S37.E03: Chaotic, Crazy, That’s What We’re Used To

[chitowngirl]

Racers must play the ancient Japanese game of kemari and the first team with both members to successfully complete the game will win the express pass.
 

Airdate March 19, , 2025 on CBS

[Rodney]

Well done, Scott & Lori!  Nice win!  Well deserved!

Courtney & Jasmin's opening confessional really did feel like an elimination was coming their way.  And they really went out of their way to earn it.  From failing at even something as simple as keeping paper wet, Courtney not being able to kick a ball, not thinking of holding onto their taxis, and missing a very early step in origami, they just needed to lose the leg.  Add in them having no get-up-and-go, and their ouster was truly deserved.

Too bad, though.  They seemed like nice young women who truly love each other.

Tense episode, all the same.

[InDueTime]

This episode had two things that I don't like in TAR. Teams handholding other teams during a challenge and arguing. 

I liked Courtney and Jasmine, but WTH with the second round of bad taxi luck? Are the racers not allowed to go inside a business to call for a cab?

The Driver's Seat task sounds nice if you wants to make enemies in the race.

[TheRabbi]

Might be an unpopular opinion but I really don't think 90 minute episodes are needed. Back in the early seasons I yearned for extended episodes as there was always airport drama and lots more travel with condensed editing. Now, when the episode revolves around a roadblock that most teams completed in 1 minute and then a detour where everyone ends up in the same task, 90 minutes is a bit excessive. 

That one detour was brutal and maybe impossible. That should have been an optional task for the express pass, rather than both memberss having to do that 30-second roadblock. 

Sad for the girls - the story about the mom was heartbreaking. Can't really say I'm rooting for anyone yet at this point. 

[dancingdreamer]

Kyoto is so beautiful, I love all the temples. I figured team yellow would come in last. I loved origami in junior high, I doubt I could manage that big one, especially with the loud argument going on.
We were so happy for Scott and Laurie. I think Jonathan would be a pita to live with, let alone watch me at a challenge.

[Skooma]

1 hour ago, Rodney said:

Well done, Scott & Lori!  Nice win!  Well deserved!

Courtney & Jasmin's opening confessional really did feel like an elimination was coming their way.  And they really went out of their way to earn it.  From failing at even something as simple as keeping paper wet, Courtney not being able to kick a ball, not thinking of holding onto their taxis, and missing a very early step in origami, they just needed to lose the leg.  Add in them having no get-up-and-go, and their ouster was truly deserved.

Too bad, though.  They seemed like nice young women who truly love each other.

Tense episode, all the same.

I have loved TAR from Episode 1 of Season 1 but I have had it these past few years where they ALWAYS give away the team that will be eliminated in the first 10 minutes with those bio interviews.  Please stop the sloppy editing!!!

And yes I like these two ladies as sweet people and wish them well in life but not so much as Racers.  They managed to make almost every single mistake that can be made in three short legs.  Except driving the wrong way.  We are fortunate they were not allowed to self-drive themselves or they would have tried to drive across the Pacific.

In other news Jonathan is back on my bad side again.  The Utah couple continue to impress as I had picked them as one of the cannon fodder teams.  Glad I was wrong.

And does this set a record for most switching of detours in a single leg ever?  The Ninja one was made too hard.  It should have been each team member just has to get 3 of each type throwing as many of the items as needed.  It still would have left the task super hard even with those looser rules I think since the dart thing looked like it tripped everybody up endlessly.

Edited Thursday at 04:25 AM by Skooma

[tinkerbell]

Han and holden bugged me with how they were arguing so loudly at the origami place.

[Skooma]

9 minutes ago, tinkerbell said:

Han and holden bugged me with how they were arguing so loudly at the origami place.

I thought it was funny since the brother that never seems to pays attention was so distracted by them right on cue.

[choclatechip45]

I liked Courtney and Jasmine, but so many mistakes in this leg! 

Scott & Lori are doing really well! Very impressive. 

 

[Haleth]

Courtney and Jasmin are sweet but manoman, it was painful to watch them struggle leg after leg. They were the only team that didn’t waste precious minutes with the Ninja task and they still came in last.

It’s a big TAR fail when no team can complete a task. Production should have realized it was impossible and done something to make it a viable option.

The origami reminded me of making paper animals with my grandpa when I was a kid. I think I could have done that pretty easily.

