not forget the stupidy of letting Amanda and McCrae stay so long in the house. …Again, America gave you Amanda twice on the block and you didn’t have the balls to vote her out, even Aaryn said she was scared of Amanda… Don’t even get me started on Helen voting her alliance members out and wanting to work with Aaryn. The list goes on.

    The twist was a definite flop. Especially when it was the same every week until America got the vote. I liked Elissa but it wasn’t fun to see what the potential twist could of had in the game. Either let America vote who the third nom is or make the contestants play for it, or do exactly, they are not allowed to have it weeks in a row, just like they do it with HOH, also don’t let them reveal if they have it. I also hated that there was no DPOV or the Coup D’Etat, they should have used that to shake up the game.

    I like the idea of bringing a juror back, but Judd was still a Dud. He brought nothing back to the game. He made a deal with Elissa and he broke that. He just seemed more arrogant and meaner this time around. I also hated him more for giving up on the challenge. That was weak.

    Looking forward to reading the second part.

    • GEE I MOSTLY AGREE SAVANAH….2 RULE CHANGES VITAL TO SAVE BB…1. jury NEEDS TO HAVE ACCESS TO WHOLE SHOW IN JURY HOUSE…ALL THE FACTS….then it will be and ”honest ” decision. 2. RACIST, BIGOTED, CHARACTER DEFAMING….NOT ALLOWD…SEVERE PENALTY IN GAME RULES ie. if you defame, or slur..OR OUTRIGHT LIE ABOUT SOMEONE U LOSE A WEEK OF ALL COMPS..OR SOME HUGE LOSS…..A SEVERE PENALTY THAT WILL TEACH TOLERANCE…..IF BB IS TO SURVIVE !

      • Sorry to tell you but lieing is part of big brother and penalizing someone for lieing would not make sense

  11. Elissa putting up Macrea.. No one would touch them before that… And she was a class act.. unlike that wack job and rat face cry baby and pizza wuss, amongst others…

    • I guess you missed Elissa attacking Amanda bathing suit and being very very mean about it .
      I would have punched her face right at that moment .

      • NO ONE SAID ELLISSA WAS PERFECT SHE WAS SEVERLY TESTED BY AMANDAS VILE ATTACKS……SHE FAILED RTO MAINTAIN HER COOL….WHO WOULDNT ZING BACK A LITTLE…YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i doubt it……..can we agree that Amanda ws ”out of line” and ellissa usually ”in line”….

  12. The moving Company was never going to work. Jeremy made himself the biggest target in the house almost immediately and Howard was a lame player.

    I agree about the MVP. I liked the twist but the rules suggested above would make it work better.

    Bringing someone back into the house is both good and bad. But bringing Judd back into the house was bad, I think. He is just a bad player not matter how entertaining he is. He learned nothing from his eviction and the game would have been better off if he stayed in the jury house. The only one who would have been worth bringing back is Helen because at least she has some game. Jessie would probably be second best and Judd and Candice – just forget it.

    I know the Exterminators are going to be one of the next set of top moments, but I hope not. They are the lamest alliance ever. The can;t even be honest about themselves – they claim they evicted Aaryn when Andy was on the block. They walk around the house now like they are the best BB players ever. They are all leftovers. Its Revenge of the Turds.

    • howard was a ”professing christian” LIAR. THATS WHY HE FAILED TO PRODUCE!!!!BAD PREMISE….BADRESULTS…..SHIFTY EYES ….DOOMED TO FAIL BY HIS ”bringing THE LORD” into his ”game”….GOD WON T ALLOW THAT.!

    • Why waste a PB on a loser cast. CBS gave up on this cast as soon as Judd came back.

      There was no “movie Night”, where people see a special screening. There were no powers, nothing.

      Why waste the good stuff on such a crappy group of HGs

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