It’s 90s week in the Big Brother 17 house, and while Shelli and Liz were no doubt in sync with their initial nominations, Audrey spewed more of her garbage, causing Shelli to have faith no more in her. So Audrey could easily find herself hitting the pavement during the next live show.
Sorry about all those 90s bands references. I just had to do it.
The episode picks up right after Shelli and Liz won the Heads of Household titles. So the Sixth Sense alliance is happy. Audrey is happy because neither of them are gunning for her. Jackie is feeling alone and a little nervous because Jeff left and now she’s vulnerable.
But the first matter at hand is to decide who those four votes to evict Jeff were. And Austin is the first to bring it up to Liz, who happened to be among the four. Liz explains to us in the Diary Room that she’s never going to reveal she was one of the votes. And at the moment that vote is being blamed on Audrey. But it was Steve.
Elsewhere Jason is prepared to go up on the block because he’s alone in the game and there’s no one to make mad by sending Jason home.
Back to the wonky votes. Clay and Shelli are now discussing them and Clay thinks one of the votes may have been from Becky.
Now it’s time for Shelli and Liz to start talking about what they’re going to do this week. And since they can’t think for themselves, let’s check in with Clay and Austin. They both think that Jason needs to be the target this week because he is the most likely person to come for the twins. But the plan turns into one that means four people could go up and it doesn’t matter who goes home.
But there’s still that weird vote for Jeff. They’re concluding that one of the stray votes was from Becky. So maybe she goes up along with Jason and maybe Jackie.
Speaking of Jackie, Austin makes a dumb move and talks to Jackie about the possibility of her being a pawn. Hey Austin, last time I checked you were not HOH. Jackie tells Shelli this and Shelli is not happy. So Shelli takes this information to Vanessa and tells her that they have to be careful with Austin. And Vanessa isn’t exactly pleased he went rogue either.
And it’s time for our weekly let’s put Johnny Mac up and ask him to throw the Battle of the Block. Chase thinks that’s the best way for Shelli to keep more blood off her hands. So she agrees and asks him to go talk to John about becoming a pawn again. And as usual, John doesn’t want to do it but he tells Clay he will. In his Diary Room, John asks himself when will he stop playing everyone else’s game and play his own. We’ve been wondering that also, Johnny Mac.
At the nomination ceremony, Liz nominates James and Jackie. Shelli goes with Jason and John. After the ceremony, Liz tells Jackie that she’s not her target. She promises her that she won’t go home this week. But Liz wasn’t happy with Jackie’s “balls” for asking those questions. Liz tells Austin she wouldn’t care at all if Jackie goes home.
Shelli explains to Jason that he went up on the block because Audrey told her that Jason was talking about targeting Shelli and Clay. Jason tells her that was not the truth and that he was under the impression that he was able to trust Audrey once again. And Shelli is upset because she doesn’t know how much longer she can trust Audrey in the game. She tells Jason to win Battle of the Block and dethrone her because she doesn’t want him to go home.
It doesn’t take Audrey long to get a read on Jason that he knows that she was the reason he went up. So Audrey goes to Shelli to pretend that she wasn’t really telling her to put up Jason. Even though we all watched her tell Shelli just that. So Shelli is again not happy with Audrey and maybe it is her that needs to go home this week.
But nothing can happen until the Battle of the Block. So let’s get to it. The 90’s week competition is all about grunge bands and John isn’t planning on throwing the completion this time. So he and Jason are ready to win. But after a close race, Jason and John flop and and it’s James and Jackie who win the competition, dethroning Liz/Julia. So Jason and John remain on the block.
Shelli let’s us know that she now has time to think about whether or not there’s a bigger target (Audrey) other than Jason this week.