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The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 9

With the split into duos in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 8, Aaron and Jesse were eliminated.

Now, we head to singles.

Bob tells Brendan he’s surprised he voted for Jesse. He thought there wasn’t gonna be any kind of gameplay. What about the person who keeps saying she wants to go home?

Everybody gets surprised with videos from home. No catch. Except that Ada is the only one who does not receive one. They asked several times but never got a call back. Ada’s not too surprised by this lack of support.

Patrick’s wife has been inspired by him, and she has been losing weight along with him. Elizabeth’s mother, too, is on the path toward weight loss. Not to be outdone, Mark’s cousin has lost 65 pounds, which would be a competitive number even on the ranch. Frado’s daughter tells him she’ll run the last 10 miles together if he makes it to the final four.

After hearing about Ada not receiving a video, the other contestants decide to make a video for her themselves.

Elizabeth never had the chance to finish her 500 step challenge. So Jillian will give her that chance today. No time limit. Just a goal of not fainting.

They see a pool. Lisa’s excited. Ada, however, has been haunted by her brother’s death. It’s not a swimming challenge, just a balancing act. One platform will be pulled out from under them, and they will have to balance on one foot. The winner gets a 1 pound advantage.

Frado gets to pick first, and he chooses Jessica, who will have to balance for 5 seconds, which she does. Jessica chooses Brendan, who falls. For her second choice, Jessica chooses Frado, who is eliminated because his left foot touches. Jessica’s third choice is Patrick. Having survived the first round, Patrick picks Elizabeth, who thought she has great balance. She doesn’t, and she gets eliminated. Patrick’s next choice is non-swimmer Ada. That’s the end of round 1, and round 2 will bring 10 second challenges. Ada picks Patrick, who barely made 5 seconds. His concern was warranted, as he falls. Ada’s next choice is is Jessica, who touches the platform behind her with the back of her opposite heel. Ada’s third choice is Mark.

For a big guy, Mark doesn’t seem to have any trouble, and he selects Lisa. A shaky Lisa chooses Mark because she can’t pick her girl, in spite of Mark’s protests about being fair. Mark returns the favor to Lisa. Back to Mark. Then Lisa. Up to 15 seconds. Then 20 seconds. The back and forth continues. Round 5 and 25 seconds. With Mark and Lisa going after each other, one of them’s going to give eventually, and that is Lisa. Now Ada’s back in the competition. She hangs on for about 17 seconds with much struggling, then she finally falls. Mark wins the challenge.

Jillian takes the contestants to Subway for a sandwich competition for a $500 gift card. They will be judged on taste and calories, to be decided by the others. Frado picks Jessica’s sandwich. Jessica and Mark vote for Patrick. Patrick votes for Lisa. Lisa votes for Patrick. Ada votes for Lisa, and so do Elizabeth and Brendan. With her 250 calorie turkey and veggie sandwich (the lowest of the bunch) and 4 votes, Lisa wins the free sandwiches.

When he walks into the last chance workout, Bob calls out Elizabeth’s name. She will be his focus for the workout because he’s tired of her just getting by.

At the weigh in, Alison points out that, after last week’s departure of two men, it’s now 4 men against 4 women. Not that the women are doing any better. They have just stopped dropping like flies as the men take out their biggest threats.

Mark: 309 pounds (-8, -1, 2.84%)
Patrick: 301 pounds (-10, 3.22%)
Frado: 267 pounds (-9, 3.26%) – 100 pounds lost
Brendan: 272 pounds (-8, 2.86%)
Elizabeth: 201 pounds (-4, 1.95%)
Jessica: 227 pounds (-1, 0.44%)
Lisa: 228 pounds (-6, 2.56%) – first time as an individual above the yellow line
Ada: 190 pounds (-8, 4.04%)

Jessica pretty much threw in the towel this week, saying she struggled following Jesse’s departure. She has failed to figure out how to do this on her own so far. Elizabeth joins her below the yellow line, marking her 7th time out of 8 in that position. The boys are going to have to pick a new strategy this week whether they want to or not.