 

[Fake Jan Brady]

I so wanted the gamers to snatch the Express Pass from Jonathan's grasp, but I'm thankful for Ava's sake that they didn't. She'd never hear the end of it.

Who would have ever thought the sight of people folding things would lack excitement...?

I was a little bored by the leg but Mark was in a singlet for the entire episode so I'm giving it five stars. 😍

[chaifan]

Scott & Lori are good racers and nice people.  But...  Scott just keeps putting his foot in his mouth in ways that make him just look soooo bad on screen.  First it was the comment in Ep 1 about allowing Lori to make decisions when he's on the road (paraphrasing here, I know that wasn't exactly it... was it "empowering" Lori...).  And in this one how he has to "help" Lori communicate with him on the origami challenge.  I don't think these are malicious comments, but damn, they show some deeply engrained religious indoctrination on the roles of men and women.  And they have 8 boys, so they're learning the exact same thing.  ugh.  

2 hours ago, Haleth said:

It’s a big TAR fail when no team can complete a task. Production should have realized it was impossible and done something to make it a viable option.

I totally agree.  And it's not just "complete", it's that no one came even remotely close to completing the ninja task.  Between this and the sing/dance challenge, I think TAR's game designers are slipping.  

8 hours ago, tinkerbell said:

Han and holden bugged me with how they were arguing so loudly at the origami place.

I was actually entertained by it.  I normally hate arguing, but siblings have such a different dynamic that unless it gets out of control it just seems normal to me.  This seemed like normal sibling arguing to me.  We've seen relatively little of Han & Holden, I'm hoping they get a bit more screen time.  I don't think they're going to last too much longer, though.

The dating nurses seemed sunk from the beginning.  Nice people, but not great racers.  

The spread in departure times was about 2 hours.  5 bullet trains.  The only real chance for switching things up was that origami challenge.  

So far I'm glad we haven't had huge HOO bunches, but my guess is that will end sometime soon.

I'm not looking forward to Driver's Seat.  Sounds like a gimmick, a change just to make a change, which I wish they'd learn from the past and stop doing.  I wonder if the "making it harder for other teams" will be optional or not, like a U-turn.  

 

 

[Ancaster]

The octorents are only in their late 40s?  I had them pegged for a good 10 years older.  Maybe it's her tragic 80s hair.  And the shorts.

Edited Thursday at 03:15 PM by Ancaster

[Skooma]

57 minutes ago, Ancaster said:

The octorents are only in their late 40s?  I had them pegged for a good 10 years older.  Maybe it's her tragic 80s hair.  And the shorts.

If that is the Utah couple you mean maybe that is how you age dealing with all those kids.

Also I had no idea hair had "decades."  Hair is hair to me.  Wear it any way you want.

[iMonrey]

2 hours ago, chaifan said:

I'm not looking forward to Driver's Seat.  Sounds like a gimmick, a change just to make a change, which I wish they'd learn from the past and stop doing.  I wonder if the "making it harder for other teams" will be optional or not, like a U-turn.  

Yeah I don't like the sound of this. I wish this show would learn from Survivor - adding gimmicks to "keep the show fresh" is actually actively ruining it. This is a race, the winner should be determined by who finishes first on their own merits. Not by some twist or gimmick that impedes the race and screws someone over.

3 hours ago, chaifan said:

I totally agree.  And it's not just "complete", it's that no one came even remotely close to completing the ninja task.  Between this and the sing/dance challenge, I think TAR's game designers are slipping.

On the contrary I think the tasks have been pretty good so far. Yes, the Detours have been rather uneven but that's par for the course. I think they knew everyone would gravitate towards "Ninja" because it sounded like fun. But those who chose it were disadvantaged because they fell behind instead of going straight to the origami one. And the Roadblocks have been pretty tough. I would have had just as much trouble with the drumming as Ernest, and just as much trouble with soccer as Courtney. I'm tired of pointless time fillers like bungee jumping and ziplining.

In the Fold It challenge, I would have watched the demonstrators do the first two folds, then done my two, then gone back and watched them do the next two folds, then do my next two folds, and so on until I was finished. One or two steps at a time instead of trying to remember the entire thing all at once.

[Dirge]

3 hours ago, chaifan said:

Scott & Lori are good racers and nice people.  But...  Scott just keeps putting his foot in his mouth in ways that make him just look soooo bad on screen. 

