Category: Daily shows 2012

Stacey and Zoe are giving Delilah a bath. She is quite placid but wets the girls repeatedly when shaking. After her bath Delilah immediate starts rolling in the grass.

That evening, Layla is talking about girls in England – down south in Essex they are all fake but up north they’re all laid back and Layla’s friends are ridiculous. Sam asks “can I kiss them?”. Layla says “um, ok”. Angie explains that now him and Layla are macking on each other he’s not allowed to kiss her friends anymore. Sam says they have a different sort of relationship. Layla reluctantly says “yeah”. Sam suggests she come out with his friends and she would think differently. Layla feels weird and leaves, saying “call me” to Sam, who falls of his chair.

Once Layla is gone Angie tells him “that was such a bad move, that is something she did not want to hear” Sam then says “that was a test to see how she’d react”. Layla has gone to the diary room where she explains she’s “in a pee’ed off mood. Sam is a tit! What does he think I am to even say that sort of comment? He must think so little of me. I always make a joke of kissing all these frogs and that’s all I’ll ever do. I’ll be the old grey woman with long hair kissing all these frogs”.

She wonders how she’s going to tell him in front of everyone that she doesn’t want to sleep in the same bed as him tonight. Big Brother asks “where do you want to sleep?” and she replies “back with Stacey in my own bed where I’m safe”.

Michael is wearing Angie’s Rolling Stones t-shirt and is dancing for the housemates. Stacey suggests he dances like chicken.

Zoe is in the diary room saying she’s feeling obsessed about Michael. She would never like a guy like that on the outside “the fact that I can’t have him, makes me want him”. “I will see him and eyes are straight on him and I watch him go past and I’ll say love you”. But he’ll walk on by.

Later on Angie asks Bradley how he’s feeling. Bradley is giving very short answers and he seems very melancholy. He says “I’d hate to go home and feel it’s been a terrible week”. However he doesn’t know what will make him feel better “something from home or the Dark Knight (movie)”.

Afterwards Michael tells Ben he’s concerned about Bradley. Ben says they can’t talk about nominations but they can acknowledge there’s a 19 year old boy in the house who has collected a lot of nomination points based on a generation gap and that’s unfair”.

Later (the footage keeps cutting), Ben has talks to Sam about how he feels they don’t know each other much and wonders if Ben has been lazy in getting better or what. Sam says he thinks that he’s maybe putting up a bit of a wall and he does that, and he thinks that’s why he’s never fallen in love. He’s scared of being thrown back at him.

Layla and Zoe are inside talking about the same thing. Zoe comments that Sam came into the house not looking for anything, but Layla is looking for a fairy tale. They both joke about how they over-analyse things like text messages when it comes to guy and have a big laugh.

Sam continues with Ben that they haven’t bonded very much in the house, along with Estelle, Stacey and Michael. Ben say they’re his closest friends – Stacey wants to be more fit so if you helped her out she’d appreciate it, Michael is up for nomination so ask him how he’s feeling. Afterwards Sam says “I really needed that chat” (while pumping iron) “I really hope I don’t go this week, I’ve still got a lot to learn”.

Later on Stacey asks Ben how he went with chatting to Sam. Ben says “yeah he’s boring as bat shit, just kidding he’s lovely”. In the kitchen Ben relays the chat he had with Sam to Michael, Stacey and Josh. Ben says he’s happy with his little group and Stacey agrees. The whole group agrees there is an element of “oh I have to get along with everyone”, especially with Sam because he’s an intruder.

Michael has been called to the naughty corner again for repeatedly swearing. Inside he finds a canvas which he must paint one colour then watch the paint dry, and not look at anything else. Michael paints the canvas like a crazy abstract artist. He then paints his face all blue and makes jokes. While watching the paint dry, Stacey tries to distract him by pushing her buttocks up against the naughty corner glass wall.

Zoe has come to the diary room where she explains she’s noticing cracks in her friendship with Stacey. “I think I just need to take myself away from her when she gets a bit crazy, I just can’t be around crazy people all the time”.

Michael has drawn a duck into his blue canvas and is now talking about how pretty the duck is.

Sam and Layla are cuddling in bed and Sam discusses the conversation he had earlier with Ben. Sam says “I need to put more time into people, it’s hard being the intruder”. He feels glad he had the chat with Ben and tomorrow he will focus on spending time with Stacey.

