Lurker > Underleveled

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103. Paloma Aguilar (Big Brother 24, 16th place) [13/16]
I definitely debated what to do with this one. On one hand, she brought some legitimate entertainment to the show during her brief stay, and could have been a truly great villain had she stuck around for the long-haul, but on the other hand, her actions resulted in a gigantic stain on the season that lasted long after she left, so ultimately her presence was a net negative. For the first week, Paloma was the dramatic and strategic driving force of the game. She frantically ran around the house making alliances and selecting targets in the most panicky fashion possible and it was actually kind of fun to watch. She even selected her best friend/closest ally, Alyssa, solely because, I shit you not, We both forget to take our make-up off before bed sometimes. She had me guessing whether she was going to be a secretly brilliant BB player or a delightful trainwreck. Then she decided to target Taylor because she noticed Taylor spending a lot of time with the men and that, combined with Taylors beauty pageant history, made Paloma assume that Taylor was intentionally playing the flirty, femme fatale game. In actuality, Taylor was a sweetheart who hung out with the men because she just genuinely got along better with men than women and wanted to spend her first week making friends. Instead, Paloma went around vilifying her and turning almost the entire house against her. And yes, plenty of this lies on other houseguests too and theres one person in particular that Im not going to let get away with their late-game attempts to mend the fence, but Paloma was literally running around the house telling everyone who will listen just how awful Taylor is and trying to turn her into the easy first boot.

Then after all this, Paloma suddenly started to feel bad about the way she treated Taylor and it started to affect her mental illnesses and look, Im not going to shame mental illnesses here. Ive got four that Im clinically diagnosed with and probably more that arent diagnosed. I believe that Paloma took a good self-assessment of her mental health and decided that not being in the game anymore was what was best for her and I dont put her in the just gave up quitters bin. But the damage she had done was done, and she left the house in an incredibly toxic state in her wake that it never completely recovered from, and I just couldnt shake the feeling that she kind of didnt have to deal with the consequences. Even after leaving the house, she said on social media that we didnt see the things Taylor said about her (others said the same thing, that we as an audience missed a lot of awful things from Taylor, but I find it incredibly hard to believe that someone who was otherwise mostly very nice said a lot of mean things that all happened to be while the feeds were down AND they didnt make the television edit) so it seemed like she still wanted to present Taylor as the instigator of all of this.

102. Inadvertently played a major role in orchestrating their own boot

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104. Akbar & Sheri (The Amazing Race 33, 6th place) [11/11]
It takes a lot to just REALLY get under my skin so most of the extremely scathing write-ups are pretty much out of the way, but the next few entries are still pretty awful. Right from episode 1 I did not like Akbar because he was just constantly berating Sheri and while I can appreciate a good bickering couple (see teams like Teri & Ian, Tim & Marie and Frank & Margarita being among my all-time favorites), when its a mostly one-sided roast of the stronger teammate constantly telling the weaker teammate how much they suck, I dislike/hate it. A couple of the challenges Sheri did worst on she was FORCED to do because Akbar literally couldnt do it for safety reasons due to his size (I mostly put this on the producers actually; its been speculated that at least one of those Roadblocks Moe was forced to do as well due to Michaels size, so its kind of irresponsible on the producers part to pick challenges that multiple racers literally cant do) and he still constantly screamed at her. There were a few lulls in this behavior which made me want to give them a chance but then it would pick back up again the next episode. And of course, after all this, they end up being eliminated because Akbar struggles on a physical challenge after all the grief he gave his wife for the same exact thing. By that point I was so sick of him that I couldnt even appreciate the irony. If anything it just pissed me off more. If this were a boring season that had, like, next to zero likable/rootable teams, I could MAYBE see myself appreciating him as a villain, but when, despite the disastrous production, most of the endgame teams were very enjoyable (kinda spoilers I guess) and there were even some likable teams that we lost due to the break, I just couldnt.

103. Was unconventionally eliminated AND officially placed last in their season (wow, we kinda actually had a lot of these...)

Picky
Write
Twine

Back to three for me.

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105. Derek Frazier (Big Brother 23, 2nd place) [15/16]
Like with Kyland, if I could go back in time and tell myself in the first few weeks of the season that Id have Derek F this low not just for BB23 but on my overall list, Id have called myself crazy. Dont get me wrong, he wouldnt have been particularly high, because he was a do-nothing that sat around the house sleeping and eating and getting by by aligning himself with much, much, much better players, and he seemed kind of unpleasant to have to live with at times, but at least he was a funny, entertaining guy.

