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The Thin Yellow Line - TVgasm

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Man, what a disappointing week I've had. A big project I was working on got shot down. The release of my favorite winter beer, Never Summer Ale (from the Boulder Beer Company) has been delayed. And it was a pretty low-key episode of The Biggest Loser. On the plus side, at least Shannon was killed. To paraphrase the Godlewski sisters, "Gahwd, she was so annoying. Anyone seen our backpacks?"

Ha! Betcha thought I was talking about The Biggest Losers' resident diva (or diva-r, as she likes to say), Shannon, and not that insecure tutu-wearing brother-sleeping-with deader from Lost. Serves you right for cheating on me with other shows. I know I'm still the new guy here, but that doesn't mean you can treat me like a side of hormone-free organic beef. New meat has feelings too, you know.

Anyway, with just a few weeks remaining before the Live November Finale, the remaining players are concerned about what's waiting for them in the gym. New team assignments? Cleveland Steamers? The reanimated corpse of Ted Bundy? Despite their trepidation, they head down to the gym to find out.

Caroline greets the teams with the news they've been dreading: the show's been cancelled. Actually, she tells them there are no more teams. From now on, it's every fatty for themselves. Of course, with the new setup comes new rules: At the next Weigh-In, the two people with the lowest percentage of weight lost will both drop below the yellow line, and thus be eligible for elimination. (By the way, what's with Caroline's fixation on the yellow line? She mentions it so often it's like she's pimping a new edition of I.P. Freely's classic text.)
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Caroline shows the players where they stand as of right now: Matt's in first, and Andrea is pulling up the rear. Andrea tells us: "Seeing my name as number six, the bottom, the last one, just made me go, ya know? Game on. It's the comeback of the underdog this week." Since when did Andrea start channeling Markus?

But wait, there's a catch. The results of the Weigh-In will be based solely on the last week's performance, not the player's cumulative loss. Which means the last few minutes have been unnecessary drama. Caroline wishes them a great week, then takes the twins out back for a quick game of motorboat.

Back at the ranch, Jillian starts to cry when she learns Mark was eliminated. Despite her best efforts, she's now lost two men in a row, and it's beginning to remind her too much of her senior year in high school. She is happy it's an individual game now, however, as she can cater to the players' needs better this way. As the great philosopher B-Side once said, "I like to dip my sushi in soy sauce, somebody else likes the hand roll. It's a wonderful world."

This week's Temptation Challenge wasn't really much of a challenge, unless you count eating M&Ms and throwing a softball to be physically demanding. Bob and Jillian, thinking the players need to blow off a little steam, set up a dunk tank. If the contestants want a shot at dunking their trainers, they have to eat one peanut M&M.


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