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"Big Brother 16" -- Fan art of the official (and unofficial) cast of Big Brother 16: 

(behind the walls): Derrick Levasseur - the pupper master and winner of BB16

(on the walls): (previous winners Dan Gheesling and Will Kirby)

(back row): (Jesus), Jocasta Odom, (Nicole’s 2nd Life), (TimothyChristine’s husband), Christine Brecht, (Kathy Griffin riding Zingbot), (Ariana Grande), Frankie GrandePaola Shea (on swing). 

(middle row): Donny ThompsonHayden Voss & Nicole Franzel (on hammock), Cody Califiore (on chair), Amber BorzotraCaleb ReynoldsZach Rance(Jeff Schroeder proposing to Jordan Lloyd)

(front row): (Jordan’s dog eating a sausage), (the black rat that Cody is terrified of), Joey Van Pelt (with matching troll doll), (Izzy the dog peeing on the Big Brother Rewind button), Victoria RafaeliDevin Shepherd (as the Hulk), Brittany MartinezJulie Chen & Will Arnett (performing the ALS ice bucket challenge).

I spent an absurd amount of time putting in every detail I could think of from the show into this drawing. I began this in August, right before Nicole returned to the Big Brother house. Fortunately not a whole lot about the game's ending changed between that time and now... 

The game started with 16 contestants (8 men and 8 women). Joey Van Pelt, the hair stylist from Seattle (and troll doll lookalike), was the game's first victim. After she attempted to form an alliance with all of the women in the house, she then "ratted herself out" by admitting it to the people in power, who promptly kicked her out--but not before she donned her alter-ego "Alex", a lumberjack male stereotype with a fake beard and all. I was disappointed to see Joey gone first. She seemed like fun.

Next to go was New York DJ, Paolo Shea, known as “Pow Pow” in the house. Paola didn’t seem to accomplish much in the house besides annoying the houseguests and failing at challenges (like the swing challenge in the drawing). Since the challenge she threw resulted in her own eviction, I feel little sorrow for Pow Pow. She wasn’t meant for this game but she does look great in a bikini.

Although he formed the “Bomb Squad” alliance and he’s built like The Incredible Hulk, Devin Shepherd was evicted next due to the fact that his allies didn’t trust him and the house considered him a bully. When he wasn’t freaking out his allies, or bullying the other houseguests, Devin was mostly seen crying about his daughter, someone he brought up every chance he had. Devin was a horrible Big Brother player, but he was great TV, and he’s probably a great dad too.

I really wanted soccer mom, Brittany Martinez to outlast her early target. I thought she had potential to be a player this season, especially after she skillfully manipulated Devin emotions by discussing how much she missed her children with him. Unfortunately she was mercilessly put on the block 4 weeks in a row and suffered a brutal punishment in the form of having to kick 2400 goals in 24 hours (100 goals an hour for a day straight). She didn’t give up though. I liked Brittany.

Amber Borzotra was the center of Caleb’s world (he often called her his queen) until she was evicted week 5. Beautiful and kind, Amber just couldn’t find the right words to get the message across to Caleb that she wasn’t interested. She seemed to flirt with Cody though and there was a brief moment when Cody and Caleb’s alliance seemed threatened by Caleb’s jealousy. Cody was in power this week, and could have sent Caleb packing, but Team America wanted a strong player evicted, and somehow Amber fell into this category. Not knocking Amber here, she’s certainly athletic, but I don’t think she was who America wanted targeted…

Georgia minister, Jocasta Odom made it six weeks into the game by being the perpetual pawn. She would have made it further if not for the one surprise vote of the season to keep Zach in the house over her. Jocasta participated in multiple challenges in Big Brother (one involving dressing up as a pink bug), but never performed particularly well in them. At one point, she fell so ill that she could not participate in a life-saving veto challenge (fortunately Donny won it for her). She will likely be remembered as “the one that wore the bowties” if she is not remembered for the moment during one challenge in which she spoke in tongues. She probably didn’t see a ghost then, but she is in this drawing.

Surprisingly enough, Jocasta had more memorable moments than pedicab driver, Hayden Voss, whose only real contribution to the season was showmancing Nicole. He’s one of those players that probably would have been a force if he’d been allowed to get further than this, but, he wasn’t. All I really remember of Hayden is that he was a surfer dude and laid in the hammock a lot. Sorry bro!

