01The take
Houseguest Decides.
The season the format clicked. Twelve houseguests move in, and for the first time the houseguests do the evicting — the public-vote experiment is gone, and the show finds the engine it would run on for a quarter-century. The pacing tightens to a thrice-weekly rhythm. The cast plays harder because the stakes are now interpersonal, not televised. Julie Chen settles into her cadence. Every Big Brother season that followed is a footnote to the summer this format snapped into place.
03Where it sits in the canon
The #03 slot.
Slot #03 of 10 in the Big Brother Editor's Canon. The neighbors below frame what we ranked above and below it.
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06Also appears in
Cross-references.
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