amazing race

[jaina]

- HIPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Yay for Fran and Barry. Get down wit' yo bad old selves!

- Hi Lake! Congratulations! You chose to yield the Pinks, a team that was already well on its way to self-destruction. So they got eliminated instead of Ray and Yolanda, who you've admitted in the past are a threat to you! Terrific strategery, there. Clearly they don't let just anyone into dental school these days!

(Related question, at the Yield, do the production people remove the photos of the teams who are already past it? Because it would be kind of silly to get there next-to-last and still have everyone's photos available for yielding.)

Good goddamn, it is *pouring* outside. Bleah. Weather, I command you: in twenty minutes, let up so I can go to work.

Comments

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

I've read somewhere that the producers do in fact make it impossible to yield someone who's already passed the yield point. You can notice in some of the shots of the sign last night that there are a bunch of little tabs. There were only three left when Lake and Michelle got there, so I'm betting that each team has to remove theirs when they pass the Yield.

The thing I love about Lake and Michelle is that he's done *all* the Roadblocks so far. Including "hunt through a field of half-buried gnomes" and "put together the statue". Are they waiting for a task that she can do that he can't? I'm not sure they'll have a "knuckling under your spouse's authority" Roadblock.

[ninagnome.livejournal.com]

gnomes?

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

You heard me.

[lurknomore.livejournal.com]

They do still have the "You can only do X roadblocks rule", right? Because I don't know if Phil has actually stated it this time.

And man,do I hate the product placement Travelocity gnomes...

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

He hasn't, but I doubt that they would change that rule for this race; that's one of the few rule changes over the years that have been pretty well accepted by the show's fan base.

(A post on the TWoP forums says that the 6-roadblock rule has been mentioned on the Insider videos at the CBS website).

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

The thing with the Roadblocks just kills me. What are they going to do when they get to a really physical Roadblock and Michelle has to do it? Well, I suppose if we're lucky they'll be eliminated by then. But we probably won't be that lucky.