Blonde bespectacled cutie, Nicole Franzel was evicted immediately after Hayden. The reason for this, however, was because of Christine’s decision to backdoor Nicole, which was a surprise, considering Nicole and Christine had been secretly working together all game. Christine gave a fun speech about returning daggers to their owners (I’m pretty sure “Nicole’s betrayal” was false information fed to her by Derrick), and stabbed Nicole in the back first. Prior to this, Nicole was the big winner in the costume department, and was forced to wear both a frog costume, and a German-themed outfit (complete with giant sausage). She is given a second chance in the game later on though…

Things were interesting with Zach Rance in the house. The human embodiment of a loose cannon, as a viewer, you had no idea what Zach would say or do next. So unpredictable was Zach, that he even found himself in a showmance with Frankie Grande. The boys got along so well, they were shipped as a couple and nicknamed “Zankie”. Zach swears he likes girls, but he definitely liked Frankie as well and we’ll just leave it at that. Unfortunately during this middle game, Zankie found themselves targeting each other when they should have been working together. During a specific moment in the house, both Frankie and Derrick (via Team America) frame Zach as the Saboteur of the season by hiding a bunch of the houseguest’s belonging in a garbage bag. Even more unfortunate, Frankie was the one to send Zach home. Definitely a fan favorite, Zach will probably be around again in the future…

From the minute school groundskeeper, Donny Thompson set foot in the Big Brother house, America loved him. The houseguests, however, feared him (probably the beard) and nominated him for eviction time after time—and time after time Donny surprised the houseguests by winning the veto challenge required to take himself off. Donny credited Jesus with his many veto wins and I’ve done the same in this drawing. Other than winning his way to this point though, Donny was never able to penetrate or disrupt the powerful alliance of the Detonators—he literally won his way to this point in the game, which is commendable. He was incredible at manipulating people with genuine emotion too, because he’s a genuine nice guy. Everybody who took a moment to get to know Donny found themselves in his corner, often in tears.

Nicole got to re-enter the Big Brother house before Donny’s eviction, but she wasn’t able to accomplish much. She needed to win at least one of the challenges she got to participate in, but she couldn’t pull it off. At one point Frankie makes a remark about wishing an anvil would fall on her head (the challenge was cartoon related) and that’s basically what happened. She correctly identified Derrick as the mastermind of the house (akin to previous winner Dan Gheesling, whom she’s pointing to on the wall) which is exactly why Derrick made sure she was evicted a second time this week.

Tucson barista, Christine Brecht, was pretty good at playing the sleeper game. She kinda lucked her way into the majority alliance (the Bomb Squad) early in the game and then the second sub alliance (the Detonators) and thus was kept relatively safe most of the game (the one exception being when Zach randomly nominated her and Nicole (and called Nicole a "Froot Loop Dingus"). She even had a third secret alliance with Hayden and Nicole (mostly Nicole) which could have rivaled Derrick’s had she scooped up Jocasta and Donny as well, but at the moment of truth, she threw her friend under the bus. Frankie did the same thing, which is why I’ve dressed both of them as flying monkeys in the drawing. Although Derrick was not a wicked witch, both Christine and Frankie came off in a negative light during the game, and since Derrick’s coercion was responsible for both of Christine and Frankie’s betrayals, the comparison seemed fitting. Christine was also at the center of Skittlegate—a moment in the house in which someone from the Detonator alliance needed to be nominated with Donny as a pawn and then throw the "Battle of the Block" challenge to keep him on the block. That person was decided by randomly picking Skittles out of a hat. Christine’s purple Skittle was chosen and thus she was forced to try to throw the challenge (referenced by throwing the Donny bone behind her). In addition to the Nicole and Donny betrayal, Christine also drew A LOT of heat for canoodling with Cody (even though she is married). She played with his hair and laughed at everything he said. It was significant enough that CBS took several moments throughout the season to focus on the behavior and even had a segment with her husband, Timothy. She was also zinged by proxy when it was suggested to Cody that Christine’s husband would want to fight him when he got out. Nothing they did seemed that horrible to me, but Christine was loudly booed by the studio audience when she was evicted this week.

