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As a couple of folks have pointed out, the stuntmen incurred a penalty specifically for tampering with race equipment (stuff other teams needed to complete a task). So I was curious as to whether the pen would count as "race equipment," but in the event, blondes were last anyway so a penalty was unnecessary.

I don't think that ever in the history of the race has my most disliked team gone out first (mostly dislike from the opening intro and the remainder of the show--I hadn't read all the bios beforehand). But I do appreciate the moment of humor they gave us with the sun rising in the west before they left. They were also my husband's most hated team and his watching of TAR is rather tentative--I'm always scared he's going to quit on me--so I'm happy they're gone for that reason as well. I liked the graphics showing the trunk locations.

This, definitely. I would be supremely annoyed if it were my job to winkle bits of meat out of seashells and crab legs and the like, or sew palm fronds together, or any such thing without my reading glasses--and I don't even wear a very strong magnification (1.5 usually). Reason #15,342 I would never want to go on Survivor.

I'm pretty sure it was Josh, while he was lying down temporarily blinded by the sap from the branches they used for their roof (sooooo helpful of Nadiya to be all "oh yeah, it was that exact kind!" after they'd covered the roof with them. Durr. And how non-waterproof). I agree that the "5 letters" (ROKER maybe? Al, is that you?) was one of the funniest quotes, but I also really enjoyed the college-football-playing John staring up at the howler monkeys and saying with every evidence of sincerity and admiration, "I wish I had a tail!" Reminds me of the time I was so moved by the wild geese that I said wistfully back at them "Honk!" and my future husband and dear friend laughed their heads off at me. I am a big TAR fan and not historically a Twinnie-hater, but after all that "Josh is one of the girls" thing I'm just as glad to have Nadiya gone. I'm interested to see how Natalie does without her.

I'm pretty sure Denzel said in a talking head that the goatee was about all he could grow on his own, so he was excited to learn about the beard weave.

Ah, good point, but the Wiccans I know would be seriously ticked off if they saw this anyway. One specific individual I'm thinking of is rather touchy! I do want to be clear that I'm all for them poking fun at Romeo, because he's an ass, and no, Nutjob, I don't remember Robin, because I didn't watch season 1. Did she mention a specific denomination? Oh--I forgot to mention--among all the stupid weather-related hashtags, puns, etc., in the house, I am pretty sure I saw that written on their catwalk is the "word" Atmosfierce. I wish I had not seen it. It made me very sad.

I'm not Wiccan, nor, frankly, do I know that much about it, but i do know people who identify as Wiccan, and if they saw how they're playing this for a laugh (Miss Jay pretending to be affected by a spell, etc.) they would blow up. (I'm not sure Romeo himself isn't almost playing it for a laugh, or at least for airtime, as someone noted upthread, but that's beside the point). Would they portray (this is just off the top of my head) a Catholic contestant saying they'd prayed to X saint and boom, their opponent left the show? Wait, I forgot, it's ANTM. They probably would.

I'm interested in seeing how the Twinnies do. John Rocker, not so much.

Twinnies are on the cast of the upcoming rendition of Survivor: Blood vs. Water! I'll be rooting for them over former MLBer John Rocker, I'll say that much!

Although I don't identify as an atheist, I think it's kind of cool that he wears a necklace that says "atheist" (and in one episode a shirt that did also). I wonder if he designed them? No different from wearing a cross really...last episode his shirt said "Mental as Anything" though! He's one of my faves too--hope he goes far/wins.

