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So George's strategy was to bring the union rep fighting for the poor working man to his luxurious home, treat him to a lavish luncheon, show off all his ostentatious lifestyle... and confirm the guy's impression that George is just an out-of-touch asshole who doesn't care about anyone else as long as he can live like this? Well done, George.

Juicy Box: If I sit down to a meal that's probably going to be fairly expensive with items like whole snapper, and then you give me a plastic knife and fork, I'm walking out. They should have named it The Juice Box. Everyone remembers loving a juice box as a kid. Love Bites: What kind of person yells "Shut up!" at people all the time? Stress and dry heaves be damned, that's just a personality issue. You'd only get one opportunity to yell that at me.

I said from the very beginning that instead of having a civil conversation with Turner that night George should have grabbed her by the arm, dragged her naked ass down the hall to Bertha's room and told her exactly what Turner did. If he had, he wouldn't be in this mess with Bertha now. (And her performance in that scene where she confronted him was wonderful.) But of course that would have been one dramatic moment instead of the juicy plotline we're getting now.

More boring than, "Hey, can you look this up on your phone?" I guess we disagree.

Just don’t use clues or puzzles that require an internet search or even questioning a local. There have been plenty that involved counting visible items, etc.

Loved this episode, but I don't like how much they relied on asking people to use their cellphones. I know it's nothing new, but it still seems to take away from the spirit of the task. If they had asked passersby, "Hey, do you know of a cologne from here whose name is a four-digit number?" that would have been better. It would have taken more time probably, but just using someone's cell phone is an easy out and not much fun to watch. But then again, I guess if you ask people, they're just going to whip out their phones anyway. So maybe it's better not to have a clue that relies on internet research.

Calling bullshit on all of Krystal’s excuses. Poor me, I’m not worthy so I couldn’t see you but I’ll happily take your money. “Deep tissue massages “ and “art meetings” at cheap motels? Even if they’re together now, she was playing that guy really hard and he won’t see it.

Nah, they would have had someone race up on a motorcycle screaming "You've got the wrong rickshaw! Read the clue! Read the clue!" Because apparently that's how it works now...

That's plausible but it still seems inconsistent with how these errors have been handled in the past. I think we've seen teams just being refused access to the next task and they have to figure out why, and of course we've seen teams unaware until Phil tells them at the mat. But I don't think we've ever seen a team told they didn't finish the previous task and to "read the clue." So I wonder why they did it this time. FWIW, I've always thought there were TAR producers at each task site and the local folks probably have minimal knowledge of what's going on in the leg beyond their own task involvement. So it seems very likely that a TAR producer told the local participant at the brick task to intervene and what to tell the team, probably because that looked better than having an obvious TAR team member do it. But the question is still why.

I found this very odd. One of the most delicious moments in TAR is when a team shows up at the mat and Phil says, "...but you didn't complete the flower task." And they scramble back to do it or wait out a penalty. I don't recall ever seeing a producer (via the local person) telling a team mid-race they skipped something and to "read the clue." Read the clue?? When has TAR ever coddled a team like that over a mistake? I could see possibly, just possibly, the local task supervisor saying, "No, you can't do this task," and then letting the team figure out why. But the way they handled it seemed odd and actually helpful to the team.

Jeff: “45 seasons and still going strong!” Well, 45 seasons and, um, still going I guess.

The producers are getting lazy. How many times have we seen the catfish revealed to be a previous catfish? Half their work is done if they just recycle the catfish.

I think the show tends to suck when they decide to do a holiday episode and then look for pitches to shoehorn into it. No way those would have made into a normal episode.

Those amulets, FFS… 🙄 They have to use them all together but after one is gone they are worth this advantage, after two another advantage, can only be used under a full moon and etc., etc. Don’t make me pay attention like I’m in a calculus class. I’m just trying to watch TV.

Bruce strikes me as the kind of guy who would bully another and then say, “It’s just a joke, man! C’mon, why you getting so upset!”

Maybe it's just how it was explained. And didn't the preview show a U-turn board with all the team pics, like a normal U-turn? That added to my confusion because if they voted before the leg, it seems there would just be the one unlucky team's pic at the U-turn. But I'll trust you're all correct with how it works.

This confusion over the mandatory U-turn is reminding me of all the complicated immunity idols in Survivor that I can't understand. Let's not go that direction, Phil.

I thought one of the tasks might be hauling water up and down all those steps. That would be killer. So how does this mandatory U-turn work. Phil emphasized it's mandatory, but that can't be for every team or else you'd have everyone U-turned, which is just the same as having every team do both tasks. Is it mandatory just for the first team to get there?

A 25-minute deadline before switching to the other task? That sounds extreme.

I kept thinking you'd need a whole lot of Stormbags to accomplish anything worthwhile, way more than 20 or 25. And at Cuban's clueless $20 suggestion, you're investing a lot. Plus, their demo wall of Stormbags behind them wouldn't hold back water. There were huge gaps between the bags because they were flat and didn't sag into each other. Maybe they were just fake bags for the presentation, but it still bugged me if you're trying to tell me they hold back flood waters.

Oof, that was hard to watch. Really feel bad for Ibrahim.

Well, I think I’m Team Beautiful Brothers.

The fish judge seemed to really be enjoying herself. That was cute.

The brothers, just…. those eyes…wow