What the hell is wrong with the NFL? A timely start to TAR two weeks in a row?!?!?!
CBS and FOX have the 4 pm featured NFL game 50% of the time. Fox happened to have the feature 4 pm game the last two weeks, therefore primetime on CBS started on time.
Rest assured, CBS will probably have the 4 pm game next week and TAR will be late.
That said…WOO HOO!! TAR is on time.
Oh, man. I’m dying over here watching this.
Killer fatigue, lack of upper-body strength, and a ridiculous game. I’m back on the Amazing Bus.
Has a team ever switched Detours three times? I seem to remember teams starting on one, giving up, going to the other, giving up again and going back to the first one. But three times? Boneheaded move.
Next week, back to the dreaded unrolling-the-hay-bales task.
Don’t forget the dancing Globetrotters! I loved seeing the dancing Globetrotters and their attitude towards it! It was a fun episode, complete with stunning displays of incompetence.
OK, I’m recovering from H1N1 flu which led to pneumonia in both lungs, and I still could have done a better job ringing the bell than one of the poker players!
I do like the brothers and Pinky and the Brain. jayjay, are the brothers providing enough eye-candy for you? My favorite line of the night was, “We’re not that kind of gay guys.”
Oh, I forgot to ask - what are those little wallet-y looking things they all have strapped to their chests? They look too small to hold passports, but that’s the only thing I can think of that they’d need to keep with them.
I thought it was part of the microphones they carry with them.
I can not believe it. Those were some of the easiest roadblocks ever. Do none of these people understand basic physics? If either of them had swung with any force, by using a full rotation, than they would have been able to ring the bell. It’s not about strength, it’s about leverage.
You gotta give credit to team zebra; they didn’t quit racing even though they may have a record for the most screw-ups in a single leg.
My favorite line was when the dad said: “Should I tell Matt he’s adopted?”
I love the Globe Trotters. Is there anything they don’t do with enthusiam?
The brothers are nice eye-candy, but they’re so “average slightly athletic twink” that I’m kind of meh. Matt, now…I’m quite disappointed that he’s straight. Definitely more my type than the brothers are.
Question about the first roadblock:
Counting the bells. Was it my imagination or did Megan and Cheyne do this task together? And if they did, why weren’t they penalized?
Brian is a saint. I want to put him on a medal and carry it with me to remind me to have patience.
StG
I think it was Megan and Sam. Remember Sam told the gamblers the number
No, Megan did it with one of the brothers. However I am surprised there was no penalty for the brother giving the poker player the answer to the numbers of bells.
Both of the Poker ladies were bad at ringing the bell, but Maria was absolutely pathetic. There was not any amount of physics knowledge that would have enabled her to ring the bell. Tiffany was closer, but I am not sure that she had enough strength either.
My favorite quote of the night was one of the globetrotters when he said “If we don’t know anyone else name on the race, we know who BRIAN … BRIAN is.”
Tough ending for Tiffany and Maria, who I didnt care for at first, (mainly due to them initially lying to the other racers about being social workers) but who came to seem like pretty decent girls after all.
As much as I really!!! dont like Miss America, I will give her props for not up and quitting, which I thought she was on the brink of doing twice during this leg of the race.
Finally, a couple of years ago I saw Los Lobos play in Groningen. The box office/chamber of commerce where I bought the concert tickets was in the square where the bell tower is, so it was cool to see it again on the show…
And then seconds later, Ericka screams “BRIAN!” going over the footbridge. supervenusfreak and I laughed for five whole minutes when that happened. I LOVES me some Amazing Editors!
seriously both teams at the end deserve to be eliminated from the game…
pure pathetic displays at the roadblock and detour. How the fuck can’t you count bells? It’s COUNTING and WALKING…
On the detour however, you might be able to blame the challenge a little on the stacked for males to succeed but come on, did they not think of trying to hammer that together? or was that not an option. Instead of just doing the 100 attempts, they shoulda just done the take a time penalty bullshit thing and skipped that and went to dancing. Time penalties are RETARDED. Force the team that didn’t finish correctly all the way back to where they fucked up and make them do it all over again. The poker girls coulda taken a penalty and just wound up ahead of the one of the most annoying contestants of Amazing Race ever (the black chick or Miss America as you guys say).
I hate when teams get time penalties. defeats the purpose of fucking READING the clues and doing them as written down. People need to learn to fucking read, comprehend and RE-READ and absorb what the fuck they just read. And follow the damned instructions. Just pissed because 30minutes is so fucking arbitrary. Where do the producers shit that number out from? seriously, i would like to know how 30minutes became the justified penalty for being a fucktard and not reading the clue.
In the bell challenge, what stopped Miss America from just writing one number after another on pieces of paper until she got the right one?
Or using the first method I thought of: counting the number of keys and foot pedals on the carillon keyboard? (The answer to that is probably that she’s not smart enough to make that connection.)
But would either of those have been considered cheating somehow? And if so, how would getting the number from another team not be?
Plus the weakest tean to get this far in TAR. How many time were they the last team to arrive? How much help have they gotten? 'Bout the only time they showed any strength was the gold weighing