8.56am – Big Brother is waking housemates with bagpipes, to the annoyance of Michael and Stacey. Delilah jumps on Zoe to wake her up. Sam is already up and cleaning the house.

Later in the morning Ben and Stacey are lounging and both agree that to come into the house as an intruder would be difficult. They wonder how “Mr Potato Head” (Sam) is doing – Ben comments he isn’t really showing any signs of handling it good or bad.

Michael is in the diary room and Big Brother asks him who will win, but Michael doesn’t really know. A “dream result” would be if he was amongst the finalists.

The latest task deal comes through from Big Brother. The housemates only have to spend $1 more to pass the task, and this deal is the last one for the week. The offer is a group hug for $1. All housemates run and hug each other in the living room. Big Brother asks if they are satisfied with their purchase, and of course they are. They have passed the task and cheer, Delilah is looking very excited.

Afterwards Angie comes to the diary room and BB asks why Angie didn’t take the call from her Dad the day before (she hung up for the sake of the task). She says she knew it would have been held against her especially since Layla hung up on her aunty in the previous yes/no task. She goes on to say she wishes she had a break from being nominated because she needed that week to find her zen. It’s very stressful. “I’m happy and bubbly but this week hasn’t reflected it”.

3.41pm – Housemates are waiting for Angie to come back from the diary room before they do this week’s luxury shopping. Ben doesn’t think the process will go well so calls Josh aside, asking him to do shopping separately with Angie and Estelle. Layla won’t do the shopping when Angie is there because there is tension. Josh feels it’ll go ok.

Angie eventually returns and housemates notice she’s been crying. She walks into the store room without answering any of their questions. Estelle follows and behind the closed door Angie tells her that she really wanted to speak to her Dad. Estelle suggests she take a second to calm down. Ben puts his ear up against the door but it quickly opens and he runs away without being noticed. Estelle and Angie emerge with the shopping white board.

Angie: Ok I have the shopping letter here

Ben: Just a question first – why were you crying?

Angie: Oh I just had a debrief with Big Brother and he asked how her week is going and I said not that great.

Most of the housemates have agreed that Angie, Estelle and Josh will do all of the shopping this week. The rest leave, but Ben goes on to say that he’s not happy that Estelle pushes her way into being involved in shopping every single week.

After the shopping trio are finished Angie comes to find Ben who is lying behind the couch for some reason. She tells him they did a really good job and she’s pleased with the shopping. She goes on to talk about her third nomination in a row – she’s not coping and has cried a lot in the toilet by herself. Ben’s advice is that sometimes when Angie goes to do something she takes over “I can’t say that I’ve seen it myself, but I’ve heard”. Angie says she’s not being herself in the house and she feels like she’s being pushed to the outer and she doesn’t know why. Ben says “be really happy with who you are”. Angie announces that she doesn’t want to be ‘the Estelle’ who floats around trying to fit into a group.

Ben counsels Angie some more and she’s in a better mood afterwards.

6.01pm – Sam and Layla are chatting by the pool when Sam asks if she’d miss him if he was evicted this week. She says yes she would “because you are normal!” Sam goes on to say he can’t wait to go to Bali “see I’m only 21, I know once I start travelling I won’t come back”. Layla says he’d love England because they have the hottest girls in the world. Sam then goes on to talk about a really hot girl he once worked with – Brazilian, wears hot pants.

After the conversation Layla tells Stacey she feels her and Sam are moving into friend territory. “I thought I’d test the waters”. “It felt like he was emphasising things to really say they could talk about anything (as friends)”. Layla is glad that her and Stacey didn’t swap beds because she can now move back to her bed and not have to sleep next to Sam.

7.03pm – The nominees are all cooking the weekly family dinner. Michael keeps talking about being nominated and asks them all to mention why they think they were nominated:

Sam: maybe people haven’t gotten to know me or maybe think that I’m not being me.

Bradley: it could be twofold: 1. I am kind of a dick, I say some comments 2. I do not help out, they could also be a reason.

Angie: I think the housemates may not like me as much because I can tend to take over things when I get excited about doing stuff.

Michael: I think people find it difficult to get along with me because sometimes I can be a bit of a know-it-all and condescending.

