# Amazing Race Oct 14th **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-oct-14th/637776 "2012-10-15T14:25:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-oct-14th/637776/41 "2012-10-16T17:37:58Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > None of the egg people finished before all of the lion people had finished. I kind of got the impression that the egg challenge was go a few miles and get eggs then go another few miles and cook them while the lions were right there. As the Barbies showed us, sometimes it’s better to not trust transportation. Only one team (the goat farmers) picked the egg task. The teachers only did it because they were U-turned. And while the goat farmers did come in last in their bunch, we don’t know if they were seconds, minutes, or hours behind. I thought/hoped the lion task would be “memorize the dance, then perform it for a judge, and if you get it wrong, do it over”, which would have made the egg task much more attractive. Maybe they’re scared of another Mark & Bopper situation. But “follow the guy around, and half-ass the dance moves that he tells you”, is right up there with “ride a moped next to a cow” level of tasks. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-oct-14th/637776/42 "2012-10-16T21:59:22Z")
> [@moejoe](#): > > Thank you, didn’t they also come back for an all starts thing? If you’ve been watching from the start maybe you can help me figure out what’s different with the last few seasons. It feels like there’s a lot more drama, more or maybe just different kinds of challenges. Something has made it much more frenetic and less entertaining lately. > > I haven’t really enjoyed an episode since the cheese rolling thing. I still laugh just thinking about that one. Best moment is still “My ox is broken!” way back in season five. Compared to the first seasons, the pace of the race (at least the editing thereof) is much tighter. Airport bunching undoubtedly contributes to this. Each time there’s a flight, there it becomes a whole new race from the airport to the Philelimination mat. This makes for better drama than what happened, say, in season one where Team Guido on the last leg was a full twenty-four hours behind the two leading teams. The clues could be quite cryptic in the first few seasons. Most infamously in season one, a clue required the teams to go to a certain hotel in Agra. The teams, however, were in New Delhi. The clue simply named the hotel but didn’t say that it was in Agra. To figure it out, a team must have noticed that the clue-giver took the yellow envelope from a model of the Taj Mahal; then, of course, the team must have recognized that it was the Taj Mahal and moreover known that the Taj Mahal was in Agra and not in New Delhi. One team couldn’t make all these connections, leading to their EPIC breakdown. In later seasons (I want to say around the time of the Family Edition), the producers overcorrected and simply told contestants to go there and do this. I’m glad to see the return of these cryptic clues, like simply giving the contestants a postage stamp in the hopes that they’ll figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-oct-14th/637776/43 "2012-10-17T03:41:05Z")
> [@](#): > > The clues could be quite cryptic I remember once they were handed a postcard of the Petronas Towers and teams had to figure out they needed to fly to Malaysia. Or when they got the photo in Cambodia and they needed to recognize that it was Jackie Kennedy–and so many teams could not and had to ask a local. Clues like that make it more of a mental challenge and not just physical all the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-race-oct-14th/637776.md?page=2)