Time for the weekly thread. Have yet to see one so I’ll kick it off. Looks like we end up in Senegal this week based on the CBS website. I assume this is an elimination leg.
I hope Jonathon/Victoria go far, far away. I predict it will be old folks. Their bodies have to be hurting after the last leg.
It’s a shame–I like MJ. She reminds me vaguely of my mom in the fact that if she’s pissed at her husband, she’s damn well going to tell him right then and there. 
I’m having the same problem with AR this go-round that I am with Survivor–just not as exciting as it used to be. But I think it’s just slow-starting. I have a vague memory of feeling this way every previous season.
I would also like Jonathan to go far, far away. Preferably after some incredibly painful and embarrassing bicycle accident that takes them out of the race so he can have a testicle retrieval procedure …
Oh, man. Tonight is round five of the National Finals Rodeo, on at the same time. And I don’t have a VCR or a TIVO. Hmm, I think I know what to put on my Christmas list, but thank og for TWOP.
Oh, I loathe Jonathan so much. I really do. Never in my life have I seen anyone who needs a good swift kick in the ass for Christmas. (Well, not since Colin in TAR5, anyway.) So, needless to say, I am hoping he is outta there.
I have a feeling the oldies might stick around at least one more round. Lori and Bolo have major navigation malfunctions, and for professional “athletes” they don’t seem to be in very good shape. So maybe MJ and Don can last another week, anyway.
Shame, really – I like every team this time except for Jonathan (Victoria I like) and the Hayden-Aaron team. Hayden bothers me for reasons I don’t entirely understand. It’s a shame to see anyone go, really.
Explain to this newbie why some of the rounds aren’t elimination rounds.
Has there ever been speculation that the non-elim rounds have been used to keep popular players in the race?
Per Phil (when he does his little speeches at the end of each episode), some rounds are pre-determined to be non-elimination legs. There is always speculation that non-elimination rounds pop up when they do to keep popular players in the game – and then there was Episode 11 last season, when “C&C Abusic Factory” came in last and were not eliminated. I don’t think there are many people who would say that C&C were “popular.” Additionally, Episode 8 last season would have been a good time to get rid of the Twinkies, but instead that was also a non-elimination round.
Wah! My TAR is being pre-empted by Kent State vs Creighton basketball. Noooooooo!
Thank og for TiVo, because The 'Race will be airing at 3:07 tomorrow morning.
$&#^@*! :mad:
Did I hear that right?
“The fickle finger of fate has diddled us again?”
WHAT! “I would love to have a baby. We’ve already picked out the names.” :eek:
No. For the love of kids, no!
An even better quote from that confessional:
“I think [Jonathan] would make a great father!”
:eek:
Just :eek:
And I’d like to note that, despite Hellboy’s psychotic tendencies, I don’t necessarily think he’s the worst member of Team Issues after this one. Seriously. I can so totally believe now that she got back together with him just so she could make it on this Race. Without leveling with him about it.
Definitely.
I have a question about tonight’s race, so I’ll put it in a spoiler box
Why did Phil take all of Don & MJ’s money when they got to the mat? What did I miss??
The new rule for non-elimination legs is that the last team to arrive isn’t eliminated, but they take all of their cash reserve away (teams usually are able to save a little bit from each leg if they’re frugal) and they don’t receive any money at the start of the next leg. They’ll have to beg from locals for any transportation expenses (such as cabs, buses, ferries, etc., although not airfare…that’s still covered) until the next leg, assuming they don’t get eliminated. Most teams have done fine with no money…I think a few have even managed to panhandle more than the other teams were given for the leg of the race. It makes for some interesting TV, though…watching rich Americans panhandle for cab fare in some of the poorest nations on earth. IIRC from last season, they did best asking other tourists over natives.
Thanks Jadis!!
I haven’t watched since the second season, but I’m hooked on this one so far.
So…any volunteers to take over the job of clipping Hellboy’s toenails now that his mommy doesn’t do it any more? :eek: W?T?F???
They really need to reduce the number of bunching points per episode. It’s a little nuts this season. There were, what, three of them this time? The tower at the start, the airport, and the cemetary, if I’m not forgetting more of them. It makes the first half of the show really boring, since you know everyone will catch up before the end.
I have to get something off my chest:
Ahem
I HATE KENDRA!!! I know that Jonathan is supposed to be the most hateable person this time, but atleast he’s only hateful to his wife, and just an obnoxious asshole to everybody else. But OMFG! Kendra is just such an unbelievably whiney bitch! Everything was just so “disgusting” to her. And no matter where you go, even if you think the place is disgusting, you DON’t treat the locals like crap! Especialy if they are providing a service to you and you don’t speak the language!
: Fingers crossed :
Please let Kendra go to India and get groped on the train. Please let Kendra go to India and get groped on the train. Please let Kendra go to India and get groped on the train. 
How cool! I was going to write the exact same thing you did! I hate her, too.
First of all, her name is KENDRA, for Pete’s sake. What kind of a name is that?
Secondly, she’s so skinny if you turn her sideways you can’t see her, but unfortunately you can still hear her whine.
Thirdly, she was this episode’s epitome of the Ugly American!
And I also hate non-elimination rounds! (I’m very grouchy tonight!)
My favorite moments of this episode:
*Kendra at the cemetary, skittering across someone’s grave with a severe case of the heebie-jeebies.
*Kris, collecting salt from the pink lake, while all the local men stood there and ogled her and Jon sat back and boasted to the camera about how hot she is. And she definitely is.
*Mary Jean, when she and Don just missed the ferry that Gus and Hera were on, exclaiming “Son of a bitch!”
Least favorite moment: Shirtless Gus. :eek: Cover it up, man!
The Amazing Fenrisi Predicts:
Jonathon and Victoria make it to the final 5–they’re really “de-villianing” Jonathon. Note that they didn’t show him threatening to hit her once this episode. Plus they showed the heartwarming candy scene. ( :: barfs :: )
Old guy will do some combination of cry, barf or whine next episode (she’s cool, he’s a jackass. He’s whined on every damned leg of this race in every damned challenge. The only reason no-one hates him is that he’s nice (and obviously loves) his wife. But in terms of his in-race behavior, we’re talking a milder version of Flo here)
Adam will NOT, despite the entire nation rooting for him to do so, actually carry out one of his suicide threats. (We can still hope though–I loathe that sort of manipulation)
The over-use of bunch-points will continue.
They’ll continue to fudge the editing such that the show will become unwatchable. Up 'till now, they’ve compressed time with editing, but never changed event sequences, but according to the way they edited this episode, Gus and Hedra got off the ferry and started wandering around. Old Guy and Wife got on ferry, got off ferry and were also wandering around before Gus found the Pit-Stop. Here’s the thing for next episode. See when team one leaves. See when team 2 leaves. Subtract to get approx time between ferrys. If Gus doesn’t have 2x that time from the team ahead of him, they cheated on the editing and the show loses much of it’s interest for me.
The “Fear Factor” (the old-guy barfing scene*), Survivor (the “Yields”), “Girls Gone Wild” (all the boob shots when we should be seeing action shots) and “Jerry Springer” (all the psycho contestants) -ization of The Amazing Race will continue. Dammit.
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*Note that they had to really struggle with the rules last season during the caviar scene 'cause CBS wouldn’t let 'em show constants barfing on TAR hence the “You have to eat it without barfing” rule–but no-one could get the stuff down without puking, so they changed it in the middle of the challenge
And when she looked right at the camera and said, " Everytime Don threw up, I caught a fish!"