Well, most marriages aren’t. But, he felt that Kelly was controlling, so he’s shy of committing. I would be too, had I a past like his.
Obiously, that was in response to Trion.
Also:
I also noticed that.
I would be, too, had I a girlfriend like his. Kelly is a doozy.
Feh. My point is that they both need to stop blaming the problems in their relationship on Ron’s POW status. They’re just screwed up and don’t belong together. Ron didn’t get out of his commitment to the army by being a POW and Ron’s just not ready to get married. This is all perfectly normal relationship crap that happens when people don’t work together.
That’s exactly what I thought. I mean, that just doesn’t happen that gate attendants call the pilot after the jetway has been detached and the plane has started to move away from the gate! But I don’t think it would have been boring if Rob and Amber would have won. I think they ran the best, most interesting race ever. I’m not sorry Uchenna and Joyce won. They’re nice folks and need the dough. But I really got hooken on Team Romber. (Ducking!)
A coworker had a calendar last year. That quote amused me. 
Not that I feel the need to gloat or anything, :rolleyes: but were Uchenna and Joyce the only team that didn’t make some derogatory comment about the natives or location last night? I didn’t quite hear what Rob said when they got to Jamaica, but Amber’s face told me he’d said something uncouth. And Ron and his “third world” comment totally pissed me off.
But I suppose I can’t be too mad … they both lost. dance of joy
“hooken???” I meant “hooked.”
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Let us not spoil the moment, please. Let us simply enjoy it, and empty our minds of the memory of Freddy and Kendra winning the last one. U&J are as fine a couple as you’ll ever come across, and all the best to them. They already know of a good orphanage if the in vitro routine doesn’t work, too.
Rombuh? You’re past your 15 minutes, but that isn’t going to prevent the production of “Rob and Amber’s Wedding”, and probably not “Rob and Amber’s Baby” or “Rob and Amber’s Marriage Counseling with Dr. Phil” either. Go 'way.
Kelly? You’ll get a man to want you as soon as you stop needing one so desperately. Ron is doing the smart thing by getting away from your whiny ass as soon as the cameras stop rolling.
And, to say something really snipey: I was happy that Ron and Kelly ended up third because of Kelly! She did tell him to go LEFT to the airport in Puerto Rico. It was her mistake. (But he blindly followed what she said, so what does that say about him?) Serves her right!
And now that I’ve had a chance to read all the posts so far, I also disagree that Joyce and Uchenna ran a flawless race. They had trouble reading maps. They constantly got lost. They chose the wrong flight on last week’s episode putting them dangerously close to being eliminated. But they were the “nice” team so it’s good that they won.
WOOHOOOOOO!!! GO JOYCE AND UCHENNA!!!
the only way that could have been any better is if they hid, and romber came in thinking they won!!! but go them for coming up from behind, and getting on that flight! YES!!!
btw, i was doing laundry when i was watching it, what happened when they were doing the “taking the plunge” thing? did romber get lost or something, because they were late.
also, if i heard rob say one more time “that cost us a million dollars” i was going to throw up. :wally
Considering they were at the very end, and GUARANTEED to be the winners, is there anything in the rules to keep them from doing something like this?
"Look, we’re $50 short, but we’re in an emergency situation and if we don’t get moving we’re going to lose a lot of money. If you let us go RIGHT NOW, by tomorrow night we will come to your house – or anywhere else you pick – with your $50 and a BONUS of $1000 for helping us out. C’mon, a grand for waiting jsut one day for $50, that’s a great deal, right?
And, look: Here are our official US passports you can hold as surety. If we don’t come through, you can take them to the police station and turn us in for theft."
Uchenna’s been abe to persuade lots of people to h elp them, surely he could have sold that to the driver.
that was typical uchenna though, making sure the guy was “taken care of” before rushing in to win big dough!! i love how all the other contestants were all routing for them, and crying when they won. it rocks!!!
don’t say stuff like that! i like to live in my happy safe little world, where it was all fate that they got on that flight! so i’m just going to pretend i didn’t hear that!
even though it’s probably true
I absolutely got the feeling that what mattered to Kelly was getting married
rather than getting married to Ron.
Good for him for not letting her sandbag him. They make a lousy racing pair and it’ll be even worse in day to day life without the excitement and drama of a race.
Dunno 'bout that. How exactly would it play out? Imagine, you’re the pilot going through the pre-flight checklist, perhaps you’re even a bit behind, when all of a sudden you get a call from Jerry Bruckenheimer saying, “Hey, this is Jerry Bruckenheimer, we’re filming a reality show and while I can’t give you any details, it would really be cool if you would open the door back up and let these people on, trust me I’ll make it worth your while (wink, wink)…” I don’t think there was enough time and even if there was, airline pilots are generally too busy with their job to take calls from television producers, and even if they did, they probably don’t give a shit.
On the other hand, I’m wondering if one of those generous people at the end (“What charity is this for again?”) really was one of the production team incognito, giving them a little boost…or maybe I’m too cynical.
And for that matter, was there any reason U&J had to pay their taxi? We’ve seen racers shortchange their taxis or even refuse to pay them at all (Colin in TAR5, for example) and they received no race penalty for it. Heck, one of them could have run to Phil & everyone else and said, “Hey guys, we’re short a few bucks on our cab fare, can someone help us out?” I’m sure most of them would have helped them just so they’d beat Rob & Amber…hell, Lynn & Alex would have picked up the full tab.
That’s funny, when that whole scene was playing out, I kept thinking of Jack Lemmon in “The Out-of-Towners” negotiating with a cab driver to mail him the money for the cab because he couldn’t break a $50.
Weird. That’s the second time that movie has come to mind while watching TAR. The first was listening to Gretchen’s “Oh my Gooooood!” and hearing Sandy Dennis.
first of all i agree that uchenna and joyce were not flawless. they were ordinary people running a race. that’s what made them good. yes they made their mistakes, but they were without drama (ron and kelly) and did it without relying on their fame or paying people to help them (romber). if you really think about it. if romber hadn’t had native people with them in almost all the countries they visited, they would have made more mistakes. but they sold out to their celebrity status, and in the cases where that didn’t work, ordinary peoples’ greed.
yes kelly gave ron the wrong direction, and then totally tried to get out of it, that was funny. but in her defense (did i just say that? lol) draelin and i were talking about the whole raft building part, and she kept saying she wanted to help, and ron kept complaining about her not helping—but when he told her to do something, he’d then say no don’t. so he’s a wank too. personally i don’t like either one of them, but i have more of a dislike for ron. i don’t know why. he’s just too full of himself for me.
I wondered about that myself, because at one point I thought I saw Joyce look at the entrance to the park and say, “Should we just make a run for it?” or something to that effect. But Uchenna put the kibosh on that, probably because (1) he’s a helluva a guy, and in much the same way that he didn’t want to lose the race because he couldn’t pay the cabbie, he also didn’t want to win the race by stiffing the cabbie, and that is awesome; and (2) I don’t think he wanted to risk getting thisclose and then having it yoinked from his hands when the cabbie comes into the park after them, screaming and hollering (he was torqued!), police in tow. Can you imagine the look Phil would have given them? His eyebrow would have popped off his face!
That would have been sweet, but I respect Uchenna for wanting to win it on their own, as much as possible. Good on him. I think he just got bumped up to #2 on the Reality TV Boyfriend list – sorry, Brothers!
yeah that’s an awesome idea! one of them could have run up and been like we need money! i wonder if that’s against the rules?
Agreed.