Was the bottle challenge the first of its kind where they limited how many chances you get? I don’t recall them doing something like that before.
I was wondering if they got to the Roadblock and thought, “Shit, should have saved that Express Pass for one more task.”
I really wanted Phil to kick her down the stairs. She annoys me to no end. The greeter looked a little nonplussed as well.
I really thought Art and JJ were getting the elimination editing for the first part of the show. All the macho, “We defend America. We can’t lose!!” posturing had me wondering if they would be the next to go.
Have we mentioned the fact that last season’s moratorium on jumping onto the mat seems to be over? What was that all about?
Now, apparently, you have to crawl, weeping, onto the mat.
I was ticked off at Dave being so obviously pissed off whle other teams came to the mat before they could check in. And his rant at the end about how pathetic a showing they made makes me wonder how he’ll do when they *aren’*t in first place. It’s easy to be a nice guy and happy when you’re in the lead.
StG
I took Dave’s obvious attitude as disgust over how poorly how they did in the tasks, not so much that they didn’t come in first. And Phil’s little dig about how they’re the first team to never complete a task and not lose, didn’t help. And I agree- if I was Dave, I’d feel like an idiot for bailing on the watermelons, using the Express Pass so early, and sitting there with my thumb up my ass watching teams that actually completed the tasks coming in ahead of me. I suspect he’d be less pissy if they had actually done something for their 5th (or whatever) place showing.
In one shot, it looked to me like their strings didn’t line up correctly. I think they started with the longer strings, then did shorter strings, and had seven strings left and eight pegs to attach them to. So they were going to have to undo some of what they were having so much trouble doing in the first place. I think that’s what triggered their mini-meltdown.
That’s smart racing, really. What you want at this point is to be on the earlier flight, but not alone. Stuff happens, and planes get delayed sometimes. You want other teams with you. If everything follows the schedule, great; you’ve got a two hour cushion between you and Philimination. If something happens, you can still outrace other teams at the tasks and stay in the Race. Being alone means you’ve got a good chance of coming in first; but you’re once cracked turbine blade away from being last. A week in the Bahamas ain’t worth missing the rest of the Race.
What’s the deal with Vanessa obsessing over Rachel’s hoo-hah? The only thing it accomplished was to convince Team Big Brother to abandon the watermelon task. I propose a new rule for The Amazing Race - #69:* Don’t obsess over a competitor’s hoo-hah.*
I must say, I’m having to rely a lot of people’s testimony about Big Brother. Other than Rachel being a bit too emotional in expressing short term frustration I’ve not really seen any reason to dislike them.
Much in favor of the tasks in this leg. They may not have been the most cinematic to watch but they actually had the potential, and fulfilled that potential, to shake up team order.
I still have this episode in the DVR, so I’m going to watch the whole thing again instead of just having it playing in the background, but I thought Rachel’s pants must have split or something from all the commotion. The quick glance that I got just looked like a spandex covered butt.
That’s pretty much what I saw, a whole lot of nothing. They blurred out her mouth when she was talking, but the the butt she was talking about.
Ever. How many times has that been an option?
I know; the sheer number of times Vanessa said it was bizarre. It also caused me to have a 7-year-old and a 9-year-old asking me repeatedly what that word was that kept getting bleeped out and what the fight was about.
that is exactly why I brought it up in my initial post.
How many times did she reference it? three or four. TAR is usually pretty child friendly.
I got to think we haven’t seen the rest of the story yet. I just don’t think they would aired Vanessa’s obsessing if there is not a followup later in the race.
And given the personality of BB Rachel and Vanessa, this prediction is not sticking my neck out on a limb. 
I think teams have always had the option of not completing a task. The time penalties are usually severe, from Momily’s 24-hour penalty in Season 1 to Rob’s (and Amber’s) 4-hour penalty in Season 7. The current episode had some easy outs, with the Express Pass for one task and the built-in bottle limit for the other. It’s still the first time any team has completed neither task yet still remained in the race.
Whoa, Wait a minute, they did find the clue in the BBQ grill! And slid down the slide!:dubious:
Yes, but how often has that been made explicitly clear in the instructions, as in this episode? (And maybe Rob & Amber’s?) A 2-hour penalty written into the rules is vastly different from a 24-hour penalty that basically guarantees a loss.
That was part of the Detour…the clue they got in the grills gave them the choices for the Detour.
I think the penalty for the bottles should have been that if you went through all of your bottles would you start in on any left over from anybody who’d already done it. And if you ran through those you’d have to wait for another team to come along and finish it so you could do their spares. And then if after that you hadn’t done it, you could sit out a 2 hour penalty.
I wonder which specific word was being used that they were bleeping out. I’m guessing it wasn’t “oh my god you can totally see an outline of her exterior genitalia!” And I wonder if at the mat the producers were all “for the love of god, please stop saying ‘pussy lips’ on camera.”
Actually, on that first season, Team Guido was so far behind on the finale that Momily might well have beaten them to the finish line even with their 24-hour penalty. With the engineered airport bunching points nowadays, i don’t think they hand out penalties like that anymore.
When Dave initially checked in to the pit stop, he was dry which seemed impossible given how soaked he was “moments” earlier after the broken bottles. I’m curious if they refilmed it after Phil was informed of the two hour penalty or what really happened.
Also with regard to the cameltoe: there was one late bleep that sounded to us like HO-bleep. So we were thinking Honeypot? or Whore___? but the cadence and usage didn’t match any word that came easily to our minds.
I’m well aware, but the days of Season 1 Amazing Race are far behind us, hence “basically guarantees.”