Bah.
Not very deserving winners. They rocked the last leg, and that’s about all they did for themselves the entire race.
The farm they bought is the Beekman farm built in 1802. We stumbled across their realty show on Netflix this weekend and watched five minutes of it before turning it off (our pug really hates horses, and llamas and will bark and scratch at the TV to get in there to get them).
I’m assuming it’s like my keyless entry to my Prius where I keep the key fob in my pocket and just touch the door handle and it automatically unlocks. Proximity to the hatch coupled with the key fob on you and foot tap would do it.
Then you are a better man* than I am.
*generically, just to fit in the Kipling quote.
Yes, if I were more highly evolved, I would approach the hatch of my SUV with an armload of bulky and heavy crap, and instead of asking my girlfriend “honey, wouldja get the hatch?” or waving my foot under the bumper, I would willingly, nay, eagerly lay down my burden and say “Hoorah! an opportunity to strengthen my weak back muscles! I will put this crap down & pick it up again!!”
What are the chances Phil teams up with Sam Raimi for a classic redux?
Bruce Campbell as Brent, obviously, but who as Josh? James Cromwell? Donald Sutherland? Tom Hanks???
Based on the recalls it has had so far, it will die in an engine fire long before the hatch breaks, so that is a plus. 
This made me sniffle a little. I would have been happier with a Ja(y)mes win but this was a very nice second option. There’s a link on their thank you page to the donation page that Blonde Ja(y)mes has set up for his father.
They didn’t even rock the last leg; they were reliably behind Trey & Lexi and the Chipps right into the final task. They screwed up the pizza challenge. Brent got lost in the mushroom cave. They translated French for the other teams. About the only thing they did better was recognizing the UN logo, which is not that impressive to begin with but even less so when you know they live in New York.
Josh did great on the final task, but that’s one of the few things they did well all season.
The gingerbread man representations of all the Teams is one of the best things I’ve ever seen on the internet. Especially Amy’s prosthetic legs, and the knife in Ryan’s back.
I love the abs and bow ties on the gingerbread Jaymes and James!
Meh. I don’t really think it’s a big deal that Trey/Lexi didn’t know what the logo looked like because as soon as someone told them “That’s the UN logo,” Trey jumped over to their cabbie and said “Take us to the United Nations headquarters.”
So he knew what the UN was and he knew the headquarters was located in NYC. He just didn’t know what the logo looked like.
I disagree.
They rocked the windmill challenge and found the stone dog for everyone and although they made a poor showing, they did the challenges on their own. The posterchildren for undeserving were Kesha and Jen that got help on every challenge and end up winning because they did exactly one challenge on their own (the mobile home decorations) in the final leg.
Second, you raise the same point I do every season. By creating artificial bunching points, the Gays are able to make up hours at a time. No longer is there an advantage in being one of the first teams; instead it is a race to not be last. Blame the producers for that.
Aww. I’ve been kind of ambivalent about this team all season: they seemed like OK people, but it also seemed like they just weren’t that much into the Race, and maybe they were just a little prickly. That gingerbread-team recap, though, is gracious and gentlemanly, while being quirky and interesting. I’m glad I read that.
I just figured it was something everyone knew. She also didn’t know who Houdini was.
I don’t believe that is accurate. Josh and Brent were second to arrive at the UN, so even with the pizza screwup they were in second and arrived shortly after the first team.
I think the UN challenge was more physical than people are giving it credit. I think the big guys had a bit of an advantage on the physical nature of the task. The brute force solution required physical brute force to pull up all those signs many, many times. Two and half hours of pulling up and taking down signs would be extremely tiring. Physical strength would help in that task quite a bit.
I think the physical part is why Lexi had such a hard time of it.
That’s a good point about the final task being physically taxing; I hadn’t considered that.
Agree. That was lovely, and I like them better for having read it.
I’m fine with the Beekman’s winning, they seem nice and that’s the way the ball bounces sometimes, it’s just that the ball bounced their way over and over and over.
Starting in the fifth week, they finished last (non-elimination), second to last, second to last, second to last, second to last, second to last, second to last, second to last, first. Several of those second to last finishes were not of their own doing. Once a stronger team gets roadblocked, once when they were a half day behind they got a near 24 hour bunching point, and one team inexplicably agreed to stay with them. Oh, yeah, on one second to last finish a team that was well ahead had their passports stolen.
They were unbelievably lucky.
Don’t forget that time they were racing to the finish line bhind the blondes whose bicycle-taxi driver turned the wrong way.
That was the teachers from Michigan.
Oops, you’re correct. My bad. (In my defense, they were bad racers too :))