Since none of the Canadians have stopped by to start this thread and laugh at the silly Americans having to wait for yet another delayed TAR start, I'll do the duty this week. By my reckoning we'll be starting at least 10 minutes late... better than many weeks. *sigh*

• RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,Snidget, 07:57 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,Max Headroom, 08:00 PM, 10-24-10
• Drive to Norway,Snidget, 08:23 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: Drive to Norway,Snidget, 08:25 PM, 10-24-10
• RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,PepeLePew13, 08:24 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,kidflash212, 09:36 PM, 10-24-10
    • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,Karchita, 00:49 AM, 10-25-10
      • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,dabo, 01:05 AM, 10-25-10
• Fast Forward,Snidget, 08:28 PM, 10-24-10
  • Otherwise,Snidget, 08:29 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: Fast Forward,kidflash212, 09:31 PM, 10-24-10
• RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,Estee, 08:32 PM, 10-24-10
• RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,Estee, 08:34 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,MsShel330, 08:43 PM, 10-24-10
    • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,dabo, 01:09 AM, 10-25-10
      • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,Karchita, 03:19 PM, 10-25-10
• Roadblock,Snidget, 08:40 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: Roadblock,PepeLePew13, 08:56 PM, 10-24-10
• RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,MsShel330, 08:42 PM, 10-24-10
• Fast Forward Taken?,Snidget, 08:42 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: Fast Forward Taken?,Estee, 08:48 PM, 10-24-10
    • RE: Fast Forward Taken?,PepeLePew13, 08:50 PM, 10-24-10
      • RE: Fast Forward Taken?,Estee, 09:14 PM, 10-24-10
    • RE: Fast Forward Taken?,kidflash212, 10:06 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: Fast Forward Taken?,Belle Book, 05:17 PM, 10-25-10
• Drive to a Field,Snidget, 08:44 PM, 10-24-10
• "All I want is for you to finish this!",Estee, 08:46 PM, 10-24-10
• Detour,Snidget, 08:54 PM, 10-24-10
  • Impeccable logic.,Estee, 09:02 PM, 10-24-10
• Pitstop,Snidget, 08:58 PM, 10-24-10
• RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,MsShel330, 09:00 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,PepeLePew13, 09:04 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,kidflash212, 09:18 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,Karchita, 03:22 PM, 10-25-10
• *swoon*,moonbaby, 09:00 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: *swoon*,Estee, 09:02 PM, 10-24-10
• This can't be the first time...,Estee, 09:03 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: This can't be the first time...,kidflash212, 09:35 PM, 10-24-10
• False positive.,Estee, 09:04 PM, 10-24-10
• Finish Order,Snidget, 09:14 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: Finish Order,kidflash212, 09:22 PM, 10-24-10
    • RE: Finish Order,Estee, 09:28 PM, 10-24-10
      • RE: Finish Order,kidflash212, 09:50 PM, 10-24-10
        • RE: Finish Order,HistoryDetective, 07:36 AM, 10-25-10
• Next Week,Snidget, 09:16 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: Next Week,kidflash212, 10:49 PM, 10-24-10
• RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,Estee, 09:24 PM, 10-24-10
  • RE: TAR 17, Episode 5 - East Coast Spoiler Thread,tjdmlhw, 02:19 PM, 10-26-10

We will use your thread, you got it started first.

Could have easily started a lot later, but they screwed up trying to get the game all tied up right at the end.

Thank goodness that San Diego field goal try clanked off the upright and was no good. And thank goodness that CBS didn't decide to bless us all with bonus coverage of Oakland's ten-billion-point blowout of Denver.

Ride to the top of some mountain.

Round and round and round the round about.

I think we just got the winner's quote. From Nat/Kat, who were doing the Fast Forward and having to each eat a half of a sheep's head as a Norwegian christmas ritual and were just about finished:

"Tastes like a million dollars."

They were doing a great job of supporting each other by calling out food names to psych themselves into downing the food - "romaine lettuce, crunchy", etc.

They succeed, despite one of them being a vegetarian for 22 years, and get the fast forward!

Gnawing on a skull always says Christmas to me.

Crunching on sheep eyeballs has always been how we celebrate the season.

Sheep, it's what's for Christmas. Subtle Viking humor at it's finest.

Eat an entire roasted sheep's head.

Nat and Kat take it.

Back down the gondola and drive to some bridge.

