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Sooo glad Marcy & Ron were eliminated. They were really nice people, but if I had to hear her yammering in the background any longer I think I would scream.

If only it were a double elimination tonight, so team Lawyer can GO HOME.

Don't think Marcy and Ron are going to make it long haul. I think he hates her.

Oh, how I've missed you, team with husband who married wife solely to have someone to blame for everything!

Damn it, Keri, it's YOUR fault I didn't know I had the clue in my hand the entire time!
Damn it, Keri, it's YOUR fault I saw the clue box before you did!

The fishtank on a moped was kinda cool.

The Incredible Sulk and Keri are The Whiners from Sat. Nite Live.

Zev in the hat made me laugh.

Hey, at least I learned where the parts in my last lousy monitor came from...

F U, TAR, that was a highly inappropriate location for the pitstop! 3 million people were slaughtered after the N. Vietnamese took over, the iconic building for the fall of S. Vietnam is not a place to celebrate at. What next, a pit stop at Auschwitz, with no mention of the 6 million killed in those camps?

That was infinitely better than last week. I love episodes where there's no airport travel, as it gives us more time to focus on the teams and the locations instead of filling 10-15 minutes of airport shuffle, and it showed tonight. I really liked the tasks this week: the only complaint in this area is that the detour seemed a little lobsided towards the hauling. Usually the mental task is supposed to give teams an edge if they can do it quickly but this seemed that Marcy and Ron did it fairly efficiently and were screwed regardless.

Watching them run through the streets with those animals though was the highlight of the show, made even better by the Amazing Cameramen. Some of the shots they got tonight were just superb. They really are the best of the best.

Was hoping for a Lance and Keri elimination at the end, but it was pretty obvious M/R were out. Keri's voice just annoys the hell out of me, and he's a bit on the intense side (understatement).

Great episode!!!

I think the episode title should have been Ron’s “What the fuck was that?” when Marcy smacked him with the envelope. Ron seemed annoyed with her a few times during the Race. Not trying to consult on the spelling was a fatal error; maybe they thought it was prohibited.

It’s so fitting that the annoying people are the one’s who are clueless about Race tasks. Like Canaan who thinks they have to dance for their puppet clue and Lance|Keri who didn’t know to open their bullet. Keri is totally clueless, but it’s grating that Lance places the blame squarely on Keri when both of them are doing something wrong.

I love water puppet theater. I think Cheyne (lulling the puppet into complance) and Brian (the mighty lunge) had the best clue-grabbing technique. Speaking of Brian and Ericka, they’re really exciting about being an interracial couple, what with the zebra and yin-yang visor.

As cool as the Globetrotters are, I was rooting for Meghan and Cheyne to beat them.

The greeter seemed so earnest and so said when the last team was eliminated.

Lots of shuffling based on bad luck and not proficiency at the actual tasks in this one, which doesn't always make for a good episode for me, especially when the tasks themselves are nothing special. But, my love of the Globetrotters and Zev and Justin and my hatred of Lance meant that both footraces were really intense, so it was still a very entertaining episode.

I feel a little better toward Maria and Tiffany after this leg.

Marcy bugged me, so I'm not sorry to see them go.

Team Asstorney continues to drop, while the Chipsters actually gained back a bit of respect. Not only did they maintain position in a leg heavily weighted towards teams with at least 1 male (e.g., every other team), but they actually gained points for their reaction to the brothers trying to help them (as did the brothers for offering). After dealing with a heavily physical detour and a roadblock that saw every single coed team have their male teammate perform it, they lost no ground and remain midpack. Which is probably where I want them to finish at this point.

Other than "Team Lion", no one really grated this episode. Team Miss America did great in that detour.

No! Don't pick the giraffe!

Team Globetrotters!!!

I'm embarrassed that I'm from the same state as Lance and Keri. And woman with whistle was annoying. Team poker players got a good edit this week.

I think they would have been done so much quicker if they realized they just had to ask someone to unscramble the word ... instead of looking up at signs to find it (?! wtf was that? I guess if you don't know that thats the wrong way to go, it must seem fairly obvious....).

