Last week: Airport drama stranded TK and Rachel well back from the pack as they continue their solitary racearoundtheworld. Seriously, when was the last leg they were in the same time zone as the other teams? Meanwhile, Ron refrains from yelling at Christina for once and is rewarded with one of the last two electric cars in captivity, Don plays with some cool robots and Nathan and Jen don’t finish first again despite hardly arguing and bitching at each other at all and it just isn’t fair!
This week: TK and Rachel face a three hour time deficit and the Speed Bump looms. Plus, someone has a roll of quarters in his pocket. Let’s watch!
Why did Nick have to go and make that reference to the other teams being pansies? They’re two teams left in the race that I like, and he has to go and make that stupid comment.
Was anyone else amused by Nathan’s thinking that Thai food came from Taiwan? I’m sorry. He and Jen aren’t all that smart, although they are very competetive.
I actually think that Nick meant they were **all ** pansies, including Nick and Don.
It wasn’t just Nate, both he and Jen seemed uttlerly convinced that everything Thai, both food and people come from Taiwan. She is so freaking annoying; he’s just a little dense.
Woo hoo! : Joins the happy dancing : Not only are Nate and Jen out, they’re out due to her own stupidity and refusal too listen! She said she’d grown. From what I saw, there are seeds lying dormont under the Alaskan tundra which have grown more than she has, possibly seeds lying in Egyptian tombs. Woo hoo!
Now I’ve got that out of my system, TK and Rachel did have a bit of luck, and I’m glad they did. The cars were fun especially seeing Ron the control freak in one. I liked Rachel’s attitude toward them. On the other hand, I’m surprised Don didn’t seem to recognize the name Chiang Kai Shek. I’m a generation younger than him, but it’s a name I learned in school. Then again, if you’re operating under the assumption that you won’t be able to connect place names to something familiar, I could see how the error would happen.
That’s our Jen! Don’t you understand? She’s perfect, she does everything better, and nothing that goes wrong is ever, ever her fault. If Nate was a better boyfriend and life were fair, they would have won every single leg. The race is rigged, I tell you! :rolleyes:
Yeeeehah! What an absolutely delightful final three we have! I think this is the first race where I’m happy to see any of the three teams win – as opposed to TAR4, when I really didn’t give a shit because I didn’t care about any of them. Yay!
Once again, we see that the Speed Bump is fairly balanced, and can be recovered from.
When the teams arrived at the Hanging Gardens tower back in Osaka, I thought that the “Opens at 10:00” sign looked contrived, as if the producers deliberately mucked with the tower’s hours of operation to let TK & Rachel catch up.
Phil’s comment on the Detour’s 17 second submerged ride – “If the team member survives” – was just a bit brutal. Holding your breath for 17 seconds isn’t that hard, if you’re sitting on a sofa watching a TV show. But it might be a bit harder if you’re stoked on adrenaline.
Seriously! I’ve actually been feeling sort of guilty the last month or so because of my deep, deep enjoyment of the schadenfreude I’ve been feeling as Nate & Jen consistently came in second leg after leg after leg. And what I felt tonight as I saw Nick & Don run up to that mat almost makes me feel like I need to go to confession.
Jen’s WTF Bizarre Delusional Karma view of the world as astounding.
“We deserve to win cause we scream and fight, and I’m a stressed-out screaming harpy drama queen while * they * just calmly go about the tasks and have fun, so fate should punish them.”
I concur.