Michael then suggests they talk about reasons why they think the other three people are nominated. Bradley says this is “brutally awesome”. Michael starts them off by saying to Angie to make a concerted effort to make it look like you don’t care as much. Bradley “there is nothing you can do because who you are is who you are” and you should collect plates when everyone is around (not just a few people). Sam should do the opposite and stop cleaning.

Angie tells Michael to stop being so hypocritical. For example he’ll borrow a toothbrush but flip out about the pork he cooked the other day (he had a fight with Angie about it).

After 8.54pm – Michael is called to the diary room. He’s won a video message from his brother via a poll on the Big Brother Facebook page.

His brother tells him his family all miss him (he jokes “I don’t”). They’re all proud of him.

Outside Ben asks Bradley if he’s ever cried in the house. Bradley says he was on the verge of tears after nominations last week and he didn’t want anyone to come and comfort him because “you put me up to this”.

Meanwhile Michael is crying in the diary room.

He says he didn’t think it would be hard to be away from his family for only this short amount of time. When he moved away from his family at a young age for school it was “the worst” but his older brother was always there for him. “Time just slows down in here”.

Ava has just been evicted. The last person she hugs and kisses goodbye is Josh. The other housemates then console Josh and Michael gives him a big hug, saying “you’ll be alright”. Michael is looking quite happy and hums to himself. Focus then shifts to Angie and Estelle surviving multiple evictions while Josh leaves the group and walks around the house by himself. He’s eventually joined by Stacey, Estelle and Delilah who give him silent comfort.

Talk moves onto nominations and when they will happen since the eviction was two days late. Zoe believes they will all be nominated.

In the bedroom Josh is contemplating whether Ava’s eviction was a result of their relationship but Stacey says it has nothing to do with that. She adds there are reasons why people come into other people’s lives at certain times – and maybe it was just that.

Layla and Sam are in the diary room and say that now that Ava is gone they will get the real Josh back, just like how he was yesterday with Michael when they were tied together. Sam explains that was the first time he’s seen the ‘real Josh’ since he entered the house. Sure enough, Josh and Michael are now using their leg tights (part of this week’s task) to run and “surf” the sides of the housemates’ plastic bedframes.

Estelle comes to the diary room and is ecstatic she’s still in the house. Big Brother congratulates her for making the top 10. He asks he she’d feel if she wasn’t nominated one week. She says she would be shocked but she wouldn’t change herself.

While Estelle dances around the house very happy with herself Layla is telling some of the other housemates “I’ve noticed recently that some one in the house is really acting”. They all know Layla is talking about Estelle. Angie says she has walked into a room to find Estelle talking to the mirror (the cameras). Later Ben and Stacey are also discussing Estelle – she has bad timing on things. Ben is unsure whether she’s ‘acting’, the talking to the cameras thing is just a part of her. She doesn’t see the twirling and dancing as weird.

Layla is talking about her and Sam to some of the housemates (it’s cut from the earlier conversation about Estelle). She wants them to continue to see each other outside of the house. Angie warns her that Sam doesn’t really have a career in front of him though (he’s a waiter). Layla says she doesn’t want a relationship that revolves around money. Cut back to the conversation Ben and Stacey were having and Ben says at first he was really happy when Sam entered because he seemed like such a nice guy but now he feels Layla can do so much better.

“I find him so boring. I tried to talk to him and say hey but then I look at his face which looks like a potato that’s rotted”

Ben then does an impersonation of Sam looking really dumb.

“Go away you rotted potato!”

The next task offer from Big Brother comes through – for $10 each housemates must continue smiling all night.

BB: Big Brother trusts those smiles won’t fade, even if you’re sent to the naughty corner for not wearing your microphone.. Benjamin.

Ben looks down and realises there’s no microphone, and has a “dammit!” look on his face all while forcing a smile.

Later in the bedroom Angie declares that “Josh is back”. Stacey adds “yeah it only took two hours”. And Ben continues “some women do strange things to men”. Angie thinks it was a weird turn of events – three weeks of Josh being on hiatus.

As part of the task Zoe has accepted a new hairstyle deal. Layla plaits her hair just like you would get in Bali.

