When we left the surviving Three Amigos of "Big Brother 4," they were standing atop dog houses being pelting by chunks of ice as part of a three-part Head of Household competition. That was nearly a week ago and anybody with the live feed or access to chat boards already knows who won at least the first two legs of the challenge. That means that Tuesday night's (Sept. 16) "Big Brother" is an hour-long anticlimax, but heck, CBS gets to sell ad space and viewers get to watch filler, so everybody's happy.

Perched like Snoopys, Alison makes it clear that while somebody might punk out in this competition, it will not be her. As a child, she explains, she would go out and roll around in the snow in her bathing suit. Sometimes she would walk to school in the snow in her bikini, uphill, both ways.

Robert is chuckling about calling the girls in the house "bitches" and "sluts" and "whores." It's unclear why he's telling Alison and Jun about this. He's not ashamed or apologetic. He's just amused that Julie Chen would have called him on his misogyny. I bet he insults her stylish sleeveless tops behind her back.

Amidst the artificial blizzard, Jun takes her hand off the sacred key and is eliminated. Robert, after getting Alison's 99 percent assurance that she'll take him to the finals, also steps down.

Robert and Jun will have to go head-to-head in the second stage.

"I got so excited, because I love little blue boxes," Jun says as they walk out to the backyard and are greeted by a giant container.

When Robert opens it, a mime pops out.

"My gut reaction was to put the lid back on the box and send the mime back to where it came from, because I did not want it in the house," Alison cracks with dead-eyed disdain.

Robert, on the other hand, is just confused. He seems to want to know why the clown isn't talking. After more than an hour, all three housemates want to kill him (the mime, not Robert... although...).

"Mr. Mime thought it was funny," Alson says after being chased around the kitchenette by the sub-Marceau. "Mr. Mime almost got a big foot in his ass."

The vicious mime is absolutely the best thing to happen on this season's "Big Brother" since Scott's genital warts-fueled outrage many weeks ago. If a "Big Brother" contestant kills a mime and he doesn't make a sound...

"I would rather have Dana in the house than that stupid mime," Alison finally concedes.

Enemy Mime finally leads them to the Desert Room, which is set up for an early screening of the John Grisham pseudo-thriller "Runaway Jury." It's smooth the way the show just segues into a pure commercial. Actually, it's cumbersome and obnoxious, but it leads to the information that Robert is literate, or at least can read on a first grade level, since he's read all of John Grisham's books.

The Luxury Competition involves throwing Velcro balls at the mime. Robert, eyes blazing, manages to take the mime out and chooses Alison to see the movie with him. They have a fine advertisement, er, date. They laugh. They cry. They cross-promote (and not in a euphemistic way).

Meanwhile, Jun's curse for losing is the return of the mime. We would give all the tea in China for Jun to hook up with the mime. Instead, they play practical jokes then he vanishes. He could be the funniest imaginary friend since Mr. Snuffleupagus.

Robert calls "Runaway Jury" one of the best movies he's ever seen. Then again, he's been isolated for a while. He might even gush over "My Boss's Daughter."

It's time for another America's Choice question. This one asks who America would want to have a live internet chat with. Was the answer "None of the Above" available?

Then, oh my, there's a commercial for "Runaway Jury." I think, though I can't be sure, that this was a real commercial and not just an extended waste of the real program itself.

Robert, who wins every America's Choice question, wins another and again awkward questions are raised about the state of the American electorate. Asked in the chat about his derogatory comments towards women, he conceded that he was wrong, but he didn't know how else to react. Um, Robert, how about just starting by not calling women "whores." That's an easy first step.

"Next time I'm on a reality show, I'll remember to have a kid first," a disgruntled Alison says.

The much vaunted second contest is a perplexing puzzle involving pictures of the ousted houseguests and specific details about them. Apparently John Grisham never used the words "nominated" and "evicted," because Rob can't tell them apart, opening the door for Jun to win.

"I wasn't surprised Jun won, because Robert just sucks," Alison says.

"I have power over these girls," Robert still insists. He's going to just wait for Alison to crack and turn on Jun, which is probably a safe strategy.

And thus, we're in roughly the same place as when we began. Fortunately, we know that "Runaway Jury" is, like, the best movie ever.