Last week: The Amazing Race kicked off, not in Central/South America as usual but in Ireland. Far too many Racers had far too many extraneous vowels in their nyames. Kate and Pat spent some time writing postcards to God (“Dear God, Having a wonderful time, enjoy your bath.”). Not one but two all-female teams appeared to be identical. Buff all-male teams were in short supply, probably to the betterment of the competition but to the detriment of the oglers. And Ari and Staella proved that being metaphorical jackasses will bring on retribution in the form of actual jackasses in a sure path to Philimination.
This week: Previews indicate that the Asian daughter who’s never disappointed in her dad gets pretty damn disappointed in her dad. Remember to allow for football overruns in setting recording devices of your choice. Let’s watch!
It looked to me like they might be going to the Netherlands. I saw one shot with a ton of bikes and it looked pretty flat. Maybe they’ll make them all wear clogs for the day!
Next week: Return of the Comedy Relief Camels! (Milking a camel must be the greatest Roadblock ever… only thing better would be to make the other Racer drink the milk.)
Is it me or has Ronald read every single self-help book in existence? I don’t think I’ve ever heard such a mash up of pop-psychology spew from one single source.
Know how you feel. Either things go badly, or things go really badly, and we end up with Ronald, who went and lost his shit. You all know how I feel about little old Asian men, but Ronald has managed to buck the trend. Um … way to go, I guess?
And from next week’s previews: CAMELS! Donkey wrangling last week, mud-canal-pole-vaulting this week, and camel milking next week. That, my friends, may just be the Jerry Bruckheimer Trifecta of AWESOME.
My gentleman and I were saying Ron would be the person we’d be most likely to kill. I still give his granddaughter for not hitting him with the stick when she was trying to vault across. In second place for most obnoxious is Nick, who not only was rude to his flight attendent but had his grandfather vault over the ditch. We did not need to see the grandfather in his underwear! :shudder:
Alas, my Anglicans are gone. I’m rooting for the brother and sister engineers now, and I want Ron and Christine out even worse than I want the blondes out! Bring on the camels!
I swear to God, if I were Asian daughter, I’d be an orphan about five minutes after that Roadblock was over. Seriously.
Oh, and I loved “We’re under no illusion that God cares if we win the Amazing Race.” Their Detour decision underlines once again the primary rule of The Amazing Race: “Given a choice, NEVER take the needle in a haystack option.”
Had to bail out halfway tonight (it’s on tape, no worries) but how screwed up do you have to be to start screaming at another team because of how they treat a check-in person.
And then STILL not make the flight? Something wrong there.
Oh, and the first person who brings up NearlyNekkidGrampa gets a boot to the head. I’ve just managed to purge that image from my head and no one better make me recall it from irrevocable storage…