10:38am – The boys think the house would be much more harmonious if a girl was evicted from the house (three girls are nominated this week). Bradley tells Angie that if she’s still in the house in a few days she gets to have his superman tshirt. She gives a flat “thanks”. Bradley gives her a kiss and she replies “you just wanted an excuse to give me a kiss”, Bradley jokes “you know me too well” in a really creepy kind of way. After Bradley leaves (out of the kitchen window rather than the door), Sam proclaims “he’s a weird boy that one”.

Angie: Yeah he is, but that’s just it, he’s a boy and you can’t hold it against him.

Angie goes on to explain that in the beginning it was hard because no one could connect with him or what to do with him. They get each other now though.

The daily deals phone rings and Angie picks up. The caller asks if he can have a quick word with Michael. The caller is a salesman ‘Neil’ who asks if he has a best friend in the house – he answers it’s Josh. The salesman asks if Michael would like to be more “friendly” with his friend, then goes on to say he has a “friendly” product available, it’s a friendship bracelet.

“For the friendly price of just $13 the friendship bracelet is yours to share with Josh. Do we have a deal?”

Michael accepts the deal and heads to the store room to collect the friendship bracelet. It’s a shackle bracelet with flowers which will keep them tethered together all day.

Angie asks Sam if he would like any pancakes, he replies no “I’m on a diet.. I’m on a bicep diet” (he flexes). He then quickly throws some water into the frying pan cooking Angie’s pancakes and runs off. Angie is very angry.

Later Angie and Layla are gossiping and agree that if Estelle had the chance she would try and crack on to Sam.

Cut to Estelle in the diary room where Big Brother flat out asks her if she would “see more between her and Sam” if Layla and Sam weren’t together. She replies that it’s possible and she’s open to it but maybe she chose to take a backseat because her individual happiness isn’t the most important thing sometimes. She could see what was happening in front of her eyes and it was best to do that.. (step back)

2:48pm – Layla is frustrated that no one else is doing the dishes. She can feel “Shaniqua” in her chest and she’s about to spew her out”. Shanique is Layla’s crazy alter-ego who only bursts out when Layla is frustrated. Bradley asks “who’s drink is that there!?” and Shaniqua bursts out “it’s mine Bradley but I’m washing the dishes!”. Layla laughs but then leaves the kitchen while the other housemates taunt her with calls about Shaniqua.

Later Layla and Sam are in the bedroom and Sam explains he can’t stand Bradley – “he’s a pest, he just puts everyone down to make himself feel better”.

Some of the boys are throwing around a tennis ball. The girls explain to Delilah “that’s your ball, they’ve taken away your ball. That’s what boys do”. The girls turn it into a bitching session about guys in general. At that moment Michael throws the ball and it ends up on the roof. Stacey tells him off “what about the dog!?”

5.40pm – Big Brother announces “housemates, you have one hour to get ready”. Angie asks “for what? for what?”. Turns out Big Brother has been doing this every night since Sunday (when an eviction didn’t happen) to throw the housemates. Angie comes to the diary room and asks what they’re getting ready for – if it’s an eviction she wants to put on her eviction dress but if it’s nominations she’ll wear her nomination dress. “I’m stressed”. Big Brother replies “don’t be stressed Angie, you have an hour to get ready”. Angie goes to reply but BB interrupts her “correction, you have 58 minutes to get ready”.

58 minutes later the housemates are gathered in the living room and Big Brother says “listen carefully, Big Brother has some very important information for you. Tonight.. it’s a double.”

There’s a long pause while the housemates stress.

“Double.. or NOTHING!” (there are cash register noises which indicate this week’s task)

Angie and Ava look furious.

In the double or nothing offer all housemates must drink a shot glass of “Big Brother’s special blend”. Turns out it contains blended veggies, liver and tripe. The housemates must drink it and keep it down to spend the task money. Ava refuses to take part because she’s a vegetarian. The housemates announce it’s a “no sale”.

Later Angie has come back to the diary room to complain about getting dressed up for no reason.

BB: It feels nice to get dressed up though, doesn’t it?

Angie: Yes it does but not when you’re not telling us anything. I’m living out of a suitcase. Are any of us getting evicted tonight?

No answer is shown.

Unknown time – Yesterday the housemates asked Big Brother if Layla could open a salon, and he has granted their wish. Layla is given beauty and hair equipment and she gives the housemates makeovers one by one.

During the footage from the salon Ben is in the diary room explaining he loves Layla but her eyelashes freak him out – they wave everywhere and look like they’re from a Barbie show bag at the royal show.

