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Ratings - I Can't Believe It's Not Butter edition

Friday: Yep, the new loop of highlight clips is already old. Thursday: Big ups for a pretty good edit of this week's fallout, even if they did leave out Frankie's part in all of it. Jeffish also had some much-needed new content with a few feeds clips, most of which were fluff yet fun, and they seemed to be from those phantom days before the feeds actually started. Like the interview bits, this new loop of clips will get old fast, but maybe they're going to keep updating them as we go. They make it even harder to tell if live feeds have actually come back when you've got it running in the background, but at least they're listening to us.
VTE Paola NOMINATED - WON BOB Friday: She did a good job on the Puking Committee and seemed genuinely concerned about Jocasta, which was good to see. Thursday: She's barely there for the most part, but letting Cody rub her back and shoulders was fun, especially when Caleb confirmed he saw it. She was also funny when she appeared to be glaring at everyone during Nicole & Derrick's initial nom talks, and doubly so since she was the first definite name they agreed on after Devin.	VTE Paola Friday: This everlasting Bomb Squad autopsy of hers has got to stop. She'll never get to the bottom of everything and she needs to stop trying before she makes all of them and all of us lose our minds. Thursday: Less than barely there today, except when she gametalked at supersonic speed after the show.
VTE Paola NOMINATED Friday: If he didn't already have ups for falling on his sword, he'd have gotten them today for being so good helping Jocasta get to the bathroom and back to bed, pukey all the way. Thursday: Watching Derrick play him like a fiddle was glorious, and it just got better and better as it went on.	VTE Paola Friday: Still barely there. Thursday: Barely there tonight. I wish she'd fessed up more/better to Nicole about the Bomb Squad because I was solidly behind Team Nicotine, but that omission might have killed it now that Derrick's got Nicole's ear.
VTE Paola Friday: Still barely there. Thursday: Also barely there except for the rubbing incident, which had nice repercussions that might not be over yet.	TEAM AMERICA VTE Paola HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD Friday: He's good, damn good, but he's talking entirely too much and they're going to catch on to him. Or not - some of them aren't the fastest hamsters on the wheel. He 'guaranteed' I'd put a pic of Nicole's frog with her rating but alas, I didn't change them today.. tomorrow for sure. Thursday: He didn't have 100% success telling Nicole the Bomb Squad was never a 'real alliance', but he made up for it by ever so smoothly convincing Caleb it'd be a good idea to volunteer to go up as nominee, and making Caleb think it was his own idea. Like a hot knife through country butter. Bow down Hamsterwatchers, it appears we may have a new master of the game.
No vote (HOH) Friday: He seems to have accepted his demise and is trying to be a citizen again, ready to go out on a good note, but they might not let him. Thursday: He's past his sell-by date.	TEAM AMERICA VTE Zach NOMINATED - WON BOB Friday: Another valued member of the Puking Committee. I don't know what happened this morning that made Nicole decide to nominate him, but something did. Thursday: A few more good one-liners today, but he goes to bed way too early.
TEAM AMERICA VTE Paola Friday: Barely there. Thursday: Most are falling off the Frankie train fast but I don't mind him, yet. Maybe that's because he kept a lower profile Thursday night than usual. That may have have been because he had a reason to be nervous for the first time, but it resulted in less of his 'on' persona and fake accents, and that's all I ask.	VTE Paola Friday: Just when you get sick of him telling frog jokes (or whatever his shtick du jour is), he keeps going with it, and it becomes funnier than ever. I don't know how he does that. Thursday: Acting like a doofus while Caleb fumed at Cody over chess was hilarious, and it may have prevented bloodshed.
VTE Zach NOMINATED Friday: I don't like to see any of them ill to the point of a Puking Committee assembling (unless as the result of drunken escapades, of course), and she was really suffering today. Here's hoping she gets some rest, hydrates, and perks up soon. Thursday: After Devin, Amber & Caleb, she was the first one Derrick & Nicole both agreed they wanted to nominate. I'm not sure why, but I'm not ready to say good-bye to her bow ties, facial expressions, or choir robe/changing room just yet.	Won: 1 week frog VTE Paola DEPOSED HOH Friday: She did some whining about her frog suit, especially having to wear it all week including the next live show, but she confessed a couple times that she's 'secretly stoked' about it, so it's all good. Plus she's adorable in it. Thursday: She let Derrick explain everything to her that's come before and even though she knew better for some of it, she didn't let on. I think she might let herself be swayed by him up to a point, but she's not as dumb as he (or most of them) thinks she is.
VTE Paola Friday: Aside from some morning tears over possibly being nominated, it was more of the same from her, and that's not saying much. Thursday: What exactly is she doing here? Her biggest only concern seems to be where her cosmetics are.	No vote (nominee) Friday: When Derrick was telling Nicole her frog wasn't so bad and that she wears it well, Zach piped up with 'you look ridiculous' - that's our Zach. Thursday: I still don't really see the appeal that so many do, but I love that he messed up Devin's game and I'm glad they let us see his outburst at the veto meeting. They cut out some of it but that's okay, their many retells filled in those gaps for us.
Evicted 10-2 Won: Nothing I kept hoping for the spitfire she plays on Twitter & Instagram to show up but it didn't until the veto meeting blowup. She was well on her way to being a perma-pawn but she stressed about not being able to win comps, and then Devin happened and out she went. She had a lot of entertainment potential and while we were robbed of most of it by her early exit, we'll always have CALTORU.	TEAM AMERICA FAIL Won: Nothing She blew up her game prematurely and spectacularly, and then her alter ego Alex and his 'big ass balls' sealed the deal. Supposedly she beat someone with 150k Twitter followers (plus 15 million backup) in a public vote, but that went splat just like BB12's saboteur Annie. Joey was lively and personable, a worthy member of the first out club, and she easily leads the pack of hamsters with unnatural hair colors.