I didn’t mind the Globetrotters headgames with Mika at all. It’s a race. They weren’t taunting her, they were just trying to talk her out of going down the slide. I thought some of there comments were pretty funny. “It’s not worth hurting yourself. I wouldn’t do it.” Bwahahaha!
I also think that Canaan was as much to blame as Mika. That’s not how you deal with someone’s phobias. I know he was starting to panic that she wouldn’t go down the slide, but he was just making the situation worse by escalating the emotional situation.
There’s a tube that goes through the shark tank. The slide connects to the tube - so you’re moving through the shark tank, but there’s no connection between the slide and the sharks. Regardless of what Meghan thought.
Nah, they love that kind of thing. Some of the best Race scenes have been of people who were terrified, but did the task anyway.
Anyone else pick up on Mika’s line - “Do Muslim clocks work different?”
Just the idea that a vacation resort would have a water slide that would deposit a person into the same body of water as a school of man-eating sharks is laughable. Maybe she doesn’t like going to the zoo either, because there’s so much inherent danger. There are lions in there! They might eat me! Don’t make me go in!!!
According to Elimination Station, Mika and Canaan were up there for 45 minutes total. I might have tried to toss her down the slide after 30 minutes myself…
Actually, I retract my anti-Globetrotters comments from earlier. Someone pointed out that all the GTs saw when they got up the stairs was Canaan sitting off to the side and Mika stressed and splashing herself. They didn’t see the whole 45 minute freakout,
I was surprised how easy the wristwatch - briefcase puzzle turned out to be. I’m not sure I would’ve caught on so quickly, and I’m reasonably bright. The Trotters only mistake was in being stubborn: after you’ve tried all variation on 8-7-x, step back and rethink your assumptions.
And I weep for US education, when I saw how many people threw up their hands & ran away from the gold challenge. It’s 5th grade math.
I thought the best line of the night was Mika’s “I wish I was naked”. Surprised Canaan’s head and/or crotch didn’t explode. On the other hand, Mika might be the kind that showers with her clothes on, so she may never have been naked in her life.
Yeah, I wonder how the clue was worded that so many people panicked. Having said that, I think it was the right decision if you didn’t have a calculator - if the price was really updating every minute, having to do the long division, then measure the “gold” within 60 seconds seems like it would have been difficult.
OK, just did a test where I divided 500,000 by a random number in the 900-950 range. Standard paper & pencil long division, took it to two decimal places. The first time I did 500000/934.28. Took 2min 10 sec, and I got it wrong. Second time I did 500000/941.62. Took 1min 40, and I got it right. So I guess it really would depend on how often the price changed.
Plus, couldn’t you load the scale with some baseline amount of “gold” while your partner was doing the math, and then add the extra you needed to get the right amount?
Yes, the trick was to get a standard amount on the scale.
With the price waffling between 935 and 940 $/oz, i would have put 525 oz on the scale. As soon as the price changed, call it $938.14, I would have then added 7.97 oz on the scale.
anyone know what the scale was? to the nearest oz? or 0.10 oz, or hundredth oz?
Oh my god, this is so funny! I did the same thing, and my random numbers was, I kid you not, 932.28.
And I came to the same conclusion: easy without the pressure of having to get it before the price changes, but not so easy to do knowing that the price could change at any second. I’d still choose it over assembling 12 freaking hookahs, though.
I’ll also retract my disappointment in them. Everybody here has a very good point, and they really had no idea how long Mika had been having her hissy fit. I’d say mean things for a million dollars, too.
As I said to my roommate, I can make one bong. I don’t know if I can make twelve in a timely manner.
The Globetrotters completely grew on me this episode. From the “lifeboat for a five year old” comment to not-freaking out, to asking for a calculator. By the end of the episode, they’d gained enough goodwill from me to not mind their comments to Mika at all. (it helped that Mika was freaking out over a slide. It’s a slide. Plus “afraid of water” from both her and Erika is just lame.)
The gold task looked cool. And I’m saddened that the people with the calculator couldn’t figure it out. It looked way, way faster than the hookah challenge, though. And I’m a person who likes putting together IKEA furniture.
I would really love to see the Amazing Race use a lot more tasks (like the gold) that require a little bit of intelligence, as opposed to brute strength, dumb luck or the ability to choke down 18 pounds of walrus snouts…
I agree, anyone with an American 8th grade education should be able to do a bit of long division with pen and paper, and certainly with the aid of a calculator.
(Did Miss America and her valet/consort use a calculator before giving up, or did they only attempt to use the scratch paper?)
pretty sure they never thought to ask for a calculator from the store owners in the vicinity.
also pretty sure they’re a married couple so “valet/consort” isn’t exactly who he is.
also pretty sure it’s not as easy to use pen and paper for long division that has two decimal places. You can estimate that the range is from 900 to 950 and divide those 2 numbers to 500,000 and figure out a base weight. But doing all that in a quick enough time before the rates changed was the whole point of the challenge. The calculator made the challenge very simple.
Globetrotters are easily my favorite now, followed by Dad and Son. Who I realized ran a really good leg. They’re only problem is that they lost the tongs in the hay, but they knew exactly what was wrong. They didn’t stare aimlessly at the hookahs, whining the whole time.
And at the risk of sounding whooshed, everyone here does know that a hookah and a bong are two completely things right? (And there’s a perfectly good scene from the Office that I wish was on YouTube).
So I’m the only one who was dumbstruck that none of the team members knew how to row a boat properly?
Three of them either didn’t use the oars or used them as a paddle, one of them rowed by pushing, not pulling, and I think all of the rest got in the dinghy facing forward and rowed with the stern in the front and the bow in the rear. (Admittedly, the bow was not really pointy, and the stern was a bit rounded, but there definitely a fore and an aft, and I’m pretty sure all of them got it wrong.)
I’m not exactly a master seaman, but I’ve rowed a boat in my life, and didn’t think it was such an arcane skill that none of the seven guys would know how to do it reasonably well.
I assume you accidentally left out “different,” right?
But they aren’t different at all. They are functionally identical, and differ only in form. Both draw smoke from burning materials through water, presumably to smooth it out, and into the user’s mouth.