History YMMV / BigBrother

* LawfulGood: Rodrigo from the 2009 UK series.

** The FanDumb and HateDumb towards houseguest Shelly Moore. After Shelly betrayed Jeff and Jordan (everybody's favourite houseguests) to get herself further in the game, fans of the show begun to make hate sites for her and some even wishing her ''eight year old daughter'' to be kidnapped, raped, or killed.

* MoralityPet: Evel Dick again. As you probably figured out from the above, he was ''not'' an easy guy to be around. What kept him from being entirely unlikeable is that he really did care about his daughter and wanted to get closer to her.

** Also in Season 13, Shelly, who has been a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]] by lying, making deals, backstabbing and acting as a double agent to...well, pretty much everyone. Of course, this is part of the game--what sets Shelly apart is her self-righteous attitude towards it all, and her established zero tolerance for lying from her daughter, who in an interview with the family said she thinks her mom is telling too many lies and has to pick a side. Also not in her favor is that besides her manipulations and lies she's done very little herself, and her seeming being an [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bitch]] to Jeff and Jordan, voting to evict Jeff despite the two of them being her closest friends and allies, and Jordan in a past competition giving her a phone call from home so she could talk to her daughter.

** The same could be said about the UK version (1. Nick. 2. Narinder. 3. Adele and Jade. 4. The only exception because they were [[GoodIsBoring all too nice]]. 5. Michelle, Victor and Jason. 6. Pretty much all of them except Eugene. 7. Grace, Sezer, Aisleyne, Nikki and Spiral. 8. Charley, Chanelle, Carole and Ziggy. 9. Alexandra, Jennifer, Luke and Rebecca. 10. Karly, Lisa, Kris, Kenneth and Bea.

** Brendon to Daniele.

* ScrappyLevel: A couple challenges had a SpecialEffectFailure or two. From the American and British version, the hot dog/soda challenge. What they had to do was split the houseguests into two teams and had to climb onto the punching bag shaped like a hot dog or bottle of soda and then ride it to the other side while the teams had to operate a pulley to get it from one side to the next.[[hottip:*:There were pullies on both sides when it was reduced to one]] The challenge encouraged teamwork, but at the same time was slanted towards taller people because you would slip and fall right on off of the punching bag.

** Season 13 is considered better than 12 so far, but it's one of the most poorly edited seasons. See SpotlightStealingSquad.

** Brendon&Rachel and more recently Jeff&Jordan (But Jeff moreso) have shown themselves to be ''incredibly'' intolerant towards other peoples' gameplay, especially trying ''not'' to make yourself be perceived as a threat to others. Typically; what gets you further in the house is making the other houseguests think they ''can'' beat you - And winning competitions is typically a good way to make houseguests think they ''can't'' beat you. One almost wonders if they'd accuse Will and Mike "Boogie" Malin of having poor gameplay and say they are terrible players, since Will's entire strategy was making people underestimate him and target somebody else. (Boogie even lampshaded this in ''All Stars'' when he immediately dropped out of an endurance competition saying they had to take him, even comparing himself to [[{{Survivor}} Richard Hatch]] in the process.)

*** Plus his nearly sociopathic behavior to Kalia, which actually worked in intimidating her into saving Rachel.
**** Not only did his own alliance consider backdooring him for simply being likable, Kalia wanted to throw him away should Rachel win the veto. If anything, his anger is at least understandable.

** From the american series, Amber would cry over just about ''anything''. In Season 13, Rachel comes pretty close to Amber in terms of constantly throwing pity parties and crying, while Brendon would just try to calm her down. Other criers from the American series include Daniele (8), Shelia (9), April (6), Chima and Lydia (11), and Ragan (12).

** Rachel in the American Version, depending on your interpretation. Sometimes you might want to hug her and tell her it will be okay, but other times you want to tell her to shut up. Especially after Daniele was put on slop and she started to follow her around eating chocolate.

** Rachel in the American Version, depending on your interpretation. Sometimes you might want to hug her and tell her it will be okay, but other times you want to tell her to shut up.

-->'''Porche:''' "I'm throwing the Veto competition and Keith has no idea." \\
'''Keith:''' "I'm throwing the Veto and Porche has no idea."