I wish someone else closer behind Nat & Kat had tried the FF. This could have been a competitive FF with two teams fighting to finish their disgusting food first.

sheep head, sheep head
bony-slimy sheep head
sheep head, sheep head
eat it up, yum!

I'm still trying to figure out why Mallory isn't annoying me. I think it's the sincerity.

I actually like Mallory and hyper people usually annoy me.

She's more like a fun cheerleader than an uptight beauty queen. There could be a series in this.

Save the cheerleader, around the world!

Probably helps that pops looks more like Larry Bird than a corporate headhunter.

Save the cheerleader, but only on Tuesdays!

I like her, too.

Go down a rope from bridge to the water
Signal a boat and get the clue.
Climb back up the rope to the bridge.

Vicki totally smoked Chad's azz on the climb back up.

Fast Forward taken seems pretty obvious to me.

What on earth could that mean??

The stupidity of Team Squick is starting to approach Dandrew levels. First they convince themselves that every other team is doing the Fast Forward, including those with a major lead on them. Somehow, this doesn't mean they won't be able to beat everyone to it -- so they go off to attempt it too. And then, upon seeing it's been taken, they have a debate on the meaning of 'taken'. Maybe it was stolen. Evil doctors! How dare they!

How do these two get dressed in the morning? Labels reading 'arm goes here' are no longer an option. 'Here?'

It's why they got together in the first place - to help each other get dressed, which partly explains some of the clothes they've worn on this race...

'Why does my jock strap have a butt cup?'

The most unbelievable part of the leg might have been their collectively memorizing a four-digit number.

I think even Dandrew would have understood "FAST FORWARD TAKEN". And then to top it off, she says in her confessional she still doesn't get what it meant.

I was shocked when Nick & Vicki didn't know what that meant! I was wondering, "Are they idiots?" Of course, that seems to be a stupid question -- obviously, they are -- at least, when it comes to the Race!

Belle Book

for your next clue, whatever a clue is.

...in two hundred easy installments of six inches each!

Remember the color of your lock, ride a bike get the combination then come back to open the lock.

Go on a boat, direct the boat and deliver a chain saw and other stuff.

'I do not want my father to get hurt. Therefore, I will have him carry the chainsaw.'

Military stronghold during WWII, marina.

Gary and Mallory 2nd

Dumb as they are, Nick and Vicki are very athletic.

Vicki totally smoked Nick's azz on the bike ride as well. This was after Nick bragged about riding BMX bikes competitively when he was younger.

Very true. Vicki did well on the rappel and the bikes. They might do better than anyone expects.

Vicki is in great shape. It's nice to see.

Phil does some eyebrow lifts at the mat! Love that!

'Count the eyebrow lifts! One eyebrow lift! Two eyebrow lifts! Ha-ha-ha-ha!'

...Brooke & Claire have been accused of smelling like dead fish.

I'm staying far away from that one

'Look at those other teams, driving by because they're too stupid to realize this is the Roadblock!'

1 Nat/Kat
2 Gary/Mallory Get your finish number by eyebrow signals
3 Jill/Thomas
4 Michael/Kevin
5 Brook/Claire
6 Nick/Vicki
7 Chad/Stephenie
8 Katie/Rachel--philiminated

As we've seen in the past, legs without bunching result in very similar finish orders as the previous leg.

I thought there was some chance of an NEL here after Phil pulled one out after another no-flight travel extension, but the eyebrow Morsed out the universal signal for mercy.

The only ways to really get stuck in this leg: bad directions/driving, total muscle failure on the ascender, multiple simultaneous Fast Forward attempts followed by major bodily protests, and going over the edge of the cliff on the bike. The first item on that list is the usual factor -- which didn't materialize. Everything else got worked through or never showed up.

I think I would have enjoyed seeing Connor or Jonathan try that ascender. Might have set a record for longest time at a Roadblock.

Blech! I do not even want to imagine Team Perpetual Virgins harmonizing their way through that one.

Russian Culture
Music
Cinema
Babooskas

And the hyperactive kissing saleswoman steps in poo.

And now they head to Elimination Station so they can not make friends there too. I'm not sorry to see those two go -- the competitive nature was fine: the idea that no one else could possibly approach their matchless skill lacked something.

'It's easier to play in last.' No, but it is easier to stop playing.

You were right about them not making friends at Elimination Station. The other 3 teams had accepted that they had lost and now they were enjoying their free vacation. The Volleyball Players came in bitter saying they didn't belong there because they were the strongest team in the race. Great way to make friends.