But then, also like Kyland, toward the end of the game, he completely threw away any good will I had toward him. After spending the game being in on things due in no small part to Azah, not to mention the fact that she spent a ton of her time defending some of his uncouth behaviors, he had the fucking nerve to tell her that he dragged her to the end and that she owed him. Im not saying that Azah played a fantastic game or anything, but she wasnt a fat lazy slob who was constantly threatening the harmony of the Cookout and came in dead last in almost every single competition. She didnt shout out a cocky, Im okay with that, baby! when she was put on the block because she knew she actually had to fight to stay in the game, while everyone wanted to take Big Ds ass to the end because they knew they were a slam dunk to win against him. And for the final two weeks of the season, he not only shoved his view of their relationship down her throat in a very bully-like manner, but down our throats as well. This continued right up to the end of the finale, where this delusional dude actually tried to say that he was just as responsible as the rest of the Cookout for their success, but couldnt back this claim up with hard facts, and in fact, from our point of view, bore the least responsibility in their success, largely due to not having a partner in the Master Plan (probably because nobody would ever vote to evict him over anybody who was even a tiny bit of a threat). It was very uncomfortable, very delusional, and you know what? The revelation that he came into the house saying he wanted to be on TV really made his entertainment value seem so contrived that I really dont want to give him too much credit for that, either.

104. A TAR team that was neither eliminated going into the hiatus nor dropped out due to the hiatus

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106. Mikey Guerriero (Tough as Nails 2, 11th place) [11/12]
First person on the list to have the same ranking and placement within their season. The biggest reason Mikey isnt even lower than he already is is because we mercifully only had to deal with him for two episodes, while everyone else Ive mentioned so far went fairly deep into their season, except for Daniel, who was pre-jury but because of the three-episodes-a-week format was still in a lot of episodes. Out of the gate I knew Mikey was going to be tough to warm up to and I never did because he is an incredibly aggressive person and spent the first two episodes of TAN2 just bringing the whole mood down with his toxic masculinity (and Im really not one to use that phrase but Mikey really embodies it). He just screamed and complained and bullied his way through challenges, at one point literally knocking a middle-aged, overweight man off a pier and into the water below and not feeling one bit bad about it (the old I was doing the challenge, you shouldnt have been in my way defense). Just when I had had enough of his bullshit, Phil announced at the beginning of the third episode that Mikey was no longer in the game and left it as ambiguous as that. We still dont know too much about it, only that it was definitely an ejection and not a medivac as some initially speculated (he had irritated an old injury during one of the challenges) and that it wasnt for the Freight Train incident as they had examined the tapes thoroughly and determined that it was an accident (which it what I had concluded as well based on what we saw in the edit, even if his response WAS fucking awful). Anyway, unlike most eliminated contestants who remain in the game as part of the team challenge, Mikey was actually gone for the rest of the season (although, this season was wacky in that regard because of an additional TWO medivacs that were also disqualified from the team challenge) and we wouldnt be subjected to him anymore. Thank God.

105. Shared their first name with someone else on the same season

Ron
Peter
Hobbes
Jason

Blank
Trail
Shale
Leave

That might have been the only word left at that point.

Was gonna say not really and will probably wait until it comes out on Disney+ if I decide to watch it at all, but Andy brings up a good point - it's the extraordinarily rare kind of movie that would probably ONLY be worth seeing in theatres.

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107. Miesha Tate (Celebrity Big Brother 3, 1st place) [10/11]
A lot of Todricks writeup can be C&Pd here. Although Miesha initially seemed like she could be a very interesting strategic player, she quickly devolved into a catty gossiper, hiding behind closed doors to talk shit with Todrick about everyone else. She was extremely hypocritical, took everything personally, and spoke as if she genuinely felt she were above and better than everyone else in the house. When Carson won HoH, before noms even took place, she immediately assumed her game was done and started pouting and acting like the poorest fucking sport. She refused to go see his HoH room with everyone else (hell, even Todrick went and was like, Youre not gonna come?) and you know damn well that if someone had done that to her she would have run to the DR and called them a spoiled brat. She just let herself unravel until she and Todrick decided to gaslite Shanna into becoming the house pariah and gave herself new hope. To her very minimal credit, she, unlike Todrick, actually seemed remorseful about getting that personal (albeit, with the better you than me caveat).

So after Miesha and Todrick get Carson to burn his HoH by eliminating one of his own closest allies, they immediately snake him the next round and then and go on to make it through the rest of the season with relative ease, with one of the pair winning HoH and/or Veto every single round from there on out. In the end she wasnt QUITE as bad as Todrick because she wasnt nearly as much of a try-hard and didnt constantly call everyone else stupid, forgetting that they could see the episodes/live-feeds after being voted out, so she doesnt rank quite as low (as Teddi so righteously put it when casting her jury vote, the lesser of two evils), but it was still incredibly annoying to see someone so unbelievably petty and self-centered be rewarded with the win in the end.

