Live Feed - Tuesday, July 17, Evening.

• FUCK. Andrea is back.
• Stephanie appears to be bottom two. She's talking with Joy, very upset and trying not to cry.  Poor thing.  She wouldn’t have been Bottom 2 if Andrea hadn’t been immune.
• Team WackADoodleTeam WackADoodle is talking. It sounds like Mike scored higher than Stephanie, and she had the lowest votes overall.  That’s surprising, because she hasn’t been in the bottom before, but, then again, she’s gotten very little screen time compared to the others that are left.
• Stephanie, Erica, Joy, and Gene are now piled in a bed talking about it, Stephanie is wondering if she shouldn't have "let the flood gates open" earlier, talking about her husband. They're all talking about emotional breakdowns on the show, Stephanie is mad at herself… The problem is, if she hadn’t told everyone about her husband, people would be saying that they didn’t know anything about her.  That was seriously the only time she’s aired on Monday nights, and most people don’t watch these live feeds.
• Erica mentions that Steph is incapable of starting drama, that the audience knows this, that Steph needs to be herself. Steph wonders if the viewers want to see more drama, and see her, keeping people calm and rational. She's been having a hard time caring about challenges because the people she cares about have been on the other team.  I DO NOT WANT TO SEE MORE DRAMA.  CAN YOU HEAR ME, STEPHANIE?
• Erica thinks that viewers want to see flawed people, she doesn't think that Steph has any flaws, that she's just very "together", but not in a boring way.
• Gene says something about how they should do Meth? Did I hear that right?
• Erica thinks they need a showmance, "Stephica".
• Erica is singing a song to Stephanie about the slutty trip to Italy, and eating sushi off nubile young men.  That sounds delightful.  Can I come?
• Stephanie wonders if Team WackADoodle has been saying anything to the viewers to place doubt in their minds about her loyalty.  Team Wackadoodle has been doing nothing but talking smack about her.
• Erica gets up, says she's going to go make out with Kevin and see if she can get any info.
• Joy thinks that the other team is trying to position everything/ everyone against Steph, brings up questions they had last week (Does Stephanie make you jealous?). It sounds like they've all been making comments about Steph to the workable bonds people all week, trying to drive a wedge between them and Steph, and the viewers and Steph.  They have said a few times that they want Steph out.
• Joy really wonders "What the freak their game is".
• Erica gets up and again says she's going to go make out with Kevin to get answers.  She’s still there.
• Steph says that she told the other team that she'd give as good as they did, so she didn't give it 110%, because she knew they weren't. Gene reminds her that the whole reason the other team picked her was so that they had a scapegoat.
• They told her they didn't put her on one of the shooters because she'd throw the challenge.  What complete jerks.  The shooters completely sucked - she couldn’t have done worse than they did.  Also, the person handing ammo to the shooters had a better opportunity to throw the challenge.  She could have had them running all over the yard picking up balls.
• We quickly and jerkily cut to Erica, Kevin, Jeffrey, Mike, and Andrea on the couches. Erica wanted to do a series of passive aggressive horoscopes.  There’s really nothing going on here, so Jeffrey wanders out of the room.

                                                          

