The Amazing Race (Season 33) returns!

[annie720]

I was going to do that but forgot. What did you find?!

The non-elimination legs are annoying.

Some people eat them on purpose.

 

[MacMadame]

Some people eat them on purpose.

Well, it's a real cheese so someone must be buying it

 

[screech]

I'm just hoping the other teams are going to start complaining about Kim & Penn always winning as much as they were complaining about Ryan & Dusty (both teams with 3 wins).

 

[smurfy]

I am enjoying the show.
Corsica and Greece are great.
Glad the twins are now gone. not the brightest bulbs - ate 2 Souvlakis. Lol
I think Kim & Penn or the 2 guys should win - they are both great teams. I like both teams - the guy's story about being in prison unjustly - wow, but Kim & Penn being a little older - they are good racers too.
Arun and Natalie and the 2 girls - they make mistakes - father/daughter way more than the girls - they deserve to come in 3 & 4 overall.

 

[Lilia A]

That second roadblock seemed like a major nightmare. 15 minutes??? I would have had anxiety after 2 minutes.
I can't believe the twins ate a second Souvlaki before really trying to figure out where the clue was. Yikes.
This is probably the first time where I don't love anyone but I also don't hate anyone. Realistically speaking, dad and daughter should be gone before the finale but weirder things have happened in the history of TAR.

 

[MacMadame]

Realistically speaking, dad and daughter should be gone before the finale but weirder things have happened in the history of TAR.

It depends on how much navigating they have to do in the next leg.

For life-long fans of TAR, they are not very good at this.

 

[emason]

Well, I have a different perspective from everyone else. I've been having health issues for several months and after this last episode I would have sent all teams home and declared no winner: because I can't take the SHRIEKING, the SCREAMING, the OUTBURSTS. None of this is restful or fun to watch; just all calm down, please, and race smartly.

That said, I hope Kim and Penn win; they seem like nice people and they do have one of the best married couple relationships in the long history of the show.

Ryan and Dusty, please go home next. Your testosterone-fueled antics are not amusing and you've made enough capital of Ryan's prison experiences and your relationship. Go home to your wives and kids and find something other than reality tv to do with your lives.

Stewardesses, you can come in third. I don't find you remotely interesting; I don't remember anything about you from week to week. No $$$ for you.

Father and daughter can come in second, only because I think it's nice for them, irritating though they can be, to have this experience together and possibly have some growth in their relationship. No $$$ for them though.

 

[Habs]

I just love Kim and Penn… and I wasn’t expecting that at all. I assumed they’d be annoying.
They have a great relationship and they work so well together. And Penn might be the best ever at memory tasks.

 

[MacMadame]

Yeah, I assumed they'd be annoying too.

I think anyone who makes the final 3 gets money, btw. Unless they changed things since the last time I watched the show.

 

[Prancer]

That second roadblock seemed like a major nightmare. 15 minutes??? I would have had anxiety after 2 minutes.

Ryan accidentally did it the best way--he found out what the questions were going to be before he listened to the whole lecture.

I can't believe the twins ate a second Souvlaki before really trying to figure out where the clue was. Yikes.

I can't get over them not knowing how to spell souvlaki. Although I guess the one twin's food issues might really limit what they eat.

I think anyone who makes the final 3 gets money, btw. Unless they changed things since the last time I watched the show.

They all get money for being on the show, but I think only the winners get a cash prize on top of that.

My money is on the flight attendants to win, just because "female winners" have been mentioned several times and the two of them keep saying things about what a good team they are and how they have to win a leg only once. TAR doesn't always broadcast winners, but that's what this feels like.

 

[On My Own]

They all get money for being on the show, but I think only the winners get a cash prize on top of that.

I'm not clear if you mean the winners get the grand prize + the pay for being on the show? I thought it was just the million dollars. And the second prize was between 25k-50k, and the third prize was 10k-25k, also without the pay for being on the show (the pay the others got was significantly lower). But I've not watched or kept up with it for a while, and not sure if I remember correctly.

 

[MacMadame]

I can't get over them not knowing how to spell souvlaki. Although I guess the one twin's food issues might really limit what they eat.

To be fair, the food truck woman was pronouncing it in a way that I could barely tell what she was saying.

 

[screech]

The souvlaki challenge - I definitely would not have immediately thought about checking the wrapper.
Ryan and Dusty used to be my favourite team, but now I just can't with Dusty. Ryan is still fine and calm most of the time, but Dusty is just coming off as obnoxious.

 

[MacMadame]

The souvlaki challenge - I definitely would not have immediately thought about checking the wrapper.
Ryan and Dusty used to be my favourite team, but now I just can't with Dusty. Ryan is still fine and calm most of the time, but Dusty is just coming off as obnoxious.

I wasn't sure if I would either. But I do tend to read anything in front of my fase and I am always interested in the different wrapper designs. It seemed to me like absolutely no team even noticed the writing. Which made me wonder if the souvlaki were wrapped so that the writing was on the inside.

 

[Prancer]

That rock challenge is the stuff of nightmares. I am not at all surprised that everyone chose to smash plates afterward.

 

[MacMadame]

Ryan and Dusty, please go home next.

You almost got your wish.

Though this leg is always a non-elimination leg, right?

There is going to be a finale party in FL. Hosted by the twins. Does this mean they win?

