Not a great episode – way too much wandering-around-the-wrong-reflecting-pool. (The civil war re-enactment was a good detour, though. And every Detour, from now forever, will remind me of “Flotillas and Chinchillas”).
I’m still ok with the family concept, and ok with See The USA. But if they do the whole thing by car, I’m concerned that they’re not gonna make a lot of progress. How far can you go in 10 days if you stop a couple of hours for roadblocks & detours?
Well, there are definitely scenes of the Grand or some other Canyon in the opening montage, so that would indicate a western leg of the race.
And I thought Phil said there were FIFTEEN briefcase carriers, not FIFTY. . . and we did see the same non-clue carriers over and over again. Did anyone else hear FIFTEEN?
Buh-Bye annoying Rogers Dad!!! See what you get when you’re the God-ordained leader of the pack?
Crap. Looks like you’re probably right. Maybe the pitstop will be at Ye Olde Williamsburg if they are going to the Tidewater area. At that rate they’ll make it to Savannah by episode 6.
Future locations…
I read in a preview that Niagara Falls would be one of the locations they would visit, so eventually they’ll head back north, but still stay on the East Coast. Geez…they better at least get out of the Eastern Time Zone by mid-season…
Why is this odd? They have a challenge like this in pretty much every season. “There are 10 clues hidden in these 500 random containers. Each team must open containers to find a clue.” The metal boxes in India two races ago (Team Geritol had problems with this), the haybales that Team Mormonsisters got eliminated on, etc. A limited number of clues in a much larger number of possible containers. It’s just that in this case, the containers were moving around.
Who called the Weavers “The Desperate Housewives”, and should we adopt that monicker ourselves?
Who said “Washington, DC? What state is that in?”
And is there anyone who doesn’t love Little Carissa Gaghan? My fave Racer of all time, already.
Honestly, I thought the clue was miswritten - I practically said out loud “The Reflecting Pool is at the *other * end of the Mall, dimwits!” I’d have looked at a map and realized it, though.
If they were in York, PA, there really ought to have been a roadblock at the barbell factory or the Harley Davidson engine factory, not a weird house they didn’t even enter.
BTW, this race is 11,000 miles. No way they’re driving it all.
Well, the difference is (assuming my original interpretation is right, although I’m leaning towards SBS’s interpretation) that theoretically, for the haybales, earlier teams will eliminate both clued and unclued haybales, so that later teams would tend to have the same odds, and thus spend the same amount of time, early or late. Same with the metal boxes-- again in theory, later teams could tell which boxes have been gone through because they’re on the floor or whatever, so both clued and unclued are eliminated. With the briefcases, only the clued cases are eliminated, so later teams spend more time (again, assuming my original interpretation) because there’s fewer clued, but the same number of unclued, spies. So only the briefcase task would result in longer-and-longer times. (Also, I recall there being a lot more clues hidden in the boxes and bales, not just one more than the number of teams).
I’m reasonably sure I’ve read newspaper reports saying that this season was filmed in part in Huntsvilleso we’ll probably see that next week.
I think you’ve put your finger on the one thing about this family that bugs me: The parents do seem a little bit like automatons. It appears to me that the kids are pretty close to human, but the parents are just preternaturally calm. Weird. They seem alright, but just … kind of robotic. Still, I like them much more than I don’t.
Please do not click here unless you wish to be spoiled on locations for the next (two?) episode(s). That’s enough out of me on that topic.
Tee hee. That is some of my best work ever.
Mine, too. When I see her in commercials and previews, I squee a little bit. But not in a weird perverted way. I just want to adopt her and have her sit on the couch with me with a big bowl of popcorn while we watch other reality shows and heckle the contestants together.
I am in full agreement, except that I must point out that I live in the same town they do, and we’re too far inland for hurricanes to blow us off the map. It did rain impressively when Rita went by, though even that wasn’t as bad as they thought it would be.
But the only way I’d have been happier last night was if the Paolos were gone.
Not exactly: the locations are usually enough to make it somewhat more interesting–they’ve done it in a “bubble club” (IIRC), they’ve done it in some sort of dance club, etc. And there’s usually a catch–all the people look alike or something. This was just tedious.
I think it was Mom Weaver who said something like “Washington, D.C.? What state is that in?” and later said “Are we going to Washington State?” I pretty sure she’s also the one in the first episode who asked if Pennsylvania was a state.
I thought it was only the gluttony challenges that were going away, and eating disgusting things was still okay. But the live squid type stuff was always some local delicacy of where they were travelling. Do we have anything sufficiently gross in the U.S? There’s scrapple, but they’ve already been through Philadelphia.
I would have laughed if they’d actually driven to Washington state. One of my secret dreams is for someone to hack the Amazing Race; to venture so far out on their own that by the time anyone misses them they’re 500 miles from the nearest phone. With a CBS credit card.