'The Biggest Loser': Show me the Mazda
As "The Biggest Loser" contestants can confirm, eating 4000 calories a day costs a pretty penny. And they've got the credit card debt to prove it.Alison Sweeney interrupts a breakfast of carefully placed Total cereal for a mini-challenge. They jump-start this week's money theme with a challenge involving holding a crap-load of quarters up on a tray. Whoever holds their quarters up the longest will win the amount of quarters in $10 bills. So basically, hold up ten quarters and win $100. Ali throws out the unlikely prospect of a thousand quarters equaling $10,000, to which we all laugh and wonder if the producers know how heavy quarters are.
The challenge begins and everyone quickly realizes that this challenge is going to suck big ones. Daris is almost immediately out because of his "bad shoulders." Yeah, suuure. Sunshine has a rather clever technique; she only puts ten quarters on her tray and waits for everyone else to get tired and give up. Then she loads up her tray with a bunch of quarters at the last minute. It's a pretty good plan, as she watches everyone but Mike fall. But here's the thing... Mike is tall and strong. He's holding up a hundred quarters to Sunshine's sixty-five, but he looks as casual as if it were a Big Mac. Sunshine, meanwhile, has streaks of mascara running down her face like she just lost a beauty pageant. Mike wins! But really, they're all winners because they now get to meet the most awesomely annoying money expert ever.
Suze Orman not only predicts credit scores, but she also predicts the future. Like last season, she predicted that Danny would win. She has a candid talk with everybody about their finances because, let's face it, eating at restaurants for almost every meal can get expensive. Most of them have debt. Suze then decides that Sunshine will win the show. She would have picked Koli, but apparently he hasn't been counting his calories well enough. Oh yeah, and Danny shows up (still looking like a skinny "Just for Men" spokesmodel) to offer his advice and get a much-needed beating from Bob Harper and Jill.
It's raining, it's pouring! This doesn't happen much in Los Angeles, so it's super funny that it's an outdoors challenge today. But it's a biggun'. They're playing for TWO (that's right--two) brand new Mazdas! Basically, they'll have to run up a giant hill to a balloon with 20 keys attached. One key at a time, they'll try to start the car. If the car starts, it's theirs. It's kind of a tough challenge endurance-wise because of the wind and rain and whatnot. After a while, we have our first winner. It's Drea, who has been kind of quiet on the show. The next winner is... O'Neal! So it's not always about being in the best shape, it's also about luck. And like the amazing dad he is, he gives the car to Sunshine! I've got to admit... I teared up a bit. If only we could all have dads like O'Neal.In the gym this week, a few people seem to be hitting milestones. Mike has run his first 5k, but then Bob makes him go all the way to 5 miles! That's pretty amazing for a guy his size (I say this as an average sized person who can't run a 5k). Victoria struggled with sprints on the treadmill. Of course, Jillian Michaels decides to punish her by making her do millions of sprints. Then they have a cry-fest about her inner feelings. And to celebrate--everyone plays in the mud! Aren't we all just a little bit jealous? It's fun to be a kid sometimes.
At the weigh-in, everyone seems to have done a pretty solid job this week. Mike continues to dominate with his nine-pound loss, only coming behind Daris's seven. Sunshine gets a disappointing loss of only three pounds, but to be fair, she's getting pretty skinny. Same goes for Drea, who also lost three. But then! Sam loses ZERO!!! He pretty much knows he's gone. He and Drea are both below the yellow line, but Sam seems to have more friends on the show. Drea goes home, but hey, she won a car this week so you can't feel too bad for her. After the show, she's decided to become a personal trainer. They don't tell how much weight she's lost. What gives?! I guess we're getting too close to the finale.
Next week: O'Neal freaks the eff out.
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I think the Losers are secretly taking Melissa's advice -- picking off the threats, one by one, and leaving the skinnies around so help them all to stay another week.
However, Drea needed to go -- here stealth game play was no better than Melissa, who was just alittle more mouthy about it.
I was glad to see Brea go too. She needs to work on her inner self now that the outer portion is starting to become under control.
I would REALLY like to see the pink shirt girl leave. (Ashley?). Man is she annoying. She looks like the type of person who will go home, lose more weight and just as quickly party up a storm of drunkeness and by Winter she will be a fat girl again.
I'd like to see Vicky win it all. She has come in so late and has had to try to weave herself through the already developed close knit ties, that the odds are against her for survival. Half to root for the underdog!
CiCi, Do you mean that you "have" to root for the underdog? Or are you cutting yourself in half to root for the underdog? And just so you know, WINTER is a season, not a month. It is not capitalized! Geez . . . . . .
Brandon, do you know why O'Neal "freaks the eff out"? If you were paying attention during the closing credits, he tells the audience that a family member DIED while he was on the ranch, and no one else in his family informed him the person who passed away (his brother) was ill. Wouldn't YOU freak out if you were grieving and basically were sequestered like a jury for six months?? My heart goes out to him and Sunshine.
Learn to spell and use words!, chill the f*** out.
Ditto what sunnyfan said, and add that it's possible that O'Neal hit his head or hurt his back when he fell, which was also shown.
You guys are stupid. The blogger merely pointed out that O'Neal freaks out. He didn't say why or that it was unfounded. It was just a blurb. Get over it.
Plus... if you actually read the article you'll see that he says how amazing O'Neal is, so it's obvious there's no personal attacks being made. Get off your high horses. You're just anonymous commenters on a blog.
The yellow team needs to get off the show. I am getting real tired of the black papa and the black or white or hispanic who knows girl get the attention. both of them can go back to mn...NOW. then get rid of that stupid vicky... what a loser, please she can go back and eat her bon bons or what ever...don't care.
Onces those freaks are gone it might be worth watching...either way get rid of Oneil and sunshine....NOW....freaking dumb *****.
Of course you would want to get rid of Sunshine and O'neil, they are Daris' main competition. I personally think that the yellow team has the most potential, and is going to win it all...
sunshine and oneil are fine good people. i hate prejudice
its ok if sunshine wins. also
ashley u look great keep up the good work. i love all the
players time will tell who wins. just want fairness for all. good luck all i couldn't do what they are doing and most of u couldn't either dont judge
I think that the yellow team (Sunshine & O'Neal) are sooooo
annoying. I really liked them at first. There relationship is odd and creepy. Time to go yellow team.