On Saturdays, "Big Brother" runs a half-hour of recap and then a half-hour of new footage.

When the new material finally begins, it's juicy. Karen's telling the household -- and millions of viewers -- how screwed up her marriage is. Karen says her husband "hates to kiss ... He doesn't like intimacy at all, and I'm totally the opposite. I want to kiss. I want to hug. I want that snuggly kind of stuff." She talks about how horrible her Mother's Day was. George says, "That's a day you honor your wife."

Jordan asks if she's in love with her husband. "Oh no. Not at all!" The only reason she hasn't already left is because of her kids. Now she's thinking about it. She says, "I'm definitely leaving ... and that is why he didn't want me to talk about it on here. The people at work don't know anything about it." Now they do.

Brittany says she is afraid to date and have children because she could be trapped in a situation like Karen's. But Karen notes that Brittany has a career; she herself never got a degree and can't hope to earn more than $10 or $12 an hour.

Later, Brittany tells William she's not sure if she likes him. For him, that is fine. "If it was going to be 'The Brady Bunch,' we wouldn't be here. It would be boring." William talks about things being boring often.

He says, "Most people either love me or hate me. There is not much in between." William and Brittany make a date to talk about their differences. William wants Brittany to get dressed up for it or at least change clothes. It's an insulting request that isn't lost on Brittany. She refuses; they argue the point for far too long. But we don't get to see them have their talk.

Later, in the confession room, William is asked his opinion of others in the house. Josh, Curtis and Cassandra are boring, he says; Eddie keeps to himself, and he wouldn't miss George (though he thinks Josh is cool and admires Cassandra). Brittany has spunk, but talks too much. "How am I going to get an opportunity to get some airtime when she's always talking?"

William gets plenty of airtime.

He says that Karen is the first person he's voting off. "I just think she's got a little mental problem. I don't know how she passed the psych test." It is CBS that has failed an ethics test by letting her nuke her marriage on national television.

The announcer intones, "There is no place to hide in the 'Big Brother' house." There are shots of Jamie in bed, taking a shower (they've hung a towel on the door to provide some privacy), walking and going into the bathroom -- all set to really bad music.

Jordan and William lead what George calls the "'Big Brother' inaugural aerobics class" over more bad music (though there is no actual music in the "Big Brother" house). The day's challenge is to make plaster masks of everyone. Hours are compressed into a few minutes as they are shown making the masks.

Jamie is lying outside to dry her mask more quickly. William comes over to her and says she'll be the last person he'll vote out. She is gorgeous and he needs something pretty to look at or he'll go crazy, he says.

The last shots are of the completed decorated masks hanging on the wall in the kitchen.

(Steve Rhodes)