Two episodes left and three teams remain to vie for the treasure which, actually, we still have no idea what it is. Once Team Air Force forecloses the contest with its mechanical vice-like grip on first place, who will come second?
Geniuses! Geniuses!
Yeah, they don’t have a shot, but I love me some nerds.
I could have sworn tonight was going to be a two-hour finale. Color me irritated.
And this waiting another ten minutes so the Tivo doesn’t catch up on the last commercial is a pain in the ass. 
Oh, my. Poor Southies lost in a library. “I should have went to the library at school.”
It must be so awesome to be as lucky as the “Geniuses.” Eleventy-billion books and they just wander randomly up to one of the three.
Why do the Air Force folks have those flashlights all the time? The library is pretty darn well lit, IMO. My husband joked that he was surprised they didn’t have big Sherlock Holmes hats and magnifying glasses.
Almost 40 years ago, General Mills refused to let Jay Ward do a cartoon for The Bullwinkle Show in which Mr. Peabody and Sherman helped Francis Scott Key write The Star-Spangled Banner, believing viewers would be offended by a satirization of an important American icon.
As much as I like Treasure Hunters, the idea that he was the major link to a secret treasure, the directions of which are hidden in the actual flag on which the song was based, seems to me to be an even bigger travesty.
Anyone else think the supersecret word is
MASON
?
Or is that too obvious?
By which I mean, the code to open the cryptex. But, of course, I am screaming my head off, because I am totally having a Pee-Wee’s Playhouse moment, and I have no idea why.
Francis suggested it. No dice. But you need to come over my house and watch with me next week.
A few more guesses …
Union, state, stars
OMG! I know it! It’s totally … dun-dun-DUUUUUUUUUUN … LAIRD! Five letters. You know, the host? Max Headroom, only in a phone? LAIRD? That LAIRD? Who is always right in front of them, or sometimes in their pockets?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (That’s me screaming some more, because … yeah, I don’t know. I’m seriously disturbed.)
Francis Scott Key was part of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse?
“O say can you see by the dawn’s early light…”
“Light! That’s the secret word! AAAAAAAH!” (dun-dun dun-dun)
Me too! I was QUITE annoyed.
And dammit I don’t want the geniuses to win.
I forgot to set the VCR before I went to the gym, but I caught the last half there while I was on the exercise bike. I tuned in just as Team Junior Birdmen was asking some firefighters (or something) how to get to Fort McHenry. Can someone recap the first 25 minutes for me please?
I don’t know… but something, something, something has to deal with light
I’m not sure if it’s the cryptex word or how they need to read the map.
But that’s how they’re going to see what to do next, by the dawn’s early light, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
Or in other words, those stupid flashlights of the Airforce are gonna be useful
I need to learn to read the whole thread before posting.
Could be. On this side of sleep, “LIGHT” makes sense.
From a native Baltimoron (yup, that’s what we call ourselves. . . :smack: )
I LOVED that Team Air Force kept taking the Ft. McHenry Tunnel which only takes you under the harbor and further onto I95.
The husband and I kept laughing at the “Key Industries” destination. We swear they were actually at the Domino Sugar plant and the producers just covered the sign for a night. A quick Googling led to no company called Key Industries in Baltimore (or is this just another branch of the “secret society”. … :-p)
Yeah, that’s almost certainly it. :smack: