RG x01 - Episode 1

[bunniefuu]

[upbeat holiday music]

♪ ♪

- The ornaments are hung.

The presents are wrapped.

And the cocoa is steaming hot.

Everything is ready at Santa's Lodge

for our very special guests.

♪ ♪

'Twas two weeks before Christmas,

and in the North Pole the pressure was mounting.

It was taking a toll.

Poor Saint Nick was pulled in every which way.

But I needed to focus on my yearly big day.

Santa's Lodge had some issues;

my village a mess.

The forest had problems.

My workshop was stressed.

But while watching BB on P+ subscription,

I got an idea to fix this affliction.

In the wink of an eye, before things could get worse,

I twinkled my nose and opened the multiverse.

Using my magic and old-fashioned reason,

I recruited BB legends to help save the season.

So I made a deal with these iconic names,

a chance to compete in my Reindeer Games.

♪ ♪

h*, h*, h*!

[upbeat holiday music]

♪ ♪

- I'm Taylor.

I'm an entertainment journalist from Detroit, Michigan.

Oh, my God.

I truly love Christmas.

The holiday season is--

like, it's just so much fun.

Good moods, hot cocoa everywhere,

fantastic movies, fantastic music.

[laughs]

It's like I'm home again.

On "Big Brother" , I was the first Black woman

to win a regular season.

[cheering]

And I was also the first person to ever win

America's Favorite Player in the same season.

People say that I've evolved the social strategy

of "Big Brother."

So I'm excited to see if I can dominate

these Reindeer Games too.

♪ Jingle bells, this house smells ♪

♪ Almost just the same ♪

♪ Taylor's back and gonna grab another K ♪

[upbeat holiday music]

♪ ♪

- I'm Cody.

I currently live in New Jersey.

And I'm working in software sales.

I recently got engaged to the love of my life, Christie.

And our favorite thing to do during the holidays

is just sit out on the couch and watch

as many Christmas movies as possible.

You know, I've acted in a few Christmas movies.

So if you guys want to check those out--

I don't know where you can find them, to be honest.

[laughs]

You guys might know me from "Big Brother"

where I was the runner up

or "Big Brother: All-Stars" where I won.

I'm ecstatic to be here in Santa's Lodge.

What is going on?

I don't have any idea what he has in store for me,

but I'm hoping to come home with the grand prize

once again.

- Who's over there?

Hi!

Cody, I'm so happy to see you.

Cody's known for winning challenges.

He's known for bro-ing out in these games.

And if there's anything that my sweater is showing you,

I'm here to crack some nuts.

[cracking]

The guys have got to go real fast.

- I'm here to have some fun. I'm here to have some fun.

- Okay, it's good. - I'm here to have some fun.

- We're gonna have a chill time.

- Yeah.

[upbeat holiday music]

- Hi, I'm Britney.

I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I'm a mom of three girls and a real estate agent.

- I hear steps.

- Oh, my God. What's going on?

- Hi! How are you?

- Good.

It's so good to see you. - Nice to see you.

Hi. - What's going on?

It's so nice to meet you.

- Though you may not generally associate me

with cheer, joy, merriment,

I actually do love Christmas.

I love the decor.

It feels warm.

I like the way it smells.

- It's like Christmas chewed us up, spat us out,

and vomitted on us on top of it.

- Yeah.

- I was on "Big Brother" Season

and voted America's favorite player.

And then I returned for season as a coach.

I've been humiliated time and time again on television...

Oh! Ow.

And I feel very strongly that that is my fate

in this program as well.

It's already started.

[bells jingle] So there's that.

Don't you feel like we're about to meet mall Santa?

- Yeah, for sure.

- Can he be hot though?

[upbeat holiday music]

♪ ♪

- I'm Xavier.

I'm a lawyer currently living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Recently, I had the best day of my life

when I asked the love of my life to marry me.

And this will be our first Christmas

together as an engaged couple.

And I'm really looking forward to it.

For "Big Brother," I'm known as being

the first Black winner in "Big Brother" U.S. history.

[cheering]

And I'm hoping to be the first ever winner

of the Big Brother Reindeer Games.

Some festive people ask for a bald man to enter the house?

- I knew it! Yes!

- So I'm curious to see who's gonna be here.

Like, do I know them?

Do I not know them?

- Oh, my God. I'm such a fan.

It's so nice to meet you! Oh, my God, hi.

[chuckles] - [laughs] Good to see you.

- Good to see you.

- It's cool to see Taylor.

We both made history in our seasons

for the Black community.

We're both from Michigan.

So it's nice to see a familiar face in Santa's Lodge.

That's a sweater is what it is.

- It is a sweater. - It is.

- It's quite a sweater.

It's a statement piece.

- Yeah, I get that.

♪ ♪

- I'm Danielle.

And you don't know by looking at me,

but I am a grandmother of five adorable kids.

[cheering]

- Icon in the building!

- I love spoiling those kids during the holidays.

But when it comes to playing games,

I'd rather be the villain.

I got your back, you got mine?

- Yeah, I got--absolutely.

- I was on "Big Brother" .

You know, the season I should have won.

[applause]

Then I played again in "Big Brother: All-Stars."

I'm the Black widow!

Christmas has vomitted all over me.

- I feel like we have a real sweater contest.

- Now, this new game is supposed

to be holly and jolly.

But if you know me,

I'm gonna be putting a lot of coals

in a lot of people's stockings.

Oh, my God.

And, oh, my God.

♪ ♪

- Make the yuletide g*y.

Hi, I'm Frankie Grande, star of stage and screen.

I love Christmas.

My whole family loves Christmas.

I mean, we go "grande" on Christmas.

You might remember me from BB .

My sister is a mega, mega pop star--

Ariana Grande.

- Grande is your sister?

- And here on "Reindeer Games," I know I'm gonna slay

whatever Santa has in store for us.

h*, h*, h*, hello!

- There he is!

[laughter]

- I mean, you know me.

I always shine bright like a Frankie.

Yeah!

- Frankie Grande! [screaming]

- [laughing] - Come on, baby.

Come on, baby. Come on, baby.

- So buckle up, because I'm about to light up

Santa's Lodge.

Cody? - What's up, bro?

- We're back in the house together.

- I know. - Together again.

- Oh, my God, Cody is here and I'm so excited

because he's a good friend.

And we went pretty far together in "Big Brother."

But "Reindeer Games" is a totally different game.

So I'm not sure what that means for me.

But, I mean, I'll take all the friends I can get.

- Oh, it's so good to see you, my friend.

- It's so good to see you.

♪ ♪

- Hi. I'm Nicole.

I am currently a stay-at-home mom

with my two-year-old son, Arrow.

And I still live in Ubly, Michigan.

- Hi. - Hi!

- No way!

No way!

- I ended up winning season .

[cheers and applause]

I'm married to a former "Big Brother" houseguest

named Victor.

Victor? Oh, my!

- Will you marry me?

- Yes, of course.

This is my first time competing as a mom.

And I'm so excited to be here because I'm basically

competing at the North Pole.

And my son is gonna think that's so cool.

- Hey! - Hi, everybody.

Hi, Arrow. [chuckles]

It makes me want to cry.

[sniffs] I'm such a baby.

- Wow. - How are you?

- I played "Big Brother" with Nicole twice before.

The most recent time being "All-Stars" where we went

all the way to the end of the game,

and in final three, I decided to eliminate her.

Nicole, I'm so sorry.

I know without a doubt Nicole has not forgotten

about what I did at the end of that season,

so I definitely have to be on the lookout for her.

- What is this? - --

- How are you? - Good, how are you?

- Congrats! - Good to see you out here.

I see Cody.

I haven't spoke to him in three years,

since he evicted me on finale night.

And we were so close.

I honestly thought we were gonna go to the final two.

So seeing him, I know I just can't trust him this time.

- It's so good to see you. - Yeah, same. Yeah.

♪ ♪

- Ah, so I take it I didn't make

the naughty list this year.

[laughs]

[speaking Spanish]

I'm Josh Martinez.

And Christmastime is my favorite time of year

as a Cubano and being Latino,

I'm always surrounded by my family.

Just imagine to of us packed into a house,

playing dominoes,

everybody screaming over each other.

I just love being with my family.

You guys might remember me

from winning "Big Brother" Season .

[vocalizing]

I was best known for being the obnoxious,

crazy, Latino kid.

I'm a mess.

I mean, I got to put these two to good use, right?

Like, I have to.

I have to at this point.

[exhales]

Listen, Santa, I don't know what you have in store for us,

but I hope you're ready 'cause I'm about to be laughing

all the way to the bank.

And I'm securing this K.

