Hey, at least it’s close. Better than when they’ve done this in India.
Yeah, I liked that.
I’ve already decided that if I ever got on the Amazing Race I would have to wear a shirt that said “Rapido! Por favor?” on it.
I wonder if Justin has learned what language they speak in Brazil.
According to babelfish, that’s an acceptable translation of “Fast please!” to Portuguese. Close enough for cabbies I guess.
BTW, does anyone know if other countries have the same issues that the USA has, where a large number (perhaps a majority) of cab drivers in big cities have the native language as a second tongue at best?
They should use public transportation or the show should supply the racers a car and a driver. The driver only goes where the racers tell them to go.
I think an good twist would be to have the final task be a a “dual roadblock” on the lest leg. One racer a roadblock while the other racer does another roadblock across town. Meeting up at a the finish line. Imagine the stress as one player waits at the finish line for his/her teammate finishing up.
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Not true, Zev & Justin finished that Roadblock before the 'Trotters. In fact, Big Easy had to redo the dance once. They got to the waxing salon while Keisha & Jen were still there, so they must not have been too far behind. And then all of them were gone before Zev & Justin arrived. Since the waxing was a fixed-time task, and Z & J seemed to do okay with making the drinks, it was really that taxi ride that knocked them out.
The editing seemed to downplay them getting lost. They must not hae been hysterical enough in the cab.
Oops; you’re right. Still, their lead on the Globetrotters was slim at the time, and given that they arrived for the caipirinha-making task while the Globetrotters were still there (and after the failed bikini-selling), it seems like their cab troubles may have been significant, but not deadly. I’m guessing that with a better cab ride OR better Roadblock performance, they would at least have been competitive at the end, but with both things going wrong it was all over.
I’ve wondered…is there a rule stating contestants can’t give their own money to locals so they can hand it back in exchange for the goods?
Most of the tasks were lame. Forklift was linear with no room for error. The bikini wax was a time challenge that as long as you stuck to it, had absolutely no bearing on the race, and the diving challenge was more luck than anything else. Add to that the excessive taxi usage and you have a god-awful setup for a final.
It seems like even the producers don’t know how to make this show anymore.
The Globetrotter were finished with the waxing before Zev & Justin arrived, so the lead must have been at least 15 minutes. There wasn’t much opportunity to make up time making drinks, so I think Z&J tried the bikini selling as their only chance to catch up. If they hadn’t gotten lost on the way to the salon, the situation would have been reversed. I wonder if the Globetrotters would have had more luck selling bikinis.
How long did that bartending task take. Two people making fifty drinks each; how long does it take to make one caipirinha?
I think the way to do the drinks would’ve been assembly-line fashion. One team member chooses the lime and sugar and smooshes them together, the next person adds the ice and licquor, shakes and dispenses.
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My biggest surprise during the show was finding out that this is the last week of Survivor. There are still nine people alive!
Grand melee…they get to beat the crap out of each other with nerf clubs while balancing on a giant jungle gym. Last three standing go to FTC.
Just kidding. I’d love to see that, though.
By the end of Wednesday, that will probably be down to 5 - the final RI challenge will send 3 people home, one back to Murlonio, then the regular TC will send one person home. That will set up the standard 5 person 2 hour finale episode on Sunday.
Apparently, Probst tweeted that the finale would have 8 people that could win the game. so look for only one elimination Wed. Night.
If so, they have a lot to cover on Sunday night.
I think muldoonthief is right, just not about he timeline. Instead of someone coming back Wednesday night, they come back at the start of the finale. It should be 4 in the tribe + 4 on RI, which is eight. Then just one person comes back right at the beginning, which would be five, which fits in with the finale.
It’s not much more to cover, and there’s plenty of filler in the finales that they can trim.
No one knows about this? I think it’d be an awesome trick if it’s not expressly forbidden (though I suspect it is, otherwise it would have probably already have been used…)
I wonder if the absence of a ‘have you paid attention?’ test at the end was related to the fact that the producers knew going in that the two most favorite teams were both significantly, uh, non-spectacular at mental challenges?
I don’t know about it, but my guess is that any money earned by selling items in a task is not kept by the teams. So if a team used their own money to buy items, then they would no longer have that money.
Just a guess, though.
I remember one racer getting a speeding ticket in NZ, and another going off the road after going too fast for a corner (maybe in the same episode).
As soon as I read abt the challenge here it was “40 year old virgin” that kept jumping into my mind.