Don't really have any claps or slaps to add, but I do want to say that at least I didn't bet anything on the Beards! Of course, my two picks came in second and fourth, but at least they weren't Philiminated!

Agree with you on the donut challenge.

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At the donut challenge, if every host had one, then the Roadblock would have amounted to find a host (any one) and eat a bunch of donuts. I would have much rather them have to deliveries instead where they had to take something heavy or bulky, deliver it to another apartment and swap it for another heavy/bukly thing and do it 5 different times.

Either that or make that apartment building a place for the gnome search.

Agreed on the double U-Turn rule. I think would also like if both detours were at the same location and the double U-Turn board was visible to all participating in a detour.

My thought was one donut per visit -- then, if you hit one (or missed), and another team saw you, they could get misdirected and really p.o.ed. Of course, there is the potential for the hunt task from hell and you may have to visit the same host multiple times (thus bringing in the manners codicil).

Maybe that is too evil...

I just wanted to mention how jam packed this episode was with beautiful women. Seriously...wow!

I just wanted to mention how jam packed this episode was with beautiful women. Seriously...wow!

It was also jam packed with jam!

Slap: Letting a U-turned couple use the U-turn before they've completed it themselves.

HARD Slap: The existence of a U-turn.

Standing Ovation: Politeness counts. <3

Contestant Slap: If the Beard² team hadn't given up on the statue task the first time, they wouldn't have been behind and wouldn't have been U-turned and wouldn't have been eliminated, and I wouldn't be stuck watching the Afghanimals again next week.

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It's still better than Survivor.

...and then I woke up. So what happened?

SLAPPY SLAP SLAP: Worst.Roadblock.Ever

This was worse than ice skating in the olympics. The judge knew as soon as he heard all the teams what order they were leaving in. It was just a matter of time. Totally unfair, IMO. Even if they pronounced the words properly, not everyone has a singing voice. So not a mental task, not a physical task, a freaking singing task.

more SLAPS!!!!

So unfair!
I know people who can't carry a tune in a bucket!

I completely expected this to be a non-elimination because this RB was so bad.

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I know Spanish and a little French, so I think I could have handled the German language fairly well. As for my singing voice … it's not good enough to be on American Idol, that's for sure! But I do have musicality and my voice is certainly better than Danny's!

Which reminds me -- I wonder if Danny auditioned for American Idol. If so, he'd have been hammered by the judges, especially Simon Cowell when the guy was on the show! I'd have loved to have seen that!

E.T.A: Sorry, it was Oklahoma Tim who did the Roadblock. But had he been the one to audition for AI when Simon Cowell was around, he'd have still been hammered!

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I sing one note. I'm able to adjust my volume - up/down - but not the note - high/low. As a consequence, I am the only person who was ever asked - begged - to resign from my church's Youth Choir. It was either me and my one loud, horrible flat note or whole sections of the choir who would - one hapless soul after another - ever-so-surely begin to follow me to off-key hell.

And a bit later in my youth, I spent two semesters in German classes taught by instructiors for whom it was a first, beloved language.

In one of those semesters, I was the only female in a class otherwise populated by male ROTC students. And it was the custom of Dr. Lieberman to require that class to stand - in straight, at-attention lines - for recitation as he paced in front of us with a backhand to our midsections at-the-ready while intoning (in my case) "From the abdomen, fraulein. From the abdomen!"

But it was the day that he stood in front of me (of the already twice-assaulted tummy) and shouted "Must you speak German with a West Virginia accent, bumpkin?" that convinced this hillbilly that I was never going to learn to growl, spit, roll my tongue, grunt - and disguise my birthright nasal twang - well enough to get out of C territory.

So, for the memories, Amazing Race:

SLAP!

Agreed, that was the most unfair Roadblock ever. It wouldn't be so bad if they only had to get the pronunciations right, but having to carry the tune too in the right vocal range was just too much.

Clap: The hedge maze was neat. But if only it could have been bigger.

Slap: I'm done with Fast Forwards that require no skill, just 'guts'. Bungee Jumping? Frankly the singing test would have been a better Fast Forward and the Roadblock should have been the bungee jumping (on a better weather day).

I have personal stuff going on that limits my time here on the boards but last night really p'ssed me off. They should be slapped with a 2 X 4 for this leg. Start off with a bump point, even all the teams up. Right to a Detour that everyone completes in a minimal amount of time. Wind up at a Roadblock that has subjective judging and which could be nearly impossible for some racers.

I have watched every single episode of TAR since season two. Haven't missed one. This is the very first time I am actually considering skipping the rest of the season. Every team left is not someone I want to see win.

Meh. It's no more unfair than a roadblock that requires physical prowess for someone who is out of shape. Or one that requires swimming for someone who is afraid of water. Or one that requires cooking skillz for someone whose most noteworthy accomplishment in the kitchen is having once managed to burn soup. Or one that requires a sense of direction someone who couldn't navigate their way out of a wet paper bag with a compass and a flashlight. Or one that involves paragliding/parachuting/bungyjumping/etc for someone who is scared of heights. And so on.

The judging seemed fair. They had to have the words learned reasonably well and to make a significant improvement on singing between the first attempt and the final. I don't see the problem.

Clap: Singing task. So there.

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I think there is a big difference. All the tasks you mentioned can be overcome by trying harder, reading cooking directions, overcoming fears of water/heights etc. No amount of trying harder is going to make my voice any prettier. Also, people who go on the race should, by now, understand the race involves physical tasks, swimming, bungee jumping (or some equiv task to be done on something very tall), driving a stick shift, and closely following directions. IMO, judged singing is akin to having a beauty contest as one of the tasks.

They didn't expect anyone to attain perfection. Travis was one of the first to pass. Did you HEAR him? It wasn't good. But he had all the words and followed the music fairly well.

Jamal was even worse and passed.

The Blonde (I don't care enough to try to tell them apart) took forever, but sounded the best at the end.

What's-his-face got eliminated not because he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, but because it took him too long to learn the words.

It doesn't matter how hard I try, I couldn't beat Tim & Marie in a task requiring speed or strength. OTOH, I'd kick their butts on the singing task, not because I have a good voice (I don't!!!), but because I speak German.

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!SLAP! !SLAP! !SLAP! times a thousand for Marie for stealing the taxi and then trying to justify it by claiming the other team would have done it as well. Jason was remarkably restrained for the way Marie was pushing his buttons - she might have been thrown down the hill if I was there and she was spewing that justification toward me.

Especially that insisting no one could have enough self-awareness to know if one might have morals or ethics or not.

So, until she actually tries to be a spree killer or mass shooter she has no idea if she'd have a problem doing it or not?

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