• Erica asks how they can get rid of Jeffrey. Mike calls her out, saying she loves him. She says that she is personally done with him. 
• Erica is really surprised about Stephanie being bottom two, Mike is carrying on like he had it easier because he expected it. Erica is having a hard time watching Stephanie beat herself up before the viewers didn’t vote for her.  What Stephanie doesn’t know is that this show is hemorrhaging viewers.  The only people left are probably me, a bunch of weird geeks, and the Mormons.  There are more Mormons than geeks.
• Mike says there will be four people left at the end.
• Mike says that according to his #Fanswer a couple weeks ago, he thoughts STephanie was at the top, and " A Lock". He can't remember how he phrased it. You know, he actually kinda sounds not happy about Stephanie being in the bottom.  Maybe he realizes that he can’t beat her in an intellectual challenge.
• This is so boring, they're all just sort of hanging on the couch, very slow talking with big breaks of silence. Everyone seems depressed, both groups.  Why are they all so mopey? Team Awesome, I can understand... but Kevin and Mike?  Is it just super hot in there because the A/C isn’t working?  Why is Erica wearing long sleeves, then?
• Stephanie comes back. Mike is still trying to figure out what he'd said in his Fanswer question about Stephanie.  I could tell him, but I don’t care.
• Andrea disappeared at some point, I didn't notice when.   I hope she was Raptured.  Fuck you, Andrea.  Go see your perfect family and be a perfect little bigot.
• Joy joins the group, asks if they're talking about #Fanswers... awkward silence, gets up, says she's going to go tweet.  Weird.
• Did Ori slip them all Valium or some Ambien?  What the fuck is going on here?
• Now they're talking about different lasagna types. Joy is talking about it in a baby voice. Please kill me.
• Erica says that she's funny, so in terms of wife marketability, she doesn't need to know how to cook.
• The volume went out for a minute. Given the long stretches of quiet, the only way I knew was because their mouths were moving.
• Gene starts cackling from somewhere in the house, loud and evil sounding. He surprised someone and "gave them a mini heart attack" - either Mike or Jeffrey.  Don’t know, don’t care.
• More discussion about dinner cooking.
• Kevin threatens to start another game of hide the wine. Joy asks for more Jungle Juice.
• Please, please put me out of my misery. This is so boring.
• Andrea looks sad that people aren't rejoicing over her return. Stupid bitch. But, good for us, because Andrea looking pissed = drink!
• Gene is twirling a pillow…..Gene continues to twirl the pillow.  I think Kevin fell asleep.
• Joy is asking if it's time to go to bed yet. Please go to bed, everyone, so I can stop watching.  Joy wants tweets, says she needs SOMETHING, that tweets would make them feel better about themselves.
• You can see the wheels turning in Andrea's head. She doesn't like that people are moping. She wants everyone to rejoice because she’s back.
• They talk about what it's like to be in limbo. Andrea starts to talk, says she probably shouldn't talk about it, Erica says something about it, they abruptly cut to Gene and Joy.
• Joy doesn't know how Mike could possibly have more votes than Stephanie.   Neither do I.  Mike is such a transparent jackass.
• Gene thinks that Andrea would have been Team Captain if Kevin had gone to limbo instead.  I agree - that’s why I wanted Kevin to go to limbo.  Anyway, they start talking about Gene’s clothes.  Zzzz.
• Gene thinks that everyone's been coasting on their own, without people rallying for each other.
• In the living room, Erica and Jeffrey are sitting on the couch.  They’re telling Andrea about the live feed that I watched earlier.  I watched it, I recapped it, I’m not reliving it.
• They are literally sitting around talking about how boring they are.  Gene is trying to convince them that they’re not boring.  Shut up, Gene.  This is incredibly boring.
• I grew up in a small, boring town.  The joke growing up was that we all used to sit around talking about how there was nothing to do and that WAS the thing to do.  That’s exactly what is happening here, except it’s even less interesting to watch other people sit around talking about how there’s nothing to do than it is to be a part of it.
• They’re throwing pillows at that weird red thing.  I still want one of those in my living room.
• We learn that Jeffrey has declared it “purple day.”  This is the most interesting thing that has happened so far.  They’re talking about laundry.  I give up.
• I refuse to type another word until something interesting happens.
• YAY!  My phone is ringing!!  That’s SO INTERESTING RIGHT NOW!!
• Twenty minutes later, I return to hear Mike and Kevin talk about how someone is really arrogant.  Does this scenario involve a pot or a kettle?

                                               

