LOL. I am certain that I will see some of it on his plate, sometime during the day. heck i will probably have some too! Now back to Phil…
Team Gonad? Officially Dead To Me. Any of you who still want them, I renounce all TV boyfriend dibs.
Roaming Gnome? Haaate.
Drunken Fern? Big Love!
Don’t tell anyone, but I was secretly hoping that one of them would poke the other in the eye with those bottles, and then we’d have the Amazing Emergency Room Visit.
Did BJ & Tyler have their gnome with them? If not … penalty?
Aw. Poor Team Salsa. I’ll miss them, but they kind of deserved it. How do you get lost twice in exactly the same place? You’re going the wrong way, turn around and go the other way. They have to have done a 180 at some point and then done another one. Weird. But Team Dani-squared would’ve deserved it too. The only thing dopier than getting lost twice in the same place is following someone else into getting lost twice in the same place.
Team Gonad? To reiterate, Dead To Me. From “kinda gay” to the hetero-yukking it up with the kindred spirit on the train to hitting on the Pauli Girl (but her “if you pay” line shows that even in a foreign language women know they’re losers), just, ew on top of ew on top of ew. And I’m sorry, but even not counting their own heads I have no doubt that lederhosen aren’t the first thing they’ve had jammed up their asses.
I heart Michelle. After her total snarky “good job babe!” routine following Lake’s pissy little “zip the negative” business, I have a strange feeling that we’ve been given a little more insight into their sex life than I really wanted. Not that he was wrong in telling her to knock off the negativity but he could’ve been nicer about it. Plus Lake’s hat on the flight to Germany was just odd.
I think that was my favorite Detour ever. I could watch Team Gonad and Team Hippie hitting each other over the head with bottles for days at a time and never get tired of it. Too bad Frankenberry went for the dancing.
Team Hippie, walking backward to the mat? Yeah, I’m just exhausted with them.
Who said the title line? I missed it.
Fairly solid-looking drunk German stranger? Get in the back with my wife!
Amazingly enough, Frankenberry got carried by other people’s stupidity again. Every time I think they’re going to run out of stupid, the other teams manufacture more to keep up with demand.
“Prost” is apparently actually Bavarian for “cheers” (standard German is prosit, I think). “Probst”, on the other hand, is English for “moderately sharp-tongued reality-show host who wears ugly hats”.
Looks like Greece or Rome next week as well (looked like Lori was trying to put together statue slices in the previews).
No, they didn’t. My impression from Phil’s awarding Team Gonad with the Africa trip was that the award was dependent on having the gnome with them on the mat. So no penalty but if they’d been first no trip.
They’re like Gretchen and Meredith with all the spazz and without the spunk. Viva Frank and Margaretta!
As hubby put it, “You know, they could have just rescheduled ‘Survivor’ for Wednesday during basketball, instead of trying to get a Jeff reference in during a good TV show.” I believe I may have married him in anticipation of that moment.
I hope that the previews are, as per usual, a Big Fat Television Lie, and that Lori & Dave are OK next week, because if they’re out, I swear to God, I’ll cry. I really want them to win the Race so they can spend the million on the most awesomest wedding ever, with robot monkey butlers serving canapes and Mountain Dew - or else I want them to spend the money on booze and whores and a real live vintage Pac-Man machine. They make me want to go to Kansas to visit them.
I lost it when Desiree started whining because she couldn’t find the gnome in the field. She esentially gave up and complained that all the gnomes were gone. Is she really that stupid that she would think that the producers would set up a roadblock and then not have enough gnomes to go around? Sheesh! And here’s another tip: the next time your mom repeatedly drives around in a circle, don’t sit in the back seat whining – switch positions and start driving yourself. Oh, and spend five bucks on a frickin’ map.
PS But she still is hot.
Hmm … I remember the first time they used the gnomes or whatever, when Nicole and Brandon came in last in a NEL and got to spend the night in a super-suite in India. So, you’re probably right. But, didn’t the clue say something about “bring your gnome with you for luck” or summat? There should be a penalty, dammit! Just on principle! If people get charged an extra time penalty for starting out in the wrong car even when they returned it (see: Don & Mary Jean), then Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dipturd should get a penalty for not bringing their gnome. Plus, extra penalty for being twee and walking backwards to the mat! They are not sportsmanships, I don’t think.