If I recall correctly the depicted scene where Tim is crouching on floor with Swatch, he is "helping" Swatch look for a toy or ball that went under the racks. I didn't understand (as in, couldn't quite hear) what Carrie said to Sandhya in the final scene after she'd been eliminated--can someone recap? I feel like I missed some other stuff on the runway too, perhaps due to Hernan's accent, because though I thought they were pouty and poor losers on the runway, I didn't catch anything incredibly heinous. But I'm willing to believe I missed something! I had mixed feelings about the losing team's dresses--when Hernan's in particular was going down the runway, it somehow caught the light in an interesting way in closeups and had a dark blue sheen I found fascinating. I even wondered if he coordinated sections of the film to do that. But on the view of all three together, I thought the brown shininess looked like--well, sorry--cockroach carapaces. Not that I liked the green dresses any better, and especially not Amanda's. I thought Mitchell's dress was the best, and that plus his kindness to Sandhya when she was sad endeared him to me after not being so thrilled by him the previous week.

I noticed that discrepancy with the photos too, but even before they got to Casey, it seemed like a lot of the dancers had (shorter) delays, like they didn't recall the names until the face showed up for them, and then they were like "aha, yeah, I know who that is now." They didn't react in the split second after they heard the name. Casey's was just more delayed is all, so I assume it was because he didn't see a photo as quickly as the others. Of course, almost everyone would recognize the name Twitch so Jessica didn't have the delay despite perhaps not seeing a photo quickly. Of the 6 unsafe people, the last people I wanted to make it through did. I love Serge--he just seems so cheery and willing to work, or something.

I have to confess I had tears in my eyes as I watched Bauer's two teammates try to console him while he just sat there with his head bowed. They looked so sweet and encouraging and concerned for him.

Glad I'm not the only one--even though I knew I'd seen it written out here on the boards, I didn't remember what the phrase was, and I couldn't make the words coming out of his mouth anything other than either "Beef Smoke Cowboy" or "Bespoke Cowboy."

I didn't think the powerhouse really made a difference, but I certainly thought height did. (I don't remember how tall Jeremy was). As soon as they ran out to the mobiles I thought they were not adjusted for height (and even if they were, that would make the lower bars closer to the ground, hence counterproductive) and thought it was kind of unfair. I noticed at one point that Devin was holding the end of one bar in his mouth to keep it steady. If, say, Paola tried to do the same thing, it would tilt the bar so much that the technique would be useless! And it's just easier to do anything if your arms are working on stuff below shoulder level, or at least I think so, who has no arm strength whatsoever....anyway, I figured it was Devin's height that gave him the edge.

Oh, meant to say--they showed the four final dance crews and no Bieber! Please let that have been the extent of his presence on the show!

Have to say I agree with Kara on all these. I was sorry that silky and Johnny Waacks got cut too. I had to go back to the audition recap to check the name of the ballerina with a crush on that guest judge, and was sorry to see she'd been cut. The only woman who has made much of a favorable impression on me is the female tapper.

First I want to thank TVSallyS for asking the exact questions I had, and ElleTwoThree for answering them and others. It does make the comment I've seen on several threads that "everybody goes to choreography" a lot clearer. I really don't like it when people are belligerently, deliberately dense, which is how Sideshow's "yes I DID do original popping!" came across to me. I was amused and horrified at how quickly his (now former) crew members and even his mom went from cheering him to cringing and making "cut!" motions! His mom! Ack! I don't know a lot about dancing so I appreciate the comments that seem to back up my turning to my son and asking about that one routine, "How is that different from a gymnastics floor exercise?" I also thought that the guest judge and the handsome young male dancer (Ricky U?) could have played siblings in some TV show! heart-shaped faces, medium dark hair with stunning light eyes.... Ha! I was saying the same about #dabble. These make the hashtags I was mocking on this past season of The Amazing Race look Nobel-literature-prizeworthy in comparison!

Oh, about the cheering for Jess/CM: I do notice that there's overall a trend of people rooting for one over another, but it seems like they'll often at least make a noise of approval at a good move by their non-fave, should out some suggestion just to make the game more exciting, etc. And I think maybe that was happening, but it was probably totally drowned out by Laurel's very explicit instructing of and rooting for Jessica, and of course by the cameras' focus on that. So my guess, only based on that history, is that there wasn't complete silence from the others for Jess (even if more cheers for CM), but we mainly saw Laurel's. I could be wrong!