Later Ben is called to the diary room for a task offer while the housemates watch from the living room. He’s offered a choice between some bathroom scales for $1 or a brown onion for $10 (he must eat the whole thing in the diary room). He reluctantly takes the onion. He peels it and starts biting into it. Coughs, then starts holding his nose while he eats. He gets about half way through the announces he doesn’t want to eat it anymore. The housemates all cheer encouragement and he gets through it, doing a victory jump and falling off the diary room chair.

Estelle has been given a task deal of a tar and feather skin treatment. Zoe is pouring ‘tar’ all over her in the backyard, followed by a bucket of feathers. Stacey says she looks like pluckaduck. Estelle runs around the backyard fluffing her feathers. The girls joke that Delilah wants to eat chicken-Estelle really badly.

9.21pm – Sam is doing shirtless handstands on the kitchen tables while the girls all watch. He kisses Layla goodnight then leaves.

Ben is in the diary room where he says “I find Angie so annoying, she’s so loud. I’m trying hard not to yell at her because she’s done nothing wrong, I just think she’s really annoying”. Channing Tatum (Sam) is also really annoying – what have you brought to the house other than being a play thing for Layla and other than being a bit of eye candy. “He’s just.. nothing”.

Bradley comments to Stacey it’s so good to see Michael back hanging out with Josh (because they’re chained together). Bradley feels like the house right now has stopped and they’re not going anywhere because the eviction hasn’t happened and they can’t nominate until one of the nominees goes home.

9.26am – Housemates are learning their task for the week. It starts with “Big Brother has a deal for you, who likes shopping, who likes spending money? Housemates are going to love this task. Big Brother has generously provided housemates with $1000 in $1 coins. To pass this task, all you need to do is spend it all”. The money can only be used to pay for offers that Big Brother gives them – the first is a breakfast deal “Big Brother is offering poached brains”. It’s $10 per brain. They find them in the store room on a platter. The brains are quite small but the girls are a bit digested by them.

Michael suggests they cook them up with some eggs and pork when Big Brother butts in “the brains must be eaten as is. They have been poached to perfection. They are flavour to savour and at this price they won’t last long”. Michael and Sam eat the brains first. Layla is most disgusted but manages to start eating hers. Bradley says “they taste like death”. Estelle starts gagging while she eats it. Angie suggests she take small bites and not chew. Ben is also having trouble and spits the last of his poached brain out.

Layla comes to the diary room and asks what sort of animal did the brains come from. Big Brother responds “it was brain from an animal”.

“I’d love to know what animal Big Brother”

“No you wouldn’t”

“Oh please tell me, I’d rather know”

“Lamb”

“Really?”

..

“It wasn’t, was it?”

“What other brains are there?”

Layla suggests “human?”

Layla continues “imagine if I got really really clever because I ate that brain. If that happens and I start to use big words like Michael maybe you could give me a brain every day and by the time I leave the house I’ll be clever”.

The new ‘daily specials’ phone in the kitchen starts ringing. Bradley answers and it’s a man with an Indian accent who asks “are you a man who always likes to look at his very very best?”. The Indian man says he has a special on mens casual wear, which Bradley accepts for $12. In the store room he finds a string mankini (the type from the ‘Borat’ movie). Bradley exclaims “oh no!” and the housemates all cheer. Bradley goes to put it on and Josh says “this is worse than the brains”.

Bradley emerges from the bathroom wearing the mankini and a large area of his crotch is blurred out. The girls all shriek and Stacey suggests he’s going to have to tape it up. He emerges to the garden and the housemates clap. He’s still blurred.

Michael is angry because he cooked some pork and wrapped it in foil – but some one has cut the foil and that dries the meat out. Michael goes from housemate to housemate trying to figure out who cut it – it comes down to Angie and Ben “he said she said”. Angie gets defensive and they yell at each other. Ben repeats: Angie was cutting the foil. Angie is adamant that it was both her and Ben. The argument continues in the kitchen and they bicker back and forth.

Angie: Well Michael, this is potentially my last day and you’ve ruined it now.

They continue fighting back and forth very immaturely.

1.34pm – Michael is now feeling bad about the argument but is holding off from apologising to Angie. Bradley says maybe he should wait a day (alluding to Angie possibly being evicted tomorrow). The boys all theorise that Angie doesn’t like authority and doesn’t like being told what to do.

