History YMMV / BigBrother

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Season 2 (US) brings us Kent, who is ''clearly'' homophobic, even saying in the diary room (early on) that he thinks the homosexual lifestyle is sinful. He's also placed in the house with Bunky, who is openly gay. You'd expect these two to be at each other's throats, right? Well, those two actually became best friends in the house, Kent even let Bunky sleep in the head of household room with him!

** With Brendon out of the house, Rachel became less of an emotional bitch, cried less, and fan acknowledged this, so you could make a case she was rescused. However, it wasn't as much that she became more likeable, but that the other people left in the house aside from Jordan were disliked even more.

* 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 from season 13, the recent Double eviction in which two powerful players (Daniele and Jeff) were evicted, Jeff by [[LaserGuidedKarma players he had targeted and accused of being "Floaters" who did nothing to stay in the game]] claiming that this is the worst season ever. Others were praising the three on their insight to take out the ''number one target'' over someone they all ''hated'' (Rachel). Others were also praising that Jeff was gone because he TookALevelInJerkass.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny:

** YourMileageMayVary, but Nikki's {{Wangst}} in 2006 was either a CrowningMomentOfFunny, or the MostAnnoyingSound.
*** Big Brother once asked Nikki to sit in the diary room in silence for talking about the outside world. Nikki, in her usual fashion, threw a tantrum about it while Big Brother kept saying "Silence, Nikki" and "Nikki, is that silence?" Eventually, the announcer said that she was in the diary room for about 20 minutes, and was silent for only ''6'' minutes.

* BaseBreaker: During Season 8 of the U.S version, both Jen and Evel Dick were simultaneously loved and hated by the fan base.
** Brendon and Rachel are either loved, or seen as [[CreatorsPet Creator's Pets]].
*** Brendon's return caused quite a bit of people on the fan forums to just RageQuit in disgust. Even people who sat through [[DorkAge Big Brother 9]], considered the worst season, and Big Brother 12, considered another of the worst.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The first season of the British show was rather boring with nobody giving a damn, right up until the moment that one of the contestants was caught cheating. The subsequent grilling by the other contestants was declared up among the greatest TV moments ever, and every series since has been an increasingly pathetic (and spectacularly unsuccessful) attempt to recreate such glory.
** Season eight of the US version, when Evel Dick ([[XtremeKoolLetterz yes, that's how it's spelled]]) banged pots and pans at two in the morning in the other house guests' rooms ''so he would go home instead of his daughter''. [[spoiler:Despite this, he went on to win, with Daniele getting second place.]]
** Season 11 US: The dumb blonde Jordan goes up to the MMA bully Russell, gets in his face and yells, "SHUT UP RUSSELL! I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I SWEAR I WILL BEAT YOU UP!" Did I mention she's yelling at a MMA fighter?
** Regardless of what you think about Kaysar Ridha and his game playing skills, his first HOH win during season six was perhaps the biggest CMOA the show has ever seen. Not only did he get his biggest competition out of the house, Eric "Cappy" Littman, who had eliminated Kaysar's friend Michael the previous week through exploiting the false rumor that he was a sexual predator, Kaysar also coerced two of Cappy's fair weather allies James and Sarah into joining Kaysar's new alliance(dubbed, "The Sovereign Six", as opposed to the cult like "Friendship" alliance that Cappy was the leader of). Not only that, but he set up his nominations in a way that made it impossible for James to ever appear trustworthy to the other players if he didn't comply to Kaysar's demands. Finally, he verbally owned Cappy's secret partner, Maggie, with the following exchange:
-->'''Maggie''': "You sealed my fate."
-->'''Kaysar''': "No, I sealed your partner's fate."
*** But, Maggie ends up winning the next HoH, eliminates Kaysar (TWICE), wipes out his Alliance, then wins the Game. He should've eliminated her & kept the hot headded "Cappy" around.
*** That argument only works in hindsight, since Kaysar had no way of knowing how badly Howie would screw up the nominations in Week 5. Also, Maggie didn't come into her own as a cult leader until after Cappy left. When he was around, he pretty much filled the role as leader of the Nerd Herd, and was also a bigger challenge threat than Maggie.
** 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, [[CampGay Ragan's]] TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[TheScrappy Rachel]], in the recent season.
*** Ragan is the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

-->'''April''': "I swear, I didn't do that on purpose!!" (To the ConfessionCam) "Really, I totally did that on purpose."

