The Amazing Race 7 (1 Viewer)

[Jake Gove]

My wife and I call the brothers "Team Napoleon Dynamite", they sound just like the guy who played Napoleon, and they always have their mouths open like Napoleon.

 

[Patrick Sun]

And amazingly enough, the brothers did have trouble with their bikes as well.

 

[Jake Gove]

Too bad there weren't any "sweet jumps" on the bike trail.

 

[Chris_Morris]

Well it was bound to happen. An online betting site has shutdown bets for AR7 due to an unusually high number of bets (with the max. $ possible) being placed for one team. Lightning has struck three times so far with the online betting, maybe it has struck a fourth.

1. Survivor Amazon, bets came in for Jenna and Matthew to be the final two, supposedly from CBS staffers.

2. Survivor Pearl Islands, bets came in for Sandra to win, most from near where she lived.

3. Apprentice 2, bets came in for the final 2 of Kelly and (whoever else, can't remember off hand).

4. AR7, bets have come in for......

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Team name deleted


Edit* forgot that the same thing happened on The Bachelor 2 and was also right, so this would be the 5th time.

(Admin note - I've deleted the team name, so if you want to find out, do so elsewhere, let's just enjoy the scenery along with the rest of the teams this season.)

 

[Bob-N]

in the background ****barrrrf****. (fingers in ears) lalalalalalala. That cracked me up. Flashback to the goulash eating task from last season. 4lbs of food, kudos to those who finished except for the gay son who's getting on my nerves.

Another close finish and I thought the possibility of a non-elimination round was imminent. Nope. Probably next week.

I'm rooting for the brothers. Napoleon Dynamite, funny with the addition of their "old school" head bands.

 

[Jake Gove]

I would bet that if Rob and Amber finished last in an episode it would be a non-elimination round.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Check out all the extra footage of the first 3 episodes this season on the CBS/TAR website:

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race7/insider/

 

[AnthonyC]

Jenn M.

This is my first season of TAR. I like it, but last night's episode didn't seem as intense as the first two. Maybe it's just because half of it was spent on the roadblock, but it wasn't as thrilling as the first two episodes. Still good though.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Well, a lot of the episode went to the unprecedented strategy of basically sitting on your butt for 4 hours to circumvent a roadblock. Rob learned quite a bit sitting around on the island on "Survivor" didn't he?

 

[Jason Seaver]

Yep. As clever as that strategy was (and how entertaining someone trying something new is), I'm willing to be that the penalty for punting a challenge in Race #8 will be something like a twelve hour delay.

Not that I'm terribly fond of food challenges, anyway. They're hardly exciting to watch, and this show at its best rises above snickering at people willing to make themselves sick for money.

 

[brentl]

Accord ing to Rob the girls showed up 5 hours later than everybody.

Brent

 

[Ken Chan]

The ploy worked so well for Ray&Deana and Meredith&Gretchen only because Debbie&Bianca made such a bone-headed mistake. Based on that alone, I have no problem with them being eliminated. Unfortunately, they were kind of cute. No big smooch at the mat.

Rob&Amber were robbed (ahem) at the beginning; they were almost an hour ahead of 2nd place, and three hours ahead of the bottom half.

Given that the Roadblock limit is 6 per person completed -- although interestingly, Phil did not say that this time -- it may turn into a tactical advantage later for Rob and Meredith (and maybe even Deana )

Well, they're supposed to be predetermined. At this point, there's about a 1-in-3 chance that a round will be NE, so it could easily be dumb luck.

 

[Chris]

NEL are planned way in advance as CBS handles ticket booking for one to "leave the race" at certain points.. so the ones were they didn't book that extra set, it's a NEL.

 

[Patrick_S]

As for NEL, the producers, in order to guard against being sued later on, probably provide that information to some independent third party in a sealed envelope. That way if someone were to cry foul they could just open the envelope and prove there was no behind closed doors manipulation.

I know it sounds crazy but I wouldn't doubt it at all.

 

[Joseph S]

Thanks for deleting the major spoiler.

 

[AnthonyC]

I think a NEL is coming up soon...I think I read that episode 5 is two hours but I don't remember for sure.

 

[James Landau]

At the beginning as each team was leaving the pit stop, I found it rather amusing that Deana read their clue and couldn't pronounce the word "Andes" correctly.

I really groaned when I first heard that Rob and Amber were going to be in AR7. But now that I've seen them in competition, I've changed my mind. So far, I'm really enjoying what they've brought to the race and am even starting to root for them.

Also glad to see that all the teams seem to be getting along fairly well. No Colins or Jonathans this time out. All the bickering in the previous two races was becoming a bit of a downer for me and, had it continued, I think my interest in the show would have started to decline.

It was my impression that they never knew Rob and Amber stole their taxi. Their reaction/comments when they came back outside seemed to indicate that they thought the driver had just gotten tired of waiting and left. Did I miss something and they found out later?

 

[todd s]

One thing that annoys me is that for example Rob and Amber, like someone mentioned before, had a 1 hour advantage to the next team. And a three hour advantage to the other teams. Yet, when they go to get their car..They all get stuck until 5am. I know its to keep the teams somewhat together. But, I think the teams in that situation should be able to get the cars in the order they finished at the last pitstop.

 

[Patrick Sun]

As a long time viewer, you get used to the bunch-ups.

 

[Chris_Morris]

According to Tivo, you are correct. Episode 5: "I've Been Wanting a Face-Lift for a Long Time" is listed as 2 hours starting at 9pm.