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drewbearBefore we go to the recap, I want to let y'all know how much I like the latest M&Ms commercials with Megan Mullally (Karen from Will & Grace) singing to the different colors. 'Tis cute. :-)
Previously: A doozy of 2 legs. Cooling tower FF. Gretchen bleeds. Orphanage. EXTREME PHILMUGGING!!! Car flipover! Best! Race! To the Amazing Bathmat EVAR!!1!11!!1!
Did... Did Kelly really just admit to self-inserting herself into the Bible?
"We have no friends left in this game." Gee. I wonder why that is, Rob. Could it be because you've deliberately snarked off every other team?
Crap. Team Gray didn't get their stuff back. I really hoped that they would.
::snerk:: Surfer Bros just crack me up. Don't screw up again, Bros!
"Oh thank you, cow pal!" I gotta admit, I talk to the animals, too.
Head-balancing or goat milking. Frankly, I'd try Carry It first and if/when I determined I couldn't do it I'd switch. This is actually feasible since the two Detours are close to each other. Of course, I actually know how to milk a cow, so I might have a (small) advantage.
Oh, Bros! Finish reading the clue!
I love it that the village women are laughing at Rob in the background.
Rob, why are you referring to the nanny-goats as "he"? If you're milking a billy-goat, you're doing the challenge wrong. :-)
Damn! Uchenna ruled that task!
Lynn? "Born to do this"? I really would like to like you, but the bitchiness is too much.
Okay, so Team Patriotic are realizing they don't know each other at all, Reality Retread is still being bitchy about everyone else, Uchenna/Joyce are functional (imagine!), Team Queen's car just crapped out for no discernable reason, and The Bros are still milking it.
Did water just poor in through Reality Retread's dashboard?
I have to admit, it's cool seeing a literal Roadblock. :-) Yay for the hephalump road repair crews!
Hippos. Hee!
Why do I get the feeling that the different ways that the teams are "removing" the path posts is going to be significant?
::sigh:: It's looking more and more likely that Reality Retreads are going to be in the final three.
Okay, I didn't hear whether Ron actually told Kelly to "shut the f*** up", but girl seriously needs to toughen up if that's making her reconsider this "relationship".
Poor Alex. He can't drive stick really well and now he has a flat tire.
Kelly? Shut it. Directly addressing the camera during the leg and using it as "evidence" in your perceived argument with Ron is not good form. Self-destruction is never pleasant.
Yup. Pulling the ribbon but not the post comes back to bite Uchenna/Joyce in the ass. Why couldn't this have happened to Reality Retread?!
You see, I like Lynn in this sequence. He's being supportive and helpful without being abrasive or demeaninng. Why can't he be like this more often?
I know that the eyes go as you age, but this is ridiculous. When the clue tells you to look for another log, LOOK FOR ANOTHER LOG!!
Geez, this has been the leg for bad clue-reading, hasn't it?
Hee! Brian totally just full-named Gregory Michael!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Team Queen just earned back 50 likability points for that simultaneous shock-face!
And as predicted, people fearing non-elim are dressing for what they want to keep. At least the Bros have a sense of humor about it. Of course, they have a sense of humor about everything. :-)
Aw, it's an elimination leg. But they made Phil speechless for a moment, which was cool. And they didn't have to change before jumping into the pool!
Next week Tomorrow: Recap show with extra clips. God help it if it's opposite Lost, 'cause I ain't watching TAR if it is.
Next week: Team Patriotic continue their hate for each other. Team Gray gets applause.
Previously: A doozy of 2 legs. Cooling tower FF. Gretchen bleeds. Orphanage. EXTREME PHILMUGGING!!! Car flipover! Best! Race! To the Amazing Bathmat EVAR!!1!11!!1!
Did... Did Kelly really just admit to self-inserting herself into the Bible?
"We have no friends left in this game." Gee. I wonder why that is, Rob. Could it be because you've deliberately snarked off every other team?
Crap. Team Gray didn't get their stuff back. I really hoped that they would.
::snerk:: Surfer Bros just crack me up. Don't screw up again, Bros!
"Oh thank you, cow pal!" I gotta admit, I talk to the animals, too.
Head-balancing or goat milking. Frankly, I'd try Carry It first and if/when I determined I couldn't do it I'd switch. This is actually feasible since the two Detours are close to each other. Of course, I actually know how to milk a cow, so I might have a (small) advantage.
Oh, Bros! Finish reading the clue!
I love it that the village women are laughing at Rob in the background.
Rob, why are you referring to the nanny-goats as "he"? If you're milking a billy-goat, you're doing the challenge wrong. :-)
Damn! Uchenna ruled that task!
Lynn? "Born to do this"? I really would like to like you, but the bitchiness is too much.
