Whoa! I missed last week. Lance and Keri are gone? Hallelujah!![]()
Whoa! I missed last week. Lance and Keri are gone? Hallelujah!![]()
Whoa! I missed last week. Lance and Keri are gone? Hallelujah!![]()
No kidding. Lance was a jerk (to be nice).
Amazing Race actually started on time tonight! I'm sitting here, tuned in, and they show a preview of the episode. In it, a girl named Mika is at the top of a waterslide, absolutely terrified of water. Her partner is trying to convince her that if she doesn't go down, they will lose a million dollars. He tries to touch her and she backs away, pleading with the cameraman to stop this so she can go home.
Meanwhile, I'm asking "Where's the popcorn? This is going to be entertaining."
And boy, howdy, was it ever!
I'm not going to get into the boring details of .. well, everything else that happened. I'm skipping right to the last five minutes, because it was all them. Five solid minutes (not including several more minutes of a commercial break), he was trying to convince her that it's simply WATER and wasn't going to kill her or anything. Another team shows up, and she's still sitting there, refusing to go. The rules state that at any challenge point, if the team ahead refuses to go, after two minutes, they must step aside and let the next team go.
And it cost them. The other team was totally mocking her, saying if she didn't want to go, don't listen to the big mean guy telling her to do it. Because water is wet, ya know.
At two minutes, she stepped aside, and they just flew down. Then her partner told her flat out she had just cost them the million, and went down the slide (which may have been 20 feet, if that. Big whoop.). He waited for several minutes, but she decided to walk back down the steps. Together, they walked to the finish line without completing the challenge. Well, without HER completing it.
And it DID cost them. The team that waited and then took their turn was, at that point, the last team. Since she refused to go, they switched places, and Mika got her team eliminated.
And it was hilarious.
I think it was last season, there was another woman who was deathly afraid of water. There was a challenge that involved being near a swimming pool, and she completely lost her damned mind.
WHY do people sign up for these shows, knowing that absolutely anything could happen? If they have a deathly fear of something simple like water, just don't go!
But if they do, they should let me know, so I can have popcorn ready.
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...and went down the slide (which may have been 20 feet, if that. Big whoop.).
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