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February 17, 2009 episode of The Biggest Loser, Recap and review for Week #6: The Show started off with Dane (Black Team) reflecting on having to be alone since his partner was sent home the previous week.  He stated that he was now alone and realized he had to push even harder now that he was all by himself.

Jillian Michaels showed up and was shocked that Blaine was sent home and not Dane.  As she was speaking her voice was played over clips from the previous week when Bob Harper was saying goodbye to his players.  Revisiting the previous week it was revealed that Bob basically ordered his team to send home Dane, and nobody else.  When Bob walked in and saw they disobeyed his request he was quite shocked.  Bob asked his team why they did not listen and they all responded with how they were honoring the wishes of Blaine.  Bob responded with “okay, you may not be playing the game, but the game is still being played.”  Then he abruptly said that was enough and changed the subject.

Bob Harper would never approve of Sensa Weight Loss, but why?

The first challenge of the show had all of the players competing to walk up a large hill to fetch a key to one of the two padlocks on the gym door.  At the top of the hill were 100 keys that all looked the same.  The players had to walk up the hill and fetch one key.  They then had to take that key back to the gym and try to open the padlocks on the door.  If they found the right key they would be the winner.  Only one team player for each color had to find the key for both of them to be a winner.  After both keys were used to open the padlock, the game was over.  The four winning players won the privilege to use the gym for the entire week while the others had to figure out where they were going to exercise elsewhere.  After many trips by each team up and down the hill with players throwing up along the way, the winners were The Pink Team and The Brown Team.

Jillian was not very happy about not being able to use the gym because she…”was not really an outdoorsy type of girl”.  Jillian stated she did not like to get her sneakers dirty and that she really liked to use “stuff”.  She then said she was going to make a home gym for everyone to workout in during the week.

The Pink Team who won use of the gym was fairly foolish by wasting time putting signs up saying members only and setting up chairs and a table with fruit bowls and saying it was now a lounge.  When Bob walked in the gym it was now time for them to work harder.  He was concerned because the few people that were in the gym were at such low workout levels.  Bob made the statement that “a gym needs life, it needs energy and that was hard to get”…in the gym the way it was with only four players using it to exercise.

While Jillian was working out her team Tara, from The Green Team, started to whine about how Laura was going to drag her down.  It may have been the first time they showed her complaining about her teammate, but it sure was not going to be the last.  Then they players saw some outside  water sprinklers running  and started to get wet and then wrestle and commenced bathing themselves in the mud and doing basically silly things.

Bob did some infomercial for some product that hung from a tree before the scenes of the challenge began.  The challenge was at night and there were rowing machines set up that were plugged into lights.  The object was to keep the lights green by rowing.  If they slowed down the light would turn yellow and then red, which would disqualify both members of the team.  The winner of this challenge was Dane.  Dane won immunity from the possibility of being sent home from elimination.

Bob Harper had a heart to heart talk with Ron, from The Brown Team.  Bob said he was heading to the beach for the last chance workout and Ron should not participate.  Bob was worried about the knee problem Ron had and told him to spend the entire day swimming in the pool.  That was one way that Ron could burn calories without damaging his knee further.  While Bob had his team at the beach he had them run and carry logs and crawl and pretty much anything else he could think of having them perform.

Jillian was working her team out in a courtyard area and Tara whined about Laura again and Jillian was not happy with that complaining.  Jillian told Tara that she needed to get her act together and that every bite a person took was a choice and now she was choosing to make excuses and not exercise.  Tara kept whining and crying about being sent home because of Laura.

Last week we wrote about how we wrote” The Purple Team: This team had immunity and there was some definite game play because Kristin gained 2 pounds and that only sets her up for next week.  Kristin shed a tear of disappointment but we here really believe it was all an act. ”

With the results in this week we really think that Kristin guzzled water last week because she had immunity.  Last week she gained 2 pounds and this week she lost more weight than anyone else.  We said it and we believe it more now than last week and her numbers point towards that statement.  Also this week since Dane had immunity we also suspect he drank water because his weight loss was the lowest of them all and he worked really hard.  We state that Kristin had game play last week and this week we are pointing the finger at Dane.  We do not say this is wrong because it is a game.  We are kind of just thinking out loud.

The results this week were as follows:

Green Team: Laura 249/241 lost 8 pounds, Tara 229/222 lost 7 pounds 3.14%

Yellow Team: Mandy 215/210 lost 5 pounds, Aubrey 223/216 lost 7 pounds 2.74%

Blue Team: Filipe 298/291 lost 7 pounds, Sione 305/296 lost 9 pounds 2.65%

Brown Team: Mike 317/307 lost 10 pounds, , Ron 361/351 lost 7 pounds 2.51%

Purple Team: Kristin 301/289 lost 12 pounds, Cathy 264/263 lost 1 pound 2.3%

Pink Team: Helen 211/205 lost 6 pounds, Shanon 241/238 lost 3 pounds 1.99%

Black Team: Dane 329/325 lost 4 pounds, 1.22%

The player that won immunity for this week was Dane and he had the lowest % of weight loss.  As we suspected with Kristin last week, we suspect Dane doing it this week to set himself up for a great week next week.

During the elimination vote everyone honored the wishes of The Pink Team and voted off was Shanon.  The player voted of The Biggest Loser episode of February 17, 2009 was Shanon from The Pink Team.  The vote to send her home was unanimous.

During The Biggest Loser Transformation moment it was revealed that Shanon has lost 85 pounds to date and now participates in Roller Derby, as a sport.  She has dropped a total of ten pants sizes.

Next week we get to see Bob Harper cry after a coin toss.  Come back soon for that review also.

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