# The Amazing Race 12/7 "You Look Like Peter Pan" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154 "2008-12-07T19:14:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/1 "2008-12-07T19:14:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/2 "2008-12-07T19:47:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/3 "2008-12-07T20:05:51Z")
Yeah, the Frat Boys have the luck of the stupid. I can see them bumbling their way into the million dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/4 "2008-12-08T01:25:54Z")
I kind of wish they weren’t showing us the answers; I would have enjoyed playing along. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/5 "2008-12-08T01:41:12Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/6 "2008-12-08T01:50:02Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/7 "2008-12-08T01:52:22Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Good Lord, I think Starr is about to have a heart attack. I think _ **I** _ am about to have a heart attack. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/8 "2008-12-08T01:55:57Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > I don’t see Toni and Dallas at the finish line. Are they still stuck in Russia? I was wondering the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/9 "2008-12-08T01:56:36Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > ETA: I don’t see Toni and Dallas at the finish line. Are they still stuck in Russia? 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!” ---
**Author:** ![Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunder)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/10 "2008-12-08T01:56:45Z")
They sure weren’t there. Only 10 teams were on the mat for the final sweeping camera shot. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/11 "2008-12-08T02:02:12Z")
I’ll admit…when Ken pulled those rings out of his pocket, I welled up a little. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/12 "2008-12-08T02:03:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/13 "2008-12-08T02:03:10Z")
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!** _ ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/14 "2008-12-08T02:04:20Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’ll admit…when Ken pulled those rings out of his pocket, I welled up a little. Not my husband. He was sitting here hissing, “Don’t do it! She’s crazy! Get out now, man!” ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/15 "2008-12-08T02:05:59Z")
> [@Just\_Some\_Guy](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/16 "2008-12-08T02:07:29Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/17 "2008-12-08T02:14:45Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > Not my husband. He was sitting here hissing, “Don’t do it! She’s crazy! Get out now, man!” A very perceptive fellow, your husband. And lucky. Good taste, too. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/18 "2008-12-08T02:16:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/19 "2008-12-08T02:32:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154/20 "2008-12-08T02:36:26Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > 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. 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-12-7-you-look-like-peter-pan/476154.md?page=2)