In retrospect, for the teams doing the Magellan detour, I’m not quite sure why the teams didn’t paint the names on the boards, and then stack the boards in order, while standing in front of the map. Once stacked, they could then nail them in order from top to bottom on the pole. There didn’t seem to be anything in the clue that prevented them from doing this, and if they did, they could have moved through the detour very quickly.
Also, since I’m on a day off today, I watched the part of Kelly & Regis this morning that had Rob and Amber on it. Yeah, I watched because I wanted to see them post-loss, being evil and all. Those of you who like Rob and Amber will, no doubt, be thrilled to know that they have another reality show coming up in the future. They couldn’t confirm what it was yet. Personally, I’m hoping that it is nothing that I like, since I can’t stand them.
As much as I don’t like them I thought they were pretty philosophical about their loss. Rob said that they did indeed know they were in last, and that the editing made it appear closer than it was. He said that they were 10 minutes behind the Schmirnas. (He didn’t call them that, just to be clear). When asked what they thought of the other teams, Amber singled out Danny & Oswald and said they were racing pretty well. I hope that isn’t the kiss of death for them winning.
If Rob and Amber really stole that cab, either I missed some detail or the Amazing Editors didn’t make it very clear. I assumed that we were witnessing some of that trademark Mirna Delusion™ and not an actual case of jacking a car someone else had arranged.
Ozzy: Men of the world, beware - Kandace snores.
Men of the world: We can deal.
I wonder if Eric sees Danielle as anything at all aside from a pair of boobs following him around.
As much as I loathed the Kentuckians, it would have been amusing seeing them attempt either of those detour options. Dammit, I need south, and all I get is north north north! Oh well just keep going!
Karlyn wrote the letter to the Beauty Queens–don’t recall the letter so I can’t tell you if it was encouraging or not, but it was written by someone who didn’t much like them.
And Bill and Joe’s letter amused them but was supposed to annoy them–or so it claimed.
Much simpler to write them down in order while standing in front of the map and then put the sign together according to what you’ve written.
They stole it. Charla and Mirna got smart and asked the hotel guy to call them a cab. When the cab arrived, Rob told the cabbie that he had called for a cab.
Exactly. And I love love** love **that Joyce and Uchenna have now beat Romber twice
The 3 teams that did the navigate appeared to do it quickly, and got the 3 spots on the first plane. Uchenna and Joyce were the first (and only?) to finish the signs, and they were on the second plane with everyone else. So I’m wondering if there was any way to do the signs quickly enough to beat the navigating teams.
I’m late. An Mirna just continues to be buckets-o-crazy. But hey, it makes for good tv. I want to crawl in a hole and die just watching her interact with other people. I’d feel bad for Charla if she weren’t coming in second in the Looney Tunes Sweepstakes.
Like somebody up there said (I’m lazy and I can’t look things up), I enjoyed that Rob and Amber didn’t lose because they missed a plane or got detained for some stupid reason. They lost because Rob can’t spell. That gives me a warm glow inside that probably means the fires of Hell are being stoked for me.
It seems like it did. He spelled it, “Philippean” and as far as I can tell, never went back to correct the spelling. They just kept switching the order of the signs, and Rob even commented that he hoped they weren’t counting spelling. What a moron. The clue stated the signs had to be in the right order and had to be spelled correctly.
They did not have to be pointing in the right direction, which is what threw off the BQs.
I had mixed feelings about Rob & Amber getting the Philimination. I kind of like to see them race, because they are generally pretty good at it. On the other hand, having Charla and Mirna around for at least one more episode will undoubtedly make for great TV…that Mirna is one crazy loon.
I did think it was kind of funny that Amber was bragging about how they lied to Charla & Mirna to get ahead of them, and had everyone laughing about how clever they were, ha ha ha, just to end up losing the leg. I’m sure the rest of the teams had an even bigger laugh about that later. Generally, I like Amber pretty well, but I always love to see a comeuppance like that…it’s what makes reality TV worthwhile.
I wouldn’t put that down to bad luck; it looked to me like Rob wasn’t sorting the mail in an organized and systematic way, while the other teams did. I’m more surprised that he finally did find the letter than that it took him so long.
Incidentally, I find it very unlikely that they were sorting real Chilean mail; here in the US at least, I think that would be illegal for anyone who’s not a postal employee.
Which means some poor shlubs on the Amazing Race staff had to stuff, seal and address 8 mailbags’ worth of fake mail. I don’t envy whoever had to do that!
I thought it was a stupid, stupid decision for Rob to take that Roadblock. I’m sure he was much too keyed up to take the time to do it properly. Amber’s probably kicking herself for letting him do it.
Some poor intern getting paid practically nothing, I’m sure!
I may be misremembering but I really don’t remember Rob screwing over anyone all that terribly on his first Race. I really don’t remember him screwing over Patrick and Susan, in fact I barely recall that he interacted with them. The way I remember it, Patrick (and the other gays, Lynn and Alex, which speaks ill of my gay brethren) all had it in their heads from the get-go that “Rob is evil, Rob is sneaky, Rob must be destroyed” when Rob, really, didn’t do much of anything to any of them or to anyone else. The worst thing anyone ever seems to come up with that the nefarious Rob did on that Race was to pool the money of some of the other teams to bribe the shuttle bus driver and then secretly not contribute any cash himself. Rob’s an angle shooter but as long as he’s acting within the rules, good on him for racing smart and hard and boo-hoo to the idiot fellow Racers who whinge about how he doesn’t play fair or whatever. It’s a race, not a popularity contest.
To be fair, we don’t know what was going on behind the scenes with the letters. Karlyn could be dead for all we know.
I suspect Eric is going to say something typically Eric-esque – like, “Come on, Danielle, you’re getting beat by the old gay guys!” And I’ll bet that the Guidos will get mad about the “old” part more than the “gay” part.
Or, in the alternative, Eric will make Danielle cry and the Guidos will swoop in and defend her.
Fair enough. Actually, I like that even better, Rob didn’t sort the mail well, so he lost. More bad Rob choices. Although, any needle in a haystack task does have some element of luck, so bad luck may have played some role.
Oh, I know he shouldn’t speak out of turn, but that doesn’t mean he won’t. And then Eric will probably claim that it was all Jeremy’s idea. Quite the dim bulb, that one.
That’s what I said to my husband last night when the show ended. Well, it just wasn’t as dramatic as you put it, but yeah.
After Mirna and Charla are gone, it’s going to be really boring. I need more freaks on the race. Where are * and Victoria and Colin and Christie when we need them?
There’s still Teri and Ian. We caught a glimpse of the old Ian this time, when he was yelling at Teri to hurry down the path he had chosen - the wrong path.