I cringed when he said he had to "help Lori to help me." 

28 minutes ago, Skooma said:

Also I had no idea hair had "decades."  Hair is hair to me.  Wear it any way you want.

And feel free to comment on it any way you want. 

[Ancaster]

Didn't any of them grow up playing hacky sack?

The brother is a Napoleon complex that's already happened, given his sister's comments.

[Valmafra]

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

On the contrary I think the tasks have been pretty good so far. Yes, the Detours have been rather uneven but that's par for the course. I think they knew everyone would gravitate towards "Ninja" because it sounded like fun. But those who chose it were disadvantaged because they fell behind instead of going straight to the origami one. And the Roadblocks have been pretty tough. I would have had just as much trouble with the drumming as Ernest, and just as much trouble with soccer as Courtney. I'm tired of pointless time fillers like bungee jumping and ziplining.

Seconding all of the above, and would also like to praise the challenges from this Japanese-double for their cultural relevance as opposed to rehashing the tiresome gameshow tropes from previous/inferior visits to the nation. 

In other words, S37 has faithfully followed in Unfinished Business's footsteps from almost a decade-and-a-half ago when it featured samurai archery and Shinto ritual:

[RunningMarket]

As someone who spent countless hours folding origami cranes as a kid (and I still pick it up from time to time in my 40s) I feel like I would have rocked that detour.

Jonathan, we had 1 good episode. His attitude towards his wife when she couldn't master the ball challenge was awful. For many teams, I was concerned about how close the groups were to each other. Would you be penalized if your group couldn't complete a round because a rogue ball came flying into your space? Didn't seem to happen, but it was pretty close a few times.

That throwing detour looked awful. I love how the one team (names escape me) did one bad throw and just noped right outta there. Smart move.

 

 

[chaifan]

5 hours ago, iMonrey said:

On the contrary I think the tasks have been pretty good so far. Yes, the Detours have been rather uneven but that's par for the course.

To clarify, my comment was specifically for Detours, and what seems to me to be an uneven aspect to 2 of the 3 so far this season.  I agree that overall, the challenges themselves have been good ones.  I remember when Phil used to weigh the Detour options, one might be close by but more difficult vs. far away and easier, one might be straightforward but physically exhausting vs. complicated but little physical effort, etc.  We've had 2 Detours that produced extremely lopsided results - every team that chose "sing" came in after every team that chose "dance" (or was there 1 exception to this), and no one could come even close to completing the Ninja option.  I just don't remember past Detours that had that much disparity.  

If it were just a few teams that tried Ninja and bailed I could say, oh, they were just bad at it.  But we saw at least 6 teams fail, mostly at the spike throwing part.  So to me, that says it's not a well designed challenge.  

5 hours ago, iMonrey said:

I'm tired of pointless time fillers like bungee jumping and ziplining.

On this, I totally agree with you!  😁

 

[tkc]

“In Fling It, one team member will have to hit their other team member with a poisoned spike, a poisoned blow gun dart, and a shuriken. The first team to finish - will be eliminated.”

[Quilt Fairy]

9 hours ago, chaifan said:

they show some deeply engrained religious indoctrination on the roles of men and women. 

Agreed.  They seem like perfectly nice people and actually a team I might start rooting for (I like older couples that have their shit together), but I am not a fan of Mormonism.

As for Coutney & Jasmine's serious lack of get-up-and-go, I wonder if it might stem from something that came up in the early seasons of TAR:  flying Westward around the globe is harder than flying Eastward.  It messes more with your body clock or something like that.  Of course, all teams would be affected equally.

One thing I noticed that made Fold tricky was that the demonstration kids were using paper that had one white side and one colored side, whereas the teams had to use paper that was just white.  I think that could have made a big difference in perceiving which way the folds went and when you had to turn it over. 

 

[Browncoat]

35 minutes ago, Quilt Fairy said:

One thing I noticed that made Fold tricky was that the demonstration kids were using paper that had one white side and one colored side, whereas the teams had to use paper that was just white.  I think that could have made a big difference in perceiving which way the folds went and when you had to turn it over. 

I noticed that, too, and thought it might be easier for the teams if their paper hadn't been all white.

And I'm still wondering why the spikes were so challenging to throw properly.  

[aghst]

Teams kind of overthought  the strategy for the detours.  The one nurse really struggled with the soccer thing and it probably got them eliminated.