- I want to eat one of these.

- I know, these are cute.

- [loud vocalizing]

[pots clanging] - What is this?

- ♪ Da da da-da-da-da da da da da ♪

[laughter]

- Meatball!

- [vocalizing]

- Let's go!

[clanging] - [vocalizing]

[laughter]

- He's alive!

- Oh, my God.

- How are you? - Hi.

- So good to see you.

- Coming in here, I feel obviously,

a physical inadequacy being that I'm a very petite person.

These people are large.

Okay, they're large people.

My gut instinct is just like obviously,

go after the big physical comp beast.

Duh.

♪ ♪

- Hey, y'all, I'm Cameron.

I'm from Eastman, Georgia.

And I am a daddy to an amazing eight-year-old little girl.

And Christmas is a magic time for us

because I love being woken up by her on Christmas morning

and seeing all of the awesome stuff

that Santa has brought her.

Woo, hoo!

- Oh, fresh blood. - Who is this?

- Here we go.

- I was just on "Big Brother" earlier this year,

where I was voted America's favorite player.

I am speechless.

Thank you so much. - Aw.

- I'm a newbie in this lodge,

so I feel like a fan coming in here.

So it's a little bit shaky.

But we kind of all are newbies in this lodge,

'cause no one has ever played this game before.

Oh, my God.

This is so cool.

- Come on in, Cameron.

- Hi, Cameron. I'm Britney.

- I know that! I'm Cam.

Even though these "Big Brother" legends might look at me

as the rookie, we're all in the same sleigh

together on this one.

- It's nine of us?

- This is it.

- Fine nine, let's go. - Guys, the lucky nine.

- The nasty nine.

- One, two, three--

all: Reindeer Games!

[cheering]

[laughter]

["Deck the Halls" playing]

♪ ♪

- This is a trip.

- We're all going through it right now.

- Everyone looks beautiful. Good for everyone.

- Duh. No Botox.

Put it out in the cosmos, no Botox, people.

- Same.

[laughter] - None.

- h*, h*, who's ready for Santa?

Please come to my lodge living room.

- Oh!

- It's Santa.

[upbeat rock music]

- Where am I squeezing?

- Yeah.

Front and center, baby girl.

- This is crazy.

- I'm happy. This is cool. This is cool.

- Season's greetings, esteemed guests.

- Hey! - Ahh!

- For the first time in a millennia,

Christmas is in danger of being canceled.

- Oh.

- That's where you come in.

- Okay. - What is going on?

- Over the next two weeks, anytime there are

problems at the North Pole, I need you to step in

and take care of them.

Christmas depends on it.

Unfortunately, I am only looking

for the best of the best.

So the one player who falls short each day,

will be sent h*, h*, home.

[laughter]

- As a reward for handling these Christmas catastrophes,

the festive foursome left standing in the end

will be invited to compete in the Annual Reindeer Games.

My Reindeer Games are a high-stakes,

head-to-head tournament, where the winner will

walk home with a grand prize

of billion North Pole tinsel tokens,

which converts to , U.S. dollars.

- You know what?

- How much?

- Okay. - I'll take it.

- But making it to my Reindeer Games

will not be easy,

so be prepared because the rules each day

will be completely different.

Sometimes you will be challenged as an individual,

sometimes as a duo--

- Oh.

- Or maybe even as a team.

- Wow. - Oh.

- Now, I want you to know that the relationships you form

and the strategy you forge are important.

But how you perform in these challenges is

the most crucial element because whether you stay or go

will always come down to whether you win

or whether you lose.

- Yas queen.

- So the question is, do you have the festive fortitude

to help me save Christmas?

- Damn right, we do.

- Okay, then, I'll be sending in my elf ambassadors

to help guide you through this holly jolly journey.

- Bring them in, Santa!

- Good luck.

The happiness of every child on the planet

rests in your hands.

No pressure.

- Wow. No stakes.

- No pressure. Yeah.

- It sounds like this is going to be a game that's

all about the challenges.

And lucky for me, I'm a guy that loves to compete.

So I'm gonna be going out there

trying to win every challenge that I can,

including those Reindeer Games at the end

so I can snag that K.

[cash register dings]

- Guys, we got to save these kids.

Like honestly. - Let's go.

- We have to.

- With regular "Big Brother," you have your HOH,

they nominate two people,

somebody goes home at the end of the week.

Wow.

But Santa's style is, like,

expect the unexpected times .

Whoo!

Normally, I love Santa, and I'm this guy's biggest fan.

But to be honest with you, he has no chill at all.

We truly have no idea what to expect.

And that's not a good feeling to have right off the bat.

- Mrs. Claus, more cocoa.

More cocoa and more marshmallows.

- Don't you have an elf, Santa? - [laughs]

You made the naughty list. [laughter]

- Big man in the red suit said

somebody is going to be leaving every day.

And it's all going to come down to winning

and losing challenges.

I'm going to make some cocoa.

Sometimes we'll be competing as pairs.

Sometimes we'll be competing as teams,

sometimes as individuals.

Things are going to be crazy here at the North Pole.

I'm going to need to find some allies

if I'm going to survive this crazy new game we're playing.

- Let's go.

Bring it on, Santa.

[dramatic music]

[bell clangs]

[upbeat holiday music]

[bell rings]

- I don't know how you guys are so calm.

- Because I'm shutting down.

My anxiety is crippling!

- I haven't been in the house in six years.

- This is cute.

- So cute. - I know.

- I love it.

- The way I see it, the best people to target

are all these alpha males.

No friends in this game.

There only can be one winner.

- Everyone knows each other. Isn't that fun?

♪ ♪

- I actually have to go to the bathroom.

All right. Cool.

- I'll guard it for you.

♪ ♪

I'm so happy you're here.

My heart just is exploding.

I'm so excited to see Cody because we're like brothers.

I'm just so grateful that we're back together again.

- Weird. This whole thing again.

- I know. You have to strategize.

You and I--listen.

I'll work the people I work.

You work the people you work. - Yeah.

We'll see how it goes.

- But that's what I'm saying, I'll keep--

I'll--I'll try my hardest to keep people--

your name out of people's mouths.

You do the same and see you at the end.

- Oh my God, for sure.

Santa has already told us that in this game,

you're going to live and die by challenges.

So that makes having Frankie here even more crucial.

Frankie, in my opinion, is hands down

the best competitor that has ever played "Big Brother."

And knowing that someone like that is on my side

is so crucial.

We'll just, you know,

be in the Reindeer Games together.

Cheers to that. - Cheers. Absolutely.

[quirky music]

♪ ♪

- Hi. - Hi.

- How are you? - Good.

How are you?

- Obviously--

[laughter]

- What should we talk about?

- I don't know.

This is a little bit uncomfy,

because Nicole and I had a little bit of drama

outside of the lodge.

And I think it would be best to just directly address it,

talk it through, so that we can help each other in this game

and work together going forward.

Do you still hate me?

- No.

But you hurt my feelings a lot. - I know.

- Because you were like, one of my best friends.

- I know.

- And I don't want to think about it 'cause I'll cry.

The last time I was on "Big Brother: All-Stars,"

she kind of like, said some mean things about me

on the internet and, like, some trusted things

that I had told her, she like, told other people.

And they put it all over the internet.

And anyways, it just hurt my feelings.

It felt like you were like, oh well, yeah,

I can go on with my life without her.

And like, that's what hurts.

[tender music]

- I've wanted to talk to you about it.

- Yeah.

- You and I were pretty close.

- Yes.

- I never have like, held anything against you.

Obviously, you didn't do anything to me.

I've always, like, wished you well

and wanted the best for you.

- I know you're-- I know you're sorry.

- I know that I hurt your feelings.

- Yeah.

I forgive her, and I think just--

we can just, like, move forward

and kind of start fresh.

I don't know what to do, but I don't want

them to think we're scheming.

It's a Christmas miracle.

Britney and I mended fences, and we're going to be working

together in this game, I hope.

[laughs]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Okay.

- That's where my heart's at. - Okay.

Okay. I'm down for it.

- So it sounds like Santa is going

to be throwing some curve ba*ls

and maybe some snowballs at us.

So it's extremely important for me

to start forming relationships with people

that I really feel a good connection with.

- I instantly gravitate towards Taylor,

and Xavier is just somebody that I really want

to work with in this game.

And then you have Danielle Reyes.

Dude, she's like an untouchable.

Whoever touches Dani, they're going to deal with me.

So--[laughs]

Anything that I can help you all out with,

then I'm going to do that.

- If there's any sort of like, rally together

and pile on one person, it's never gonna

be any of the three of you.

- No. No.