However I'm glad they left because I hate when people are so calm and nonchalant about racing. It's a race!! Hustle.

Ok so I missed last week and this was my intro to the new teams. Immediately LOVED the Harlem Globetrotters ("work it girl,work it!") but why aren't they using their real names? Just as immediately I hated Lance and Keri...he is a controlling ass but she is a shrew. They need to go next. The gay bros are HOTT..they can stay :)

So what was with everyone being soooo dumb tonight? The older couple who were Philiminated stood around for ages trying to figure out the word?? WTF? They didn't realise it wasn't in English? Their task turned out to be easier but they flubbed it up. Time to go home indeed. The female half tends to look lovingly at the guy but he doesn't seem to be having it.

And right at the beginning why did so many teams not realise that they needed to GO TO Ho Chi Minh city? What was all the wandering about? Same thing looking for the 008 intersection.

Hilarity at the dragon part. I was rolling! Loved the guy who did the stealth move on the puppet...too funny. More hilarity dragging the animals. Leaving the thingie in the middle of the road to go back for a balloon? That's bringing the funny too.

I do like that the tasks seem more involved..not just "go here and take the clue then go there". They were working hard! And no airport..yay!

Globetrotters for the win!

ETA: "Team Zebra"? AKA Brian and Ericka? Please stop saying that or I am going to hate you. A LOT.

Could someone please tell me which law school Lance graduated from? It seems like whatever high school he managed to graduate from should have its accreditation yanked, so his profession is quite surprising.

I'm officially down on Team Masshole. Basically, they're a more unpleasant version of Dandrew, in the sense that they're not only loud and obnoxious towards each other, but they're also incompetent. And the only reason why they'll remain in the Race is because other teams will fuck up worse. And if they win? Well, TAR16 will be just around the corner.

Marcy/Ron . . . I'm guessing it took them a lot longer to complete their Detour than it looked. They seemed nice, but yeah . . . worse leg than the Massholes, and that's all it took.

Other than the Massholes, we got a good leg. Liked the Globetrotters, though they seem a little too loud towards each other. Other teams are either okay or "meh" at the moment. I'm just against the Massholes. Yoga instructors wouldn't have bugged as hard as Lance & Keri, I know it.

Next week: Please let the Massholes lose their passports. And yeah, I like typing "Massholes."

Yea Asia for chaos, heat and sweat! I will be glad to see team Lawyer go. Let's all hope for next week double elim.

So many people deserved to go home. And the whole "no quality control on the tasks" thing REALLY grates. If you're supposed to unscrew it and put the parts in different piles, then Hulk-ripping and smashing it apart should mean YOU DO IT OVER AGAIN. Argh.

I liked the idea of a mobile pit stop. The team's didn't even know what city they were starting this leg in.

I really like that team Miss America work together and lean on each other and that she doesn't appear to think "I'm pretty so I'll get others to help me". They're very self sufficient as evidenced by the animal task.

And Lance and Keri - complete morons. They screwed up absolutely every where they could screw up. Once all the laggards are out of the race, they'll be gone because they can't keep making mistakes like that. But they will because they're idiots.

I always root for the older teams, being seriously middle aged myself, but Marcy & Ron just weren't going to go very far. Aside from not getting help unscrambling the word earlier from someone who actually spoke Vietnamese, they were just too laid back and lacking hustle. Calmness is a great skill in real life, but not on a race. I figured they'd stop for lunch on their way to the VCR-deconstruction task.

Loved the water puppets, and the ceramic animals. And Ericka's cute line about picking the zebra. Hope that Mr. Giraffe got put back together.

Loved this episode! Teams were turning it UP this time. Well, except for the one that got eliminated.

I can't remember an episode with this many back to back finishers.

Uncharacteristic Phil phaux pas:

Thousands of American soldiers died there, but a lot of other people, including enemy soldiers, died there too.

I cry foul at Lawyer Hulk being able to get the clue by just beating the VCR into pieces and not actually disassembling it. And I don't think I can listen to Keri much longer. They are awful.

"Hey we didn't get all of the clue!"

Gotta laugh about that. At this point I started to think that maybe the lawyer advertised for a "girlfriend" to compete in the race. Because no one would seriously date that jerk.

