I don't care who wins, I'm just here for the cheap entertainment.. the cheaper, the better
This site is about the Big Brother 12 feeds and contains spoilers! It isn't necessarily thorough: it's what I catch and/or what interests me. It also isn't necessarily about who will win, who should win, who's cute or who's horrid. It's about watching hamsters: who's doing what and why, who's fun and who's dull. If they aren't entertaining, get rid of 'em! Thanks for encouraging my behavior.
BB12 DRINKING GAME
Take a swig whenever someone complains about the feeds blackout - see you under the table
POWER STATUS
Britney evicted
Hayden won Part 1
Lane won Part 2
UPCOMING EVENTS
Lots of naps
Two CBS shows left:
Sunday 8pm: Season retrospective
Wednesday 9pm Finale: Final HOH part 3 & eviction, jury Q&A, cast reunion, Stabo 2.0 reveal, jury vote for winner
Lots of naps
Two CBS shows left:
Sunday 8pm: Season retrospective
Wednesday 9pm Finale: Final HOH part 3 & eviction, jury Q&A, cast reunion, Stabo 2.0 reveal, jury vote for winner
RATINGS WATCH
Thursday's live non-eviction show placed second for the hour with 7.7 million viewers, 4.6 rating and 8 share, behind 'NFL Kickoff Special' & 'Sunday Night Football' on NBC with 15.5/9.6/17 & 22.5/13.6/22 respectively, and ahead of 'Wipeout' rerun on ABC with 5.1/3.1/5, and 'Bones' rerun on FOX with 4.5/2.9/5. The football lineup also won the 18-49 demographic.
Wednesday's not-live eviction show won the hour with 7.7 million viewers, 4.5 rating and 8 share, ahead of 'Minute to Win It' on NBC with 6.5/4.0/7, 'MasterChef' on FOX with 5.5/3.2/5, and 'The Middle' reruns on ABC with 4.7/3.1/5. 'Big Brother 12' also won the 18-49 demographic.
JUST THE TIP
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FlashBack - requires Superpass
Episode 1 8/8 11pm Quads
Episode 2 8/9 11.44pm F1/2
Episode 3 8/10 11.10pm F3/4
Episode 4 8/11 11.20pm F1/2
Episode 5 8/20 1:47am F3/4
Episode 6 8/22 11:48pm F1/2
AMERICA'S CHOICE
Who should get $25k extra?
Vote free at CBS.com - Hamsterwatch endorses Britney
FAQ
Two hour finale is September 15
Lane opened Pandora's Box which gave him $91.17 and gave them all no cups or utensils, one night of sock puppets, and dancing
Brendon opened Pandora's Box which gave him a night out and let Rachel back for 24 hours.
Matt opened Pandora's Box which held the return of the saboteur (in the form of Ragan) to WREAK HAVOC, and gave him diamond veto for 2 weeks.
Britney opened Pandora's Box and got an hour of BB10/11 Jessie insulting her while the others had a luau
Ragan won $20k for performing 3 tasks a week for 2 weeks undetected. His identity will be revealed to them at the finale.
I use Stabo/Staboteur/Stabotage because of the typo in an early official CBS BB tweet
Annie & Monet were sequestered until Andrew was evicted. Nobody knows why.
The first saboteur was Annie. She'd have won $50k if she lasted 5 weeks undetected.
Ragan's tattoo says 'Quelquefois un rêve est ce qui vous fait un esclave' ('Sometimes a dream is what makes you a slave')
Have-Nots have their own room again, cold showers again, slop again, plus additional food items decided by viewer votes.
Nobody knows why Paolo isn't there.
The winner of BB12 will win $500k and 2nd place gets $50k. Hamsters earn $750 a week including pre-show hotel and jury sequester.
The habitat has 52 cameras and 95 microphones.
The recorded Big Brother in-house announcements are the voice of producer Don Wollman.
All feeds stay on one 'scene' when someone's in Diary.
HOW'S THE WEATHER?