Votes
Brendan: Jessica
Frado: Jessica
Lisa: Jessica

Elizabeth continues to get saved by her relationships, rather than her effort. With 3 votes, Jessica is not The Biggest Loser. From her starting weight of 282 pounds, Jessica is now down to 200 pounds.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 10, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 17 Episode 8

In a slightly less predictable outcome, Michael & Kevin were eliminated in The Amazing Race 17 Episode 7 after penalties resulting from failure to read their clues.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Nat & Kat – 1:06AM
Second: Brook & Claire – 1:28AM
Third: Nick & Vicki – 1:29AM
Fourth: Gary & Mallory – 1:46AM
Fifth: Jill & Thomas – 1:53AM
Sixth: Chad & Stephanie – 2:45AM (they’re sleeping, though)

Nat was worried about her diabetes, but things are going okay. Claire is just trying to keep up with Brook. Nick does not have any intention of meeting new people on the race, and doesn’t care how friendly (or unfriendly) he comes off.

From Russia, teams will fly more than 4,000 miles to Muscat, Oman, where their first destination is Bura Al Mubkharah. Considering where they’re going, my assumption was that everybody would be on the same flight. How many flights could there possibly be to Oman? But everybody has to go through a connecting airport, and that’s where it gets dicey.

Already behind by over an hour, Chad & Stephanie sleep in 1 hour and 52 minutes past their start time. Lucky for them, they’re only about ten minutes behind the trailing teams, but they realize they’re in a downward spiral and not working together very well.

First flight via Amsterdam (arrives at 8:55PM): Nat & Kat, Brook & Claire
Second flight (arrives at 10:35PM): Nick & Vicki, Gary & Mallory, Jill & Thomas
Third flight (arrives at 10:45PM, but landing early): Chad & Stephanie

Upon landing, they will receive an ingot with an inscribed time, meaning first come, first served. They land in Oman at night, but it’s over 90 degrees and humid. Everybody’s going to be camping out for the night because they’ve got plenty of time to kill as they wait for the next morning.

7:30 – Nat & Kat, Brook & Claire
7:45 – Jill & Thomas, Chad & Stephanie
8:00 – Gary & Mallory, Nick & Vicki

Having recovered from their disaster of the evening before completely unscathed, Chad & Stephanie are now 15 minutes ahead of two teams. Perhaps now things are turning around. In spite all of the mean-spirited bickering, Chad still wants to marry her, so he proposes that morning before the task begins.

Gary & Mallory are relying on their map. Nick, however, feels that asking locals is a much better idea than reading a map. There’s potentially a flaw in each philosophy. Combining the two would be smarter. Eventually, realizing the map has led them astray, in spite of praying to God, Gary & Mallory decide to give up on it and just ask the locals.

When she stops and asks for directions, Vicki gets what she needs, then passes it on to Brook & Claire. Nick’s response is that he’s going to go home the next time she talks to anybody from another team. Good. Go home then. He hates people. I get it. At least be civil with your partner.

The road block for this leg of the race is to rappel 500 feet off Jabal Shams, the tallest mountain in Oman, and from there they must search hundreds of lamps for one containing a magic ring. Even those without a fear of heights find themselves getting nervous, except for Vicki who’s up for this kind of stuff more than anyone else on the race.

When they finally arrive, Mallory says they have been driving for almost 9 hours. I think that about spills the results of the episode right there then.

Road block (in order of arrival): Chad, Jill, Vicki, Claire, Kat, Mallory

After completing the road block, Nick & Vicki find out that one of their tires is leaking, and they have a flat. Time for another temper tantrum from Nick, although at least he knows what he’s doing and has a spare, so it’s not as bad as his whining would suggest.

From there, they will drive themselves to Nizwa to a giant stack of books. Well, I guess it’s easy to spot.

The detour is a choice between water table or wedding table. In water table, teams pump water from an ancient well, fill up a water truck, and take the truck to a designated house for delivery. Their driver is there only to drive, based on the directions they give him. In wedding table, they will go to an Arab market, purchase 25 frozen chickens and other ingredients for a traditional wedding soup, and present the soup to the bride and groom. This second task has no takers.

Everybody is having success with locals who not only are helpful but also speak decent English. Somehow, Jill & Thomas even stumble into the cousin of the guy they’re delivering water to, a clear sign the lead is theirs for the taking.

