So, the ads on TV say that Rob and Amber take some type of risk which may put them out of the game…which means they will still be in the game after tonight’s episode. Is there anyone, anywhere who sees a promo like that and still thinks, “Hey! I wonder if they’ll get eliminated?”
We’re not that naive, promo people!
My WAG: There’s a nice little article about Meredith and Gretchen in my paper today - (you might have to register to read it, but I think it’s free), they’re from Easton, just about 90 minutes from Baltimore.
Last time, (or the time before?) Mirna and Charla were from Baltimore, and the week the paper featured a little article about them, carefully prefacing the fact that they couldn’t say when they’d be eliminated, that was the week they were eliminated. So I’m guessing Team Weeble go this week.
Well, it’s about time!!!
I agree about Rob and Amber NOT being eliminated. Maybe their “daring” plan gets them back in first place. It always seems that the folks who are NOT the focus of the promo are the ones to end up last on the mat.
I can’t wait for tonight’s episode! (I love London!)
I am.
Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?
They’re not “promo people,” they’re “promo monkeys”! 
Oh, I dunno. Some devoted TAR fan friends of mine over at Tarflies are speculating that once a season the promo monkies toss in a true one just to keep us on our toes. Since I would love nothing in the world more than to see Romber lose to the senior citizens, I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Also:
A mod over at Sucks who supposedly has a very accurate reputation in the spoiling department says that Romber will go tonight. Folks have been wrong often enough before that I won’t believe it till I see it, but I sure hope so!
You know what … you’re absolutely right. I was thinking the best thing ever would be to see Rob and Amber come in second (preferably thinking they’re in first the whole time) in the final leg. That would pale in comparison to the looks on their faces if Whiney and Headwound beat them.
Re: Whiney and Headwound: You know, I don’t mind Meredith all that much. I kinda like him. He seems like a nice enough guy - not really much of a whiner, IMO. But I just can’t stand Gretchen. Her shrieky, harpy voice, and her constant complaining get on my nerves. That constant, “Oh, no!” and defeatist attitude drive me nuts.
Just sharing.
Gretchen talks like she has a defeatist attitude, but she doesn’t act like she has a defeatist attitude. There’s real cognitive dissonance there, and it drives me buggy. One week, like when she got injured in the cave, I had nothing but admiration for her. Another week, when all she does is whine, nails-on-chalkboard gratingly, I just want to shoot myself to put myself out of my misery.
But I’d still like to see her beat Romber. Perhaps as much because it would be extra-humiliating coming from her. (Meredith, not so much.)
This has pretty much nothing to do with nothing, but I was just remembering how Meredith totally beefed it on like the first leg of the race while running for a bus in Chile or wherever they were, and I thought, “God, they’re really never going to make it.” And here they are, one of the final four teams.
Anyway, I look forward to tonight. Go Uchenna and Joyce! Don’t freak out too much driving the bus! May the race mojo you seemed to harness on the last leg stay with you!
Gretchen doesn’t whine, really. She wails. She bitches. She grouches. She mutters. She verbalizes her annoyances. And she keeps going. That’s not cognitive dissonace, that’s doing and thing and then bitching about it while you do it. We’re taught to admire stoic suffering but I remain damned impressed by her (and Meredith’s) physical strength and endurance.
I’m betting tonight will be another NEL. The 11th leg of the last two seasons has been an NEL, and I see no reason for that to chance. Yeah, that means two NELs back to back, but they’ve done that nearly once every season, and we’re due. Unless, of course, they throw us another curve and make tonight an EL instead. But I’m convinced it will be an NEL tonight…unless it’s not.
In either case, I’m betting on Ron & Kelly to finish last. They’ve been starting to come apart for the last few legs and the loss of their possessions (especially for Kelly) will do them in. I hope they waste enough time begging for money to buy new clothes & stuff, just to see Phil take it all away from them again!
Whoo hoo!! I’m happy with the results so far.
I think the yielders played it smart. The yieldees took it in stride.
Feh, I’d be happy to see the last of Rob and Amber. I can’t even enjoy disliking them, unlike, say, Richard Hatch from the first Survivor.
DAMNIT!!! Despite your warning, I got my hopes up. DAMN!!!
Why does everyone who comes in first to a leg EXCEPT Joyce and Uchenna win a prize? (Yeah, I know last week was slightly different with the whole gnome thing, but still…)
Trust me, lorene, nobody’s more disappointed than I am about that!
Damn. Not at all how I was hoping it would play. And there’s quite a time difference between the teams. Now is the time for some of that bunching everyone bitched about all season during TAR6 to come into play!
I can understand the strategy of yielding Uchena and Joyce. The yield might have done them in. I think maybe they should have done that. Everybody knows they’ll bottleneck in the next leg anyhow so a lead over Ron and Kelly is essentially useless.
I just love how Rob and Amber play the game. They have the perfect combination of competitiveness and teamwork. I have a feeling they’re headed for second though.
Alas, Team Weeble! We knew you well. Sorry that you’re gone, but seriously? I’m proud of you both. Gretchen especially, believe it or not. And funny, tonight she was less whiny than usual, and lookit where that got her. I know how some others feel about her, but I have to say, when I’m 108 years old (or however the hell old she is), I hope I can:
(1) still make it at least partway through a racearoundtheworld with my husband (I just traveled from EDT to PDT for vacation and it damn near killed me);
(2) still manage to beat out 7 other teams along the way, including a bunch whose combined age was half mine; and
(3) still make killer jokes about facelifts, etc. at the most inappropriate times, really.
Nothing to shake a stick at, really … although I would have liked it very much if Gretchen had “accidentally” whacked Rob and/or Amber upside the head with that cute little backpack before you left. Kelly, too. Bless their little hearts, Gretchen and Meredith sure are a cute pair.
Go Uchenna and Joyce, you sexy things! I am holding out hope that they become the next lucky recipients of Chip-and-Kim-Karma: dead last completing the Detour, hours behind everyone else, unable to get on the same flight as the lead two teams … and so far behind that they find out that the “earlier” flight is delayed due to fog / snow / ice / New Kids on the Block / the Rapture / Hillary Clinton getting a haircut / whatever.
Are you there, God? It’s me, rockle. I just have one request tonight: Please. Please let Uchenna and Joyce win. I know you don’t much care about reality television, and I don’t entirely know that I blame you, but. Please. If you can’t let Uchenna and Joyce win, at least let the Earth crash into the Sun. Amen.
OK. I’m happy. Rob and Amber in first place after playing extremely well. I wonder why none of the other teams has caught onto Rob and Amber’s gambit of engaging locals to help guide them around. How smart! And it was especially smart of them to use the Underground. London street traffic is almost as bad as Las Vegas traffic!
I loved all the places they went. I’ve been to all of them except Battersea Park and Potter’s Field Park. Even the Millennium Dome. What a waste of time, space and money that one was.
On to the final!!!
My comment was, “Only the British would pay good money to make a stadium that looks like a hedgehog.”