YAAAYY HIPPIEEEEES!!!
Perhaps it’s normal in Japanese culture for men to pat other strange men on the ass, but where I come from, it’s considered sexual harassment. (Would you react with the same vitrol, if the Japanese guy patted Yolanda’s ass instead??)
On that flight to Taipei, when BJ & Tyler were let on after it was supposedly closed, I smell producer interference. Wouldn’t want to mess up the mega-bunching, after all.
It’s pretty normal in American culture that men who’re engaged in some sort of competitive activity pat each other on the ass. Have you never seen men engaged in this behaviour during televised sporting events?
It is not that I’m aware of a normal part of American culture for men to pat women on the ass while they engage in competitive activities together.
I totally missed this when it aired, so thank you for 'splaining earlier. And I actually think it would have been off-putting to a lot of people – it is kind of weird for a Random Tollbooth Man to touch one’s tush, unless said Random Tollbooth Man just made a great tackle or an amazing save in deep center field. I mean, they don’t do that where I come from, either … although, where I come from, people have been known to throw snowballs at Santa. So.
For those who watched “The Early Show”:
Did the Hippies ever tell Phil what “TTOW” means?
As happy as I am for them, I’m getting tired of sappy TV proposals like this. Save it for private, folks.
Me, too. They cut away and then came back and they were suddenly able to get on, I thought, “Someone had a hand in that.”
Editing… It’s how 3 seconds of “you can’t make it, you don’t have time” followed by 10 seconds of persistent whining becomes three minutes of TV broken up by a commercial break.
Five minutes into the finale I knew Ray and Yolanda were doomed. They’re at the great hotel with in-suite internet access and they’re checking out Sydney?! Way to lose focus, and then they compounded that by continually stopping to ask directions. The drive from Anchorage to Mirror lake (assuming I found the right one on Mapquest) should have taken less than an hour, but it looks like they arrived a full hour after the other teams – what did they do, stop for a quickie?
Poor BJ – he got totally screwed in all the roadblocks. I hope he gets a bigger cut of the prize.
Those stupid white boots are *de riguer * for a Northern winter. I owned a pair myself. There’s nothing warmer for when it gets to 45 below zero.
This is becoming a TAR cliche. Ticket agent says “sorry, the flight’s full”. Racer looks anxious and frantic…cut to commercial. Return from commercial. Agent says “oh, look…here’s another seat/flight/airline…”. Racer looks relieved.
Looks like we’re moving to Sunday nights in the fall, btw. Ok by me.
I’m pretty sure that was a staged thing, since the prize they had won was a trip to Sydney.
I dunno, I love the show, but there is something about the way it ended that bugs. I think having a task like that at the very end is poor. It is too random a way to resolve the race. I think they should have had a task, but then still had to do some navigating to get to the finish line.
Settling any lingering doubts:
BJ/Tyler = not gay (Japanese girlfriend)
Eric/Jeremy = gay (“Whatever happens next in life, we’ll be together”)
This time it was Ray’s turn to turn to the camera and say “There’s only 2 other teams left, and one of us is going to win the million dollars” as if it were some deep revelation. Shit, CBS, we *know * that. You don’t have to hand the contestants a script saying it every time, ya know? Sheesh.
Another series where the team we liked the most won it. I can see how BJ&T’s clowning might have looked staged, but it came across to this family as genuine joie de vivre. We didn’t need to know about Tyler going commando, though.
Isn’t Ray from Jacksonville? Driving in those conditions must have been hard for him. They’re hard for 98% of my city on the first few snowfalls, and for a few idiots around here even after a few snowfalls. I was wondering if it was the first time he’s even seen snow. An hour is a long time to be behind though.
If you think about it, this would be amazingly easy for the TAR folk to rig, er, influence. Beside the cameraman/soundman duo that travel with each team, there are undoubtedly producers and assistants and such that are busy making things run smoothly. Since the production people know what flights the contestants are likely to be trying to get on, all they have to do is book 4 of those behind the scene people on the most likely flights.
Then if it comes down to not-enough seats on a flight, the TAR people can choose: is there a major bunching point coming up that will wipe out even several hours worth of lead? Then let that team have to take a later flight and agonize over it. OTOH, if there isn’t a bunching point, or if the time to the next flight is way too long – like 13 hours or more – all they have to do is cancel enough of the seats held by their production people and Zingo! There’s suddenly enough room for the team.
Not exactly cheating…
I’m glad the Hippies won it. Glad Eric and Jeremy (didn’t they have a hit song in the 60s?) didn’t win it, though I didn’t find myself hating them like those MoJo idiots.
I think a team I like has won every year I’ve watched except for Freddy and Kkkendra.
Check this out: Tyler McNiven’s got a website, which includes a few short films.
Brave Hard Drive is hilarious…though probably only for geeks. 