- Yeah.

- We got a little-- a little somethin' somethin'

brewing in the hot cocoa room.

I like this foursome 'cause I think we got

a little bit of everything.

I don't know that it's a solidified alliance,

but we definitely have made it clear that we want

to look out for each other.

- I'll let you know if y'all in jeopardy.

Please, extend me the same courtesy.

I'm telling Josh, Xavier, and Taylor,

I got your back. I got you.

But that's a lie.

I look at them as big threats because they're champions.

I got you long as it benefits my game,

but I will cut you loose in a hot second.

So let the games begin.

Even though this is a new game,

I'm still going to be up to my old, naughty tricks.

[chuckling]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- So you happy to be alive every day, Cody?

Can't take it for granted, brother.

- I feel that, man. - That's all it is, right?

- You're much younger and much more agile,

since I've had three kids. - I don't know about that.

- What do you mean, "I had three kids?"

I'm terrified.

Moms have brute strength.

[doorbell chimes "Carol of the Bells"]

- Oh.

- This is so [...] fun.

[upbeat music]

[exclaiming]

- Yo!

Jordan.

- Hi, everyone.

- Should I give hugs to everybody?

How are you?

- Hey, I'm Jordan.

I'm an elf ambassador for Santa.

I was the winner of "Big Brother" .

[cheering]

I met my husband on "Big Brother."

- Will you marry me?

- Yes.

And we love the holidays.

My kids are at that age.

They're obsessed with Santa.

So when my kids see that I am working

for Santa as an elf ambassador, they're going to go crazy.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to Santa's Lodge.

[cheering]

I'm Jordan, your first elf ambassador.

- Oh.

- [laughs]

It's time for your first challenge.

- Ooh. - Whoo!

- Here we go.

- And Santa has a message for you.

- I'm going to [...] my pants. - Me too.

- [laughs]

- Here we go.

It's a long message, guys. - Wow.

- Oh, my God. - Oh.

- That's scary. - Hey-o.

- "Dear friends, just like in your hometown,

"people in the North Pole can be both naughty and nice

"around the holidays.

"That's why the first challenge each day

will be the Naughty and Nice Challenge."

- Oh.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Jordan just said we're about to start our first challenge.

I know I said I wanted to come in here

and win some challenges, but not knowing

what this Naughty Nice thing is,

I don't know if I want to win this early.

It might raise such a clatter.

- "I need your help with the hottest DJ

"in the North Pole, DJ Scroogie.

"He's being a little high maintenance and a bit naughty.

"He is refusing to perform at the lodge

"until someone can solve his riddle.

"And I'm leaving that challenge to you.

"You may have noticed some giant presents around my lodge.

"One at a time, they will open,

"revealing a clue to the title

"of DJ Scroogie's favorite holiday song.

"When you think you know the song,

"ring the silver bell and make your official guess.

"But think long and hard, because each of you

"only gets one guess.

"Just remember, only the first player

"to ring in and correctly name the title of the song

"has solved the riddle.

"As a thank you, I will reward the winning player

"with the Naughty and Nice Power.

"What is this power, and how does it work?

"I will reveal that once one of you

helps me out with DJ Scroogie."

Okay, follow me.

- Jordan tells us about this Naughty and Nice Power,

and the guttural panic begins to set in.

What is this going to be?

And all I can think is that whoever wins it

will get at least safety.

So I feel like I have to go for it.

- It's time to reveal your first clue.

[suspenseful music]

- Interesting. - Great.

- I will let y'all observe.

- This makes complete sense.

- Yeah.

- Oh, that old Christmas song.

I know it immediately.

In this challenge, there are three boxes

that each have a clue in it.

And when you add all three clues together,

you come up with the title of a Christmas carol.

So the first clue is revealed.

It could be a house or it could be a fireplace

or it could be snow.

There are so many possibilities,

and you only get one guess.

- I'm just waiting for to see something,

but I don't see--[laughs]

I am trying to win this challenge.

It's the first one.

And whoever wins this is going to get something,

and it's probably going to be something good.

So I definitely want to win it.

- It's time for your next clue.

♪ ♪

- Awesome.

- A damn finger.

Only the first person who guesses correctly

will win this challenge,

so I'm going to just throw whatever out there

and see if it sticks.

- All right, house.

Let's go back to check out the finger.

You got a house, and then the finger's pointing up.

Wait.

Oh, Santa's reindeer are on the house,

and then grandma walked out,

and the reindeer just took her out.

[bell clangs]

DJ Scroogie's favorite song is

"Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer."

[bell clangs]

- Guys, if it's not "Feliz Navidad,"

pack my [...] and send me home,

'cause I don't got any clue what the [...] is going on.

- It's time for your next clue.

[pensive music]

♪ ♪

- So it's a toy.

Everyone gets a toy on Christmas

unless you're naughty, right?

I don't know what's going on now.

Lord Jesus.

- I've got nothing.

- I thought that coming up with DJ Scroogie's

favorite Christmas song would be easy

because I love Christmas music, but then I realized,

oh, there's actually millions of Christmas songs

that are in this head.

- Is it a home?

- It's a home house, home, house.

- House.

- It's the first day. I don't even know

what this Naughty or Nice Power is going to be,

so I'm really not trying to go jingle ba*ls to the wall

and win this right out the gate.

I'll let somebody else take this and see how it plays out.

- I got nothing. I don't--

- You should just guess just in case because--

- Yeah, but, like, riddles are not my thing.

- This challenge is really difficult.

And honestly, it makes me a little frustrated.

We got a house.

I got a finger and a top.

I don't know what any of this is supposed to mean.

It's like, my brain is scrambled eggs right now.

♪ ♪

- What if it has a different name?

- So Britney and I are not known

for winning physical challenges,

but this is a challenge using your brain.

And we're pretty smart women.

Both moms.

I think we can figure this out.

And that way, whoever wins this power,

we can help each other out

because we don't know what it is.

- I'm trying to think of-- just in case there's another

name for the song. - Okay.

- ♪ Up on the housetop, reindeer pause ♪

♪ Out jumps good old Santa Claus ♪

Do you know that song?

Go. Go say that in case.

Say "Old Saint Nick."

- "Old Saint Nick."

[suspenseful music]

- I got to pee.

- I'm positive I know what the song is.

I'm not % sure that I have the title right.

It's--[humming tune]

Yeah, I think that's what it is.

I think that's what it is.

DJ Scrooge's favorite song is "Up On the Housetop."

[upbeat music]

- Oh, my God.

- "Up on the Housetop."

- "Up on the Housetop."

- Everyone come to the kitchen.

We have a winner.

- We got a winner.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Congratulations...

[tense music]

♪ ♪

Britney.

[cheering]

You figured out DJ Scroogie's favorite song,

"Up on the Housetop."

[air horn blares]

["Up on the Housetop" electronic version playing]

♪ ♪

- ♪ Up on the housetop, reindeer pause ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Out jumps good ol' Santa Claus ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Down through the chimney with lots of toys ♪

♪ ♪

♪ All for the little ones' Christmas joys ♪

♪ Oh, h*, h* ♪

♪ Who wouldn't go? ♪

♪ Oh, h*, h* ♪

♪ Who wouldn't go? ♪

♪ Up on the housetop, click click click ♪

♪ Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick ♪

- All right. Thank you, DJ.

- Bye.

- DJ Scroogie definitely knows

how to get the party started.

"Congratulations, Britney.

"You have earned the Naughty and Nice Power.

"As the winner, this power is nice for you

"because it will give you an advantage

at the next challenge, the Jingle Bell Brawl."

[cheering]

"But there's more.

"Britney, you also get to put somebody on the naughty list,

"giving them a disadvantage in the same challenge.

"And in a game where winning

"and losing challenges is critical,

"these advantages and disadvantages

"could be the difference between staying and going.

"Britney, when you hear the jingle bells ring,

"you will need to come to the living room

and announce your decision."

- I don't love this.

Jordan mentions that Britney not only is

going to have an advantage

but has to hand out a disadvantage.

And Santa has already told us that in this game,

challenges are going to be everything.

So getting a disadvantage could be

completely devastating to my game.

I'm known for winning "Big Brother: All-Stars,"

so I know I'm already going to be a target.

And not having a relationship with Britney

could be a big problem for me.

- I feel great with Britney, but being the new guy in town,

I know that there's a target on my back already.

So you never know what's gonna happen.

- Hold on. Advantage?

So it's just going to be, like, a little bit easier for me?

I'm excited to have won, but then also

I have to create an enemy.

That doesn't sound like a great time.

That doesn't sound like what I thought

this power was going to be.

I have been bamboozled.

