Not me, I’m betting he was in the middle of a bunch of kids and never got any attention from his folks. Kids with lots of siblings tend to grow up craving the attention and blind devotion their parents never gave them. The often act like brats later in life to try to achieve it. That’s why he demands so much of Christie.
(How’s that for gross over generalization of how a person’s childhood status affects them as an adult?)
I aim to please.
I’m basing my assumptions on an aquaintance I have (she’s really more of an arch-nemesis, but never mind that now) who was an only child of divorced parents, and no matter what the game is, she’s just as sore a winner as she is a loser. If she can’t win, she doesn’t want to play, and if she does win, she feels the need to rub it in everyone else’s face.
I think she’d make a perfect girl for Colin. 
I saw that, they moved it back from the end of the month (bah)
I can’t wait though!
Ah, see, now there’s the real problem…children of divorced parents never turn out right… 
I had an arch-nemesis when I was growing up. Then I had one for several years when I was at my last job. I’m currently without…It’s nice to have someone to say bad things about. LOL!
I thought Christy this week was worse than Colin. Yeah Colin blew up and went mental, but it seemd more reasonable than his other blow-ups…they missed a connection, got Yielded, and had a uncooperative (broken?) Ox (in Colin’s view) while Christy stood around doing diddly-squat. She also asked the cabbie to run someobdy over and complained about cheating. Bleh. In fact, did Colin appropriately chide her for asking the driver to run people over?
And their indignation at being yielded is idiotic. I hope Chip asks him, “Were you gonna share the million with me? No? Then of course I yielded you, moron, you are the biggest threat.”
Oh, of course it is. It’s like the people on Survivor who flip out over getting a couple of votes and demand to know just who dared to vote for them, or complain bitterly when they’re voted out.
JFTR, I have Colin pegged as an over-indulged, spoiled-rotten only child who was told he was an absolute prince who could do no wrong by his mother. He’s way too whiney and self-absorbed to be a middle child.
Yeah, it’s pretty stupid for them to be complaining about being yielded. They knows they would have done the same thing.
What I think would have been great, since all three other teams got there at the same time, is if they ALL could have put their pics up under the “courtesy of” sign. That would have shown C&C just what everyone else thinks of them.
“My ox is broken!” Whine, cry Did anyone else picture Colin at that moment as a petulant 3 year old throwing a broken toy on the floor and crying “I hate you!” at his mother because she wouldn’t immediately buy him a new one?
I am beginning to suspect that the “pre-determined” non-elimination rounds aren’t all that pre-determined after all. I think once the producers got a load of Colin and Christie’s hysterical melt-downs they decided bat-shit insane competitors would make a damn good final episode and subsequently changed it to a non-elimination round. Of course, by that same thinking Charla and Mirna would still be in the game too.
I’m beginning to think they wait and see who it is. If the Mom’s had been last, I’m pretty sure they would have been eliminated. B&N, C&C and C&K are by far the most entertaining and/or interesting teams. They draw a lot of comments and viewers, I’m sure. How much interest would be generated if the final three were just the Moms, the Twinks, and the Pizza Guys?
Oh come on. There were plenty of snarky comments about the Twinks and the Pizza Guys – and if we’d seen more of them (i.e., if they had lasted longer), we’d have had more to snark about.
Are you seriously suggesting that there’s a single viewer who’s been watching this show who would not tune in next week if we knew the final three teams and the Moms were among them?
IIRC, they always do a double episode last, and they always do the final elimination in the middle of the two-hour show.
Yes … but since only Chip & Kim officially used the Yield this time, it leaves the Moms and the God Squad free to Yield C&C later. Each team can only use the Yield once throughout the Race, like the Fast Forward.
Yeah. Somebody desperately needed a spanking and a nap.
Not saying that this is impossible, but since the quiz show scandals of the 1950’s–where attractive contestants were given help by the show producers – the FCC takes an extremely dim view of this kind of monkey business.
I would also be surprised if they didn’t pre-determine because they really need to set-up all these tasks for a certain number of teams well in advance, I would think.
Well, yeah, plus they’d need lots of time to cast the perfect broken ox, you know? I understand that it’s absolute murder working with ox agents in Manila.
THe memory is dim, now, but it always seemed to me that in the first season when Joe & Bill (Team Guido) came in last in episode 12 (which, BTW, was not the first half of a two-hour finale), they had already used up their previously-stated allotment of Non-Elim rounds (it was either 2 or 3, IIRC). I was quite indignant at the time because it seemed to me that the producers were simply manipulating the game to keep the most watchable team in the game until the end.
This, of course would require killer producer instincts. That, or the ability to see ratings and comments several months into the future. Or the whole thing’s rigged and they’re all just actors.
From the Leaderboard:
Chip & Kim: I think Chip’s triumphant completion of the bridge roadblock gave him the cojones to finally yield C&C Abusic Factory. Nice work. I noticed ALL the teams taking a page from C&C’s book by hopping cabs from the bus. This is going to be a tight ending.
Linda & Karen: Woe unto you who underestimate this tem. Two second-place finishes in a row, right when it counts. I still will not be surprised if they win at this point.
Brandon&Nicole: OK, so I was wrong, Nicole’s suddenly found God. I still am holding out for them to come in very close second in the final episode.
Colin&Christie: This took me right back to Season 1, Episode 12. Have they ever had the final non-elim be anywhere but the penultimate episode? And would it have been so if it had been any other team?
No they don’t. This will be the first time ever.
I think it would be hilarious if Colin & Christie get a HUGE lead and arrive in the final city 36 hours ahead of everyone else…then Colin argues with a cab driver over the fare, the cabbie calls the police, and the good ol’ American cops (not being as patient or lenient as the African variety) toss his rear in jail for a few days. I’ll bet Phil docks him a few spots for sheer stupidity, if that happens.
It kinda depends on how you view episodes. Season 2’s “thirteen” episodes were condensed to 11 episodes if you count the back to back showings of hours 8 & 9 and hours 12 & 13 which were more shown as two, two hour long episodes. Team Cha Cha Cha were the last to be eliminated in episode “11”. If you’re counting legs of the race, then the penultimate leg for season two was a non-elimination leg.
Having watched the preview for next week on the website, I have to agree. I didn’t see the first few episodes but…
I don’t think they had a bobsled at the beginning. It shows up a few times on the website preview, and COP has the bobsled set up still. You can pay to take a ride if you want, and I have run part of the track in the summer. (Yeah, you read that right. We climbed up the tower and into the bobsled track and ran up and down it for fun at our grade 9 graduation retreat)
Great episode, but I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one that has a sneaking suspicion that the non-eliminations rounds aren’t so “pre-determined” as we might think they are. And didn’t Burnet get around some of the strict “game show rules” by not strictly calling his shows “games” anymore? I thought I remember seeing that someplace.
I think C&C should be penalized for encouraging thier driver to break the law (speeding, not running the people over). I’m almost positive that starting from Season 2 on, they’ve been very carefull to tell the contestants that they should obey all local laws.
And this is exactlly why I would have Yielded C&C too. I told my wife weeks ago, that the real advantage of the Yield wasn’t the time they had to wait, but the mental state that it puts them in. I think that it’s fair to say that had Colin not totally gone off the deep end, and been thinking as straight as he normally is, he might have done the detour faster. He was just so spun up and frustrated by that time, that he basically broke down. It almost sounded like he was going to cry when he uttered the “I hate you” line. To me, that’s what the yield gets you, not only some time, but the frustration in the yielded team that can lead to mistakes.