We Can Work it Out
We Can Work it Out by Roxanne McDonald
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Starting with working Mimi right out of the picture. |
The tail end of the single couple’s therapy session had Mimi turning tail and running, “abandoning” Jackie as she does every time Jackie talks. This does for Jackie, who ends it, kicks Mimi’s tail right out.
Her new business is the priority, she says, and whether she realizes it or not, returns interested viewers to the premise and promise of the show that calls itself “Work Out.”
Cross-promoting not lost on “Work Out,” one of the clients of the day is the verbal gossip blogger, Kathy Griffin, who with Jackie is a member today of the mutual admiration society (they adore each other) but who is also put through the rigors of a work-out despite who she is. And thank God she is who she is, for the otherwise who-cares session becomes fodder for Griffin’s funnies: she narrates the
grueling session, saying, “She’s like, ‘Push! Push!’ and it was like giving birth!” and after it is over, “She kicked my ass and took my name!”
Jackie chooses nine people to work one-on-one with her nine trainers, selecting the clients with major weight and/or body image issues, inducting them by BMI trials in tubs, and aligning each with a trainer of Jackie’s choosing.
The trainers have to endure the BMI/body fat sinking in the tub test, too, and some are resentful, others are fine, and still others (like Andre) focus on how the testosterone and estrogen are all abouncing about in the bathing-suited bunch.
BF is the big issue, though, as Jackie prefaces the results with the fact that 65% of the American population has over 30% body fat…meaning, they are overweight.
She then calls out the results:
Erica-13.4%
Rebecca-13.1%
Zen-18.2
Greg-10.1
Andre-10.6
Doug-10.4
Brian P.-8.6
And while I am thinking I am missing someone, she remembers to announce poor Jesse’s bf count (though that still leaves me without one trainer’s stats, oh well): 21.3%. “You’ve got some goals to reach, but we love you,” she tells the anomaly of the group, and encourages them all to keep up the good work, be sensitive, and, later, to get rid of the strains on the team work.
This leaves Jesse to make up with Doug, Brian to actually get further out there—ego ballooning more, anger against Jackie’s dismissive joking increasing—and Jackie to move on to other projects…among them, leaving the trainers to work with their famous clients (such as Joanna K., the “sexiest
woman in the world,” replacing, I suppose, Sophia Loren of the sixties, Farrah Fawcett of the seventies, and Heather Locklear of the Eighties, etc., who now is so hot her trainers have to duct tape their privates when she’s in town) hosting a happy party, and having a flirty go at Rebecca—whom she appears to be attracted to, whom she teases and touches a lot, but who she says is a “kid sister” type and her employee and is therefore hands off.
But knowing—some—about how Jackie works things out, we may be in for more than weight training weight loss and wobbly working dynamics.
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