The final episode of this season’s Race sees the final leg as a contest between a team with six first-place finishes, a team with three first-place finishes, and a team that has been just lucky enough that every leg but one, some other team did worse, and the exception was a nonelimination leg. Who is going to win the million dollars tonight?
As always, watch out for NFL schedule delays. Last week, the Race aired 30 or 40 minutes late in the Eastern time zone.
100 bucks says the Frats take it all.
I don’t know why, but I have a feeling that Nick and Starr are just going to explode on the final leg and Ken and Tina have been bickering for a while after their hot start.
Yeah, the Frat Boys have the luck of the stupid. I can see them bumbling their way into the million dollars.
I kind of wish they weren’t showing us the answers; I would have enjoyed playing along.
The frat boys are all kinds of dumb.
Don’t get back in the cab with the idiot cab driver! Use his phone and call to have a different cab sent! If you lose, you cannot blame this on bad cabbie luck—Fool me once and all that…
Good Lord, I think Starr is about to have a heart attack.
ETA: I don’t see Toni and Dallas at the finish line. Are they still stuck in Russia?
I think I am about to have a heart attack.
I was wondering the same thing.
I believe so. Going by dialog this was the next day (okay, we know it has to be at least two days due to travel time but Tina said the roadblock was “yesterday”) so if their passports are gone it would take a few days to get new ones.
I’ve got to say I like the fact that the frats were missing from the second half of the episode other than the post-race “We did good!”
They sure weren’t there.
Only 10 teams were on the mat for the final sweeping camera shot.
I’ll admit…when Ken pulled those rings out of his pocket, I welled up a little.
Now that the season is over I have to say that the Race’s budget seems to be getting smaller. Fewer countries and the ones there were mostly developing ones, no Europe outside of Moscow, no trips to Africa, and the only major landmark they shot at was Angkor Wat. Everything just seems cheaper for lack of a better word.
Starr’s comment that her and Nick’s relationship is better floored me. If your relationship was any better, it would be illegal, for God’s sake!
Not my husband. He was sitting here hissing, “Don’t do it! She’s crazy! Get out now, man!”
I don’t think it’s that the budget is getting smaller but that airfares and other travel expenses are more expensive. Did you see the prices on those air tickets? Plus gas was still at ~$4.00/gallon when they filmed this season.
An excellent point, perhaps it is just that the show’s budget doesn’t go as far as it did as the dollar weakened. Perhaps next season will make up for it. 
A very perceptive fellow, your husband.
And lucky.
Good taste, too.
But I do have to say that they more than made up for the lack of travelling with some of the best challanges I’ve seen in years.
Female wrestlers? Pantomine cow suits?
Television doesn’t get much better than that.
I wish they’d shown us a bit more of the frat boys bumbling around and less of the “will we get a taxi???” drama.
I agree. They also had Phil’s Dad. I just week the geeks had made it longer and that Toni/Dallas made it to the finals. Dandrew were boring, with their only redeeming factor being occasional light relief at their incompetence.