The Joe Baghead Show

Day 6:

Spoilers for the entire show, they spent nearly a year in this house and being this close to the volcano on a lot with a volcanic activity challenge never mattered even once.
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Priscilla, Devon, and Taylor all wake up before 6 am. Priscilla was actually still up at 2:30 am, discovering a love of fitness. Devon woke up in a flirty mood, and luckily for her, Priscilla is interested in men and women, and is awake to flirt with! Priscilla and Devon have a chat in the kitchen, mocking someone who apparently talks too much. Based on what everyone has said and done up to this point, I have to assume they're making fun of Joe. Good thing he's asleep! That would do some real damage to his already extremely fragile self-esteem.


Priscilla decides to bite the bullet and actually flirt with Devon, which pleases both women. Priscilla, being self-absorbed, keeps talking and talking, eventually hitting on some topic that Devon isn't interested in. Is this love doomed before it even starts?

The house gets a 7 am wake-up call for the remaining sleepyheads, and a Mome Mail that they're going to spend the dah fishing. Today is the last full day in the house before the first elimination, and whoever: increases her fishing skills the most OR catches the most fish OR the most expensive fish, depending on which option makes the most sense based on how well they all do (like if they're all tied for fishing skill), gets to go on a private outing with Joe.

Taylor says: "Honestly at this point, the idea of not only fishing all day and then having to spend a day alone with Joe afterwards? I would rather die. Sorry not sorry." Why you gotta be so mean, Taylor?!

Once they arrive at the fishing spot, Rebecca, Gemma, and Devon make a beeline for the fishing spot with Joe, while Priscilla, Sienna, Taylor, and Katrina opt to gossip rather than go fishing. As a quick meta note, it was after this challenge that I learned that only 4 people can "fish together"! Oops!


First catch of the day went to Devon, who caught a digital camera, which I assume does not taste great with tartar sauce. Rebecca really struggled with fishing, but she enjoyed being outside regardless and now Loves Outdoors. Joe stopped fishing to chat with the other girls for a while, and then the unthinkable happened - someone flirted with him! I didn't catch who it was, but I assume Priscilla since they still have a romance bar - and are the only ones with one.

In production's second oopsie of the trip, it was so hot out in the desert that everyone started burning to death. Sorry! So we ended the fishing trip early and sent everyone home to think up plan B. Joe tells us, "I guess if 5 of the girls all died at once, that would make my decision a little easier. Not that I would want any of them to die or anything, of course." Foreshadowing? I don't know her!

Gemma decided she has a cheerful nature while also discovering she has a fear of crowded places. It's your guess as to how she discovered she's afraid of crowded places when she was outdoors by a lake rather than all the times she was stuck inside a small house with 7 other people!

At home, we came up with Plan B - paint as many Large Classic Paintings as possible by 6 pm. Points are awarded based on how many paintings are completed and how much the completed paintings are worth in total. The prize is the same - winner gets a private outing with Joe tomorrow.



Sienna had decided to go swimming in the ocean right when the group got back, so she got a later start than everyone else - and being the only one who didn't already have a painting skill didn't help! While the women paint, Joe loaded the dishwasher and then came over to chat with Sienna. Perhaps he wants to try to make it work with her?

In the first round of painting, Katrina is the only one who painted something different. Perhaps it's due to her paranoia nature that she painted the Social Bunny that these sims aren't familiar with, but their sims 2 ancestors will all know well. Rebecca pulled her phone out almost immediately after starting painting number 2. Maybe she's just not into this challenge?

As Katrina finished her painting, the only thing on her mind was simoleons. Her celebrity level keeps increasing while she's been in the house, and now all she can think about is money. Was she really here for fame and money all along, not love?

Joe continues to be really into chatting with Sienna; meanwhile, Devon developed a fear of failure while working on her second painting. Her paintings are just as terrible as everyone else's, but we can't help the way we feel about our progress sometimes, right?


Taylor is the last person to finish her FIRST painting, after nearly 3 hours, despite being one of the first ones to start. "I really don't think she wants to be here," says Joe. "Wouldn't it be easier to just ask her to leave now?" Sure would!

More of the gals are chatting with Joe, which is slowing them down. That won't help them win the competition, but the friendlier you are with Joe the less likely he'll be to eliminate you tomorrow, so it's a good strategy!

At this point it's very clearly that Joe has two favorites - Sienna and Rebecca - but he IS trying to treat everyone fairly.


After a while, Joe gets tired of conversation and goes for a dip in the pool. As the girls are all busy painting, they miss their glimpse of the most we've seen of Joe - and WILL see of Joe until the finale - and miss their chance to wonder how a paper bag survives being in pool water. It turns out Joe has freckles on his shoulders! Which suggests he make have some on his face!


We allow the contestants to finish up whatever painting they started before 6 pm. As they all finish up, Joe spots a mouse!


Everyone except Taylor finishes up at about the same time, and Sienna and Katrina are so into painting that they immediately start new paintings. Those won't count for the final total, but we love the enthusiasm! Taylor FINALLY finished her last pre-6 pm painting at about 10 pm.

The outcome of the painting competition - everyone except Katrina finished 4 paintings, Katrina did 3. Devon's total painting value comes out to $469 - meaning she made less than Katrina despite getting one more painting done than her - and Priscilla's total value was $754, making her the winner! Since it's 10 pm it's too late for a one-on-one outing now, so she and Joe will have their outing tomorrow before elimination. I'm surprised Taylor didn't do the worst considering how slow she was - she actually came in third place! Joe says, "Taylor seems to hate being here, so I thought she might try to throw the challenge by making awful paintings really slowly. Maybe she figured she would be eliminated anyway so she didn't want to seem petty by making almost no effort?"

Joe also says, "I'm happy to get to spend one-on-one time with any of these women. It's easier to bond that way. I do feel romantic sparks with Priscilla, so I'm not mad that she won, but I do have to say I'm feeling a stronger connection with Sienna and Rebecca. Neither of them did so well in the painting challenge, but I think that's because we were chatting so much that it was distracting them?"

After the art competition ended, Joe sat at a Llama table with Devon and Rebecca. He didn't talk to them, he just sat there while they talked. He got up to try some painting of his own when Rebecca left to help Katrina cook a meal. Rebecca and Katrina became good friends while Joe made this absolutely masterpiece, and Sienna came to make weird hand gestures at him and chat.


And say, day 6 comes to a close. Elimination is tomorrow. who will it be? Katrina, who seems to be here to get more followers for simstagram? Taylor, who likes Joe the least out of anyone in the house, who only has any kind of relationship with Sienna? Priscilla, the only person in the house with a romance bar with Joe but who seems more interested in getting to know Devon? Devon, who hasn't made an impression yet?

Next time: Date! Elimination! Chicken sliders!

Bonus info: Rebecca was in the lead in the fishing competition when we had to cut it short, with 3 fish and one plumbing part caught, the fish totaling $38. Devon was in second place, with $13 from 2 fish and the digital camera. Gemma caught a robot. Like I said, I didn't know that only 4 people can fish together. I've learned a lot about the game over the course of this show. (Also I've been playing "Joe" and his choice after the show ended in my game, and I realized that it's been almost a year in-game since the finale and it's pretty wild how much has happened. I thought maybe for each elimination I'd have a "where are they are now" update for the eliminated contestant.) Also I'm dying because I finally got used to calling "Joe Baghead" by his actual name in my game so now I'm not longer used to call him "Joe"! Also I goofed up, I made the next season cast already neighborhood stories already distributed 5 of them across the game to different marriages, so, oops! They're all wearing costumes so there'll just be a bright yellow bear walking by Joe's house sometimes.