The Amazing Race season 18 - Unfinished Business - Page 4

Did they really think they were going to be able to sell swimwear on a beach?

I get the sense it probably wouldn't have made any difference if they had gone straight to the bar-tending.

Maybe they thought it would be easier than selling ice to an eskimo?!? 

Or maybe they just thought it would be kinda cool to check out the chicks on the beach...

I wonder why Justin didn't have to get completely waxed?!?

It'd been funny if one of them would have screamed "Kelly Clarkson" during the chest hair waxing.

  It sounded like they yelled lots of things during that task. 

Justin was right when he said that day's challenges just weren't made for the two of them.

So much for a "photo finish", eh?!? 

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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun 

It'd been funny if one of them would have screamed "Kelly Clarkson" during the chest hair waxing.

Haha, Justin did yell that! "Oh, Kelly Clarkson" was one of the subtitles.

I really hated Gary and Mallory's taxi luck. Congrats to Jen and Kisha!

Liked the season, but very unimpressed with the finale.  I dislike finales that come down to "cab luck".  In recent seasons they had seemed to engineer the cab luck out of the placing.  All three were strong teams though.  They should have had cars waiting for the teams at the airport and they could have made their own luck.  All three were strong teams though and I wish the girls luck.  I felt bad for Gary and Mallory as I would have liked to see them win just for his age sake as he would have been the oldest ever to win.  The Globetrotters were a lot of fun too.

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Originally Posted by Walter C 

 

I am surprised that there was no memorization challenge in this race, although the outcome would have still been the same.

 

I, too, missed seeing a "remember your race" challenge, though, I don't agree the outcome would have necessarily been the same.  We've seen teams crash-and-burn on those challenges in years past, spending hours on them, while other teams who had great notes finish quickly.

This was a great season overall, but I hope they bring the "remember your race" challenge back next season.

Damn!

Even though I have my Tivo set for an additional 2:00 over 60 minutes,

I still missed the end of the finale.

Will go have to watch it online.  Worst yet, I read who won in this thread.

Oh well....will still watch it online

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Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein 

Damn!

Even though I have my Tivo set for an additional 2:00 over 60 minutes,

I still missed the end of the finale.

 

  I can't believe you missed the winning team finishing the race, Ron, if you had your Tivo set for two minutes after the top of the hour.

You are aware it was a two-hour finale, right?

TiVo should have known that it was two hours. If the recording was manual or there was a conflict because of the double episode though....

But the girls should have crossed the finish line about ten minutes before the top of the hour...followed by a brief interview with Phil and the other two teams following afterward along with the group photo, etc. 

I can't imagine why Ron's machine wouldn't have caught the finish.

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Originally Posted by Walter C 

 

I think what made it impossible, is the fact that they had to have customers change and try it on, in front of 2 guys.

 

I would have attributed their difficulty more to a difference with languages. 

They were in Rio after all.  Most of those women's bikini-covered backsides still had to be pixilated!    I wouldn't get the sense they would likely be too prudish.   
 

Firstly, had no idea there was a finale.  Was on vacation that week. 

I have two Sunday recordings set up on my Tivo.

60 minutes is set for 2 hours because most of the time there is a game.

I also did the same for The Amazing Race.  However, Tivo must have seen

this as a conflict and didn't record TAR at all.

So, I had to depend on the 2-hour 60 minutes overflow and that is all I got.

I will watch the finale online sometime this week.

I misread Ron's statement "additional 2:00 over 60 minutes" as two extra minutes padding past an hour. Obviously he meant two hours past that newsmagazine show with Andy Rooney.

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Originally Posted by Ken Chan 

I misread Ron's statement "additional 2:00 over 60 minutes" as two extra minutes padding past an hour. Obviously he meant two hours past that newsmagazine show with Andy Rooney.

Wow.  Good going, Ken.  I didn't realize that at all until I read your post just now.

Here's what I said a few posts ago:

Sorry for the confusion, gang.

Perhaps I am wrong and it was only set for an hour padding

after 60 MINUTES.

All I know is that I got to the end of the first show where Justin

and Zev were eliminated and Tivo recorded no further than that.

Sorry for the confusion, but I set all this up months ago and

not certain how much padding I gave over 60 MINUTES to

compensate for sport events.  Thought it was two hours, but

apparently, only one hour.

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