I thought last night’s episode was much more enjoyable than the previous week’s. Still a lot of screaming, but it seemed like less to me. I was impressed by how readily everyone dipped themselves into the mud. Most of the teams seem to work together fairly well and there wasn’t a huge amount of inter- or intra- team drama. Just a focus on the tasks at hand, which were hard enough to be interesting.
Come on guys, don’t be so old. “You can get famous on youtube?” “Resort to twitter to get buzz”? Uh yeah, those are kind of big things these days. I hear they planned on doing a Vaudeville teams season but it turns out they’re all dead.
A little more camera whoring I guess but basically the same team types. Old buddies team. Father-daughter. Brothers. Couples. Buddies who are swimsuit models. Looks like a decent season so far - good challenges.
I enjoyed the mud wrestling.
The Genius Team almost got canned.
“Let’s leave our taxi and walk two miles each way, Mom!”
There was a rare sight of production at the mud pit, with the cameraman under the ladder shown briefly in an overhead shot. I’d guess the guy enjoyed the view but probably wished for some earplugs.
Like the thread for Survivor season 32, I’m wondering if we should simply convert this to an omnibus thread (rather than post one thread a week for each episode). What do you guys think?
First episode comment. It looked like they held everyone at the Mexico City airport until all the flights arrived and then THAT was the real start of the race.
Given under 30 posts so far, maybe one season-long thread is the way to go.
Blair doesn’t scream or squeal - she screeches. It’s fingernails on a blackboard, she’s painful. Please be last next leg, please be last next leg.
I had thought Darius/Cameron would be a team to watch - last ep, they got a bit lost and were running right at the back of the pack, but blitzed the task to come in fourth. Then, at the start of this leg, the editors threw in that bit of one of them saying how smart they were, and I knew that they would do something dumb in the leg: editors love foreshadowing. And they did - taxi took them to the place, they didn’t immediately see a clue box and they drove on. I’m ranking them lower now.
Tyler and Corey were second in the first leg, first in the second, and seem pretty low on wasting energy on interpersonal drama. At the moment, they’re my #1 team; Brodie & Kurt (frisbee guys) need to pay a little more attention, but they worked out quickly what was wrong with their beach shelter and fixed it, so I’ll give them second. Burnie and Ashley improved as well.
I miss the taxi rankings 
Wimpiest Volcano ever! 
One of the teams (Daughter/Doddering Dad?) said in the Taxi that it was scary to have the geniuses behind them.
Isn’t that preferred than having them already ahead of you?
Edit: I miss the taxi assessment as well.
Sounds good to me.
Good lord are the father and daughter team stupid. And who brings a hair dryer and curling iron on the amazing race?
Slightly less annoying episode but the shrieking is out of control.
She shot a YouTube video showing her all the stuff she packed. Lots of space saving lightweight options for clothing and such… all to make room for an epic buttload of makeup and the aforementioned curling iron and hair dryer.
Amusingly, despite being sure to pack a hair dryer and curling iron, she was also the one who did not have a bathing suit!
I thought she said she did, but it was a thong and she didn’t want her father to see her in it. Which is equally as dumb of course.
I thought racers were provided a list of required outfits, a swimsuit being one of them. And if you’ve ever seen the show (and at this point in time, any potential racer should have seen it), you’ll know that racers are going to be in the water sooner or later.
Seriously. Did she think she’d never have to wear it in front of Dad? Has she SEEN the show?
Yeah…I’m reluctantly and cautiously in agreement. I figured these guys would all be prima-donna attention-whores…and they still may be…but they’re racing, not having drama with the other teams. This could possibly be because they’re all media savvy enough to know that A) they’ll still have to interact with the other teams after the race and B) they can’t edit in bad behavior that you don’t do. So I’m sort-of enjoying this. There’s an odd sort of “I want to win, without being a douche” vibe going on (so far–I hope it lasts) that I haven’t seen since the earliest seasons
Except for the bearded frisbie guy. He has NO indoor voice at all and I want his tongue cut out and fed to the newts. He seems to be a decent enough human being, but good lord man. Your voice is shrill, penetrating and LOUD. Tone! It! Down!
Dottering Dad and Princess Daughter TEam are kind of annoying for me. If you’re the only one in an area doing something, and you know 4 teams have already left before you (so you’re not the first one there), you probably are in the wrong area or didn’t ‘get’ the clue by 4. Speaking of last week where he was wandering around the grass while everyone else was in the caves. Princess Daughter is eye candy only, to the point of being a caricature of a vain, looks obsessed person. A hair dryer? Oh my…
Two very stupid moves this week. Blondes Mom/Daughter leaving their taxi (what looked like) 2 miles away! Genius Guys wandering around airport while other teams booked flights, then not even getting out of the taxi to look for the clue. Not surprisingly, those two teams were the last two teams.
Alas, the quietest, most likeable team has been eliminated. If a team brags about being smart on camera, you can bet that they’ll do something dumb. And passing by the final clue-giver multiple times is dumb, dumb, dumb. Brother #1 was smart enough to realize that Brother #2 would be waiting near said clue-giver. Why didn’t he just take a moment to look around. Why didn’t he READ THE FRAKKEN CLUE?
In other news, shrill daughter is still shrill; clueless dad is still clueless.
Even worse than that, Other Brother was standing there ALL EVENING watching other people give that woman the bags and get the clue and didn’t say a damn thing to his brother about it.
As much as I liked the brother duo, they bragged a lot about how their intellects were going to propel the m to the top, but they trailed the whole time.
Did anyone else notice the Amazing Fanny Pack being left behind at the Explosive Cornhole game? (Which I’d love to play, BTW)
StG