106. Was unconventionally-eliminated (quit, medivac, ejection, or a TAR team that did not return post-COVID)

Spout
Score
Scorn

Three seems to be the deal for me right now.

Bayonetta 3!

Writer's note: My bottom two write-ups for BB23 were written immediately after that season ended so they may have a slightly different tone than the write-ups written now (aka most of them) and reference more specific incidents than other write-ups from seasons that aired earlier in this list's cycle due to the fact that many of them faded from my memory.

That being said...

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108. Kyland Young (Big Brother 23, 4th place) [16/16]
At the beginning of Big Brother 23, I could never have imagined Kyland becoming my most-hated houseguest of the season. He seemed like such a nice guy! And even for most of the season, he just seemed way too sweet to dislike. But once the game came down to the Cookout, Kylands behavior changed dramatically, and it caused me to look back on his actions over the course of the season and made me realize that maybe he wasnt as nice as he seemed.

First, there was his relationship with Sarah Beth, who he knew was in a relationship going into the house because she announced it to everyone in the opening challenge. Kyland just got way too intimate with her, cuddling with her and sharing sweet little back-and-forths that are hard to consider anything but flirting. And thats partially on Sarah Beth as well, but she genuinely believed that she and Kyland were going to the end together, while Kyland knew all along that the Cookout meant they couldnt. Looking back on it, especially after seeing SBs reaction in the jury house (I find it telling that in the jury deliberation segment of the finale, Kyland and SB were seated as far away from each other as possible), it was very scummy and in a way, potentially messing with SBs personal life outside of the house for something that he knew was much less than she believed it was.

But Kylands shadiness didnt end there. Kyland told a lot of lies that he didnt need to tell. This was especially evident with Britini, who he promised wouldnt see the block on what was ultimately her eviction week, despite knowing full well that she was going up. At this point he already knew that Britini was an extremely emotional and fragile person and that making this kind of promise and then blatantly going back on it for seemingly no reason would utterly destroy her. Did something similar to Hannah and Tiffany later in the game, which almost made it seem like he was specifically targeting young and/or emotional women with these lies, which is icky. Furthermore, while lies and manipulation are a huge part of the game, these grandiose lies with people that he had formed such intimate bonds with felt very much like emotional manipulation, which definitely calls his nice guy status into question.

And we still havent gotten to the fact that Kyland helped pave the way for Xaviers already fairly easy win, because his ego wouldnt let him go to the end with anybody else since he felt that the jury would respect the fact that he went to the end with someone better than him despite having several opportunities to take them out (because that has worked for so many people before, right?). And then when this backfired on him spectacularly, in a season where almost everyone, even those who had been duped/hurt/blindsided, left the house with grace, he again got extremely personal with Xavier over a blindside that he had coming to him, even bringing his nephew, who had nothing to do with the game, into the discussion. It was a REALLY disgusting ending to the arc of a guy who I really admired at the beginning of the season.

But even then, after all that, right up until the end of the finale, I was STILL considering not putting him in dead last for BB23, until Julie offered Kyland the opportunity to apologize to Xavier, and his response made Wills apology to Shirin look like someone groveling at her feet begging for forgiveness. Fuck your objective statement, you were bitter and took it way too far to a disgusting degree, and if youre not going to apologize for that over getting blindsided at the end of a game, then Im not going to factor in any meager redeeming qualities you brought to the season.

107. The first female to grace this list

Farnsworth
Dad
Wheatley
Hannibal

Peach and Wario. Yoshi sometimes too.

Also, I find the CPU to be generally terrible with Luigi, but every now and then goes into absolute beast mode with him.

Bump

Swoon
Scrap
Scald

Nice one!

Aubrey & David are such a nothing team and it sucks seeing them barely outlast more entertaining teams each week.

Not that Tim & Rex were going to last much longer because Rex is so out of shape but I'd rather have seen them another leg or two.

That was suspenseful! I really wasn't sure what was going to happen! I mean this seemed like Justine's boot episode but crazier things have happened.

Beware Advantage is so bad

Justine looks like Jessica Alba

Does Ellie remind anyone else of Angelina a bit?

Sonofabitch why did Sully get stuck going against BOTH Shawshank characters?

