I was thinking that the dirty filthy hippies benefitted from back to back NELs but while they finished last in no fewer than three NELs, there was another leg interposed each time.
I realized this was goign to be an NEL as Schmirna was being checked in and I noticed that Phil wasn’t talking about the Final Three. Although it was still an emotional roller coaster waiting to see if Cha Cha Cha would arrive before Team Scumbag’s penalty ran out.
Which, actually, raises a question. With this being NEL, does that mean if Cha Cha Cha had gotten in before Team Scumbag’s penalty ran, would Team Scumbag have been Philiminated or just Marked For Philimination again?
The worst thing about this episode, other than Cha Cha Cha’s being MFP, is that everyone is taking Cha Cha Cha’s last place finish as validation of the Yield karma effect. I’ve said it before, but I am heartily sick of the Yield being seen as a moral compass.
I had the same question about the NEL and what would have happened to Eric and Danielle had they been last.
And yeah, the teams are ridiculous to keep complaining about the Yielders. Eric especially with his long-winded explanation of why he now has no respect for the Chas. If they win and they don’t immediately turn and hand you the million bucks, is that wrong, too? 'Cause, as we in this thread all know…
** It’s a RACE, goddammit!**
I developed a good deal of sympathy for Eric and Danielle on this leg, and I thought the NEL for Oswald and Danny was a bit suspicious. Eric and Danielle responded completely appropriately to the yield - they were pissed off, but they hardly whined at all. Hell, I lost a lot of respect for Oswald and Danny for prostituting their yield. I don’t blame Eric and Danielle for having a stronger and more biased perspective on the matter.
Eric and Danielle just responded to the yield by kicking ass, coming pretty close to winning the leg.
I liked how Eric was wearing what looked like Oswald and Danny’s picture on his ass.
I’m dumbfounded as to how Charla and Mirna remain in this thing.
I thought the Chas prostituting their yield was entirely brilliant, personally. The BQs couldn’t afford not to take them up on it, out of fear they might otherwise be yielded–especially as at that point, they were the nearest competition and thus the biggest threat.
I lost a great deal of respect for Charla and Mirna, on the other hand. “We would have just given you the money.” That’s ridiculously poor racing strategy, especially at this point in the competition.
I don’t think there are ‘morality’ situations in The Amazing Race, as much as some racers like to think there are. It’s not really a micro-life with all its attendant blacks, whites and greys, it’s a competition with a well defined set of rules to work within. As long as you’re within the rules, whatever you do is fair game.
My biggest complaint about this episode is that all the tasks were soooooo booooooring. (Well, except for the Mini Mokes, but only Mirna could make that look even vaguely interesting, just by crashing into random stuff.) Noodles? Eh. Dragon heads? Meh. Jumping off a building? Already done.
I wish they would come up with a task where people get to take a big floppy fish (perhaps a good-sized halbiut) and smack a member of another team upside the head with it. And I wish that in this particular Race, everyone whapped Eric, and Eric fwapped Danielle, thereby incurring a penalty and being thrown into a highly active and angry volcano for punishment.
Yeah, not so much crazy about this leg. Also, I just realized that the odds are 50-50 that a team I don’t like is going to win this thing. Love the Chas and want them to win, but I also like Mirna & Charla, because they amuse me. The BQ’s are pretty good Racers but I don’t care for them, and Eric & Danielle repulse me. Le sigh. This might be worse than the Freddy & Kendra season.
I don’t get this part, unless I’m remembering it wrong. Didn’t they end up racing from the door and beating Oswald and Danny to the numbered tags? Didn’t the Yield come after that? So why couldn’t they have simply outraced Oswald and Danny to the Yield as well?
Is everything you have equivalently “sellable,” or is selling some things of more dubious taste than others? Labor, sex, children, furniture, spouse, house, kidney, Yield power… All the same, or no?
