I was hoping that after the Blue team eliminated captain Jerry last week, Bob would tear them a new one. I guess that's not part of the game, though, as it's never mentioned again. Oh well.
This week opens with a temptation…for the trainers. That's a neat idea, as the three trainers stand in front of a tray of cupcakes in a possible chance to win a bonus for their team during the next challenge. It turns out to be nothing more than a motivational trick, however, as each team says, "My trainer wouldn't want me to eat it, so I wouldn't wish the same on her." Bob is the funniest, saying that he remembers when he had a cupcake – "half of one." And then he's scoping out the whole tray, picking out his favorite. But at the end, nobody picks any cupcakes, we don't get to watch the trainers pig out.
The challenge is a simple race to the flag and back, with two catches. First, the teams have to bid each other down in a dare to see who can run it the fastest. And second, the trainer runs with the team. That was pretty neat, especially watching Jillian carry the flag (which was double her size) by herself, leading the team back up the hill. Long story short, the black team fails to make their time, the red team succeeds, and the blue team never even got to go because they played the betting in order to dare the red team into taking the challenge. This does not sit well with Bob, who feels that his team chickened out of even attempting the race, something that he would have gotten to participate in. Needless to say, Bob beats on them pretty ruthlessly.
Blatant plug in the middle for Subway, supposedly because they have a healthy menu and it was an example of how you can eat in the real world and still eat healthy. But more obviously, it was paid product placement.
Worst of all for Bob, the winning red team gets immunity at the weigh in, so it's either going to be black or blue. And Jillian's team pulls down substantial, double-digit numbers. Someone from blue is going home again. The team then totally disappoints as they say "We can't decide who to send home, so we're going to deliberately make it a tie and let the house decide." To which Bob says, deservedly, "Oh hell no, I forbid that."
So at the end of it all Patty goes home – she's the one who pigged out unnecessarily last week during the challenge and probably should have gone last week. We leave on a cliffhanger, as Allison tells us that next week the campus is closed. I assume that means that they are going to have to spend a week in the real world, getting themselves to the gym and eating on their own, which would be pretty cool, but no idea how they would film it. These shows thrive on the interaction between the players. We shall see.