This has shown even more that Kendra is a goddamn PRINCESS! “Ew, dirty. Ew, smelly. Ew, this isn’t 200-thread-count linen with 100% eiderdown filling!”
I have to say that when they hit the check in Berlin I wasn’t really comfortable watching it. But at the same time that shove was something that defined J&V’s relationship fairly clearly. Maybe the TAR producers didn’t want to have to deal with the outcry again or maybe they didn’t want to raise questions of why they didn’t do anything about it there.
That was Rebecca – who came off looking even worse in the clips than she normally does. Good Lord, she is a horrible person, and I work with salesweasels every day, so I know from horrible.
I think Gus & Hera and Lori & Bolo should give the editors of this clip show big wet sloppy kisses right on the mouth, because they came out looking even more like “good people” than ever last night. (Jon & Kris are “good people” too, I guess, but I find them kind of meh. No active hate, though.)
See, now, I know it sounded like he was saying “Synagogue,” but I will cut him a little bit of slack here. To me it kind of sounded like he was trying to imitate (mock?) the locals’ accent as much as possible, so he would seem “down” with them. In French, “Senegal” is sort of pronounced as “Synagall,” so with the remnants of *'s New York accent thrown in, it comes out all wrong.
He’s still an asshat, though.
I said that about Rebecca in a previous episode thread. Adam may be unstable and whiney and immature, but Rebecca is a BITCH! With a capital BITCH.
Especially if those rumors about her getting back together with Adam solely because it would help her get on this show are true.
From the Popularity Board:
Gus/Hera: OK, I just figured out why Gus put on all the weight. He must have been preparing for some sort of followup to his 2000 World Record, when he became the first person to fly solo over the North Pole…in an open-cockpit plane!!! GO GUS! (on further viewing, I see I could have noticed that in his TAR6 bio, but I guess I hadn’t read it yet.) Anyway, here’s his book about the adventure, and here’s the brewpub in Gaithersburg, MD where they sell Gus McLeod’s North Pole Porter.
Kris/Jon: I have a bad feeling… there was so much good footage of them last night, that should have been in a regular episode, that I am afraid we are being set up for a big disappointment. I love this team now.
Don/Mary Jean: Can I just say I loved seeing Mary Jean’s “7 inches” comment again?
Kristy/Lena: OK, so now we know WHO called Phil a “Choo-Choo Charlie”. Now WTF does THAT mean?!?
Hayden/Aaron: I would say these two are showing a lot of signs of the strain of the race, and that the only reason it’s bugging so many people is that it’s one more drop of unpleasantness in the ocean of truly awful people this season.
Lori/Bolo:Sure, they’re funny sometimes, but they’re also pathetic. I don’t find myself caring if they get eliminated. And don’t you think we’re being hypocritical when we complain continually about bunching and then demand that a team that is too far behind get some sort of “boost”?
Meredith/Maria: Cutie cannon fodder. 'Nuff said.
Freddy/Kendra: Up until the last couple of weeks, it appears they’ve been the “stealth assholes” all along. I am grateful for the bunching at the internet cafe that erases their long lead.
Avi/Joe: In hindsight, I don’t think Avi’s line about not trusting Gus had to do with suspicions of treachery, but rather an underestimation of the skills of Naked Gus, which has proven so fatal to the efforts of NG’s foes in the past…
Adam/Rebecca: These folks place a comfortable #2 (in between */Victimia and Freddy/Kendra) in the list of people who should pray that the prize at the end is a million hours of couples therapy.
*/Victimia : Why do I suspect that they didn’t re-broadcast the shove due to a pending character assassination lawsuit from *?
I dunno about that. It’s a fairly standard technique for reality shows to downplay some of the teams that make it far. Plus, the extra footage of them was fairly non-race specific material.
That was just sublime, showing Kendra bitching about how nasty Dakar was and then cutting immediately to Kris and Jon in the water playing with the local kids. They’re a great couple, especially Kris, and I’m growing to really like them.
I’d like to think Kendra felt ashamed when she watched that, but I don’t have enough faith in people to believe it.
Hey, I have ears too. He said it about 4 times and they repeated the footage after the commercial break. He said “Synagogue” over and over and over…
You may be right. Dunno. I am sick right now, if that counts for anything, and my ears are all stopped up.
Heh. First thing that popped into my head was, “The President of Synagogue? Funny…none of those people LOOK Jewish…”
My admiration for these two knows no bounds.
Perhaps any team who doesn’t take the whole thing so seriously doesn’t deserve to win, but they serve to put things in perspective, anyway.
Not sure if she is Mormon, but she is from my hometown 
I enjoyed that tremendously. The nicest excuse is that he was saying “Senaghag”, so he only got one letter wrong in the name of the country.
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Y’know all those Adam=Cartman jokes we were doing a few episodes back? Sorry folks but we were wrong. KENDRA=Cartman.
To wit:
(Episode 406-Cartman Joins NAMBLA)
Kenny’s Mom: Kenny, yore daddy an’ Ah are thinkin’ ‘bout havin’ anuther baby. Wouldn’tcha luv ta have another brother or sister?
Kenny: No!
Kenny’s Dad: We jes’ might get workin’ on it later t’day. Heh-heh-heh
Cartman: Gawddammit poor people suck. Your family is already on welfare and now you’re gonna bring another kid into the world. Poor people are turning out babies, adding to the overpopulation and expecting me to pay for it with my tax dollars.
Which, if you substituted the word “breeding” for the phrase “bring another child into the world” it would sound exactly like Kendra’s “They just keep breeding and breeding” speech. Um…which means that, given Kendra’s use of the word “breeding”, Kendra’s speech was worse than Cartman’s.
Kendra, dood. If your real-life behavior is more outrageous than Cartman’s, it’s time to reassess your life choices
The “choo-choo Charlie and a class act” thing is from a Saturday Night Live sketch starring Molly Shannon and Sean Hayes. The whole transcript can be found here.
Okaaaaaaay… I’d have to call this begging the question, but I think I’ll leave it at that.
Is it just me, or did this ep give us more personality from Kris and Jon than the previous six shows? Fer crying out loud, this is the first time that I’ve actually gotten their names straight and figured out that Kris is the woman in that team (instead of thinking she’s named Jen…)
And that explosion with the gas tank? Sweet.