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They're back (Wednesday)
Feeds came back at 9pm on the dot after a 36-hour blackout, to Hayden cutting Enzo's hair, Lane studying and being whispery with Hayden about it, Lane jacking off in the shower, and all three of them thinking the finale is tomorrowAll signs point to Hayden having won Part 1.. it looked like the kind of comp we buy the feeds for but alas, we'll have to rely on the CBS edit.. this time they'll be able to exaggerate the endurance times beyond anything resembling reality since they wouldn't let us watch it happen
Hamsterwatch endorses Britney for the $25k favorite prize.. voting link is on the left sidebar along with lots of other information you may or may not find helpful
They hate us (Tuesday)
The feeds shut down early Tuesday in Big Brother 12 producers' latest blunder.. they went to the fishies for awhile, and then they began rerunning Showtime After Dark from the premiere night, complete with its idiotic scrolls about the stabo ready to WREAK HAVOC and other nonsense.. it's not surprising to see how dull they all were even on the first night they went public: we should have all taken the hint, skipped BB12, and had a summerHelpful Hamsterwatchers at Tuesday's taping reported that Britney was evicted, as expected.. part 1 of the Final HOH comp was endurance as usual: a hanging, banging-into-walls affair similar to the mid-season endurance in BB10.. sorry, I've got no results as to who won.. I believe this was the first Final HOH endurance that we've not seen on the feeds - not counting the wasted apparatus comps that ended quickly such as BB5, BB7 and BB9.. even with those it's always been a highlight of the season for feedsters
To add insult to injury, Tuesday night's Showtimers got three hours of the Final 4 that were recorded Tuesday morning - three hours of making shirts and laying around that were blocked from the feeds.. and in an odd switcharoo, F1 started rerunning Showtime blocks from the season start on Tuesday afternoon
Apparently the feeds will come back after Wednesday's 24-hour-old show airs, which probably means 9pm PT/midnight ET like the premiere.. then we've got an entire week of nothing until this shambles of a sorry season is put to rest
Pictures
Monday night we had a treat on the feeds - not a good enough treat to counter the stabotage of Tuesday & Wednesday, but nice just the same.. we got quick flashes of lots of the odds & ends of the habitat decor, most of which I'd never seen before, and I've watched day & night since July 8We used to get this kind of thing all the time but we didn't this year, other than the hours of staring at the shark or flamingoes.. these are the kinds of things I used to use for the Producers pic in the Daily Ratings section, and I didn't have much to choose from this season
Maybe the cap-A Artist in the control room who used to do this stuff came back for the night and/or maybe they were prepping segues for the season retrospective show.. at any rate I won't be doing much for the next week since there won't be much to do, but some of these are pretty cool and may help take up the slack a bit - please to enjoy
Along with the bits & pieces of the habitat, we also got a lot of random shots of the hamsters' messes and their belongings.. this year the habitat had far more of that "lived in" look than ever before
but Flashback is there if you want to go back and see what wasn't blocked
Screencaps du jour
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Daily Ratings - No edition
VTE = Voted to evict
Ratings are non-existent
  
VTE UsNo other product or service gets away with screwing over their loyal, paying customers the way they do. And they only get away with it because their loyal, paying customers accept it. |