Meanwhile the brother and sister team, they let the brother do it and it helped them jump a couple of teams.

They weren't worrying about saving the detours in the later legs for the more athletic partner, which seemed to be the rationale of the nurses.

Wow a couple of teams tried the flipping task two dozen times or more, spent more than an hour before switching to the folding task?

But both of them survived, though once they saw how hit and miss getting those spikes down was, they should have bailed.

Scott and Lori win the leg, Scott is really good at details.  Let's see if that is still true later in the race when they're likely to be more tired, sleep deprived.  Lori said "that's rad" when she realized they were going to do a giant origami?  Maybe that's the effect of raising 8 sons by herself.

The couple who got the express pass, they were about to bail when she finally got it.

 Maybe they will have to use the EP because of the new   gimmick coming up in the next leg.

 

[Mountainair]

7 hours ago, Ancaster said:

Didn't any of them grow up playing hacky sack?

The brother is a Napoleon complex that's already happened, given his sister's comments.

That was my first thought. I sucked at hacky sack but gave my best attempt. We used to play it in “the pitt” in high school which is where all the kids with cars parked. It was known for smoking and breaking rules. My high school boyfriend used to make me paper cranes all the time that I would put on my desk. We’ve been married 21 years now and he makes them for our kids often. We’ve would have crushed most of this challenge :)

[Meowwww]

Scott and Lori, I could root for them but the “help Lori help me” and the other stuff…well, the jury is out.  Jonathan and his simmering anger towards his wife is no bueno. 

The ladies who were last at Japanese soccer/Hackeysack were so disrespectful.   Well, the one kicking was, anyway.  The ball was kicked to her and she just turned away with angry pouty face.  It was introduced as a very important cultural thing for the Japanese, and she disrespected it .

I am bad with names but I am rooting for the nerdy guys who came in second.  

Edited Friday at 02:12 AM by Meowwww

[tvfanatic13]

23 hours ago, InDueTime said:

This episode had two things that I don't like in TAR. Teams handholding other teams during a challenge and arguing. 

I liked Courtney and Jasmine, but WTH with the second round of bad taxi luck? Are the racers not allowed to go inside a business to call for a cab?

The Driver's Seat task sounds nice if you wants to make enemies in the race.

That’s exactly what I am thinking as well (about the driver’s seat)

[mertensia]

I can make origami frogs. I wonder if that would have helped me.

That was smart, making the Express Pass be both having to do the kemari. 

[30 Helens]

 Aww… the nurses were my favorites. I’m a sucker for teams who are able to stay drama-free and supportive, and these two fit the bill. Unfortunately, their relaxed attitude also kept them from having the drive it takes to keep pushing forward, and it was clear from the start that they weren’t long for this race. But I wish them well. They seem like lovely women.

20 hours ago, Ancaster said:

Maybe it's her tragic 80s hair.  

While it’s true that many 1980s women crimped and permed their hair into Lori-style kinks, some are just born with it. For them, there’s no recourse other than straightening and/or endless flat-ironing, and as someone with similarly psychotic hair, I can say that sometimes it’s better to just go with the flow.

I wish everyone would stop jumping on every word Scott says. To me, he seems like a perfectly nice man who has a loving, mutually supportive relationship with his wife. I have seen nothing that belies that. And if we need someone to judge, hey, Jonathan is right there.

[peachmangosteen]

1 hour ago, 30 Helens said:

I wish everyone would stop jumping on every word Scott says. To me, he seems like a perfectly nice man who has a loving, mutually supportive relationship with his wife. I have seen nothing that belies that.

I think it's because we know what Mormanism is like so it's kinda hard not to wonder about his comments.

[joanne3482]

14 hours ago, Browncoat said:

And I'm still wondering why the spikes were so challenging to throw properly.

I think it was because the method they had to use to throw them. I first thought, oh like darts, that's easy. The way they were having to do it, put hands in prayer hands and then fling the dart from the prayer hands, seems very very hard. 

I've done origami cranes forever. The only thing that would have tripped me up on that would be the different methods that can be used. I totally want to try to make a giant paper crane, now. 

When my nephew was very little (so back in the 80s) he and I watched a made-for-tv movie, Big Bird Goes to Japan. In it Big Bird gets separated from his group and gets help from a mysterious lady. They take the Shinkansen and there's a little song they sing as they go to take the train. The whole bullet train scene had that song running through my head. (We're off to Kyoto like Dorothy and Toto, we really have to goto before we miss the train...) It made me smile. 