-->'''Sharon''': "I feed them before I feed myself in the morning! I love my little furrr-ieeends!
-->'''Guinea Pigs''' (Subtitled: "Sharon should go up on the block this week!" "Yeah! She's crazy!"

*** Big Brother once asked Nikki to sit in the diary room in silence for talking about the outside world. Nikki, in her usual fashion, threw a tantrum about it, while big brother kept saying, "Silence Nikki" and "Nikki, is that silence?" Eventually, the announcer said that she was in the diary room for about 20 minutes, and was silent for only ''6'' minutes.
** Automated Big Brother in 2006. Pete had ''way'' too much fun playing with it (and it once "Evicted" him!), and it even broke!
** Jeff upon recieving the Coup d'état Power: "Coo...Coop deh taht?"
** "Flood Night" in the recent season.
** Also from the Season 12, 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”.
** Jen's breakdown in Season 8 (US) : "I shall now perform....eating."

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

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Season 2 (US) brings us Kent, who is ''clearly'' homophobic, even saying in the diary room (Early on) that he thinks the homosexual lifestyle is sinful. He's also placed in the house with Bunky, who is openly gay. You'd expect these two to be at eachother's throats, right? Well, those two actually became best friends in the house, Kent even let Bunky sleep in the head of household room with him!

** The editors pick their favourites from all the players and decide to show them off to the audience. The problem is; they assume ''we'll'' like them too, or that we'll LoveToHate them. But we just hate them - making them [[CreatorsPet Creator's Pets]]. Given that producers in the American version have the power to slant the show and make ManipulativeEditing work in their favour, their favourites become even more obvious, and sometimes even though we loved them, we begin to hate them due to [[SpotlightStealingSquad overexposure]].
** Brendon and Rachel because [[SpotlightStealingSquad they take up 50% of the screentime]] and were ''already'' highly dislikable from season 12, then returned for season 13 having learned almost nothing. Jeff and Jordan are coming into this due to [[SpotlightStealingSquad similar overexposure]], and in Jeff's case, [[TookALevelInJerkass taking a level in jerkass]].

** Camilla from Season 6 in Australia- she was up for eviction ten out of thirteen possible times. She survived all of them and ended up taking second.
* EntitledBastard: There's at least one in every season, but perhaps the loudest example was Rachel. Sociopathically pushing her way through the game, throwing around insults and DisproportionateRetribution, then wonders why people hate her.
* FanDumb: Fans of Jeff Schroeder were not pleased that Shelly had turned the tables around on him and was the driving force to his eviction. So much, they [[http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/28/big-brother-shelly-moore-death-threats-jeff-schroeder-daughter-phone-calls-kill-fbi-cbs/#.TlqP9jtnIy4 sent death threats to Shelly's family]]. The show's producer even said "What the hell fans?".
* GameBreaker: The Coup de Tat allowed the holder to take off the nominees and put up their own. The first time this was put into the game, the specter of it made people afraid to nominate their own way. The second time, it ''completely'' turned the game around.

** It's probably the only reality show that actually works in the country. ''No Limite''(a TheSurvivor knock-off) hardly managed to get three seasons in 10 years.
* HateDumb: Towards Shelly Moore. After she betrayed Jeff and Jordan and realized she had no chance of winning with those two in the house, she promptly dropped to the lowest rated houseguest ever. People begun making hate sites about her, and saying that her daughter should be taken away or raped and killed. Note that at the time, her daughter was ''eight years old''. Say what you will about Moore, but wishing that on an eight year old girl (whose only "crime" was ''being the daughter of someone you don't like'') is probably as close to Complete Monster as you can get.

* HypocriticalFandom: If someone lies, backstabs, flips, and whatever, they get derided by the fanbase, especially if they backstab a fan favourite. If someone gets far by making people think they're worthless and can beat them easily, they are called a "floater" and are told they're terrible at the game. Dr. Will did ''both'', not winning a single competition in both his time in ''BigBrother'' and is still considered the best person to have played the game.
** One can also see DoubleStandard in this as people are much more likely to forgive players like Dr. Will and Jeff because they are EstrogenBrigadeBait.
* JerkassWoobie:

