Down in the gym, the guys are working out when Jillian comes back. If you remember, she "quit" at the end of last week's episode when she got fed up with Nick's lame attempts at humor insubordination. Today, she won't even talk to him. Matt tells her they need her more than anything, and when she walked out yesterday, "it ripped our guts out." (Insert your own punchline here.)

Bob tells us it's "Food Gone Week" (Who came up with that name? The writer's two-year old?), and the only thing left in the house is Temptation Food, which, unfortunately, are not leftovers from Temptation Island. He tries to get his team to narrow down their menu choices to one style, such as Chinese or Mexican. Ryan balks at the last choice, telling the group, "for me, Mexican food is a red light." If I were on Ryan's team I think I'd try to talk her into eating Mexican, as she's sure to lose a lot of liquid weight if nothing else. Of course, I'd also squat to pee. (You know, cuz I'd be a woman.) Suzanne then chimes in that she doesn't like spicy food. But she says it in a really snotty voice that made me want to shove a kung-pao burrito down her throat.

Time for this week's Temptation Challenge. As nobody's had breakfast yet, it should be even harder to resist. And just what do our contestants have to resist this week? Non-alcoholic milkshake shots! The teams are met on the lawn by Jackie Keller, Nutrition Coach and Celebrity Chef to such A-listers as Charlize Theron and Luke Wilson's brother. The contestants are sectioned off so they can't see each other; in front of each is a table full of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla milkshake shots. Jackie tells them each shake is made with reduced fat milk and contains just 40 calories. (40 calories? That's not that much. I bet I've worked off more than that just typing this recap so far.) Whoever drinks the most shots gets to pick one person to share the prize: having Jackie serve as their personal chef all week. This is a pretty big deal, because the rest of the players will have to order in or dine out at restaurants all week. At least Suzi thinks so, because she's still freaking out about the menus. And because she's the only one who drinks the shakes.

In Suzi's defense, it doesn't help that you can't see what the other players are doing. Drinking? Not drinking? Making origami swans? Matt starts rearranging his glasses as if he's trying to solve a puzzle. Unfortunately for Suzi, she misinterprets the clinking glasses as someone trying to win the contest, and starts downing shots, telling us later, "I just opened my throat and started drinking every thick one of those that I could." (Again, insert your own punchline.) Meanwhile, of course, nobody else is drinking. Matt explains his decision as politics, while Suzanne said that to "engorge herself" like Suzi did goes against everything they've learned since day one. Thankfully, the producers then showed us a a clip of Suzanne shoving a goat-sized loaf of bread in her mouth during the Farewell Feast, thus saving me the trouble of reposting the shot of her licking the fondue tower.

As Jackie tallies the results, Suzi starts to realize nobody else drank any of the shakes. Uh-oh, Suzi's looking a bit agitated. Why? Because she drank 48 milkshake shots! As someone points out off camera, she could've drank just one and still won. But no, she drank 48. Suzi can't believe nobody else tried to win. "Didn't they think it was a good prize?" She picks Ryan to share Jackie for the week, hoping the two of them can lose a lot of weight and save the team. Otherwise, they'll be voted out. Not to mention publicly mocked. Oops, too late.

Later, Suzi thinks her decision to drink 48 milkshakes has turned the team against her, and is bringing morale down. She gets really upset, and goes outside to cry to Bob about it. Mark, meanwhile, looks out the door and wonders, "I don't know how many calories crying burns, but she can stay out there as long as she wants." So is Mark pulling for Suzi to lose more weight, or just being a catty beyatch?

Bob tries to reassure Suzi about how well she's doing, but Suzi is hearing none of it. Literally. She tells Bob she needs to hear him tell her she's doing okay. Uhm, he just did. He then adds, "You're doing more than okay. You're one of the strongest players here." Still not hearing it, Suzi tells Bob, "and I'm not feeling that from you right now." Perhaps Bob should've tried explaining it to her via the international language of interpretive dance.

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Posted by copygodd on September 28, 2005 1:45 PM