Subtle humor, or a really apt typo? 
Absolutely intentional. He couldn’t be more full of shit if he tried.
**Terminus Est ** As for the Jackass meter, I can honestly say I haven’t cared for Colon since his comment to Christie in the fist episode when they were at the airport. To paraphrase; he told her to be a good girl, and shut up so that he could handlegetting the tickets. It wasn’t what he said, it was the way he said. In the most condescending way possible.
I also hate it how he’s always taking her aside and chiding her, or telling her how to behave. However, if you listen to the videos, Chip seems to like Colon, and not much care for Christie. It doesn’t seem like the other teams have much against Colon either. But it did seem that Phil doesn’t particularly like him, and Myrna/Charla’s opinion was pretty clear, so it’s hard to say.
Personally, I can’t stand his seemingly perpetual pout, and his nasty tone of voice.
There’s the intense clenched jaw and frustrated sighs. Those could just be from stress. But for me the Jackass Meter pegs on what I call “Dog Moments”. **light strand’s ** post show’s one. The moment when one team member treats another like a dog. Like this episode when Colon (love it) clapped his hands at Christie and told her to hurry up. :eek: I don’t think so.
Another was the first episode of last season, with the married couple (first out, Bearded husband & Chubby wife) - hurrying off the plane, the woman stumbled and, lord love her, hit the ground so hard she bounced. All the while her husband is snapping his fingers saying, “Come on, girl. Hurry up!” Oh yes he did. And that is one sure way of not only getting yourself hurt, but getting yourself left in an airport.
But is she batshit insane? I mean, I read somewhere that each episode is actually about 72 hours of time compressed down to about 40 minutes. Given that, and given how dead on accurate she was, I’m wondering if she’s actually quite sane, but has been edited to look like a kook.
Fenris
Allegedly, the cameramen (camerapeople?) have an emergency $100.00 slush fund per couple that they can use in case of low-grade emergencies (like being short of cabfare). After that’s gone, if you get in trouble, you start getting penalties. I read that around AR3 or 4, so I don’t know if it’s still the case.
Fenris
But Mirna was calling other teams criminal and making similar judgements about far more stable teams like Bob and Joyce as well as demonstrating a delusional version of reality where she was the victim of people out to get her because they alternatively thought she was too weak and too strong. Regarding Colin I’m willing to chalk it up as a broken clock being right twice a day…
There are certain signs that signal the season. You know it’s fall when the leaves change color, you know it’s spring when the birds and flowers return…
…and you know it’s about episode 8 of The Amazing Race when someone has a balls-out, cataclysmic, adrenalin-wall, will-they-even-be-ALIVE-at-the-end-of-the-episode-? meltdown.
Manomanomanomanomanomanomanoman!
What an episode! Apart from the spectacular trainwreck that was Colon, with Mirna gone, the race returned from being a soap opera to being a RACE again. I had forgotten the sheer level of competition that usually makes this show so compelling.
If you were to poll the viewing audience at ten minute intervals last night, I don’ t think anyone would have predicted the final order at all. So many intstantaneous reversals. Fantastic!
Next week (9) will be an elimination reducing the teams to 4.
Week 10 will be non-elim.
Week 11 will reduce the teams to 3.
Week 12 will be non-elim.
Week 13 (labeled “Finish” on the Leaderboard page) will of course be the end.
From The Leaderboard:
Colon/Christie: I’ll say it again, Christie’s a tool. She has no one to blame but herself if she’s still with this complete prick.
Brandon/Nicole: I’ve had the sneaking suspicion all along that Brandon’s the only one here who’s really the Jesus Freak, and Nicole is just playing along. Now I’m SURE of it. And I DON’T want Brandon to have to shave his head. He’ll start gearing himself up for it by quoting St. Paul about how shaving the head makes one humble for prayer, and I’ll have to vomit so much on my TV I won’t be able to clean it up in time to see the Pit Stop.
Chip/Kim: Way to justify an idiot move, Chip! Poor cab driver. Now you’re the OTHER team with no money. It would be great if next week, like one dimly-remembered earlier-season episode, the teams received exactly $1.00 for a particularly tricky leg, but I don’t think they’ve done that for some time.
Linda/Karen: Their desperation level grows as they run out of other teams to figure things out for them, but I love the fact that they’re still in it. If you say you predicted from the start they’d be in the final five, you’re lying. The suburban teams NEVER last this long.
Kami/Karli: I’ll be glad at 11:00 next Tuesday when these two are gone, they just steal screentime from Colon’s insanity.
I was just looking at the leaderboard (I’ve never looked at it before) but why does the next eps only have three spots? Are two teams getting philiminated next week and those are the last ones for the rest of the season?
Agree.
Of course not. However, it seems to me that a taxi breakdown caused completely by driver negligence and the resulting unacceptable time delay should have been considered by the driver. (if I were in Colin’s situation, I would have paid, no questions asked, but if were the driver, I would never use my position to extract what was already an outrageous fare after such an error, especially from an irate customer). Besides, you really don’t know what their verbal agreement actually was–editing, remember? I guess the whole bartering system just invites abuse.