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Won: 42" 3D TV; 1 week penguinLost: his clothes VTE Britney |
 
Won: $5,000; Hawaii trip;24 18 hours solitary No vote (HOH) WON PART 1 |
 
Won: $1,091.17; phone callNo vote (nominee) WON PART 2 |
    Won: $10,010; 24 15 hrs chained to Brendon; 1 hour with Jessie She wasn't volatile like Rachel but she's the Hamsterwatch Star of the Season nonetheless, as well as Most Photogenic - her caps were consistently better than the three pro models. She was a funny mean girl with both Monet & Ragan, and she was quick & witty most of the time including her ongoing Sonny & Cher banter with Lane. She's a living DVR and her convo retells were usually better than the originals while being 100% accurate. She was the last female with six guys and pulled it off well, but she broke down when the Final 3 lowered The Brigade boom. |
   STABOTEUR 2.0 Won: $20,000; Veto ticket He's one of the most intelligent hamsters we've ever had but he wasn't smart enough to supplement his vast BB knowledge by ever having watched the feeds - if he had, he may have won it all easily. He fulfilled the gay role without being a stereotype, even though he cried, moped around and talked to himself way more than he should have. His friendships with Matt & Britney felt genuine and were fun to watch develop. He talked game and studied far too much but when he went into a skit, nobody could beat him. |
   Won: A night in Malibu & massage; shaved head; 24 15 hrs chum dips chained to Britney His showmance with Rachel was the most bizarre we've ever seen since they seemed totally mismatched with zero chemistry, and oddly inexperienced. He was equal parts Ken doll & a boyfriend from 'Pleasantville' and his sensitive side was overwhelmingly sappy. He was a bit better as a solo act but still peculiar as he spewed random out-of-context factoids and 'I have a friend..' stories but he was a good sport about shaving his head & being chained to Britney for green slime dips. |
   Won: $1; Diamond Veto He pawned himself early but survived that, only to be ousted by the alliance he formed and mentored. His wife's fake illness spread beyond the normally insulated BB world but he brought awareness to melorheostosis (and few care that Dr Will faked cancer ten seasons before). Also like Dr Will, he'll be remembered for duckies strategy sessions, as well as his sparkly falling apart on CBS, footie skull jammies, missing toenails, mysteriously not outing the Brigade, and keeping a hand down his pants. |
   Won: Nothing She spoiled a lot of early fights by being the peacemaker we didn't need. An early illness laid her low but once she recovered, she didn't bring much to the feeds other than sucking up to whoever was in power. She was the only regular smoker this season, which was an odd juxtaposition with her cancer survival and announced upcoming relapse. She took over fish feeding as well as Hayden's sock monkey, her mascara'd eyelashes had storylines of their own, and she's the first bleached blonde hamster who started off with three weeks' worth of dark roots. |
   Won: $5,000; 24 20 hour revival The buxom bombshell role and star of the 1st half thanks to her total lack of self-awareness and her adolescent slurpmance with Brendon. She talked up her game but both her HOHs were wasted on non-threats for purely personal reasons. She was chaos, volatility and mood swings deluxe but rarely boring. She'll be remembered for indecipherable blogs, farewells to 4 of 4 who came between her & her man, tacky outfits & tack-on hair, her dysfunctional showmance, and 'I AM VEGAS!' |
