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And the Grand Champion of FNL is ... Rory!
July 20th, 2008 at 10:35pm, EST, by Ridge Rogue
This update is a summary of the final ever Big Brother Friday Night Live. I bet Network Ten tries to run something similar next year to fill the time slot, but it least it won't be this cringeworthy rubbish from Big Brother. I'm thrilled that this is over! Anyway, Mike started off the show by attempting to sing with Bree and Ryan. They butchered the song "Playing To Win" by John Farnham. Then the HMs entered the games arena for the final time and an Asian guy dressed as a BB ninja sang "Waltzing Matilda" with the HMs. BB then explained that the winner would receive a plasma TV and the glory of being Grand Champion. All this effort and expense was just for that.
After the ad break, the hosts talked up Terri as the winner of this series. Bree said she had changed her mind from Travis to Terri after saying all series that Travis would win. It must be the short odds at betting agencies for Terri, and the HMs showing through conversations that they want Terri to win, that has made her finally wake up to what we've all known for weeks: that Terri has been the favourite and still is. All of the remaining HMs are pot plants so I couldn't care less who wins this year. The public mostly seems to feel the same way. That's how uninterested everyone has been with this series of BB.
Round 1: Let's get ready to tumble
With the points system from last week, without BB telling them this time until the end, the HMs prepared to compete. One at a time, the HMs were spun around ten times to get them dizzy. There were seven mannequins of boys with jackets with hoods that the HMs had to punch out. The idea was to hit as many as possible. Alice was first up and after being spun she got all of the dummies, or so it appeared but BB wasn't saying. Ben was next and it seemed like he knocked over four dummies and a BB ninja (almost). The remaining three HMs then competed. Rory was up next and it looked like he knocked five over. Then Terri got four dummies and didn't seem too dizzy (none of them really did). Travis was last and hit three dummies. BB didn't reveal the scores to the HMs.
Round 2: Judgement day
Last year's Grand Champion, Zach, joined the hosts. They had a quick chat and then Zach (now a brunette) turned up in front of the HMs (via TV screen) as a judge in the next game. In this round, the HMs had thirty seconds to perform parts of various sporting games. Travis was first to compete in a pretend equestrian event. His horse "Thunder" wasn't there to kick him in the nuts to see if it actually deepens his voice
What? His voice can't get any more higher pitched than it is so it's only a reversal you could hope for in this scenario
Zach commented that Travis's performance was like a scene from Brokeback Mountain.
The others then took their turn at the role play. Terri was next up and did an aerobics performance (with Mike making farting noises as she jumped around). Zach quoted a line from the lyrics of "Maniac" and said "I don't think so!" because she was good, he thought. He said it had "pure sex written all over it. Jane Fonda would be really proud of you." He is so friggin camp sometimes, this guy, and was in full swing here. Rory was next up with a gymnastics floor routine (female viewers probably loved the tights he was wearing). Zach bagged him. Moron! Ben had a figure skating routine (on concrete tiles). Zach said that Ben would've scored more points from him if he'd taken his shirt off. Alice then had a synchronised swimming routine (on the concrete). She got on the floor and rolled around with her arms waving around. Zach liked it. The scores were decided by Zach and given to BB via the FNL hosting desk. He voted for Travis to win.
Round 3: A hair-raising ordeal
All the HMs had to do in this round was to watch their loved ones hold as much water as possible in their mouth while they rode a rollercoaster at Dreamworld. BB showed the HMs some footage of their loved ones taking the ride earlier in the day. He started with Alice's friend who held it all in and spat it out into the measuring container at the end of her ride. Ben's brother was next, followed by Rory's brother. They both seemed to do well. Then Terri's partner had a go and I think he swallowed most of the water he drank but was supposed to hold in his mouth. Travis's cousin went next to finish off the round. The winner was Travis's cousin who collected 5 points for Travis and the other points were recorded by BB for the rest of the HMs.