I once called a cab company 2 days in advance to tell them to pick me up early in the morning to take me to the airport. I gave them all the directions to my home, etc. They called me in the morning and asked me for the directions again. :rolleyes: I thought all was good. Then, 15 minutes after the agreed time, they still hadn’t arrived, so I called again. He finally arrived 35 minutes late, and took the long way to the airport. I missed the boarding of my flight. While I didn’t complain, I didn’t give him a tip. For some reason, he insisted on handing my bags to me from his trunk. Sorry pal, don’t think that’s gonna get my appreciation.
I think it would be amusing if the twins had to shave their heads.
Don’t go by the leaderboard graphic for that. CBS just bunches all the eliminations at the end of the graphic so you don’t know when they’re coming. I’ve never seen two teams eliminated in one leg. Has anyone else?
Start Promo
Next Week on The Amazing Race:
The teams fly to Vatican City where Brandon and Nichole get a special message …
Voice From Clouds: Sorry kids, you’re on your own.
… and Chip is elevated to sainthood …
Kim: Everywhere we go, people just love him.
… the twins take a wrong turn …
long shot of Kami and Karli in the Australian Outback
Kami: How the hell did we get here?
… and the moms deal with more bad luck …
Karen: We’re in the back of the pack again. And now Linda’s possessed!
Linda: Aaaaggggghhhhfuckyouphilfuckyouphilfuckyouphilaaaggggghhhh!
… and Colin - literally - explodes.
SFX: FABOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!
End Promo.
Oh, yeah. And the show is on an hour earlier thanks to the RNC. I may actually get to bed at a decent hour.
For what? Stiffing a cabbie and preaching to Nicole about something that was none of his business?
Here’s the astounding thing though. Usually the team/person that melts down or reaches killer fatigue level completely screws up and goes home. Colin comes as close as humanly possible to exploding like a cartoon character and they still manage to win the leg. I think the meltdown/fatigue is only a negative factor for a team that doesn’t normally live in that state. Colin and Christie are always like this so it probably shouldn’t be viewed as a status that will impair them.
Previous meltdowners/killer fatiguers:
AR1 - Emily/Nancy - Episode 7 they completely melt down in India but come in next to last due to a normally disunctional team. They take last in non-elimination episode 8. Episode 9 they give up on a task, incur a 24 hour penalty and are eliminated. They lasted 2 episodes beyond the main meltdown, but never recovered from it at all.
AR2 - Mary/Peach. Episode 7 - I think it was Peach that couldn’t down the tea at a roadblock. At that point, the bickering started and you could see that she had pretty much given up the will to go on while her sister didn’t have the will to push her onward. They were eliminated. Note - Wil and Tara had multiple meltdowns but met the criteria of Colin and Christie, they were used to meltdowns.
AR3 - Heather/Eve. Episode 4 - Man, they had no staying power. Their emotions were quickly on edge, so much so that they melted down this quickly, completely mis-read a clue and were eliminated.
Fireman/Cop - Episode 6. Remember this one? They got in a cab that took them to an isolated, incorrect town. Once there, a guy leads them around looking for a place that isn’t there. Then, a local official shows up and essentially detains them. They were asked to hand over passports and had to be bailed out by AR staff. All for no obvious reason other than it may have been a scam of some sort to take their money. They survived this leg due to another teams errors, but went home the next round.
In the same series, Teri/Ian further validate the “if you live in meltdowns normally, ones on the show don’t matter” hypothesis. And, Flo never existed.
AR4 - I actually can’t think of any teams failing due to meltdowns. Maybe Chuck and Millie.
What I thought was great was the fact that if the Twins had taken the turn at the flag like one of them wanted to, they would have jumped first, and been second. I love how those little mistakes can really cost you.
I also thought that the camera’s saved Colin a severe ass whooping, and some jail time.
And how much has Chip been spending that they had absolutly no money at the end. I add it up to $120 for the taxi, $9 for the next taxi, $10 for the water taxi, and like…$60 I think for the last one? That still leaves them like $60 from just this one leg…what the hell are they doing with all their money?
From what I asked in an earier TAR thread, the money they receive also goes to food and you saw how he can eat. 
They had 14 hours downtime between their arrival and before they could get on the helipad. I expect that $60 got spent then, for food for Kim and Chip, and possibly lodging.
(My computer died a slow painful death and I learned that one of the worst things about being computer-less is not being able to read what Dopers have to say about important things and then being able to write amazingly insightful responses. Thankfully, I have a new machine and am trying to work through its quirks!)
I am amazed that nobody has remarked on the wonderfulness of that Dubai hotel. I really want to go there, but I shall avoid the helipad. I suppose it’s very expensive. . . .
And I really wanna know which team finds the Fast Forward and has to consider shaving their heads. I think it would really be a hoot if it were Kami and Karli. No dough. No hair. . . and anorexic to boot! Those girls are too dumb to survive The Amazing Race!