Ok-but which is which?
Pathologically angry-dating-virgin Ken-N-Barbie guy is Shane (I agree–no brain-dead spellings!)?
Dorky “Dances-With-Water-Dragons” Ken-N-Barbie is Canaan?
Or is it the other-way-round?
Right. I’d say Brian’s actions are correct, even if his reasoning is not. If you’re comfortably out front, the risk involved in helping someone behind you (or even roughly tied with you) is slight. The potential benefit is that the same team will be predisposed to helping you out sometime in the future. It’s human nature, after all, to want to help other people who’ve been “nice” to you.
Now, there’s no guarantee the team you helped will be able or willing to help you out in the future, and there’s always the possiblity that you might wind up in last place, beaten by the team you helped. But I still think it’s a good bet to help out other teams unless you have a reason not to.
Valid reasons not to help include, but are not limited to: a) not actually “helping” (Sam and Dan, I’m looking at you), b) not helping a tam you perceive as being a long-term threat, or c) (and most importantly) being in second-to-last place.
Pathologically angry-dating-virgin Ken-N-Barbie guy is Canaan.
Dorky “Dances-With-Water-Dragons” Ken-N-Barbie is also Canaan.
Scheyenne is the guy with the aerodynamic hair.
I agree with everything you and Robot Arm say, but Brian wasn’t comfortably out in front enough to help as many people as they did–my complaint isn’t that he helped someone, it’s that he helped almost everyone. IMO, that’s overdoing it.
…blink…
Oh…heh. Gotcha. So he’s also the guy in the spoiler?
Which was in the race car?
Does Schane have a personality?
Yes, Canaan and his relationship with Mika is in the spoiler (which is just spoilering the preview for next week).
No, Cheyne was in the race car
No. His current personality seems to be a Ken doll packaged with a Water Works Barbie (which is, not at all).
Of all the things to carry around the world on your back, why did Cheyne (shudder at the name) pick a big jar of styling gel? Isn’t that space you could use for something actually, y’know, useful?
And the Fast Forward wasn’t a challenge at all. Did anyone else notice that he spent the entire time following a pace car? I can understand why - telling a tired, stressed racer to go as fast as they can around a track in an actual race car is probably asking for a big boom and a lot of money down the drain for the producers. But the point of the Fast Forward is to do something extra challenging, and that was way easier than even building the damn snowman, much less finding water in the desert.
On the preview for next week:
I’m looking forward to seeing the big meltdown next week. I’ve been to Atlantis, and I’m pretty sure I’ve been down that slide; it’s really not that big of a deal. Thousands of tourists fly to the Bahamas every year so they can do it. I’m sure she’ll be fine, geez.
I think Pschaygne, hairwise, wants to be Phil. Unfortunately, Phil’s hair comes off stylish, and Pscheaiygne looks like that picture you have of yourself as a kid where you had your hand on the static electricity ball at the Magic House.
When Zev and Justin unpacked their backpacks while looking for the passport, I was surprised how much stuff they had. Under the circumstances (in a hurry, just what you can carry on your back, and with twelve-hour stops at hotels every couple of days) I’d pack very few clothes and wash them during the Pit Stops.
Partly that, and it’s asking for trouble to try to be fast until you know the layout of the track. If I were on the show, my dream Roadblock would be a lap at the Nürburgring in Germany. I would kick ass.
And she was wearing water wings, wasn’t she?I think they’re staying in the UAE for the next leg. How many different kinds of water slides are there, anyway? I’ve been on one like that in Palm Springs. I was a little nervous, but I did it. And I didn’t even have a chance at a million dollars waiting at the bottom.
Yes, she was. They looked very small on her arms, so I’m guessing they got the largest kids ones they could find. She’s afraid of water too? Can’t see what water wings would do for her fear of heights.
preview spoilers:
It did look like Paradise Island in the Bahamas, but a quick google shows there’s also a Paradise Island in Dubai. Makes more sense - if you sent them to the Bahamas now, you’d either have to backtrack, or spend the rest of the race in North & South America.
And she was wearing water wings, wasn’t she?
When my kids were real little, they were called “floaties” and were designed for small children who could not swim. Those looked like they might be the right size for a five year old.
Which won’t matter anyway. If that slide is anything like the one I’ve been on, it’s just ends with a long, flat section. You slide to a stop, then stand up.
The worst part was getting some water up my nose.
To be fair, the producers haven’t really given Meghan and Cheyne much screen time so far, which usually means they’re not entertainingly fucking up or melting down. I suspect Cheyne will develop a personalty once all the loser teams are eliminated.
Duuuuuuuude! If Cheyne didn’t bring his styling gel, he wouldn’t be able to see anything. What’s more useful than that?
They should have made them walk up to the clue box and then back down. Or bunched them up at like 4:45 in the morning and said "you can walk up now or wait for the elevators to be turned on at 6:00a.m.
Think how much it would have sucked to run/walk on that sand looking for water after having recently climbed a few thousand stairs.
To-may-to, to-mah-to.
I still say they’re getting the bland couple edit (as opposed to the crazy couple edit and the likeable couple edit), which likely means they are quite bland all of the time.
Contrast with Mika/Canaan (crazy couple edit) and Ericka/Brian (likeable couple edit).
They compensated for it by mis-identifying Brian & Ericka as Meghan & Cheyne. Just when I thought I was getting names straight, there’s a shot of Team Zebra, with “Meghan & Cheyne…Dating Barbie Dolls” (or whatever) superimposed. And I went…hey, waitaminnit…
I’d say that Ericka and Brian are getting the Willis’ edit (or the Ebony and Ivory edit if the Willises have become too obscure). How many cute jokes about chocolate and vanilla will we have to endure?
I am black and you are white /
You are blind as a bat and I have sight…
Brian: Crap! I got a nasty burn from that hot desert sun in Dubai!
Ericka: That’s OK, honey. Now we’re Neapolitan!
[hijack]
I friggin’ love that skit. I pull it up on youtube every once in a while when I’m in a really foul mood. [/hijack]
You…are a devious person and total-fuckingly-evil.
I admire that and suggest that you apply for a job with The Amazing Race because you have a better idea of how to set up challenges than the Amazing Producers do. 