What an enjoyable episode! We got to learn a little more about how the different teams work together. I was happy to see my favorite team, Meghan and Cheyne, do so well. Second place is pretty good! I liked Cheyne doing a little dance for the water dragon puppet before he got the clue.

Of course the most entertainment came from Lance and Keri. I was glad they weren't eliminated just because they provide so much unintentional humor. "Where's the clue? Where's the clue?" as they run around looking for the clue they're actually holding in their hands. HA! Lance's voice even sounds like S6 Jonathan's, high and whiny, but thankfully Keri is no Victoria. She made him apologize! I think when Lance is not being competitive he's probably an OK person.

It was fun seeing the teams lug the animals around & fun to see how they handled it. The smart teams chose the low-lying animals since they'd be easier to transport. One team--I forgot which--actually laid a fawn on its side. I suppose laying the giraffe on its side would not have made much difference for Zev and Justin--that long neck sticking out could have gotten broken off.

Maria and Tiffany were fun, too. Tiffany looked pretty nerdy with those safety glasses on. I liked seeing what a good sport she was with the locals as she worked away on the computer. Lance was funny ripping the computers apart.

The two oldest teams are out now. The biggest ranking jumps from leg 2 to 3 are Brian and Ericka from tenth to fourth, then Lance and Keri, from 4th to 9th. Brian and Ericka worked together really well this leg while Lance and Keri fell apart a little. Zev and Justin took a dip, too. Anyhow, fun leg!

ITA Shockingly insensitive to many people on both sides.

I disagree. I thought there was a lot of merit involved. Ron and Marcy did poorly because they mis-read a letter and for some reason failed to get a Vietnamese person help them in assembling a Vietnamese word. The other Detour was determined by picking an animal that was easy to balance, keep a handle on your balloons, and hauling power. The VCR disassembling seemed merit-based until they let Lance get away with just smashing it. The puppet theater gave teams a small time advantage based on technique. First place was determined by a foot race. The only thing that seemed like luck to me was that some shuffling seemed to occurring in the cabs. But it didn't seemed like egregious cab trouble.

This episode bugged for some reason. The pace was too frenetic, the racers' nerves were all jangled (more so than usual), everyone seemed on the verge of panic for some reason. That park was was crazy-busy! The whole thing made me feel nervous, not entertained.

Lance and Keri are a crummy team for sure but, at least I can give kudos to Keri - she's no Victoria. She even managed to evoke a weak apology out of Lance. I didn't think he had it in him. I was so hoping that they would be eliminated. And what was that talk about wrestling Phil at the mat? Weird. He must have been a bully when he was a kid. Phil handled it well by stroking the guy's ego a little and letting him think he could beat him.

Team Zebra! Love it!

Broyay is starting to annoy (yes YOU, DAN).

Still feel the love for the Globetrotters (Sorry to hear about one of their fathers dying two days before the race started. Hope he got to go to the funeral). Also love Cheyne and his girlfriend, especially when he said she tasted delicious when she was all sweaty. Awww! Cuuuuute!

I'm starting to like Tiffany of the Poker girls just a little bit.

I'm not sorry to see the older couple go.

I really liked this episode but gave a huge WTF to the placement of the Pit Stop. Whoever did the research for this leg should be beat over the head. Seriously?

I thought that Ericka and Brian's zebra moment was so cute. It was something between just the two of them rather than a huge "Hey we are an interracial couple" thing. Just them picking something that meant something to them and being really efficient with the task was a huge plus. They are still my favorite team.

I can not wait for team Mass to go away. The guy is an ass and the girl has the shrillest most annoying voice in the world.

What the heck was with Canaan and Mika dancing for the clue?

Lance and Keri deserve each other. Anyone else think of Janice from friends every time Keri shrieked? I could almost hear her adding CHANDLER BING to the end of most of those diatribes.

I laughed SO hard when Team Globetrotter walked past the woman in the park and one of them went 'Work it, girl, Work it'. And she was, LOL.