Water table: Chad & Stephanie, Jill & Thomas, Brook & Claire, Nick & Vicki, Nat & Kat, Gary & Mallory

Teams will now drive themselves to Muttrah Souq, a market where their task will be to search for Ali Baba.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Al Alam Palace. At this point, the only question is finish order of the first five teams because we know who’s going to be last. Although Gary & Mallory do get a glimmer of hope when they see Nat & Kat drive by, no amount of editing will make me believe they can come from behind. Nat & Kat must have screwed up pretty badly to make it this close, though.

Jill & Thomas arrive first. However, they have incurred a 30 minute penalty for paying a taxi driver to lead them to the pit stop. Must be a new rule. If teams are wise about their spending and have enough to pay a taxi, that should be an option available to them. It’s not as if it’s a no risk proposition, as we’ve seen plenty of times where taxi drivers lead people astray.

First: Chad & Stephanie (win a trip to Belize)
Second: Jill & Thomas
Third: Nick & Vicki
Fourth: Brook & Claire
Fifth: Nat & Kat
Eliminated: Gary & Mallory

As the last team to arrive, Gary & Mallory have been eliminated from the race. They ran a pretty decent race but just had one bad leg.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 17 Episode 9 There’s a Lot of Nuts and Bullets, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

The Apprentice Season 10 Episode 9

Having sort of redeemed himself somewhat the week before, David finally met his demise in The Apprentice Season 10 Episode 8.

Trump calls everybody back into the boardroom. He’s been given disturbing news that Anand has been text messaging people telling them to bring in money. Anand denies doing this, which would be a clear violation of the rules, and Donald Trump’s the only one allowed to cheat on this show. Just for clarification, he’s saying he did not do anything wrong? Correct. Would he like Trump to read him a text message? After hearing the text message read aloud, Anand comes clean. How honorable of him.

Now that he’s sitting in the boardroom facing Trump, he crossed the line. But otherwise, he didn’t?

Anand, you’re fired. Fair choice. No need to keep a cheater and a liar around.

Stephanie’s got her fingers crossed that Liza does not get put on her team. Request denied.

The teams will be designing and constructing an in-store display for Kim Kardashian’s fragrance. They will then go to work at Perfumania.

Clint will be the project manager for his team; Poppy steps up for her team.

Stephanie says that Poppy has no business experience, and Liza has no brains, so she’s with dumb and dumber. Oh, a task in which Stephanie thinks she’s the genius. Again.

The women have decided to go with a life sized Kim Kardashian that people can get their pictures taken with. Poppy wants to do lots of bedazzling, which Liza fears will look cheap.

The other team, lacking much in the way of girl power, hopes they can lean on Brandy. No such luck. She says she’s not as feminine as the other women in the process. Her realization is that, since they’re asking her for her approval on everything, she’s going to be blamed if they lose.

At her own request, Liza stays behind to do construction, while the other two head off to do some shopping and graphic design. Convenient for everybody. Liza fears that the stuff they’ve bought is tacky and not at all representative of Kim Kardashian.

The boys are thrilled with their display case. Brandy’s not overly convinced, but she’s going to have to live with it.

As a surprise to both teams, Kim Kardashian is there, and she will be helping make the decision as to who will win. Knowing this, Poppy takes the opportunity to overdo the compliments.

Clint believes the backlit acrylic made their project a winner, and because of that, Steuart was the star of the team. Brandy, however, was disappointing because she is the team’s female.

Steuart says Brandy was good, and Clint was great.

Poppy has compliments for both her teammates, but she will not offer an answer as to who did better.

Liza thinks the other team did a great job. Not so fast to compliment, Brandy says the other team’s project looks like arts and crafts, and Clint chimes in that it looks cheap.

The judges felt Poppy’s team’s display looked cheap, juvenile, and unsophisticated. On the other hand, for the other team, they loved the clean lines and elegance and the sophisticated and understated look. Obviously, Clint’s team wins. For his reward, Clint will be meeting with the head of Starwood Hotels.

Poppy came up with the sequins and the boas, which Trump calls a bad idea.

Why should Stephanie be fired? Because she backed the idea. Not a convincing argument.

Liza agrees with the judges. The idea was fantastic, but it didn’t look good.

Poppy needed to separate Liza and Stephanie. Yeah, no kidding.

