I couldn't even manage a shock level of 1/100th Danielle, and the Worsters saw this coming weeks away. The math just didn't work out any other way. And if you believe the rumors, Nicki's been save-blocking (thus messing up a small part of the Agenda) the whole time out of revenge for Curtis. I don't believe it, of course -- the show's far more scripted than that. Right, Jennifer/Mariah/whoever your seat's designated puppet is?

The Worsters and the frau (recently pegged by the Hollywood Reporter as the official dominant force within the viewership) may be 95% of what's left: one leaving at the end of the season and the other being the group you can fool all of the time. I think the show has sunk about as far as it can do -- ratings-wise, anyway: there's levels they can still stoop to for dirty tricks. But they've lost the casual and midrange viewer, and those people don't seem to have any interest in being insulted again.

Seriously: when you deliberately instruct someone to Leave A Cake Out In The Rain -- one of the worst musical crimes of the last hundred years -- what are you expecting? Other than a forensics team?