Round 4: Mascot merry-go-round
Fryzie turned up after the ad break as his character this year, Bryce Fitzberg. He chatted to Mike and Bree and I hit the fast forward button at this point. When the HMs were ready for the next round, BB told them that they had two minutes to collect "champagne" in their cups to fill their individual giant glass flute. They did this by standing on the merry-go-round under a shower head with water coming out. They jostled for the water and then jumped off and filled their flutes before returning for more water. It looked like Rory had the most water.
Round 5: The rat trap
Each HM was laying on a ramp with their head over a container. They had sticks in the helmets on their head with cheese on the end of the sticks. Underneath them was a container of rats. One at a time they were each asked a question by BB. If they got it right the other HMs would have their head lowered a bit to the rats (via the BB ninjas tilting the other end of the ramps). If they were wrong then they would be. The last person without their head in the container would win. Rory was asked what Brigitte's middle name is and he said "bimbo" and was lowered to the rats (correct answer is Sarah).
Ben was then asked in what country was Pamela Anderson born. He said in Vancouver in Canada and was correct. Terri was asked how old Cherry is and she said 23 and was wrong (22 was the right answer). Alice was asked how many nights Nobbi was in the Kombi and she said 55 and was right. Travis was asked whom Bianca voted for in the very first snap eviction and he answered that it was Terri (he was wrong, it was Nobbi). Rory was asked how many days Ollie was in the house for and he said 13 and was wrong and was out of the round with a rat swinging off his cheese soon after his head was in the container.
The round continued. Ben was asked what the number of the first train the train spotting task was and he correctly said 8. Several rats were swinging off Rory's cheese. Most of the others were by now out of the game. Alice was asked what hand grenade Dixie got and whom it was from. She said clothes washing from Rebecca which was correct. Ben was lowered further. He was then asked what Rhianna's daughter's name is and he couldn't remember and said Dan (it's Mia). Alice was then asked what Terrence's kids are named and she said Michael, Luke and Dan. She was correct with the first two but Brett is the other. So Ben was asked who Cherry took with him to see Get Smart and he incorrectly answered Terrence, Alice and Travis (it was Terrence, Bianca and Brigitte). Alice won.
Round 6: The giant drop
Holding a cake, each HM was lifted one at a time 25 metres into the air on a large platform suspended by flimsy-looking cables and straps (if one broke a HM would've come crashing to the ground). Then they were swung around and had 10 seconds to drop their cake onto a target below with point zones (the bullseye being the highest point area). Rory was harnessed so that his privates hurts and he was complaining but scored 4 points. Ben's nuts hurt as well because the harness was right under them. Mike joked that they'd soon be talking like Travis (high pitched voice). Ben scored 4 points. Alice then scored 2 points it seemed (on the line). Travis was next and he hates heights and was supposedly praying on the way up. He kept his eyes closed, screamed like a girl and dropped his cake and picked up 3 points by the look of it. BB taunted him by asking him if he wanted to open his eyes. When he did open them he just about shat himself. Terri finished off the game and scored 3 points.
Result
With the games now finished, BB asked the HMs to return to the games arena. Their loved ones were being readied to be slimed. The scores were revealed to HMs with sliming occurring along the way. Alice received 15 points and her friend was slimed. In fourth place with 18 points was Terri. In third place with 19 points was Ben. The runner-up with 20 points was Travis but the BB ninjas accidentally slimed Rory's brother (BB apologised after). That left Rory as the winner of the final FNL ever. Zach was on hand to deliver the grand champion's trophy to Rory.
And with that, the worst show on television came to an end. The hosts thanked their fellow FNL staff. Poor Bree was almost a blubbering mess as she realised that her career was left to hosting Friday Night Download now. Mike thanked Chris Blackburn for giving him his first job on BB (voice overs) and a few producers. Thankfully that was it and I have nothing more to say about that shit (apart from to wish everyone, including the BB ninjas, all the best)!
