As the blue team fell below the line again in The Biggest Loser 12 Episode 4, Bonnie case the sole vote to eliminate Mike.
In other news, I see that X Factor is on again tonight. C’mon, Fox. How do you expect this show to gain any traction when you can’t pick a schedule? MLB’s on when X Factor is supposed to be on (and my Tivo tapes the wrong thing). X Factor’s on when MLB is supposed to be on (and my Tivo doesn’t tape anything). I don’t know. Maybe X Factor’s not really on right now, but I don’t care enough to check. Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, sometimes an hour, sometimes two, sometimes 90 minutes. I await your 38 minute Friday night special showing.
One person will get to go home this week. The trip home comes with immunity, making the prize actually worthwhile. But there’s a catch. That person’s weight will be the only weight to count for the whole team. In addition, the trainer will go with them, leaving the team to fend for themselves. Playing with fire there.
The challenge is dumb luck. By order of weight loss percentage, they will put their name on a board. Then a chip is released from the top of the Plinko board, and whoever’s name it hits is the winner, for lack of a better term. John hopes to avoid the prize, as he realizes the winner may end up losing. Joe doesn’t want to win it either. Sunny, however, hopes to win. Vinny and Bonnie do as well. Sunny wins. As the person with the lowest percentage of weight loss on her team so far, this is probably not good news for them, although the good thing is that she’s still among the top six with her four team members (only Ramon is up there with them). Bob warns her this is not a vacation.
With that in mind, he hopes to beat her down at the gym. She falls off the treadmill. Good. He wanted her on the ground anyway. Having four other people there with you at least gives you somewhere to hide. Nowhere to hide this week. During their time at the gym, she remembers thinking she was being laughed at by people in her exercise class.
Rather than going to the donut shop with her son when she’s driving him to school in the morning, she has a different idea. Time for a Subway commercial.
The challenge is to run through a string maze with glasses and put the remaining liquid in the cylinder on the other side. The blue team’s goal line is half as high since they have half the players. Every person on the winning team will be able to send one person to The Biggest Loser Resort at Fitness Ridge.
In addition to the challenge, we get a reminder of the dangers of soda. The glasses they carry are 20 ounces and are filled with orange soda containing the equivalent of 17 teaspoons of sugar. Joe says he drank 8-10 cans of soda a day. 1200-1500 calories right there, not too far shy of the total amount he actually needs. If he were to drink water or at least diet soda instead, he could cut out a large chunk of calories and not miss it.
We already know the blue team’s going to place last, as Bonnie provides some comic relief even to herself. After she collapses, the comedy turns to drama (and of course a commercial break), but she’s fine. Red team starts off with a bit of a lead and keeps it to finally win a challenge. Ramon will send his sister to the resort. Courtney will as well.
Sunny’s family brings her to dinner at a BBQ restaurant. Bob’s going to have to figure out how to order as healthy as possible. Sunny learns a lesson here. You can’t eat BBQ every night. Oh. Then they make Bob ride a bull and put on a cowboy hat.
Earlier in the season, Sunny was complaining that she didn’t fit in with the team. Now it’s Jennifer’s turn.
Then we go to Dolvett. He doesn’t want his team to laugh. Ever apparently.
Over on the blue team, Bonnie’s getting tired of Anna. Feel free to leave then.
Bob grew up on a farm in Tennessee, where Miley Cyrus and all the Montanas are from. Last chance workout will incorporate that farm life, complete with 110 degree weather (but it’s a dry heat).
At the weigh in, the only number that really matters is Sunny’s. Oh, and Bonnie hates Anna because being pushed makes her angry. Bob supports his fellow trainer because she’s right.
Vinny: 372 pounds (-10, 2.62%)
Jessica: 213 pounds (-6, 2.74%)
Ramon: 304 pounds (-7, 2.25%)
Courtney: 231 pounds (-6, 2.53%)
Red Total: 1120 pounds (-29, 2.52%)
Bonnie: 229 pounds (-4, 1.72%)
Becky: 204 pounds (-8, 3.77%)
Blue Total: 433 pounds (-12, 2.70%)
John: 354 pounds (-12, 3.28%)
Jennifer: 274 pounds (-8, 2.84%)
Joe: 294 pounds (-7, 2.33%)
Antone: 377 pounds (-4, 1.05%)
Sunny: 227 pounds (-14, 5.81%)
Black Total: 1526 pounds (-45, 2.86%)
Following Sunny’s massive weight loss (that puts her in second place for the season), both as a team and with the twist, the black team wins their fourth weigh in straight. That puts the red team in danger. They were all pretty even, but Jessica, who would have been the easiest to eliminate, is narrowly granted immunity from tonight’s vote. The logical move here is the elimination of Courtney. Vinny seems the most willing to go home, albeit the least ready physically.
Votes
Jessica: Courtney
Courtney: Vinny
Vinny (following an annoying rant that just keeps going): Courtney
Ramon: Courtney
With 3 votes, Courtney is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 270 pounds, she is down 65 pounds to 205 today. She wants to be able to pay it forward with her sister.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 12 Episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.