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Aired summer 2004 · The identical-twins twist

Project DNA

The strangest experiment of the early canon. Thirteen houseguests, except one slot is held by a pair of identical twins who swap in and out under the same name across the opening weeks, and the rest of the house has no idea. Project DNA is a structural gamble the show would never try again at this scale, and the seams show. Worth the watch for the audacity, and for proof that Big Brother was still gambling in year five.

Filmed
Studio City, California
Premiered
Jul 6, 2004
Episodes
30
Format
13 houseguests · twins swapping as one
the franchise's strangest early experiment
Host
Julie Chen
01The take

Project DNA.

The strangest experiment of the early canon. Thirteen houseguests, except one slot is held by a pair of identical twins who swap in and out under the same name across the opening weeks, and the rest of the house has no idea. Project DNA is a structural gamble the show would never try again at this scale, and the seams show. Worth the watch for the audacity, and for proof that Big Brother was still gambling in year five.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #08 slot.

Slot #08 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.

Also appears in
Big Brother S5 — Project DNA — tiered.tv