PLEASE DO NOT OFFER MY GOD A PEANUT: There are many good things that can happen when you drink a lot of tea, and if you drink a whole lot of it you can get sympathetic, pitying applause from the locals. But by the many arms of Ganesh I swear that we've seen this all before on The Amazing Race: India is crowded! Mallory is easily excited! Luke gets frustrated! Product gets plugged!
That said, it was (other than the lack of airplane intrigue) a well-constructed leg: a smartly-constructed needle in a haystack, a clue that required some intelligence to recognize, local navigational skills. I'm just not finding a lot to excite me -- either in terms of teams doing things which impress me or saying/doing things which amuse me. YMMV.
I don't like Ron and Christina at all, but Ron's handling of the Roadblock was really impressive.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see Luke gone but sort of sorry he had to take Margie with him. The kid still has no resilience and no coping skills. Better he leaves now.
ReplyDeleteI love me some Globetrotters but those two have no strategy at all in these kinds of challenges. Actually, in a lot of challenges. They just wing it and get by on their charm and some luck. I fear their time is limited.
Mallory annoys me to no end.
And if Prof. Ian Duncan is to be believed regarding the tea, a really large penis as well.
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Watching Luke get frustrated is just painful beyond words. I can't imagine what it's like for him to watch that back on TV. Poor kid. His mother handled it well though. I probably would have let him quit.
ReplyDeleteThe tea challenge was infuriating to watch. None of the other teams figured out that mango can be pretty easily identified by smell? Instead, they just kept randomly drinking cups and running them up? Especially you, Luke -- aren't your other senses heightened?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I thought Keisha was on to something when she saw that the judge was identifying correct mugs by an indication on the bottom, but I guess that couldn't be gamed.
The judge did seem to actually read through his list, so there may have been several valid symbols, perhaps even unique to each winning cup.
ReplyDeleteThe Globetrotter (love them, I can never remember which one is which) was at least letting large quantities of tea spill down the front of his shirt, which had to have helped.
ReplyDeleteYou are not Ganesh! Ganesh is graceful!
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ReplyDeleteAt least this episode was better than the previous ones. It found it amusing that the team who most often identified the clue bottle as Snapple (Keisha and Jen) were the ones who took the longest to realize there was a message under the bottle cap. There's always a message under a Snapple bottle cap.
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All I know is, we just finished the episode, and man, am I craving some Snapple. Well done, sirs.
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