C’Mon Robot Arm, that’s not what I meant!
I’m such a tease.
They were diagonal parking spots and if they had been coming from the other direction, then everything would have been good. They could also have backed into space (though possibly that would have caused more problems).
Okay, just watched it online. Damn, that was close.
I would love to know how lost some of the teams got. Seemed like a few of them were way behind on the way to the zipline (although that may have just been the editing), and the basketball players were last to leave the Roadblock, but made up enough time to sit out a 30 minute penalty.
Geezus the basketball players were snivelly little twerps. I haven’t heard this kind of pleading for a special exemption, rules lawyering and whining since whatever season team Heather & Eve was on*. What a pathetic performance.
Also, havng been in Iceland once and having had a free shot of that “Black Death” booze, I’d have volunteered for the fish oil on the assumption that it simply couldn’t taste worse. < shudder >
*Hm." Says team Heather & Eve (smrtst team evar!) "It says "Proceed on foot to the pit-stop. So we’ll proceed on foot to a taxi, take the taxi to a pitstop and then get out the the taxi and proceed on foot to the finish line. That covers all the bases, right?
That placement was not gratuitous. I have no love for Ford but without sponsorship there would be no show.
I read elsewhere that they’d intended to do a 90 minute premiere, then changed to an hour. And the way they did it was cutting out all footage about a detour task.
Apparently one branch of the detour involved shopping at a particular place, because you’ll notice that a lot of the teams ran to the pit stop with a bunch of matching shopping bags draped on their arms.
Anyway, an extra task – with one choice turning out to take longer than the other – helps explain how the basketball team managed to jump ahead of three other teams when all we saw happen after the “Spell it out” task was them having to ask the bystanders what two things meant and then chug a drink.
I mean, I would too if it was the first leg and I knew the remaining teams were right behind me. I wonder if they still would have penalized them if he didn’t specifically say “o’s”. Like if he said “check your p’s and q’s”
Thanks for that. My wife was wondering why Goat Yoga has so much stuff on them. I wonder if that’s where they also got the matching purple hats that I saw on a bunch of teams.
Excellent observation. I did see the shopping bags, but didn’t register it as a missing Detour. I think the last teams racing to the Mat dropped their backpacks (and shopping bags); I seem to remember a previous thread said that you could do that within sight of the finish and go back and get them after check-in.
It was kind of odd watching the teams splashing in the fountain in New York City. I know they taped it months ago. It’s bloody freezing in the northeast right now.
I’m so disappointed that I happened to be in NYC a week before the start of the race. Have they ever had an audience before?
I didn’t catch any of it, but did at least one of the teams of hot chicks declare they “are not afraid to use their looks to their advantage,” as the team of hot chicks always does in the first episode? It never works out they way they think it will. They may be able to flip their hair and part the seas in their personal lives, but the people they encounter on the race do not give a shit.
Yep, it was the team that was eliminated.
Also, as far I can tell, they were straight up models. There was no, “We may look good, but we’re also (something that’s not really impressive but might sound impressive)”
ISTR a similar series start in Times Square a season or two earlier, and TAR had made some social media post a couple of days before taping the start to get a crowd there.
Edit: Season 25seems to be the one that started in Times Square.
Speaking of the crowd, I could have sworn I caught a glimpse of the whiney crybaby guy from a couple seasons ago… the guy with the green flat cap who was a die-hard TAR fan who almost got eliminated on his first leg.
As soon as they showed Goat Yoga whining at each other in the car, I said: “First team out” and I was only off by a half-step.
Pretty weak set of tasks, unfortunately. I’d have loved to see a task that said simply: “pronounce the names of the streets in this Reykjavik intersection”…each of which is 14 characters long and includes two letters not found in English, plus a weird clicking noise.
Wow! Thanks for the info, I was too was wondering how the BB players got ahead so easily, and why teams were carrying all the bags at the end.
Wasn’t it, we’re models but we’re slightly shorter than average? :rolleyes:
Oh, yes. When they showed the name of the zipline location the first thing I said to my husband in my best Phil voice (which isn’t very good) was, “The task here is to actually pronounce the location’s name.”
Justin of the Green Team. Apparently both he and his partner Diana were at the starting line. There were also some other former Amazing Racers like the infamous Flo (the whiny bitch teamed up with Zach who won Season 3) and Shamir (the guy whose enormous balls were caught in the rappelling harness last season).
I’m pretty sure the Yale dude had a pen and paper, but the amount of water splashing around, never mind the bumpy ride, would have made writing interesting.
And if one half of the goat yoga team is going nuts already (I’m pretty sure it was just the one, with the other one being a bit “wtf just happened?” about the interaction), then the meltdown in a few legs when killer fatigue sets in should be spectacular, assuming they even make it that far. I really don’t rate them.
I noticed the shopping bags and that the latter part of the episode felt terribly rushed. Them killing off an entire detour explains it, but it’s pretty disappointing too, like the editors are cheating already.