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What’s that sound?  Husbands everywhere ask this very question whenever they hear their wives say “you’re right”.  Wile E. Coyote asks this question just before the anvil lands on his head.  This week, it was the Big Brother housemates’ turn to ask that very question.

The big story of the week surrounded a noise that sounded very much like a siren.  When this siren went off, everything would change.  This may be a common occurrence in the life of OJ Simpson, but for the Big Brother housemates it was very new.  The housemates were told to meet in the living room as soon as the siren went off.  Once they were there, they would learn about a new twist on the game that would send everyone scrambling.

For some, this could only be good news.  Poor Ryan, stuck on the same team as Allison, observed that any change for him at this point is a positive change.  He, for all intents and purposes, was a dead man walking.  Allison’s big mouth has dragged him down to the brink of eviction.  He knew that Ralph Nader had a better chance of winning his vote than he and Allison had of winning theirs.  To make matters worse, their competition for eviction were the much more popular Matt and Natalie.  At least they were.

Matt and Natalie, the physically strongest team in the house, won the Power of Veto and took themselves off of the block.  They managed to work out their puzzle, a picture of the power of veto symbol, before the other three couples.  I couldn’t help but laugh at Sheila, who blamed Adam for their loss.  Adam was responsible for getting the puzzle pieces to Sheila, which he did.  Sheila’s puzzle, however, would make Picasso sit up and say “what in the world is that?”.  I’m sorry, Sheila, but that loss is on you.  How hard can it be for you to make a picture of a circle with a line through it?  By the way, congratulations on that “love/hate” relationship you have with Adam now.  It beats the heck out of that hate/hate relationship you had with him before. 

After Matt and Natalie took themselves off of the block, they were replaced by Sheila and Adam.  Adam was right when he said that he really had nothing to worry about because Allison was their competition, but I think I would have put James and Chelsia up for eviction instead.  They are strong players, and this way if Ryan and Allison do avoid eviction then you would get rid of a major rival. 

Not surprisingly, Ryan and Allision were unanimously voted out of the house.  But wait!  The door is locked, and there goes that siren!  Everyone goes back into the meeting room to learn that from now on the couples are no more and it’s now an individual game.  And really, what else could it have been?  CBS wants to milk the ratings from this show all summer long, and if they had kept the couples format the game would be over by Easter.  Like Ryan said, any change is a good change.  He must have felt like the innocent man getting a call from the Governor while he’s sitting on the electric chair. 

He wasn’t out of the woods yet, though.  Okay, who are we kidding?  He was out of the woods.  The houseguests now had to cast individual votes to see which one of these two would be evicted.  No real suspense here.  Hearing “by a vote of 6-0″ was about as surprising as hearing “wrestling is fake”.  Allison, the jealous, manipulative pseudo-lesbian, was unanimously sent packing.  The cherry on the sundae is that Ryan went from the electric chair to a king’s throne in a matter of minutes.  He won the first individual Head of Household competition because he was able to put all of the drama and trash talk that has been going on in the house in chronological order.  Yes, Ryan, change is good.

Tune in next week for another round of previews and power rankings!  Enjoy!