This. Phil’s question made me do a double-take, because, honestly, I’ve never gotten a gay vibe from them. But definitely “like a sister” means exactly what it says – BFFs and nothing more, just as I thought.
Jill never went to college, which is a big part of what feeds into her insecurity with Thomas.
The irony is that many posters dislike Thomas for intellectual snobbery, yet there was more than enough to go around in the episode threads. (And on this board in general; it’s practically our raison d’être.)
I got the “gay” vibe from the first episode but with that “like a sister” comment I think it’s just a really close friendship, probably something like from Scrubs with JD and Turk. I’m glad they won the final leg. They took the time to get a cab who can help not just the first one they saw.
When will they do a Celebrity version of Amazing Race! I think that would be fun to watch.
Take it back! I’m fine with an occasional minor celebrity like Mike White, but an all celebrity version would kill it for me.
This finale drove us crazy! We live about a mile from the Rosebowl and would have had the cabbie drive us home to use the internet. I think that would be a first for the race (is that even allowed)? And yes, finding a cab in Pasadena would be next to impossible unless you were at one of the big hotels.
And it was a blast watching the background to see where everyone was and which direction their cab driver took to get to Beverly Hills from Glendale. Lots of screaming at the TV about which canyon route they should have taken instead of heading south on the freeway.
Best quote of the season was from that task, when the vegetarian (I don’t know which is Nat & which is Kat, still) said “tastes like money” and just kept eating. That was the reason why they won, they took everything in stride. Horrible fear of heights? Cry on the way up, take a minute to get yourself together, and keep on. Have to eat meat – not just meat, but a roasted head – for the first time since 1988? Choke it down with plenty of water and keep on. Wear an insulin pump and need to check your blood glucose at regular intervals? Drive a car and prick your finger simultaneously and keep on.
It’s all season twelve and later for this go-around. M&G were season seven, so probably well out of consideration. I also wonder if they don’t consider their fourth place finish, given all of their obstacles, to be more than sufficient and not requiring them a second a chance. I’m pretty sure, were I them, I’d be darn glad to have gone as far as they did.
I’ve often wondered if there are establishments that the producers don’t allow them to go into or patronize during the race because of having to pay clearances or concerns about free advertising. I’m positive that the contestants must gravitate toward familiar fast food whenever it’s available, for instance, given time and money constraints along the way. But the only time we ever see an identifiable logo on a contestant’s meal or drink or hear the name of a place spoken is when a stop has (or is played as having) an impact on how a team places in that leg, or when the dialogue picked up during the meal is too juicy to not air, like this season when someone was shown eating at an airport Dairy Queen.
If contestants went to a Starbucks, given the consistency of the Starbucks decor as a branding tool, and the signage and logos all over the place in every location, it’d be free publicity, big time, even if a field producer ran in ahead of them and said “okay, can everyone just put their drinks down on the floor and can the baristas take off their hats and aprons for five minutes while these Amazing Race finalists use someone’s computer to look up information? Oh, and who has a computer in a soft shell or something so we don’t have to show an HP or Apple logo, either?”
Could be, but there was a ton of “iPhone” and “Google” talk in this episode.
I have also noted that every gas station on the Amazing Race is a Shell station…
Which is a shift from the Family Edition which was sponsored by BP and actually had a clue which sent them into a BP gas station’s convenience store to get their next clue from the uniformed employee. Worst product placement ever.