# TAR 4/28: "Working Our Barrels Off" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-28-working-our-barrels-off/656964 "2013-04-28T23:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **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:** [April 30, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-28-working-our-barrels-off/656964/41 "2013-04-30T16:55:01Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > They did? I don’t remember that at all. > > But I did like Meghan’s “Look at our U-Turn picture!” and the unspoken “Pretending to cry in the picture was really jerky of us and we probably deserved this.” that went with it. When Joey & Meghan got U-Turned the first time, in Hanoi, they U-Turned Chuck & Wynona. Which all turned out to be meaningless, since it was the leg where the father/son team with the Achilles tear dropped out, so there was no elimination. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-28-working-our-barrels-off/656964/42 "2013-04-30T17:01:36Z")
Maybe they need a rule that says teams can only be U-Turned once. I wonder how that would have played out this leg. They would not have been able to U-Turn Joey and Megan, so would they have U-Turned the country singers or left one of the U-Turns unused? ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-28-working-our-barrels-off/656964/43 "2013-04-30T19:43:23Z")
I also did not care for Joey, but I have to admire his positive attitude. No matter how far behind and no matter how challenging the task, he met it without complaint and often excitement. That’s an admireable trait. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-28-working-our-barrels-off/656964/44 "2013-05-01T14:17:55Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I don’t mind the Double U-turns, but I don’t like them at the end of the leg. The Roadblock should occur after the Double U-Turn. I agree with this - the U-turn (or double U-turn) should occur early enough in the leg to give the victims at least a chance of fighting their way back into the race. It shouldn’t be a nearly automatic team-killer. The strategy that it should be used on the last-place team (or whomever you think is the last place team) is self-evident. The goal of every leg save the last is make sure someone else comes in last place. If you use it on the team right behind you, when there are three more team behind _them_, you haven’t pushed back the time when the last place team checks into the Pit Stop. And that’s what you need to do: make sure the last team to check in is as late as possible, so that you have the largest margin of error you can manage. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-28-working-our-barrels-off/656964/45 "2013-05-01T16:14:50Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Maybe they need a rule that says teams can only be U-Turned once. I wonder how that would have played out this leg. They would not have been able to U-Turn Joey and Megan, so would they have U-Turned the country singers or left one of the U-Turns unused? I like this rule change. Seems only fair, especially since teams cannot u-turn others more than once. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-28-working-our-barrels-off/656964/46 "2013-05-01T16:23:08Z")
Agreed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-28-working-our-barrels-off/656964.md?page=2)