The only thing the judges liked was that a photo could be taken with the life sized Kim. Whose idea was it? Stephanie’s. Except not if you ask Liza. She thinks it was a team effort. No, wait, maybe it was Poppy’s idea. Whoever’s idea it was, it was not Stephanie’s.

Ivanka wants Poppy to chime in. However, Poppy does not like to talk over people, particularly with two people already shouting at each other. Good luck lasting in a Trump boardroom. Typically, the loudest person is viewed as the most entertaining, and, hence, safe. Poppy is not overly sure whose idea this was, but she’s willing to take credit if that’s what Liza is saying. Regardless, her argument is that she did a great job leading, as she prevented conflict between Stephanie and Liza.

Poppy would fire Stephanie because she supported her. What is she hoping to accomplish by saying this?

Whatever the case, the tacky aspects of the task were Poppy’s ideas, and she is fired. Following her departure from the show, Poppy is now doing stem cell research, working to solve problems with muscular distrophy.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Apprentice Season 10 Episode 10, which airs Thursday at 10/9c on NBC.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 8 Episode 10

Following a terrible service in Hell’s Kitchen Season 8 Episode 9, Rob was sent home.

Russell’s angry. Yeah, that’s new.

The next challenge is about communication and timing. Russell says they’re screwed because he’s the only one who communicates. If they’re to rely on his communication for this, they may as well quit now because his definition of communicating is yelling, without listening to a word. They will have 30 minutes to cook three dishes. Each person will get 5 minutes in the kitchen, and then they will have 15 seconds to communicate what’s been done to the next chef. Blue team will all go twice, while only two people on the red team will go twice, Sabrina and Jillian.

Sabrina apologizes for killing the lobster. Ariel, Ariel, save me.

Trev didn’t start the lobster, a fact that he has failed to mention to Vinny. Everything’s pretty well ready for Gail. All she has to do is put the salmon on. She doesn’t. On Trev’s second go, the lobster still hasn’t been started. Vinny, having 5 minutes left, decides to just poach the tail. Sabrina finally got the salmon Gail neglected in the oven. Jillian doesn’t really want to proceed, but she has no choice but to plate it with seconds left and hope for the best. Then she drops it after burning her hand.

A salmon dish without salmon isn’t going to win them any points. The men score a point.

The blue team has produced bland pasta, whereas the girls have seasoned theirs perfectly. That ties us at 1.

Trev also failed to communicate about the green beans, which aren’t cooked right. Same problem with Gail. That brings it down to the rest of the chicken dish, and the men finally win. The men get a cooking store shopping spree. The ladies will be dealing with delivery day. Had the salmon not been dropped, they would have won.

For the next dinner service, they will decide their own menus. Each team will come up with four appetizers, four entrees, and four desserts. Russell’s got ideas, but none of them are anything anybody wants to hear. Sabrina is having the same problem, as nobody has ever wanted to hear what she has to say.

Most of the chefs decide to go to bed early, but Trev and Vinny would rather stay up and drink. Just waiting for an excuse to do some more yelling, Russell comes down around 1:30 for the sole reason of doing just that. He finds them talking smack about him, although nothing they say is untrue.

Every customer will have the choice of ordering off the red menu or the blue. If it were me, I’d be going with the more interesting red menu. A pattern starts to form with the diners, who are all ordering red.

Nona’s risotto is undercooked. Not a good start, but her second try is good.

Blue kitchen is finally starting to get orders.

Russell gets his appetizers out, but Vinny forgets that he needs lamb for their current ticket. That lamb was for their VIP guest, the chef of the restaurant they ate at yesterday, who only ordered blue because they were with him. When Vinny delivers the lamb, it’s still not ready. For a change, Russell decides to be a team player, and he bails out Vinny. Only not so much. The chef is not happy with the food he receives.

Gail has no more luck on her first entree. Or her second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth tries at it.

Sabrina’s having trouble with hearing Ramsay, but her meat is cooked perfectly.

Vinny doesn’t want to deliver an undercooked bass. So much for that plan.

Effort number 7 from Gail is still no good. She can get out.

After the overall poor service, nobody wins. They can all think of one individual they do not think belongs in the final six. Russell nominates Vinny. Vinny nominates Sabrina. Jillian nominates Trev. Sabrina agrees. While Russell may be willing to turn on his teammates, the women are not. Trev nominates Sabrina. Gail nominates Trev. Nona falls in line.