Red
Marty
Wonka

Angela Anaconda
The Angry Beavers
Arthur
As Told By Ginger
Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers
Codename: Kids Next Door
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Dexter's Laboratory
The Flintstones
KaBlam!
The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
Robot Chicken
Rugrats
Rupert
Sheep in the Big City

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109. Scott Henry (Tough as Nails 2, 1st place)
For what it was, I found Tough as Nails 1 to be a decently enjoyable watch during the COVID drought. It wasnt anything spectacular, but it had a decent premise and a good season-long story arc with a very satisfying conclusion that saw the least-likable contestant blowing a sizable lead in the final challenge and coming in second TAR2-style. It was enough to get me to tune back in for season 2. While season 2 started out promising enough, it quickly went downhill due to the fact that there were only two consistently strong competitors and the fierce rivalry between them being the prevailing story arc indicated that they would almost certainly be the final two, and one of them was extremely unlikable. Wouldnt you know it, they were the top 2, and the unlikable one won it all.

Scott emerged as the de facto leader of Savage Crew this season after their official leader got ejected fairly early on. And he was a very poor leader. He was extremely bossy and disagreeable, refused to listen to his teammates and only considered his own strengths and weaknesses when strategizing who should perform what tasks rather than what was best for the group as a whole. He barked out orders in challenges that often caused more confusion among his teammates (and were often bad strategic calls or flat-out incorrect orders) and threw temper tantrums whenever they lost, despite the fact that many of their losses were largely attributed to his inability to cooperate with them and keep cool under pressure. The editors tried to make him likable by painting him as a former nerd who was made fun of for the corrective gear he had to wear growing up but it really didnt change the fact that he is a total alpha-douche now.

And it would be one thing if this was supposed to be our villain, but as I said before, Scott was one of only two people who consistently shone in the individual challenges, and the rivalry between him and Zeus was being built up to go all the way to the finals (and even then, Scotts resume was significantly better than Zeuss so by and large Scott was, from the start, the frontrunner to win it all), so the unlikability was magnified intensely.

In the end, Scotts team won the tiebreaker challenge (which they even got to largely due to a series of extenuating setbacks for Dirty Hands), and Scott himself won the individual game in a final challenge that Zeus fell out of fairly quickly (and if I remember correctly actually came closer to finishing third behind Sarah than he did to beating Scott), so for being an asshole all season and costing his team several wins in a game where every team win is worth money, he ended up being rewarded on both fronts. Bleh.

108. Was the final pre-finale boot of the season

Survivor and TAR are both on for an hour and a half tonight. Next week they go back to standard hour-long episodes, but TAR is on at 10. The Real Love Boat is on at 9. The fact that they put TRLB between two shows with established and overlapping fanbases and which have done very well airing back-to-back in the past tells me they have 0 confidence in it standing on its own.

When neither Kyle nor Todrick were dead last for you I assumed it was Sarah.

For what it's worth on Jonathan I think he's an absolute lock for the next full/half returnee season as long as he isn't auto-excluded by the theme itself so he could very well change my mind.

Guise
Spurt
Usurp

Went with a more aggressive first word than I normally would and it paid off.

Joker
John
Hyde

FF8

But damn I have some very fond memories of DKR

You guys act like TENG getting as far as it did was just a fad, and as someone who didn't really follow the drama of the contest and simply voted, I'm sure there may have been SOME of that involved but the movie has gone through a bit of a renaissance over the past few years. I've seen it referred to as "one of the most underrated Disney movies" on other sites, on social media, and even in person fairly recently, so I'm sure that played a part as well. My guess is that the films that came out in the early 2000s (TENG, Lilo & Stitch, Atlantis, Treasure Planet) are just now being seen for the first time by a lot of people in their 30s, as they had grown out of Disney by the time they came out and are now checking them out on Disney Plus.

Ace Attorney
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Big Mouth
Bless the Harts
Bob's Burgers
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Family Guy
Hey, Arnold!
Homestar Runner
The Magic School Bus
Pokemon
The Simpsons
South Park
SpongeBob SquarePants
Time Squad

Yes, poor Jimmy...

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110. Jonathan Young (Survivor 42, 4th place) [18/18]
I actually quite enjoyed Jonthan in the early parts of Survivor 42. It was pretty fun, almost hilarious even, watching him just absolutely dominate the physical game to an almost superhuman degree that wed seriously never seen before. Not from James, not from Ozzy, not at all. Actually, Ill admit that having seen him compete Ive been motivated to push myself even harder when working out. He was also just decently enjoyable as a character. Even at times when he was being a bit of a dick, it was entertaining, like in the episode where he was complaining about how annoying the women on his tribe were. As somebody (Andy I think?) pointed out when it happens, its the kind of magic that happens when there are no tribe swaps so the Survivors are subjected to living with the same people for the entire pre-merge, and Im very thankful that after 17 consecutive seasons with some sort of pre-merge tribe reconfiguration, we finally got not one but two in a row without a tribe swap.

