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Originally Posted by srmom
. . . and then not even making eye contact with Brian, not even a, "hey buds, sorry, but it's a race" comment, was just weasely.
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This I agree with completely.
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Originally Posted by srmom
Taking cabs is certainly not against the rules, but I still think it's pretty blatantly a-hole-y . . . .
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To be honest, this I don't agree with at all. This is a competition, not a popularity contest, and offering Brian and Erika's driver more money wasn't against the rules. It was fair game and it was good racing.
Sam and Dan knew that Malibu Ken and Barbie and the Globetrotters had already finished the detour and moved on, so they knew they were fighting Ericka and Brian for last place. For all they knew, last place = elimination; they had to assume it did. They very well might be nice guys, but they might be nice losers, if they hadn't tried to hire the cabbie away from Ericka and Brian.
I could do with less of Sam and Dan's bickering, and I'm sorry Sam and Dan couldn't, as you say, look Ericka and Brian in the eye and "hey, it's a competition." But they did the right thing to "steal" the cab.
And I think if Ericka hadn't been the "victim," she'd have to agree it was good racing. It was just one leg earlier when Ericka was berating Brian for not fighting Malibu Ken and Barbie for the cab that she said they had first. (Remember how Brian and Erika asked the driver to call them a cab, and then Ken and Barbie told him to forget about it?) Ericka said Brian needed to learn to play dirtier.