What’s worse, from what he said before he started the last leg and some merciful blurring during his last couple of leaps, at one point the word “nearly” might not have been applicable. Jayjay, Otto, I like you two, I really do, but drat it, I don’t want to be the only one who needs brainwash tonight!
They were, except they were prone to saying things like “she is centered in her person” (I think that’s a direct quote), and I find that kind of meaningless touchy-feely stuff annoying in the extreme.
I have to say that Ronald’s daughter showed remarkable restraint in not punching her dad right in the kisser.
SERENITY NOW!
Sorry. Had a brainflash.
Well, then YOU can just knit me a straitjacket after I’ve gone three weeks without sleep because of that image…
They jinxed themselves the moment they mentioned that, even though they were slower than the other teams, they were also much smarter. That thinking gets 'em every time. In this game, fast and stupid wins out over slow and wise every time.
It’s Episcopal-Clergy-Speak. Almost all of the ones I’ve known (mostly university chaplains/student activity advisors) have had that psychotheological way of speaking. I’m probably talking out my prodigious ass, but I’m pretty sure I’d have pegged them as Episcopal clergy even if it hadn’t been generally announced.
See, there are reasons for hara kiri! That wonderful, sweet and patient daughter should have simply gutted herself on the spot. That would have fixed the old man’s clock. And I don’t suppose they’ll be Philiminated next, will they.
By the way, TAR ought to institute a rule that any player who calls his/her partner “Baby” more than once in any give task will be immediately Philiminated for cause! God! That’s annoying.
Sorry Siege saggy underpants I would never want to cause anyone old man in droopy black man-panties to lose any sleep you could practically see the muddy wrinkly junk so I promise not to bring it up again.
Married female clergy? Yeah, pegging them as Episcopalian is quite the amazing mental feat there, Kreskin.
You hear it in other denominations, as well. I know a Catholic nun who talks the same way. I was on a committee with her at church…drove me batty!
No love for the Unitarians?
There’s was a bit too much airport drama in this one for me, but all and all a good episode.
By Jupiter, Ronald, just shut the F up! That guy just keeps going and going.
I am beginning to worry about the pretty sisters. Please last, we need something to wash our eyes on the next time naked grampa does something. Oh, and I loved her vaulting style
And speaking of naked grampa, what the heck is the matter with the grandson? He is tall and thin and sends his grandfather to do pole vaulting? Why don’t they just ask to be eliminated?
The pinkygoth dude getting in the mud was funny.
The blondes are already looking like crap (for their already low starting levels). I hope they last just to see them get so nasty they can’t seduce a camel milker.
No heartbreak to see the ministers go. I got tired of their judging Ronald pretty quick.
I was afraid something was gonna flop out of NearlyNekkidGrampa’s saggy drawers.
Would you kindly stop talking about NearlyNekkidGrampa and his muddy wrinkly junk!
Please? 
I hate you all.
What is Ronald’s deal with “boogers”? He brought up “boogers” in two different countries. I think that’s just one of many indicators that Ronald has a screw loose.
My wife and I had to pause it for about five minutes just to stop laughing and hiccuping in the middle of the show. That whole sequence of creek vaulting, and the shot of the one team driving right past Phil - that was awesome!
How sad to watch a team eliminated simply because they couldn’t get up the gumption to cross the street and get on the bus.
“There’s the bus across the street.”
“Should we go get on it?”
“Sure, I guess we should go get on it.”
“Do you want to go get on it?”
“Oh, gee, we missed the bus.”
It’s guaranteed that when a team proclaims that they may not be fast enough, but they’ll beat everyone else with their intelligence, they are done for. As much as I loved the line about God not caring if they won the race, they have to realize that at least they themselves have to care if they are going to win the race in order to actually win the race.
I think my favorite line was:
“I think it involves those sheep.”
That really was a bonehead move. I can only assume:
(1) Grandson doesn’t get the whole Old People Shouldn’t Do Physical Tasks thing.
(2) Grandson is a prima donna (like Kynt) and can’t stand getting his hair mussy.
(3) Grandson secretly wanted to see Grandpa naked. Hmmm…
See, I was under the impression that Grandson is doing the race with Grandpa for fun, and he’s willing to let Grandpa decide for himself what he’s capable of doing. He didn’t intervene in Grandpa’s decision, but I loved the way he waited till Gramps was out of earshot and then said to the camera, “I think this may have been a bad decision.” And you notice that when Ronald jumped Grandson’s ass in the airport, Gramps didn’t intervene, but let Grandson handle it himself?
THAT is the kind of relationship I like to see – mutual respect while letting each person decide for themselves what they can and can’t do.
This season is starting off well. First leg? Donkeys. Second leg? Pole-vaulting over ditches of stinky mud with an old man wearing nothing droopy drawers. Next leg? More animals! Animals on the Race are wonderful – they are so totally unpredictable!
And I actually don’t hate most of the teams, for a welcome change. Although the over-bleached, over-baked, over-plucked, over-Botoxed blondes can go any time. Even if they did tolerably well this leg, they just annoy the crap out of me. “I haven’t had a single facial or a manicure!” Poor thing, suffering for two whole days without being pampered! :rolleyes:
That was my father “teaching” me how to bowl. (or anything else, for that matter, but that specifically reminded me of the bowling).
I wanted her to “accidentally” whack him with the stick. For me. I feel so sorry for her. I wonder if he’s watched and realized “wow, I can really be an ass.” (But seeing how much he’s like my dad, I know the answer is “no.”)
Can neither Kent or Vixen ride a bicycle? This is the second time they’ve pushed one rather than sat on it and pedaled. I do like that she macrames. Nothing says “goth” like mid-70s craft items.
NNG cracked me up.
That was not unlike my own response, which went back to the wee very beginnings of “Bloom County”: “Death to the war monkeys! Anarchy now!” Which probably explains why my husband always runs away and plays computer games while I am watching my reality shows. I am lousy with non-sequiturs.
Watching last night’s episode made me think that it’s time to call my brother-in-law again and ask him if he wants to try out for the Race with me. I can totally picture us trying to do the pole vault last night, and I assure you all, it would not have been pretty, but it would have been HIGH-larious.