CBS has got the 4 pm football game, adjust DVRs accordingly. and the featured game is in New England, and it is snowing there, meanwhile, on The Amazing Race:
And they’re in overtime. They haven’t even started Sixty Minutes yet.
No football delay up here and all I have to say is “YES!!!”
“The Persian Gulf isn’t even a country”
I’m usually all for the football delays so I can have a few extra moments to get the kids to bed, but this is stupid late. I am too tired to stay up until 10:15!
What the hell? I can understand being grateful but this is stupid! RACE YOU FOOLS RACE!
My God, were they useless. I think she is right about running the worst leg in AR history. They fucked up on every task - they even broke the carrot on the snowman. One more useless team to be eliminated (poker players) and the race really starts.
I got the Asian woman and car thing right away. At least she was able to joke about it.
Oh, and nice spoiler for Survivor during the commercials.
Yes, but I cheered out loud when they were gone, especially since it was their own doing. I’ve heard about the indoor ski slope in Dubai so it was rather neat to see it, and I loved how the fast forward really was a fast forward. No matter what happens to that team, it had to be a heck of a ride! 
Team Zebra really rocked through the tasks. But WTF, Miss America can’t do heat because chocolate melts and she is no snow bunny either?
But whats up with the preview next week? it looked like Canaan was about to shove Mika down the water slide. Why would you go on the race if you are absolutely petrified of heights?
It looks like another case of whiny-bratitis. You see it all the time when heights are involved.
Although usually it involves something more menacing than a waterslide. God, I’m not fond of open-air heights either, but you’re not going to die on a waterslide. Suck it up and pretend you’re doing a Demi and rolling around naked in that million dollars.
Although that causes me to ponder another thought, did anyone else think Mika was shooting Canaan the “You will NEVER see me naked” look throughout this whole leg?
I could only wonder about how anyone could go on the Amazing Race if they were that petrified of heights. Have you never seen this show before? It’s better than even odds that you are going to have to bungee jump, zip line, or rappel at some point.
Mika’s attractive, sure, but I think the negatives outweigh the positives there. Having said that,
You really can’t just throw someone down a water slide. Canaan, come on, call on the power of Jesus to get her down the slide, don’t just chuck her. How pathetic was her wailing “Help me!” to the attendant standing there?Finally, Sam and Dan, what the heck was up with the “We’re gonna make sure you guys get a car” thing. There’s being courteous, and there’s being helpful, and then there’s having an alliance, and then there’s “we’ll all go down together.” Race, idiots.
That was extra-dumb. It’s up to the show to replace the car and the rules say they will do it. What good does hanging around waiting for it do anybody?
Seriously. For a couple of gay guys, they sure act like they’re smitten with those two women. Isn’t this something like the second or third time the gaybros gave up time to help those two?
In the first couple of episodes, their “strategy” was to pretend to be interested in the girls to get them to help them in a kind of alliance. But they haven’t specifically mentioned that to the camera in a while and I thought they dropped it (because the girls are obviously not long for this race).
Maybe they’re just dumb. They wouldn’t be the first team of dumb prettyboys who’ve survived deep into the race because they’re more in shape than the other dumb teams.
Well, we just saw a team that went on the Amazing Race with no clue how to read a map. (Although, I didn’t actually see a map in the car with them. They were mostly just squabbling over directions. But it didn’t look like they had those right, either.) I want to know how far behind they really were. We saw them in the car, with Lance talking about how much they sucked, and missing the turn to Dubai. Next we saw them, they were rushing in to Ski Dubai. I wonder if they were hours behind.
I liked the guy in the polar bear suit.
Would anyone seriously go up to an airline ticket counter and say “we need to fly to the Persian Gulf”? I didn’t think so.
Still don’t like Fast Forwards. They very rarely provide any drama at all. And they apparently didn’t even make this at all challenging since he beat the required time by 5 seconds on the first try.
Glad the losers are gone.
Way to trick me out with the editing. When they didn’t even bother to try and create any editing ambiguity about the result I figured it was a non-elimination leg. Then when he mentioned maybe it would be non-elimination I knew it wouldn’t be.
Good to see them having to drive themselves. At least it doesn’t all come down to getting a good taxi driver.
No, there’s still the Christian daters.
FFs were great when they were on every leg–they used to be a way for a team screwed by a bad cab driver to get back to the front. Plus, sometimes multiple teams would go for them and the losing team would be screwed and they were normally more challenging. Hell, when there were 4 or 5 of them, at least there was strategy in picking when you were going to use yours. A single FF is useless.
This was a “meh” episode for me.
Huge bunch point at the airport, followed by a second huge bunch point at the Dubai building.
Then, the “task” for the Dubai building was “ride the elevator”? That’s it? You couldn’t think of anything else? C’mon. How about searching in the building for something?
And who’s lame idea was it to put the single fast forward at a bunch point so that everyone knows who’s getting it–the fun of a FF is when multiple people go for it (the FFs should be more challenging too)
Then "wander in the desert’ for a needle in a haystack challenge followed by “dig in the snow” for a needle in a haystack
Meh.
On the other hand, the Dubai lady with the snowman totally bitchslapped the Meathead (“Dur…c’n I kick der snowman?” / “Do you want your clue or not?”) and we lost the meathead, so…not a total loss.
And what was with him? Seriously–what’s with this “let’s break stuff” attitude? The VCRs, the incredible hulk thing with the jar, the snowman, threatening Phil a couple of times? My guess? He’s got a small dick. 
Poor Mika. First she thinks she’s driving 120 miles/hour (but it feels like 60) then, when Canaan is yelling at her to get over the exit, she’s all, “I’m not stupid, you know.” Oh, honey. You kind of are. I mean, “I can’t sled! I’ve never sledded before!” :dubious:
Yeah, her fear of heights really makes the Amazing Race a poor choice.
I’m not sad to see Lance and Kerri go. I think they had a map at one point and he yelled at her because it wasn’t making sense, but I could be remembering that wrong.
Actually, I was surprised by how many people took the needle in the haystack challenge over the build something challenge. Isn’t one of the basic rules of the race “Take the build challenge over the search for something challenge?” Even the guys from Minnesota didn’t start out building the snowman, and they’ve probably built a few. It’s obvious they weren’t looking for perfection and even at those temperatures, a mass of snow isn’t going to melt instantly.
As for Lance, after watching him on this show, why would I want to work with him or do business with him? He may be convinced of his own superiority, but he didn’t come across as all that competent at much of anything except yelling at people and harming inanimate objects. To quote Babylon 5, “Talk about delusions of adequacy!”