It was painfully obvious Team Hippie was going to make that plane, because of the editing. If they were going to miss the plane we would’ve heard about it before the commercial so we could have the shots of the dejected hippies at the ticket counter.
Which doesn’t mean I didn’t have high hopes they were going to miss it and be eliminated, but as long as Frankenberry dove on that grenade I’m still satisfied.
Trust me to miss one of the few bits of actual drama in the whole season. Now there’ll be a grand Hippie/MoJo feud and I’ll have missed the opening salvos. My life sucks.
Yep, at the very least they are the most “in-your-face-hetrosexuals” contestants ever, or else just trying too hard to be “not-gay”. The nipple rings one of them wears are a little peculiar. They very well might be bi, happy to *#(! anyone that smiles at them.
Just as well that Frankenberry got eliminated last night…we’ve now got four evenly matched teams. Here’s hoping Ray & Yolanda can finally start playing to win rather than simply playing to not be eliminated.
I’m actually a little bit sorry that Fran and Barry were eliminated. They weren’t one of the Teams I Cared About…all of those have already been eliminated…but they, along with Ray and Yolanda, are at least Teams I Can Tolerate. If Ray and Yolanda get eliminated next then I’ll be reduced to rooting for one of the Teams I Want To Smack.
(Although the lack of painfully zany antics this week has made BJ and Tyler more tolerable and less Smack-able.)
I agree that Monica and Joseph seem to be more focused on the hippies than is good for them. Yeah, they don’t like BJ & Tyler. I get it, I get it.
But so what? Leaving slips of paper instead of money is no less “funny” than threatening to Yield another team. Joseph and Monica have no obligation to help any other team, and I didn’t see them being overtly nasty at all.
Where did the other teams leave this money/IOU/blank papers? How did we find out that Team Hippie had made this Yield threat? If they did it at the Pit Stop during ESM, it seems like it would have violated the “no begging before the start of the leg” rule.
You know, those airplane restrooms are just large enough to fit two people, if one of them is on his or her knees…
Ok, now that we’ve whittled down to 4 teams, the lack of inter-team conflict is really starting to affect this race. The rivalry between Hippies & MoJo is almost totally a creation of editing, and even Monica’s “Flo Moment” was hyped up. The secret flirtation between EJ + Hippies isn’t as obvious as before (unless that IOU promised more than just $100?) and Ray/Yolanda, despite being fourth place with a good shot at making the final three, still have no personality at all.
In other words, the next three legs are going to be boring as hell. Next week = NEL or TBC, for sure. Week after next = R&Y go home, or possibly the Hippies. 2-hour finale = Eric & Jeremy cruise to the win, unless evil MoJo lucks out and gets an early taxi.
Oh well, I could be wrong. I’ll be watching, if only to see what sexy shirts Phil pulls out of his wardrobe.
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Where did the other teams leave this money/IOU/blank papers?
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They put it under the Hippies’ windshield wiper.
Both MoJo and the Hippies themselves (and possibly a couple other teams) mentioned it as they got started.
It was during the Pit Stop, and the rule isn’t “no begging,” it’s “no getting money”. It’s a subtle difference, but the rules just say they have to start the leg with no money. There’s no rule against extorting promises of money during the break.
I still say, if you think you’re the last one coming to the Pit Stop, one of you distracts the cameraman and the other hides all your money under a rock.
It was the name of the particular room at the “backpacker hotel.” Other rooms appeared to have other names, although I’d have to look at the tape to see how visible they were.
It seems odd that the rules would allow for asking for people to leave money to be picked up later, but if the filthy hippies found a way to game the system, good for them I guess. It’s still stupid of the other teams to have given them any money, though. I bet Frankenberry are wishing they’d kept that $20, although I guess when you can randomly pick up a guy and he buys you gas and Snickers $20 one way or the other doesn’t make much of a difference.
I guess the thinking here is, “Hey, it won’t hurt to ask, right?” I mean, worst case scenario is that nobody left them any money, and they’d have been no worse off than they were to begin with.
I do like that they changed the rule to specify that you had to start the leg with no money – I remember when Brandon & Nicole spent an entire Pit Stop in India begging for money. That seemed so wrong to me.
Granted, but they are so. damn. humorless about everything in the race.
I’m fine with the hippies, but I can totally understand why they’d annoy other racers or other viewers. But it’s also obvious that, under everything, they’re pretty good-humored guys. They may not succeed in being funny, but they try. MoJo went over and left the fake money not because they wanted to be funny, but because, well, I don’t know. They don’t even claim it’s to be funny – they just don’t want to piss off the hippies early. Or something. Like most of what they do on the race, it’s not very well thought out.
I don’t have a lot against MoJo, but they’re probably my least favorite of the four remaining teams.
I finally watched it - real life intrudea again. The Frat Boys’ Behavior reminds me of something someone said in the thread about Tom Cruise. They’re so far in the closet, if they turned around they’d see Narnia. It’s just too much. Even the real horndogs I’ve known stop sometimes.
Every one talks about the Hippies and their need to be ‘on’ all the time - Eric and Jeremy are ‘on’ all the time, too, it’s just a different type of behavior. Tyler and BJ try to be weird and goofy, but with the Frat Boys, it’s the horny thing. No real horndogs are like that all the freaking time, unless they’re being edited that way.
Agree that MoJo got nasty this week.
I think Ray and Yolanda were right when they switched places on the bike - for some reason when they started, I thought, “Ray should be in front.” I think the stronger person needs to be in front. I don’t know why I know that, it’s just one of those useless bits of trivia that suddenly popped into my head when I saw them. I was glad when they switched and Ray was in the front.
I’m still rooting for BJ and Tyler. I wish they’d shown us how they made their $300 on the plane.
The traffic jam on the way to the airport because “The King may be in town” was amusing. I assume they were talking about this guy.
Did anyone else think the audio of Mo & Jo talking while diving for lobsters was dubbed in later? It sounded very clear for something that had to be picked up by a parabolic mike, with none of the heavy breathing you’d expect from people who had just been snorkeling and were currently treading water. And her “I have a right to be scared, Joseph” line was much too calm considering she had just surfaced almost in tears.
I have always known that Fran and Barry would not be winning (there’s just too much running and just plain endurance needed in this game) but I gotta give them kudos for playing smart at almost every turn.
They were the first ones to think to arrange a taxi before landing. But fortune doesn’t always reward preparation, and their arrangements left them hanging.
It has nothing to do with who is stronger. Due to the geometry of the tandem bike, the taller rider should be in front. It’s usually a bit cramped in the back position and thus better for the smaller guy.
Just about everyone had the seat too low, and that does make a difference.
More useless trivia: The front rider on a tandem is called the captain. The back rider is the stoker.
I missed the last 20 minutes, but ChordedZitherseems to have summed up what I missed.I only wish I could see just how far back Fran and Barry fell as they hunted for batteries.
And I can’t believe no one mentioned yet that Ray has hair!
