Not that I like the Schmirnas or anything, but I was quite pleased to get a clue as to where Mirna’s accent (her real one) is from.
Armenia. Who’d a thunk it.
Yup, the accent may not be 100% fake.
Finally got to see the episode, and all the good stuff has been said already, of course. My two cents, for whatever it may be worth:
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[li]I still don’t like Dustin & Kandice, but I appreciate them. They’re good racers and they make a good team, but there is something about them that irritates me. However, I give them major points for just, you know, racing, instead of flirting their way around the world, or whatever. I don’t think we’d ever hang out socially, but I would not object to them being the first all-female team to win the Race.[/li][li]Charla really cracked my shit up this episode when she turned on the passive-aggressive at Mirna. I have been wondering when she was going to start fighting back, and I’m glad she did. “Do you want to yell at me some more?” “You’re right, Mirna, you do everything.” “Oh, I’m not doing anything.” I thought Mirna’s eyes were going to bug right out of her head. She is obviously not used to any backtalk, probably because she is a lawyer. (Heh.)[/li][li]Occasionally evil or not, Joe & Bill are awesome and I was sad to see them go. I bet they’d be a lot of fun to hang out with in Napa Valley. Or Paris. Where they lived for three years, in case you hadn’t heard.[/li][li]Oswald & Danny are the MOST AWESOMEST people on this show, ever, except for Phil.[/li][li]I am VERY DISAPPOINTED that we didn’t get to see Phil in a suit of armor. That would have killed me dead from cute, though.[/li][/ul]
As a fall-back from your typical Americanized accent, however, it can’t be very helpful. It does sound, however, like what her Armenian born grandmother (guessing) might have sounded like as she was struggling with English.
It’s particularly unhelpful when you also start speaking in non-sentences. Why in heaven’s name, when you are speaking to someone who does not speak English as their first language, would you start using fewer English words? “What else you have?”
And why tell people in Poland “si”, and people in Africa “grazie”?
The “my friend” bit with the cab driver was killing me, though! All of a sudden she’s Joe Franklin?
I’m guessing it’s her husband.
I figured the guy was her husband, too. He looks vaguely like Zach Braff of Scrubs, from the glimpses I’ve seen of the shirt.
I liked the BQs before, and even more this season without the constant sniping at “the 'Bama” team.
And I’m thinking Oswald meant that they would never have to carry luggage again because they could just buy all new stuff when they got to their destination. But I could have misunderstood. I would be perfectly happy to see them or the BQs win, with Charla and Mirna stranded in the desert.
Oh, the other thing that struck me in these episodes:
Didja notice how Phil seemed like the walking undead greeting the later teams in the earlier leg? This particular stretch must have just killed him. He had to wait three hours after the BQs left to greet Joe and Bill, then zip off to the next Pit Stop to greet whoever was first there. At least it was all in the same country.
Here’s how I tell the BQs apart: Kandice has curly hair. Ta-da! Of course, it’s really hard to tell sometimes, but that’s my mnemonic and I’m sticking to it.