No less a person that Sigmund Freud said “The ego is not master in its own house.” 

And as tonight’s episode proved neither is it a master of the Big Brother Canada one. Perhaps someone who studies psychology or philosophy for years would be able to write a much deeper thesis on the events that befell Graig this evening. Alas, I am of the Good Will Hunting “library card” school of knowledge so instead I say, “How do you like them apples?”

Then I’d probably do something like mouth off about the Red Sox being better than Tampa Bay because fuckin’ Florida, ya know?

But I’m getting ahead of myself once again. Tonight’s episode started off where BritBrit left off, winning Head of Household like the Boss she is and claiming in the Diary Room “I. WANT. REVENGE.”

What unfolded over the next hour was a masterpiece of deception. The majority of which ping-ponged back and forth between BritBrit & Greg Graig’s Diary Room conversations. The juxtaposition of which I assume the Production Team was high-fiving each other while cutting together. Production overall this week deserves some major kudos for coming up with unique punishments and a competition that was pretty unique. And don’t get me started on the great job the production design department is doing, give them all the CSAs!

The cuts between Greg Graig & BritBrit were so on point that I’m going to quote a bunch of them verbatim because they stand up so well on their own.

• Graig: I got a good relationship with Brittnee. Hopefully I can get in her ear and get either Johnny or Sarah out of the house this week. That’d be ideal for the Chop Shop.
• Brittnee: Canada, put on your sassy pants. My target this week is Graig… I know he’s the main reason behind getting me up on the block. The first coupld weeks Graig has used a very heavy hand to control this house. Even with the closest person in my alliance, Sarah, he was really pushing her. And he’s been treating me like he has me right under his thumb.
• Graig (flashback): I know the whole house wants Johnny out.
• Brittnee: I want to bask in the glory when I see him walking out those BB doors. To backdoor Graig I have a crazy plan with a lot of moving parts.

If it were anyone else I would definitely feel bad for them. Especially during the next part of the episode when we find out that Quarterback Zach, Wizard Chess Jordan, Stoner Sarah & Johnny Veto are all on board with backdooring Graig. None of them needed any convincing. Meanwhile Fun Bobby and Graig Greg keep spouting off that the “whole house” wants Johnny out. THE WHOLE HOUSE. This becomes a real running theme for the two of them and yet not another person seems to have a problem with Johnny. If anything they’re on his side.

Nominations time rolls around and with it the next part of Boss Brit’s plan. She’s going to put up two people who are great competitors knowing they’ll fight to get off the block and she’ll be able to put up Greg Graig. So up go Fun Bobby & Classy Kev. Boss Brit tells them both she has “bigger fish to fry” and throws some (faux) shade at Johnny Veto. Which is when JV puts on a pouty face. But it’s just for show, because he immediately sees right through her dramatics and rushes the HOH room after (still looking mopey) and she of course reveals her plan to get out Greg Graig. The two agree to play up the drama to make it really seem like her plan is to backdoor Johnny Veto.

So Boss Brit who is playing with no fear walks right up to Greg Graig to see if he’s buying what she’s selling. Which elicits the funniest “you poor dumb bastard” quote of the night.

• Graig: In my head I’m thinking what an amateur play. But I’m trying to make her comfortable. Let her know it’s going to be okay. It’s good. That we’ll get Johnny out of here.

It was at this point that it became crystal clear that Graig’s ego is so all-consuming that in his mind he is playing a completely different game that everyone else. On in which he is running the house. That the Chop Shop is dominating. One where the girls are dumb and emotional and the men need to help them out.

Then he gets a letter from home. And SOBS. I mean, SOBS. So badly that he can’t even read the letter himself and gets Stoner Sarah to do it for him. Which, again, almost made me feel bad for him. If I could push out of my head the terrible things he’s said on the live feeds, and the way he treats women, then maybe. But no.

Because let’s not forget that every pair in the HOH competition got to choose a box with either a prize or a punishment, and when he and his partner Bruno were told their prize was $1000 and a letter from home Graig did not once think of letting Papa Bruno, husband and father, get a letter. Nope. Graig said “SWEET!”

Speaking of punishments, the Production staff were quite creative. Johnny Veto had to get a pie in the face for 24 hours, Willow had to stay on a giant gear (not the flat part, the SPOKES!) for 24 hours and Ashleigh & Wizard Chess had to wear “scuba gear” for 24 hours. Biggest shocker: Jordan’s bubble butt. Less fun: when he said “I’m from Langley, wanna bang me?”

With all that out of the way we get to the Power of Veto comp: “Spoolin’ Around” that Brittnee, Bobby, Kevin, Johnny, Sarah & Zach have been picked to play in. In one of the more inventive games I’ve seen each HG was dressed like a bobbin and had to wind 3 giant spools of rope around themselves, follow a wiggly line and unspool them at the other end. It started out okay but suddenly they began to realize this was a lot of spinning in circles. Production had thought ahead and provided them with barf buckets. Which Stoner Sarah used for real and Classy Kevin used to throw the comp when he saw that Johnny had a good chance of winning.

Which of course, he did. Even if Graig on the sidelines was loudly hoping that he passed out.

The morning of the Veto ceremony arrives and all of a sudden Greg Graig thinks there’s something fishy going on. Welcome to the game, GG. It’s like when your friend is going to break up with their boyfriend and everyone knows but she hasn’t done it yet. But Boss Brit ain’t having none of his shit in the morning. He goes up to talk to her and tells her “Maybe you’re over thinking things.” And Brit lays it out for him straight. She tells him that he thinks she can’t think for herself. Instead of listening to what she’s saying he’s convinced that she has been brainwashed by Johnny Veto. Why, because a man would have to do her thinking for her? GG needs a class in feminism. I mean, other than the master class Boss Brit is serving up to him.

Graig leave the HOH room in a huff and instantly blames Johnny, calling him out in front of the whole house. I have to assume there was A LOT that didn’t make it to air. The Veto meeting is held and Johnny saves Kevin, and Boss Brit makes it clear that she’s not down with bullying and tosses Graig in the chair.

His reaction in the diary room: “Brittnee, you’re dad to me. Watch out I’m gonna rally the votes and save myself this week and then I’m coming after you.”

Meanwhile in “oh shit” realizations we see Fun Bobby say “I have to find a way to distance myself from Graig.”

Yes, Bobby. Yes you do. That goes double for you Papa Bruno. Consider this your wake up call.