Okay, so Team Patriotic are realizing they don't know each other at all, Reality Retread is still being bitchy about everyone else, Uchenna/Joyce are functional (imagine!), Team Queen's car just crapped out for no discernable reason, and The Bros are still milking it.
Did water just poor in through Reality Retread's dashboard?
I have to admit, it's cool seeing a literal Roadblock. :-) Yay for the hephalump road repair crews!
Hippos. Hee!
Why do I get the feeling that the different ways that the teams are "removing" the path posts is going to be significant?
::sigh:: It's looking more and more likely that Reality Retreads are going to be in the final three.
Okay, I didn't hear whether Ron actually told Kelly to "shut the f*** up", but girl seriously needs to toughen up if that's making her reconsider this "relationship".
Poor Alex. He can't drive stick really well and now he has a flat tire.
Kelly? Shut it. Directly addressing the camera during the leg and using it as "evidence" in your perceived argument with Ron is not good form. Self-destruction is never pleasant.
Yup. Pulling the ribbon but not the post comes back to bite Uchenna/Joyce in the ass. Why couldn't this have happened to Reality Retread?!
You see, I like Lynn in this sequence. He's being supportive and helpful without being abrasive or demeaninng. Why can't he be like this more often?
I know that the eyes go as you age, but this is ridiculous. When the clue tells you to look for another log, LOOK FOR ANOTHER LOG!!
Geez, this has been the leg for bad clue-reading, hasn't it?
Hee! Brian totally just full-named Gregory Michael!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Team Queen just earned back 50 likability points for that simultaneous shock-face!
And as predicted, people fearing non-elim are dressing for what they want to keep. At least the Bros have a sense of humor about it. Of course, they have a sense of humor about everything. :-)
Aw, it's an elimination leg. But they made Phil speechless for a moment, which was cool. And they didn't have to change before jumping into the pool!
Next week: Team Patriotic continue their hate for each other. Team Gray gets applause.
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Date: 2005-04-06 04:11 am (UTC)As for Lynn and Alex, they didn't bother me so much this episode, particularly with that double-take at the Bathmat. BWAHAHAHAHA. Too freaking perfect. And I have to give Lynn credit for not harping on Alex as he was doing the Roadblock, simply keeping him calm and telling him exactly what to do in a very soothing voice. (As for the "born to do this" comment, I got the impression they just worded it badly, when they were really just thinking the same thing I was, which was, "Daaaaamn, they're really good at that!")
And Rob and Amber just ... see, I know they're doing a little act for the cameras. Hell, I'm pretty sure we're getting the same thing every time Ron mentions Baghdad and Lynn and Alex hype the gayness up. But as annoying and irritating as they can get at times, I can't complain about their ability to perform the race (which is excellent) like I can complain about the way they perform the race (which can alternately drive me up a wall and entertain me). If they won, I wouldn't be surprised, and I would understand it, but it would leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Kelly ... blech. The parallels between her behavior and KKKendra's are starting to grate. At least I've got Uchenna and Joyce (who just need to pay better attention to clues) and Meredith and Gretchen (who just needs to tone her voice down) to fall back on.
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Date: 2005-04-06 04:55 am (UTC)You know, I don't get why people find Gretchen's voice annoying or grating. Until I saw people over on the TWoP forums actively hating her for it, I had no idea that it was a problem.
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Date: 2005-04-06 05:10 am (UTC)Not only that, but in a way, I understand their behavior perfectly. I mean, imagine you were going on the show, and before you ever showed up, every single team already hated you and wanted you off the air, and not just at a normal level. You could either let their reactions feed a constant string of fights or just be amused by it. I mean, look at the way they treat the teams that are left:
Lynn and Alex -- Are constantly bitching about them and their gameplay, and have already been confrontational about it. So Rob is reflexively confrontational right back.
Ron and Kelly -- Is currently their best competition, unfortunately. Rob reverts to his snide (although warranted) little comments about Kelly.
Uchenna and Joyce -- Are not really paying attention to them as anything other than just some more competition. Rob lets them slide.
Meredith and Gretchen -- The same as with Uchenna and Joyce, although we never did see their reaction to Rob not giving them money. Rob believes (just like the audience does, for the most part) that they're going to get eliminated any minute now, and therefore doesn't see the point in giving them money or wasting time talking about them.
To be honest, it's almost as if Rob waits for his smarmiest behavior to be warranted before he whips it out. Is it nice? Not really, when he gets down to it. When it gets really bad, though, he points it right at whoever it is who's been coming after him or who's a seriously weak competitor and lets it fly. And we've seen other teams express the same behavior in the past with half of the condemnation for it.
Ahem. I rambled. :)
The only reason Gretchen's voice bothers me is when she starts to whine, because then it reminds me of my grandmother yelling at me and ARGHSHUTUPNOWTHX.