The Amazing Race 8: Episode 6
Holy Moly! Hardest. Challenge. Ever. And it ended up costing a team the race.
Now frequently there is a needle in the haystack type challenge. Usually it is of the variety: There are 20 filled chocolates among these 500 chocolates. There are 10 clues in these 50 hay bales. A bit of dumb luck and a bit of perseverance will get you there. Today's challenge was to find the one, single, only red coffee bean in 800 pounds of coffee beans designated for your team. Uno. Teeny tiny coffee bean. 800 POUNDS of coffee.
I am amazed at how quickly most of the teams made it through the challenge all things considered. But the Gaghans hit the wall hard on this one, and they ended up being eliminated as a result of it.
This is also the leg of the race on which all teams officially began to gang up against the Weaver family. I believe every single team indicated that they would be yielding the Weavers, but the Paolos got the honor because they got to the yield first. This is also the episode in which I began to hate the Weavers as well. They've been kooky, annoying, overtly religious, but there was a spark of something that kept me believing in them just a wee bit. No more.
This is the family that claims to be Christians. That prays to Jesus for guidance on finding clues and choosing which task to complete. So they get yielded, and how do they spend their time waiting for the yield to expire? Making fun of other teams photos. And not teasing as in how dare they be ahead of us, but mean stuff like I wonder how much the fake boobs cost for those girls, and yet still they sag. That's not very Christian. In my variety of Christianity you don't get to pick and chose the bits of Leviticus you like best (I personally discount the thing in modern times), and you don't get to use God only when it suits you. The Weavers sit in last place right now, the stress has already cracked one of the daughters, and it hit the mom tonight. They're not long for the lasting now, and are the next to be eliminated barring a minor miracle or a major screw-up by another team.
Next week is a two-hour episode. I suspect that's two pit-stops, one non-elimination leg and then we'll be down to the final four.
Now frequently there is a needle in the haystack type challenge. Usually it is of the variety: There are 20 filled chocolates among these 500 chocolates. There are 10 clues in these 50 hay bales. A bit of dumb luck and a bit of perseverance will get you there. Today's challenge was to find the one, single, only red coffee bean in 800 pounds of coffee beans designated for your team. Uno. Teeny tiny coffee bean. 800 POUNDS of coffee.
I am amazed at how quickly most of the teams made it through the challenge all things considered. But the Gaghans hit the wall hard on this one, and they ended up being eliminated as a result of it.
This is also the leg of the race on which all teams officially began to gang up against the Weaver family. I believe every single team indicated that they would be yielding the Weavers, but the Paolos got the honor because they got to the yield first. This is also the episode in which I began to hate the Weavers as well. They've been kooky, annoying, overtly religious, but there was a spark of something that kept me believing in them just a wee bit. No more.
This is the family that claims to be Christians. That prays to Jesus for guidance on finding clues and choosing which task to complete. So they get yielded, and how do they spend their time waiting for the yield to expire? Making fun of other teams photos. And not teasing as in how dare they be ahead of us, but mean stuff like I wonder how much the fake boobs cost for those girls, and yet still they sag. That's not very Christian. In my variety of Christianity you don't get to pick and chose the bits of Leviticus you like best (I personally discount the thing in modern times), and you don't get to use God only when it suits you. The Weavers sit in last place right now, the stress has already cracked one of the daughters, and it hit the mom tonight. They're not long for the lasting now, and are the next to be eliminated barring a minor miracle or a major screw-up by another team.
Next week is a two-hour episode. I suspect that's two pit-stops, one non-elimination leg and then we'll be down to the final four.
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