History YMMV / TheBiggestLoser

* AcceptableTargets: Guess who! Then again, that's why they came.

* DorkAge: Not much as an "age" or "era" as it is a specific season, but Season 13 is infamous for having some of the worst contestants, personality and performance wise, in Biggest Loser history. The more tolerable contestants were booted in quick succession and it got to the point where literally four out of the final five were the most hated people in the franchise. ''Even Bob Harper'' said there were about 3 candidates that were "fantastic" (none of which made it to the final 5), while the others were downright terrible and nasty.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: 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 [[PrecisionFStrike F***ING]] ASS OFF'''''", it can often [[ActuallyPrettyFunny flop over.]]

* EpicFail:
** [[spoiler: Daphne's]] plan to sabotage the teams in season 13 [[spoiler: to seek revenge for what happened to her brother]] should qualify. To do this, she ate almost '''two thousand calories''' and all she did was exchange two members between the teams. She lies about doing this initially, but eventually commits social suicide by admitting she was the culprit well into the week. The fact that she was a "new" contestant who didn't have the same bonds that other members of her team had was enough of a roadblock, but this was the nail in her coffin. Predictably, her entire team throws the weigh-in, almost all pulling awful numbers (the net weight loss for this team of ''five'' this weigh-in was a whopping ''twelve'' pounds). Because her team lost, [[spoiler: Daphne's]] only chance of survival was to become the biggest loser for the night. This doesn't happen; in fact, she ends up [[spoiler: ''gaining'' two pounds]]. Everyone on the show was totally puzzled by the lack of common sense behind this decision, including the trainers, and in probably the least shocking elimination that entire season, [[spoiler: Daphne]] was eliminated. And to make matters even worse for her, both of the people she switched [[spoiler: ended up making it into the final 3, and one of them even won the entire game]]!

* HumiliationConga: Some contestants can't get a break. The [[spoiler: Aqua Team]] in Season 13 died a very loud, painful, undignified death after 3 long weeks of being rejected by their teammates and multiple unsuccessful attempts to play the game, with both members being eliminated the first time that they were not immune.
* ItsAllAboutMe: People who didn't like Kim Lyons (Red Team trainer in Seasons 3 and 4) usually cited this as the reason.
** Well, this or that she was the ReplacementScrappy to Jillian.

* TheWoobie: 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.

* AcceptableTargets: [[CaptainObvious Guess who!]] Then again, that's why they came.