I think one way to alleviate the boredom and rescue this season would be to bring back Rob and Amber. If we’re to assume that the producers have already planned some sort of special tribute to them for the season finale, their re-emergence could tie right into that. There’s already precedence, I think, for teams coming back into the race. Didn’t someone do that during the Family season? At any rate, there’s certainly precedence on other shows.
Me either. I’m a wimp. I could never bungee jump either. If I had to do this jump though, the way I’d do it is with a method you might appreciate. I’d pretend to be entering the water off the back of the boat for a scuba dive.
As I was watching the show I figured the only way I could overcome my fear would be to look to the horizon, and take a giant stride into the water… er… space.
The illusion would be broken after a few seconds when I failed to hit the water and instead was hurtling earthward in free fall. But by then it’d be too late to do anything about it.
I’d vote for that! The Race has been decidedly less exciting since Romber’s departure. They could really gum up the final works for the three annoying teams (E&D, Blondies, Shmirnas) and make it fun for the Chas.
Lib, are you maybe thinking of last summer’s sub-par but nonetheless vaguely entertaining TAR-like-substitute “Treasure Hunters”? Because that did happen on “Treasure Hunters,” when the Brown Family was reinstated after the Miss USA Team couldn’t continue due to an injury (sprained ankle, IIRC), much to the chagrin and dismay of the bemulletted Wyld Hanlyns.
Oh, fucking wonderful. I just love typing out a lengthy reply to multiple messages only to have the goddamn server eat it. Sigh, let’s see if I can reconstruct it…
It is possible that in the absence of the deal O&D would have tried harder to outrun the BQs. Since the BQs couldn’t Yield anyone O&D’s goal was simply to beat Schmirna to the Yield.
No teams on TAR have ever come back after being Philiminated. The precedent you may be thinking of might be from Treasure Hunters, which brought back a (three-person) team after another tean had to drop out following an injury.
But they weren’t troubled for having sold their Yield; they were troubled for having used it at all. Oswald especially stressed in several interviews that they never would have used the Yield were it not for thier financial circumstances, perpetuating the whole Yield as moral issue myth.
You know who I blame for the “Yielding is a sign of your evil” meme? Chip & Kim and Kami & Karli. Maybe the first time the Yield was offered, I don’t remember. The two teams had gotten into some drama over a cab or something and C&K had beaten K&K to the Yield mat. Chip extravagantly announced that he wasn’t Yielding anyone and the teams had a bizarre group hug right there on the mat. And ever since then any use of the Yield is accompanied by comments about the morality of the Yielders, climaxing with the effing Weevils in the Family Edition raising moral dudgeon over being Yielded to some sort of twisted art form.
I wouldn’t have even tried to resolve the question. . . but, I don’t have a life either. Maybe you, Rockle and I should DO something about that. I just don’t know what. . .
While I’m not a big fan of the yield option…I don’t for a second believe that Mirna and Charla wouldn’t have done the same thing…or that Eric and Daniell wouldn’t have bought a Yield for the BQ’s.
Oh and Hentor I think you’re only allowed to use your Yield once…so even though the BQ’s may have gotten to the Yield mat first, they couldn’t actually Yield anyone.
edited to add…damn…way too slow on my responses this morning…and I also admit to watching Treasure Hunters and remembing a team coming back after leaving the compitition…and I actually did kind of like that show…they had some really good clue puzzles…I think in the final episode, the last three teams were locked in a room for like…14 hours before someone figured the last puzzle out.
Survivor had an episode once where all the people who’d already been voted out came back as a new tribe for one challenge against the other 2 tribes. If they won (which they did), they got to select 2 people to go back into the game. IIRC, both those people were voted out again in short order.
Did anyone notice Mirna’s speech after D&O yielded E&D? Something like, “I don’t understand why you yield someone. It’s early in the leg and the team could catch up with you or even pass you at any time. Why yield them?” Isn’t she a lawyer or something? Her explanation of the facts show that it’s perfectly logical and desirable in game terms to yield - to prevent the other team from catching up and passing you - yet she reaches the exact opposite conclusion.
Now I feel bad about starting work this morning. I don’t want to prostitute my labor or anything.