Ooh. That book is going on The List.
My beloved mentally deficient frats are still in it to win it! And they weren’t even all that stupid today, which is sad and disappointing.
Starr has no lips. That is all.
My GOD, the Frat Boys are goddamn LUCKY! Geez…every single leg they’re just THAT MUCH less stupid or unlucky than another team. And yet I can’t really say they don’t deserve Final Three, because…well…every single leg there was another team that was just THAT MUCH more stupid or unlucky than them. I’m hoping that at least Nick & Starr can shut down the curse of the Undying Frat Team. I won’t mind if either Nick & Starr or Ken & Tina win. I will be cursing the fates if the Frat Boys win. They’ll be the least deserving millionaires since Paris Hilton…
Stupid, slow and clumsy never seemed like a good strategy before…
My preferred finish order:
- Nick & Starr
- Ken & Tina
[del]3. Toni & Dallas[/del] - Andrew & Dan
I’m guessing both the Frats have about 20 years of experience at it, though.
And seriously? How can you NOT know what Stalin and Lenin look like? They’re only two of the most influential figures of the 20th Century! They basically founded the country that was our major rival for over 50 years. It’s not like it requires a major in Russian history to recognize them. (It should be noted that I’m NOT just ragging on the Frats for this. Dallas was [del]just[/del] almost as bad (at least he didn’t completely reverse them).)
Ugh. That was Dallas who reversed them, actually. Didn’t get the edit in time…
Maybe they will go to Germany next and the teams will be unable to identify a portrait of Hitler, because they learned about WWII way back in middle school.
Frostillicus, did you just invoke Godwin’s Law?
Alas, that isn’t a recommendation to everyone.
Yeah, the fact that the first person who said that he loved it was the creator of the terminally unfunny Family Guy was a warning sign as well…
And I told you guys last week that the Frat Boys had made a deal with the devil.
Yes you did. And I’m starting to think that the Devil got the short end of the deal.
I knew I liked the devil! More frat boys doing stupid stuff, O Prince of Darkness (or Dorkness, as the case may be)!
A bit of mutual back-scratching there, I suppose. The racers in the book are both comedy writers, one of them for American Dad (from the same creator as Family Guy).
I don’t really pick up any similarity between those shows and the book, though. (I’m about 20 pages from the end). Read a random excerpt from the Amazon page.
My DVR quit at about 20 minutes, since I neglected to add time to the recording. I’ve figured out who lost, but can someone recap the episode for me?
insert obvious joke here
I wonder if seeing Americans with Greek letters on their shirts caused any of the Russians to double-take.
I’m moving to Moscow and becomming a beggar. People just hand over cash there.
FTR, I have an Engineering Degree and a MBA. Got straight A’s in history during High school. I think I would do reasonably well on Jeopardy if I was a contestant. I learned about the policies and events of the early 20th century, and the consequences. I even took a Russian studies history elective while an undergraduate. But I wouldn’t know pictures (let alone statues) of Stalin and Lenin. But I could follow the cyrillics and therefore recognize the statues.
FTR, the only historical figure that i would recognize by picture would be Hitler, only because of the many movies about him.
I always thought Rule #1 of TAR was to read the FRICKIN CLUE. Not correct, you can recover from not reading the clue but you cannot recover from losing all your money and passport.
What kind of meltdown would Tina have had if it was Ken that lost the passports. Bigger than Chernobyl?
Dolores,
Taxi to a park with an old submarine. Two teams drew pictures of a submarine to show their driver. It looked like a minor bunching since three teams went in together. Find the guy who was in The Hunt for Red October and get the next clue.
Taxi to a park with old soviet-era statues. Dan & Andrew find cab driver who speaks English. He takes them to the wrong park.
Roadblock. Count the number of statues of Lenin (6) and Stalin (2) (the instructions included the names in Cyrillic), taxi to a bookstore and tell the clerk the combined number (62) to get a book. (Incorrect guess means a 10-minutes wait.) Look on page 62 of the book to get a clue where to find the author’s apartment. The non-Roadblocking teammates went somewhere to wait.
Nick blazed through. Dallas got Lenin and Stalin mixed up, and made a few incorrect guesses. Tina missed a Stalin, but she and Dallas compared notes. Andrew (I think) corrals a local for help, bumbles around, and gets lucky.
The waiting teammates are at the apartment. When Dallas gets out of his cab, he leaves his Amazing Fannypack (containing his Amazing Passport and all their Amazing Money) behind.
Taxi to a park to see a woman about a horse. Dallas & Toni scrounge the money for subway fare, but the woman won’t give them their clue. (Why was this not a penalty enforced at the Amazing Mat?) Subway back to the apartment, scrounge the money for cab fare, and back to the park. Clearly in fourth place now.
Detour. Flotillas or Chinchillas.
Just kidding. Ride the subway (go to one station for a pastry (clue on the wrapper), the next station to give the pastry to an old woman for a postcard clue, next station look for a Clue Box) or ride the trolley bus (one stop to get a key, instructions on the key send them to a train station locker, locker has postcard clue).
Nick & Starr do the subway. Color-coded maps, looked like no problem. Ken & Tina get on a regular bus, figure out the mistake, go back to horse-woman park, and get on a trolley bus. Dan & Andrew hop a trolley bus. Dallas & Toni, more scrounging, then trolleys.
From final park, on foot to Pit Stop. Nick & Starr first by a mile. Ken & Tina can’t find Clue Box. (Ken wants to look for the picture on the postcard. Smart Ken.) They see Dan & Andrew headed for the Pit Stop and follow. Dan & Andrew second (yeah, I couldn’t believe it either), Ken & Tina can’t check in because they skipped a clue.
Dallas & Toni scrounge, Ken & Tina search. Very little suspense. Ken & Tina third. Amazing Phil meets Dallas & Toni at the train station and tells them they’ve been eliminated. They are gallant in defeat.
Previews of next week.
In this case, where a team was begging for money and really were no longer performing the intended task, I can see not making them finish the leg. As long as Phil & camera guy could get somewhere in time.
Also, in a case like that might the Amazing cameraman discreetly pick up the Amazing Fanny Pack? Not give it back to the contestants during the race, but maybe after they were eliminated, help them leave the country?
I’m thinking the Frats & Dallas & Nick are post-cold war kids? Maybe the reason they don’t recognize them is because the USSR didn’t exist by the time they hit school & wasn’t a threat in their childhood? Maybe?
Not to mention the fact that school textbooks can’t have a picture of everybody in them. While I know what Lenin looks like (he’s got a pretty unique mug), a couple of those statues looked like they could have passed for Stalin (I think someone counted a Gorsky statue as a Lenin/Stalin, was it Dallas?). So while they definitely learned about Lenin and Stalin, they wouldn’t necessarily have any idea what they look like.
Basically, someone doesn’t know something that’s essentially trivia and someone else feels the need to call them stupid for it.