When I was sick Part III

"One contestant wins a shopping spree" Air Date 3-13-12

It's about time they brought in the yellow line.  Now maybe all the secret alliance crap will stop and we will finally get to some real competition.

Emily needs to get out of her head and focus on the task at hand.  All she is doing by second guessing herself and worrying about being on the outs with the other contestants is setting herself up for failure.

Having both green team members standing next to each other in the ice rink challenge gave them a hugely unfair advantage.  It was obvious that as soon as they realized it was going to continue to be a stalemate they would work together and end up winning.  Is Conda so influential that she has the producers doing her bidding now?

As soon as Jeremy opened his prize I knew he was going to give it to his sister, even though there were better prizes he could have taken.  It would be poetic justice if he was below the yellow line by one pound and he gave up the opportunity to take a one pound advantage.

When Bob was talking to Emily in her room in the background you can see all the pictures of her friends and family that she has hung on the wall and right in the middle of the pictures is  a picture of the cast of the office.  It just struck me as odd that it was there and I couldn't decide if she put it there and somehow gets inspiration from it or if it is something NBC put there as some kind of subliminal messaging thing.

I don't think that Bob was able to get the break through he was hoping for with his talk to Emily.  But I do think that the weight lifting training that she did with Bob right after that was just what she needed.

It was interesting, the very second Jessica Simpson was visible an ad for her new show popped up in the bottom corner.  I just found it funny that they couldn't have been more blatant about their self promotion.

I wonder what they would have done if Jeremy had kept the shopping trip for himself.  Would they have had the male judge of the new fashion show be the person he got to meet? or do you think he was "encouraged" to give the prize to a female, because it didn't look like there were any male clothes at the shop they went to.

Rock walls should have a bell at the top of them.  It would have been more satisfying for Kimmy to have had some goal at the top of the  wall instead of just reaching it and looking around like she did.  A simple bell to ring is all that would have been needed.

They never showed anything with Emily and the phone she won in the Ice challenge.  You'd think they would have used it to try and get a heartfelt moment into the show, or she would have tried to use the phone to curry favor with some of the other contestants.

The contestants are now in the individual portion of the show, yet when they went into the elimination room they still stood by their trainer separate from the other team.

They've switched from weighing in topless or in a sports bra to weighing in with their shirts on.  That's usually a sign that the show is winding up, but there still seems to be a lot of people left.

I wonder if it will be Kim or Emily who has to weigh in last, since they are the only two that seem to be guaranteed to go home if they are under the yellow line.

If I were on this show and it came time to weigh in, I think the last thing I would do is go up to the scale wearing all sorts of jewelry.  Emily had a necklace, giant earrings, and a huge ring on, and while I'm sure they didn't weigh much they had to weigh something.

I'm glad to see that NBC is pushing Community as much as they are.  There have been commercials for its return during a number of the commercial breaks tonight and I don't believe I have ever seen a commercial for it before.  Watch it it's a good show.

Could the other contestants clapping for Emily have been more patronizing?

The way they were acting you would have thought that they pink girls were life long friends that were being separated, not strangers who just met two months ago.  

With the amount of double speak that Mark just laid down at the elimination ceremony, after he leaves the ranch I see a future in politics for him.

I bet Emily is regretting throwing that weigh-in a few weeks ago.

With Emily leaving, I'm running out of players to root for, and I am slightly tempted to give up on the whole season.  The only things keeping me with the show is an internet rumor about a walkout and the knowledge that contestants who are big time game players are always the ones who end up gaining the weight back.