The Amazing Race 15

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I just hope they show the brothers' faces next week when they find out that Brian and Erika are still in the race.

I had a strong feeling that it was a non-elimination leg, but I had a disappointed face when it was confirmed that Brian and Erika are still in the race. I've been ready for them to go for a while.

[srmom]

Warning: If you DVR The Amazing Race, and you have it on a series recording, along with the show immediately after it (because football usually runs over), make sure that the show after it is the same, and is being recorded. While watching football, they said that Cold Case is on at a "special time". I checked it out, and it comes on right after TAR this week in place of Three Rivers, which is what I always have on a series recording so I don't miss the end of the episode.

Just make sure nothing has changed so you don't miss anything!

Yep! I fell victim to the "special time", just watched it on cbs.com.

While I find Erika annoying, Brian isn't bad, in fact, how he can stay positive with that harpy is an amazing race in itself . My new hated team is the brothers. They are not only unbelievable jerks to each other (their ragging is beyond annoying!), they are jerks to the other teams. Taking cabs is certainly not against the rules, but I still think it's pretty blatantly a-hole-y, and then not even making eye contact with Brian, not even a, "hey buds, sorry, but it's a race" comment, was just weasely.

THEN, remember how last week, they made the big point of bitching about how the Globetrotters "followed them" and didn't do anything on their own? Well, if they hadn't "followed" Barbie and Ken, they wouldn't have found the Praga (they thought it was a coat or a robe??).

I hope they somehow get eliminated the next leg! Karma's a bitch, and they deserve a healthy dose of it (IMO)

[MysticCat]

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.

This I agree with completely.

ETA:

Originally Posted by srmom

Taking cabs is certainly not against the rules, but I still think it's pretty blatantly a-hole-y . . . .

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.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by srmom

Yep! I fell victim to the "special time", just watched it on cbs.com.

While I find Erika annoying, Brian isn't bad, in fact, how he can stay positive with that harpy is an amazing race in itself . My new hated team is the brothers. They are not only unbelievable jerks to each other (their ragging is beyond annoying!), they are jerks to the other teams. Taking cabs is certainly not against the rules, but I still think it's pretty blatantly a-hole-y, and then not even making eye contact with Brian, not even a, "hey buds, sorry, but it's a race" comment, was just weasely.

THEN, remember how last week, they made the big point of bitching about how the Globetrotters "followed them" and didn't do anything on their own? Well, if they hadn't "followed" Barbie and Ken, they wouldn't have found the Praga (they thought it was a coat or a robe??).

I hope they somehow get eliminated the next leg! Karma's a bitch, and they deserve a healthy dose of it (IMO)

I agree 100%. I really wanted Brian and Erika out a while ago, but the brothers are taking their place as the most annoying team.

And I thought the EXACT same thing when they followed Meghan and Cheyne to the car. They admitted they didn't know what they were looking for, and the only reason they got the next clue so fast was because they saw them running to it.

And they thought Prague was a country. Enough said.

[AGDee]

No football before hand this week though It's on schedule for a change!

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by AGDee

No football before hand this week though It's on schedule for a change!

Such a rarity!

Tonight's episode was very disappointing. The Globetrotters were the last likeable team.

The brothers are SO annoying. I really can't stand listening to them anymore. And I understand it's a race, and everyone wants to win, but to be so mean to other people pisses me off. I don't think I could ever do the things that they've done to other teams.

I guess I'll cheer for Meghan and Cheyne.

[ms_gwyn]

I've read the spoilers, cause I always do (ie the wiki) sad about the outcome....I could kill the brothers

[AGDee]

So sad I like the other teams less and less each week. <sigh> I'm not sure I care who wins now.

[CutiePie2000]

That sucks that the Harlem Globetrotters got eliminated but come on, not being able to solve such a short anagram was a bit .

I guess I want Megan and Cheyne to win.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by OTW

I just don't understand how karma hasn't caught up to the brothers yet. UGH!

I hope they come in 3rd.

Miss & Mr. America 2nd, and Megan and Cheyne 1st.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

not being able to solve such a short anagram was a bit .

Especially after he had the first letter. There are only so many combinations of letters that it could be if that was the case. It probably would have taken less time for him to guess all of the possibilities, than to take the 4 hour penalty.

[AznSAE]

i was wanting for the brothers to have to go back and redo the statue challange for breaking its arm. i guess the person that checked it missed this or didn't care.

also, for the beer challange, weren't they supposed to drink and celebrate with the team? it seemed like they took forever to deliver the beer as everyone had left the bar on the last delivery.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by AznSAE

i was wanting for the brothers to have to go back and redo the statue challange for breaking its arm. i guess the person that checked it missed this or didn't care.

also, for the beer challange, weren't they supposed to drink and celebrate with the team? it seemed like they took forever to deliver the beer as everyone had left the bar on the last delivery.

I said, "What kind of a defender would that guy make with a broken arm!" and I also wanted the Rabbi to turn them away.

And I'm thinking there was some major editing done, because it went from pitch black outside during the beer delivery task to actually being light out. I'm betting they had to do something like drink some of the beer, but maybe the network had to edit it out.

I just don't get why some of the teams had such a hard time with "Franz." When I looked at that collection of letters, I immediately saw Franz. They all need to play word games more often.

[tld221]

it wouldve been just a bit much for the Globetrotters to win TAR, huh? because theyre kindasorta celebrities?

yeah, all the interesting teams have lost. I'd feel some kinda way of the brothers won. Meghan and Cheyne seem like the obvious winners as theyve been winning legs repeatedly.

I feel like the win is going to come down within minutes - two teams running neck-in-neck to the final pit stop. I'm split 51/49 between Brian/Ericka and Meghan/Cheyne.

[srmom]

My husband said there were 600 possible results with the 5 letters, all unknown. Knowing the first letter was F would reduce it to 96 choices. (is that math right?) It would certainly have taken less than 4 hours to write down every possibility!

Oh well, it frees up my Sunday night next week when I'm going to be in Austin anyway. I cannot stand 2 of the remaining 3 teams - the a-hole brothers and Whiney McScreech and her enabler husband have driven me off the show.

I would be happy for a Barbie and Ken win, but don't want to sit through an hour filled with odious behavior (because you know, what they'll focus on are the brothers bitching at each other and that awful wife carping at her poor husband ).