The Amazing Race 14: Gorilla? Gorilla? Gorilla?

Previously on The Amazing Race: A whole bunch of stuff I didn’t see because I only half paid attention thinking it was TiVo’ing upstairs. It wasn’t. I see Christie and Jodi were eliminated.

And now…

The teams start off in northwestern India.

Tammy and Victor leave first at 10:21a.m. They’re flying to Thailand. Using only a picture for a reference, they have to find a gorilla statue. Tammy has been to Thailand before, but with her parents and they kept her on lockdown.

Mel and Mike leave next. The only Thai the dad knows is Mai Tai. *rim shot*

They’re going to Phuket, and I giggle pronouncing it Fuck-It. Don’t judge me!

The redhead cheerleaders, Jaime and Cara, are so obnxious. One doesn’t like foreign languages, she doesn’t like noise… ugh. Every season they cast two pretty, pageant-like, white girls that just don’t respect other cultures. It’s annoying.

The black girls get jumped by some Indian kids who are starving and want money. That’s just sad.

All teams end up on the same flight to Phuket, Thailand.

One of the redheads is condescending in Thailand too. “Do you know what a race is, cab driver?”

All the teams jump out of their cabs and assault the locals with their gorilla picture. “Gorilla? Gorilla? Gorilla?” Once they find out it’s at the zoo, they’re off.

Jaime and Cara get there first and find out that their first task is to take a picture with a tiger.

Mel and Mike, for some stupid ass reason, are going to the beach.

The tiger handler has one arm. I shit you not. One. Arm. Not a good sign.

Kisha and Jen reason that if the tiger didn’t eat the two midget stuntmen, then they’d be alright. Kisha says that they are each about the size of the trainer’s missing arm. LMAO!

Next task is to lay on the ground and let an elephant walk over you and then squat.

My ass would be sooo eliminated.

Mark and Michael, tiny stuntmen, are in first place. They head to the next task where they have to ask the owner of an herb shop to open one of 99 herb drawers until they find a clue.

Mel and Mike finally decide to ask for help finding the gorilla statue, but no one knows where it is. Why they didn’t just stop when everyone else did is beyond me.

At the herb shop, Jaime and Cara yell at the owner. They are annoyed because he doesn’t speak English. Bitches, you’re in Thailand. He’s not obligated to speak your language.

Mark and Michael, the tiny tots, get their clue first and face a Detour. They have to choose between 100 barrels or 2 miles. In barrels, they have to prepare a fishing ship for ten days at sea. They will fill 47 barrels with drinking water to last the trip, and then move the remaining barrels to the roof. In 2 miles, they have to navigate a rickshaw (sp) through the streets for 2 miles. They choose the rickshaw.

Mel and Mike FINALLY find the zoo and complete the tasks.

Jaime and Cara are still at the herb shop. Other teams have come and gone. Good for them. After yelling some more, they finally pick a drawer with a clue. Damnit. I wanted them to be there all night.

Mel and Mike are at the herb shop, and having such a good time picking the empty drawers. I like them.

Shorty Stuntmen pump the tires of their rickshaw and then pile all the other pumps and tools into a crate to make it harder for the other teams. Never trust a midget! They have a cabbie lead them to the end of the detour and they follow in the rickshaw.

Tammy and Victor take off without filling their tires because they don’t see the equipment in the crate. Hahahaha. Other teams do the same thing.

Shorty Do-Wops make it to the pit stop first. BUT they incur two 30-minute penalties. One for hiding the pumps and another for hiring a cabbie to lead them to pit stop. They sit out their penalty under a tree and look just like Keebler Elves.

Margie and Luke struggle with the rickshaw challenge because he can’t hear her. Mel and Mike work through the barrel challenge.

Tammy and Victor arrive before the little dudes’ penalty is up and they win a trip. Jaime and Cara are team number 2. The shrimpy shrimp shrimps are hatin’.

Margie and Luke make it to the pit stop and it’s so obvious Margie is struggling. Yet, Phil still does the dramatic pause thing before telling them they are team number 4.

They celebrate, and then Margie faints. Phil is so great taking care of her and whispering to her to breathe. *sigh*

Kisha and Jen finish the barrel challenge before Mel and Mike and head for the pit stop. BUT their cab driver drops them off at the wrong place and Mel and Mike finish and jump in a cab.