[Colorado David]

did they have to throw the spikes overhead? i kept saying the same thing 'throw it like you throw a dart' - seems like that would have been way easier. 

[proserpina65]

On 3/20/2025 at 6:39 AM, Haleth said:

They were the only team that didn’t waste precious minutes with the Ninja task and they still came in last.

I don't think Han & Holden tried the ninja task.  Of course their arguing slowed them down a lot in the origami task.

I loved the idea of the ninja task, but given my complete inability to aim at anything accurately, I'd have gone for the origami task right away.  And the spike part was way too hard to only get three tries on each attempt.  The technique on that one seemed really specialized.

23 hours ago, Ancaster said:

Maybe it's her tragic 80s hair.

Her hair is nowhere near high enough to be 80s hair.  Mom hair, sure, but 80s hair requires much more volume than that.

And I wouldn't have pegged Scott and Lori as much older than they actually are.  A couple of years maybe, at most.  Probably because they look similar to friends of mine who are in their late 40s/very early 50s.

22 hours ago, iMonrey said:

On the contrary I think the tasks have been pretty good so far. Yes, the Detours have been rather uneven but that's par for the course. I think they knew everyone would gravitate towards "Ninja" because it sounded like fun. But those who chose it were disadvantaged because they fell behind instead of going straight to the origami one.

I'd agree if there had been any teams which came even close to being able to complete the ninja task.  It being so difficult (mainly just the spike part) that no one, not even half of a team, could do it made the detour far too lopsided, imo.

22 hours ago, iMonrey said:

In the Fold It challenge, I would have watched the demonstrators do the first two folds, then done my two, then gone back and watched them do the next two folds, then do my next two folds, and so on until I was finished. One or two steps at a time instead of trying to remember the entire thing all at once.

Isn't that pretty much what Scott & Lori did?

21 hours ago, Ancaster said:

Didn't any of them grow up playing hacky sack?

I probably wouldn't have been able to do that roadblock to save my life.  Phil would've had to come out and Philiminate me after everyone else did it AND the detour.  No, I never played hacky sack.

12 hours ago, Meowwww said:

Scott and Lori, I could root for them but the “help Lori help me”

I didn't care for that, but he did at least admit that he was the one who needed the help and didn't blame any and all issues on her.  (Looking at you again, Jonathan.  You had one decent ep.)

 

[chaifan]

3 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

I wish everyone would stop jumping on every word Scott says. To me, he seems like a perfectly nice man who has a loving, mutually supportive relationship with his wife. I have seen nothing that belies that.

It can be true that Scott says cringey things AND is a perfectly nice man in a loving, supportive relationship.

Scott's comments are evidence of deeply engrained religious based misogyny.  The "empower" comment is based on a belief that women don't naturally have power.  Men have to give them the power to do anything.  The "help her help me" is based on a belief that men always know more than women.  A woman can't "help" a man because that would imply she knows as much or more than him.  A man can "help her help me", because that puts the power back with the man.  These are phrases religious groups use to justify women having jobs, holding office, etc.  They can do these things because they've been allowed to do so by the men in their lives.  If Scott is Morman, then I doubt Scott sees his comments as sexist in any way, because to him they aren't sexist, they're "God's rules".  If Lori is also Morman, then these comments are also normal to her.  

 

 

[iMonrey]

22 hours ago, RunningMarket said:

Jonathan, we had 1 good episode. His attitude towards his wife when she couldn't master the ball challenge was awful.

Was it though? He wasn't yelling at her or anything, he kept his mouth shut for the most part and the only thing I heard him say during it was encouraging. He's super competitive by his own admission but when he was frustrated with her lack of progress he simply turned and walked away for a bit. I thought that showed good restraint on his part. (Granted, I reserve the right reverse my opinion on future episodes but nothing about his behavior in this one bugged me.)

18 hours ago, chaifan said:

We've had 2 Detours that produced extremely lopsided results - every team that chose "sing" came in after every team that chose "dance" (or was there 1 exception to this), and no one could come even close to completing the Ninja option.  I just don't remember past Detours that had that much disparity.  