Also I also have to give props to the cameramen for getting some great shots. After Team Globetrotters parked their animal statue and dashed off with their clue, the cameraman hung around to show a little girl wiggling her way to sit on top of the statue. Too cute.

Ron and Marcy were likable but needed to go. They just didn't have enough of 'eye of the tiger' for me to think they could really win this race.

Team Zebra annoyed me the first time they said it, but I laughed at how doofy they were the second time they said it so for now they can keep it.

Sam and Dan (I always want to type Dean!) continue to bring the pretty, even if there are some cracks already showing.

Was I the only one that thinks it looked like the there was a shoving match between Nathaniel and Cheyne at the mat?

Or was that just a chest bump?

Nothing seemed to be made of it, so I guess it was nothing serious? It looked bad though.

It seems clueless Canaan thought point was to dance to impress the puppet, which would simply give them their clue. So he told Mika to dance. Or maybe he's so deprived by being pure with Mika that he just found an excuse to get her to wiggle her ass to tide him over.

Speaking of which, Auschwitz was a stop on TAR/AS where candles were lit and respects were paid before the teams remaining at that point go their next clue.

I do agree it wasn't the best place to have a pit stop at what may be a place of "propaganda" glorying a brutal regime, which still rules the country currently.





Lance and Keri should have dropped one more spot to be eliminated.

Lance is starting to turn into Jonathan pretty quickly and his team is starting to turn into a combo of Jonathan and Superbad for that matter, after bleeding a lot of time not realizing that the clue is in the bullet, the stamp itself was the clue and for getting totally lost looking for the whatever 008 location was.

I am not sure if there was any Ugly American stuff from Lance (or any other team for that matter), but Ho Chi Minh City is definitely crazy especially at rush hour, especially if you put four million motorbikes in the mix. Surprised that there was no mention of Frogger for that matter.

As for Zev and Justin, they dropped quite a bit because of their choice of animal to move to the playground. That could have potentially eliminated them had it not been for Lance and Keri and Marcy and Ron.



Marcy and Ron bled too much time on the Word Play task itself especially with them trying to find signs with contained the letters itself and that they got it wrong the first time. It turned out that the two words that were made were indeed English minus those diacritical marks.

Wonder what Doc Lap (with the marks) means in English? I would not be surprised if it was related to the next clue or task.

Had they chosen the Child's Play task or did the task quicker, it would have been Lance and Keri that would have been out after losing the footrace.

Loved Phil subtly sticking it to Team Lion "The zebras and the gazelles are beating you to the mat."

Too bad Tina Fey and Larry David were eliminated. But what WERE they doing on the race anyway?

That's one eharmony couple that won't be making a "we're so happy" commercial. It was quite clear that he can not stand her. She was very annoying and he seemed very laid back. Not a good match at all.

Yup. I was surprised and disappointed that Lance got away with that. And count me among those who are wondering how he managed to graduate from high school, much less law school. He and Keri don't have the resourcefulness to last long in the race, and I really hope they don't.

I don't much care for Sam and Dan--they've rubbed me the wrong way in both episodes. But I'm liking everyone else so far. Even the poker players were kind of endearing this week. Wasn't terribly sorry to see Marcy and Ron go home, though they seemed like nice people, since it was clear they weren't very strong competitors in a field that seems full of really strong racers so far.

If Dan can not chill out, I will happily race with you Sam.

Loathe Keri and Lance. I did not hear them say one thank you to anyone---the cab drivers, anyone giving them directions. Horrible. So much yelling too. And her accent is the worst---Use the Hammah, use the hammah. OMG.

The eliminated couple seemed like they were on holiday. No sense of urgency at all!

I intensely dislike both members of Team Hulk and his bride. I so wish they had been the ones eliminated even though I am not a fan of Marcy/Ron either.
He could pass the bar but yet fumbles every clue and can't figure out to look in the bullet when every other team can? Ok. Also, his aggression because he finished before Zev/Justin and they got a taxi first was absurd. It's not just who finishes dickwad; it's who actually makes it to the pitstop and how.

I am really happy Zev/Justin beat Lance just to make Lance that much more anxious and pissed. Zev saying he would take him on was great as was Phil chiding him about being "the lion" while the gazelles were beating him.

