You’ll note I said “each week,” not “each episode.” 
Hee!
What, you don’t think that whole “and he dyes his hair all those crazy colors” thing is going to boil into seething rage?
Nah, I don’t either. I’m liking this team.
When Zev was doing the Monkey Maneuvers detour, Justin had some papers stuffed into his shorts. Front of the left leg. When Zev finally completed the detour, and they read the clue, those papers were not there.
And as they were getting into the cab to go to the pit stop, there was something on the pavement that might have been a passport, (but it was probably trash).
And Zut, I just rewatched the episode, and Gary and Matt did not initially recognize Jackie O, Pinky asked a local “Do you know that woman?” Dad later went on a confessional and said that he recognized after looking more closely at the picture. Canaan thought it was Queen Elizabeth 2. Mika said it was someone of Cambodian descent. Big Easy thought it was “one of the Queens from here”. Sam and/or Dan said it was a queen or princess.
I am not surprised that 20 and 30 somethings did not recognize Jackie O.
Really disappointed that Justin and Zev are gone. They were my favorite team. they had a very helpful cab driver, but all the Cambodian locals were very helpful.
Was glad that the poker players started to say “please and thank you”.
Good episode, bad result.
Lance didn’t recognize her at first either. Some local (in what looked like a restaurant) told Keri “I think it is Kennedy” and then Lance said in the buggy taxi “That Jackie Onassis, that’s who it is.”
I think I would have recognize her, but I almost 50 yrs old too.
I love this show almost as much as my children, but jeez that was an awful episode.
First, it starts with the Mother of All Bunching Points. 19 hours at the airport…I think racers from TAR 16 caught up with them.
Then the leg consisted of: go there & pick up a clue. Go to Detour, which consisted of wandering around until you find someone. Then go to the World’s Easiest Roadblock. No breakdowns, no humorous asides, damn little local color.
Everyone managed to find the Jackie O suite, without successfully identifying Jackie O…(I did like some of the outrageously bad guesses as to her identity). It helped that the other guy in the picture was Prince Siahnouk.
And then the team coming in 1st gets eliminated. Bummer.
And I smell a rat about the Detour that only JerkLawyer took. It seemed impossibly difficult…if 9 racers had chosen this detour, would they have had to wait until 9 families of 4 came by on motor scooters? And if you saw a pair of Cambodians standing outside your local mall, waving helmets in the air and yelling gibberish: would you (a) think “hmmm…he may be selling something I want to buy” or (b) call security?
Thank you for knowing this. Sorry for reminding everyone.
I half-expected one of the Monkey Maneuvers to be: Lie on your back & scratch your ass. Disappointing.
Notice that Zev & Justin didn’t get the “as winners of this leg…” prize. So either (a) that conversation was edited out; (b) it’s normally edited in; or © there was no prize this leg.
Odd of Phil to describe Jackie O’s 1967 trip to Cambodia as her only “official” visit. Being a private citizen, the distinction between “official” and “unofficial” is kinda unimportant. Unless he meant “not counting the time in 1962 when she snuck across the border with the CIA”.
Just in case anyone is interested: The passport was turned into the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh. Apparently it had been found in a temple near the monkey task and turned in to the embassy. Justin speculated that it fell out when he was searching for his headlamp in the dark when they were in the temple looking for the monkey challenge.
You can see the action at 2:43 of this video:
Sorry? No way. The hippies are my all time favorite team!
I am kind of shocked to hear this…
I have always been under the impression that a lost passport was a MAJOR hassle to replace and would end up costing big bucks to the unlucky loser.
For me, I am now rooting for the father and son team, and the dating Christian couple seem like decent people as well.
I like the Globetrotters, but I would hate to see wealthy professional athletes get rewarded for winning a race against average contestants. It dosent seem fair to me…
Does anyone know how much a Globetrotter makes? I’m guessing it’s significantly less than an NBA star.
That’s a pretty sweet elimination station. Not a bad consolation prize - spending a month in a nice resort somewhere in Asia.
I found a few quotes for average salaries from 1973 ($29,000) and 1985 ($80,000). In 2009 dollars, that’s about $140,000 - $150,000 per year.
So while the Globetrotters are likely well off, they’re by no means super rich athletes who don’t “deserve” to win.
Assuming the sumaritan hadn’t found the passports, would have Zev and Justin found it when they re-traced their steps. And if they did find it, would they have found it in time. My guess is no, they would have not found it in time.
Again, it is case of someone don’t reading the clue clearly. They went into a temple when they didn’t need to.
Canaan didn’t read one of the clue correctly either, because he was asking “Do you have my next task?” instead of assignment.
I’m sure there have been plenty of people over the years who have been in that income bracket.
This blog claims $60K - $500K. I presume the lower figure is for rookies and the upper for the biggest current stars. That makes Justin_Bailey’s $150K estimate look pretty good.
150K isn’t peanuts, but I’ll point out that it’s quite possible that some or all of Lance (lawyer), Keri (finance manager), Ron (day trader), Marcy (“nationally recognized” advertising photographer), Maria and Tiffany (professional poker players), or Eric/Lisa (owners of four yoga studios) make more than the Globetrotters. People on a show like this have to be able to afford to take six weeks off from their job, which pretty much means they’re either sporadically employed or comfortably self-suficient.
In my living room, the 30-year-old at least knew she was clearly Caucasian, and the 33-year-old with the ridiculous memory for trivia recognized her immediately. And then made fun of the 30-year-old. 
I’m sorry to see Zev and Justin get eliminated for something so dumb, but I agree with rockle (go figure) that I’d rather remember them unsullied by killer fatigue.
It does seem to me that the clues are a little more difficult than they have been in the last few seasons, but I’m still finding this a little boring. We need some broken oxen or actual monkeys.
I’m pretty sure the families of four with $10 American to burn were planted by the producers.
Wild thing, you make my heart sing.
I think Zev also recognized Jackie. They were in the cab and I thought I heard him say “She looks like Onassis.”
I know how you feel about monkeys.