I would like to have a word with Santa, please.

[quirky festive music]

- Don't you dare give me the disadvantage.

- I win the first power, and good for you, Britney.

I will be given an advantage in the Jingle Bell Brawl.

And oh, I get to give a disadvantage

and make an enemy.

Oh great, for solving a riddle, thank you.

Thank you, DJ Scroogie.

[air horn blares]

I would be crazy not to give this disadvantage to someone

who I think could beat me in a challenge.

Fact of the matter is you and I

and the rest of the girls in this house

are better together-- - Yeah.

- Than if we fraction off.

- I'm not going after you.

Frankie and Cody are like this.

That's the scary duo.

Okay?

Cody really betrayed me the last time

we played a game together.

So the fact that Frankie and him are really close,

either one of them could get the disadvantage.

And I think that'd be really good for my game.

- Whatever you guys want, I'm with you guys.

Who do you think? - Who do you think?

- Cody...

and Cameron...

and Xavier are really good at competitions.

- The fact that it's a brawl tells me...

- It's muscles. - It's something physical.

It's called a brawl, not a bra.

I really want this decision to seem

like it came from the collective,

rather than my own original idea.

If I can pass some of the blame on literally anyone else,

that would be great.

I feel like I should have thought about how

bad this is before I guessed.

So I kick off my meetings in my power lair

next to the bathroom.

♪ ♪

[toilet flushes]

So official, the meetings.

[wind blows]

- So do I need to brace myself?

Or what do you want me to do? - I don't know.

What do you want to do?

- Not be given whatever that thing is.

- Mm-hmm. - But...

would be cool to work with you.

- Okay. - Super cool.

- Okay. - Very cool.

- Most of these people, this is the first conversation

I have ever had with them.

Cameron just got out of the "Big Brother" house.

And that is evident.

He is looking tired, haggard, mentally exhausted.

I think he's still losing sleep about whatever

went wrong on BB.

[wind blows]

- I mean, I feel good with you.

- I feel good with you.

- Yeah, so any way we can look out for each other, we will.

- Awesome.

I actually, for some weird reason, really like Josh.

But he's the one that I see on Instagram

flipping tractor tires and pushing dumpsters for fun.

So I'm very intimidated by him physically.

I'm very intimidated by the competitor

that I know he is, and like a little bit

of maybe a loose cannon maniac.

[wind blows]

- Nice.

- This is actually my first time meeting Cody.

And he's definitely a contender for this disadvantage.

Between just being known to be

a very physical, competitive guy,

he feels warm and just like a really nice guy,

which is like the perfect formula

for winning one of these games.

- What are you thinking? - To be honest with you,

I think I'm just going to, like, take the consensus.

- Take a consensus? - Mm-hmm.

I'm just going to take the votes.

And I'm just going to be like the polling place.

- Mm-hmm. I want her to say,

you don't have to worry.

I'm not gonna give you the disadvantage.

I don't get that from her.

She says she's going with the house consensus.

So I don't know how to feel.

- I'm just gonna announce the results of the poll.

I think that's my strategy.

- Are you gonna put it that way too?

[wind blows]

- Okay, this is the worst.

There's no one here from any seasons that

I competed on. - Yeah.

- So, you know, I feel a little on the outside.

Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.

- So my ask would be for people who I do not disadvantage,

like, that they would just, like, take note of that.

- Yeah.

- When I talked to Xavier, he's serving me,

like, a big plate of just air.

- I get that.

- There's no meat.

There's no substance.

There's nothing to actually take.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

- Yeah.

- But like, seemingly no original thoughts.

- Yeah. Yeah.

♪ ♪

- I'm really proud of you.

- It should have amounted to safety, but thank you.

- Very cool to watch you do this in real life.

- I mean, I'm getting a lot of credit

for knowing a Christmas carol.

Okay, so what would you do?

- The big boys.

[bells jingle]

I don't think any of those boys would be mad at you.

- Okay. - I don't.

They'd be like, whatever, it's fine.

It's a game.

Wanting to prove that they can survive the decision.

They're gonna be like whatever.

Also, everyone's a [...] winner.

- Xavier didn't win.

[springs boings]

- He didn't? - Did he win?

- I think he did. - Oh.

- Yes, he won the-- he won the--

he won the Cookout.

- He won? - Yes.

- [laughs] What?

[wind blows]

- I'm so glad you won that.

- Are the guys telling-- what are they telling you?

Does it just sound like lip service?

- Xavier, he basically said nothing.

- It seems like Britney's thinking about giving

Xavier the disadvantage.

And I need her to pump the brakes a little bit.

I need X to be not only an ally,

but also a weapon for me.

- What would you do?

- Cody, are you kidding me?

Cody's at the top of my hit list

because people let him slip through the cracks

and get too far in the game.

And next thing you know, he's winning his way to the end.

I need to cut this gingerbread man off at the legs right now.

- Okay, do you want to let him go far in the game?

- I know. Thanks.

I think my stress level is higher now.

God, it's such a--

it's such a really hard thing to weigh

because Cody's obviously very physical.

Then you have Xavier is also a very physically fit,

very active, whatever, whatever.

I'm gonna make an enemy, which is like the last thing I need.

I am going to put a disadvantage

on someone that, in return, they could do the same to me.

Honestly, so far, the Christmas surprises

are neither fun nor festive.

[groans]

[tense music]

Why?

[cheerful music]

♪ ♪

- I guess we'll see.

- Yeah, when I heard the first kind of, I guess, like, twist,

so to speak-- I was like okay--

[bells jingle] - Ahh!

- [laughs]

- It's scary.

Whenever you hear Santa's jingle his bells,

and it's impossible not to hear them, they're really loud.

We all have to head into the living room.

That scared me.

- Oh, my gosh.

- Ah, Santa, are you good?

These jingle bells are no joke.

Oh, God.

- I'm so scared.

[bells jingling]

- As the winner of the Naughty and Nice Power,

I have earned an advantage

in the upcoming Jingle Bell Brawl.

[bells chiming]

But I also get to put someone on the Naughty List,

giving them a disadvantage.

I don't want to put anyone on the Naughty List.

Alas, Santa says I must.

[tense music]

- Honestly, I'm hoping it's not me.

Go over there, go over there.

Don't pay attention to me.

I'm trying to sink into the sofa right now.

♪ ♪

- Please, please, please, please,

please, please, please, please, please, please, please

don't use this thing on me.

I don't want to be the first person

to receive a disadvantage.

I don't even know what it is.

It could be completely awful.

♪ ♪

- I'm hoping Britney doesn't give the disadvantage to me.

Look, Britney,

I know my pants are giving big Grinch energy.

But, like, you don't need to throw me on the Naughty List.

I'm trying to save Christmas.

- The lodge is filled with past winners of "Big Brother,"

and people that do extremely well in challenges.

Look away from me and not give me the disadvantage.

Put it on somebody else.

- I have decided to put...

[tense music]

♪ ♪

Cody on the naughty list.

- What?

[lively music]

♪ ♪

I was so good this year.

Guess Santa didn't tell you that.

It's unbelievable.

♪ ♪

- [whines]

I'm really sorry.

- It's okay. It's all right.

- Aw.

- Everyone get ready for a Christmas clash.

Because the Jingle Bell Brawl starts soon.

- And the games have begun.

[cheering]

- Cody's obviously an amazing competitor.

The fact that his name came up so much,

people are clearly very intimidated by him.

- Oh, Cody, it's okay, man.

- However, I worry about getting blowback

from all of the people that he's close friends with

in addition to him.

How fun.

- It's okay. It's totally fine.

Don't worry about it.

- I'm glad Cody got the disadvantage

just because maybe this will level the playing field, duh.

- Honestly, this game is kind of going

exactly how I want it to.

I don't want to get too c*ck,

but I'm feeling pretty good right now.

- Guys, we don't have to-- - No, we're doing it.

I'm forcing you to do this. - We're doing it?

- We're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it.

- Britney put me on the naughty list.

I've been good all year.

She mentioned that she was trying to take a house poll.

So it's gonna be interesting to figure out

who was mentioning my name.

But I'm definitely not going to let

the disadvantage hinder me.

And I'm going to be winning the Jingle Bell Brawl.

- And now we have to brawl.

Let's brawl.

[whimsical orchestral music]

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Oh, my God!

♪ ♪

- Ahh!

- Oh, my goodness, I love all things Christmas.

And this candy cane forest is a literal winter wonderland.

And I'm so excited for this Jingle Bell Brawl.

Yay!

Let's go.

♪ ♪

- I love the walkout.

[laughter]

"Welcome to the first Jingle Bell Brawl

of Reindeer Games!" [cheering]

- Let's go.

