When they zoomed in on the clue (for the cops I think), it said something like “You must carry all the ingredients to the kitchen at the same time”. Underlined. Maybe the producers were angling for another rule violation/30 minute penalty at the mat. Also confirmed that it said “bakers dozen” of eggs without any further explanation.
Well the cops were checked in as the “ninth team to arrive” which usually means they fucked up somewhere along the line. Either the last team was so far behind that whatever penalty the cops incurred was immaterial or they’re planning to ding them at the start of the next leg.
I’m amazed at how two people managed to roll with getting kicked in the face by a cow. I think I would have been a blubbering mess.
I was shocked that they all knew what a Baker’s Dozen was.
Speaking of the roadblock, it seemed like Jordan and Jeff read the details of it before they decided who was going to do it. I thought that was a no-no.
Usually when the editors put in a specific task phrase like that, it’s to foreshadow the time when team X screws up. It’s odd the editors spent so much time on the baker’s dozen thing, yet it didn’t lead anywhere.
Sowboys? or Scowboys?
Maybe this is why the cops were checked in as “the ninth team to arrive” because they’ll pop up to 8th place and Jordan & Jeff will incur a penalty at the start of the next leg. Gotta keep this in mind next week.
I thought the Bird challenge required the racers to fly the bird as far as the bouy. But both teams pretty much jumped off the dock and swam the rest of the way. Does anyone remember the wording of the challenge?
StG
I think it said something like “Fly as far as you can”…but regardless of how the clue worked, gravity and physics demand that they plummet like a stone. That flimsy costume/kite thing only had about a 15 foot wingspan, tops. And looked like it was made of old garbage sacks. There was no way they were gonna glide/fly.
I wonder if they had some other task in mind that didn’t work out and they had to do this one at the last moment. Because it really is the third-lamest task ever.*
*Second Lamest: On a final leg, you had to go into a booth and guess what bitchy answers your partner would give to questions. NOT actual factual answers, but what your partner would say–right or wrong. So if you gossiped about the other teams a lot you had an advantage. :rolleyes:
Lamest: Last task on a final leg. Eat 2 small slices of deep dish pizza. (Think “personal pan pizza”) And one team still had a meltdown/drama about it. :rolleyes:
:smack:
C, of course…
Yep. That’s the one that gave the odious Freddy and KKKendra the win over sweethearts Kris and Jon.
And Hellboy and Rebecca were the ones who had the meltdown (“I can’t eeeaeat tomatoes!”/“O God! I’m gonna puke!”/“Tomatoes scare me!”/“Fine! We’ll just lose then!”)
Sort of. On Big Brother it was well established that he loves to cook and doesn’t suck at it, so he absolutely knows basic cooking and food stuff. (This is part of the reason Jeff became so popular with the female fans.)
It was also well established that Jordan knows almost nothing, so he was busting her balls with that question. I’m guessing that was snippet of a conversation that went like this:
Jordan: Who should do this challenge?
Jeff: Jordan, what’s a baker’s dozen?
Jordan: ???
Jeff: Right, I’m doing it.
Everyone read that, though, right? Surely we heard about the baker’s dozen from more than just Phil and J/J?
Unless you meant the llama/bird choice, which didn’t involve a choice of racers because both racers participated in both tasks.
That’s the difference between a Detour and a Roadblock. A Detour is a choice between two tasks (like “Llama Adoration” or “Condor Consternation”), and if a team tries one and finds it too hard, they can switch. (And switch back, too, as many times as they want until they finish at least one.) A Roadblock is a task for only one member of a team. There’s a vague hint, then the team have to decide and declare who’ll do the task, then they get to read the details. And they can’t change their minds; that player has to finish the task or die trying.
The part about the baker’s dozen was in the detailed instructions. So Jordan and Jeff couldn’t have known that before deciding who’d do the task. And there are limits on how much help the non-Roadblocking team member can give. We’ve seen teammates talk during a Roadblock, but “how much is a baker’s dozen” might be over the line.
I thought the part where he asked Jordan what a baker’s dozen was a confessional AFTER the Roadblock. Basically he was teasing her and say “it was good that I did this roadblock.”
I went back and checked the video on the cbs website. (Link)
At 28:42 they showed the actual clue, which was a single sentence: “It’s time to make the Kuchen.”
Jeff and Jordan read the clue at 32:11. Them finding the clue is interwoven with the post-challenge confessional where Jeff busts Jordan’s balls about the baker’s dozen. On first glance it’s edited in such a way that it looks like they’re reading the details of the challenge before they decide who does it. But on closer inspection I think the editors are just playing the audio from the confessional over a shot of them reading the clue, since that audio continues pretty seamlessly when they switch from the outside view to the confessional view.
I wonder where the hell the piers came from. They don’t look like they’d be useful for anything but that particular task - they were way too high for boating, and it was a lake so no tides. Did they build them just for the task, or do the locals like to dress up like condors and jump in the water too?
Checking the video, Phil says “they must then take flight, and attempt to soar to this target, which contains their next clue.”
Key word being “attempt”, I guess.
Yeah, on rewatching it they look like scaffolding thrown up by production.
I just now watched the episode. The Olympics make it hard to squeeze it in.
Anyway, not too many posts in this thread this week. I guess it’s hard to follow the greatness of the first episode. And other than the bus shuffling, there wasn’t any real task difficulty or “broken ox” drama. More of the go-here-and-do-this set of serial activities.
I was hoping the Llamas would have been more temperamental. Oh well. Maybe next week it’ll pick up steam.