Last week the Beauty Queens fell from grace and were (beauty) marked for elimination. Meanwhile, Team Go Home Alabama, in an astounding display of near-competence, showed that they may have been the non-biodegradable plastic rings binding the Six-Pack together all along, overcoming a Yield and logging their highest finish yet.
This week, someone references “Dude, Where’s My Car?” (I wonder who that might be, former druggies?) and Rob and Kimberly get pelted by tomatoes! Looks like the ep will be starting on time so adjust your recording devices appropriately.
Hiding a clue inside one of those tomatoes was just evil.
Especially since anyone searching for the clue is also getting pelted by tomatoes.
Note to multiple teams–quit worrying so much about the blondes! (I understand why one wants to beat the blondes, perferably by a half hour but I got very tired of hearing comments about “we have to beat the blondes”–especially when said by Kimberley in a state of near hysteria)
Oh, ick. The first team has now arrived. Since this episode has not increased my affection for the team in question, I’m not happy.
I loved how the Amazing Editors put the “Power Through and Go” promo (which team handled the stressful tomato detour best?) immediately after Rob and Kim had multiple screaming fits at that detour.
After Rob’s tearful Pit Stop, I turned to supervenusfreak and asked him to promise that if we ever went on this show, we wouldn’t have any cathartic moments on camera. He scoffed…
Actually, Lyn is okay. It’s Karlyn who’s the rude, obnoxious bitch. I was cheering Lyn on when she was telling Karlyn to “Shut the hell up!” at the Roadblock. Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch, and Lyn still ate the meat twice as fast as Kimberly!
Hmmm…I hate all the remaining teams. The drug addicts are growing on me though, they’ve cut out the, “the fact that we are ex addicts means were now better at everything.” nonsense that seemed to dominate the first four or five episodes which makes them slightly more tolerable.
I hope the other teams end up accidentally shipped to Antarctica or something. I’d love to hear Rob start yelling at Kimberly for inventing snow or something. She’s no prize either but I don’t know how she tolerates him.
Then there’s Alabama…I’m a beauty queen fan so naturally I don’t like them.
Once the maze was an artificial bunching spot, that put the BQs in a “do or die” mode. Since the leg had no long-range travel after that point, there was very little opportunity for the BQs to come in 2nd or 3rd and have a half-hour lead. What can I say but, them’s the berries!
It was good, though, to have all the teams shocked by seeing the BQs catch up nearly 45 minutes at the Roadblock. (I check the leg start times – the BQs started about 46 minutes off the lead, and were not too far behind the Guy Models at the Roadblock.)
Agreed. Lyn actually came off as pretty cool in this episode, whereas Karlyn came off as an insufferable twit. But they made the right Detour choice this time, and they stuck with it, which helped both 'Bama and Rob & Kim. And I loved how knowing the BQ’s strategy – “they’re always doing the physical tasks, so we should do what we do” – ended up giving the Models exactly what they wanted, although probably not in the way they expected.
Also, both Detour tasks were kind of nifty tonight, although the tomatoes were way cooler than the giants. The only thing cooler would have been throwing tomatoes at giants, or maybe looking for a “needle in a tomato stack” (heh – oh, Rob) in a giant costume.
The real TM symbol is Alt-0153. Although when I try to do it in a window here, my browser freaks out.
I was really sorry to see the BQs go, not because I liked them – I didn’t – but because I really respected the way they raced – flat out, relentlessly. They made mistakes, yes, but they were never less than hard-charging. It’s too bad they hit travel and HoO bunching points this episode that killed any chance to make up that half-hour; I really felt they were the only all-female team on this race that deserved to be in the final 3. They’re not my favorite all-female team of all time; that’s a tossup between Tian/Jaree and Lena/Kristy. But they are excellent racers.
Ditto. Except I liked the BQs. They really deserved to be in the final three. Too bad about that one bad leg.
Maybe if 'Bama had ditched the six pack sooner, I’d like them a little better as they seem to be somewhat decent racers, but Karlyn’s (? She’s the shorter one right? I’m still not sure which is which) bitching is just too annoying.
Loved seeing Rob and Kimberly and the Lyns pelted with tomatoes! Hated seeing the BQ’s Philiminated. The finale would have been much more exciting with them in it. I’ll watch and root for the models, but my heart won’t be in it.
Poor planning by the producers to have, as has been noted, an artificial bunching point (the maze) and then no chance for the “Marked for Elimination” team to really separate themselves from the pack. What’s the point of giving a team a second chance if you’re just going to hang a penalty around their neck that almost guarantees that they are going to fail? I say for future seasons of TAR they should dispense with any NEL penalties and let the teams RAAAACE.
You know, in some ways I’ve had a hard life. I’ve been through some bad times, illnesses, poverty, pain and loss. Times when I wasn’t sure I’d ever be able to make it through another day.
All of that suffering was worth it and then some to see Kimberly bopped square in the noggin by a tomato. And once the *lyn took one, and hurled it back with a shout of “Bastard!” it made me start believing in a kind and loving God.
While I agree in part with those saying that the Leg was somewhat poorly planned with the artificial bunch at the Maze, the Detour choices were such that, with the way such choices normally play out, the teams choosing Lob It (which I dearly wish they’d called “Chuck It”) could very easily have ended up a half-hour or more behind the BQs. Both the Ugly Americans and Go Home Alabama got incredibly lucky to find the clues so quickly. What was truly diabolical about that choice was that, if teams chose to defend themselves by hurling tomatoes back at the crowd, not only were they distracting themselves from searching but they could have been chucking away clues.
I loved how, when Phil was describing the camel meat Roadblock, they cut to a shot of an outraged camel. I heart the editors.