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[Prancer]

There is going to be a finale party in FL. Hosted by the twins. Does this mean they win?

The twins were eliminated in the last episode. They were the ones who ate two souvlaki.

 

[BaileyCatts]

They shoulda been wearing safety goggles when they was smashin' those plates. Tiny shards of ceramic flying everywhere! And that clue was so tiny!

And that rock challenge .... I know it was a 'needle in a haystack' task, but that area was way too big and way too many rocks for there only be 4 coins out there. If I was the last guy out there I woulda just started throwing them outside the ring to find the damn last rock. My back and knees still hurt just from watching that.

That was kinda amazing what Ryan did to calm Dusty down.

 

[MacMadame]

The twins were eliminated in the last episode. They were the ones who ate two souvlaki.

This shows how hard a time I am having telling most of the teams apart.

They shoulda been wearing safety goggles when they was smashin' those plates. Tiny shards of ceramic flying everywhere! And that clue was so tiny!

When the father was scolding his daughter for not smashing the plates finely enough, I started rooting for her to find the clue. And she did!

And that rock challenge .... I know it was a 'needle in a haystack' task, but that area was way too big and way too many rocks for there only be 4 coins out there. If I was the last guy out there I woulda just started throwing them outside the ring to find the damn last rock. My back and knees still hurt just from watching that.

I don't know why the last guy didn't start moving the rocks around either.

And most of them were not systematic enough. You could see them turning over rocks but not all the way and turning over 3 in a set of 5. It made my compulsive little head hurt.

 

[love skating]

I wondered if there was some rule that you couldn't pile up the rocks in one place or not since no one seemed to do that. It really was a diabolical task with only four coins. I felt like they should have made it six or something - cause it truly was hard for the last team to try to find the one sole coin left. On the other hand, I guess they knew it was a non-elimination leg so they didn't care to ease the suffering.

 

[MacMadame]

I wondered if there was some rule that you couldn't pile up the rocks in one place or not since no one seemed to do that. It really was a diabolical task with only four coins. I felt like they should have made it six or something - cause it truly was hard for the last team to try to find the one sole coin left. On the other hand, I guess they knew it was a non-elimination leg so they didn't care to ease the suffering.

I was wondering too but none of the teams mentioned it that I heard. The other thing they could have done was turn the rock over and not turn it back. The bottoms were flatter so it would be easier to see if you'd already turned that rock over.

 

[Lilia A]

Nightmare needle in a haystack challenge. I can't imagine being there for three hours.
So, two hour finale next week. Yay for a double leg episode. Boo because it means it will be over. I suppose since they're self driving this season, it won't come down to who has the best cab driver? I can only hope.

 

[jadingirl]

I was thinking the same thing why not take the rocks out of the circle as you moved them. Or if you are the last team to show up take the 2 hour penalty and get to the pit stop was the other thing I was thinking.

I thought Ryan and Dusty would be gone but then Phil started talking and didn't say they were eliminated. I don't understand how they don't clue in since the second sentence isn't I'm sorry to say you've been eliminated from the race. My daughter thinks with all the stress they are under at the time the teams just don't clue in that Phil didn't say it.

I can't believe Natalie and Arun got lost again - too funny! It will be hilarious if they win!

 

[MacMadame]

Or if you are the last team to show up take the 2 hour penalty and get to the pit stop was the other thing I was thinking.

An even better idea!

I suspect that the team didn't really think it would take them 3 hours to complete the task though.

 

[sk8pics]

An even better idea!

I suspect that the team didn't really think it would take them 3 hours to complete the task though.

A good idea unless the team in front of them finds the rock right away, and then they’re sitting there for the 2 hours not knowing if they’d have found it.

I hate challenges like this one. It’s not so bad if there’s some luck involved, but this one seemed like it really was almost all pure luck. I also think they must have been told they couldn’t pile up the rocks they’d looked under. I think I’d have moved them a bit, though, so that you could see the areas you’d already searched in.

I still really like the married YouTube couple and hope they win.

 

[emason]

I don't care how the hard the rock challenge was;I have no sympathy for anyone. You want to win $1,000,000, you have to work for it!

 

[MacMadame]

I don't care how the hard the rock challenge was;I have no sympathy for anyone. You want to win $1,000,000, you have to work for it!

Can't argue with that.

OTOH, we are the audience and without us, there is no show. So if the challenges aren't interesting to us, then they need to be reworked. The worst for me are the memory challenges. They take forever and are boring af to watch. The rock one wasn't too bad though.

 

[Aceon6]

In rewatching, it seemed that the actress playing the Oracle was subtly pointing towards the area with the remaining coin. Also, one of the coins was on a “one of these things is not like the other” white rock. Not that I could have done any better, of course.

 

[screech]

The rock challenge - it bugged me that people mostly tipped it to look at the bottom then put it back down the same way. I would have completely flipped them over - the bottoms of the rocks were a bit damp, so you'd be able to tell which ones were flipped. But holy heck that would have been a frustrating challenge. At first I thought it wouldn't be so bad. But then as it dragged on... as someone who has a bad back, I would not have been able to last a few hours.

I'm also surprised that nobody's bare legs got sliced when they were smashing plates.

 

[Susan1]

I'm also surprised that nobody's bare legs got sliced when they were smashing plates.

That was my first thought.