I don’t know…I actually sort of like Nick and Starr. I can’t stand the divorcees…I sympathize with their ex husbands. They are so catty and mean and obnoxious. I HATE Terrance. Needy, controlling jerk. Toni and Dallas are nice, and I actually sort of like the Frat boys.
And this is why compelling Roadblocks and Detours are essential for a good leg. There was enough great footage of the bike racing and wrestling that they didn’t need to pad it with airport crap. It’s those episodes where the tasks just don’t work (and thus get cut) where we have to put up with 15 minutes of “God I hope we make this plane or we’re probably eliminated” followed by “Now we sleep on the ground for 8 hours while everyone catches up”.
As much as I loved the nerds, gotta say I appreciated the irony of Team Can’t-Read-The-Clue being spared elimination when Team Gonna-Use-Our-Brains-Not-Brawn forgot to read the f’in clue.
I missed the beginning. Anyone care to explain the sports bra debacle?
Kelly and Christie said that one of them had put her sports bra on the window ledge to dry after washing it, and when they turned around it was gone. Starr was walking by the hallway at that point and they thought she had knocked it off the ledge.
Thanks. Did the camera catch what actually happened?
No, this was immediately at the beginning and it was all in confessional at the Pit Stop. I don’t even think Nick and Starr had any idea WHY the divorcees hate them so much in this episode, to tell the truth. I don’t really think she did it.
I just realized something that was puzzling me last night…why the New Pinks’ band was moving faster than the Frat Boys’ band. The New Pinks were actually LEADING their band, dancing around, picking up the pace, while the Frat Boys were just trudging along. They were keeping the initial pace of the band when they were supposed to be setting the pace of the band. They were supposed to be bandleaders and instead were letting the band lead them.
As if there isn’t enough to worry about in this race; “does my taxi have all four tires”, “can I yell at the driver in the correct language”, now you have to make sure you get a fast band.
Did anyone else notice Sarah (I think) riding her bicycle without a helmet? Everybody else’s was adorned with feathers, so there must have been something to it. My guess; the original challenge was to ride the traditional bicycles in traditional Incan bicycling helmets, but Sarah has an unusually small head so it wouldn’t stay on. Can’t really hold that against her, so the Amazing Editors just glossed over it and hope no one would notice feathered bicycle helmets.
I missed the first episode (was travelling, got back to my hotel in time, but it wasn’t on) and part of the second, so I’m still catching up. Interesting that the geeks caught their mistake themselves on the ride to the Pit Stop. Could they have gone to the hat store, walked to the bikes (the trip they originally took by taxi) and avoided the penalty?
This is the race I tried to enter, which gives it an interesting twist. I can’t help thinking “Bolivian female wrestling, me or Gretchen?”
They knew, one of the divorcees confronted Starr about it during the Pit Stop. Starr had no idea what they were talking about (or so she said) and that’s why they had it in for them this round.
But I think she so did it. Starr seems nicer than Nick (who would be king tool of this Race if not for Terrence), but she still seems like she has a mean streak.
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Interesting that the geeks caught their mistake themselves on the ride to the Pit Stop. Could they have gone to the hat store, walked to the bikes (the trip they originally took by taxi) and avoided the penalty?
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Perhaps, but given the traffic they were experiencing it very well may have taken more than 30 minutes to backtrack and do the walk. They were probably better of taking the penalty and hoping the divorcees got lost.
I too could have sworn it was Aja asking Starr to do the U-Turn. Bad editing there, maybe? Loved the wrestling! Too cool.
So sad about the geeks. I was rooting for them. Who is left to like? Go Toni & Dallas, I suppose!
Am I the only one who thought the wrestling was kind of… trippy? WWF superheroes mixing it up with little Bolivian women in traditional dress? Whoa, that was some good weed, dude. Or maybe it was the altitude.
I did notice, and I was sure she was going to get penalized for a safety violation.
Not WWF. Lucha Libre! They don’t wear masks, but the Fighting Cholitas are considered lucha libre.
Except that the always telegraph when that’s going to happen (show other team reading clue correctly, show team making mistake, play ominous note on harpsichord). Which they didn’t do this time. It’s like they went out of their way to not mention the feathered bicycle helmets.
On the other hand, you’ve got to admire a show with such a finely crafted sense of the absurd that nobody thinks it’s signifigant when everyone puts on feathered bicycle helmets.
Or maybe the producers just wanted to see what they could get away with. This is the 13th race, after all. “Hey, Phil, fifty bucks says if I put a bunch of feathered bicycle helmets at the Detour, they’ll all wear 'em.”
[del]Manpon[/del] Ken really impressed me with his wrestling performance, but then that seems kinda up his alley.
The winner, though, goes to Dallas for making yellow leotards look totally adorable, and doing a great job.
Robot Arm, there is a certain logic to your position.
It was a good thing the divorcees were wearing the feathered helmets- the one that wiped out pretty much slammed her head into the side of that building. Without a helmet I suspect they’d be scooping up grey matter for “A Very Special Episode of The Amazing Race”.
Well, come on, man! Spill—which would it be?
My 6-year-old daughter was still awake for part of this. She thought the bicycles were hilarious. Very Fred Flinstone.
Which would it be? I honestly don’t know.
For one thing, you have to make the choice based on just the question in the clue (I think this one was “who’s ready for a fight?”). Who knows if we’d still be in the race at the third leg, or if I’d even be conscious at 14,000 feet. And even if all those things fell into place, can anyone predict what they’d do in circumstances like these? So I get to watch the Roadblocks in all their gory detail and then wonder which of us should have done the Bolivian female wrestling.
I don’t know the answer to that, either.
The divorcees are Kelly and Christy, right? Is tht really their “pre-existing relationship” to each other, like all divorced women somehow know one another? And they look awfully young; strange to define yourself based on a failed relationship that must not have been very long. Maybe I missed something in the first episode, but I don’t get the dislike for them, yet.
Maybe I’ll have to write my own Taxi Assessment.
You’re taking my question wayyyyy too seriously. 
Or, I’m taking your answer wayyyyyy too seriously. I just think it’s fun to have a “Well, if it had been me…” from someone who applied to this season.
Anyhow. I don’t know about the divorcees either. I miss at least the first 5 minutes of every episode, trying to get my kids to bed.