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I agree - I think when Helen looked it up online, it probably said to apply it with force to certain pressure points. There was a Roadblock on The Amazing Race several years ago where one member of each team had to get a foot massage in China and they were all in agony.

I didn’t catch that, either, but I did notice that Anthony Mendez didn’t have the LLN accent when he was interviewed during Chapter 99, so I figured Mateo was also using it for the narration.

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Was Candy’s hammer a thing? If it was featured in a previous episode, I must have missed it.

This came up on TWoP during Season 8 (the Family Season). We called it the Gaghan Rule because the Gaghans had been eliminated and wanted so much to race while the Weavers were threatening to quit every week. The threshold for being eliminated was ONE time (in most of the posters’ minds; of course, that reflected the relative popularity of the Gaghans and Weavers).

I missed “Winston Churchill,” but if it is, I’d guess that it’s the end of the first hour - in London (?) where Victor and Nicole are eliminated; then the final three teams fly to Detroit for the last leg.

Ha! I’m older, I bet. I looked up dining halls just for curiosity and saw there’s no longer one at Goodhue, where I lived as a freshman. I guess those students must have to walk up and down the windy, icy hill to get food.

I went to the same college you did, @biakbiak. While I remember the whole town smelling like chocolate when they made chocolate Malt-O-Meal, I don’t remember any cereal in the dining halls. Maybe I never got up early enough for breakfast!

It only makes sense to me, this late in the game, if her father is also Beanpole Bob, but even that seems a bit of a stretch if that’s how the writers are pulling things together.

I saw Wicked after Idina/Kristin left and thought that the actress I’d never heard of playing Galinda had to be every bit as good as Chenoweth. Reader, it was Megan Hilty.

Gretchen? Erin? Jeffrey Sebelia and Ashley Nell Tipton were unpopular winners, as well. Ashley wasn’t mean that I recall but had a bit of a “poor me” attitude, and I think Tim was unhappy with her win, presumably because he (like many of us) thought it was not based on talent but for reasons of inclusivity.

That reminds me, what did the potstickers or shu mai or whatever they were have to do with the case of the week? I can usually figure out the connection, but this week I was stumped.

I think Holt is temporarily demoted until he puts in the requisite time as a uniformed officer and his pay has accordingly been reduced. That's how they came up with the money for Terry's promotion to lieutenant. I expect Holt will be reinstated as captain as soon as he meets the time requirements, but with Wuntsch, who knows? She may try to make him go up the career ladder from the beginning since his original promotion was invalid. I wonder if the 99 will leave the captaincy vacant or will fill it (temporarily?). If filled, it would have to be with someone with less experience/ at a lower pay rate than Holt so they'd still have money in their budget for Terry.

It’s supposed to be a gif of someone from The Durrells in Corfu rolling her eyes, but, according to this Rolling Stone article, it’s a fake and the person in the gif is one of the B99 writers.

It’s really part of the contestants’ strategy. When someone says that s/he has to consider who s/he wants to be sitting next to at the final tribal council, s/he means that not only does s/he want to be one of the finalists, she wants to do whatever s/he can to ensure the other two are people s/he has a pretty good chance of winning against. So, at this stage, the remaining players probably wouldn’t want to be sitting next to Devens because most of the jury seems impressed with him and would want to sit next to Julie because she’s seen as ineffective.

Jeff Yang (dad of Hudson Yang, who plays Eddie) said on Twitter that this episode was serving as a possible series finale because they didn’t know if they were going to get picked up for another season.

@Honeycocoa - here’s a link to the Forums page. I didn’t spend much time clicking around, but there are some threads regarding S5 episodes on pages 16 and 17 (and probably other pages, too) of the Past Seasons subforums: http://web.archive.org/web/20140329222356/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/forum/594-the-amazing-race/

Is it possible that the ending will reveal that the whole show is a telenovela or novel? Jane could be a scriptwriter or novelist or actor with a completely different real life behind the scenes. Has Jennie Snyder Urman ever said anything refuting that possibility? It would be kind of cheap, unless done very thoughtfully, and the telenovela/novel would still have to have a satisfactory ending. All this speculation is reminding me of just a few weeks ago during the last few episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, when it seemed that hardly anyone was going to be pleased with the finale. The writers pulled it off, though, at least in my opinion, so I’m going to trust the JtV writers to have the same success. If they don’t, I’ll be disappointed and much less likely to watch the spin-off, but at least I’ll enjoy the show until then.

Siblings, on average, share only half their DNA - this explains, for example, my brown-eyed, right-handed siblings while I have blue eyes and am left-handed. Even if the percentage were much higher, I don’t think Jason would be a match unless he’s Michael’s identical twin. Even then, there could be DNA variations, but a standard DNA test might not be sophisticated enough to differentiate them. I think Jason is Michael, not his identical twin, but this is a telenovela, so what do I know?

Even more interesting that Arthur had, years before, found the diner with the best apple pie in the world on his way from NYC to Chicago. He must have been taking the really scenic route to get there via upstate.

Derek is a complete hot dog - but I kind of love him for it. He’s always so enthusiastic. I saw a commercial for his tour this summer. I’m not planning to go, but if you get any news as to who is backup dancers are, could you post it? I thought I saw Zack Everhart (SYTYCD and WoD), but it was so quick I’m not sure.

In the dot of the i, Blake Bortles will always be a Jaguar.

Regarding who voted for whom, Wikipedia has the following: Chris, David, Kelley, Lauren, Rick, and Wardog all voted for Keith Wendy voted for Kelley Keith voted for Wendy

I don’t remember who originally posted that Chris had that tattoo, but it’s not him, it’s Eric. (At least, I think so, based on these two pictures, but I can’t read Hebrew, so Chris could have the offending tattoo elsewhere for all I know.)