** Shahbaz in the UK. Despite throwing out all the food, he did so as retribution to the house for alienating him and doing stuff like tying the door shut and locking him in the backyard.
** Evel Dick in the American version. The dude's gameplay revolved around him being a JerkAss and ''abusing'' his houseguests and becoming an UnpopularPopularCharacter. However; he also was shown trying to get closer to his estranged daughter, and several times she just fights with him and tells him to leave her alone. After one of these fights, you can see him looking into space looking hurt.
*** Early on, people were a little more sympathetic towards Daniele. However, later on, people seemed to be a little more sympathetic towards ''Dick'' after seeing how often Daniele would get worked up over little things and just turn him away when all Dick wanted to do was try to improve his relationship with her.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Apparently a popular tactic in the U.S. 12th season. Amongst the house-guests are a doctor, a college professor, a physicist, and a chemist, all of whom neglecting to mention this fact to the others.

*** Ragan said he "taught part-time". He only came clean about being ''Dr.'' Ragan Fox and teaching full-time after being evicted.

*** Well; in actuality, she was a student. As for the...rather unusual side job to put money in her pocket, she lived in ''Las Vegas'' where that's an option as a part-time job and [[YourMileageMayVary depending on WHERE you work]]. not a bad one despite that people look at you oddly for doing something like working for a Ph.D in literature while serving drinks in a Casino.
** Actually, in social game shows it's been proven to be a popular tactic ''period''. A good part of the strategy is tryign to operate in a way that doesn't make you look lazy but makes others think they can beat you.
* PanderingToTheBase: Season 13 of the american version, which featured the unnecessary return of six fan favourites (two of them being [[CreatorsPet Creator's Pets]]) with ''obvious'' slantings and bailouts when things weren't going their way. The live feeds would be almost perpetually turned towards them, and the edited shows would be about 90% Brendon&Rachel or Jeff&Jordan, leaving the audience saying, "Who?" when the first four people were evicted.

** Daniele in US Season ''13''. In ''8'', she was good at Veto and HOH 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. (Which was part of what made 12 considered a poor season.) Her dad doesn't entirely approve; mostly because she made her moves too early.

** Nikki in ''Ultimate Big Brother''. Although YourMileageMayVary, some still hated her, some thought she was just as good in ''2006'', but others thought she was a much less annoying player.

* 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. Ironically, Natalie's nickname was even "Scrappy"!

*** And in Season 13, she becomes a CreatorsPet since you combine the Hypocrisy, {{Wangst}}, and Diva behaviour with being the producers' pet, giving her the lion's share of screentime ''and'' getting safeguards to keep her in the game.
*** However, even some of her haters admit she behaved better once Brendon was evicted and she wasn't making a scene every other day.
** 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 she is a hardcore {{Hypocrite}} with a self-righteous attitude towards it all, and she apparently has 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. Part of the reason are DefensiveFans for Jeff and Jordan, someone on a fansite even said that had Shelly done this to two other scrappies like Natalie (BB11) or Lydia, nobody would be raising a fuss, and certainly wouldn't be sending death threats to her family.
** The same of Rachel 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, Dennis, Jennifer, Luke and Rebecca. 10. Karly, Lisa, Kris, Kenneth and Bea. 11. Shabby, John James, Nathan, Caiomhe, Ife. 12. Rebeckah, Aden, Anton, Jay

* ScrappyLevel: A couple challenges had a SpecialEffectFailure or two. From the American and Brazilian 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.
* SeasonalRot: Accusations of this have been made by the US fans following season 12, which was filled with floaters and long, boring moments.

** 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've 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.
** Season 13 is considered better than 12 so far, but it's one of the most poorly edited seasons due to the Brenchel-centric editing during the first few. Then the ''obvious'' safety ropes in the form of Pandora's Box and repeating competitions from ''even the first season'' so that Rachel and Jordan would win. Several people actually RageQuit the season.

** 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). (Zig-zagged with Bunky; who had a reputation for crying a lot but his crying was more happy crying.)
* 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.
** 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 a majority. To be fair, Lawon ''asked'' to be voted out and there was no way for them to have known it'd be a challenge. And also to be fair, exchanging Rachel for Brendon would have been a better hoice.
** Marcellas is the earliest and most ''famous'' example of this trope. In Big Brother 3, the power of veto could not be used on oneself, however at the end, it became the ''Golden'' power of Veto which ''could'' be used on yourself. Marcellas is nominated, wins the veto, but ''does not use it'' and is then evicted. When Julie Chen interviewed him, she even bonked him on the head with a piece of paper and said, "What were you thinking?"

