I was really hoping that part of the roadblock would be that you would have to stay completely silent the entire time.
Sad to see Mike and Liz go, but it was worth it to keep Team Fun in the race. Interesting how the boys got the villian edit early on, but since then they’ve been completely pleasant.
Michael was an early favorite for me, but I’ve been losing respect for him for a few episodes now. He went from Competent Man to whiney little boy with passive aggressive issues pretty quick. Plus, he COULD NOT let go of the idea that if you make a wrong turn, somewhere up ahead there MUST be the another turn that will correct it. At least two times, they made a wrong turn and then rather than backtrack, he threw a tantrum about how it’s obviously better to drive around randomly and hope that there’ll be a turn to correct things rather than turn back.
I’m actually kind of glad their out, given his behavior the last few weeks.
I’m really curious to how long this leg took and how far apart everyone was. Brooke and Scott weren’t that far behind Matt and Redmond, but it was dark out by the time they go to the mat.
Also, I’m surprised no one decided to do the stair challenge. It was so straight forward. Isn’t the rule of detours that physical challenge > searching > animals?
Yeah, I noticed that. He kicked ass at certain tasks, the physical, crafty type stuff. Need to build a desk or wrap something in intestines; he’s your guy. But when things got a little off course he just couldn’t accept it and backtrack a little. I wish there was some way to know how far they kept going before they turned around. If the road hadn’t dead-ended, I expected Amazing Phil to come eliminate them in Albania.
I think Brooke & Scott had trouble making their way from the Roadblock to the Acropolis. Can’t blame them, though; it’s got to be tough finding those obscure local landmarks sometimes.
I think the Detour description said there was a marked path to find the blessed cheesemakers, and none of the donkeys were broken, so it was okay.
Is it Matt or Redmond with the prosthetic leg? I wonder if he could have done the marching drill with the high stepping and all.
If you’ve only driven in flat places with grids - that’s mostly true-ish.
If you’ve ever driven anywhere that has geography, you know better.
Whenever I think about going on The Amazing Race, I’m reminded that my sister (the person I most likely would go with) can’t read maps and won’t follow directions* and therefore navigation would be a nightmare. Michael didn’t trust her to navigate or to read maps - so he shouldn’t have been the one driving. But if you’re going to drive, you have to do what the person with the map says.
*real conversation we once had in the car in an area I know well and she’d never been to before.
Me: At the next corner turn right.
Her: ok.
(we approach the corner)
Me: Right. Right. Turn Right.
Her: uh-huh. Right.
(she turns left)
Me: This is the wrong way. We’re driving in the opposite direction.
Her: I thought this road looked better.
It’s Redmond. I know because of this exchange:
Matt: [Something about teaming up with a guy with one leg named Redmond]
Redmond: What was the name of his other leg?
That’s because they don’t have the nerd to push around anymore.
Watched Team Fun’s episode recap on youtube. They said they got a penalty for speeding through a construction zone on their way to the wedding, before they crossed the bridge.
It seems like they had a bigger problem with Ashton than Vanck. Brooke and Scott were the ones that organized the whole “get rid of Vanck” campaign. Of course, it’s all edited so who really knows.
According to London in her Youtube race recap, Ashton had gotten herself and Vanck upgraded to first class on the flight to Italy. Hence the whole “setting themselves apart” story that suddenly appeared with no context.
It was Liz and Mike that did the actual U-turning of Vanck and Ashton. In some unaired clips, Mike had some pretty unpleasant things to say about the other team. It’s poetic justice that Liz and Mike were themselves U-turned to elimination.
Sounded like the Racers were going to Big Dong Temple.
Migod, were they trying to kill a racer?
That leg was brutal. Physically demanding task after task after task the whole way. Couldn’t they have broken it up with a weave six fish traps challenge or something?
About the time Tara and Joey were finishing their speed bump, we had storms roll through the area and local TV went to wall-to-wall weather coverage. So can someone spoiler how it ended?
I was getting weather alerts here, too, but it was just a crawl on the bottom of the screen.
I think it’s probably on the CBS website, or will be in a day or so. If anyone doesn’t want it spoiled.[spoiler]In a nutshell, Floyd had huge trouble on the Roadblock; twice he dropped bundles of traps off his bicycle and had to go back. Scott kicked ass, London did okay, and Joey arrived last but did great. Floyd eventually finished, but he and Becca left the Roadblock well behind.
The next task was to assemble an offering (various items on a tray) and take it a short distance on a rowboat. The trick was they had to row with their feet. After that was another bike ride, then a taxi, then a long climb up a mountain stairway to the Pit Stop.
Becca & Floyd didn’t even get to the rowing. After getting completely exhausted at the Roadblock, Floyd fell off his bike a couple times and was in bad heat distress. There was a medic helping him beside the road; cooling him down, elevating his feet, etc. Becca was kinda freaked. Eventually the other four teams had all checked in and Amazing Phil came and eliminated Becca & Floyd in situ. They were still happier than Brooke.[/spoiler]
Now that I think about it, was there a Detour on this leg? Maybe it was the rowing task but nobody even tried the other option.
What a brutal leg that second half was. Who rows with their feet? So they can hold an umbrella? You’d have thought they would have figured out how to make a stand by now. I do wonder how hard it was, and how far they had to go. All the biking and those stairs no one’s going to be able to walk for a week.
That was a good episode though. Wish they could do more like that.
If TAR gets renewed, and it has an All-Star edition, Becca and Floyd are near locks for a spot. They are my all-time favorite team
I honestly thought Scott was going to punch Brooke when she wouldn’t shut up about the ladder. It’s too bad she didn’t do the shrimp trap task, since there’s no way she would have completed it, and we’d still have Team Fun.
I’ll bet all the other teams that helped Brooke with her stupid ladle are kicking themselves now. I wonder if they are going to wind up being this season’s Beekmans.
It’s been bugging me all season who Scott reminds me of. I think I finally figured it out. He’s like the love child of Joel McHale and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
Floyd may be my favorite racer ever, so I was sorry to see him and Becca eliminated. He seems like such a genuinely nice and likeable person. He never complained throughout this episode, and even stopped to help London even though he was clearly in need of help himself. Meanwhile Brooke was screaming about how she couldn’t ride a bike (despite her daily spin classes!). The contrast between their demeanors speaks volumes.
I wonder if the teams always have a medic nearby, or if the camera crew radioed for one? Either way, it’s a good thing. Heat exhaustion is no joke.
I have an awful feeling that Brooke and Scott are going to end up winning it all. Scott I wouldn’t mind, he mostly seems like a decent fellow. Brooke, on the other hand, is horrible.