I’m not going to reveal any spoilers just because it’s barely 9pm and people mousing over might get surprised when they don’t want to be but…
** What the heck???**
Ugh. Wrong date.
First, Phil in a sarong!
Second, oy vey!
Reported it for date change in title.
I can only attribute the fateful decision to carry on to killer fatigue, but I can’t imagine why Phil didn’t go for a mercy elimination. I guess pride and all.
They might as well break up now because it’s easier than having the “I told you so” on the tip of her lips everyday.
Best. Episode. Ever.
OK… second best (I think we can all agree on the first).
Fixed it.
I was halfway watching it while doing other things- I have to stop doing that. But did one team go into someone’s yard and just do whatever they were doing, thinking that was a task? Because if that’s what I saw, that would be hilarious.
Yup. I loved the WTF look on the guy’s face watching them.
“Why are these white people running into my home to put peppermints on my flowers!?”
Did anyone else notice that when the father & son team checked in, there was a different guy’s picture on their board? It was a green colored image of a guy in a hat.
And I thought the contestants are not allowed to tell anyone they meet that they are on the Amazing Race? They’ve always said “we’re in a race,” “we’re racing,” “we’re on a race around the world,” etc. so I was kinda surprised when the country girls were singing in the cab and said “we’re going to win The Amazing Race.”
I know. When he was all, “We don’t need to regret any decisions we made” I was thinking, well, maybe just the one…
Really, though. Why wouldn’t you use the express pass if you got to the task and there was only one team left?
Thank you so much!!
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I was wrong about the father son team and regret saying last week they should just bow out.
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The guy on the losing team was such a ginormous douche bag even Phil made it clear he thought so and he almost never does that.
I also was also half watching and missed the team doing the wrong task. I love when stuff like that happens.
Yeah! Like the time they started slopping paint on the walls in the wrong house. :smack:
I really hope she dumps him because he is pretty much the poster boy for “nice guy loser.” She is more than a bit of a doormat as well.
Their relationship died the second he said, “I don’t need a million dollars.” Her eyebrows almost shot straight up out of her head.
That was funny!
I loved the look on her face when he was trying to explain himself and how he doesn’t think they should linger on decisions they can’t change now. She looked like she was in shock (I don’t blame her) and that if anyone tried to snap her out of it she’d snap her boyfriend’s neck.
Everyone in my family agreed - she should dump him ASAP. And it couldnt’ve happened to a nicer team! Ha ha.
How did the hockey players fall behind? I thought they were in the middle/close to the front of the pack. Did they just get screwed on the flight to Bali, or am I forgetting that they fell behind elsewhere?
Greatest elimination ever. Savory and delicious.
Their cabbie appeared to get lost for an hour or so on the way to the first clue or challenge. For some reason I’m blanking on where they were headed, but it was the first place they went after the airplane landed.
Once they finally got there and were heading back out to the detour, they’d chosen sandy bottoms but when that same cabbie didn’t know where it was they switched to fruity top.
OMG, that elimination and the “explanation”, as it were, left me speechless. If I were Jen (I think that’s her name?) I would’ve wanted to clock him on the head right then and there for saying what he said. Wouldn’t care if it were televised. OTOH this is a lesson for all aspiring TAR contestants: Pride has no place in this race. If you have an Express Pass, for crying out loud USE IT!
I nearly died with Phil’s “Oy vey!” He timed that perfectly 
To whoever upthread asking about the hockey players: Their driver got lost going from the airport to the monkey place. Then, IIRC, their driver got lost going from the monkey place to the gather-mud-in-buckets task. He knew where the fruit basket task was located, though, which is why the hockey players switched.
I just keep wondering how long father/son is going to last. I think they’ll do OK for maybe the next couple of episodes, but after that, I don’t want to hazard a guess.
I was surprised that Phil asked the roller derby duo if they wanted to give help to Chuck and Wynonna to find their surf board. I was even more surprised that they didn’t after that. I’d rather have had C & W pulling up the back of the pack than any other team.
That…was a very surprising and satisfying elimination.
Taxi Assessment:
Stuck in the Desert and Officially Detained - or, Philiminated with extreme prejudice.
Matthew & Daniel and Idries & Jamil - (already eliminated)
John & Jessica (Dating surfer couple) (down from “Passing”) - Wow. I did not see this elimination coming anywhere near that fast. John & Jessica completely screw up a Detour task that everyone else did without much trouble, and - probably because they knew they had the cushion of the Express Pass - just give up and switch options, dropping themselves to last place. And then John screws up the calculation of where they are in the finish order, and just lets Chuck & Wynona waltz, uncontested, to the mat. I don’t disagree with this team’s overall strategy - you don’t want to panic and blow your Express Pass when you don’t really need to - but if you’re calculating as finely as John was, you’d better be sure you’re right.
