I’ve worked out why everyone hates the twins. They’re clones. This would also explain, drm, why you like one of them. You like the original from which the clone was made. Bloody perceptive of you, if I may say.
Those guys with no air-time will win it, I reckon. Producers know we’ll be seeing plenty of them later.
Because realizing that being an American in Argentina means that YOU are the foreigner is a PC lubby-dubby (whatever the hell that means) thing…
It’s a race, with all those bucks up for grabs. Half the time even the most apparently sensitive team won’t know what the hell country they’re in, and won’t care either. For lubby-dubby, think touchy-feely.
Give me raw! Give me the Pizza Kings!
Well, duh. ALL identical twins are clones!
Of course, KGS, everyone knows that. But read on: “You like the original from which the clone was made”. In this case, they’re not really twins at all.
Hey, check out the Leader Board page .
Unless they are going to spring some NON-elim rounds on us and change this layout, it suggests this season is elimination after elimination until its four episodes of the final three.
Ya think?
Here’s the site where, for the last three seasons of the show, Team Guido would do a weekly commentary. Looks like they’re not doind it this year, but some of their comments from previous seasons on how the show works behind the scenes are quite informative.
There’s also an interview with Alison, as well as Jon and Kelly from last year, and links to articles about the show.
Dammit!! Another episode down and another week without cable! 
Regardless of what country they’re in, if it’s not the United States, then they are the foreigners.
I hate the pizza guys (haven’t learned their names yet). I have a feeling they are trying to hard to be Kevin and Drew from Season 1. But Kevin and Drew were fun-loving and funny. Their arguments were mostly good-natured ribbing and they weren’t mean. I sense that the pizza guys are trying to be the next Kevin and Drew and are failing miserably.
Nutty Bunny, I didn’t see Series 1 so can’t comment. But the whole show is so staged, so produced, so packaged that *anything * is possible regarding play-acting and posing. Take the couple of seconds the cousins took out to tango on stage with those hunky Argentine tango dancers. Did they really do it without an eye on the camera and on the values of a show that likes to give us memorable sequences, whether of bitchiness, or lurve, or spontaneity?
And good luck to them. Even the dwarf’s (that’s how the producers want us to label her, so I’m just falling into line) constant reiteration of the “Everyone thinks I’m helpless and I’m gonna play on that shamelessly” line is designed (by her - getting into the spirit of the show and the minds of the producers) to make us see her as a normal person, with prejudices like everyone else. And how the producers love it/her! While (perforce) they have to edit out almost everything else that happens during the race, we get this line as regular as “a message from our sponsors”.
I watch it with my 8 year old and we have a ball. It’s even quite an educational experience as I religiously get my globe as well as my giant Atlas out and we follow the contestants across South America.
Back to the Pizza Kings. Aren’t they just poorly educated Italian-Americans who run a pizza parlour who say it like they see it? Never been abroad, apart maybe from a trip to Sicily?
Or perhaps they are really consummate actors, who know how to generate strong feelings among viewers and increase ratings and advertising spend?
I cannot STAND Mirna and Charla. They are so self-absorbed that it drives me insane.
“They wouldn’t help us and so that’s what they get!” one of them yelled as they drove away from a flag marker. They assume people will help them because of Mirna’s dwarfism, but act defiant in every other clip. I gotta think they won’t be around too much longer, or they wouldn’t be on screen so much.
~J
At the cab face off, I thought the teams missed an opportunity. Team member 2 (of either team) should have jumped into the cab with team member 1, leaving the competing team member the choice of get out or leave their partner behind. That would have made for an interesting scramble.
Are you guys sure Charla is a dwarf? I think this is just a rumor, just like the idea that last season’s winners might have been a married gay couple.
Is it peculiar to the show, or to (South) America, that only 3 people can travel in a taxi? Over here, the taxis are predominantly 5-person (those with the gearstick on the steering column), with the rest 4-person.
Don’t knock Reichen and Chip, if you ever, ever want to be a free man, Number Six. Far better looking than any other couple I’ve seen on that show, or any other, for that matter.
