The Biggest Loser/YMMV

Some of the more debatable material from The Biggest Loser:


 * Acceptable Targets: Guess who! Then again, that's why they came.
 * Crosses the Line Twice: Harassing fat people generally isn't cool. When it comes to Jillian, however, who often spouts things along the lines of "IF YOU'RE NOT PUKING OR DYING, KEEP WORKING YOUR F***ING ASS OFF", it can often flop over.
 * Dull Surprise: Anna Kournikova. Part of it may be due to English not being her native language, but she's very monotone.
 * Elimination Houdini:
 * Ron from Season 7
 * Elizabeth from Season 10
 * Kaylay from Season 11.
 * Bonnie from Season 12.
 * Conda from Season 13.
 * Narm:
 * Aplenty. The theme song alone is a ten on the narm-o-meter.
 * And the bombastic music for the weigh ins, that can even turn into a freakin' choir.
 * Reactions and expressions prior to each Ad Break Double Take during weigh-ins almost always fall into this.
 * The Scrappy: Every season arguably produces at least one.
 * Conda has cemented her place as Season 13's. The comments on the online episode streams are basically all about how she needs to go.
 * All of Season 13 is proving to be a scrappy season. Every comment thread is calling it out as the worst ever.
 * This hit the fan when in one of the final episodes, when the final five were shocked that another, previously eliminated contestant would be returning. So shocked, all of them threantened to quit. This is despite the fact that this has been a staple since Season 5, and that their contracts say that this twist would happen.
 * Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Arthur in Season 11. Tropes Are Not Bad in this case, though.
 * Squick:
 * The contestants, depending on how grossly obese they are and how it's distorted their bodies.
 * Shots of the contestants throwing up during workouts.
 * Tear Jerker: Several moments in every season, for the contestants and trainers as well as the viewers.
 * The Woobie: Trainer Shannon in the Australian version had a nightmare season 7 (Singles). Starting out with the male under-25's team, including Ryan, the heaviest contestant in Biggest Loser history, he knew from the get-go he'd have his work cut out for him. What he didn't count on was having one contestant leave the competition early in favor of taking a $20,000 temptation, having Ryan be eliminated the very next week, being forced to expel the only decently-functional man on his team not long after for a severe breach of the rules, and then having the other teams gang up on his last standing member just as he was starting to get the act together, resulting in his entire team being eliminated while the others all had three members apiece left in the game. The culminated in a distraught Shannon storming out of the Biggest Loser compound, remarking he felt like a failure as a trainer.