Stacked, and not in a good way

I totally fell asleep during "American Idol" which led to me missing most of "Lost," so I have no comment on the show yet. I'll have to watch it later online. Here's a rundown of Tuesday night:

"The Biggest Loser" (NBC, 8:00): Previously on "Loser", the Orange team's Cheryl and Darrell from the Black team fell below the yellow line and had to fight to stay in the game by winning an elimination challenge. After nine minutes of balancing a torch on their heads, Darrell loses his balance and is sent packing. Now it's an individual game as the teams go Blue vs. Black.

The winner of the dreaded temptation challenge gets to pick the teams and choose the trainers. They also get to assign immunity to themselves or another contestant. Only two people step up to play - Andrea, the remaining Black team member and Michael, left, the last member of the White team. The challenge is a memory game where the participants are looking for the matching squares holding the golden "Choose Teams" ticket. Other squares hold delectable sweets and fruit. For every match they miss, they must eat a 100-calorie cookie. If they find two matching food items, the challenger has to eat it. Pause it: I love me some dessert, especially ice cream slathered on top of chocolate cake. But to be forced to eat sweets like that after munching on lettuce and Extra sugar-free gum for seven weeks, I'd be hurling into the nearest bucket.

Andrea is on a roll finding matches for a blueberry muffin (360 cal.), a pretzel (340 cal.) and a fruit pie (480 cal.). Michael looks damn near purple in the face by the time he's made to choke down a 160-calorie glazed doughnut. Andrea finally finds a golden ticket, but can't find the match. By this time, Michael has consumed over 2300 calories, but luckily he finds the other ticket and wins the challenge. He divides the teams into weak vs. strong, stacking trainer Bob's Blue team with mostly men and giving Jillian the players who put up smaller numbers. Koli is the only male on the underdog Black team. But in a surprise move, Michael gives immunity to O'Neal. It's a smart move, but very calculated: O'Neal will be assigned to the team that loses the weigh-in. He'll either join his daughter's strong team or be forced to join the weaker Black one. Rewind: I've been waiting for a moment like this, where someone finally plays this game like it's a game. It was mean for Mike to stack the Blue team the way he did, but I wouldn't call it a bad move.

At the weigh-in, Michael beats Rudy's record for the fastest to lose 100 lbs. on the ranch after he drops 15 lbs. It looks like Blue is going to run circles around Black until Lance and Miggy don't pull their weight. Pause it: Miggy is on the wrong reality show. She's more of a "Dr. Drew" slash "Intervention" type of gal. It would serve her well to find a show that could help her with those anger-management issues. Her fits of rage scare me. The Black team needs to lose more than six pounds apiece to win. They get off to a rocky start but Ashley drops 10 lbs, giving them the last push to beat the Blue. Pause it: So much for Mike's plan not being a bad move. Win some, lose some ... sucks that they lost the one that counts.

With Michael losing the most weight for his team, he wins immunity and the vote comes down to Miggy and Lance, who had the lowest percentages of weight loss. Miggy is voted out and surprisingly, exits quietly.

Plug of the night: Jillian forces the Black team to snack on LaraBars, a gluten-free energy bar.

"16 and Pregnant" (MTV, 10:00):15-year-old Valerie is an adopted teen from Pennsylvania. The ninth grader is pregnant with a baby girl by Matt, a guy with a shoddy employment record (and bad beatboxing skills). Valerie used to skip school to spend the day with Matt and in doing so, got suspended from high school for truancy. Mom Janice forces her to be home schooled, much to Valerie's dismay.

We could talk about how big of a jerk Matt is or how much support Val's parents, who have 10 adopted kids, give her. But the real story lies in her complicated birth. Valerie's due date comes and goes and she delivers baby girl Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards) a week late. By this time the baby has already had a bowel movement and doctors suspect the baby may have ingested her own waste. The baby is airlifted to a bigger hospital when she takes a turn for the worse, but the Nevaeh is fine.

"16 and Pregnant" usually gives us the standard girl-meets-boy, girls-sleeps-with-boy, girl-gets-pregnant story. But this time they added the girl-gives-birth-to-ailing-baby, which is a real situation that most expectant teens don't think about. Not all deliveries are as smooth as they are made out to be on this show and Valerie's story proves that no matter how much the moms think they are ready for the baby, there's nothing that can prepare them for a kid who may have medical issues.

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• Funniest line of the night was from "The Good Wife" (CBS, 10:00). Peter's "reputation manager" Kya to Eli Gold, the newest member of Peter's team: "What are you doing?" when she sees him unbuttoning his trousers. "Lower my pants so you can kiss my ass."
• The series premiere of "Parenthood" (NBC, 10:00) made me not want kids anytime soon. It also made me really dislike Lauren Graham.