I was the exact opposite, because I thought (wrongly) that they’d actually have to steer an elephant while whacking a polo ball.
Which seemed like it could take years.
While the tree thing seemed like a regular ropes course.
But all they did was sit on the back of an elephant that someone else was guiding- I’m not sure why it took so long
Didn’t Aaron realize he was missing the ticket, and run back down long before he reached the admission point? In any case, I thought for sure he’d get a penalty for not using the binoculars to find the pit stop…
It was, until last season. That’s why Colin & Christie’s surprise NEL on the 11th leg was such a shocker.
Nitpick: it was the twins Shoyla & Doyin (sp?) from season two who went against the pro volleyball players, and they were allowed to use their hands, while the pros could only use their heads and feet. And the 12yo ping pong champ really put the beat-down on Rob & Brennan, scoring almost 20 points in a row at first.
I was totally waiting for that. 
There was a clear shot of him taking the ticket from Hayden before he went up, so he definitely had it. Are you thinking of Freddy, who didn’t have the ticket when he started the roadblock. And I don’t recall him going back down to reclaim it…
Anyone else notice that it appeared that Aaron found the pool in no time flat and without binoculars?
I think it’s because of jet lag and culture shock. Going straight to Asia and Africa is going to be really jarring. It might make for a more interesting show in some ways, but do we really want to see meltdowns right away?
I very clearly remember Freddy running back down to collect his ticket from Kendra. That was the point where Bolo came to the grim realization that Lori was missing her ticket too.
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Not really, when you consider Season Five’s alteration to the non-elimination rule. Because of the money loss, it’s a certainty that the next leg is non-elimination (unless the producers are really cruel and throw tons of bunching points into the final leg).
Part of the reason the Freddy and Kendra took the elephant option, they said, was because they thought it would be cool to ride an elephant. Since it wasn’t obvious which was faster this might have been the same decision I would’ve mae.
I read somewhere that Gus said that the world wasn’t ready to see him in a Speedo, and Herra had rowed competitively in college. That makes sense to me then. Like someone said, it’s easy for us when we see the person demo-ing it.
I was thinking the same thing. I’ve done a ropes course a couple of times, but I’ve never ridden an elephant. The ropes may have seemed faster, but I would have chosen the elephant one just for the novelty.
By far, my favorite moment was Kris and Rebitcha’s reaction to Lori ripping into Bolo for letting her forget the ticket. They both had that “Oh my GOD!” look mixed with “This is freakin’ hilarious!”
I thought it was completely unfair last week when John and Victoria were forced to go back to get another donkey. I definitely saw two asses at that checkpoint. 
I’m glad they’re finally gone, the tension and screaming was too much for me to handle, and wasn’t entertaining.
Now that Lori and Bolo are gone, Adam and Rebecca will be probably be my main source of entertainment on this show. They are truly fun to watch. I’ll be surprised if Kris and Jon don’t win the race.
I’m going to plead no-contest in my defense, as Tangent nailed it on the head. I was led to believe you had to shimmy up the tree nearly unaided. THAT would have been one tough cookie.
And I, too, was yelling “Broken elephant! Broken elephant!” when Kendra chose that option. In fact, I believe I do so whenever a team I don’t like does something with animals.
That’s cool. It was definitely Aaron I was thinking of. He passed the entrance as Lori was trying to talk her way in. I thought he had a guilty look on his face, but he must have just been observing Lori’s outburst and trying to get by. Thanks for the clarification.
I’ve starting saying “My ox is broken!” when people I don’t like ask me why I haven’t finished their [insert inane and unimportant task here]. I don’t say it nearly as awesomely as Colin did – freakouts at work are frowned upon – but it still works with said with a shrug and a mumble.
Married pro wrestlers eliminated from Amazing Race; four teams left
Thu Jan 27, 2:48 PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - That’s not the ticket!
Married pro wrestlers Lori Harvey and Bolo Dar’Tainian failed to read a clue thoroughly and forgot a required ticket during CBS’ The Amazing Race, which pushed them from second to last place on the race around the world. “We missed the part where it said you had to have a ticket,” Dar’Tainian told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “It was my fault, but Lori can read, too.”
In Tuesday’s episode, teams travelled from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, weeks before the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster.
“The train we rode on for four hours is completely gone. It’s very sad,” Dar’Tainian said. “It’s crazy to think what would’ve happened if it would’ve happened while we were there. We would’ve gotten killed.”
Of the five remaining two-person teams, Harvey, 33, and Dar’Tainian, 38, were the oldest team left and, according to Dar’Tainian, the “toughest.”
“We’re backwoods country people. We’re more real,” Harvey said, referring to their competitors. “I was so tired of ‘oh baby’ this and ‘oh honey’ that. I was like, would you please remove that word ‘baby’ from your vocabulary?”
During a rush to buy airline tickets during the fifth leg of the race in Senegal, Harvey and Dar’Tainian had an altercation with dating actors team Hayden Kristianson and Aaron Crumbaugh, who were securing tickets for themselves and their allies, engaged model team Freddy Holliday and Kendra Bentley.
“I was about ready to break his boney butt in half, but I’m not that mean of a person,” Dar’Tainian said.
He also called Jonathan Baker’s treatment of Victoria Fuller - they were eliminated last week - “way out of line” and said the ongoing friction between formerly dating couple Adam Malis and Rebecca Cardon was “tragic.”
Up next for the brute duo? Harvey says she “would love to do Playboy.”
They looked like a couple Heathers, didn’t they?
The could go to 1. Hawaii, 2. New Zealand, 3. Japan… That’s two English speaking places followed by a very modern country.
Truer words have never been spoken!
I hate to admit it, but I like Adam and Rebecca. (Okay, maybe not so much Adam as Rebecca). Granted, Adam is an annoying wuss and Rebecca wears the balls in that ‘relationship’, but they are the only team left that has any personality. Kris/Jon, Freddy/Kendra, Hayden/Aaron are all just too damn ‘pretty’ IMHO.
That being said, I’m rooting for Adam/Rebecca and Hayden/Aaron for the final two.
(I’m wearing my ‘dysfunctional couple’ history on my sleeve…)