Exactly! WTF were they doing in that hotel lobby? Not getting a flight to Amsterdam appartently.
See, I’m starting to suspect that they’re purposely “playing a role.” I mean, who gets facials so often that being without one for a couple of days is a hardship? They seemed to be pretty good sports about the whole falling in the muddy ditch thing, and they totally rocked the hoisting challenge. We haven’t heard them be nasty to anyone, have we? So maybe the “pampered L.A. blonde” thing is just their hook. Or maybe they really are spoiled idiots. I’m looking forward to finding out.
Oy! I was watching it with my 5 year old…he thought Kent was a girl. I patiently explained that men sometimes wore makeup etc., and he responded, “no, it’s a girl.” So I explained it again in a different way. He said, “No, Mommy. I’m sure it’s a girl!” So I explained again, to no avail. Then I gave up.
And a note to Jennifer (of Nathan and Jennifer fame): Please stop calling other people names. It’s not nice.
I have to admit, I was shocked when I heard Kynt speak the first time. I had assumed them to be a pair of lesbian goth chicks. Alternate assumption, not lesbian, but still goth chicks. Part of this may have to do with me not paying enough attention, but most of it has to do with the whole wearing pink thing, when I saw them in the promos.
Last night, I heard a voice-over or somebody refer to them as “Dating Gods”.
Article on CNN.com about the ousted couple.
And you’re right that they’re Episcopal:
I noticed the lack of young guy teams right away. I think they are stacking the odds here that an all-girl team will win it. There are more girl friend teams than usual. The question is, why can’t they find a girl team that actually kicks ass and does not start out their interviews by saying “we plan to get by on our looks and flirt our way to the top.” That pisses me off. ( at least 2 of the teams had that sentiment.)
I wonder if the goth team is going to be able to maintain their look all the way through the race. It looks kind of high-maintenance. I call them team Azrael after the goth sketch on SNL.
I also did a WTF when the asian dad went off on the other team’s grandson. Why does he care what the other guy was doing? You could tell the daughter was supremely embarassed. That guy is seriously a jerk. “You let me down” “You need to lose some weight” “I could have vaulted better than that” Just. Shut. Up.
We also learned this episode that women are much better at tying knots. I think all the “haul it” teams ended up switching so that the female could tie and haul the items.
I loved Holland.
My brain is broken. He can’t be five.
Signed,
Mother of a THREE year old
How about an all girl AR with teams consisting of members of the armed forces or law enforcement? Marines, Air Force, Navy, Army , Coast Guard, FBI and whoever else! Throw in a few teams from State Police or Sheriff’s Departments too. 
They should all be pretty fit and ready to go.
I don’t think so … I’m pretty sure she’s the one who was featured in the promos cursing a lactating camel on her knees in the dirt, crying, wailing, etc. while Jason stood by. From cbs.com
Sunday, November 18, 8pm et/pt
PLEASE LORD, GIVE ME MILK!
The severe pain of a hernia attacks one Racer at the worst time as one of the older men on the Race falls under the spell of two young, feisty, hip-shaking female Racers. Struggling at a Roadblock, one panicking Racer drops to her knees in tears while her Teammate helplessly looks on.
I’ve asked the Mods to box the spoilers for the unaired leg that you posted, in hopes that someone else reading the thread won’t end up as pissed off about it as I am. In future, either use spoiler tags or don’t post.
Couldn’t you mention that in the OP? I know that’s the rule in these types of threads, but someone just happening upon the thread might not know that.
OK-while I loved the detour in Amsterdam, I think they missed an excellent opportunity to have the racers perform “tasks” much more common to this city. Thus, for the next visit, I suggest the following:
Smoke it or Poke it:
In Smoke it, you must make your way to a certain bar, then between the two racers, consume a set amount of hashish. You must then make your way to the pit stop. While experienced teams could finish the first part quickly, finding the pit stop may be difficult without stopping for munchies.
In Poke it, you will be given a picture of a girl from Amsterdam’s red light district. You must locate this girl, and successfully copulate with her to obtain your clue. Teams may lose time waiting, as the girl may be already engaged with a prior customer. In addition, all female teams may find this option physically challenging.
Goths
And I had forgotten the macrame part. Very funny. Also very funny the face she made when she admitted to it in front of the camera.
Is it considered a spoiler when it’s taken directly from promotional information from the network’s website? The scene described in Averie’s post was in the “in next week’s episode” teaser at the end of this week’s episode. How can that be considered a spoiler?
Some people don’t want to know anything about next week’s episode before it happens. That’s why it’s common courtesy to spoilerbox any information that hasn’t happened yet, whether it’s part of a publicly aired promo or not.
A touchy subject. Some people feel that the ad monkeys give too much away in the teasers, so they request that every and anything not pertaining to events not shown in the preceeding episode and the episodes before it be spoiler boxed. That’s standard opperating procedure in most Cafe Society threads.
You don’t even want to open the time zone can of worms.
Thanks, Wolfian! That’s a different policy than what I’m used to on other message boards, so good to know.
On this topic alone—my husband noticed the other night that, close to the end of the episode, they showed a promo for something that happens on a different leg (based on clothing and activity) and you could clearly identify at least one team. Therefore, we could safely assume that that team would be around for at least one more week. We were pretty disappointed.
Now that you mention it, what does Ronald sell? (quickly looks at the CBS.com website) OMG, he’s a “Vice President of sales for a paper packaging company.” Dude works for Dunder-Mifflin. No freaking wonder. I’d order something to get rid of him, too.
Darn, outside the edit window. Anyway … I just read the “Carissa Explains It All” columns from the last two episodes, and I just wanted to mention: someone is almost a teenager now, no? It almost doesn’t sound like her any more.
Ronald is AMBIGUOUSLY EVIL DAD!*
*That’s a Heroes reference, for the non-Heroes fans