Let's talk some TBL

Last night's episode was pretty terrible. The gang went to Washington DC to do their part to get America fit again. Wow, that sounds like a ton of fun! So the first challenge was to see who could get the most people to the Washington monument for a workout with Bob and Jillian. The ranchers handed out stickers to people on the street and lured them in with free subway. Fat Daniel was recognized by some of the people on the street from his appearance last season. So right away he thought he was hot stuff and started preaching about changing your life and living a healthy life style. Too bad he was talking to a bunch of skinny girls who were all like, "That's super interesting, but we are active, and we do eat right.....How did you get so big?"


Liz (who is that?), yeah Liz, the 48 year old grandma won the challenge. She was so proud of herself. She kept pumping herself up in the interviews, it got pretty annoying. I turned to Laura and asked, "How many raccoons do you think she has eaten in her lifetime?" Because based on her nasty country slang, and her crappy one liners, I would say its gotta be over 27.


The show continues on and the ranchers goto the White House and make a salad.....awesome. Then they meet a couple of Senators (not important ones) and they tell them how it sucks to be such a whale. The senators politely nod their head and feed them lines about how they will increase funding for healthy living initiatives. Rebecca does her tag line of saying she is just a pretty face (by now we all know this is bullsh1t) in front of the Senators to get more camera face time. It was a pathetic showing, fo sho.


Ok, I cant do this anymore. This episode was just such a waste of time. Spoiler - Rebecca wins the challenge then does her stupid clapping leprechaun dance. She wins immunity then drops 7ish pounds and again does the stupid clapping leprechaun dance. Shay drops 9 lbs and praises herself relentlessly. She eventually got hungry and rolled off the scale. Oh, and congrats to Shay for dropping below 400 lbs. You are an inspiration to us all. Seeing you accomplish that makes us all believe we, one day, can weigh less than a pregnant walrus. Thanks Shay!


Back to the summary. Everybody put up huge number expect for Tracy and Liz. They went up for elimination and, what do you know, Tracy got sent packing. The only interesting thing about the vote was shay voting for Liz. Shay hated Tracy. I see a Liz lead vendetta on Shay. Perhaps the first biggest loser boxing match? If that's the case, for whatever boxing analogy you come up with, Shay is definitely Butterbean.

It's pretty clear that this episode of Biggest Loser reached an all new level of suck, but the preview for next weeks episode looked awesome. The preview showed Shay crying (nothing out of the ordinary) and pleading with the other ranchers. This suggests that she will be below the yellow line. Now, the producers could be showing a clip from an earlier episode when she was up for elimination, I don't know, but I sure hope not.

Prediction - Next week they will send two people home. I believe they need to speed this thing up a little bit. (Update - The preview said they will eliminate two, so nothing new here) People to fall below the yellow line will be Shay and Rebecca with Rebecca getting sent home. I don't think shay will leave because the producers want her there and I never get what I want with this show.