- "Win this challenge,

and not only will Santa give you safety for the day"...

- [whistles]

- "But the winner will also have

a huge responsibility"...

- Ooh!

- "They will earn the power to play a crucial role

in deciding who will be going home."

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- The Jingle Bell Brawl is actually going

to give safety to the winner.

What a concept!

So I'm like, "This one seems

actually really quite important."

I have put myself at a disadvantage

by giving someone else a disadvantage.

So it might be the best idea for me to just try

to win safety because I feel like

I've already made a little bit of a target of myself.

♪ ♪

- "Welcome to the first Jingle Bell Brawl

"of Reindeer Games!

[cheers and applause]

"So what's stressing Santa out today?

"Well, there's a massive backup at the North Pole post office.

"The letters to Santa have stopped being delivered.

"Without these letters, Santa has no idea

"what presents kids all over the world want for Christmas,

"so he needs your assistance delivering the mail.

"Everyone, head to your mailbox

deep in the Candy Cane Forest."

- Ooh.

- Listen, girl, I have to go in

and win this Jingle Bell Brawl challenge because who wants

to be the first one sent home, you know, from the lodge?

You know, I like the lodge. The lodge is cozy and warm.

I got my sweater on.

I want to play in those Reindeer Games,

so I need to stay in the lodge, period.

Simple as that.

- "With your help, we'll get the North Pole mail

"back on track.

"On the sound of the Christmas bell,

"grab one of your letters.

"Race across your candy cane bridge,

"and once there, you have a big decision to make

"because you must place your letter

"in another player's mailbox.

"You can give all your letters to one player

"or distribute them amongst many.

"It's completely up to you.

"Once you have delivered your letters

"to the central sorting station,

"you must then take any letters

"the other players have given to you

"and deliver them one at a time

"back to your starting mailbox.

"The more letters given to a specific player,

"the more trips they will have to make.

"Britney, because you earned a nice advantage,

"you will start with one less envelope

"in your mailbox.

Cody"... - Yeah.

- "Because you were given

"the naughty disadvantage,

"that envelope is already in your mailbox.

"That means you already have an extra trip to make.

"The first player to deliver all their letters

"and then redeliver all the letters given to them

"and hit their button will win safety

and the first Jingle Bell Brawl."

[cheers and applause]

- The fact that Britney has given me a disadvantage

makes it pretty clear

that I already have a target on my back.

So I need to win safety here,

but having this disadvantage is gonna make it

that much harder for me to do that.

I know I need to go hard in the snow

so I can overcome this avalanche

and win the Jingle Bell Brawl.

- This is so crazy, man.

I can't believe I'm here.

I really wanna win this Jingle Bell Brawl.

Safety's on the line.

If I can win safety in this challenge,

it will buy me time to get to know everybody in here

and possibly prolong my stay here in the lodge,

making it all the way down to the Reindeer Games.

- Is everyone ready?

both: Yes! - Yeah!

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[bell dings]

[upbeat music]

- How scary is this?

[buzzer blares]

- I'm putting one in each, one in everybody.

This is a political game.

So in order to keep everyone happy,

I scream out at the top of this challenge,

"I'm gonna put one letter in everyone's mailbox."

So I do not wanna be singled out

by any of the other competitors.

I need to win this Jingle Bell Brawl

so that I can get a big threat out of the lodge

to further my game

to the Reindeer Games!

That's it. Fair.

I'm very fair.

- These letters are piling up.

[dramatic music]

- This Jingle Bell Brawl is pretty simple.

We have to deliver our letters

to the central sorting station.

But you wanna put your letters

into the mailbox of someone

that you don't want to win this.

And that's important, because once you've delivered

all of your letters, you can start emptying letters

from your own mailbox.

Whoever is the first to empty their own mailbox

wins this challenge.

- Cody, I see you.

- [high-pitched] I see what you're doing, Cody.

- Cody is putting his mail into my slot,

which is totally not cool.

I didn't give him permission to do that.

You made the first move.

- Another letter for Cody.

- You know what?

Two can play that game, Cody.

- It's the closest one, girl. It ain't personal.

- Seems like a lot of people are targeting Cameron.

- Good Lord, guys!

- This is a sabotage challenge.

Sadly, the odd man out is gonna be targeted,

and Cameron's a strong competitor.

It's nothing against the guy.

It's just, he's new to this whole "Big Brother" family.

So it's like, sorry, buddy, I guess.

I think that's just the best move right now.

And I think that everybody's just gonna go that direction.

- Cameron's letters are really piling up.

- I'm noticing that everyone has been putting

their letters in my box,

which means they are all targeting me.

That doesn't bother me.

I'm no stranger to a little bit of pressure.

So it's definitely gonna make me play that much harder.

I have so much mail!

- Cameron, your sorting station is filling up.

- This challenge is designed to force people

to show their cards.

It's gonna force people to kind of show

who they're targeting and who they might

potentially be working with.

As the game's going on, I'm noticing everybody

is shoving their letters in Cam's mailbox.

I'm sorry, Cam. - There's so much mail.

- [laughs] I know, buddy.

Cam, I don't really know you, man,

so I'ma throw my mail

right in your box too, bro.

- You full, baby?

- Yeah, a good bit going here.

Knowing that I have this extreme uphill battle,

I'm just going to stay on pace,

make sure that I do everything that I'm supposed to do,

don't look at anybody else,

keep my balance, and keep moving.

I've been fangirling all day,

but it's time to focus in and show them that I belong.

Y'all gotta be outta mail by now.

- Poor Cameron. He's a rookie,

and his box is completely full.

So many people have sent him hate mail

that he no longer has the capacity

to receive any more.

[upbeat music]

I'm gonna go with the next best option,

which is Cody.

It's right next door.

I've already shown my cards with him

with the disadvantage.

So I might as well just send all my other letters his way.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- First challenge, I laid low,

but now that I know safety's at stake,

it only makes sense for me to go all out.

In this Jingle Bell Brawl,

I'm targeting Cody with my letters.

I think if you give that guy a inch, he'll take a mile.

I'm hoping that Cody and Cameron will have

the most amount of letters in their box

so that whoever wins this power,

if it isn't me,

will look at those as two easy targets in the end.

- My mailbox is full of letters.

I'm getting 'em from Britney, who obviously gave me

the disadvantage, from Nicole 'cause she was mad

that I was putting 'em in hers.

But Taylor's putting 'em in my mailbox,

and I wasn't even going near hers.

So that's kind of alarming to me.

All this is doing is adding a yule log to my fire

and making me want to go even faster.

- Oh! [buzzer blares]

Damn it. - So, as y'all know,

Joshua, Mr. Fit, always working out.

He could not balance himself on that beam to save his life.

[buzzer blares]

- Listen, I'm pounds, '". I'm a big dude.

I'm good on the floor. I'm good head-to-head.

Walking across... [buzzer blaring]

This balance beam, I'm struggling.

Every time I fall off the balance beam

I need to go back and start over.

And now I'm starting to get frustrated and pissed off.

Oh, my God. [buzzer blares]

- Maybe he had too many meatballs.

I don't know. [laughs]

I don't know.

[tense music]

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - See you later.

- Cody is almost there.

- Now that I've given out all my notes,

I need to now empty out my mailbox

in the center of the station.

There are a ton of notes in my mailbox.

I am flying, next-level speed.

Nobody's gonna be going-- oh!

[music distorts]

- [in slow-mo] Ooh!

Ooh! That's gotta hurt.

- [groans] - I heard Cody crash,

and I'm not upset about it because--

[laughs] That's so mean.

- [groans in slo-mo] - I just--

[laughs] Oh, sh**t.

Nicole, Nicole, Nicole.

- Cody, you okay? - Yeah, I'm good.

I'm good. I'm good.

[upbeat holiday music]

- So I'm noticing my stack is getting smaller

and smaller and smaller, and I'm realizing

I think my strategy is working

because no one is putting letters in my mailbox.

- I see that my mailbox is close to empty,

and that's fantastic.

It means that nobody's coming after me

even though they probably should be.

- Taylor's hot on Frankie's heels.

- Now I just have to take the few letters

that are there back to my mailbox

and win this challenge.

- So it's coming to the end.

I see the golden letter.

I am so close to finishing this, and...

- Frankie, I'm giving you another one.

- [pants] Give it to me.

Xavier shoves a letter in my mailbox!

Thanks, Xavier!

Xavier was on my nice list,

but I might have to put him on my naughty list after that.

Hmm. [dog growling]

- Frankie's down to his last letter.

- I'm like, "Who's-- who got only one little card?

