Moving along, and there’s a whole hoopla over Abba and James losing their money at the travel agency. Had it been Ryan and Abbie that found the money, snickered and kept it, I think I would’ve finally had enough and assaulted my TV. Anyway, I was pretty surprised that this group of four (Trey, Lexi, Natalie and Nadiya) would try to screw the rockers over like that. Maybe they thought that it could’ve been Ryan and Abbie’s money but it seemed pretty clear who actually lost it. Anyway, even though this kind of event would bring most teams to the point of murder/suicide, these rockers are so freaking even-keeled that they just rolled with the punches. Damn, did they just smoke a joint or something? I’ve freaked out harder at finding the dishwasher full of clean dishes and realizing I’m the one stuck emptying it. (That actually happens a couple times a week, which also explains why I get so pissed off. You know, sink full of dishes and the spouse pretends he didn’t know the dishwasher was freaking clean. Sure, whatever, *ss clown.). Sorry about that. Even more amazing to me, James doesn’t even get an attitude with Abba over losing the money. Wow. James is acting like Mr. Rogers saying “All we need to do is get 100 bucks!” If this were Wall Street, I’d probably be pretty upbeat too. But you’re in a country where a week or so ago you were stepping in raw sewage. The markets have dirt floors. There are only yellow teeth to be found. I’m guessing it’s gonna be rather hard to get anyone to give you 100 bucks. I figured a year or two would pass before they could raise the cash, but since CBS probably intervened, it took about ten seconds in TV time. A bunch of hoopla over nothing, as it turned out.
Next, the monster truck duo is on the subway with James and Jaymes with no other teams in sight. James and Jaymes do a little research and find out that it’s likely that the taxis were the faster mode of travel. They hop off the subway in search of a taxi. Rob sees this and declares that the two hopped off because they want to team up with all the others because they are followers. Then he declares: “We’re not followers, we go our own way!” Yeah. You’re in a race with yourself for last place. Good thinking. Then Rob rattles on about how he feels like the guys getting off the subway was a big mistake and that maybe this will be the leg that gets Rob and Kelley a win. Um, sorry for the spoiler, but no.
And we’re at the Detour. “Simit” was stacking bagels (or whatever the hell they were) onto a huge tray and transporting them using your own head to three addresses. “Scrub It” was basically getting cleaned and a rub down by a couple of half naked guys at a bath house. Guess I wasn’t the only one who was shocked when Josh and Brent went for Simit. Anyway, we’re reminded that Josh and Brent have to perform the Speed Bump because they were in last place in the last leg. I know I’m a broken record at this point but REALLY? The Speed Bump was buying two scoops of ice cream and having to EAT IT? Why even bother giving them a Speed Bump. What is going on with this show? I’m a little worried about its future because there’s not all that much compelling going on anymore. It’s kind of like everyone is able to complete every task quickly and it all comes down to a footrace to the pit stop mat.
Anyway, these two still manage to take forever to eat a freaking cone like it’s a hard task or something. Good thing there wasn’t a real challenge or anything. Then the dummies find out they didn’t read their clue well enough because they just went to any random vendor instead of the specific one mentioned in the clue. Because the first time they did the Speed Bump it only took 2 seconds or so, this didn’t really even set them back. Except for a little whining over having to ingest another cone, this was no big deal. Just proves my point that these things need to be a bit more challenging. They should’ve made them eat a damn cone with 147 scoops or something. I really think that this show is getting too easy. I understand that they don’t want it to be a guaranteed elimination when the team in last place has to do a Speed Bump, but that’s why they need to include more challenging tasks in the first place. I remember seasons where one team would attempt the same task 400 times while the sun was rising, setting and rising again or where a team actually took a penalty because they just couldn’t finish a task. Part of the fun of the Race is watching the stress of racers screwing up repeatedly, watching others show up and leave while they still sit there wallowing in a task they suck at while their partner repeatedly curses and declares that they should’ve done the task because their partner blows. Horrible sentence grammatically, but you get the point.
I can’t stand Ryan either . . . . and I cannot believe you didn’t talk about his comment while exiting the travel agency. A 3rd group arrived (maybe the monster truckers??) and one of them gave him a hug. And after they were gone, he said something about the six of them in there together (new team, rockers, and twins) couldn’t generate 3 brain cells. Really? What an @SS!!
However, I cannot believe the Texas team went along with the twins stealing the rockers money. That is soooo wrong. I thought for sure there would be a penalty or at a minimum something said to them, but Phil just let it go. I actually liked those two teams. I think the only ones I feel I want to win anymore are the rockers . . .
I totally missed that altogether! I’ve been noticing an issue with my cable lately. When I watch Amazing Race and the show is “running over” because of football into The Good Wife timeslot, for whatever reason a small block of show gets missed. It’s really hard to tell sometimes that I missed something! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I’m definitely going to have to DVR both shows and go back and watch both to make sure nothing’s missed.
I’m with you on the Rockers. That may be a problem. Looks like the previews they are showing this week are showing them losing their passports…I think that’s been a definite nail in the coffin for teams in the past. Hopefully, they find them!
Shoot! They seem to be running a nice, clean race up to this point. They sort of remind me of a couple from several seasons back that were real laid-back, hippy type. The sort of ‘do no harm, karma will take over’ type of people. I really liked them also.
@rsanon – yeah, I think that was the Snowboarders. I was hating on them for awhile but actually really liked them a lot at the time they got eliminated. Are you talking about a team that won a ton of legs? The snowboarders got eliminated in kind of a shady way too if I remember right.