Last week: through an unfathomably bad decision of Kynt’s part, everyone’s favoryte spellyng ympayred Goths were Philiminated and the wrath of TAR fans across the world called down curses on the head of that busybody Indian woman who reminded Jen about the receipts.
This week: Golly, normally with a quote like “I Just Hope He Doesn’t Croak on Us” it’d be a fairly easy guess as to who it was about. But with a possibly unprecedented two members of the Geezer Squad still in the Race, who knows? CBS has finally acknowledged that football will run long and is advertising a 30 minute delay in the air time. Adjust your devices accordingly.
They’re going to Osaka! Cool! Back in the dark ages before the internet, I spent my senior year studying in Kobe, a few miles down the coast and spent quite a bit of time in Osaka. I’m looking forward to this one! What’s more, Christina’s even standing up to Ron and telling him to shut up.
I absolutely loved the taxi challenge, especially when Nicholas displayed his cap in that cockeyed style.
And I cannot believe after how many editions of this race that teams still focus entirely on which flights LEAVES first as opposed to which flight ARRIVES first, especially when the flight stops in two other cities along the way. Unless there is a major bunching in the next leg, the Hippies are toast.
Spoil it for me. I forgot to extend the timing on my DVR before getting caught up in the first episode of season 5 of The Wire. TK and Rachel were obviously last. Eliminated? Who came in first?
Yeah, Christina spent six months living there and learning Japanese; how lucky can you get?
I thought T.K. and Rachel did ask for the earliest-arriving flight, and the travel office guy got it wrong.
Table-top, robot soccer; how cool is that? Or finding a real flower in a fake flower shop. Trying to navigate through downtown Osaka. And Jen pumping her arms up and down, the international hand gesture for “race”. One of my favorite episodes, ever.
Technically, they didn’t plan for football overrun; being a playoff game, it just started 30 minutes later than usual.
I got the feeling TK was thinking “arrives first” but wasn’t asking that clearly enough, and got “leaves first” instead. He kept asking “are you sure this is the earliest?” and wasn’t clear about which end he wanted “earliest” on.
commasense:
TK and Rachel were last, almost 3 hours behind the other teams, according to Phil. Not eliminated, as was the only possibility since there are 4 teams left, 3 make the final, and Phil said in the episode with the last NEL that there were 2 in the race.
Nate and Jen had trouble getting a Taxi to the pit stop and Ron and Christina won. They got “electric cars”.
Possible spoiler question for anyone else:
The “info” key on my DVR brings up an episode summary like the following:
The Amazing Race - Ronald Hsu, Christina Hsu. Teams go to Japan and complete tasks to win the race.
Every week since I’ve been looking at it (the last 4 weeks at least), it’s listed Ron and Christina’s names – and no one else. It’s not giving away the ending, is it?
The teams were allowed to ask for directions correct? Just not allowed to hire a taxi or take anyone with them? Or is everyone going to get dinged on that and close the 3 hour gap?
Mom and I weren’t quite clear on it, and Phil didn’t say anything at the pit stop.
OK, so this wasn’t the best episode so far. Jen continues to be annoying and Ron still won’t shut up. The more I see of Nick and Don, though, the more I like the way they get long.
There was something which didn’t jibe with my experiences in Osaka, although they were 20 years ago (can I get a recount?). When I was living and studying there, plenty of people spoke English or were at least willing to try. That’s why I was surprised when Jen had such a hard time finding people who spoke English. It seems to me she’s had that problem in other countries as well. Is it because she’s too impatient to wait for an answer or because she doesn’t ask nicely?
For those who are interested, when Christina was telling taxi drivers “ichiban hayai” what she was saying was “number one fast” which really doesn’t make more sense in Japanese than it does in English. What I would have said was, “Dekiru dake hayakute, onegaishimasu,” [as fast as possible, please].
Poor TK and Rachel. They still have the right attitude toward things, and I wish them well.