Anyway, I figured that, as one of the biggest physical threats in Survivor history, Jonathan would be an obvious early-merge target. But he never was. I was actually really shocked. For the early part of the post-merge, he was never seriously targeted aside from the usual this person is a threat, oh yeah, well have to deal with that eventually that a lot of people get subjected to in the early merge phase in any season. But he had been enjoyable enough in the pre-merge that I didnt mind him sticking around for a few extra rounds, and we even got a bit of a funny running gag about his diet (which I even named a topic after). But then things started to go downhill at the negotiation episode, when Jeff offered the tribe more rice in exchange for a negotiated number of people sitting out of the immunity challenge. Despite having gone on at great length about how he needs more calories than everyone else because he has more mass (a little cocky-sounding but not incorrect) and stepping in to be one of the prime negotiators he absolutely did not budge on sitting out of the challenge himself. And that rubbed me the wrong way a bit. Then the split-tribal episode happened and I have no problem with him targeting Drea here (she was absolutely one of the biggest strategic threats at that point and they had a wide open opportunity to take her out), the way he went about it was so horrible. Not only was he a stubborn asshole when discussing how to split the vote with Lindsay, but he was flat-out wrong about how to do it (rather than splitting the vote onto outsider Tori, he wanted to split it onto his own ally Maryanne, which made 0 sense as it risked either eliminating her or alienating her). Then tribal council happens and a racial discussion takes place, and while I dont think Jonathan is a racist person, nor did he say anything explicitly racist (nor, you know, blatantly factor race into his strategy), many of his remarks came across as tonedeaf to say the least.

From this point forward, his role in the season is to lay around camp being miserable and constantly complaining about how stupid everyone else is for not going along with his bad strategy, and about how hungry he is, and constantly evading elimination despite the majority of the people left wanting him gone. Then in the finale, when Lindsay was the obvious target at the final five and the immunity challenge appeared to be between her and Mike, Jonathan literally just put his puzzle pieces down and watched the two of them fight it out like winning it didnt even matter to him. It came across as so arrogant and was just the capstone on the deterioration of a character that really kind of endeared me early on.

109. A winner

pjbasis posted...

I think gta is pretty car centric, or used to be

This was my first thought

azuarc posted...

Ever since I bought my house, I've been getting messages from people trying to buy some other house owned by a mysterious individual known as Hosvep. I can't tell if someone gave my number instead of theirs to a telemarketing group or what.

"Russell" is definitely real because at one point they did give me an address that they were looking to buy and I looked it up and according to WhitePages someone named Russell does indeed live there.

2002-2004 seems like when most of the people around my age got them at my school (I was in 6th-9th grade in those years)

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111. Michael Bruner (Big Brother 24, 6th place) [14/16]
Oh Michael, what high hopes I had for you. After coming into the house as the BB-equivalent of the Spencer archetype, playing a miserable social game week 1 and positioning himself to be an obvious first-boot, he won the first Veto, pulled himself off the block, and rode this train to becoming one of the most dominant challenge competitors Big Brother has ever seen, while simultaneously dramatically improving his social game and becoming the biggest strategic player and finally getting eliminated at the final six as the obvious frontrunner to win the whole thing. Quite a story, right? Wait. Lets rewind a bit.

Yes, in the first few weeks after surviving the first boot, Michael managed to be quite entertaining, with some great confessionals, an amazing comeback story, and being one of the first people in the house to actually treat Taylor like a human being. But after a while he started to sound more like a snarky know-it-all and it occasionally got grating. This was incredibly evident during Taylors first HoH, where he berated her strategy and nominations as if he had any better ideas that didnt involve betraying the Leftovers. Im not saying Taylors first HoH was perfect (in fact it was actually quite sloppy), but at the end of the day her nominations were sound and Michael was just being a bitter baby because they werent exactly what he wanted. Not only that, but after winning enough challenges, he finally decided that it wasnt even worth hiding his threat level anymore and so he was just going to go all-out. Except he didnt just announce this to the audience; he made sure the whole house knew what a gigantic threat he was. Ive gotta say, theres something to be said for making your high threat level known in a returnee season where you can use it as a strategy to try and target people who otherwise wouldnt have a target (like what Sandra tried to do in Winners at War), but doing it on your first season is just stupid and bad and is setting you up to be taken out much later in the game.

