She seems (to me at least) to treat him more like an indentured servant than a husband and equal partner, hence the valet comparison…
I tried the division problem, and I was able to get the correct number in under 3 min. though I realise that it would be MUCH tougher under Race conditions. (cameras, onlookers, etc)
I dont remember if they asked for a calculator or not, but even without one it would have been (for me) a much simpler task than the bong-a-thon.
Yeah, I meant different. Sure, they’re functionally the same, in the same way that a cigarette and a joint are. No one is confusing those two. There’s a few posts in here that sound like people thought they were actually making bongs and CBS just came out with a fun word to call them instead.
Oh, I’m well aware that they’re two different things, but I think that for the sake of comedy, we’ll all overlook that. 
I don’t know if it would have been faster; it took you three minutes in ideal conditions, but the price was changing every minute! Of course with a calculator it would be easy (as the poker players demonstrated).
I recall its been done before on a previous season - a racer left a puzzle or something assembled, and as she walked out the remaining racers looked and copied. In the taxi the racer concerned was cursing herself (I think an all woman team if I recall)
In TAR Asia, on one of the final two legs there were two consecutive teams that couldn’t finish a roadblock - it was a hand over hand rope trapeze thing. Neither team had the physical strength to finish
Something I noticed looking at the Wiki page for this - Caanan had done 5 of the Roadblocks to Mika’s 1. If the halvies rules was still in place, they were going to potentially be in pretty rough shape down the road if they had somehow stayed in.
Who needs Wiki? You have the Taxi Assessment.
As far as I know, the six Roadblocks rule is still in effect. It just doesn’t get mentioned very often.
I have to admit to a good amount of schadenfreude as Canaan demonstrated that he’s such a good Christian he won’t screw his girlfriend, but he’s perfectly willing to try to throw her down a six story waterslide for $1M.
I’m going to choose to believe that Mika is really kind to animals or something, because otherwise she’s just a waste of space - stupid, cowardly, weak, and whiny.
As for the gold challenge, I think doing it with pen and paper is near impossible for most people. Even once I remembered I had to move the decimal point to the right on both numbers, it took me about a minute just to get half way through the problem. I do agree you could have put the approximate amount on the scale and saved time that way, but it would have been really hard to do the math quickly enough, especially under pressure, fatigued, with cameras on you. On the other hand, the brothers not being able to figure it out even with a calculator was just sad.
I read on the TWoP forums that Flight Time and Big Easy will be donating a substantial portion of their winnings, if they win, to Katrina relief and recovery charities. So “Do it for the hood” takes on a whole new meaning.
Did anyone notice that the gold price seemed to just oscillate between three specific values? It looked bogus to me. And the silver and copper prices never budged.
(But maybe they only shot three bits of footage from that screen? I dunno.)
I kinda wish they stayed on just to see what she else she can’t do. One thing no one’s mention yet (probably because it was situated between the slide freakout and “Muslim Time”) is that she said she doesn’t really run at all. You know, something she might want to have address before joining a RACE.
I was not a fan of Mika’s behavior, and will not miss her being off the Race, but I am guessing that the “Muslim time” comment was just her being confused about the Islamic Calender which IS of course different than the calender Mika observes…
I think you’re giving her far too much credit. I doubt she knows that.
It occurred to me that the “proctors” of that Detour task would have to be calculating on the fly, in their heads, to know whether or not the teams had gotten the correct amount for a genuinely previously unknown gold value.
Or they had calculators, or someone offscreen had one, and just did the calculation every time it updated, but we weren’t shown that.
I like TAR. But I have to wonder how many of the teams that were in a relationship when the race started had the relationship survive the race. Some of the things that have been said by one partner to another over the years…well, all I can say is that if I were on the receiving end, my response would be to tell my ex-partner to go fuck themselves and head back home, million bucks or no.
I just finished watching Season 2, and by the end I’m amazed Tara and Wil didn’t kill one another or never speak again afterwards. And of course they didn’t get back together, but Wiki says they’re still business partners.
There was that one couple in season one that had broken up by the time they were Philiminated.
Let’s see…ah, yes: Lenny and Karyn. I really hated Karyn’s shrill “Lenny!” every time they fell behind so I was really glad to see them go. Felt bad for Lenny, though.
Now I definitely want to catch up on this season, just to see Mika’s Epic Fail of Amazing Race Rule Number One: THIS IS A FUCKING RACE.
@Clothahump et al: A few seasons back, there was Team Ironleg, wherein Miss Disabled Triathlete dumped Mr Unhelpful on the Pit Stop mat.