That was the Globetrotters failing to unscramble the name “FRANZ”, wasn’t it?
Last season had a pretty good one too - during the city/timezone test in Moscow, when the professor kept yelling “Put the pencils DOWN!”. One of the racers, who was convinced he was a genius at math, didn’t realize that Moscow is +4 from UTC, even though it was written right on the map. He must have taken that test 10 or more times before he figured out the “trick”.
I’ll go with the numbers. In Moscow, the teams had to look at a Russian time zone map and write down the time for four cities given a time in a fifth city. Despite being written on their map, only one team realized that the times were offset. What resulted were the rest of the teams teams sitting there forever with this thinking:
Moscow time: 3:15pm. What is the time in Ekaterinaberg? Hmmmm. The map says Ekaterinaberg in GMT+4 so 7:15pm right? How am I getting this wrong?
They completely ignored that Moscow is GMT+3 so the time would be 4:15pm.
Yeah, that’s the one I had in mind. Good call! Didn’t they also have some kind of major SNAFU with something involving a watch and a code?
Katie was the one who just had to let everyone know that the bushmen stank.
But…but they lived in Paris. And knew Paris.
Fenris
PS–didn’t you know that they spent years living in Paris? Paris!!
Did they have different countries outlined on the balls? I thought I heard someone say that was the wrong country and they hadn’t been there. I hope when they do things like that there are more then 3 of each country too, that would suck to be the last team if that was the case.
This season was at least more interesting then the last one. I do wish some of the challenges would be more difficult. I think they need some more out there teams too, I mean who doesn’t remember Rebecca and Adam?
There were three ball pits, though, so being last shouldn’t make much of a difference, unless I’m not understanding your point.
Are we sure about that? I could have sworn there was only one, with the stations for each team around it, and it LOOKED like Max and Mona were in there at the same time.
Three ball pits. They didn’t share.
Something I forgot to mention last episode, mad props for stepping up the speed bumps. Having to bowl a strike without finger holes is a way better penalty task than sitting on a block of ice for 300 seconds or stepping onto a spa bus and immediately continuing the race.
Until this episode I didn’t realize that was Bates Battaglia. For some reason I was under the impression that they were career minor-leaguers. The Battaglia boys are pretty famous. Bates, as he mentioned, made it to the Stanley Cup finals, while their brother Marco played in the NFL for 8 years. (Marco is possibly more famous for being a work-out buddy of Howard Stern than his NFL days.)
Bates isn’t just a guy who plays sports for a living, he’s a real, legitimate professional athlete. I don’t follow much hockey and I’ve known who he is for a decade.
No, I’m not sure about that at all. In fact, double checking on line shows that you’re right. Sorry about that. Don’t know how we came away with that impression.
IIRC Max was already in the ball pit when they showed Mona going into it.
Yeah, final legs tend to be a bit ho-hum because there’s usually one team that pulls ahead of everyone else early on. The closest final leg I can think of was last season’s when the Beekmans won only because Josh had a better command of memorizing flags than everyone else.
Didn’t it just come down to each team trying every single combination of foreign words for “hello” and “goodbye”, once they got the easy ones (French & Spanish)? It seemed to me the final task last season just came down to luck.
Wait, really? They shared a ball pit?
Ouch, that sucks.
Apparently me. At least not when referenced simply by name. But then if you asked me to list the contestant names on this just finished season I don’t think I could do more than two.
I suck at names remembering.
I’ve seen it in regular snorkeling so I’m not that surprised. One of them mentioned that she was feeling claustrophobic which is something I’ve seen in people wearing full body wet suits for the first time. That feeling of being squeezed absolutely everywhere is extremely unnerving for some people.
The other one was panicking because she felt like she couldn’t breathe. If there was a rule saying that they had to breathe through the snorkel (which I wonder since nobody really took it out even though nobody was swimming in a way that actually required a snorkel). That too is pretty common in people not used to it. They work too hard to breathe and hyperventilate or panic every time they get water in it.
I don’t think I saw one person clear their snorkel after cannon balling into the first part.
Not only that, there was at least one camera man in there with them too.
Just a reminder for Canadian Dopers and for those who can get CTV, on July 15[sup]th[/sup], they will start airing The Amazing Race - Canada. Don’t forget to put it on your calendars.
Until I read this post I thought Bates was his *last *name!
Mama’s HellBoy (the scene I remember best is when he was rolling around on the dock in the old-school diving suit screaming what he apparently thought were his last words to his mother that he loved her) and the MegaBitch. Rebecca later went on to star in that reality show about the personal trainers (Work Out), in which she proved she was more than just an attention whore by sleeping with the lesbian gym owner to garner favor.
Well, when you give them those names I still have no idea.
When one of the hockey guys mentioned that he had lived in DC for a while, I was sure they were doomed.
Hasn’t everyone else who claimed a home field advantage on the final leg lost?