Then we get to Michaels role in the Kyle situation. Michaels initial reaction to Kyle coming to him with the idea of an all-white alliance was pretty genuine. He basically said IF there is an alliance that Im not part of, Ill do what I can to break it up, but I wont assume people are working together based on race. Which I think is fair. And he and Brittany showed some uncomfortability with the plan. The issue is that they continued working closely with Kyle for two additional weeks without Michael ever bringing the race comments up again until revealing them to the remaining houseguests benefited him strategically. And Im not denying that his feelings toward the situation were genuine but that was really icky and Im very glad that the other houseguests did not let this go unnoticed. To be fair, he seemed to want to do what he could to mitigate having it be just a strategic tool - running it by Monte and Taylor first and letting them decide what should be done with it (though I couldnt help but notice Terrance wasnt included in that conversation), and keeping his word with Turner not to nominate him the following week, even though it was best for his game, after Turner essentially burned his HoH doing what was morally right rather than what was best for his game. But it still felt like there was a lot of strategy involved in this damage control.

So after a whole summer of Michael not even attempting to hide his threat level, he gets backdoored at the double eviction and while it was fun to watch him scramble to survive like Ive never seen anyone do, he blew it by totally throwing his ride-or-die Brittany under the bus in a needlessly mean-spirited fashion in his eviction speech, and then making one of the most unjustifiably bitter exits ever. Its one thing when someone like Cody who truly hated everyone left in the house at that point storms out without any goodbyes. Even Terrance having done it moments earlier was kind of understandable, because nobody left except for maybe Alyssa had ever seen him as more than a pawn in their game and he knew it, but Michael totally undid his own game by playing way too hard and he had to have known that he would inevitably run out of lives. It was just such a crappy ending to the spiral of a character that I actually kind of enjoyed and rooted for early on.

110. Came in 4th place and their last name is Young

Papes

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112. Daniel Durston (Big Brother 24, 12th place) [15/16]
Im possibly being a bit too harsh on Daniel with this ranking due to one particular moment that really gets under my skin on a personal level, but even if that wasnt the case, he still probably would have been bottom 10, because he was still awful. His week one HoH was one of the most unnecessarily-mean-spirited ever, because he just aggressively went after Michael, repeatedly saying Theres only room for one superfan in this game. Granted, Michael played terribly in week 1 and set himself up as an obvious target, but Daniels try-hard attitude about it was so grating. Then when Michael won Veto, Daniel put Taylor on the block, telling her that this was her chance to apologize for things he didnt even know the full details of and in fact she didnt actually do. It was very nasty and it felt as if he were trying to insert himself into the drama of the house rather than shy away from it. He then cried because he was afraid of being seen as racist for putting two black contestants on the block in week 1. As if he couldnt have put anybody but Terrance up as his pawn in the first place. It was kind of obnoxious.

Week two was whatever for Daniel. Pooch tanked his own game and Daniel was barely a part of it. But then week 3 and the Festie Bestie twist happened. And Taylor, the person Daniel hated the most (for no real reason other than hearsay) was partners with Nicole, Daniels closest friend and ally in the house. Because the Veto competition had to be played in pairs, Daniel and Nicole plotted for Nicole to throw the competition and then convince HoH Turner to put Taylor and Nicole on the block so Taylor could be evicted. And Im going to gloss over some of the Nicole stuff here because shell get hers soon enough, but basically she starts crying because she knows she has to throw the challenge even though shes not a quitter, and Daniel just keeps reminding her of how awful Taylor is and that this is what they have to do. So Taylor sees Nicole crying and goes in to comfort her, and Nicole comes running out of the room with the typical Taylor-hating bullshit to tell Daniel that she was being disrespectful. And heres where we get the moment that puts Daniel in the bottom three for me. He goes and verbally attacks Taylor, and when no one comes to her aid, continues to berate her and even has the audacity to accuse her of being the reason Palomas mental health was so bad that she had to quit (I mean indirectly hes not wrong but it was because Paloma was obsessed with Taylor for no reason, not because of anything Taylor did other than exist). It really felt reminiscent of the Will/Shirin scenario, but maybe even worse because Will attacked Shirin for something she supposedly said about him. Taylor never said or did anything to or about Daniel and he STILL felt the need to get this abusive with her. Ive been in this position quite a few times in my life, where somebody was verbally attacking me over something invalid without giving me the opportunity to defend myself. Its scary and its harmful and its abusive, and Daniels actions brought up these memories for me.

So anyway the rest of Daniels time in the house is pretty much on par with week 1. Week 3 proceeds with Taylor surviving and Daniel having no idea what is really going on, and despite this he and Nicole STILL plot to get Taylor out, which means Nicole going up as a pawn. They spend the whole week being incredibly cocky bullies thinking wicked witch Taylor is finally going to be gone, and when, surprise surprise, Nicole goes instead, Daniel immediately runs to his room and starts pouting and screaming Just end the season already! He really saw himself as the Cody Nickson of the season and thought that America loved him and hated Taylor as much as they hated Paul. This was increasingly evident in his fifth and final week in the house, where he ended his run by using his eviction speech to beg the houseguests to evict him and tell them that they were giving America a boring season and he didnt want to be a part of it. He did seem genuinely humbled when Julie informed him that he was seen as a bully, but it was way too little, way too late. Hed already gone down as one of the worst members of this cast, and thats really saying quite something.

