With cleavage!
The flight itself doesn’t much matter; taking 3, 4, hell even 10 connections is perfectly fine. What matters is that other teams have your same booking. If you travel alone you’re taking a a very real risk of being eliminated. If at least one other team is traveling with you you’re still in it no matter what. (This, like much of TAR strategy, gets turned on its head in the final leg.)
That was me. It seems like every season of Big Brother people complain about producer manipulation and then it gets reposted how the FCC ruled that Big Brother is not a game show, it’s a “for entertainment only” reality show akin to professional wrestling. There is no FCC oversight, and the producers are free to manipulate the outcome as much as they please.
There is zero reason to believe that TAR and Survivor are viewed any differently than Big Brother.
Well, technically MNF didn’t get moved to cable, it got moved to Sunday night. On Monday nights ESPN is broadcasting what used to be SNF. (Which was also an ESPN game.)
So were the doctors wrong to take the first flight even though they, at the time, thought they’d be the only ones on it?
The football players went from “yay, we’re the only ones on a flight that gets in 5 hours before anybody else” to “boo, we’re on the same flight as half the other teams” to “yay, we’re the only ones on a flight that gets in at the same time as one other team.”
The only difference between where they started and where they ended up was gaining a layover, but that didn’t make any difference since they got destroyed on the first layover.
If the doctors had been the ones who experienced 10 hours of mechanical delays would they have been wrong to have not skipped the five hour advantage and said “no thanks, we’ll take the noon flight with everybody else”?
That episode had far too many high-fives for my liking.
The baseball wives kissing each other on the lips was disgraceful. I was so disgusted I had to re-watch it several times to make sure my indignation was not misplaced.
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The doctors definitely took a risk too since they were the lone team on that flight but it was less than the risk the football team took because they had 2 layovers and the key is, they didn’t research options before taking it. Double layover is less of a risk if for instance your flight from B to C has hourly flights. Also there are websites that track ontime percentages for most flights - check those. It wouldn’t necessarily always be a bad risk but they made their own point in this episode - they’re used to just showing up, they have people to book their flight arrangements so they don’t think of these things.
Asking about the Panama Canal was bad. Not knowing the world is round was worse.
There’s that graphic they usually have that shows a map with the various team’s flight routes on it. I’m kinda sorry they left that out this time; they’d have been all over the place. I don’t like the interpersonal, backstabbing airport drama, but this time it was mostly tactical decisions. When was the last time there were that many flight choices in a leg? Having to make those decisions is interesting Racing, to me.
I wonder if they really cut it that close. I’d think the Amazing Producers would have extra assets ready in case there’s a problem of some kind.
And keeping the NFLers on this leg wouldn’t have altered the whole rest of the Race. If this was turned into a non-elimination leg, then some team gets eliminated later (on what would have been the NEL) and after that you’re at the number of teams you planned for.
You might be able to tell by the number of clues that are left at any clue point. If there were 9 paintings of the coach, and when you pick yours up there’s one left, you know you’re in 8th place. I don’t know if they have extra clues (or extra paintings).
I know what you mean. Would it have killed her to slip her some tongue?
I hope the NFL guys come back the next time they do a “second chance” theme season.
And why wouldn’t I also lump Big Brother into that same genre? Either way, I realize I lack a cite. But do you have one for your claim? There are plenty of instances of people suing Burnett Productions for transgressions on the Survivor set and Burnett paying out. On what grounds is Burnett afraid of them?
For a cite, whenever this comes up in BB threads skeptics are encouraged to email the FCC directly to voice their concerns. They’ll email you back.
Obviously not the most ironclad cite in the world, but here is a report of what they email back.
Bad PR that could tank ratings. If the accusation was based on a crime being committed (fixing a game show) then that’s a crime against the state and the state would take action. Survivor isn’t a game show, so no crime is being committed and thus Burnett is free to settle out of court while (no doubt) attaching a hardcore NDA to the settlement.
It’s worth pointing out that a “highly credible and reliable insider” who had “previously given startlingly correct” predictions for previous seasons of Big Brother let it leak this summer that one of the contestants was a real life friend of the show runner so that friend was being handed the win by production. Further fueling the fire, the executive producer then announced she was leaving the show after the season. That friend who was being handed the win? Yeah, voted out by the houseguests halfway through the season.
I point this out to illustrate that I don’t for a second believe that production decides on contestants to put the fix or hurt on. But I also don’t for a second believe that it’s a true game simply because confessionals make it impossible to have an unbiased playing field. Sort of a reality show Heisenberg effect. You can’t ask relevant questions to get an interesting confessional without biasing the contestant. Consider:
“I’m in an alliance with Joe.”
“Do you trust Joe?”
“Hmmm, now that you ask…”
TAR is on sturdier ground here than BB or Survivor, but I would be surprised to learn that the FCC considers it an actual game show.
I think the cab driver was thinking the same thing. Give it time; the season is young.
And hot. And nubile. And…
::fans self::
You know that to actually get a reaction shot from the cabbie to something happenng in the back seat, which is also filmed, there would have to be two cameramen sitting together in the front seat, right? Either that or a rapid pan from back to front, which wasn’t evident.
The Amazing Editors like to editorialize using bystanders. They also like to make guys look like constantly leering perves.