The way he just went back to sipping on his straw after she walked away just cracked me up for some reason. He was all, I'm just gonna drink my tasty refreshing drink now.... Even though I'm a big CM fan, I am sure she can be quite annoying at times. Everybody I love in real life has their annoying moments, and I'm sure I do too, but even if you have a spat, you don't just tell people to stop talking, and say (to other people!) that they need to learn a lesson. Especially after she was trying to "explain" to CM how she could no longer guarantee her safely, and when CM was understandably baffled at this sudden info, Laurel got snippy with her for getting emotional and yelled at her that she didn't understand what Laurel was trying to explain! No, I think she understood very well! And the eye-rolling between Laurel and Jess when CM was trying to sleep--sure, CM should have picked her battles and just gone to sleep in the living room in the first place, just for her own sake, but that was just rude. And I never realized how nails-on-a-chalkboard annoying Jess' giggle was (not sure I've ever heard it before--didn't watch her season). Sure, the show probably repeated it and played it up and made it all echo-y and stuff, but stll, ack! Teege, I think when Cohutta had his head down he wasn't ashamed of his challenge performance, he was trying to stop the tears from welling up! Also the whole Nany's nose thing was weird--she had blood dripping down her face, then by the time she and Teresa were sitting on the ground, it seemed pretty clear it was still soon after the challenge because it was the same venue, time of day, etc. and she was exhausted (didn't see Teresa's high five attempt), but her face was totally clear and clean then, and later, on the bus back (this may have been the aftershow clip--I apologize for not remembering) she had cotton plugs stuffed up her nose and was holding an icepack to the bridge of her nose and did look rather wan and wiped out. I just don't see how she looked like nothing happened in the in between clip!

I kind of enjoyed the scene where they put sparkly-glow on everything Fabrice did to illustrate the Joffrey girl's fandom. I must admit that now that I've seen him, I relate! Does anyone know what the music was that was playing under the eating disorder story? It started with "feet, don't fail me know" but I'm not finding it with that search string. ETA Never mind--I think it might be Lana del Ray!

Anyone have a thought why that final game is called Oppenheimer? Because I only have two associations with the name, and I don't think it's named after my HS chemistry teacher's superannuated assistant, who had back in his prime been my mom's chemistry teacher, and of course Robert Oppenheimer of atomic bomb fame/infamy, and I just can't figure out any way that it could be named after the latter either. Wikipedia does not enlighten about any footbally games I, not being a football fan, have not heard of.

I laughed at the guy (audition not shown, montage of accepted people) who came running down the hallway saying "I'm going to Vegas I'm going to Vegas I'm going to Vegas!" and an offscreen (production?) voice said "it's not in Vegas" and he said "oh" all deflated and turned around as if he were going to go back and do the run all over again. Looking forward to the auditions in my town, Philly. I have not watched all the seasons--did they ever audition in Philly before, does anyone recall? Not that it matters for homegrown talent because people seem to travel from everywhere and not necessarily to the most logically close by one either!

I agree with fishcakes above that there's a difference. Heights, pushing yourself physically to climb or run or carry, animals, even the watermelon to the face (although I thought that was quite unfortunate, to say the least) don't bother me like this one did.

I guess the one thing D&C U-turning L&J did do was take up the last available U-turn slot that day, thereby saving the country girls from being U-turned by either the Afghanimals or the Globetrotters. They didn't voice this to us, but I wonder if it was part of their plan. Not a great plan (saving the U-turn would have been smarter), but at least it has some logic. I agree with those upthread who thought the Ballz detour was too dangerous--as witness Jamal's injury. I didn't even like the task several seasons ago where many, many locals threw tomatoes at the teams. I prefer my locals to be amused spectators or to frustrate the racers immensely but non-physically (Pop!). The faces on the balloons were a little creepy.