S37.E08: We’re Letting Race Brain Win LIVE CHAT THREAD

[MerBearHou]

8 minutes ago, Pepper the Cat said:

High but delusional! 😂

Which one of the guys said that — I’m not sure which is which — but that was funny.  He’s got a great spirit.  

[Rodney]

So Melinda & Erika were just two streets away from the lake.

The Klek Shop looks nice!

Alyssa & Josiah are missing where the shop is.

[Lantern7]

Identifying graffiti. Neat touch.

Does the lady have a light inside?

[Rodney]

"AR37" in graffiti?  Awesome marking!

Jonathan & Ana miss the marking, as well.

They see the marking at last and get their clue.

[Pepper the Cat]

Ok. This looks hard

[Rodney]

Brett & Mark took the bus to a university.

Ooh.  They have to translate a passage from Cyrillic to English.

Whoa!  Cyrillic was invented in Bulgaria?!

I can't see Melinda & Erika doing well at this one.  Han & Holden, either.

[Lantern7]

Another task neither Detour nor Roadblock? I’m feeling uneasy for some reason.

[BuckeyeLou]

Those "Klek" shops are crazy!  How much business do they get?!

[nilyank]

Just now, Pepper the Cat said:

Ok. This looks hard

Me likey.

[Browncoat]

It's the Little Orphan Annie decoder ring from A Christmas Story.  Oh, wait, maybe it's harder than that.

I take it back -- not harder than that.

Edited April 24 by Browncoat

[Lantern7]

Priest doesn’t have much of a flinging arm.

[chaifan]

1 minute ago, Rodney said:

I can't see Melinda & Erika doing well at this one.  Han & Holden, either.

Holden probably took cypher classes in military school.  😁

[Rodney]

Han & Holden get the cross from the lake, and they're off to the Klek Shop.

Okay.  Clever with the translation being on the back.

[Lantern7]

1 minute ago, Browncoat said:

It's the Little Orphan Annie decoder ring from A Christmas Story.  Oh, wait, maybe it's harder than that.

“BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE?!?”

That never gets old, does it?

Edited April 24 by Lantern7

[Rodney]

Melinda & Erika reach the lake.

Ooh.  Melinda's husband and Erika's father is an Orthodox Greek.

[Browncoat]

Oh, READ THE CLUE!  No one is going to make a bigger mistake than you, Mom and daughter.

[Lantern7]

Whuh-oh! Mom & daughter taking a cab! Phil’s gonna have to break out the plastic furniture.

[Rodney]

Oh, no.  Melinda & Erika just got in a cab when they were told not to!

[Browncoat]

I was really going to be disappointed if no one took a cab.

[Rodney]

Just now, Lantern7 said:

Whuh-oh! Mom & daughter taking a cab! Phil’s gonna have to break out the plastic furniture.

Phil hasn't done that since Heather & Eve.

Brett & Mark decode the phrase!

Alyssa & Josiah just get there to start.

[iMonrey]

Melinda and Erika: Dunzo.

[Quilt Fairy]

Four route tasks in a row?  That is a TAR first!

[MerBearHou]

I love libraries.  This is so cool (yes, I’m behind on the episode).

[Browncoat]

Yes, Josiah, you are missing something.

[Rodney]

Alyssa & Josiah think that there's a book.  Alyssa can't say "Cyrillic" correctly.

[nilyank]

Oh they are overthinking it.

[Rodney]

Han & Holden find the marking at the Klek Shop quickly and are the only team to do so.

Jonathan & Ana reach the university and start decoding.

[chaifan]

Has Jonathan been dressed in a button down shirt the whole race, and I'm now just noticing?  He looks oddly out of place with everyone else?

[Rodney]

See, Jonathan?  Learn from Josiah.  He's comforting Alyssa!  You could comfort Ana!

Carson & Jack also don't strip down.

But they're gay, so the handsome men thrill them.

Carson & Jack met over Lady Gaga?  Sounds about right.

[Browncoat]

Oh that's funny -- the wood chopper guy from last leg on the bus.

[Rodney]

Holy crap!  The woodchopper guy from the last leg was on the bus!

[Lantern7]

Seeing a guy from a prior leg. That’s another first, right? I’d take it as a good omen.

[Rodney]

He told them immediately about the Klek Shop.

Ooh!  Jonathan found the translation on the back!

Jonathan & Ana are being quiet so Alyssa & Josiah don't figure it out.

And Melinda & Erika pass right by the shop.  They double back, but don't see the marking.

[Lantern7]

Looks like D&D will be bailed out once again by another team’s miscues.

[nilyank]

Ys, Race and don't give other team clues.

[Rodney]

Melinda & Erika find the Klek Shop thanks to local help, and they're back on track to the university.

Gah.  No taxi, ladies!

[Browncoat]

If they're so focused on reading the clue, they a) wouldn't be in a taxi, and 2) would have known it was klek shop and not kelk shop.

[nilyank]

No your're not good at reading clues.

[chaifan]

1 minute ago, Lantern7 said:

Looks like D&D will be bailed out once again by another team’s miscues.

I prefer that to random HOO's or airport bunching.

[Quilt Fairy]

No, you're NOT good at reading the clue.  Because think about it, would the clue say "You're allowed to take a taxi" or "You're NOT allowed to take a taxi"?  

[iMonrey]

Which one is Erika and which one is Melinda?

Whichever is the daughter saying she's gotten a lot better at reading the clue. The editors must have loved that.

[chaifan]

How will Phil penalize the taxi rides?  Will they have to go back to the start and get from point to point without a taxi?  Or will they have to take a penalty?  Either way, at this point I think they're toast.

 

[nilyank]

Just now, Quilt Fairy said:

No, you're NOT good at reading the clue.  Because think about it, would the clue say "You're allowed to take a taxi" or "You're NOT allowed to take a taxi"?  

Especially when you add for the rest of this leg of the race.

[Seelouis]

Just now, Quilt Fairy said:

No, you're NOT good at reading the clue.  Because think about it, would the clue say "You're allowed to take a taxi" or "You're NOT allowed to take a taxi"?  

It said you must not travel by taxi. Which she (who “always reads her clue carefully”) read as must travel by taxi. 

[dizzyd]

Looks like Jonathan is having a good episode after trying to defend himself online with his negative edit so far. I mean he danced like he didn’t have a care in the world, didn’t think he had it in him. Then he figures out the cipher and doesn’t share it with the other J&A till they were done.

Edited April 24 by dizzyd

[Browncoat]

Wow.  Jonathan being nice.  Who knew?

[nilyank]

Ugh no RACE.

[Rodney]

Jonathan & Ana clear the decoding task, and they tell Alyssa & Josiah about the translation, hoping for help later on.

Alyssa & Josiah finish, and they've fallen to third.

[Lantern7]

“Remember, in the Latin, “Jehovah’ starts with an ‘I’!”

[Good Queen Jane]

The only thing funnier than racers not reading the clue carefully is racers saying how they learned to read the clue carefully.