* EliminationHoudini: Sharon and Natalie in Seasons 9 and 11 (US), Paul and Freddie/Halfwit in ''2009'' (UK).

* EntitledBastard: Rachel. "Oh my god, why would they go after me, I've ''never'' done anything to them." Uhm...you did.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Jeff was really nice in BB11 and was rarely angry, although he would make homophobic comments sometimes. In BB13, he's starting to look like he's doing this, if his homophobic comments in week one were any indication. (Course, not that [[NoodleIncident we've ever seen these.]])

*** Plus his nerly socipathic behavior to Kahlia, which actually worked in intimidating her into saving Rachel.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: For the edited episodes of Season 13, 50% of the screentime was spent showing Brendon and Rachel. 40% was spent showing Jeff and Jordan. 5% was spent showing us Daniele and Dominic. The other 5% was divvied up amongst the remaining seven houseguests, with Porsche and Lawon hit hardest. (Dick technically doesn't count seeing as he walked within the first week.) Once Dominic was evicted, Kalia joined Daniele in gaining 5% of the screentime, and with Brendon evicted, we may finally get to know the new cast who the producers have so far forgotten.

** The newbies had a golden opportunity to vote out Rachel, instead, Kalia decided to TRUST Rachel & Jeff, even though Rachel said 'to her FACE' that she'd target Danielle, followed by Lawon asking to be evicted, thinking he could beat whoever came back. "Win-nothing" Lawon, against either Dominic or Brendon, allowing the veterans to retake the house.

*** The newbies had a golden opportunity to vote out Rachel, instead, Kalia decided to TRUST Rachel & Jeff, even though Rachel said 'to her FACE' that she'd target Danielle, followed by Lawon asking to be evicted, thinking he could beat whoever came back. "Win-nothing" Lawon, against either Dominic or Brandon, who've actually WON challenges! The Veteran Alliance has retaken the house!

** From Big Brother Australia, Merlin's eviction: as Merlin walked along the eviction runway, he stuck black tape over his mouth and held up a sign he had hidden in his clothes from the start of the season saying “FREE TH REFUGEES” (the letter E had fallen off). He ignored host Gretel Killeen, sat down on the couch, and refused to speak to her for the remainder of the half-hour live show, somewhat screwing the live eviction audience and live broadcast.

** Travis from Big Brother Australia 2007 had a chance to win a trip to Bolivia after winning a Friday Night Live touranment. Instead of reading “Bolivia”, he read “Bolvia”.

** From Big Brother Australia, Merlin's eviction: as Merlin walked along the eviction runway, he stuck black tape over his mouth and held up a sign he had hidden in his clothes from the start of the season saying “FREE TH REFUGEES” (the letter E had fallen off). He ignored host Gretel Killeen, sat down on the couch, and refused to speak to her for the remainder of the half-hour live show, somewhat screwing the live eviction audience and live broadcast.

** Also from the recent season, Enzo's 'space adventure'.

** Travis from Big Brother Australia 2007 had a chance to win a trip to Bolivia after winning a Friday Night Live touranment. Instead of reading “Bolivia”, he read “Bolvia”.

** Season 12, now, has Rachel. Her uber-diva behavior quickly becomes grating, particularly with her voice. He manages to stay in because she's in a "showmance" with Brendon, so whatever HOH or POV she misses, he seems to get. Her housemates found her just as grating, and she was evicted after making enemies left, right and center.

** Season 12 (Along with 2 and 10) is perhaps one of the best ways to demonstrate what the US BigBrother is actually like; the producers didn't really try to slant the season that much and they didn't show off that many twists that affected the game (Sans the Diamond Power of Veto, which was a small-scale coup'de'tat[[hottip:*:The Coup'de'tat was a power that allowed a person to remove the nominees and replace them with their own nominees. When used in season 7, the specter of it basically meant it wasn't used, and when it was used in 11, it completely flipped the game around. In contrast, the Diamond Power of Veto was just removing one nominee and replacing it with your own.]]) because the Saboteur twist ended early and failed big time when it was tried again beyond just annoying the houseguests. (Although it ''did'' screw over Kathy) However most people were rather...dull game players because they were booksmart and not really streetsmart. The Brigade shows a BoringButPractical strategy. There were also a couple players who, if they were in another season, probably would have controlled the house but wound up on the wrong side of a four (later three) man alliance or didn't play too long. Heck, Ragan could controlled the game; his main shortcoming was that he spent too long hiding behind house drama and didn't start playing hard until it was too late when the alliances were tighter.