"Is that Frank--oh, uh-uh, Frankie, uh-uh."

Frankie, you can't have it too easy.

[laughs]

You have to earn that win.

[laughs] - Danielle!

Get out of my mailbox!

- Look, Frankie is a force to be reckoned with, period.

And if anyone thinks otherwise, they are fooling themselves.

- Frankie, yours is the quick-- closest box.

[intense music]

- As I grab one piece of mail,

I take it to my place.

I come back to the mailbox in the middle,

and it's full again.

Not only am I removing mail,

mail is still coming into my box.

Like, come on, guys. Something's gotta give.

I'll take that.

I'll take it for you.

[laughs]

- Easy, easy. Oh, no! [buzzer blares]

- Come on, Nicole. [buzzer blares]

- If he makes it with this letter, he's the winner.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Congratulations, Frankie.

- Way to go, Frankie.

- Whoo! - Good job.

[celebratory music]

- Good job, Frankie! [applause]

- "You have helped deliver Santa's mail the fastest,

and have won the Jingle Bell Brawl."

- Yeah, come on. - Yeah!

Congratulations. - Put the dukes up.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

I won! That is just so typically me.

[gasps] Looks like I'm gonna be sticking around

Santa's Lodge a little bit longer.

- "Not only are you now safe from today's elimination,

but Santa is giving you an extraordinary power."

- Oh.

- "It will be up to you, and you alone, to decide

which two players to send to the first Santa Showdown."

- Okay.

- Oh, my God.

- "Being sent to Santa Showdown

means you are at risk of going home"...

- Wow.

- "Because, in this challenge,

"lose and you will be eliminated

"with no chance of going to the Reindeer Games,

"ending your shot at the $, grand prize.

"So, Frankie, you will be putting

two players' games in jeopardy."

- So now I get to decide who goes into Santa's Showdown.

This lodge is filled with threats.

And I need to figure out how to get one of them out

but protect myself in the process

and minimize my exposure for retaliation.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

- I really wanted to win this challenge

for myself and keep myself safe.

But Frankie winning is perfect.

He's my number one person in this game,

and so I know he's gonna protect me

and he's gonna take care of me.

So I couldn't be happier.

- Cody winning would have been

the worst-case scenario for me in this case, I think.

Frankie winning--I feel pretty good with Frankie.

I think that it'll be okay.

I don't feel like he's targeting me,

and I will survive another day in the lodge.

- Yay! - Great job, Frankie.

Frankie wins the Jingle Bell Brawl,

and I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little uneasy.

Because I don't know Frankie that well.

I did put a card in his slot,

but I'm hoping he's looking at somebody else.

I think who he'll select will ultimately come down

to what he thinks is best for him moving forward.

- Based on how this competition went,

I can tell I'm on a lot of people's radar.

That's pretty scary. I don't wanna be picked

for Santa's Showdown, and I definitely don't wanna

go home on the first day.

That'd be bad.

- I'll see you at Santa's Showdown.

Now you can head back in Santa's Lodge.

- Everyone, prance after me.

Everyone must prance.

♪ ♪

- God, you're a beast, dude. [laughs]

I--honestly, though, when we walked into that--

- This is gonna be perfect for us.

- It's gonna be great--well, because now, like, you've--

- You've been called out. I've been--I am target, target,

with the rest of the house, like, my--

I'm, like, don't know how I'm gonna keep, like...

- [whispers] Hey. - Everyone happy.

- You guys coming after me? Just be honest.

- Oh, yeah. If I would have won,

I would have put you down.

[bells distort]

No. - No, of course not. Nicole.

Nicole, look at me. Look at me.

This is--this, to me, is special.

- Yeah. - Like, walking into the house

and seeing you, like, I would be very happy

to play the Reindeer Games with you two idiots...

both: Yeah. - And redo season .

I'm not gonna send you to Santa's Showdown.

You know what I'm saying? I don't think any of us should

send each other to Santa's Showdown.

- Yeah, exactly. - I think it's silly.

It's stupid. - I won't send you guys.

All right, change of plans.

I am going to use my "Big Brother" card.

Frankie, Cody, and I all played together on "Big Brother" .

So right now I'm just like,

"Yes, we're still all best friends."

Because even though I'm targeting them,

I do not want Frankie to put me in Santa's Showdown.

Nothing says the holidays like backstabbing.

I gotta do what I gotta do.

[laughs]

- Who do I send to Santa's Showdown?

- I don't know. - It goes to, like,

you wanna be able to, like, beat these people

down the line. - Yeah.

- So it's gotta be, like, strong for strong.

- So I need to start sending

strong people home immediately. - Mm-hmm.

- I definitely wanna send two very strong competitors

into Santa's Showdown

and send one of them home.

I just have to figure out which two.

[tense music]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- [gasps] Oh, my--stop it. I'm getting in position!

Stop it.

Because I won the Jingle Bell Brawl,

I have to choose two players to send into Santa's Showdown.

Does this ding?

[bell rings]

There is no voting here in Santa's Lodge.

One of them will leave.

Bye-bye.

But the other one is gonna stay.

So I have to make sure that whoever stays is someone

that's not gonna be too mad at me

and try to retaliate immediately.

Well, hello. Welcome. Come on in.

- Hello, Daddy. - Welcome to Santa's office.

So now that I have the power to send someone

into Santa's Showdown,

I definitely wanna send home a big competitive threat.

So that's one less person that I have to worry about

winning any of these challenges moving forward.

- Okay. So what's your plan?

- Everyone was stuffing Cameron's box,

so I feel like that's easy.

[whispers] Who do I put up against Cameron?

- Who can beat him?

- Cody,

X,

and Josh.

- Either three, I'll support you.

I feel good about this.

Frankie--if he can go after one of those guys,

it's a win-win for Danielle.

He's doing my dirty work. I ain't gotta do nothing.

The end of this show,

I'm don't expect a lot of Christmas presents.

But it's okay, because I have the check.

So whatever you do, I got you.

- Yeah. Okay, great.

Good team. - I got you, boo.

- Good. Great.

- There's a solid chance it's gonna be me and you...

- It's very possible. - Whatever this thing is.

- It's very--it's like-- - I mean, I like Frankie

and I feel pretty good with him, but I don't.

- But the thing is, I-I have a pretty good relationship

with Frankie.

'Cause, like, outside of the house...

- Mm-hmm. - Like, we're pretty close.

So, like, I think it may, like, save me a little bit.

[soft mysterious music]

- Uh, you're fine. - Okay.

- We just need to get the-- the big, big, strong guys out.

And then Cody is just--

is still another strong player in the house.

But I think he's gonna keep us safe.

I don't think-- you guys are fine, right?

- Yes. - Okay, good.

But I'm not gonna do that.

I don't think he's coming for me.

- No. [laughs]

I don't--I don't wanna pitch Cody at all.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Mm-mm. - You don't?

- Mm-mm. I always feel nervous.

I don't know.

- Mm-mm. - How do you feel?

[whip cracks]

- Why do you think you got so many envelopes in your box?

- I'm gonna go with a little bit of the rookie.

- Yeah.

- Hazing the new guy. I'm cool with it.

It's cool. - I know.

- I play hard.

- And I respect that tremendously,

just so you know.

I want hard competitors in the end.

Like, I want the Reindeer Games to be, like, crazy.

- Right.

- I think we could help each other in this game.

- I would love that.

- I'm just letting you know

that I might be hearing your name a lot.

- Mm-hmm. - That's all.

- Yep.

- And so I'm trying to figure out

how to get the least amount of blood on my hands

on day one.

- I've done this song and dance before, brother.

I catch the eerie feeling that Frankie is leaning towards

putting me in Santa's Showdown.

I gotta let him know that I'm someone

that he would like to workwith,

not go ahead and get gone.

If you're thinking of keeping

strong competitors down to the end...

- Yeah. - And keeping your name off

of everyone's radar,

having already won the first big challenge...

- Yeah. - That's gonna be tough.

- I know. - So the blood's already there.

- I know. - So what do we do now?

'Cause I can do whatever you need me to do.

- Cameron is such a sweetheart.

And I really do wanna work with him, but, unfortunately,

he's kind of already been branded

as the outcast of this lodge.

Cameron's mailbox was more stuffed

than I am after Christmas dinner.

Sorry, Cameron, but I'm gonna have

to send you into Santa's Showdown.

The only question is, who am I gonna send with you?

- [laughs awkwardly] Okay.

- Oh, it was a good pitch. It was a good pitch.

- Thank you. - You know what you're doing.

- No.

- Talk to me.

- I feel like a lot of people

put envelopes in Cameron's slot.