This might be misleading. The first leg forced teams to split the Detour options evenly. The first teams to arrive at the Detour all chose Dance except for one. Naturally they would have finished first because they had already started before most of the other teams had even arrived at the Detour and had to choose sing. Also, the first team to choose Sing did finish before the last team to finish Dance.

I suspect there was a specific technique to throwing the darts or whatever they were in the Ninja task that no one managed to master. If they had, it would probably have been a lot faster than the origami task. So it may have had the potential to be a faster option. It was just as likely a failing of the teams that chose it rather than the design of the task.

[Stardancer Supreme]

5 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

 Aww… the nurses were my favorites. I’m a sucker for teams who are able to stay drama-free and supportive, and these two fit the bill. Unfortunately, their relaxed attitude also kept them from having the drive it takes to keep pushing forward, and it was clear from the start that they weren’t long for this race. But I wish them well. They seem like lovely women.

While it’s true that many 1980s women crimped and permed their hair into Lori-style kinks, some are just born with it. For them, there’s no recourse other than straightening and/or endless flat-ironing, and as someone with similarly psychotic hair, I can say that sometimes it’s better to just go with the flow.

I wish everyone would stop jumping on every word Scott says. To me, he seems like a perfectly nice man who has a loving, mutually supportive relationship with his wife. I have seen nothing that belies that. And if we need someone to judge, hey, Jonathan is right there.

Yeah, I will forgive Scott for his choice in words in regards to Lori. At least he didn't berate her like Jonathan does to Ana. Jonathan is back on my shytlist.  It was mostly his tone towards her in the talking heads; "I'm not going to smile at you when you are doing poorly in a task".  Way to be encouraging to your wife you supposedly love...

Courtney and Jasmine has a strong relationship; they were not good racers. Poor navigation and horrible taxi luck did them in.  Only Holden and Han got the idea of getting taxis from a hotel? That's much easier than trying to flag them down in the street.

 Holden and Han are normal siblings and I wish he had piped down during the origami.  I thought that the racers would have to do multiple small cranes, not that jumbo sided one!  It was also fun to see so many ninja fantasies get crushed.  I would not have done double digit attempts at that task, though. RAAAAACE! 

Edited Friday at 05:19 PM by Stardancer Supreme

[Colorado David]

ok i seriously want this outfit and makeup, it is fantastic  

[ML89]

I love origami but the crane fold always did me in, because I was looking at a book and that part where you make a pocket fold does not really translate to drawings of how to do it. Seeing it "live," yeah, I could have rocked that one.

I still don't get what was up with the nails on that ninja challenge, and them just bouncing off the target. I wouldn't have stayed around for more than 20 attempts, though. If I hadn't gotten it in 5, out.

Happy for Scott and Lori (because older team - and he still loses to Jonathan in the obnoxious guy sweepstakes) and the gamer guys - are they carrying one backpack and switching? I got involved in watching what everyone was carrying around this time. Maybe because yeah, 90 minutes was a bit long for this one. Also how did Vegas Guy in black get away with black when everyone else has both team members in their color, I wonder? Do they penalize?

 

 

Edited Friday at 06:17 PM by ML89

[eel2178]

On 3/20/2025 at 10:04 AM, iMonrey said:

In the Fold It challenge, I would have watched the demonstrators do the first two folds, then done my two, then gone back and watched them do the next two folds, then do my next two folds, and so on until I was finished. One or two steps at a time instead of trying to remember the entire thing all at once.

That's what I was thinking, too; however, I wondered if they were allowed to use the small paper, also: watch 2 folds, mimic 2 folds with the small paper, then copy those 2 folds with the large paper, lather, rinse, repeat.

[eel2178]

On 3/19/2025 at 9:01 PM, Rodney said:

Courtney & Jasmin. . .  just needed to lose the leg. 

If they'd been taking care of a patient, he would have lost his leg. Remind me to stay away from their hospital. I'm glad I no longer have to hear about how as nurses they should be excelling at everything while I watch them do whatever the antithesis of excelling is over and over.

[Tango64]

2 hours ago, eel2178 said:

If they'd been taking care of a patient, he would have lost his leg. Remind me to stay away from their hospital. I'm glad I no longer have to hear about how as nurses they should be excelling at everything while I watch them do whatever the antithesis of excelling is over and over.

Didn’t one of them say, “Somebody would be dead by now”? They knew. 

[Rodney]

14 minutes ago, Tango64 said:

Didn’t one of them say, “Somebody would be dead by now”? They knew. 

