***Official "The Amazing Race 4" Thread*** (1 Viewer)

[Scott Douglas]

Titan TV shows that this weeks episode of AR is in High Def.

Has the other episodes this year been in HD?

 

[Patrick Sun]

Tonight's episode was not in HD in my area.

The look on Reichen face when the clowns snagged the ticket off their horse-n-buggy was classic!

Team Coronary is becoming an inspirational team in the early rounds.

Cindy and Russell had all sort of bad luck with the language barrier that resulted in their ticket mix-up and costed them plenty of time.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Team Coronary

R&C would have gotten booted once they left Europe anyway, as will Team NFL and Team Model. As soon as most people don't understand any English they're all cooked

Terry & Ian survived 'Nam because he'd spent so much time there. His knowlege of the country saved them big time and gave them a big advantage over the others

 

[Lee L]

Titan TV is often worng about which shows are in HD. Check www.cbs.com/hdtv instead for CBS shows.

Good episode overall, with some nice twists along the way. You gotta watch out for towns in the same country with pretty much the same name. Imagine if there were a Philadelphia and a Philadelph 3 hours away from each other.

I really am starting to dislike Reichen and Chip. For him to have the balls to get come up to the Virgins carriage and whine about his stupid lip after he completely manhandled a 95 pound girl is beyond the pale. I don;t really have anything against teams wanting to play a cutthroat game (in fact, if I were playing, I would never help another team, ever) or playing a little physical but only if they are willing to come out on the losing end gracefully and take from the other teams what they give out.

 

[Lew Crippen]

As soon as most people don't understand any English they're all cooked

It is not only the language, it is often also a culture difference that causes problems.

For example in one of the great races (don’t remember which one) the teams had to get to another town in India. And you can do really well in India speaking only English. One team hired a taxi to take them, asking the driver if ‘he knew the way’. As soon as he responded in the affirmative, my wife and I broke out laughing, because it was clear the he did not have a clue. But no way was he going to give up the chance for a fare (especially when it was white tourists paying). He just stopped and asked locals along the way and got misdirected a couple of times.

All the while the team was complaining, ‘but you said that you knew the way.

 

[Kenneth_C]

For him to have the balls to get come up to the Virgins carriage and whine about his stupid lip after he completely manhandled a 95 pound girl is beyond the pale.

Were we watching the same show?

Far from whining about his lip, Chip twice tells Millie "It's not your fault" and goes on to apologize to her: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. That's what I'm saying." She is then shown busting out laughing at what she did. "I cut his mouth. Oh my God, what drama!" Hee, hee.

 

[brentl]

Yep, the carriage mixup was funny.

If you remeber last year and that little "walk VS taxi" mixup near the end you would figure that people would read stuff more CLOSELY.

Brent

 

[MickeS]

I agree, I didn't see it as him whining, he was apologizing and wanted to clear up the situations so there wouldn't be residual hostility. At least that's how I understood it.

I wonder if the losing team are still friends, and if she still wants to be "more than friends".

The thing about "how many Beethovens can there be" when the guy pointed out he could have lived in more than one place was pretty funny.

/Mike

 

[Eman_Ramos]

One thing I learned from last night:

Gmund and Gmunden are NOT the same city...

Good to know!

 

[Tim Markley]

I agree, I didn't see it as him whining, he was apologizing and wanted to clear up the situations so there wouldn't be residual hostility. At least that's how I understood it.

Yes, he was apologizing. He even said afterward that he was really embarrassed. IMO he should be embarrassed and he got what he deserved.

I'm not quite sure what happend to the Air Traffic Controllers at the start. They left before everyone but got there last (I think). I was doing some other stuff while it was going on and didn't catch how they screwed up. Did they take the wrong train or what?

 

[Jay H]

The ATC guys got to the train station first but talked to a local on how to get to Vienna, Austria. The local told them to get on a train to Padua (?) or some other town but when they got there they found that they couldn't get to Vienna that way and had to go back to Venice or go through another leg. Either way, they immediately gave up whatever time bonus they had at the start and had to play catch up the rest of the episode. Just beating out Russell and Cindy because of their own train mistake.

Jay

 

[Chris Lockwood]

Now we know why they say always check your ticket before leaving the cashier.

 

[Lew Crippen]

Oh their ticket was right in the sense that it said ‘Padua’ and that is where they asked to go. What was wrong, was that they accepted bad advice without double-checking.

They got caught in a ‘you can’t get there from here’ scenario.

 

[DeathStar1]

Last nights ep was rather forgetable. Next weeks should be better, however.

 

[Ken Chan]

Could the ATC guys have gotten to Vienna before the 4pm closure of the sewers if they had gotten on the right train? If they had, they would have been 2/3 of a day ahead.

//Ken

 

[Kenneth_C]

Could the ATC guys have gotten to Vienna before the 4pm closure of the sewers if they had gotten on the right train?

I wondered the same thing. But they only had a 2 hour 35 minute start over the other teams and, IIRC, the sewers had closed about 4 hours before any team got to them.

Even if they had somehow made it to the sewers in time, they probably would've run into a closure at either the Figarohaus or the bungee jump.

There's no way TAR wants a team to hold on to a half day lead.

 

[Tim Markley]

The ATC guys got to the train station first but talked to a local on how to get to Vienna, Austria. The local told them to get on a train to Padua (?) or some other town but when they got there they found that they couldn't get to Vienna that way and had to go back to Venice or go through another leg.

Ah, that explains it. Thanks! I guess you shouldn't take advice from the locals.

 

[Chris Lockwood]

> Oh their ticket was right in the sense that it said ‘Padua’

I was talking about the people who asked for Gmunden, but got Gmund. If they'd checked the tickets at the window, they should've caught the error & not lost time.

As for the ATC guys, if they thought they needed to go to another station first, shouldn't they still have been able to buy tickets all the way thru to the final destination?

 

[Barry Lieberman]

I love how the NFL wives preface everything with "Well, we're NFL wives, so we are used to living in luxury, but..."

It's getting a bit old.

Barry

 

[Malcolm R]

For any fans of Reichen, he's on the cover of the new Instinct magazine and is interviewed, too. No sign (or mention) of Chip though.