• Oh, they’re discussing the teams.  Mike wants to stick Steph with Kevin so he can throw the challenge and force her into limbo.  
• “Gene is so arrogant… there’s no way this doesn’t work out the way we want it to.”  UGH.  Shut up, both of you.  I hate them.
• Mike says that Stephanie is going to have a tough night’s sleep and then he LAUGHS and talks about how cocky all of the rest of them are.  Seriously?  Kevin and Mike think that other people are cocky?  Someone give these guys a mirror!
• Even Kevin can’t believe that Erica and Joy got more votes than Stephanie.
• They’re eating lasagna.  I’m going to take a quick nap.  They joke about setting the teams as boys vs. girls, and Steph makes the mistake of saying that she might have an advantage there.  She also says that she’d be surprised if they have another physical challenge - possibly another mistake.  She probably shouldn’t be saying so much to Mike, unless she doesn’t mean any of it.
• Were they talking about seizing all the cigarettes in the house?  What?  Are there cigarettes in the house?  It’s a smoking challenge?  Well, the only thing I can think that would be more boring than all of this is watching them all smoke for an hour.
• Oh, OK.  Apparently, Erica is trying to quit smoking.  If there are no cigarettes in the Glass House, that would explain it.  Or, maybe she’s been bringing her own.
• I could use a cigarette right now, just watching this.  And a shot of whiskey.  In support of Erica, they all decide to start flossing.  Joy tells us that flossing can help prevent heart disease.  Well, at least I learned something.  I feel like a very bad time to quit smoking is when you have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO, but that’s just me.
• I’m totally going to laugh if tomorrow’s challenge comes down to who is better at throwing it.
• I actually get excited that the live feed stutters.  Because NOTHING is happening.
• Gene is talking about toilet training cats.  No, really.
• Mercifully, we cut to Kevin and Mike.  Ugh.  Nevermind, they’re talking shit about TeamAwesome again.  “Frauds!”  Uh-huh.
• Kevin’s daughter is tall.  His whole family is zzzzzzz...……
• I’ve spent the last 50 minutes working on a necklace of mine that’s been tangled for about a year.  That is STILL more interesting than this feed.
• Erica is very concerned that she’s been treating her body “like a trash can,” and she needs to be more careful and try to improve her life.
• We cut away to Andrea in the living room, staring at the ceiling, and looking pissed.  It’s completely silent.  Wow.  I’m really glad they showed this.
• Back to Erica, talking about heart problems.  I’m a little worried.  Should ABC get her a doctor?  I don’t want to watch Erica have a heart attack on television (or anyone else, honestly).
• They talk about heart conditions and all kinds of stuff.
• This is exactly like ER, if you take out the action, the fact pace, the sets, the hot actors, the plot, the scripts, and the excitement.
• Andrea is in the kitchen, pouring mustard on the counter?  What?
• Oh, OK.  She’s throwing food away and making a huge mess for someone else to clean up because it’s her husband’s birthday.  No one cares.  If you miss him so much, why didn’t you leave?  You had that option, and I wouldn’t have cried a tear over it.
• She’s seriously been putting things like licorice and fruit loops on the counter for like 20 minutes.  What if someone wanted to eat that food?
• Cut to Joy and Stephanie deciding whether they would want their families to pull the plug.  She’s talking about her husband, and how she never had the ability to decide whether she wanted to keep him alive, because he was just gone.  
• She says that, often, keeping someone alive is more for the family than the patient, because they want to say good-bye, or they want to feel like there is still hope.
• Stephanie tells Joy that, right after she met her husband, her brother was in an accident and paralyzed for life.  It’s a lot of pain and suffering for one family - and it’s things that you can’t possibly control.  She’s crying, and she’s making me tear up.  
• She goes on to talk about stem cell research, and how her husband’s brother had this amazing surgery in Portugal that saved him, and it would never be allowed in the U.S.  He’s still living a really difficult life, but it’s not as bad as it could be.
• Joy is talking as if Dick Cheney actually has a heart.  I’m very confused.  I don’t understand the words coming out of her mouth.
• Cut to Andrea talking about how much alcohol is in the house.
• Back to Steph, still crying.  We learn that she became obsessively neat and clean after her husband died, because that’s something she could control.  She can’t control this show, and it upsets her.  After a moment in the kitchen of the assholes talking smack, we’re back to her telling Joy how hard dating is after you find the perfect relationship, but you have to keep trying.
• We learn that Stephanie has actually been married twice.  The first time, it got all screwed up, as relationships do (and it sounds like they were really young).  The second time, it was wonderful and all kittens and roses… until it ended.  This is very sad.
• Joy is jealous that she managed to find someone who wanted to marry her twice, because a lot of people can’t find that once (people like Joy).
• The live feed ends as Joy is trying to comfort Steph, because she’s all emotional.  The  whole feed was really blah and depressing.  I’m going to cry that I will never again have those three hours of my life - and nothing interesting happened.