8-23-03 - POWER OF VETO
Host Julie Chen prepares the HouseGuests for what she calls a "curve ball" in the BIG BROTHER game. She reveals that this week, the HouseGuests will compete for the Power of Veto before the nominations are made, but the winner will not be announced until after the nomination ceremony. She instructs each of the roommates to go to separate rooms, and tells them they cannot talk to each other, make hand signals, or communicate with each other in any way.
One at a time, the HouseGuests enter the Diary Room to talk to Julie. Julie offers the Power of Veto to each of the HouseGuests, separately-but there's a catch. If you accept the Power of Veto, the other HouseGuests can only eat Peanut Butter and Jelly for the rest of the game (about a month), while you continue to eat whatever you want. Knowing the effects of the PB&J diet on the mood of the House, each HouseGuest declines Julie's offer.
Julie then offers a second deal to each HouseGuests: in exchange for the Power of Veto, the other HouseGuests will be on the PB&J diet for two weeks. This offer isn't rejected as quickly as the first, as the HouseGuests weight their options and the importance of the POV in the game. Eventually, each HouseGuest declines Julie's second bribe.
Julie makes her final offer: the Power of Veto in exchange for a PB&J diet for one week. Jun, Alison, Robert, Jack and Erika once again decline, but Head of Household Jee accepts Julie's enticing offer, winning the Power of Veto.
8-20-03 - HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD COMPETITION: BLACK HOHLE
For the Head of Household Competition, entitled "Black HoHle," each HouseGuest is given one ball, which they are to roll down a course and toward a hole. The HouseGuest whose ball is closest to the hole wins; balls that go in the hole or roll off the course are disqualified. Alison is first to go, and despite her claim that she is going to throw the competition, her ball comes to a stop inches away from the hole. Jee is up next and manages to get a little closer than Ali, knocking her out of contention. Jun, Robert and Jack are next, but none of them manage to get closer than Jee, and Jee becomes Head of Household for the second time this summer.
8-19-03 - POWER OF VETO COMPETITION: VIDEO VETO
This week's Veto Competition is called "Video Veto," and each HouseGuest goes outside to compete individually. In the backyard there are five cameras, five plasma screens and portraits of each of the thirteen HouseGuests. The goal is to put the Golden Veto winners in chronological order by pointing the correct video camera at the appropriate portrait so that the winners' pictures show up on the plasma screens in the correct order. The person who puts them in the correct order in the fastest time wins the Power of Veto. Former FBI Agent Jack doesn't seem to understand the instructions, spending more than 18 minutes on the task, while Jun finishes in an impressive time of 2:45, and wins the Power of Veto.