* WhatAnIdiot: Brendon in season 13. The reason they were evicted in their original season is their Russel Hantz-like social game where they made enemies of just about everyone in the house and being good in competitions put targets on their backs the size of Alaska. Instead of cleaning up their act this time however, they act pretty much the same way they did last year, just allied with Jeff and Jordan this time upon finding they had common ground. After Daniele flipped on their initial alliance, Brendon told her that if he or Rachel makes it to the finals they will win, which is the ''exact opposite'' type of thinking you want to encourage--if you want someone to keep you in the house, you want them to think you ''aren't'' a threat to them and won't beat them if you make it to the end with them. See also RealityShowGenreBlindness.

*** And in Season 13, she becomes TheWesley since you combine the Hypocrisy, {{Wangst}}, and Diva behaviour with being the producers' pet.

* WhatAnIdiot: Brendon in season 13. The reason they were evicted in their original season is their Russel Hantz-like social game where they made enemies of everyone in the house. Instead of cleaning up their act this time however, they act pretty much the same way they did last year, just allied with Jeff and Jordan this time upon finding they had common ground. After Daniele flipped on their initial alliance, Brendon told her that if he or Rachel makes it to the finals they will win, which is the ''exact opposite'' type of thinking you want to encourage--if you want someone to keep you in the house, you want them to think you ''aren't'' a threat to them and won't beat them if you make it to the end with them. See also RealityShowGenreBlindness.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Thanks to people making ''huge'' efforts to slant the game in their favour in the first season, they put in limitations on how the audience can effect the game. In particular, people have botted the site so that Ronnie and later Jeff or Jordan would get the Coup de'Tat in season 11. CBS put in restrictions on how many votes can go, and then later on randomized the positions on the site so that if you clicked the same place twice, you wouldn't click on the same houseguest you clicked on previously. In the recent America's Vote, you have to have an account with the site.

** Daniele in US Season ''13''. In ''8'', she was good at veto competitions but otherwise got on peoples's nerves with her {{Wangst}} and inability to make any moves that her dad didn't tell her to do, as well as thoughts that because she and her dad were ratings, was having rules slanted towards them. In season ''13'', she begun to put herself in a great spot, but then decided to make moves and was not afraid of the consequences of angering the dominant and most tight-knit alliance like most players in the game are.

* TheScrappy: Every season on the U.S version has had at least one person hated by the public. (1. Will Mega. 2. Justin, Shannon and Mike. 3. Josh. 4. Allison. 5. Scott, Jase. 6. Cappy, Jennifer, Ivette, April, Maggie, Beau. 7. Mike. 8. Kail, Daniele 9. Chelsia and Joshuah. 10. Jesse, Michele, APRIL. 11. Jesse (again), CHIMA (who got kicked out of the house!), Ronnie, Lydia and Natalie
** Season 12, now, has Rachel. Her uber-diva behavior quickly becoimes grating, particularly with her voice. He manages to stay in because she's in a "showmance" with Brendon, so whatever HOH or POV she misses, he seems to get. Her housemates found her just as grating, and she was evicted after making enemies left, right and center.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: In the American Big Brother 13, the veteran alliance of Brendon, Rachel, Jeff and Jordan have controlled most of the power in the house, winning the [=HoH=] and/or Veto every week so far. By contrast the eight new houseguests have largely been uninfluential, and many of them either knowingly or unknowingly have voted the way the veterans want them to. Only Dominic really stood out gameplay-wise, and he was evicted. With the veteran alliance apparently breaking up and one of the four going home soon though, it appears that this trend may be broken.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Thanks to people making ''huge'' efforts to slant the game in their favour in the first season, they put in limitations on how the audience can effect the game. In particular, people have botted the site so that Ronnie and later Jeff or Jordan would get the Coup de'Tat in season 11. CBS put in restrictions on how many votes can go, and then later on randomized the positions on the site so that if you clicked the same place twice, you wouldn't click on the same houseguest you clicked on previously.