Trev can step forward. He can take his jacket off because he needs to put the black one on. Another fake out nobody bought. Jillian is also in the final six. Nona as well. Russell, too. Sabrina joins them.

That brings us down to Vinny or Gail. I gotta go with Vinny here, but Ramsay disagrees. Vinny has been eliminated because they were backed up like never before, even though he didn’t get kicked out.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 8 Episode 11, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on Fox.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 8 Episode 9

Having flailed about for a couple weeks now, Boris was eliminated in Hell’s Kitchen Season 8 Episode 8.

In the “dramatic” conclusion to last week’s episode, Ramsay said he wasn’t done because he wanted to speak to Trev. He can take his jacket off… because he’s going back to the men’s team. As lame as expected. When it’s this predictable, it doesn’t deserve its own cliffhanger.

The girls, who finally agree on one thing, are happy to see him go, hoping that the boys dump him first chance they get.

Ramsay has brought in some food. Only one dish is from a 5 star hotel, while some of it is Chinese delivery, gas station food, and the like. Sabrina liked the Chinese roll. Nona liked the gas station chicken sandwich. Rob was a fan of the wings from the London Hotel. Nona didn’t care for the wings.

It’s time for the blind taste test.

Russell and Gail are up first. Both get grapefruit right. However, Russell guesses crab and Gail guesses salmon for the sea bass. Then they both guess romaine instead of iceberg lettuce. Russell gets truffles right, but Gail says watercress. This gives the boys a 2-1 lead.

Rob and Sabrina are the next pair. Rob starts off saying the asparagus is bok choy, and Sabrina agrees. Rob thinks the filet mignon tastes like chicken. Sabrina agrees again. Both are also incorrect on the cheddar cheese, with Rob guessing American and Sabrina saying provolone. Lastly, Rob thinks the mussels are octopus, and Sabrina says ham. Still 2-1 for the boys.

Vinny and Jillian are next. Hot dogs seem easy enough, but Vinny says ham, while Jillian says salami. Both, however, get potatoes and mozzarella cheese. That brings us to 4-3.

Trev and Nona are last. Trev believes the pear is apple, and Nona doesn’t have a firm opinion one way or another. Trev goes with halibut for the scallops, but Nona gets it right to tie the game. Both are correct on squash. The final item is endive. Trev says arugula. Nona, however, is right, and the girls win.

The blame for this challenge falls on Rob, while the girls can thank Nona for getting 3 out of 4. For their reward, the girls get a shopping spree. For their punishment, the guys are going to help Hell’s Kitchen go green, digging through the trash for recycling. They will also be prepping both kitchens.

Trev’s risotto tastes fantastic, and Jillian’s does as well. So do Sabrina’s scallops. Rob, however, ends the streak, with his scallops getting rejected. Then again.

Nona fails to drop the chicken on time, and now she can’t cut it right. Sabrina takes charge, getting them back on track and delivering more good fish.

Back to Rob and his fish failures. His halibut is rejected as well. Ramsay calls him out to the dining room, telling him he’s got 5 minutes to wake up. This leads Russell to pretend to be a leader. That is until Ramsay walks away, at which time Russell ignores everybody, not bothering to respond when they ask him questions. When Ramsay returns, Russell’s back to yelling again. I don’t know what this guy’s game is, but he can’t possibly think this attitude is going to get him a win.

Then Nona gets yelled at because, uh, well, he can. Ramsay says get out of his way. She backs up. Get out of my way. Backs up further. Get out of my way. 10 feet back. Still not enough room between you and Ramsay’s ego. Go upstairs now. That was pointless.

Vinny’s egg spinach is overcooked. His gnocchi is not cooked right either. He can go upstairs, too.

Russell, who’s had a decent service aside from the fact that he’s an ass, is kicked out because of raw chicken. He blames everybody else.

Rob makes his final mistake of the evening, and he can get out like the rest of the cast.

This leaves Trev to complete service in the blue kitchen. Wait. What? He’s just about ready to jump on dessert anyway, but he does succeed where the others failed.

Sabrina and Jillian are congratulated on a job well done.

It goes without saying that the blue team loses. Trev can pick two nominees. Russell tells him he’s got his back (he couldn’t even give him a towel), and that Trev has the biggest heart and drive. Vinny says he’s the team’s team player, and I can’t find fault in that logic. Rob’s defense is that he was the last one in the kitchen with Trev.

