7.11.03 - FOOD COMPETITION: SPUDS
For their second Food Competition, the HouseGuests compete in a game called "Spuds." First they are asked to split into boy/girl teams, and Nathan advises them that it might be an advantage for the exes to pair up. All oblige, save Jun and Jee, with Jun pairing up with Jack, and Jee joining forces with Dana. Each pair must designate a "lifter" and a "stander," and all the men opt to be the "lifter," except for Dana and Jee, who fear it may be a trick. After each pair is assigned a food group that they will be competing for--meats/poultry/seafood, dairy, fruits/vegetables, breads/pasta/cereal, snacks/desserts, beer/wine/soft drinks/juice--Nathan reads the rules of the Competition. To win their food group, each lifter has six minutes to fill a bin with the amount of potatoes he thinks equals the weight of the stander. Each pair that comes within 25 pounds of the weight of the stander wins their food group for the entire house. The stander can never reveal his/her weight, but the lifter may lift him/her up as often as he wants to compare the stander with the bin of potatoes. The games begin, and each lifter runs back and forth between a giant mound of spuds and his/her bin and stander, frequently lifting the stander to compare the weight with the growing bin of potatoes. But the Competition is a challenging one. While Alison/Justin, Amanda/Scott, and Jee/Dana win their food groups for the House, the other teams fail, leaving the HouseGuests with no dairy, no meats/poultry/seafood, and no fruits/vegetables.
7.9.03 - LUXURY COMPETITION: SHINY HINEY
The HouseGuests assemble in the backyard clad only in bathing suits for their first Luxury Competition. The prize: a key to the coveted hot tub. Before them is an inflatable pool filled to the brim with goopy green slime. The object of the game is to cover their bodies with as much slime as possible and transfer it into a bucket; get enough muck in the bucket and win a key to the tub. The catch: slime can only be removed from the body by another HouseGuest. The HouseGuests jump straight into the slime, running back and forth to the bucket. Although Dana is delighted to "rub Nathan's body," the slime from their skin and hair wasn't adding up. A switch in strategy does the trick, and the girls start filling up their swimsuit bottoms, while the boys make good use of their pockets. Their slimy strategy works, and they win the key to the hot tub.
7.9.03 - HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD COMPETITION
The HouseGuests pair up, with Scott volunteering to sit out. The pairs are Jack/David, Alison/Nathan, Amanda/Michelle, Erika/Jee, Jun/Dana and Robert/Justin. The teams then separate into "sitters" and "kneelers," with sitters strapped into chairs and kneelers facing them. Balanced above each sitter is a bucket of fish guts. The kneelers have one knee depressing a button, which if released will dump the bucket of chum on their partner, eliminating the team. After Jack, Amanda, Jun and Erika get chummed, two teams remain: Robert/Justin and Alison/Nathan. Desperate to avoid the fish guts, Alison promises Robert and Justin she won't nominate either of them if they agree to bow out of the competition. Nathan agrees, and Robert and Justin let the other pair win. In a sad twist, Alison still gets the bucket of fish parts poured on her. Julie Chen reveals that "sideline" Scott will make the ultimate decision: Scott chooses Nathan to be the first Head of Household.
7.8.03 - FOOD COMPETITION
The eight HouseGuests take on their first Food Competition, the results of which will determine if they are given groceries for the week, or if they'll be forced to eat peanut butter and jelly for three meals a day. They head to the backyard, where they discover a giant "X" made of two beams. The two beams are separated and lowered horizontally to the ground. The HouseGuests split into two groups of four and step onto the two separate beams. With four people on each beam, Julie asks each HouseGuest a True/False question about his/her new roommates. If the question is answered correctly, the beam stays in position, but if the answer is incorrect, both beams are raised one foot into the air. If three or more people fall off the beams, it's nothing but peanut butter and jelly for the rest of the week. Despite many incorrect answers and a difficult balancing act, all eight manage to stay on the beams, and the HouseGuests win groceries for the week.
