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Rigjob #4: Big Brother 9, Week 10

Synopsis: We're at the Final 4. Three people are competing: Sharon, Ryan, and Adam. The competition is True/False, there is one question left, Sharon is up on Ryan by 1 point. The last question is asked, the answer is obvious, Sharon gets the answer right, Ryan gets it wrong, Sharon is clearly the next HoH, but then Julie Chen tells us Sharon got it wrong, Ryan got it right, and all hell breaks loose.

Here's the tape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJMCNEEDeo

This one is truly tragic as it results in what should have been a clear win for Sharon as the HoH to then suddenly be the next one evicted instead.

To put this in context, Big Brother 9 is the sloppiest season of BB and it's not even close. To say it was a trainwreck would be a disservice to actual legitimate wreckages with lives lost along the way (RIP BB11). BB9 was full of horrible people who did horrible things, and I truly don't feel bad condemning them when there's live feeds to hold them accountable for their atrocities.

There really were no heroes this season, so in some way production had very few people to even bother slanting the game toward at any point. And yet despite this they still found a way to fuck around and cause one of the most illegitimate F4 HoH's in the history of the show.

Sharon was not a favorite of production by any means. There was a season-long storyline between two cast members in Matty and Natalie, it was a tale of unrequited love. Matty didn't want Natalie but all season she chased him. And then along comes Sharon who plays the 'other girl' and hooks up with Matty out of nowhere, getting all kinds of frisky in the HoH room, basically sullying her image.

Truth be told, I don't get why production didn't like Sharon. Maybe it was her hookup with Matty, maybe she was difficult at times, I don't know. I do know her competition in Ryan was marginally likable and in BB9 that went a looooong way.

The F4 HoH should have been Sharon's. It's pretty absurd that production does what they do here. The question: "True or False, there's still a pre-existing relationship in the house?" Given they were at the F4 and none of them had a pre-existing relationship, the answer was CLEARLY false. Sharon gets it right. Ryan realizes he's got no chance to get this right by saying false so he says true. And then somehow the answer is TRUE (or fact).

Production then has to pop up a quick text saying "(The Guinea Pigs)" to remind the viewers that this IMPOSSIBLE ANSWER is actually TOTALLY LEGIT. As if there was any way the houseguest could know or be expected to know that the guinea pigs kept as pets inside the house had a "pre existing relationship". How production can think this is an OK question to ask, is a reasonable question to ask for the very last question of the penultimate HoH is absurd. It's so fishy.

What's worse is that if you listen to the video linked above, right after Julie asks the question, she has a long pause to figure out the answer (that production wants to give) based on where the houseguests stand. You can hear her fumbling around with something, there's some scribbling or shifting being had. There's no live audience during BB9 so it didn't matter what she did. I don't get why this is happening, why Julie needs to take a long 10-second pause after they land on their answer for her to respond. She stutters with her words and then we get this quick "oh by the way it was a trick question LOL" text at the bottom. As someone who had worked in editing, that's very easy to produce. I'm not fooled into thinking this was a pre-determined answer.

Sharon goes on to be evicted at the F4 when she didn't deserve it. This rigjob isn't higher because it's not as influential or impacting across the season as the top 3. Probably the most fitting rigjob to BB9, really.
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