Rob is the first nominee; Russell is the second nominee. Rob’s the obvious target here, even if Russell just simply needs to go because he cannot work with humans. Rob has outstayed his welcome and can head home.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 8 Episode 10, which airs next on Fox.

Survivor: Nicaragua Episode 9

Alina was voted off the island in Survivor: Nicaragua Episode 8 because, uh, I’m not really sure why.

People try to convince Jane that Marty doesn’t have a point, when in reality he does. Although she really hasn’t done anything to earn votes, they have no reason to take her to the end because people like her. Instead, they’d rather keep around people like NaOnka, who just keeps digging her own grave.

Marty’s new plan: get rid of Jane. Oh wait, that’s still his same plan. The twist is to spread the rumor that NaOnka’s going home instead, flushing out her idol in the process.

The reward challenge involves working their way through a series of obstacles collecting keys. Reward is a canopy tour and BBQ. The two teams, drawn at random, are men vs. women, with Chase sitting out. Chase picks the girls to win. Whatever happens to them, he will share in their fate. It’s a neck and neck start through the first key. Running through a bunch of sticks, however, slows down the women, and they’re pretty well out of it. Their only ray of hope is Dan’s inability to do anything involving physical activity, but regardless it’s not happening. As Jane drags behind and collapses, the men bust through the brick walls and win reward. Whatever the heck Chase was thinking, he was incorrect and will miss out on the reward.

Probst has a question. Is anybody willing to give up a spot for one of the women? No.

Brenda states the obvious: Chase’s choice was dumb. He voted for his alliance to win, rather than the choice that was logical.

After NaOnka tells Chase to not get on Brenda’s nerves, he goes up to Brenda and tells her again and again and again that she seems really unsure.

The immunity challenge is a memory challenge, remembering symbols in the order in which Jeff shows them. Everybody gets the first symbol right. Everybody is right the second time. Jane and NaOnka are out on the third symbol. Dan is out on the fourth. Holly, Kelly, and Sash are out on the fifth symbol. Everybody gets the sixth symbol right. Round two will have 7 symbols. Everybody gets the first one right. Fabio is out on the second symbol. Chase is out on the third. Benry is out on the fourth, bringing us down to Marty against Brenda. Both are correct on the next symbol. Marty is incorrect on the next symbol, and Brenda wins immunity.

Benry and Fabio wants to follow Marty’s plan, and Benry tells Fabio to just play stupid, which he tells us he’s been doing a lot.

NaOnka don’t want to talk about the food stealing any more, Jeff. Oh, and she doesn’t like Marty… either. Or Fabio. Or whoever doesn’t like her. Considering her attitude and yet the fact that she’s still here, Jeff believes he will see this lunatic at the finals.

No hidden idols are played. NaOnka doesn’t care.

Votes
Jane
Marty
Jane
Jane
Jane
Marty
Marty
Marty
Marty
Marty

Great. Now we gotta deal with Sash and Brenda and their egos expanding. With 6 votes, Marty has been voted off the island.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Nicaragua Episode 10, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 8

The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 7 happened last week, which was news to me. In it, Anna was eliminated.

It’s no longer black vs. blue. They are going back to their individual colors, but this is not singles week. This week, they are competing as pairs, to be chosen by one person. At the end of this week, two people will be eliminated.

Mark’s worried he will be paired with a weak partner. Ada hopes to be paired up with one of the guys because the girls this year have been thoroughly lackluster.

Lisa, however, says there are times when she wants to go home, which she knows people are sick of hearing (I am). This is a slap in the face to Adam, who actually did want to stick around. She’s back to 60/40, wanting to be there 60%. She just can’t embrace this experience. If she can’t embrace the experience on the ranch, she’s going to have a hell of a time trying to do so when she goes home.

Everybody meets Alison for dinner. The assumption is that it’s a temptation. She seats everybody in the order of weight loss, a reminder some people may not have wanted to be pointed out. Their task is simple: eat the most calories at dinner. They will select an appetizer, main course, and dessert. While they have some indication based on the description what’s healthy and what’s not, this is all a guessing game.

