Apparently none of them has ever done a word-find, which I thought was about as low a bar as you could set on a puzzle-solving challenge.
Actually, one of the FF teams said they were good at word finds.
Tape up your Hands
Jump Rope
Push a Wheelbarrow
Do a Word (symbol) Search/Roll a Wheel with a Stick
When someone sketched this episode out, which part did they think would make for compelling television?
Also, two episodes in Ghana? This has fallen from “The Amazing Race” to “The Moderately Interesting Transition Show between Andy Rooney and Undercover Boss Race”.
I agree, Hentor…we’ve had two extremely meh episodes, back to back I was disappointed to see the episode not begin with a dash to the airport.
And speaking of which: based on the previews for next week, in what bizarre non-Euclidean universe is England-Africa-Arctic a race around the world?
This season is beginning to look like the producers had some nightmarish problems in establishing the itinerary, and they wound up stuck in Ghana for an extra few days (so they inserted the “give back to the community” day) and took a detour to the land of ice & snow.
I did think this was odd. I can see them staying in Africa for multiple legs, but not in a country like Ghana.
“ass-Racer”? Bwahahaha
Maybe this season it’s going to be done longitudinally? 
I wonder what would have happened if when the first team was told that they’d be “giving back”, as Phil put it had said something like "Great idea Phil, in fact, if we win the million we’re going to donate $100K to this village so they can improve their infrastructure with good water etc."
The other teams would look like shit if they didn’t say the same thing. 
This week was better than last, although only marginally. I hope the doctors can pick it up next week; they seem like a pretty good team but have had a couple of bad weeks.
A one hour football delay made my recording null and void. I did get most of Sixty Minutes though. A deep look into rapper Eninem’s life is just what I needed.
I may give up on watching The Race. How important can it be if that mindless, boring game keeps pre-empting it
I really, really, really wanted them to hit the mat and have the girl then say that she was quitting because she didn’t want to be paired with such an asshole in any way, shape, form or fashion, and to send her home NOW please.
That would have been absolutely priceless.
That would have been awesome. I’d love to see it. But sadly it never, ever, EVER happens–even with Jonathon and Victoria–even on the leg where he hit her, shoved her, berated her and Phil apparently came >< this close to throwing Jonathon out of the race, she looked too cowed and beaten (literally) to quit.
Closest we’ve come is in S3 where Zach had to (literally) carry Flo for the last half of the race-she kept quitting but apparently wasn’t allowed to or did it in such a place (the middle of a 32 hour train trip through…I dunno…China? Russia? India?
Or finally, the one (s2?) where Wil (of Tara and Wil) was so freaking obnoxious that Tara said (on cam) words very close to “I’ll stick in the race only to make sure YOU don’t win.” and sure enough, despite being in the lead to the finish line against some big linebacker type bouncers (bulky but not fast) she slowed down to a near walk with the finish line in site and smiled as they passed her. She literally threw the race rather than let her partner win $500,000.00. That’s gotta be the biggest “Fuck you buster!” ever on reality tv.
I agree that he was indeed acting in a totally reprehensible way towards her, but I actually think that he had a “WTF am I doing” moment of introspection when she had her asthma flare-up and that his resulting mea culpa was sincere.
I suppose how he behaves in subsequent legs of the race will tell us how sorry he really is for his abusive outburst.
There are still places in this world where you don’t say “chop chop” to the natives because they carry machetes and will damn well give you “chop chop.” Further, this reaction falls under justifiable homicide. They tell the cops why they did it and get let off.
I really want the Race to run through such a place.
Okay, I know the Taxi Assessment has a long history, but can we please change Flat Tire or Stopping For Gas to "Drawing Chalk Circles Around African Kids."
In that case, you can go ahead and remove the spoiler box now.
Also note that this matter of courtesy doesn’t exist anywhere else in Cafe Society. Episode threads are recognized as having spoilers in them because everything there is to talk about is a spoiler.
+1. That’s perfect!
I have my DVR set up to record TAR for two hours, just for this reason. If it ever starts more than an hour late, I’m hosed though.
+2