When Frankie Grande, (mega mega pop star Ariana Grande's brother) entered the Big Brother house he was immediately a force. He won the first HOH (although Caleb maintained it) and several others after that. Skilled at the social game, Frankie was friends with everyone in the house, but he allied himself with the dominant male alliances of the Bomb Squad and the Detonators, which controlled the game the entire season. There was one hiccup for Frankie when his two closest allies, Caleb and Zach decided he was too untrustworthy to remain in the house and devised a plan to oust Frankie by throwing a BOB challenge (thus keeping him on the block). This plan SHOULD have worked, except that Frankie, in a hail Mary moment, managed to win that BOB challenge completely by himself, keeping him around for at least another week. It was at this point that he finally revealed who his celebrity sister was to the house in an effort to distract them from targeting him in future weeks. Although this strategy did not seem to directly affect his fellow house guest's opinion of him, Frankie somehow did manage to avoid being targeted again for quite some time. It wasn't until after the Big Brother rewind button had been pushed (and Frankie's HOH week negated) that Frankie's game finally came to an end. In a moment of karma, Caleb, Frankie's closest ally after Zach left, blindly evicted him instead of working with him to oust Derrick or Cody.

...which, of course, resulted in Caleb Reynolds being evicted the very next week. Caleb, whose story arc probably came the most full-circle throughout the season, began the game as a creepy stalker, unable to decipher Amber's clear signals that she was not interested in being his girlfriend. Condemned by the internet before the game even began for some potentially racist and homophobic comments, by the time he was evicted, he had become the lovable goof, performing "Judee Chops" and martial arts moves whenever the camera was focused on him. Calling himself "Beastmode Cowboy", Caleb performed well in the challenges, and won several of them--even a mental challenge! His loyalty and trustworthiness made him an excellent ally and his antics made him excellent TV. At one point during the season, Caleb and Victoria were paired up for a BOB challenge and won, but in the process they also took on certain punishments, specifically, that one of them shave their head, and that they both don "Adam and Eve" costumes and be chained to each other for 24 hours. This moment is referenced in the drawing.

I hate that I must give Victoria Rafaeli more than a sentence of description because the fact that she took 3rd place this season is frankly, infuriating. For 3 straight months Victoria did absolutely nothing in the game to save herself and completely floated through thanks to Derrick, who smartly attempted to protect her and bring her to the end for an easy win. She cried all summer, didn't win a single challenge, never had a strategic conversation, and the fact that she at one point refers to Derrick as "the Robin to her Batman" is perhaps the most laughable comment I've heard any Big Brother contestant make to date. Seriously. Victoria sucks. And I'm tired of the Victorias and the Portias and Jenn City's of the Big Brother world doing so well in this game. The one vaguely memorable thing that Victoria did was cut up the pink hat that Zach wore most of the summer.

Sexy stud muffin (and Zac Efron fan), Cody Califiore was not the person I expected to make the Final 2 when the game began. Athletic and charming, in past seasons he'd have been targeted early, but with the help of his Bomb Squad/Detonator allies, as well as a tight friendship with Derrick, formed early in the season, Cody was able to avoid the block nearly the entire game. Skilled at the social game, Cody had Christine in the palm of his hand, had tight connections with Caleb and seemed to be aware of the absurdity of certain situations (i.e. Skittlegate). The one thing Cody was not aware of, was just how skillfully Derrick was setting up his own game for the win, as Cody consistently did his dirty work for him. Still, Cody played a very solid game and definitely earned his place in the final 2, and since he evicted Victoria, he gets extra points in my book. Like Nicole, Cody also got to enjoy a costume, suiting up as a dinosaur for two solid weeks thanks to the Big Brother Rewind button. Additionally, we discovered that Cody is terrified of rats, thanks to a Team America challenge in which they convinced the house to stay up all night trying to catch a rat that wasn't there.

At the end of the day, Derrick Levasseur, an undercover cop from Providence Rhode Island, won the season by perfectly manipulating every official (and unofficial) house guest along the way. Derrick was able to do this by convincing everyone that his ideas were their own and so nobody (except Nicole) ever saw him as the master manipulator (and puppet master) he was. The longest season of Big Brother ever, full of twists, turns, and a marriage proposal, the fact that Derrick managed to avoid being nominated THE ENTIRE GAME is pretty incredible and he handily won over the jury who was equally impressed.

Congratulations Derrick as you take your place among the Big Brother greats of seasons past. Holla!


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Basically big brother  in one picture. i like it :happybounce: