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But it is typical of the hilariously dark humor on this and other sitcoms. Like Hetty talking about child laborers being good to squeeze their little hands into machinery and last week about how hard it was to scrape the guy off the bottom of her steamer trunk. Or Thorfinn and his Dane stories. Besides the Puritan's name is Patience so I'm sure she will be fine with a few centuries of wandering underground lost. 😄

I don't like participation trophies nor do I necessarily like being told that I like "cheating." I found Danny's strategy VERY competitive and it helped Amber & Vinny's navigation problems as well. It made both teams far stronger and more competitive then just going it alone on this longer, mega-leg. And it worked brilliantly too. There is always more than one single way to compete. It isn't a track meet alone. It involves strategy too. Sometimes bullpen games are better than sticking in your fifth starter after all. And yeah I hope Bertram and Elise do listen to ALL fans and know a lot of us love alliances like this too and appreciate the beauty of them. Danny had already done a lopsided amount of Roadblocks and forming that alliance for the megaleg was in part so his Mom could get some of hers' out of the way while using the alliance to stave off elimination. It worked perfectly. And who knows what Roadbocks could be ahead. Far more physical ones than running around on half a soccer field. Actually she knew Danny was her navigator for this leg and after the horror of Vinny endlessly alternating between screaming at her and being passive aggressive toward her over directions leg after lag I don't blame her for near hysterics at the thought of having to go through the rest of the leg with this nightmare happening again to her if Danny and his Mom were left behind. Like other posters said, she and Vinny would still be lost somewhere in South America to this very day if left to their own lack of navigational skills.

Thanks for the link! Really interesting how they worked so hard to get the right tone for something heavy happening in a comedy show. And the visit to the Library of Congress. And the amazing fact that since they had to shoot these 10 Season 3 episodes in the dead of winter because of the strike pushing them into that schedule, they had to re-create all the outdoor shots this season including tonight's forest and well scenes inside a sound studio in Montreal instead of their normal ability to shoot at the "Woodstone Manor" stand-in building and property outside of Montreal they normally use. I didn't have a clue any of the exterior shots this season were all set on the sound stage. Great production people!

I really REALLY want to meet that feral Puritan ghost in a future episode!

Boring episode when half of it involves the baby/marriage/in-laws crap. And all of that part has now completely set-up the final pieces of the stupid spinoff I will never view an episode of. When even seeing Dale on screen is a relief to escape the above you know that spin-off is going to be DOA. I want to see "Sheldon:The College Years" instead. I'm still in the dark here how he went not being able to stand being around other students to suddenly having two roommates.

And that's the exact beauty of an alliance. NOT to come in last. Exactly! Danny helping out with his navigation skills assured he and his Mom get at the very least one more leg to run on the Race. I love strategy being used on TAR and this was brilliant strategy to trade off his strength in return for help from the teams he helped in other areas. There will come a time shortly when this alliance will go by the wayside. All the teams know that. But it has made perfect sense until this point. It is a very good season. Watch it. What tripped up a lot of Racers was that the start line was not at the very bottom of the map puzzle but half way up the right side. Also the temperature in those cars I'm guessing was probably around 120 degrees given all the Racers commented strongly on that. That and bouncing around the track with your adrenaline pumping adds to the disorientation. Then a timer in the background adding to the stress level. Might be easy to solve on our couches but I believe it was extremely hard to solve given those race parameters.

We will agree to disagree since I call it cooperation and collaboration for an alliance. Like the NFL player in that alliance said. You play for the team and everybody has their strengths and duties to do.

Actually it always has been. The very first alliance was in Season 1, Episode 2 of TAR. Rob & Brennen, Frank & Margarita and The Guidos formed one early on in that episode. The Guidos soon dropped out thinking themselves far better Racers than the other two but R&B and F&M remained aligned for several more legs. And by Paris the large alliance called The Underdogs were formed by the trailing teams. And then Kevin & Drew formed a very strong alliance with Nancy & Emily that lasted until the latter were eliminated late in the Race. Season 1 was all about alliances. Season 2 featured The Boston Boys and Tara & Wil allied closely throughout the entire Race until the last leg. Season 3 had the five younger teams allied en masse against The Wonder Twins with the Opposite Brothers (Ken & Gerard) kind of shunned too. So those two teams came up with The Band of Brothers - one of the most iconic and effective alliances in TAR history. (Firecop hopped aboard with them for awhile too until that team got eliminated). So yeah, The Amazing Race has always been about alliances. Alliances for strategic reasons and friendship reasons all mixed together with various rules governing how they each worked as in when they stayed together and when they broke away from each other at any one time. And I love it.

Leaving aside the big stuff for now I just want to say Charlie is stupid. He ran off and told Tiffany that he and Maria know about Tiff's idol?!?! Doesn't he know that now Tiffany will want to get him and especially his ride or die (Maria) out as soon as possible to protect herself and her secret?

Yes, it alwats has been allowed and smart teams use it. Well they have made it through half of this season and any number of teams have been eliminated so far but not them so yeah I'd say Mom is competitive. She was hot and nearly passed out because the race car was super hot as blazes strapped inside it. A number of them commented on that. No, I think it should be applauded. It always has been an option since Season 1 and always should be. Like they said this episode. Run your own race but sometimes that means running together helping one another. I think it is awesome. I LOVE when teams do that. To me it puts the AMAZING in what would other wise be just another generic race. Both comradeship and strategy cranks this race above all others and these two elements have always been there since day one. At what time? This has been allowed for people doing Roadblocks since Season 1. A partner cannot help their team member other than hold drinks and such for them. But fellow Roadblockers can work together and always have. Remember Drew helping Emily running around the Roman coliseum at El Gem back in Season 1? That was both so sweet and cool when they worked together on that Roadblock. I loved that episode.

They did. They gave him a whole speech in the car to Sam, an "Ode of Appreciation to Our Ghosts" as it were in the last scene of last season right before we saw the suck-off happening. He has also mentioned how cool it is to have them around. He's good-natured about the ghost antics and only got upset big time over Sass invading his dreams until they set up parameters and now he loves it. He considers them family like Sam does. They both care about their ghostly family. Jay has Sass in his dreams now and Pete to watch basketball and play D&D with. He considers he is lucky all this is in his life. Ghostly antics are fun to watch. Everybody gets along like any family gets along. Up, downs and memorable moments full of good humor and heart. And I should add that without ghostly antics there is no TV show.

I'd rather see a spin-off of "Teenage Sheldon" more than the uninteresting and boring characters in this current show some of whom have been dumbed down so much they are painful to watch. (Connie is the lone exception). This last year of this show has sucked so badly with this baby/marriage/in-laws crap hijacking it away from what used to be entertaining and funny. Again, I will never watch this spin-off they have planned. It is a million light years away from Sheldon and the greatness of The Big Bang Theory.

The higher up is the person Connie was paying the bribe money to. So to save his skin he will make the whole thing go away no doubt. Yeah they totally lost focus in this show. I watch for Sheldon and I like Connie and this season the rest of the cast are totally boring minus Mary's dancing in Germany. All this season is about is to set-up and promote a spin-off I hate already.

Actually that is exactly WHY I like Hunter. He gave up the chance to live the good, rich and fancy life of a doctor to go back to his poor town and get down in the trenches and teach kids instead. I prefer school teachers over doctors any day. I'm sad to see Soda go but glad she gets to be part of the jury. Tim played stupid and dug his own grave. You don't go all wishy-washy when offered a strong alliance which, at worst, can be a Plan B for you. You can't trust someone like that in the game. So far in my top tier I like Hunter, Q (he's a coach in real life. That's the way they talk. Not bossy to me at all), Tiffany, Maria and Tevin. Second tier is Ben, Charlie and a semi-redeemed Kenzie minus her horrible tattoos. Don't like Venus but I accept she is entertaining in a snake-like way and I recognize she is the official villain this season and will probably last a long time as a result. Don't like rich woman who didn't bring her bag to tribal and bragged about it. I probably forgot someone but that is who I remember anyway.

Without Sheldon this series is going down fast. There is Connie being interesting and that is about it. Hate the whole baby-marriage arc. Can't stand Georgie's wife and mother-in-law and he got boring as a character once they started that whole arc. Won't be watching one single episode of a Sheldon-less spinoff centered on that part of the show I can't stand.