Last week, MoJo’s mojo ran out, despite being the only team left in the race who remembered that it was a race and not a referendum on the levels of one’s milk of human kindness.
Tonight, the three remaining teams battle to the finish line. Will BJ and Tyler make wacky-ass snow angels? Will Eric and Jeremy score some hot Eskimo chicks? Will Ray and Yolanda, the only team left that hasn’t crawled up my ass and who thus are doomed, fall so far behind that they’ll be forced to gnaw on the frozen bones of Team Guido to survive?
I hope not. Ray and Yolanda are my faves at this point too, and I hope they can pull out a come-from-behind victory like Chip & Kim. 'Course, I wanted Colin & Christie to lose, and I got that wish, so I might be out of favors from the TV gods. Still, hope springs eternal …
I wonder if she admits to it. (She might, 71 minutes and a million dollars from now.)
BTW, I wish they would just play “Turning Japanese,” already. I’ve been singing it for half an hour anyway. Turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so …
On the bad news front, I see that CBS is moving the Amazing Race to Sunday nights in the fall. It’s like a race around the t.v. schedule! 7 days, 21 hours of prime time, 1 Amazing Race!
You know … as much as I thought the Hippies were kind of annoying and obnoxious for about 99.9% of this Race – we know, you think you’re funny and charming, now just shut up already, my God! – I have to say, they did run one hell of a Race, and I am satisified with this ending. I would have been satisfied with Eric & Jeremy winning, too, and of course I would have been OK with Ray & Yolanda winning.
My God – in one of those extremely rare cosmic convergences, we have gotten ourselves a finale of a game show where any possible outcome was a good one. See? This is why the Race has a bunch of Emmys, and other shows (koffSurvivorkoff) have none.
Plus, gotta love the big thumb in the eye of Ma Weaver, that the final challenge once again came down to what amounted to a geography quiz. Bwahahahahahahahaha. I really do love this show.
I was rooting for Team Woodstock to win, but I must admit they got very lucky in that they finished last in TWO SEPARATE LEGS that both happened to be non-elimination legs. And what was with their insistence that there was no Russian flag in the final challenge? Were they looking for a hammer and sickle?
PS And who is the frickin’ moron who decided to schedule the last hour of the final leg of **The Amazing Race ** opposite Lost?
I second the approval of having the last roadblock require a little intelligence, since so much of the rest of the race comes down to speed and stamina.
The hippies weren’t my favorite to begin with, but they grew on me enough that I was happy to see them win.
I’ve never liked that the luck of the cabbie draw plays so much of a role at the very end. This wasn’t the worst case, but Ray and Yolanda’s cabbie put them last at that find the clue spot, and that pretty much lost it for them. I’d like to see the contestants having to drive themselves at the end so that navigation skills come into play, but I guess that might lead to some dangerous driving.
I did enjoy watching the frat boys get passed at the roadblock, though.
I’m glad BJ and the Bear won!
I’m glad they had to do a run around and yet be mental challenge at the end!
And I don’t mind that CBS is moving the race to Sunday! I think that’s great! Sundays had gotten to be pretty much of a wasteland for me. (Not a HOUSEWIVES or ANATOMY fan!) The fall session might have some competition from NFL football on NBC. . . but one can tape or TIVO, can’t one?
I couldn’t figure out what Ray and Yolanda kept doing wrong. Everybody was on the same flight to Anchorage, and then all they had to do was drive 30 miles to a lake. And remember, this is back in the U.S. where they know the signs and the language. And yet Ray and Yolanda didn’t get there until B.J. and Tyler (in second place) were finished with the task and leaving. I don’t know why they were slow, but it can’t always be the cab driver.
I liked the bush planes at the lake. I used to work at a place that did ground-up restorations on that type of plane, and they’re classics. Pity they were socked in by the weather. 150 miles (round trip) would have been at least an hour, and it didn’t look like the ice-fishing shacks took that long.
I don’t mind the show moving to a new time slot, as long as it sticks around long enough for my friend and I to enter, get picked to be on, and win.
Bunching was seriously irritating me the first hour. Good tasks and challenges, though. And I love the capsule beds – snug as a bug in a rug. I got to get one of those.
Ray and Yolanda just couldn’t navigate, sorry to say. They were strong and pretty fearless on challenges, but couldn’t read a map or follow directions. The Frats were almost TOO competitive, and spent more time thinking about how to throw everyone off the trail at the end. Waste of time.
I’m content with the Hippies winning. I hope they buy new clothes with the money and maybe get a haircut.
And what is this about Sunday nights? I hope and pray that HBO doesn’t have anything good on Sunday nights, lest I have to make a choice between Deadwood or Rome and TAR.
Although I really didn’t have anyone left to root for. Ray fucked their team for me with one too many homophobic/sexist outbursts. Oh my god, a “foreigner” patted you on the ass the way he’s probably seen American athletes do a million times before. What a fine idea for you to get out of your car in the middle of a race to confront him about it. Couple that with his “the ultimate insult to a man is to call him a girl” bullshit and fuck him. I’m surprised his head didn’t explode after riding around in a pink car for a whole day.
It was definitely Team Gonad’s to lose. There really wasn’t any excuse for them to have blown the flag Roadblock. As they were yammering away wondering what country they visited when I kept yelling at the TV “look at your passports!” All the countries and dates would be right there. I wonder how Gonad is feeling about dropping off those flip flops now?
However badly the other teams screwed up, Hippie got insanely lucky more often than any humans should have been allowed. Not one but two NELs, a penultimate leg in a country they knew well, stupid fellow racers who gave them money and clothes. Even so, I have to admit I found them less annoying on this leg than on previous legs, most likely because they were too tired to remember all the bits they had planned out. I did enjoy Tyler’s getting hit in the face by that big clump of snow.
TAR is moving to Sundays? That may be good or bad, depending on what happens with Veronica Mars. If VM stays on Tuesdays then I can either convince my Sunday night people to switch to TAR or at least tape TAR if they insist on watching VM. Just so long as it stays away from Wednesdays.
I so did not want them to win.