   Won: $100; 1 week wig & catsuit She was barely there the first couple weeks but she came alive and participated in some juicy spats and was the subject of Andrew's scorching exit speech. She was half a showmance with Hayden, wore a silly wig & catsuit for a week, and ate a spider, yet for all this, she still was barely there. She spent most of her time horizontal with Kathy or Hayden, and would only talk with others one-on-one. |
   Won: Nothing He promised chaos and delivered on that, leaving them and us wondering what he was up to most of the time. He was a good early guess for the staboteur but he WREAKED more HAVOC just by being himself. He was early-to-bed & early-to-rise so I missed a lot of what he did, but he brought some Orthodox education, travel companion/fingerbang stories, and he made lots of threats to make good tv that didn't pan out until his final moments. |
   Won: $10,000 She promised princessy but failed to deliver, opting instead for poor-me tears, complaints about being fat, and a lot of moping around. But she wasn't all doom & gloom: she rode the slip 'n slide and made fun of her keep-warm sleeping layers, and she was Britney's #1 mean girl cohort. She tried out for ANTM and might have fared better there, as they wouldn't have flashed her boobies. |
   13-DAY STABOTEUR Won: Nothing She turned her nomination into the House of Annie and wheedled everyone for days, to no avail. She promised catfights with Britney and Rachel but nothing came of it, leaving her in the 'Who?' category for future BB trivia, even including her stabotage. She's lucky she went early: she might have cracked bad and the chops would get really brutal. |
 
Paolo Aviles30 - Unemployed real estate agent Somewhere Lucky #14 got away before the season began without any secrets exposed or embarrassing incidents to live forever on the web. Her dirty laundry will remain in the hamper, but boobies fans will be forever disappointed and wonder 'what if?' |
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LINES OF THE DAY
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LINKS OF THE DAY
Get the 24/7 live feeds
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Live feeds for Vegas Bash separate from/not included with Superpass
Britney on 'The Early Show Show' extended interview
HOH Twitter - HOH blog
Official Hamsterwatcher merchandise You won't find 'Cheap entertainment' and 'You and me to the end' undies anywhere else
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Every Hamsterwatch episode is still here on the site - go back and relive the madness! BB11 - BB10
BB9 - BB8 - BB7 - BB6 - BB5
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Get the 24/7 live feeds
Live feeds for Vegas Bash separate from/not included with Superpass
Britney on 'The Early Show Show' extended interview
HOH Twitter - HOH blog
Official Hamsterwatcher merchandise You won't find 'Cheap entertainment' and 'You and me to the end' undies anywhere else
Amazon.com Any Amazon purchase made thru my links helps support the site - thanks!
Every Hamsterwatch episode is still here on the site - go back and relive the madness! BB11 - BB10
BB9 - BB8 - BB7 - BB6 - BB5
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Hamsterwatch Twitter - Twitpic
Hamsterwatch Chatroom - Forum
BB adult/explicit links - updated with BB10 Steven Daigle
CBS Big Brother 12 the official site
DogDave BB12 scouts all the BB sites so you don't have to: all the news, edgy stuff & the best mini-recaps in town
Attwx Remembers Big Brother all seasons fun & reference by BB's number one fan
Sir LinksALot Big Brother 12 all the links, once again
EXTRACURRICULAR TALLY
Unreasonable By Any Standard feeds blackouts: 1
Twist fails: 3
Staboteur Annie
Staboteur Ragan
Excessive use of Pandora's Box
