The Amazing Race - Season 20

Loved how Phil got after the two teams for being so bitchy. They deserved to get called out on it. I hope their feud gets in the way of them playing the game and costs them in a big way.

 

Screw that. I hope Brenchel falls off a cliff.

 

The show has also done this exact same stunt before - during last spring's cycle, if memory serves correctly.

 

Are you referring to the one where they had to pick up a bed, transport it out in the middle of nowhere and then carry it half a mile to their campsite?

 

Just under the wire!

Week 7 scoring
Pool 1:
MTM 83
Huggy 39
WolvEagle 31
bumpymcgee 28
* IJAG 17
* TigerVols 9
* DrewWilson 5
* beanpole 1

Pool 2
Iron_Chet 83
Inky_Wretch 39
schiezainc 31
JayFarrar 28
KYSW 28
* Liesl 26
* Wenders 9
* BNWriter 1

* = team eliminated from TAR

 

I am SHOCKED that Mark & Bopper have made it this far. Between those two and the married Kentucky hicks a few seasons back I'm not so sure they shouldn't have an all-Kentucky cast next season.

 

I just can't get behind any of these nitwits, especially not Rachel the Immature Drama Queen and Art & JJ, Arbiters of All Things Ethical.

 

Love this show. Two very strong teams this year, and Kentucky and Big Brother lurking as sleepers.
The Art/J.J vs Rachel/Dave thing was interesting. I actually see both sides, and I think it is just another example of how alliances in this game don't work. Too many scenarios to gameplan for, just kind of have to play it leg to leg.

 

I really liked Art and JJ until the last two weeks, when they've suddenly started whining. Notice how it started when they weren't dominating every leg.

Vanessa and Ralph need to go or their negative attitude need to go, one or the other. Brenchel and their meltdowns are driving me insane as well. Dave is constantly down on Rachel, which really drives me up the wall as well. In fact, the team I liked best of all just got eliminated.

 

My team won a leg of the race! Woo-hoo! OK, so there's no way Mark and Bopper win the whole thing - especially with Bopper's bad knee. But, hey, they got a vacation in Hawaii out of it!

I agree with Wenders - Jamie and Nary were truly likeable. The only ones left who haven't acted like jerks at one point or another are Mark and Bopper.

 

The producers tried their hardest to make the "they're not really schoolteachers" into some sort of nefarious storyline...but it fell completely flat. That's what they get for trying to add an unneeded element to an already well-rounded show.

 

Things that never work out on the Amazing Race:

**Lying about your occupation (because, really, what's the point?)
**Alliances (Work well at the beginning when everyone's running around like a chicken with their heads cut off, always die about halfway through when it turns into an every man for himself game)
**Counting on taxi drivers (right when you say, "Oh look, we finally got a good taxi!" either he'll get lost or get a flat tire or stop for gas on the way to the pit stop)