111. Typically wears glasses

Lion

2004 and I still get calls/texts for people who had it before me (so I assume, because it's always either Russell or Mary, it's not like I'm getting a variety of names)

rwlh posted...

But Jimmy has a shrink ray!

From what I remember don't his gadgets often backfire? I'd say it has just as good a chance of shrinking Jimmy himself as it does DK, if not a higher chance.

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113. Todrick Hall (Celebrity Big Brother 3, 2nd place) [11/11]
I waffled a bit between my next three entrants, and ultimately what it came down to was this - the other two didnt outright ruin their seasons, while CBB3 was an absolute disaster and that can be traced entirely back to Todrick. If Im being totally honest, early on I thought Todrick could potentially be one of the most entertaining members of the CBB3 cast. He seemed both snarky and self-interested enough that he could be a fun troll a la Survivors Trickster archetype (Fairplay, Tyson, etc). Unfortunately, certain character types dont exactly translate well to Big Brother where the extended downtime edit (footage shown in episodes that are not challenges or ceremonies) plus live feed coverage make it harder to hide just how crappy certain people really are, and Todrick really suffered from that. Whereas vain Survivors like Tyson or Sydney come across as very tongue-in-cheek, Todrick seemed to really just think he was better than everyone there. From the very start he was playing both sides of the house and then threw Mirai and Teddi under the bus for doing exactly the same, resulting in two potentially decent characters being the first two boots. He then proceeded to get a screen-hogs edit spending the rest of the season hiding behind doors talking shit about anyone and everyone who wasnt in the room at the time, acting like he was Gods gift to earth. The worst came when he gaslit Shanna for playing both sides, even though she was more of a double-agent, not only getting her eliminated but literally getting giddy over her friends saying really nasty things to her. It was such an uncomfortable set of scenes to watch and while Meesha was bad too, she at least expressed some remorse in confessionals, while Todrick just fucking enjoyed it and thought it was the most brilliant move in Big Brother history. I do understand that his and Meeshas backs were up against a wall at that point and they were throwing everything they could out there to stay in the game, but theres a fucking line and Todrick crossed it big time.

He then went on to bitch and moan like a baby when people didnt find his showboating at his nomination ceremony funny (again, I dont really have too much of a problem with him clowning around with something that is normally very regimentally-scripted to an annoying degree, but good God, dont act like youre entitled to get a laugh out of people that are already fed-up with your shit) and continue to just put down everyone else left in the game in such a mean-spirited way that in the eyes of the jury, it totally negated what they thought was actually pretty good gameplay. This is demonstrated perfectly with Todd, who, upon being evicted, said he was definitely giving his jury vote to Todrick, but then came back on finale night and voted for Meesha (unlike a normal season of BB, CBBs jury does not have to sequester, meaning they can go home and watch the season and live-feeds and catch up on everything they were not privy to in the house). To the surprise of absolutely no one, the only juror who voted for Todrick was Cynthia, aka the third-placer who was evicted just minutes before the jury voted and thus the only one who did not get to see the full extent of how awful he was. And after not only being nearly shut-out by the jury but also not even coming close to winning Americas Favorite, he chickened out of his exit press and went totally dark on social media, unable to reap what he had sown. So while his downfall was a bit satisfying, it just didnt have the same impact as, say, Jacksons a few years ago. What a terrible villain he turned out to be for a season that, given the quality of CBB1 and 2, I had such high hopes for.

112. Has alliterative initials

Up

Based on the reactions in the main topic I'm assuming one of them is from The Challenge, and I wouldn't be surprised if my next entrant is one as well.

Inviso posted...

Also, Kyle would be 139/142 for me, largely for the same reasons.

I wasn't 100% sure I wanted to put Kyle in dead last but out of the four that I considered (the others being the next three of course) I wasn't sure if I could justify putting any of them below him. Some of them hit some bad notes worse than he did, but none of them hit ALL of them the way he did.

Inviso posted...

AND America voting him top three for fan favorite.

I'm still just flabbergasted by this. I was legit half-expecting Julie to do what Jeff did to Colton and be like "and no Kyle, you're not one of them" before announcing the top three. I figured Taylor and Michael would be there but thought the third would be Joseph or Turner.

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Nothing much to say. Pretty standard day here.