Hamster revivals: 1 Rachel
Diamond veto blindsides: 1 Matt
Pandora's Box events: 4
Matt, Brendon, Britney, Lane
Nominee speech scorchers: 1 Andrew
Makeout/sex event pairings: 2
Brendon & Rachel
Hayden & Kristen
Self-service showers: 6 Lane
House meetings: 2
Major fights: 2
Rachel vs Ragan (Round 2) 8/14
Brendon vs Ragan & Britney 8/10
Noteworthy fights: 8
Rachel vs Britney 8/14
Rachel vs Ragan (Round 1) 8/14
Rachel vs Kathy 8/7
Rachel vs Ragan 8/6
Andrew vs everyone 7/29
Rachel vs Kristen 7/29
Andrew vs Kristen 7/28
Rachel vs Annie 7/12
Deaths: 6 fishies
'The Soup' mentions: 6 of 10 shows
-Intro & Britney's flaming homosexuals
-Rachel the waitress chemist
-Matt's wife's fake illness
-Kristen's boyfriend & Richard Simmons
Collection hippytard
-Ragan's sad sock puppet
-Ragan's ooey-gooey cookies nominee speech
TMZ TV mentions: 1
Rachel being Rachel + Harvey's bored
'The View' mentions: 1
-Matt's wife's fake illness
62nd Annual Emmy Awards mentions: 1
-Britney's slippery weiner
Pap smear incidents: 1 Andrew & Annie
Pre-season connections: 4
Hayden & BB4/7 Erika
Rachel & BB2/7 Boogie
Matt & BB8 Joe
Enzo & BB2 Justin
Absentee hamsters: 1 Paolo
Unreasonable By Any Standard feeds blackouts: 1
Twist fails: 3
Staboteur Annie
Staboteur Ragan
Excessive use of Pandora's Box
Hamster revivals: 1 Rachel
Diamond veto blindsides: 1 Matt
Pandora's Box events: 4
Matt, Brendon, Britney, Lane
Nominee speech scorchers: 1 Andrew
Makeout/sex event pairings: 2
Brendon & Rachel
Hayden & Kristen
Self-service showers: 6 Lane
House meetings: 2
Major fights: 2
Rachel vs Ragan (Round 2) 8/14
Brendon vs Ragan & Britney 8/10
Noteworthy fights: 8
Rachel vs Britney 8/14
Rachel vs Ragan (Round 1) 8/14
Rachel vs Kathy 8/7
Rachel vs Ragan 8/6
Andrew vs everyone 7/29
Rachel vs Kristen 7/29
Andrew vs Kristen 7/28
Rachel vs Annie 7/12
Deaths: 6 fishies
'The Soup' mentions: 6 of 10 shows
-Intro & Britney's flaming homosexuals
-Rachel the waitress chemist
-Matt's wife's fake illness
-Kristen's boyfriend & Richard Simmons
Collection hippytard
-Ragan's sad sock puppet
-Ragan's ooey-gooey cookies nominee speech
TMZ TV mentions: 1
Rachel being Rachel + Harvey's bored
'The View' mentions: 1
-Matt's wife's fake illness
62nd Annual Emmy Awards mentions: 1
-Britney's slippery weiner
Pap smear incidents: 1 Andrew & Annie
Pre-season connections: 4
Hayden & BB4/7 Erika
Rachel & BB2/7 Boogie
Matt & BB8 Joe
Enzo & BB2 Justin
Absentee hamsters: 1 Paolo
BBQ SMACKDOWN SCORECARD
Big Brother 12
Round 1: BBQ ½, Brendon 0
Round 2: BBQ 2, Britney 0, Lane 0
Round 3: BBQ 1, Lane 0, CBS 0
Big Brother 11
Round 1: BBQ 0, Jeff 0
Round 2: BBQ 0, Jeff ½
Round 3: BBQ ½, Kevin 0, Michele 0
Big Brother 10
No title events
Big Brother 9 Winter Edition
Round 1: BBQ ½, Ryan 0
Round 2, BBQ ½, Adam 0
Round 3, BBQ ½, Ryan 0
Big Brother 8
Round 1: BBQ 1, Dick 0
Round 2: BBQ ½, Zach 0
Round 3: BBQ 0, Dick 1
Big Brother 7 All-Stars
BBQ training sabbatical
Big Brother 6
Round 1: BBQ 1, Ivette 0
Round 2: BBQ 0, Howie 0
Big Brother 5
Round 1: BBQ 1, Cowboy 1, Drew 0
Round 2: BBQ 1, Drew 0, Diane ½
Round 3: BBQ 1, Cowboy 1, Nakomis 0, CBS 0
Big Brother 12
Round 1: BBQ ½, Brendon 0
Round 2: BBQ 2, Britney 0, Lane 0
Round 3: BBQ 1, Lane 0, CBS 0
Big Brother 11
Round 1: BBQ 0, Jeff 0
Round 2: BBQ 0, Jeff ½
Round 3: BBQ ½, Kevin 0, Michele 0
Big Brother 10
No title events
Big Brother 9 Winter Edition
Round 1: BBQ ½, Ryan 0
Round 2, BBQ ½, Adam 0
Round 3, BBQ ½, Ryan 0
Big Brother 8
Round 1: BBQ 1, Dick 0
Round 2: BBQ ½, Zach 0
Round 3: BBQ 0, Dick 1
Big Brother 7 All-Stars
BBQ training sabbatical
Big Brother 6
Round 1: BBQ 1, Ivette 0
Round 2: BBQ 0, Howie 0
Big Brother 5
Round 1: BBQ 1, Cowboy 1, Drew 0
Round 2: BBQ 1, Drew 0, Diane ½
Round 3: BBQ 1, Cowboy 1, Nakomis 0, CBS 0
