I know I am delving into the murky past but...I liked Brian. He seemed normal enough: an Air Force brat, perhaps a bit too cocky and arrogant for his britches. But a nice guy nonetheless. No bulging machine-fed muscles or pink hair or tattoos or jingling body trinkets. Just a normal guy. A Brian. A nice future game show host.

By David W. Taylor (Email The Author)
Reality Reel Media
08.11.08

You'd think Jerry — our scrappy 75-year-old uber-proud Marine — would have seen to it — as his duty! — to save the tail section of this fellow military traveler. I think that that would be just a dumb 'ol assumption. A no brainer.

But in the Big Brother world even this camaraderie is subject to paranoid, self-serving whims. Like saving your own butt, no matter what. Whoosh!...The Marine torpedoed the Flyboy.

Soon thereafter, hilariously, Jerry (this big, tough guy) praised the "ladies" in the House. They were his angels. They supposedly saved his rear from the duplicitous Brian. Semper Fi!

My initial gamebook on Jerry was: Who wouldn't want to root for this gutsy relic? But Jerry's annoying penchant of droning on from his sophomoric Big Brother playbook leaves me cold. When he opens his mouth he sounds half-cocked. You know, people, this is how it's done on Big Brother. I know. I've watched the show from the beginning... He sounds and appears like a Big Brother know-it-all. Or like he's reading his ramblings off a teleprompter.

He was a Marine, what?, in a war that was fought fifty years ago? Jerry, lose the grunt hat and the t-shirts...wearing them now just makes you look silly; like you're hanging onto a past glory because you've found nothing else in your life to supplant your long-ago heroics.

And then he takes the Marine garb off when he thinks he's running afoul of his leatherneck ethics in a game show. So without his Marine cap on Jerry comes off his high horse and admits then that he is subject to the same human failings that the rest of us wrestle with? Good God, what the hell is that all about?

Jerry repeatedly explained to people that his decision to place Renny and Jessie into nomination was to put the outcome of their relatively minor, anti-climatic spat (over Jessie losing sleep because of Renny's late night squawks) in the House's collective lap. As fights go it barely rated on the Big Brother brawl-o-meter. The squabble sounded more like a dreary conversation.

Compared to Jerry's raspy-throated screams at Libra and his personal digs at Memphis, Jessie and Jenny's fight was a limp noodle.

How does Jerry get-off calling Memphis a womanizer? And how does this dude get-off not being able to hobble around the House without his Marine costume on? And how does this bozo get so emotionally wound-up in a freaking GAME SHOW (much less a war!) as to ravage someone's faith and religion based on how they play the Big Brother game?

And did you see Jerry listen to Memphis ranting about Libra and then he snuck back into the ladies room and told them about Memphis' ribbing? Like he was six-years-old...