“In a historic Amazing Race first, a gay guy can’t do a fruit basket arrangement”
I wouldn’t mind going around the world with his surfer girl.
I had a good laugh about that, too. Just as funny as the previously-mentioned team who painted the wrong house. 
No comments about one of the Blonde girls that used to keep a flying squirrel in her bra. And then died of loneliness? (at least it wasn’t starvation)
I have rarely seen a more satisfying elimination. Arrogance and ego triumphing over a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card. (Wasn’t he the one last week who tried to psych out the hockey boys at the airport, and received only WTF? reactions to his shameless mugging?)
I still have no idea what the joke was supposed to be.
The hockey players were smart enough to ask their lousy taxi driver if he knew where the mud-gathering task was before they left the parking lot of the monkey task. He didn’t know where that was, so they “switched” before they ever got going, basically. They probably would have gone through that task pretty fast I think, not that it ended up mattering much.
Wondering if John has a touch of OCD which prevented him from even considering not completing the task… and did he really, really, really think the roller derby folks were still lost in darkest Bali?
And I presume the bestest AR episode ever is “My ox is broken!!!”?
The squirrel lived in her bra, and died of loneliness.
Because there was nothing else in her bra.
Because she has very small breasts.
Ha ha.
Yeah, I thought maybe I missed a sentence about her having to leave the poor flying squirrel behind when she went off to college/moved to an apartment that didn’t allow flying squirrels? But a very small ha ha ha about her boobs being small.
One of the very few few reality episodes that actually earned one of those “In next week’s show, a SHOCKING developement?!”
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Getting eliminated with an express pass in your pocket?! Dude, express some regret and culpability! What a boneheaded move. Somebody needs to talk to that dude about learning from the past. You made a (huge) mistake. Own up to it rather than just shaking it off.
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Finishing first two legs in a row with a teammate in a cast? Shocking! Maybe they’re burning their candle at both ends, but what a glorious light. Pretty amazing stuff.
I love episodes that combine brains with brawn. Having to remember some key info AND having an arduous path to deliver that info is great race planning.
That said, I do hate ‘best answer’ puzzles. Is the priest that best answer? Yeah, but fruit and surfing and whatever else were plausible answers. Maybe a more specific question would have made me happier. That said, only a couple teams had a problem, so I’m probably off base.
Great episode.
The best part was the guy knew he screwed up not using the express pass immediately but just mentally refused to acknowledge it, then became stubborn about completing the task and then decided he didn’t like this stupid game or its million dollars anyway!
At first I though small boobs, but then I realized the squirrel was lonely because nobody ever visited.
Exactly. Obviously, he desperately overvalued the Express Pass. His position at the mat would seem to suggest that he might still have seen it as having value to him even then, when the race was over. That was some Herculean denial, or compartmentalization, or something, to not even feel a moment’s remorse or reflection. His girlfriend was clearly in shock, and I liked that she was not singing the same tune as he was in the post-race autopsy. His stubborn, delusional, lack of self-reflection ass is I’m sure already kicked to the curb.
I wish I knew what inspired him to put the breath mint in the little flower thing in the guy’s backyard. It was also fantastic when they held that little flower thing up and said that this was the thing they were supposed to build. Really? How long would that tiny thing take to build? I also hope that they returned the sarongs that they ran off in.
I found it hilarious that Phil let John carry surfboards up and down the stairs for over an hour when he could have let him off the hook at any point.
But do indonesians hand out sarongs to any stupid looking Americans who wander into their back yard? That was where they got them, right?
What I thought was so funny about John & Jessica’s elimination was all along the way, John was boasting about how “attention to detail is our strong suit”, “play to our strengths, the detail-oriented tasks”, “perfectly in line with my anal-retentive nature”, etc. And then they stop off at some guy’s house, take his sarongs, start reproducing the little flower petal things before realizing that he’s not part of the show; repeatedly choose the wrong surfboard, and die with an Express Pass in their pocket.
Yeah, you’re detail oriented.
Damn skippy.
Man. That is a super bad joke.
Ha! I’m cracking up over here. So perfectly stated.
So what is the explanation of Team Bumpkin finishing last in New Zealand yet got no penalty in the Bali leg?
Wasn’t the golf course was a “Pit Stop” even though they didn’t technically stop?
He didn’t claim attention to the right details.
The last two times they did a “double leg” was Season 18 and 19, and they didn’t have Speed Bump penalties in those episodes. I believe the concept was new to season 18. If I remember, right, the original double leg was born out of a production snafu or something.