Kisha and Jen get in a cab that doesn’t seem to be moving. But they still make it before Mel and Mike. Mel and Mike are eliminated. Going to the beach screwed them.

Lost Season 3, Episode 7: Not In Portland

If you have answers to questions, have your own theories, or want to speculate on anything I’ve mentioned feel free to do so below… if not, that’s okay too. This is to help me remember stuff about the show as the seasons go on.

Synopsis:

Jack goes all Evil Doc. on Ben’s ass. Or rather, his back. Seconds before Other Danny is about to kill Sawyer, Other Tom tells him to put Kate on the Walkie-Talkie so Jack can instruct her to DAMNIT KATE, RUN!

Via flashbacks, Juliet cares for her cancer striken sister who wants to have a baby and we learn how she was recruited to live and work on the island.

Cool Stuff

Things To Throw Us Off That Later Turned Out to Mean Jack-Shit

Revelations

- Jack asks Other Tom why they don’t just take Ben to a hospital for his back surgery if they can leave the island whenever they want and Tom begins to reply, “Ever since the sky went purple…” Was this a reference to Desmond setting off the EMP thingie? But we know that Tom later leaves the island to proposition Michael after they let him and Walt go.
Knowing What We Know Now and Observations of Continuity:

Silly Nina Noticed Stuff:

- In the opening scene when Juliet pulls back the curtain to reveal that she and her sister are in Miami, an Oceanic plane flies overhead.
The Unexplained That’s Still Unexplained:

Sawyerisms

Trivia:

1. Who is being brainwashed in this episode?

2. How does Juliet’s ex husband die?

3. What does Ben offer Juliet if she agrees to help Kate and Sawyer escape?

Lost Season 2, Episode 7: The Other 48 Days

If you have answers to questions, have your own theories, or want to speculate on anything I’ve mentioned feel free to do so below… if not, that’s okay too. This is to help me remember stuff about the show as the seasons go on.

Synopsis:

Via flashbacks we learn what happened to the tail-end suvivors their first 48 days on the island.

Cool Stuff

Things To Throw Us Off That Later Turned Out to Mean Jack-Shit

Revelations

Knowing What We Know Now and Observations of Continuity:

- When the tailies found the bunker they found a chest with blankets, a bible, and a glass eye. Did we ever find out what that was about?

- Goodwin said that Nathan wasn’t a good person and that’s why he wasn’t on the list. What’s up with the list and who’s good and who’s not?

Silly Nina Noticed Stuff:

- Jack and Ana Lucia are a lot alike. Leaders that made huge mistakes (like Ana making Bernard turn off the radio when he made contact with Boone) out of know-it-all-ness.

The Unexplained That’s Still Unexplained:

Sawyerisms

Trivia:

1. Who survived the plane crash only to be found alive in a tree?

2. Eko stopped speaking after doing what?

3. What happened to Nathan, the man believed to be a spy for The Others?

Lost Season 1, Episode 7: Confidence Man

If you have answers to questions, have your own theories, or want to speculate on anything I’ve mentioned feel free to do so below… if not, that’s okay too. This is to help me remember stuff about the show as the seasons go on.

Synopsis:

Sawyer refuses to give up enhalers that another survivor needs. Sayid is enlisted to try and torture what they need out of Sawyer. Via flashbacks we learn that Sawyer was a confidence man searching for the con man that is responsible for the deaths of his parents.

Cool Stuff

Things To Throw Us Off That Later Turned Out to Mean Jack-Shit

Knowing What We Know Now  and Observations of Continuity:

- Didn’t we find out later that Locke knocked out Sayid to keep him from finding the signal? In this episode he purposely tries to make Sayid believe it was Sawyer and even gives him a knife to use.

Silly Nina Noticed Stuff:

The Unexplained That’s Still Unexplained:

Sawyerisms

Sayid – Ali

Trivia:

1. Sawyer is reading a book about what?
2. What is the only food Claire craves?
3. Who needs the enhalers that Sawyer is suspected of having?
4. How much money does Sawyer get the couple to invest in his scheme?
5. Who leaves the group in this episode?
6. Who comes up with a natural cure to replace the enhalers? What is it?