** Anyone who ''volunteers'' to go up on the block and be evicted. Lawon and Dustin come to mind.
* WhatMeasureIsANonBadass: Anyone deemed "undeserving" or simply didn't play the kind of game that people didn't like them. Typically, if you wind up taken over someone or actually have someone backstab their alliance in order to take you further, then you've certainly done ''something'' right. Nicole expected this to be pulled on Dr. Will in season 2.
** Kalia, Shelly, and Porsche have had this. A lot of people hate them

** Jordan, thankfully being more Woobie-ish than her partner, Jeff. Jordan remained nice, even playing devil's advocate towards Rachel, despite her partner taking a level in jerkass.
** Invoked in season 8 where Eric had to give a "Woobie" to Jessica.
* WorthyOpponent: [[StrawmanHasAPoint Jessie actually admitted this in season eleven]]. Jeff won a game changing power called Coup de tat and used it to put Jessie and Natalie on the block. Kevin had the insight to cast the deciding vote to evict Jessie as a bigger threat. Jessie even said in his interview that it was a very good move on Jeff's part and that he would vote for him if he made it to the end.

* XPacHeat: The Friendship/Nerd Herd from Season 6 were hated ''immensely'' by the fans.

* EntitledBastard: Rachel. "Oh my god, why would they go after me, I've ''never'' done anything to them." Uhm...you did.
** She's far from the only one. There's at least a few every season.
* FanDumb: Fans of Jeff Schroeder were not pleased that Shelly had turned the tables around on him and was the driving force to his eviction. So much, they [[http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/28/big-brother-shelly-moore-death-threats-jeff-schroeder-daughter-phone-calls-kill-fbi-cbs/#.TlqP9jtnIy4 sent death threats to Shelly's family]].

* HateDumb: Towards Shelly Moore. After she betrayed Jeff and Jordan and realized she had no chance of winning with those two in the house, she promptly dropped to the lowest rated houseguest ever. People even made ''hate sites'' for her and wishing for her daughter to be raped, kidnapped, and murdered. Note that at the time, her daughter was ''eight years old''.

* The Friendship/Nerd Herd from Season 6 were hated ''immensely'' by the fans.

** Brendon to Daniele. In the same season after Jeff was evicted, Rachel and Jordan said that they saw Kalia as a worthy opponent.

* 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. When Brendon was evicted, we finally got to see a couple houseguests...but alas, all good things had to come to an end because a twist and series of idiotic moves saved him. (Kalia, Adam, Porsche, and Shelly could just walk right on out of the house and the editors and viewers wouldn't even notice.)
** The veterans in ''general''. It almost seems like they ''intentionally'' cast a bunch of people who play a BoringButPractical game so they wouldn't rob the editors golden boys any screentime.

** Camilla from Season 6 in Australia- she was up for eviction ten out of thirteen possible times. She survived all of them and ended up taking second.
** Brendon in season 12 and 13. Whenever he was on the block, Brendon would win veto and take himself off, or [[ThanatosGambit take Rachel off and intentionally let himself get evicted]]. Daniele even said that Brendon was a "Zombie" Who wouldn't die in season 13.

** The editors pick their favourites from all the players and decide to show them off to the audience. The problem is; they assume ''we'll'' like them too, or that we'll LoveToHate them. But we just hate them - making them TheWesley. Given that producers in the American version have the power to slant the show and make ManipulativeEditing work in their favour, their favourites become even more obvious, and sometimes even though we loved them, we begin to hate them due to [[SpotlightStealingSquad overexposure]].

* PanderingToTheBase: Season 13 of the american version, which featured the unnecessary return of six fan favourites (two of them being [[TheWesley weslies]]) with ''obvious'' slantings and bailouts when things weren't going their way. The live feeds would be almost perpetually turned towards them, and the edited shows would be about 90% Brendon&Rachel or Jeff&Jordan, leaving the audience saying, "Who?" when the first four people were evicted.

*** And in Season 13, she becomes TheWesley since you combine the Hypocrisy, {{Wangst}}, and Diva behaviour with being the producers' pet, giving her the lion's share of screentime ''and'' getting safeguards to keep her in the game.

