I was okay with the dancing stereotype because if you pluck 10 random women and 10 random men out of a crowd, odds are good you are getting better dancers with the women. The task was basically the gender inverse of the “build a campsite” task earlier where a shorter and physically weaker all women team could and did have a harder time.
The way the driving task was presented, however, was just bad. It basically amounted to, “Those ladies sure can’t drive! Amirite fellas?” nudge nudge
I’ve officially reached the point where I can’t decide if I want Border Patrol or Big Brother to fail more spectacularly.
I still don’t get why someone who gets carsick that easily would go on the Race, or at least why they wouldn’t pack some dramamine.
Then again I don’t get why someone would go on the Race without knowing how to drive a stick shift, and there’s one just about every season…
Um. I seem to remember a LOT of vomiting back in the “Eat a gazillion pounds of caviar” challenge.
Otherwise, agreed.
How about the “identify the fake sushi, but you have to eat whatever real sushi you touch” challenge? No visuals, but plenty of audio of people puking in the bathroom.
I loved Vanessa’s confession that she had hit the Alamo. I’d like to hear that story.
Everytime they visit India, I want to quit my job and travel over there to work in their highways department. Clearly, they need some help with traffic management.
I think the caviar puking was off-camera (season 5). The first time we saw puking (IIRC) was the guy who puked in the doctored Hungarian hot soup* and then had to eat the puked-in soup anyway. Eew. And I just looked it up, that was season 6 (so the Amazing Editors made it through 5 seasons without showing vomit on TV)
*I read an interview with the restaurant owner who claimed that his soup (and the classic recipe) was only mildly spicy, so the producers took the soup and added a ton of hot pepper/paprika/cayenne to it so it would be grosser.
And a possible recipe calls for 1 Tablespoon of paprika per 12 cups of stock
amazing race soup | The Hot Pepper so–that supports it.
Seems an odd choice to pluck that song from the mists of history for a cell phone commercial, doesn’t it?
I haven’t noticed a pattern, but I wonder: have the Amazing Producers designed the course each season, so that a non-elimination leg is always followed by a bunching point?
It would make sense: it would act as kind of a reset button, giving the last-place team a shot at staying in the race.
And ditto for Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Awesome.
All except for last week. Poor schoolteacher federal agents got ripped off.
Have they shown puke this season? They’ve regularly shown him with his face in a bag, but have they actually shown puke?
Yeah, this episode. I don’t have it taped, but I thought you could see a string of yack as he was leaning out the bus window.
Also? Apparently Ralph is a MMA Fighter (see post 17 or so).
I would now officially like to request that he kick the crap out of Brandon and slap Art and JJ around a little.
I still have the Indian dance song going through my head.
It’s probably not as great a story as it seems.
I’m amazed that they seemingly somehow believed that they actually have a chance to win this race.
With one puking everytime a wheel rotates and the other limping along, I don’t know where they got that idea.
I agree, but no they don’t.
When Jeff and Jordan from Big Brother were on the race a couple years ago, they survived a NEL but were then eliminated in the least-bunchy leg ever. No airport, no train station, not even any cabs. They were provided with their own cars at the start of the leg, drove themselves to each challenge and then drove themselves to the pit stop.
I lamented at the time that there was no way for anyone to catch up on that leg, making it bad design after a NEL.