Rather than attempting to write something cohesive, I figure I'd just take notes during the show and copy them verbatim here.
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Tuesday 11 October 2005 8:00 pm
Last week recaps...
plus pix of Drea from last season - she looks even better nowadays!
Blue team - still in strife
Suzanne busy manipulating, selling herself to rest of team
Knows if they lose next week, she's the top candidate to get the boot.
Suzy upset. She doesn't have a whole lot of confidence does she?
"I can't handle any more of this". A tendency to take on all blame even though she's probably working harder than anyone else.
Check out her profile - her face has REALLY slimmed down.
Bet she's getting fan mail from guys.
Tonight's temptation:
Bob and Jillan, a silver domed platter
containing a x-cheeseburger, fries, onion rings and shake with a cherry.
The team that comes the closest to the actual calories wins a trip to Universal Studios; losing team has to take one step on Stairmaster for every calorie they are off.
Everyone hates the Stairmaster apparently.
Bob itemizes the ingredients and the teams write them down.
70 gram sesame seed bun...8 oz meat...1 cup ice cream, 1 cup whole milk, etc...
Teams are meeting to figure out calories.
4,750 calories? Apparently Suzanne is INSISTING that they use her number.
WTF did she come up with THAT number? Apparently she just pulled it out of the air...Um Suzanne remember a couple weeks ago when you guys were learning how to dine out??? hmmm?
Okay time for the teams to show their guesses.
Red Team, of course they have a doctor, but doctors don't necessarily know anything about nutrition. They come up with around 2,750.
Blue sticks with 4,750.
I bet that Jillian had to keep from laughing out loud - I would have had a hard time myself!
Blue is well over 1,000 off. That's a lot of stairs to climb.
Turns out that Shannon's guess - the one that Suzanne said was wrong - was closer than the guy's guess. They would have won! dang.
Red Team gets to go to Universal early, so no waiting in line.
Dr. Jeff...I hate rollercoasters too...they make me ill.
Jillian spent time giving the guys some lessons in Amusement Park Healthy Eating 101.
Share a Cinnabon between 5 guys = 1/5 fewer calories
Moderation...
Meanwhile at the ranch, Suzanne trying to save face.
Funny...I haven't heard an apology.
Blue team kickin' butt in the gym. Bob: "We WON the temptation".
Drea from Season 2 comes by to give the Blues some much-needed inspiration.
Drea "I didn't take home $250,000 or $100,000 - I took home a better ME".
If Drea can't inspire the Blue Team, then they're totally screwed.
Commercial break...
Challenge - brought to you by Jell-O apparently.
A forest of different refrigerators in a warehouse.
Five of them containing trays of Sugar Free Jello.
Mission - to find and unlock the fridges containing the low-calorie snacks, then move the trays and their contents to the Jello Refrigerators.
Prize - winning team gets to watch videos from families at home.
Nice product placement by Jello.
It's neck and neck for both teams.
Of course, that's when another commercial break comes on.
Back to the show.
Ooh it's so close.
Think it's gonna be the girls this time...yup.
After the challenge, interview w/Suzanne in which she takes most of the credit for pulling team together.
She really gets on my nut.
Shannon takes credit for strategy.
Well she WAS right on the calorie thing.
Watching the videos - lots of tears and stuff.
Hey, I see they get Jello as a snack, with popcorn (I'm sure it's airpopped!).
Last workout before weighin.
Both teams kickin' butt in the gym.
Who will win this week?
Another commercial...
halftime prediction:
If Blue loses - Suzanne's out, unless she gets immunity, then I'm betting Andrea.
Red Loss - either Mark or Seth.
Red has really bonded, it will be really hard for them to let go of a teammate, now that Nick is gone.
Red Team weigh in:
Dr. Jeff: from 326 to 316: - 10
I notice his manboobs have shrunk a lot!
Seth from 250 to 243: -7
Pete: from 350 to 338: -12!! 63 lbs total - go Pete!!!
Matt pretty nervous as he gets to the scale.
no worries - from 290 to 279, he's lost 11 lbs for a total of 60! Psyched!!
Mark: from 308 to 291: a whopping 17 lb loss - he jumped in the pool for joy!
He has been an butthead on occasion, but he's just a fun lovin' guy I guess...
67 pound loss is nothing to sneeze at.
Total for Red - 67 lbs or -3.74% loss
Blue Team - Suzy always looks totally nerved up! Who can blame her...she always seems to feel like she's the most likely to be kicked off.
Suzy from 196 to 191: -5 lbs, but she doesn't think that's good enough.
I think Bob needs to have a little chat with her.
Suzanne from 196 to 191 (-5)
Jen gets immunity again, from 234 to 224 (-10)
Suzanne looks worried
Shannon from 229 to 221 (-8)
She's doing this for her family - everyone in her family has bad weight problems judging from the video.
Andrea steps on the scale and the music goes to a cresendo.
which means another cliffhanger break arrggghHH!
Hm I like the 24 hour fitness commercials.
They seem to use Aaron from Season 1 quite a bit. He did turn out to be rather hunkalicious. They haven't shown him in the commercials though, only his feet.
BTW I noticed in the earlier 24HF commercial with the current cast, they've cut Nick. He was doing situps next to Suzy with her "to find Mr Right" T-shirt on. Serves him right I say.
back to the show...the cliffhanger...
Andrea...loses FIVE pounds...from 198 to 193.
Good, but four lbs shy of what the Blue Team had to win to beat the guys this week. -- 3.4%, 36 lbs.
Ah here we are, the day of the vote.
Jen has immunity again.
Only three votes are needed to eliminate.
Suzy being self-negative. Bob gives a pep talk that they became a team this week and deserved to win.
Red Team meanwhile is rockin'. Jillian very happy
Suzanne starting all the crap and double talk.
I don't think anyone trusts her now.
Andrea tells Suzanne she can't trust her.
Suzy and Jen talking and deciding between Suzanne and Andrea.
Commercial...
Okay...here we go.
The march to the elimination table.
Andrea - votes for Suzanne.
Suzanne "game about personalities" so she plays the blame game, then picks Shannon.
Interesting choice since Shannon's guess in the Temptation would have won it for the Blues...hmmm.
Shannon doesn't look at all worried, while Suzanne is not smiling.
Shannon - votes for Suzanne.
Suzy - looks pained. She doesn't like this part at all. Votes for Suzanne.
Three votes - Suzanne's outa here.
At least she leaves with some class instead of stupid harsh words, so she IS better than Lisa.
Four ladies left.
Shannon says after Suzanne exits that "Suzanne flies off the handle".
Looks like with Suzanne gone, the rest of the girls can pull together as a team.
Ahhh one of my favorite bits - the after the show shot of the eliminated player.
Just before leaving the ranch interview Suzanne vows to lose 100 lbs by the show finale (which was in January last season).
And today - she's close to her goal - she's lost 70 lbs already
WOW SHE LOOKS GREAT!
Bikini Shot and Everything!!!
Even though she was a PITA, still I'm VERY happy for her, she looks hot!
Whew...next week looks like they're going to climb what looks like the famous Santa Monica Stairs and a mountain. Should be good - I doubt that any of them could have done that in the first show
Time for bed now!