Flat Tire - or, not likely to get anywhere soon.
David & Connor (Father & son) (holding steady) - Weirdly, David & Connor have by far the best average finish, with two first, a second, and a third. The only other teams even close are John & Jessica (not much of a threat now) and Bates & Anthony, who pulled out a disappointing seventh in this leg. Were it not for the foot injury, I would probably move this team up into the top category. But the foot injury is a huge issue. I admit I’m surprised David & Connor did so well after the partial airport bunch (getting onto the first flight certainly helped them), but Connor’s done 4/5 Roadblocks so far, and pretty soon David will have to do something. And that’s on top of having to do ordinary, non-Roadblock tasks. What happens when they have to climb the stairs to the top of some monument? A two-hour gruel-athon, that’s what. David & Connor are on borrowed time, and they know it.
Chuck & Wynona (Married Alabamans) (down from “Stopping”) - Speaking of team member who have done 4/5 Roadblocks, that’s the same place Chuck & Wynona are in. Only, while Dave & Connor have come in first place the last two legs, Chuck & Wynona have come in last and next-to-last. Granted, the airport flights this episode weren’t a full-on bunch, so teams that were behind tended to stay behind, but look at Max & Katie: eighth place in the third leg, but third place in the fourth. Chuck & Wynona? Not so good.
Stopping for Gas - or, not broken-down, exactly, but not a good sign.
Max & Katie (Douchy newlyweds) (holding steady) - Max & Katie scrabble to a third-place finish in this leg, which is by far their best finish after finishing ninth, eighth, and eighth. I’m not quite sure how they managed that, but we’ll see next week if they just got lucky, or if they actually deserve a top-three finish.
“Rapido! Por Favor?” - or, making meaningless ineffectual comments from the back seat, but in no immediate danger.
Caroline & Jen (Blonde bandmembers) (holding steady) - Caroline & Jen finish in fourth, which is also their best finish so far; they have, in fact, progressively improved from week to week. But holy moley did the look beat at the mat. It looksl ike the killr fatigue is going to his this team first.
Mona & Beth (Brunette derby girls) (down from “Passing”) - Mona & Beth have finished solidly in the middle of the pack in all of the legs so far. I have some hopes that they can step up their game, because I think they can outlast some of the other teams that (so far) have consistently been in front of them. However, they can’t really afford to keep coming in sixth place, because pretty soon sixth place wwill be last place. I’m still bullish on this team, but their record doesn’t quite support my optimism, so I’m moving them down a notch.
In the Passing Lane - or, ahead of the pack, but not quite comfortably.
Joey & Meghan (YouTube hosts) (holding steady) - Alliances on TAR are, in general, somewhat silly. However, alliances confined to sharing flight information and the occasional direction-finding can be pretty useful, and Joey & Meghan seem to be reaping a lot of benefits from that. This team hasn’t been stellar (in fact, they’ve been consistently middle-of-the-pack, just ahead of Mona & Beth), but they’ve successfully ameliorated their lack of experience.
Pamela & Winnie (Asian women) (up from “Rapido!”) - And, speaking of best finishes, Pamela & Winnie also notched their best finish yet, at number two - and they would have come in first save for Connor’s subtle peek at the surfboard icon. With two fourths and a second (and a ninth-place finish, but let’s ignore that), Pamela & Winnie are looking just a bit better than the rest of the teams.
Anthony & Bates (Hockey brothers) (holding steady) - Anthony & Bates had a terrible start to the leg, what with getting on the last plane and drawing the short straw in the taxi competition. However, they kept their cool and wound up pulling ahead of a couple other teams - which is what the first 11/12 legs are all about. This week’s scare notwithstanding, I’ll still bet on this team for the final three.
Cruisin’ with Earl - or, drivin’ on the shoulder, takin’ shortcuts, and generally kickin’ butt.
No one yet.
I’m pretty sure John thought there was one more team (Mona & Beth?) who were still behind them, so he figured he had time to burn. I’m not sure why he thought he was so clearly right that it was worth the risk, though. I think Jessica was trying to argue with him here, but he wasn’t listening / she wasn’t articulating.
I don’t think you were wrong in the long run, but the interesting piece here (I think) is that David & Connor know they can’t win the whole Race, so it frees them to go balls-out on each leg, and not worry about saving up for later or minimizing risk.
What you’ll like even better, then, was that it was ginoumous-douche-John and Jessica that went to the wrong house (they went to #2 XX Lane instead of #3 XX Lane). That was such a wonderful scene, in no small part because the owner was clearly puzzled to find a blond surfer-douche and his tanned girlfriend (with camera team in tow) rearranging his flowers, but was totally fine with letting them go ahead and do it.