Big Brother Celebrates Xmas in July and Tests Your Sobriety

Hey, Amber's about to cry - get ready to do a shot. (Photo courtesy of CBS.com)

We're sure you figured this out several Survivors ago, but reality TV was actually invented to give us new drinking games. Century shots was very Will Ferrell old school and America needed a better reason to down Jagermeister in small quantities during the course of an hour - or more, when you've got those special two-hour, back-to-back drinkfests.

With each new series comes the challenge of discovering the prompt that can last a full season. It hasn't taken the Beat long to uncover Big Brother 8's signal to guzzle.

Whenever Amber Tomcavage unzips her tearducts and bawls the way you imagine Lindsay Lohan would if she were broke down in a dry town, we shoot one back. It happened six times Tuesday. The chick's more fragile than the crackpipe at a Courtney Love house party.

When she wasn't crying, Amber was participating in one of the lame competitions that forces everyone in the household to do stupid things, like play curling outdoors in the middle of summer, amid fake snow. The players got gifts in what was called "Cutthroat Christmas". The best presents were uncovered by the father and daughter pair who have banded together for the time being. Dick Donato got a plasma TV and Daniele Donato netted the coveted Power of Veto.

That allows her to avoid being nominated for eviction by leotard-clad Jen Johnson, who is the head of household and a nasty one. Instead of Daniele, Joe Barber joins Dick on the chopping block. One of them is likely off on Thursday, unless there is another twist.

Until then, drink up.

And bet.

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