And sooo compatible.
When they get a cab (or any other transportation) on this show, they’re actually getting it for FOUR people: the two team members, a producer, and a cameraman. That’s why only one team can use a cab.
I think Charla and Mirna are coming off as a little flighty. Charla wanted to stay and play blackjack at the casino, and in this most recent show, she took the time to tango with the guy. When they were going down the aisle to the stage, they were both twirling and dancing, rather than running.
It’s a race, you morons! You need to be quicker! They both mentioned that they’re going to have fun no matter what, but if they keep “having fun” they’re going to get eliminated pretty soon.
Gotta disagree with you, in general. True, the constant refrain of how they’re gonna show the world that little people can do anything that big people can do grates, particularly when they keep asking people to help them because Charla’s a dwarf. Augh. Make up your mind; you can’t have it both ways.
However, I really don’t think they’re self-absorbed. They just… have a shorter path between brain and mouth than most people. Mirna in particular seems to “think out loud” a lot. I mean, take the comment you referenced – “They wouldn’t help us and so that’s what they get!” I think pretty much anyone would think that – a “ha ha” at the other team. Mumble it under their breath, even. Just not everyone would say it out loud. Mirna does.
True this would be annoying and boorish if she’s saying it in the face of the other team, but she’s not. Just in private. (Well, in private with a cameraman and a boom mic, but you know what I mean.)
And anyway, I’ll take this behavior in general if we can get more gems like stopping to talk to the whore, or Charla winding up Mirna with the whole cow’s ass conversation, or Mirna getting excited about playing a hand of blackjack. Ha!
However, I have to agree with your assessment that they probably won’t be around much longer. Not because of the dwarfism, but because they can’t navigate for shit. They were about twenty seconds away from being eliminated this episode (from missing the ferry). The next leg that features any sort of extensive map reading, they’re gone.
Jayjay, how could I have been so stoopid?! Thanks for that. Gee, what a dolt I am!
Zut, I don’t want to knock Americans (not half) but map reading skills appear to be off the radar. The dog walking, a mile round a few blocks, was an embarrassment - the dogs seemed more clued up than the humans. Roll on Episode 3.
I’ve noticed that as well. I’m half expecting her to come through my TV, into the living room and grab me by the shirt collar the next time she says it.
Okay, we GET IT! You’re short and have a ‘can do’ attitude. But quit taking advantage of it or quit saying you can do anything you put your mind to. One or the other, sweetie.
re: pizza guys
If they’re not trying to be Kevin and Drew, then I suspect this is what they’re doing. Playing it to the hilt makes me not like them even more than if they were just jackasses in real life.
I watched Kevin and Drew Unleashed on Discovery last night. I forgot how much fun they are to watch.
I suspect a lot of Charla’s harping on her size is due to editing. So much of what happens on these shows is in the editor’s hands, it’s unreal. And while I can see that her use of it could be annoying, nobody complains when, say, cute young women use THAT to their advantage. If she can get ahead, I say she should do it, though Mirna seems more likely to take advantage of it than she is. Charla does have some genuine physical limitations, at least as far as speed goes. And she’s got a much steadier head on her shoulder than Mirna. I think that was the reason for the cow’s ass comment, just to wind Mirna up. It sure worked.
Just to back up whiterabbit, I am pretty sure everytime they show or we hear Charla saying how she will show she can do anything, even as a dwarf, it is from the same pre-race interview. I also get the impression that they feel, rightly or wrongly, that the other teams won’t ally withthem because they don’t think that highly of Charla. Although it was clear in the last round that several teams are coming around to the idea that they are pretty good racers, well relatively speaking.
Also, the key to the race is not coming in first but not coming in last. At the tango place they took a whole 20 extra seconds maybe for Mirna to do a little tango. Not a problem, they knew they were not in a real danger of ending up last and probably even knew they were in first.
But it is true their navigation skills are terrible and it will almost certainly doom them in the end.
My opinon of the Pizza guys is that they think they are funny because they crack each other up, but in fact they are just pathetic.