King Arthur Style
Hi everybody, I was away for the weekend and watched the show on Sunday when it aired, planning to watch it again and recap it Monday night for you all... but I'm so disheartened by the outcome that I don't know if I can watch it again. So it's more of an encapsulated recap this week, 'cause I'm sad.
The teams started out from Santiago, Chile - my team, Chester and Ephraim, the former NFL players, were the first to leave and got the clue to head to Lisbon, Portugal. They went to a travel agency and while the girl was looking up the best connections to get them to Portugal, the doctors came in and stole their flight! Their travel agent put in the wrong date and it was snatched out from under them... and that was the beginning of the end for my team. They booked a crazy two connection route and their flights were all delayed... I haz sad.
Everyone else gets to Portugal, despite Amy & Jason getting into a slight fender bender on the way to the airport.
-The Afghanimals and the Ice Bunnies tried to play the Okies. The smarmy boys want the Okies to take the same flight as them so they wouldn't be competing with the girls. But Okie Danny isn't as backwoods as they think, he sees what they are trying to do and decides not to go with them - the Okies find their own flights.
-Pinky Marie is still using the Express Pass to try and wheedle info out of people. That is her plan to keep using it to demand information and not actually give it to anyone - Bingo Rowan had it right, she is the devil.
-Along that same vein, the best thing that happened all episode was the baseball wives, who Marie had played with the promise of the Express Pass then reneged - found an Executive Lounge at the airport and, while the gate was still closed and Marie & another team were waiting, they got put on the standby list first, eventhough they were the last team to arrive. OH, you should have seen Marie, she could not believe that someone out sneaky'd her... she didn't like it.
She told the Baseball Wives that they are dead to her but I think she may have some newfound, if grudging, respect for the Bunnies (that's what she calls the Baseball Wives) She now sees them as competition though, so there is no way they are getting the Express pass now (who am I kidding, no one is getting it.)
In Lisbon, Portugal they got a painting of an ornate coach and had to figure out to go to the Coach Museum, once there they had to find the coach matching the painting and they found the clue to the Detour: Tiles or Miles
Tiles: They had to assemble a puzzle by arranging tiles to complete a picture of a person in period dress. (Baseball Wives, Brandon & Adam, Leo & Jamal and Ally & Ashley (after switching) - oh and Marie & Tim, did this task.)
Miles: They had to use a giant compass to measure the miles Magellan travelled to 10 destinations - there was a huge map in the square, they had to use the 8ft instrument and do math... you can imagine. (The Doctors and Jason & Amy worked together and Tim & Danny also did this one.)
Roadblock - Who has a hand for slings & arrows? I always love it when they make them dress up and this one was pretty good - they had to put on a partial suite of armour - chain-mail and a heavy helmet and then shoot a large medieval crossbow to hit one of the shields set up down field. Once they hit a shield it was presented to them as the clue to the Pit Stop is on the back.
Here's How They Finished:
1) Nicole & Travis (The Doctors) felt they redeemed themselves from losing first place on the first leg due to a clue reading error. They won a trip for two to Costa Rica.
2) Jason & Amy - due to a sign reading error they got a little lost on the way to the Pit Stop and the doctor's were able to overtake them. (Noooo!)
3) Nicky & Kim (Baseball wives) - they are feeling really good that they were able to pull one over on other teams and get themselves ahead.
4) Tim & Danny (Okies) - way to go boys - they did great.
5) Brandon & Adam - scruffy did good.
6) Leo & Jamal - I don't like them much, but they don't like Marie and needled her at the Detour which I could get behind.
7) Ally & Ashley - they had a little spat with their Race husbands when they didn't listen to them on the choice of the task at the Detour (time to cut the ties?)
8) Marie & Tim - she said she would kill herself if they were last... but we weren't that lucky.
Phil tells them they are the last team to arrive... and they started having kittens... "except for one." (Oh that Phil, such a kidder :) He couldn't have messed with a team more deserving of it either.)
He asked them if they thought of using their Express Pass and, all-bluster Marie says she wasn't worried, you know she's in charge of this whole darn race! (Ugh.)
9) Then, in the dead of night, finally, Chester and Ephraim's third delayed flight spits them out in Lisbon, Portugal... and Phil comes and meets them at the airport. Chester - "Uh oh, that's not good."
Phil tells them they are the last team to arrive and, he was really sorry to tell them, they have been ELIMINATED from the Race. You gotta love these guys, they stayed positive the whole time, they were disappointed that things out of their control cost them the game. They had a great time, and were glad to have done the Race together. Ephraim said, "But to quote the great Ricky Bobby, 'If you're not first, you're last.' " They walked off arms around each other's shoulders, out of the Race but still great friends and teammates.
And Eliminated with me from the pool are Jeremy N, Carol-Anne D, Robert L. and Kim B.