It seems to me they must have had to do some scrambling of the route after it was first laid out.
Not just because of the thousand mile backtrack from Moscow to Munich, but we’ve had THREE hunt for a needle in a haystack challenge (nesting dollls, gnomes, bottles) is very short order. Not that there’s anything wrong with three Find the Needle challenges, but spread them out!
But I did love the way that, when nobody was doing the dancing Detour, the dancers and band came and paraded around the bottle-breakers just to make them more nuts. I tell you, they’re really fine-tuning the art of playing with the racers’ heads, aren’t they?
And if I may say so, I’d really like to send a fruit basket to the wardrobe person who’s dressing Phil this week. He looked scrumptious in that turtleneck and brown coat!
I am officially sick of Team Gonad’s obsession with women. People say the hippies are trying too hard with their wackiness? Eric & Jeremy’s obsession with the female of the species makes the hippies look positively rational and well-balanced.
“A8 - München” It’s really not that difficult.
I’ve been to Stuttgart. I’ve been to the Mercedes factory in Stuttgart. I think I recognized that gate. I laughed when somebody said “is that the Mercedes logo?” Everything in that city, taxis, trolleys, garbage trucks, is Mercedes.
Speaking of which, those looked like fairly high-end models they had. Did anybody look to see if they had navigation systems? Would have saved them so much trouble.
No footage of the teams cutting loose on the Autobahn?
[sub]If anybody watches this again on tape, it’s a screen at the top center of the dashboard, with three buttons on each side like an ATM.[/sub]
Best line of the night was from one of the guys in Team Hippie when changing into the lederhosen in front of everyone: “I have to use the changing room. I’m not wearing underwear.”
BWWWWAAAAAHHHH!
A somewhat forgettable leg and I’m sorry to see Team Salsa go.
The Gonad Boys need some cold showers. Maybe the next leg, they have eat a pound of saltpeter – anything to cool the jets. Geez. Phil’s eyebrow-o-meter was at about 10.2 at their mat comments. Though I must say they have been running a strong race so far.
The difference is that (tragically) it’s probably not conscious on the part of Team Gonad. Whereas Team Hippie is being very studiously “wacky.” They decided way before the race started that they were going to be The Funny Ones. Which might be entertaining, if they were remotely funny. They are not, and we are all suffering for it. It’s too bad, really, because they seem like such competent racers that if they weren’t so single-mindedly dreadful they’d probably have an enormous fanbase.
I’m wondering if that was maybe part of the reason for the otherwise fairly pointless test drive. To gather footage of the teams zooming along, and also to get the zoomingness out of their systems. None of the teams probably have a lot of experience driving 100+ MPH so having them driven that fast by someone else maybe acted to convnce them that trying it wasn’t the best of ideas. There may be some sort of maximum speed rule too. We already know that when there are posted speed limits they have to be obeyed; maybe when there’s no speed limit the producers impose one for safety purposes.
See, I thought the point of the test drive was to show them that the cars could do 120 and they were just getting warmed up. (And I noticed that while the racers were freaking out on the test track, the drivers looked like they were sitting behind a desk.) 9 pairs of ordinary Americans, 9 brand new Mercedes, no speed limits, and one-million dollars at the finish line; that’s good television.
And was I the only one waiting for one of the contestants to hold their gnome up next to the greeter and check the resemblance?
Did anyone notice that right after the thread title line was said (“It’s not over until the Phil sings”) a big sign on top of a building behind the team lit up the word Phil!?
The resemblence was the first thing that crossed my mind too. It had to be deliberate. This is why it was a blessing that Team Hippie forgot their gnome, because this is just the sort of schtick they’d pound into the ground.
Yep. Awesome! 
And for Otto’s sake, it was the Hippies who said that. When they cut to the cows in the field I thought for sure someone would step in a cowpie and complain loudly…alas, that didn’t happen.
Looked like the dance master was as tough on the players (save the oldsters) as the Hungarian water polo team. So much for German attention to detail.
Also, when you’re the last team poking around the field…DON’T PUT THE GNOME PARTS BACK!!! Knock them over!! Sheesh.
I don’t know, though. Maybe I’m in a rare good mood tonight or something, but I really enjoyed that episode, and ended up liking just about everyone. I warmed up to the hippies when they were so genuinely pleased that the oldsters made it. Also, the “SANTA!” comment made me chuckle. A little.