Rumpus and laundry reveal night has been bumped to a Monday, so the Blockheads got an extra day to sweat on who takes home $10,000 for a room designed around doing nothing and a room designed around doing washing. Nobody outside Mount Eliza has spent the wait resting, though. The fans are still arguing about the judges, and the mastheads have found a fresh feud to chew on.
The judges are like the three stooges.
An r/TheBlock commenter, via Woman’s Day
What Blockheads Are Saying
The loudest fan grumble this week is about the scoring panel. A r/TheBlock thread kicked off with the complaint that Shaynna, Darren and Marty “can’t even agree with each other”, and it snowballed from there. The theory doing the rounds: teams flip flop depending on which judge they listened to that week, while the one house that ignores everyone and sticks to its own style might have the right idea. One commenter summed it up neatly, calling the judges “like the three stooges”, and honestly, after Darren’s “light, white and bright” brief sent half the site running for the beige swatches, it’s hard to argue.
The most constructive idea in the thread? Split the score three ways: judges, real buyers from the area, and the teams scoring each other. Imagine the group chat after that. Woman’s Day rounded up the thread if you want the full vent.
What the Mastheads Ran Today
Courtney and Sev vs Lisa and Rosco, round two. TV Week has Sev’s side of this week’s on-site blow-up, after the pair learned other teams had been bagging their rumpus room behind their backs. “It was quite hurtful to Courtney and I,” Sev says. Throw in accusations that their re-do living room (mirror wall, new fireplace) borrowed from Adam and Jolene, and Courtney’s counter-claim that half the site looks the same anyway, and you’ve got a very long week. The same feud is also covered by New Idea and Chattr. For the record, Sev’s point that everyone uses the same sponsors and the same brief is the most accurate thing anyone has said all season.
The AI soundtrack debate won’t die. TV Tonight asked whether The Block should ditch its AI jingles and animations altogether, after a season of viewers threatening to switch off over songs about knick knackies. Nine’s response was also covered by WHO, with the teams weighing in via New Idea and the co-creator defending it to Pedestrian. Our view: nothing an algorithm writes will ever beat a Scotty Cam one-liner.
Reveal night is 7.30pm tonight on Nine. Bring snacks, and maybe a referee.