Appetizers
Mark: 200 calories
Ada: 530 calories
Jesse: 460 calories
Frado: 200 calories
Aaron: 450 calories
Brendan: 1000 calories
Patrick: 200 calories
Lisa: 200 calories
Jessica: 200 calories
Elizabeth: 570 calories

The five people who ordered the tricolore salad (Mark, Frado, Patrick, Lisa, and Jessica) don’t seem to have any interest in tonight’s temptation. Everybody else appears to be in it, most notable being Brendan and his ridiculous 1000 calorie appetizer.

Main course
Frado: 1300 calories
Aaron: 2500 calories
Brendan: 2500 calories
Elizabeth: 1400 calories

So I guess Frado is in it then, sort of. Brendan and Aaron are the real players here, though. Brendan makes an offer to Aaron: stop eating right now, and I’ll give you Jesse if that’s who you want. For some reason, Aaron accepts, falling right into Brendan’s trap, but if he gets his way, it may be the right choice because at least he won’t be blamed.

Dessert
Brendan: 950 calories
Lisa: 1400 calories
Elizabeth: 950 calories

Regardless of whether he finishes, Brendan has already won, so he decides to stop at 3500 calories and not bother with the dessert. With no chance of winning, Lisa chows down on her hefty dessert.

Although he does not have any control and has instead handed all the control away to Brendan, Aaron gets his wish, and Jesse is his partner. Brendan’s best friend Frado is paired with the person with the highest percentage of weight loss for the season, Mark. Having asked to be paired together, Lisa and Elizabeth get their wish. Why would they want that? Brendan is paired with Patrick. That leaves Jessica and Ada as the final team, and the women have been set up to be picked off.

Ada doesn’t like these choices at all. She feels betrayed by somebody she trusted, not understanding why he kept his word to Aaron.

Bob calls Lisa out. She doesn’t want to be there anyway. That said, who is her poor, poor teammate? He feels sorry for Elizabeth, but Elizabeth got what she asked for. His warning for Lisa: give it all, or you’re gone. No more of this 60% nonsense.

Now to Brendan. What’s up with this stacking of the deck of the girls against the guys? His goal was simple: keep himself, Patrick, and Frado safe. Whatever happens to everybody else is not his problem.

The challenge is to make a tower of sugar cubes 5 feet high. They’ve gotta get them there one cube at a time. Reward is a week long trip to The Biggest Loser Resort with three guests. 20 minutes in, Jesse and Aaron are in first place, but their structure is not very stable and collapses. With a similar strategy, Lisa and Elizabeth have also had theirs collapse. They are not alone. After 35 minutes, there’s not much progress from anybody. 55 minutes in, Alison tells them they will get a sugar rush at 1 hour. They are granted two minutes to grab as much sugar as they can, using only their hands. This provides everybody with a good amount of sugar. Jesse and Aaron have no chance, but at least they are having fun with it, appearing as if they have a contact sugar high. Jessica and Ada are running away with this challenge, so long as their stack does not collapse. They are the first to reach 5 feet. Their stack remains, and they win.

One week, Lisa lost a lot of weight, which she credits Bob’s diet that week for. So she decided to cook the meals on this diet for Elizabeth. I didn’t think anything of it, but Bob and Jillian are furious. After that blow up at Elizabeth is over, it’s time for the weigh in.

Mark: 317 pounds (-12, 3.65%) – first player to lose 100 pounds this season
Frado: 276 pounds (-18, 6.12%)
Team Total: 593 pounds (-30, 4.82%)

Aaron: 380 pounds (-4, 1.04%)
Jesse: 280 pounds (-16, 5.41%)
Team Total: 660 pounds (-20, 2.94%)

Lisa: 234 pounds (-8, 3.31%)
Elizabeth: 205 pounds (-8, 3.76%)
Team Total: 439 pounds (-16, 3.52%)

In spite of Bob and Jillian’s complaining, these are some solid numbers for Lisa and Elizabeth (granted, they are to be expected since last week was pretty much just a waste), whether they want to be there or not. Lisa says she does want to be there, but she’s not allowed to say it in front of Bob. Jillian tells her to just go home, and Frado agrees. Shouting match between everybody ensues. Lisa’s argument is that she doesn’t want to be a quitter, but everybody else wants to keep her there because she’s weak.

