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74. Brett Robinson (Big Brother 20 6th Place)

There are a lot of archetypes I hate in Survivor and Big Brother, and the next couple entries will be made up of those archetypes, but ultimately, I rank Brett here because he was the most overbearing of this upcoming trio. Now, I have to preface this by stating that I never watched Big Brother 2, nor have I watched Big Brother 7, and unlike Survivor, its difficult to go back and watch old seasons due to the length, and the lack of feed context. But the fact is, I feel like Dr. Will was super popular in Big Brother 2, and hes become such a legend in the years since, that casting loves going out of their way to try and find a next Doctor Will. And maybe if I watched BB2/7, I would hate Will. I mean, I already hate his surrogate in Mike Boogie. But I DEFINITELY hate the people casting selects to try and replicate his beloved status among the fans.

When I talk about Dr. Will clones, what Im referring to is the trend to find one or two players every season who tick a majority of the following boxes. Male. White. Straight. Cocky. Arrogant. Intelligent outside of the Big Brother house. Shouty in the Diary Room. Relatively irrelevant to the action of the season, yet still given narrator duties because despite casting going out of their way to find upwards of sixteen people that will make good television, THIS GUY is the most telegenic. On a related note, usually talks himself up as being more important than is reality. Prominent examples of this would be: Brian Hart (BB10), Matt Hoffman (BB12), Nick Uhas (BB15), Zach Rance (BB16), John McGuire (BB17), Paul Abrahamian (BB18). Note that not all of these guys are AWFUL, and in fact, sometimes theyre NEEDED in a painfully dull season. But they fill similar niches.

This is where Brett comes in, and hes probably the biggest offender of this archetype. Brett made the final six of BB20 as the bottom rung of a four-man alliance, yet throughout the season, he was constantly portrayed as this absolutely hilarious personality because he gave tryhard speeches during televised moments, and amped up his douchebag factor whenever he was in the Diary Room. This is a guy whose only REAL accomplishments in the game were A. winning a single veto competition, and B. convincing FOUTTE that he was a free agentonly to do absolutely nothing with this deception other than laugh at them behind their backs. For fucks sake, in a season with a theme of technology and the internet, he claimed he was a cyber security expert and naturally got to give a ton of tryhard Diary Rooms. He sells SOFTWARE for fucks sake.

And Im not kidding when I say tryhard, because there were two very different Bretts in this season. Whenever he was just chatting with people and going about his normal routine, he was perfectly calm and, dare I say it, charming. THATS the guy who was SO convincing that Scottie came out of a conversation with him assured that Brett needed to go home out of sheer respect for his charisma. Hell, like I mentioned above, he managed to convince FOUTTE (a brain trust, I know) that he was a lone wolf on their side despite them nominating him twice and coming within one vote of evicting him twice. Yet the SECOND it came time for a Diary Room session, a nomination ceremony, a veto meeting, or a live eviction (or hell, his arrival at the jury house), he turns the volume up and starts playing a character.
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