* TheWesley: The editors pick their favourites from all the players and decide to show them off to the audience. The problem is; they assume ''we'll'' like them too, or that we'll LoveToHate them. But we just hate them - making them TheWesley. Given that producers in the American version have the power to slant the show and make ManipulativeEditing work in their favour, their favourites become even more obvious, and sometimes even though we loved them, we begin to hate them due to [[SpotlightStealingSquad overexposure]].
** Brendon and Rachel because [[SpotlightStealingSquad they take up 50% of the screentime]] and were ''already'' highly dislikable from season 12, then returned for season 13 having learned almost nothing. Jeff and Jordan are coming into this due to [[SpotlightStealingSquad similar overexposure]], and in Jeff's case, [[TookALevelInJerkass taking a level in jerkass]].
** Jessie seems to be hated all over the Internet, yet, he has now made an appearance during four consecutive seasons. He's been used as a punishment from Pandora's Box during the last two.

** Brendon and Rachel are either loved, or seen as TheWesley.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5AhAsKyrvA This]] footage of [[OddCouple Marcellus and Howie]] at Loser's Lodge during Big Brother All Stars(Starts at 3:23).

** With Brendon out of the house, Rachel has become less of an emotional bitch and fans appear to be acknowledging this, so rescue may be imminent. However, it isn't so much that she's become more likeable and hasn't cried every other day, but that the other people left in the house aside from Jordan are disliked even more. Especially with the huge bias against the newbies by veterans fans, and Jeff&Jordan FanDumb.

* MoralityPet: Evel Dick again, with Danielle. 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.

** The same of Rachel 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.

* ShillingTheWesley: In the form of ManipulativeEditing, making Shelly look like she spent the whole week sitting around whereas Rachel was the one doing all the work. See ManipulativeEditing.

** 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 a majority.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Uh oh, our Ratings Machines are in trouble. Quick, set up safeguards for them in the form of competitions they've already done and pandora's box!

** Surprisingly averted with Jordan - despite literally being ''carried'' in ''both'' seasons she's on, everyone claims that she is a better competitor for having won a luxury competition and only one head of household, to Kalia's two head of households, Porsche's one head of household and one veto (As well as how many competitions she finished in the top three with), and Adam's two vetoes.
* 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 and can only vote ten times.

** 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. (Which was part of what made 12 considered a poor season.) Her dad doesn't entirely approve; mostly because she made her moves too early.

** With Brendon out of the house, Rachel has become less of an emotional bitch and fans appear to be acknowledging this, so rescue may be imminent. However, it isn't so much that she's become more likeable, but that the other people left in the house aside from Jordon are disliked even more.

** 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 she is a hardcore {{Hypocrite}} with a self-righteous attitude towards it all, and she apparently has 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.

** Brendon and Rachel because [[SpotlightStealingSquad they take up 50% of the screentime]] and were ''already'' highly dislikable from season 12, then returned for season 13 having learned almost nothing. Jeff and Jordan are coming into this due to [[SpotlightStealingSquad similar overexposure]], and in Jeff's case, [[TookALevelInJerkass taking a level in jerkass]].

** Season 13 is considered better than 12 so far, but it's one of the most poorly edited seasons. See SpotlightStealingSquad. Of course, a lot of people claimed that the season was the worst ever due to the other side winning and making the smart decision by eliminating their biggest threat. (Jeff.)

* HateDumb: Towards Shelly Moore. After she betrayed Jeff and Jordan and realized she had no chance of winning with those two in the house, she promptly dropped to the lowest rated houseguest ever. People even made ''hate sites'' for her and [[MoralEventHorizon wishing for her daughter to be raped, kidnapped, and murdered]]. Note that at the time, her daughter was ''eight years old''.

* MoralEventHorizon: UK version: After being a public laughing stock but then subsequently becoming very popular, Jade Goody's career was ''destroyed'' when she (along with others) engaged in racist bullying towards eventual winner Shilpa Shetty on ''Celebrity Big Brother''. (Averted by most people when [[IllGirl Goody developed cancer]] and [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead subsequently lost her battle with it]].)
** Evel Dick's systematic abuse of Jen in [=BB8=]. Not only was he verbally abusive in the normal fashion (trash talk), he also blew smoke in her face, poured juice on her head and made slanderous attacks against her to the point she cried.
** 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, and [[http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/28/big-brother-shelly-moore-death-threats-jeff-schroeder-daughter-phone-calls-kill-fbi-cbs/#.TlqP9jtnIy4 sending death threats to her family.]]

**** In retrospect, some UK fans cite season 4 as the point of decline because of its boring cast and the subsequent change in casting towards more ridiculous housemates that viewers could not empathize with.