A race for the ages

If you watched The Biggest Loser: Special Edition last night, no doubt you were captivated by the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat that can only come when a childish and insecure man is compelled to give the smack-down to everything in his unfortunate path.

Witness the human drama that played out when Red Team contestant Otto Muha, apropos of nothing except perhaps to defend horsey Jillian's honor, bullied the Blue Team's Don Samuels into an impromptu foot race. Poor Don was just working out, hugging trainer Bob when Otto forced him outside:


You might have missed it -- the race came and went in the blink of an eye, and the stingy Biggest Loser editors and producers only replayed it 10 to 12 times throughout the remaining portion of the show. But if you were lucky enough to see it, you got to watch a laboring Don dig deep for a come-from-behind win over an excessively competitive Otto. Fence post to fence post, this clash of the overweight titans might have been the finest entertainment NBC has offered us in the past year.