The daily specials phone rings again and Layla is offered an offer for a brand new wedding dress. It’s $25. She accepts, but soon finds it’s a gypsie wedding dress that includes 65 metres of fabric and weighs at 40 kilograms. Ben and Angie follow her into the diary room and they gasp with surprise. Ben says “you’ll look like Diana!” It takes them a while to get the dress onto Layla, including fake eyelashes, which she must wear all night.

Layla: “I haven’t got anyone to marry!”

Ben and Angie: “Yeah, Sam’s out there”

Layla: “Nooo!”

Ben: “If Sam doesn’t take you then George will take you, and if George doesn’t take you they’ll just put in another person”.

Later on the housemates have gathered to talk since they think there will be an eviction tonight. Michael gives an indirect apology by saying she’s a nice person, before Zoe makes him say it outright. Angie says “yaaay” and gives him a hug. Bradley thanks Estelle for his first kiss but also the confidence he’s gained from her in his ability to talk to girls. Josh says to Ava “I think the way you carry yourself and the way you present yourself is great and I don’t want you to leave but I guess if that happens we’ll see what happens beyond these doors”. They kiss.

The nominees are packing their bags, unaware there is no eviction tonight (because the NRL grand final is being televised instead). Ava gives him one of her sleeping singlets that fits perfectly. Ava tells Josh she left an extra present under his pillow.

Layla is wondering if some one will actually marry her one day. Delilah has started lying down on the train of Layla’s wedding dress.

Layla: At least some one appreciates the dress, aye Delilah?

Delilah runs off to the kitchen.

Layla: Ohh.. that’s a no!

Around 7pm the housemates have realised that something is not right – the hot water hasn’t been turned on for their usual pre-eviction show. Bradley predicts there could have been a tornado, earthquake, anything could have hit and the TV channel showing Big Brother has had to switch to that and the Big Brother eviction is not happening.

Layla needs to go to the toilet but with her huge wedding dress it’s impossible – she can’t even fit through the door properly. Zoe must help her onto the seat.

8.07pm (Typo – the show says AM) Zoe predicts that if Estelle is evicted the house will need to find some one else to bitch about but if Angie leaves.. the bitching will stop.

The housemates have been sitting on the couch for half an hour waiting for an eviction. Suddenly Big Brother booms:

“housemates, listen carefully. Big Brother has a deal for all housemates except the gypsie bride, and it’s only available for the next 30 seconds. It’s a hot deal which will cool you down. Housemates that’s right – it’s the deal you’ve all been thinking about but no one’s been talking about. For the modest sum of just $10 per housemate, Big Brother is offering .. fully clothed swims. I can tell you right now housemates Big Brother is losing money on this deal. $10 each. And yes, for your convenience, once those microphones come off you must leave all of you clothes on. Ten seconds left housemates”.

Most of the housemates run outside and jump in the pool with their clothes on. All of the girls stay behind, and the nominees are very confused – they don’t want to get wet before their potential eviction. Ava is very angry that Josh jumped in the pool with the singlet she gave him earlier. Estelle reassures her “don’t worry, it’s just water”.

Ava comes outside and asks why he jumped in the pool with the singlet on: “you put yourself before me.. but I don’t mind”. She’s visibly annoyed.

Shortly after Ava continues to complain about it to Estelle.

Zoe notices it’s a full moon and Layla says “that’s right, every time the housemates go crazy”. Zoe howls at the moon.

Layla comes to the diary room and asks Big Brother if there is going to be an eviction. She can keep a secret if Big Brother doesn’t want anyone else to know.

There’s a long pause and Big Brother doesn’t answer.

In the kitchen Josh apologises to Ava about jumping in the pool with her favourite singlet and says he wouldn’t normally do it. He rinsed it straight away She accepts his apology.

Layla shuffles into the kitchen, still wearing her massive wedding dress and starts eating some chocolate from the cupboard.

Layla: Sorry whose chocolate this is, but I really need some chocolate.

Estelle comes to the diary room and explains she’s excited at maybe not leaving this evening but is confused because they have a routine that has been interrupted: “the eviction is MIA”. Big Brother says “enjoy your evening, melmormay” (it’s gibberish).. Estelle looks very confused.

Angie is standing still outside looking just as confused.