- Yeah.

- So that's something I'm considering.

- Okay. - [sighs]

- Like, I want you to see that,

like, we can work together, and it's possible.

- Yeah, of course. Let's figure it out.

Well, let me go talk to the rest of house

and see what everyone's thinking.

- Now who are you thinking for the second spot?

- [sighs] I don't know. - Yeah.

- Somebody that can beat Cameron.

- Yeah. - If I put Cameron in,

then I don't want him to come back.

- Yeah, that's gonna be tough. - He's very strong.

- He is. And he's a good competitor.

Well, do you feel good with me?

- I mean, I feel good with you.

- After talking to Frankie, I feel better.

But I don't think he gave me any assurances

that I'm not potentially going into Santa's Showdown.

So I don't feel completely safe.

I'm ready to go to Santa's Showdown,

but I'm hoping I don't have to see it.

Well, I do hope we have the chance to work together.

If you keep me safe, I hope you give me

the opportunity to repay that.

[soft suspenseful music]

- How are you feeling?

- I'm feeling okay.

- Yeah.

- I think I'm just an easy person to go after.

- Because you're so good. [laughs]

- Of course I'm not worried that Frankie's gonna throw me

into Santa's Showdown,

but I have to put this face on

because the last thing I ever want

is Frankie and I down there, going against each other,

facing off in Santa's Showdown.

- But in a way, it's a compliment,

even though it doesn't feel like it.

- How are you with Cody?

- I just feel like taking a shot at Cody

day one is wild and crazy.

- So when do you wanna do it, day three,

at the Reindeer Games? - [laughs]

- Frankie, there are people in this house that

if you don't take a shot day one, two, and three,

they're gonna be playing Reindeer Games

and leaving your a*s behind.

- I know. No, you're % right.

And he's an enormous threat.

- Who else are you considering?

- Uh, Cameron.

Or X or Josh.

- I don't want to put X in jeopardy right now, not yet.

- Oh. [scoffs]

Do we have alliances on day one?

Hmm, sorry, Taylor,

but I'm not gonna send my number one

into Santa's Showdown.

But good to know that you have a number one of your own

that you're trying to protect.

I'm just gonna file that away for further reference later.

Got it.

- It was kind of eye-opening for me

to see how many I got from multiple people.

- No, Cody, it's scary, because the thing is, like,

because people are pitching you.

- Who? - Not the boys.

The boys have been very quiet. No one has really given names.

- I can't imagine Nicole is saying me to you.

- [laughs]

- No, she's not. - That's what I'm saying.

- No, Nicole is good. - I feel like--

- Nicole is like "BB. We're great."

- Is Danielle mentioning me?

But it's because she's trying to protect X.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn.

Taylor putting letters in my mailbox I can understand.

Maybe I'll overlook that,

but now hearing that she's trying

to throw my name in the fire for Santa's Showdown,

this is really surprising to me 'cause Taylor and I were

building a pretty good rapport all day long.

And it kind of makes me feel like

she might have been one of the people that was

throwing my name to Britney early on.

I feel like I've been underestimating Taylor,

but I am not doing that anymore.

And now I have my eye on her.

[laughs] She's [...] good, man.

- Well, people are scared of you 'cause you won.

- Yeah.

[bells jingling] - [gasps] God.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- [vocalizing]

[soft chatter]

- We can all fit.

[bells jingling]

- I'm prancing.

- I can't wait. - [laughs]

[applause] - What an entrance.

- As the winner of the Jingle Bell Brawl,

I must choose two people

to face off in Santa's Showdown.

Win at Santa's Showdown, and you'll prove to Santa

you have the chestnuts to continue on.

- [chuckles]

- Lose, and you'll be eliminated,

sending you home for the holidays.

- I got a pretty bad feeling about this,

but I'm hanging on to the small chance

that Frankie's not gonna send me to Santa's Showdown.

I mean, I don't wanna leave yet.

I love this place. Not to mention,

I gotta make it to Reindeer Games

so I can win that K.

- I trust Frankie to ultimately do what makes more sense.

We are here to play a game.

And when you play games, you eliminate people

that are strong, competitive threats to you.

That strong, competitive threat to me

and so many other people in the house is Cody.

It doesn't make sense to let him get far.

So I want Cody up for elimination.

- The first person I'm choosing is...

Cameron.

- Okay.

- I'm sorry. - Familiar territory.

- I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry.

[sighs]

The second person I'm choosing is...

Xavier.

♪ ♪

I'm so sorry to have to do this to you.

It is such a fast game,

we barely had time to really get a chance

to know each other.

So my decision today is based on the fact

that you received the most envelopes in your box.

This is not personal or to be petty,

but you put an envelope in my box,

so it made my decision all that more easy.

All right, Cameron and Xavier,

you will be heading into Santa's Showdown very soon,

which, unfortunately, means that one of you will be headed

h*, h*, home.

- I'm not surprised, but I am juiced up.

This is the first Santa Showdown.

And I'm facing off with who I believe to be one

of the best competitors "Big Brother" has ever seen,

Xavier.

Frankie, if you wanna see a showdown,

you called the right two numbers.

I'm ready to rock this thing out, man.

Let's go.

- Here you go, brother. - It's all good.

Damn, Frankie.

Honestly, his decision isn't surprising.

This is a very sped-up game, and I really haven't had time

to cultivate any type of relationship with Frankie.

- This is the game. - I know.

- There are only a certain number of options,

so it makes sense as to why he threw me down

to Santa's Showdown, but it still sucks.

I'll be damned if I'm 'bout to be the first person

to go home.

Cam, you seem like a good guy,

but I gotta make it to the Reindeer Games,

which means at Santa's Showdown,

you gotta go.

- Are y'all having friggin' fun yet?

You better be having fun.

We're having fun, damn it!

[laughs]

♪ ♪

[soaring music]

♪ ♪

- Santa's workshop. - h*, h*, h*.

- Goodness. Aah!

[gasps] I love Christmas!

[bright percussive music]

- It's so cute. - Oh.

♪ ♪

- h*, h*, h*.

♪ ♪

- Hi, elf.

♪ ♪

[cheering]

- Let's go.

- We walk into Santa's Showdown,

and I see nutcrackers,

I see presents,

I see Christmas trees.

I really wish I could sit here and, like,

feel all the Christmas joy,

but I gotta compete in Santa's Showdown,

so...

bah-humbug.

- "In this challenge,

"Cameron and Xavier will be facing off.

"The yeti in the Candy Cane Forest

"is getting angry 'cause he hates being cold,

"but Santa has designed an enormous yeti sweater.

"But he needs you to make it.

"Next to your sweater-building station,

"you each have a sack with sweater parts.

"On 'Go,' you must assemble the sweater

"as fast as possible.

"The sweater is quite intricate,

"so Santa has left you his design

"in case you need help.

"The first player to correctly complete their yeti sweater

"and hit their button wins. [bell dinging]

"If successful, you will survive the day

"and continue on your quest to Reindeer Games.

"Lose,

"and you're up Candy Cane Creek without a paddle.

That means you will be eliminated."

- Good luck.

- Yay. To elimination.

- Listen, Cameron and Xavier,

they both seem like great guys,

but the reality is,

they're both also huge threats to my game.

So whoever returns, fine by me,

as long as one of you goes home--don't care which.

And whoever does come back into the lodge,

I hope can start working on a relationship with them.

There's no revenge in Reindeer Games.

- Santa's Showdown is do-or-die.

This is the most important challenge

that I've probably ever competed in.

I want to show everyone that I can play this game.

I am such a fan of X.

He is one of the best competitors

I have ever seen, so smart, so quick.

He's amazing, but, damn, I gotta win this.

My life in this game is at stake.

And I really don't want to be the first person to go home,

so I'm gonna put myself in a position to win K,

and it's gonna start with beating Cam right now.

The fate of my game and the fate

of Christmas depends on it.

- Are you ready?

- Mm-hmm.

- Good luck.

[air horn blares]

[dramatic music]

- Merry Christmas.

[cheering]

Okay.

♪ ♪

To win Santa's Showdown,

we have to use puzzle pieces

to complete a yeti's sweater.

Okay, now we going.

Off to the side, we have a reference

that shows us exactly what the puzzle

is supposed to look like.

The first person to assemble their sweater

and then mash the button wins Santa's Showdown.

And the loser catches the next sleigh outta town.

Normally, when you do a puzzle, you want to start

on the borders and work yourself in.

Puzzle like this, I want to try to build

the reindeer face first and work outward.

The reindeer is the focal point

of the entire sweater, so I figure

if I figure out how the face kinda goes together,

everything will kind of fall together.

