# Amazing Race 12/10 - 4 Continents, 12 Countries, 40,000 Miles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613 "2006-12-10T22:57:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/61 "2006-12-12T23:16:45Z")
They were all at the airport together, even at the reservation desk together. Rob and Kimberly’s clerk was faster at getting them checked in and got two of the last three seats on the flight. That left one just one seat on the flight. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/62 "2006-12-13T00:34:44Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] They did a puzzle in Kuwait. One team member had to climb up the outside of a tower and grab a satchel with some puzzle pieces, then get to the ground and put the puzzle together. The puzzle revealed a location but was written in Arabic. [/QUOTE] But weren’t they handed a picfture of Kuwait towers and told they had to figure out what it was and go there? ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/63 "2006-12-13T00:39:39Z")
[QUOTE=zut] Huh. I had a dream I was on TAR, too. It’s a little fuzzy, but I think we got badly lost and Phil had to come get us (which would probably be what actually would happen to me on TAR). The best part was the Detour where we had to dress up in Godzilla suits and smash a miniature Tokyo to find the next clue. I heartily endorse that as a task idea. [/QUOTE] Perfect! One Detour is putting on a lizard suit and stomping through a miniature to get the clue, the other is to recreate the statue “The Thinker” out of Legos. The choice would be called “Godzilla or Rodin” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/64 "2006-12-13T00:41:02Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] Perfect! One Detour is putting on a lizard suit and stomping through a miniature to get the clue, the other is to recreate the statue “The Thinker” out of Legos. The choice would be called “Godzilla or Rodin” [/QUOTE] _smacks **scotandrson** _ ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/65 "2006-12-13T01:08:28Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] But weren’t they handed a picfture of Kuwait towers and told they had to figure out what it was and go there? [/QUOTE] Teams got a clue to fly to Kuwait and got a video player of some sort with a picture of the towers. They didn’t have to figure out to fly to Kuwait on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/66 "2006-12-13T02:30:56Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] He’s nt with either of them any more. The break-up was announced about a week ago. So sad. Yet another of America’s Perfect Gay Couples that couldn’t last. [/QUOTE] But I just saw them on E! yesterday! Sigh. Here’s an odd sidenote about that couple - a few years ago a friend of mine who works in professional theatre told me that Lance Bass was gay. What’s funny is that he heard it from Deborah Gibson, who came to his Halloween party. IIRC, she was in a show or something with Lance and dished the dirt. So I knew about him way before the tabloids! (I know, not exactly a shocker even back then.) ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/67 "2006-12-13T05:20:37Z")
[QUOTE=MrSquishy] I think I missed something. How did Rob and Kimberly get seats on the flight from Paris to New York while the models had to go on standby? Weren’t the models at the airport first? [/QUOTE] Rob and Kim begged and pleaded and pleaded and begged and told the clerk that it meant a million bucks to them so the clerk caved. Never underestimate the power of pleading 😃 Not that they won but the Cab Roulette feature of the game can’t really be overcome :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/68 "2006-12-13T13:32:42Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] Rob and Kim begged and pleaded and pleaded and begged and told the clerk that it meant a million bucks to them so the clerk caved. Never underestimate the power of pleading. [/QUOTE] I think it worked because Kimberly used her sex appeal. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/69 "2006-12-13T14:55:10Z")
[QUOTE=rockle] Frakkin’ _awesome!_ I also highly endorse this idea. But I have to ask: what was the _other_ option? Because “Godzillas or Chinchillas” has some potential. [/QUOTE] I’m not quite sure (my dreams tend to lack clarity or sense), but I think it had something to do with dressing up like Santa Claus. So how about… “Godzilla or Stocking Fillah”? “Sleigh Ride or Grey Hide”? “Down from the Chimney or Up from the Sea”? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/70 "2006-12-13T17:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=zut] I’m not quite sure (my dreams tend to lack clarity or sense), but I think it had something to do with dressing up like Santa Claus. So how about… “Godzilla or Stocking Fillah”? “Sleigh Ride or Grey Hide”? “Down from the Chimney or Up from the Sea”? [/QUOTE] I … _think I love you_. As always, you rock my socks. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/71 "2006-12-13T18:17:31Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] Basically, the episode ended up being “race to the bunch points” and find a good cab driver, preferrably with an E-Z Pass. [/QUOTE] That should not really have been an issue as NY taxis are supposedly mandated to use E-Z pass (and pass on the discount to the passenger, but that rarely happens). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/72 "2006-12-15T01:40:02Z")
I can’t help comparing the finale with the once where they had to put flags in order, or the map together. I really enjoyed the **Treasure Hunters** finale, where all teams were stuck for hours solving the last cryptex. I don’t know if they suffered lower ratings from the audience expecting dumbed down, spoonfed answers, but I thought it was awesome. I sure hope it wasn’t the ratings… otherwise shows like the Amazing Race will try to dumb itself down. Even though the audience isn’t solving the puzzles, perhaps they don’t empathize as well with the teams that do solve puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![annieclaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613/73 "2006-12-15T04:03:10Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert] I sure hope it wasn’t the ratings… otherwise shows like the Amazing Race will try to dumb itself down. Even though the audience isn’t solving the puzzles, perhaps they don’t empathize as well with the teams that do solve puzzles. [/QUOTE] If I remember correctly, TAR was #10 nationally for the week that ended this past Sunday. I think it was the first time the show ended in the top 20 this season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-12-10-4-continents-12-countries-40-000-miles/383613.md?page=3)