Next week: Teams plunge into the Arctic and Nicole makes a power play for the Express Pass - Marie asks them for info and Nicole says she wants the Express Pass to tell her - Marie balks (as we all know she would) and I like Nicole a lot more just from that scene :)
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen
Hi everybody, I was away for the weekend and watched the show on Sunday when it aired, planning to watch it again and recap it Monday night for you all... but I'm so disheartened by the outcome that I don't know if I can watch it again. So it's more of an encapsulated recap this week, 'cause I'm sad.
The teams started out from Santiago, Chile - my team, Chester and Ephraim, the former NFL players, were the first to leave and got the clue to head to Lisbon, Portugal. They went to a travel agency and while the girl was looking up the best connections to get them to Portugal, the doctors came in and stole their flight! Their travel agent put in the wrong date and it was snatched out from under them... and that was the beginning of the end for my team. They booked a crazy two connection route and their flights were all delayed... I haz sad.
Everyone else gets to Portugal, despite Amy & Jason getting into a slight fender bender on the way to the airport.
-The Afghanimals and the Ice Bunnies tried to play the Okies. The smarmy boys want the Okies to take the same flight as them so they wouldn't be competing with the girls. But Okie Danny isn't as backwoods as they think, he sees what they are trying to do and decides not to go with them - the Okies find their own flights.
-Pinky Marie is still using the Express Pass to try and wheedle info out of people. That is her plan to keep using it to demand information and not actually give it to anyone - Bingo Rowan had it right, she is the devil.
-Along that same vein, the best thing that happened all episode was the baseball wives, who Marie had played with the promise of the Express Pass then reneged - found an Executive Lounge at the airport and, while the gate was still closed and Marie & another team were waiting, they got put on the standby list first, eventhough they were the last team to arrive. OH, you should have seen Marie, she could not believe that someone out sneaky'd her... she didn't like it.
She told the Baseball Wives that they are dead to her but I think she may have some newfound, if grudging, respect for the Bunnies (that's what she calls the Baseball Wives) She now sees them as competition though, so there is no way they are getting the Express pass now (who am I kidding, no one is getting it.)
In Lisbon, Portugal they got a painting of an ornate coach and had to figure out to go to the Coach Museum, once there they had to find the coach matching the painting and they found the clue to the Detour: Tiles or Miles
Tiles: They had to assemble a puzzle by arranging tiles to complete a picture of a person in period dress. (Baseball Wives, Brandon & Adam, Leo & Jamal and Ally & Ashley (after switching) - oh and Marie & Tim, did this task.)
Miles: They had to use a giant compass to measure the miles Magellan travelled to 10 destinations - there was a huge map in the square, they had to use the 8ft instrument and do math... you can imagine. (The Doctors and Jason & Amy worked together and Tim & Danny also did this one.)
Roadblock - Who has a hand for slings & arrows? I always love it when they make them dress up and this one was pretty good - they had to put on a partial suite of armour - chain-mail and a heavy helmet and then shoot a large medieval crossbow to hit one of the shields set up down field. Once they hit a shield it was presented to them as the clue to the Pit Stop is on the back.
Here's How They Finished:
1) Nicole & Travis (The Doctors) felt they redeemed themselves from losing first place on the first leg due to a clue reading error. They won a trip for two to Costa Rica.
2) Jason & Amy - due to a sign reading error they got a little lost on the way to the Pit Stop and the doctor's were able to overtake them. (Noooo!)
3) Nicky & Kim (Baseball wives) - they are feeling really good that they were able to pull one over on other teams and get themselves ahead.
4) Tim & Danny (Okies) - way to go boys - they did great.
5) Brandon & Adam - scruffy did good.
6) Leo & Jamal - I don't like them much, but they don't like Marie and needled her at the Detour which I could get behind.
7) Ally & Ashley - they had a little spat with their Race husbands when they didn't listen to them on the choice of the task at the Detour (time to cut the ties?)
8) Marie & Tim - she said she would kill herself if they were last... but we weren't that lucky.
Phil tells them they are the last team to arrive... and they started having kittens... "except for one." (Oh that Phil, such a kidder :) He couldn't have messed with a team more deserving of it either.)
He asked them if they thought of using their Express Pass and, all-bluster Marie says she wasn't worried, you know she's in charge of this whole darn race! (Ugh.)
9) Then, in the dead of night, finally, Chester and Ephraim's third delayed flight spits them out in Lisbon, Portugal... and Phil comes and meets them at the airport. Chester - "Uh oh, that's not good."
Phil tells them they are the last team to arrive and, he was really sorry to tell them, they have been ELIMINATED from the Race. You gotta love these guys, they stayed positive the whole time, they were disappointed that things out of their control cost them the game. They had a great time, and were glad to have done the Race together. Ephraim said, "But to quote the great Ricky Bobby, 'If you're not first, you're last.' " They walked off arms around each other's shoulders, out of the Race but still great friends and teammates.
And Eliminated with me from the pool are Jeremy N, Carol-Anne D, Robert L. and Kim B.
Next week: Teams plunge into the Arctic and Nicole makes a power play for the Express Pass - Marie asks them for info and Nicole says she wants the Express Pass to tell her - Marie balks (as we all know she would) and I like Nicole a lot more just from that scene :)
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen
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