[upbeat holiday music]

- I'm actually rooting for Cameron in the Santa Showdown

because Cameron is sort of on an island.

Cameron doesn't really have any relationships

in the lodge, so I feel like going forward,

he could potentially be more workable.

- Way to go, X.

- Totally different strategies.

- This sweater is complicated all the way around,

but I think if I tackle the sleeves first,

it'll make putting the face together that much easier.

Red.

I started to develop a method

where I would go to the photo,

look at the piece that I wanted to find,

then put it in the corresponding spot.

And it meant going back and forth a lot,

but I found that to be pretty effective.

- Xavier is starting with the sleeves.

Cameron's starting in the middle.

Never seen that before.

Two strategies, but there can only be one winner.

- Good hustle, guys. - You're crushing it, boys.

- It's a lot. - Good hustle.

- I'm sweating watching this. - Yeah.

♪ ♪

- Typically, I fancy myself a puzzle person,

but this puzzle is not easy.

Not only are there , puzzle pieces,

this ugly Christmas sweater has distracting nuisances

all over the place.

The sweater has got, like, tinsel everywhere.

There's, like, a reindeer nose, a random antler.

None of the colors make sense.

Like, and from a fashion statement,

it's disgusting.

Switch you back there.

- I'm rooting for X.

The playbook is really simple.

You align with people that you trust in the game,

and you also align with people who can be your weapon.

And for the time being,

as long as there are other strong men

in this lodge, I need Xavier to be the person

that knocks out all the soldiers on my behalf.

Ooh, ooh, ooh! Quick feet! Quick feet!

- You guys are doing way better than Kaitlyn.

[suspenseful music]

- This Santa Showdown is so intense right now.

I mean, there's b*ll*ts of sweat

just falling off of their face.

I'm literally holding on for reindeer life

to see what happens because they are neck and neck,

and it's anyone's game at this point.

- This Santa Showdown is completely wild,

and I'm just so happy it's not me down there.

- This is terrifying.

It's something I've never experienced before

and honestly never want to.

- Everything else that I do in this game for me

will be avoiding Santa's Showdown.

- The hardest part about this puzzle is

that some pieces look exactly the same.

There's a bow here, a ribbon there,

some furry stuff here.

Oh, by the way,

some of the pieces stack on top of each other.

Who knew?

♪ ♪

- Now that the sleeves are all taken care of,

I can focus on building this reindeer face

and pressing that buzzer.

Here you are.

I have all the parts of the reindeer face

in the middle of my puzzle.

But I'm seeing that they don't properly groove

with one another, and I'm like, "Oh, okay."

This means this is where the stacking needs

to start happening.

Come on.

- I'm tunnel vision. I'm focused in.

I'm not paying attention to anything that X has going on.

I got a lot on the line, so I am doing my best

to push as hard as I can.

One of these has gotta work for something.

- There should be two, which means--

I noticed Cam seemingly has the face together,

but it doesn't seem like he's put any work in

on the sleeves.

I've got the sleeves done,

but if I can't figure out

this reindeer face,

I might be leaving Santa's Lodge tonight.

There you are, son of a b*tch.

- Stay in it, guys. It's anybody's game.

- Watching Xavier and Cam compete is probably

one of the most intense challenges I've seen.

It's an extremely difficult and thorough puzzle.

And so just the back and forth between the two of them

is so intense.

I have no idea who's gonna win this.

♪ ♪

[lively tense music]

♪ ♪

- This is our first Santa Showdown,

and whichever one of these guys loses is going home.

This is super important.

It's snow joke.

♪ ♪

- At this point, it's win or go home.

Santa wants winners, so in order for me to make it

to the Reindeer Games, I gotta win Santa's Showdown.

I have zero intention

of leaving Santa's Lodge first.

♪ ♪

- I mean, I like puzzles,

but having to go as fast as I need to go to beat X,

I hope that this is as tough for him as it is for me.

Where'd you go? There you are.

You go there.

- Cameron and Xavier are huge threats in this lodge.

But I really don't know Cameron.

You know, we really don't know Cameron, you know?

So it's like, if Xavier can knock out Cameron,

mm, that's good for me.

- I'm pretty far ahead of Cam, and things are going good.

But I get towards the end of the puzzle,

and it feels like the pieces just aren't quite connecting.

There's a piece missing.

Where is this damn piece?

I am right at the finish line.

I don't want Cam to catch up.

I need to find this piece.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

I found you, you sneaky little piece.

Now let's finish making this yeti's sweater

and close out this showdown.

- Oh! - Scared me.

- There we go.

♪ ♪

[muffled chatter]

- That looks better.

♪ ♪

That looks better. That looks better.

♪ ♪

- Oh. - Here it is.

- Oh, wow.

[bell dinging] Wow!

Wow! - I'm sorry, buddy.

- Good job. - Come here.

Come here. Come here.

- [laughs] - Come here. Come here.

Come here, buddy. - [laughs]

- You did great. - That was awesome, man.

- That was incredible.

- Congratulations, Xavier.

You just won the Santa Showdown.

- I gotta say, it feels good

to go into Santa's Showdown and come out with a win.

Now that I've won this competition,

I hope people think twice before throwing me back down

in Santa's Showdown.

- "Unfortunately, that means,

Cameron, you are going h*, h*, home"...

- Again. - [laughs]

"But Santa wants to thank you for giving it your best.

"So please choose one of the gifts

"from under the tree.

"There's lots of amazing things under there

"from $,"... - Ooh!

- "To some of Santa's favorite fruitcakes.

So grab a gift, and let's see what's inside."

- I hope that the present that I open in my parting

will be $, and not fruitcake

or something crazy.

All right, I'm gonna do this one.

- All right. Better be $,. - [laughs] Right?

Let's check it out.

,.

- Year's subscription to the jelly club.

- Oh! - I get all the jelly.

- You get so much jelly. - It's a fruitcake.

- PB&Js for days.

- Aww. - Thank you, guys.

Hey. I'm sorry I'm sweaty. - Good job. It's okay.

It's okay.

- I think you're the first person to be evicted

three times in two months.

[laughter]

- Damn!

That was a tough one.

Goodbyes. - Bye.

- Thank you guys so much. - Bye.

- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I lost, and that's not very cool.

But I walk away with eight new family members.

This was such an amazing experience rivaled by none.

I have all the confidence in the North Pole

that my reindeer family

is definitely going to save Christmas.

Who's gonna come out on the absolute top?

I couldn't tell you.

I can't wait to get home and, uh, tell about my tales

of the North Pole.

[upbeat music]

Happy holidays.

Daddy's coming home.

- Wow. - Are we back?

- We get to-- - [laughs]

- We get to do it all over again in the morning.

- What if we walked in here and there were, like,

bunk beds lined up?

- Whew. I made it.

Like, okay.

It's all good.

That first Santa Showdown was super intense.

Me don't want to go down there ever.

I'm trying to stay here until the end

to get to the Reindeer Games.

So you can keep me out of that showdown.

I don't want to have nothing to do with that.

No, mm-mm.

- That was intense.

Well, I got my Christmas wish,

and Cameron's out of the lodge.

But I really gotta hope that my decision to send Xavier

into Santa's Showdown

doesn't...elf me over.

[bells jingling]

Was that me?

[chuckles] No. Surely, it was someone else.

No, it was me.

I'm sorry I put you on the spot,

but it worked out perfectly.

You're here. - You had to send him home.

- He's gone.

- Logically, that was exactly

what you should have done.

I understand why Frankie sent me down.

I'm not happy about it, but I get it.

Looking ahead, I think the only way

I'll be able to secure my safety

is by winning challenges.

This is easily worse than "Big Brother."

There is no floating with Reindeer Games.

There's absolutely zero skating by.

You either put up, or you go home.

- So I survived day one at Santa's Lodge,

and it feels like a huge thanks to Frankie,

because if some other people had their way,

I probably would have been down there in Santa's Showdown.

The good news is, I know who's coming after me,

and Taylor's one of those people.

So she's a huge threat to me moving forward.

So I need to get on the offensive

and strike first before she can get me.

- I'm ecstatic Xavier survived this showdown.

But my number one target, Cody, is still here.

I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve,

and I just won't sleep a wink

until he leaves this lodge.

Baby, it might be cold outside,

but this game is just heating up.

[mysterious music]

- With Cameron gone and his Christmas dreams shattered,

the remaining eight celebrated.

But soon, they all scattered.

To bed they went to dream of Reindeer Games glory.

Who will have what it takes in day two of our story?

Tune in tomorrow night at :, : Central

when "Big Brother: Reindeer Games" continues.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