Yeah, sometime during the Fold Detour, one of them said it.

[dgpolo]

I watched a show called Top Shot (I don't think it was aimed at my demographic -an older lady but I enjoyed it) They had a challenge once where they had to throw knives, all these people had excellent hand-eye coordination and even more excellent aim but almost all of them had a very steep learning curve in throwing a knife. If I remember rightly the technique they were taught was very similar to the spike throwing, both arms straight in front of you, then raise your throwing arm and on the downward trajectory you let go. I think the problems came when they actually did try to throw it like a dart. I really hoped the lumberjacks would've tried that task as I think they probably had the closest skill set for it, especially if they competed in any kind of 'lumberjack games'.

I thought it was funny when Holden was just about to appease his sister in the middle of the argument and was interrupted by the brothers even louder argument.

[Netfoot]

Is it just me? Or are the nurses dumb as mutton?

The entire field seem like they would be unable to turn on the lights in their own home without Alexa to do it for them. 

Dart-throwing was unexpectedly difficult. I would have thought that if you follow the recommended technique - which didn't appear that complex - you would get at least some success. Appearances can obviously be misleading!

The difficulty with folding the crane was magnified by the thickness of the paper. Or lack of thickness. I think it would have made it easier if the large sheet of paper was thicker and stiffer. I used to know how to fold cranes but it's been a while since I did one. Like 30-40 years. I don't know that I could do one from memory today, but I think I would pick it up pretty quickly after watching a demo.

We have the Double Elimination, Fork In The Road, the Express Pass, the Intersection, the Fast Forward and next the Driver's Seat?  Any more "twists" and we'll be watching Survivargh!

The greeter was magnificently terrifying! 

[chaifan]

Totally off topic... is anyone else getting the warning that Primetimer's certificate has expired, and getting a privacy warning for the site?  

 

[Shrek]

12 minutes ago, chaifan said:

Totally off topic... is anyone else getting the warning that Primetimer's certificate has expired, and getting a privacy warning for the site?  

 

Yes, I've been told on the Jeopardy thread that they're working on it as the certificate was renewed late last year.

[iMonrey]

15 hours ago, dgpolo said:

I really hoped the lumberjacks would've tried that task as I think they probably had the closest skill set for it, especially if they competed in any kind of 'lumberjack games'.

Not to disparage the good names of Pops and Jeff, but they are "lumberjacks" in . . . St. Louis, Mo. From what I can gather it would probably be more accurate to call them tree trimmers or, at the most, arborists. 

[Diana Berry]

On 3/21/2025 at 7:47 AM, 30 Helens said:

 Aww… the nurses were my favorites. I’m a sucker for teams who are able to stay drama-free and supportive, and these two fit the bill. Unfortunately, their relaxed attitude also kept them from having the drive it takes to keep pushing forward, and it was clear from the start that they weren’t long for this race. But I wish them well. They seem like lovely women.

While it’s true that many 1980s women crimped and permed their hair into Lori-style kinks, some are just born with it. For them, there’s no recourse other than straightening and/or endless flat-ironing, and as someone with similarly psychotic hair, I can say that sometimes it’s better to just go with the flow.

I wish everyone would stop jumping on every word Scott says. To me, he seems like a perfectly nice man who has a loving, mutually supportive relationship with his wife. I have seen nothing that belies that. And if we need someone to judge, hey, Jonathan is right there.

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Edited Yest. at 12:36 AM by Diana Berry

[chaifan]

12 hours ago, Diana Berry said:

Agree if they didn’t have certain beliefs I’m sure those comments would fly right by.  Trying to make everything he says a negative. Good grief. 

Personally, if I didn't think Scott's statements were the result of religious beliefs, then my only remaining conclusion would be he's a sexist ass.  (Again, not mutually exclusive categories.)  In no way would his comments have "flown right by" me or many others here.  I think he's getting gentler treatment here because we're all assuming they're Mormons.   I'll call the comments out when I hear them, but I'm trying to see them through his and Lori's religious lens.  

[Quilt Fairy]

On 3/21/2025 at 6:56 PM, dgpolo said:

I watched a show called Top Shot (I don't think it was aimed at my demographic -an older lady but I enjoyed it)

I'm also an older lady and I loved Top Shot!  Especially the last season where they took out the Survivor-like team pettiness out of it.