For those who missed the show, teams finished in this order:
1. Rob and Amber
2. Brian and Greg
3. Uchenna and Joyce
4. Ron and Kelly
5. Lynn and Alex
6. Ray and Deana
7. Meredith and Gretch
8. Susan and Patrick, ELIMINATED
At this point, IMO, teams 1 - 5 have proven their mettle and any one of them could win this thing. So we're down to the point where it gets really interesting. As I recall jriemers fine-tuned statistical probabilities, teams 1-5 are right where they should be.
Women may be the determining factor. OF Kelly, Amber, and Joyce, Joyce seems the weakest, so that might factor in. However, Kim of TAR winners Chip and Kim (why do I think of them as Kip and Chim?) was not athletic either, so who knows?
Last night, there was a real scramble for first, with Romber taking it in stellar fashion, but not by much, and luck played a very large part in their win. As a matter of fact, Rob remarked with a big grin, "I was born with a lucky horseshoe up my ass." We'll see how his luck holds when those ominous Yields come along.
Was Rob a Kerry voter? Hard to imagine. He was quoted in an article, commenting on how other teams wanted to take them down, "Bring them on!" Doesn't sound too DemonRatish to me. Maybe looking at the tax rates on his and Amber's Survivor winnings showed him the light.
The best editing came when we saw Meredith and Gretch driving along appreciating how hard a young street juggler was working for his money and Gretch saying, "God bless him." And then we saw Susan and Patrick encounter a street clown trying to earn a buck too. They showed their compassion and concern in typical liberal fashion. “What is that clown doing?” Patrick asks. “I don’t know, but he’s in my way,” Susan says, honking her horn. “If there’s ever a time you wanted permission to run over a clown,” Patrick added, with a curl of the lip. Even the TAR crew detested these jerks!
And next week, we get TWO HOURS of TAR. What could be better? The preview showed Gretch taking a bad fall and bleeding profusely from the head. But head wounds do bleed profusely and often look much worse than they are, so I'm not counting her out til I see them eliminated.
The preview also showed the Bros rolling their vehicle. They have, as "dead" suggested earlier on this thread, pretty much shaken the Santa Monica fog out of their heads and are now looking really strong. Rob can outwit them every time, but they can probably do better in any physical challenge if they overcome their auto wreck next week. Did you know that one of the bros was on Fear Factor? (Rumor.) Didn't win, but still, that shows a lot of cojones if the rumor is true.
I can easily imagine that the car's of team umbilical are festooned with kerry bumper stickers.
The one few times that the weather didn't interrupt programming here was when the clown incident took place....I had been rooting against the mother and son all along, but after that I really hoped they would be eliminated last night. My first thought was what jerks.