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114. Kyle Carpenter (Big Brother 24, 8th place) [16/16]
On night one I absolutely hated Kyle because not only did he seem like he was going to be a DR shouter, but he was also a huge try-hard who seemed proud of still living with his mother and doing nothing with his life other than making TikTok videos or some pseudo(to the 10th power)-influencer shit like that. And this continued for the first few weeks. Every time he came on, especially during a confessional, I just groaned at how painfully he was obviously just trying to be a fan-favorite AND a favorite of the house and just go along and be one of the cool kids. And then he started crushing on one of the hottest women of the season and to be absolute befuddlement, despite being one of the less-attractive guys of the season, she actually started crushing back. And at first this just added to my frustration with him but then, for a brief period, it actually gave me a bit of hope for him and his story arc, as he was actually put into the extremely rare position in which his showmance was not a part of his alliance, and he was going to have to choose between the two. I kinda thought this could actually make for some interesting gameplay, regardless of whether or not he himself actually became bearable.

And this was very briefly the case. It was kind of interesting to see him fluctuate between Alyssa and the Leftovers, and coming up with creative ways to avoid responsibility for such decisions. But after a while it got kind of bothersome that it felt like he was leading Alyssa on. I have to be fair here - I get pissed off when alliances Im not rooting for lead outsiders on, because its like someone with power dangling it in front of someone who doesnt even know they have it, so I have to be pissed then an alliance that I AM rooting for (even if its largely for one person) do it too. Not that it really matters, because for seemingly no reason, with only the most ridiculously-stretched circumstantial evidence to back up his claim, Kyle decided that all of the people of color in the house were working together, and everything went to hell.

At first this was kind of brushed off, as he only talked to Michael and Brittany about it. And listen, even Julies initial reaction was I think its just typical game paranoia but then he pressed about forming an alliance of himself, Michael, Brittany, Turner and Alyssa despite Michael and Brittany verbally expressing to him just how uncomfortable this was for them and despite Monte, Taylor and Joseph constantly expressing loyalty to him and to the Leftovers alliance and it was like, he just couldnt read the damn room and absolutely HAD to make it a race issue. Which totally misses the goal of the Cookout as far as future seasons go which was hopefully this doesnt HAVE to be the case ever again as opposed to hopefully this happens again and again.

For now the idea gets brushed aside and the split house twist happens, and Kyle ends up outside with Terrance, Alyssa, Joseph and Turner. And despite this being Terrances HoH, Kyle is the dramatic focal point here, completely throwing his alliance under the bus to save his girlfriend while simultaneously more or less gaslighting Joseph into going apeshit and blowing up his own game. And it was REALLY frustrating to see Terrance continue to not target Kyle despite everything funky going on in the house seemingly coming back to him.

When they got back inside, things seemed poised for Kyle to make the endgame. He was effectively aligned with everyone left in the house in one way or another, and his closest ally, Turner, had just won HoH. Then Michael and Brittany picked up on Kyles position and decided to reveal what he had said about racially-based alliances earlier in the game. And make no mistake, that was gross of them to use it as a strategic tool but at least it meant that he was finally going to get his, right? Kinda. He got called out for sure, and it led to his elimination, but it also led to one of the most uncomfortable weeks in recent BB memory, with the houseguests having to put the game on hold and navigate their emotions about this.

And like, Im torn here. On one hand, Im willing to believe that his comments and plans came out of ignorance rather than hatred and he seemed more sincere about wanting to learn and become better than other CBS reality contestants who have made egregious errors (and you know, didnt promote his book at the finale or aggressively pass off any wrongdoing and then finally get ejected several rounds later). But on the other hand, he DID play it off as okay I did say that but until he saw the reactions from the non-white houseguests, and also Im not sure he got sufficiently roasted, at least not in the house. The jury was actually more aggressive and he got to control the narrative for them. In the house, it was very diplomatic, and Terrance straight-up wanted to keep Kyle, which Ill talk about more when we get to him. Across the board between the house, the jury, and Kyle himself, the response probably evens out to a net neutral for the purposes of what is my opinion of how it went down, but it was still an incredibly awkward situation that really should never have happened in the first place.

And yet somehow the finale made it worse by not only Kyle not having to say anything about it at the reunion, but also getting the girl in the end AND somehow, for some reason Ill absolutely never understand, placing in the top 3 for Americas Favorite. For all the admonishment he received all summer long, it was as if his poor behavior was ultimately rewarded and thank GOD Taylor won (the game AND Americas Favorite) because otherwise this would have made for a really crappy ending. I hope he becomes better from this experience, but in the context of the season I really just don't see any way I could have put anyone but Kyle last. He was obnoxious, he was an intrusive and pervasive force on the season, he made one of "those" mistakes, and his story arc was ultimately unsatisfying. Pretty much everything that puts someone smack dab at the bottom for me.

113. A losing finalist