Big Brother 9 Live Feeds, April 22nd – Sheila’s Last Stand

Before the Competition: Adam is pumped today, and he’s wearing a pair of pants that he’s been saving for a “special day.” They’re from his father, and they seem to have been made circa 1970. Sheila finally gets her strawberry waffles from Adam too, so it’s a good morning for everyone.

BB is calling them in one by one to record their final goodbye messages. Adam and Sheila have a quick little chat, and Sheila says she can’t believe that Adam convinced Ryan that they should keep her. Adam replies that he told her she could trust him. They ponder the fact that most of the other couples in the house ended up turning on their partners.

Bros to the End: Sheila seems to know that the boys are planning to go to the end together. She throws out the occasional line about how she’ll be the last one leaving to go to the jury, etc. Adam promises Ryan that it’ll be the two of them in the final two, but Ryan still seems a little nervous in placing his trust in Adam. Adam says that he made a “scumbag move” in throwing the first part of the HoH comp to Ryan, but says it had to be done. He’s obviously feeling some guilt in not sticking with Sheila.

On the other hand though, he does tell Sheila that he’s messing with Ryan and telling him whatever he needs to hear, but she doesn’t have to worry because he will take her to the end if he wins the final HoH comp.

HoH Comp Part Deux: As Laura reported yesterday, Adam won part two, so he and Ryan will go head to head on Wednesday night during the live show. The competition was timed, and apparently Sheila took over 33 minutes to finish it. Adam’s time was considerably lower. There was a hamster wheel involved in the comp, and Sheila complains that she would have done better but she got dizzy. You can make your own joke to insert here if you wish.

After Comp Strategy: Ryan gets called to the DR, and Sheila tells Adam that she knows Ryan won’t take her to the end, so Adam has to win the HoH. He promises that he’ll try his best, and that he’d evict Ryan if he won. But then he asks Sheila to campaign for him with the jury if Ryan ends up winning it. She promises that she will, although she’ll only have a day to work on them. Adam warns her that, if it’s the two of them together at the end, he might win the game. She doesn’t care – she’d be happy with $50,000.

Ryan and Adam cement their deal, and Adam promises to start throwing the final comp right from the first question. Ryan doesn’t think he’d win the game anyway, so he’s fine with getting the “blood on his hands” (which has become almost as common a phrase as “under the bus” in the house) in evicting Sheila.

Ryan tells Adam that he trusts him completely now, because he followed through with his word in throwing the first part of the comp and then beating Sheila in the second. Regardless, Ryan asks Adam several times during the day if he’s sure that he’ll take Ryan if he wins on Wednesday night.

Sheila tries to work on Adam to get him to take her to the final two. He takes her to the memory wall and shows her all of the votes she would have from the jury, and says that he came here to win half a million dollars to do good work for kids with autism. He says that he can beat Ryan, so it would make more sense to him to take him to the end. Sheila is upset by this and tries to throw out the 46-year-old single mom thing, saying that Ryan has another 20 years to make that kind of money. Ugh. I want Sheila to get to the end, but this stuff is pure crap. They argue over this for a few minutes.

Sheila goes to Ryan and tells him that she knows the boys are planning to stick together. Ryan admits it, and says that he really feels Adam deserves to be there – not that she doesn’t, of course. But he’s worked with Adam all along and feels good about the two of them getting to the end together.

Sheila goes back to Adam and tells him that she doesn’t want to look like a beggar, and doesn’t need his charity. She just wanted to plead her case, because she really wants the two of them at the end. Adam says it’s okay, he knows, and that he wasn’t telling her that he had made up his mind, he was just trying to explain to her that he’s trying to make this decision and how huge it is. Sheila mentions that she’s the campaign queen, and will have time to work the jury. Adam wonders if that’s a threat, but she says it’s not. It gets a little heated, and then Sheila is called to the DR.

Ryan tells Adam that this is exactly what he was afraid of, and why he really wanted to keep Sharon. He knew that Sheila would try to make Adam feel guilty and get him to keep her. Adam says that it’s fine, he’s going to throw the comp for sure so that he doesn’t have to make that decision.

When Sheila comes out, she tells Adam she was playing things up for Ryan. He’s not buying it, but doesn’t say much. Sheila is trying to work the partner angle, saying there would be no question for her – she would pick Adam if the choice were hers to make. Adam cries a little, saying that both she and Ryan were there for him throughout the game, and he feels a bond with both of them. Sheila says that they can’t predict how the votes will go, and that Adam would probably beat her in the end.

Sheila Breaks Down Again: After the arguing and discussions with Adam and Ryan, Sheila goes to her room and cries. A lot. She’s saying that she wants to go home, and begging BB for Tylenol PM. I see a future in Tylenol commercials for her. She sobs for a while, before falling asleep.

Tallying the Votes: Adam and Ryan try to figure out how the jury votes will play out. I’m not sure I’m following their logic, because they end up thinking that Matt will be the tie-breaking vote. I’m pretty sure Ryan’s only vote would come from Sharon, but I’ve been very wrong about these things before.

Fun Stuff: Sheila actually forgets to feed the BEEBEES, so Adam ends up giving them some strawberries. He thinks they might be scared of his pants. I think they might be scared of him hollering BEEBEES in that voice of his. Either that or they know where his hands have been before chopping up the fruit.

After an outdoor lockdown, the hamsters return inside to find the table and floor marked with tape. They figure out the exact setup of the final competition, and for some reason we get flames. Because I guess, after nine seasons, we’re not supposed to know what the booths will look like.

Ryan thinks Sheila and Adam will make out tonight, because it might be their last night together in the house. Adam’s down for this, but Sheila does not co-sign. Go figure.

Ryan also thinks that he’ll be invited back to do All Stars. I have no idea why. Sheila thinks it would be Adam and James, and says she wouldn’t do it again because it’s too hard for her. She says that “older” women just don’t do BB, because of the raging menopausal hormones.

My Thoughts: Sheila has to lay off the 46-year-old single mom charity case act. No one deserves to win money on a reality show just because they need it, and if she wants to even have a chance at winning Adam over, she’s got to appeal to his ego and his competitive side.

We all know that the final part of the HoH comp is a crap shoot, because it’s hard to predict just how off-the-wall the questions to the jury members will be. Adam is planning to throw it, but what I would love to see is him accidentally winning it and then having to actually evict either Sheila or Ryan. This is, of course, the only remote chance Sheila has of getting to the end. And at this point I’d rather see her and Adam there than Ryan and Adam.

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