The animals were fun though I was surprised to see anyone take the giraffe.

I am solidly on team Globetrotters and right now hope they take it all.

I loved the water dragons!

ETA: I've not been a fan of team pokah playahs but was impressed with them this week.

I don't have much of a reaction to them yet (except for the constant one note "CALM DOWN, MAN!) but I can't see or hear their name w/o thinking "Sam & Diane".

Keri should seriously reconsider marrying Lance. Time for them to leave my screen post haste. There's nothing I hate more than folks who don't read their clues.

Team Globetrotter FTW!

Dan is so hot, but he is also high strung. I can't imagine racing with someone like that.

Killer Fatigue is a bitch, yo.

I think the word means "Independence". I'm pretty sure Phil said that when he was describing the challenge.

The action goes by so fast I don't realize how much I miss until I read all these posts. The Team Zebra thing passed me by completely.

Nothing made me laugh harder than Mike and Caanon (sp??) dancing for those water puppets! Classic!

And I loved the "work it girl" comment from the one Globetrotter. I am loving those two more and more. Erika and Brian are growing on me with each hour too. I just like her.

Overall, really good leg. Not a lot of bunching and no airport stuff.

Lance kind of scared me at the end there - it looked like he spooked Phil a bit, too. When Zev needled him after Phil's gazelle/lion quip, Lance seriously looked like he was thinking " I would beat the hell out of you right now if there weren't any cameras around". There's frustration, and there's bluster, but he looked downright cold-blooded cruel.

I cannot WAIT until Lance and Keri are Philiminated. He is such a tool.

Loved the near photo-finish with Team Globetrotter and Meghan/Cheyne. Both teams played the game well, and were respectful at the end.

Marcy and Ron really screwed themselves by not finding someone to help with their word earlier. And ITA that Ron should have been told to re-do at least one of his VCRs. the trying man was not having fun keeping me calm when he received the clue.

I was so annoyed that Lance the idiot did not get eliminated because his team made so many mistakes. They just lucked out that one team screwed up even more. I can't see them lasting much longer though if they continue with the time wasting bickering.

So glad that Phil ripped on him at the mat, in such a way that he probably still doesn't realize that he was being insulted. The socially awkward part doesn't really surprise me, because some lawyers are emotionally retarded and prefer to fight with opposing counsel on all issues as opposed to coming to an agreement when possible. So Lance's overaggressive approach to Keri is not that surprising, especially because he seems to be overcompensating for something with his excessive fitness and hulk like behaviour.

Phil mentioned what it means when he was describing each task. It means "independence".

I agree with everyone about Lance being annoying and it's SO not fair that he got to smash the VCR. Not to mention his comment along the lines of, "I did the manly thing." Oh, so men smash stuff? He's a genius.

Some said they were more impressed with the poker players, but I disagree, especially after the Asian one (Maria? Some M- name? I am not a fan so I haven't bothered to pay attention to their names) just went on her merry way in the park and made her partner push and pull the animal ALL BY HERSELF. Every other team that I could see worked together on the physical part.

Re: Marcy and Ron; Once again, I found myself screaming "READ YOUR DAMN CLUE!!" at the TV. I sort of liked them but they were getting annoying tonight, and certainly didn't seem to have a race mentality.

Lance and Keri are not only obnoxious, but they're not very bright, are they? Or maybe it's that they get so frantic that they don't stop to think--and Lance seems to be expecting the locals to solve every problem for him (when he's not blaming Keri.) I don't mind Keri's voice so much--being from the NYC area, it sounds kind of homelike to me ;-)

Although nobody talked about a busted duck last week, "My giraffe is broken" would have been appropriate tonight. . .Those animals were cute, and I liked the way some of the racers were talking to them. It made them seem a little relaxed.

I can't believe that, after coming within a short distance of being eliminated, Lance was still mouthing off about getting ahead of the others. Got to go. Seriously.

I pretty much liked everybody else tonight, except the whiney brother who kept freaking out every second.

This isn't the first time TPTB have used a traveling boat pit stop.

They had one on Lake Geneva in TAR 3.