LAST EDITED ON 08-02-12 AT 08:27 AM (EST)

For the reasons mentioned by Jims02 and RebelCrown, the entire Internet is expecting the World's Most Obvious Endurance Competition tonight. So are most of the hamsters. This may not include Ashley. I'm starting to wonder if anything includes Ashley. And just about the entire Internet now believes the only purpose of the phone poll is to make Endemol some fast cash, with the coaches becoming players no matter what the votes say. This doesn't include the TV-only viewers -- but the jig is that much closer to being up once and for all.

Joe, in sniffing around for ways out which he doesn't need, tried to tell Jenn that Malin would have traded her for Wil. Who overheard this. And 'round and 'round the cage it went until the inevitable arguments went off. Joe isn't exactly making this a quiet week, but Joe doesn't do quiet in any way. He has now admitted he's just here to get a cooking show of his own (which is not a particularly brilliant plan), and he's picked his personality to sell. Or this is his real one and he just can't stop. He and Jenn could ally up under the Not What We Meant To Do banner.

Joe did continue tasting the food as he cooked for the house, BTW -- to the point where the DR finally called him on it. His words on leaving the room: "JUST FOR EVERYBODY'S INFORMATION, HAVE-NOTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TASTE THEIR COOKING." In case the world wanted to know. And even if they didn't.

Danielle continues to have bad times. Britney has sniffed out that she's not a kindergarten teacher and is on the fast track to 'medical' because Danielle just knows too much about the drugs Britney sells. Shane still isn't responding in the way she desires so very badly. Frank put her in a strictly friendly headlock as part of his fun-and-games-with-hamsters day. Janelle told her she was well-suited for an endurance run because she was small and that set her off, gawds know why. She has now revealed so many personal medical issues to the cage that people are starting to wonder not why she's still alive, but if. She feels no one respects her game. She's the swing vote, darn it! And down the spiral she goes.

The coaches, still fully planning on entering the game tonight, are talking veteran alliance between different pairings at different times. The newbies aren't completely blissfully ignorant, but a few of them are getting there.

Janelle told Britney she negotiated with the rats and if she goes to the jury house, she'll see her baby girl there. The original coach contracts said no jury house at all. So much for that plan clause. Oh, and she had a wardrobe malfunction.

Frank still doesn't seem to know he's the target -- but has Joe now created enough issues to shout himself out of the house? No one can be sure yet. But as Hamsterwatch noted, the surest way he could save himself would be to leak a rumor to Danielle claiming Joe said she was fat...