Patrick: 311 pounds (-19, 5.76%)
Brendan: 280 pounds (-18, 6.04%)
Team Total: 591 pounds (-37, 5.89%)

Jessica: 228 pounds (-12, 5.00%)
Ada: 198 pounds (-6, 2.94%)
Team Total: 426 pounds (-18, 4.05%)

Brendan’s plan worked, and his alliance remains intact. Jesse & Aaron and Lisa & Elizabeth have fallen below the yellow line. The decision now comes down to whether to get rid of the threats or to take out the team that doesn’t seem to have their heads in the game.

Votes
Mark & Frado: Aaron & Jesse
Jessica & Ada: Lisa & Elizabeth
Patrick & Brendan: Aaron & Jesse

With two votes, Aaron & Jesse are not the Biggest Loser. Jesse does not take this personally from anybody… except Patrick.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 9, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 7

Half of the blue team wanted to get rid of their strongest member in The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 6, and the black team was happy to oblige, voting out Adam following a split vote.

I just found out that there actually was an episode last week. Color me surprised. When I tuned in, there was NBC election coverage, so I immediately tuned out. Before jumping into episode 8, I’m going to go back and take a look at that. I see on my Tivo that there, indeed, was a 1 hour episode of The Biggest Loser buried somewhere underneath last week’s shellacking. Thanks a lot, NBC.

This week, everybody will be staying with the US Marines at Camp Pendelton. Upon arrival, they are picked up by helicopters, which take them to Alison. They put on their packs and start on their march toward the barracks. For all the drama this leads to, nobody gets left behind.

Apparently, I can expect much needless screaming this week. If everybody is yelling at the top of their lungs, I’m not quite sure how anybody ever gets heard.

They wake up early the next morning, before the sun comes up, and as they run outside, they are given rifles. I am not sure who is attacking them. They find out that their food choices are both limited and poor. Although they may be doing a lot of running around frantically, this is probably not the healthiest place for them.

The challenge is to go three miles down the beach, completing any obstacles they come across along the way. Each team member is given a pack with three 10 pound weights, which they can redistribute as they see fit. Reward is phone calls home. Black team’s strategy is to start off taking one weight out of the girls’ backpacks, giving every guy 40 pounds and every girl 20. Blue team has decided they will all carry their own weight. The blue team is in the lead early. Whether they drag Elizabeth or not, the black team’s not going to be able to catch up. This becomes all the more obvious when she collapses. This time she will not need an ambulance to leave, however, as she wants to finish the race. Nonetheless, the outcome is obvious. Blue team wins reward.

Brendan has decided to get his head shaved to blend in with the rest of the bald guys on the base. At least he has also shaved his face as well.

With 15 minutes left in the episode, we learn something. It doesn’t need to take 45 minutes to weigh everybody in. Bob’s worried because he and Jillian only did last chance workout and did not have any involvement in the rest of the week.

Mark: 329 pounds (-7, 2.08%)
Jessica: 240 pounds (-4, 1.64%)
Lisa: 242 pounds (-2, 0.82%)
Jesse: 297 pounds (+1, 0.34%)
Aaron: 384 pounds (-14, 3.52%)
Blue Total: 1492 pounds (-26, 1.71%)

Ada: 204 pounds (-7, 3.32%)
Patrick: 330 pounds (-7, 2.08%)
Brendan: 298 pounds (-4, 1.32%)
Anna: 281 pounds (-2, 0.71%)
Elizabeth: 214 pounds (+1, 0.47%)
Frado: 298 pounds (+4, 1.36%) – apologizing before even hearing a number
Black Total: 1625 pounds (-15, 0.91%)

That 7 minute weigh in, yeah, that felt rushed. With two team members having gained weight, the black team has lost the weigh in by a sizeable margin. As the person with the highest percentage of weight loss on the losing team, Ada is safe. And now we head straight into the votes. Elizabeth may be the weakest link, but she’s got allies to support her regardless.

Votes
Patrick: Anna
Ada: Anna
Anna: Elizabeth
Brendan: Anna

With three votes, Anna is not the Biggest Loser. As a late comer to campus, she never really had a chance because her team failed to accept her as one of them. From her starting weight of 330 pounds, Anna is now down to 250 pounds. She has inspired her coworkers to walk the stairs daily with her.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 10 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.