The Amazing Race 14: Recaps To Finale

Previously on The Amazing Race – Our Parents Will Cry Themselves to Death”: Luke made a bitchass move and pushed one of the sistahs so she called him a bitch. He didn’t hear it, but his Mama told him and then it was on! At the pit stop, Margie lost her shit when she thought Kisha was laughing at Luke because he’s deaf. Oh, and the shorty-do-wops were eliminated. Finally!

Previously on The Amazing Race- “Having a Baby’s Gotta Be Easier Than This”: The teams get foot massages from hell in China and Jen provides this season’s reality show stereotype – black folks can’t swim. The episode ends with a cliffhanger as the first team to the pit stop finds out that the leg of the race is still going.

Previously on The Amazing Race – “He Made Me Look Like Alice Cooper”: The race continues. The teams have to eat gross stuff like fried starfish. I just studied starfish anatomy in biology and I know what their gonads look like. I wouldn’t have eaten it. Just sayin’. Victor and Tammy use the final U-Turn on Kisha and Jen… but that doesn’t cause them to lose the race. Jen stopping to pee when she knew there was another team behind them is what cost them the race. I want to kick her in the teeth.

For one million bucks you PISS YOUR PANTS!

My two picks to win are out. Donny’s pick, Tammy and Victor, are still in. The finale is up next.

The final three teams fly to Hawaii where they have to season, carry, and then prep a pig for a luau. Tammy struggles carrying the pig. I never understand people that can’t suck it up doing the painful things. Maybe it’s because I’ve been through labor twice. Maybe it’s because I really like money. Either way, I want to drop-kick Tammy into the ocean every time she drops the pig and cries.

Margie and Luke finish first and take off for their next clue… on a water scooter… bike… thingie. Then they race to a highway with a fence made of surfboard. One team member has to put the surfboards in order of tasks they completed/places they visited. Luke starts off doing it really well as he’s been prepping for it the entire game.

Jaime and Cara get lost… again. Their cabbie gets on the phone to ask for help. Tammy and Victor get stuck behind a slow car. Meanwhile, Luke is flying through the surfboards. The person the cabbie called for help is on speakerphone and doesn’t appreciate Jaime’s nasty attitude. She, finally, puts her in her damn place! Leave it to an American to tell that bitch where to go.

Luke has a great head start, but the other two teams catch up. He can’t figure out the last two boards, Jaime can’t figure out the first, Victor smokes them all. Tammy and Victor leave for the finish line and the remaining two teams work together to finish the puzzle.

Tammy and Victor win! And even though Donny will never shut up about predicting the winners from episode one, I am happy they won because I hated those remaining two teams.

Lost Season 3, Episode 9: Stranger in a Strange Land

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 Jack is in an Asian country getting loved long time. He gets some tats. Jack makes a deal with Ben in order to save Juliet from execution for her part in helping Kate and Sawyer escape and killing Others Danny.

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:

Silly Nina Noticed Stuff:
The Unexplained That’s Still Unexplained:

Sawyerisms

Bobby (as in The Brady Bunch) – Carl

Trivia:

1. What do Jack’s tattoos say?

Lost Season 2, Episode 9: What Kate Did

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:

As the raft survivors and tailies get used to being at the beach and in the hatch, Sawyer continues to recover from his gunshot injury obtained when Walt was taken. Via flashbacks, we learn that Kate killed her stepfather in order to protect her mother, who later turned Kate in. Locke, Michael, and Eko watch the Orientation tape as Michael questions the blast doors in the hatch. The survivors have a funeral for Shannon.

Cool Stuff

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

Revelations

- Kate killed her father and not her stepfather.

Knowing What We Know Now and Observations of Continuity:

Silly Nina Noticed Stuff:

The Unexplained That’s Still Unexplained:

- Where the hell did the animal come from that Kate kept seeing?

- Did we ever figure out who was talking to Michael on the computer at the episode’s end?

Sawyerisms

Trivia:

1. What animal does Kate see while in the jungle?

2. What did Kate’s mother do for a living?

3. What does Eko give to Locke and what’s in it?

Lost Season 1, Episode 9: Raised By Another

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:

After Claire claims to have been attacked in the middle of the night Jack, Charlie, and Hurley try to find out whose behind it. Via flashbacks we learn how Claire came to be pregnant and on the plane when it crashed.

Cool Stuff

- Another episode that starts with an eye dilating. This time it’s Claire waking up in the cave.

- Another Scott/Steve reference! After Claire says she was attacked in the middle of the night Hurley and Jack are walking and Hurley goes,

“I was just thinking. I’m out here patrolling with Scott and Steve and it hits me, I don’t even know who the hell Scott and Steve are!”

This conversation leads to Hurley deciding later that they need to find out who everyone on the plane was.

- In the pilot Claire says she doesn’t know if the baby is a boy or a girl. When Jin feels the baby kick with her she calls it he and then says, “I guess I think you’re a boy.” But in this episode, the psychic told her it was a boy!

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

Knowing What We Know Now  and Observations of Continuity:

- The psychic tells Claire that danger will befall her baby if it’s raised by anyone but her… so is Aaron pretty much screwed now that Kate has him?  I think this (if there’s to be any kind of happy ending for this part of the plot) suggests that maybe Claire is still alive on the island once the O6 gets off.

- Something that doesn’t make sense: from Claire’s perspective if she just ran out from giving her baby to the first couple… why would she agree, the same day, to go along with the psychic’s plan to give the baby to strangers in Los Angeles for less money?

Silly Nina Noticed Stuff:

- Shannon and Boone are on their way to move to the caves when they learn that Claire was attacked there the night before. Shannon drops her bags and says, “I’m so not moving to the rape caves!”

The Unexplained That’s Still Unexplained:

- So, if the psyhic purposely put Claire on the plane to ensure that she raises the baby did that mean he knew she and the baby would survive the plane crash? Or did he intend for them to die thinking that would be better than the baby being raised by others?  Also, if he knew the plane was going to crash did he read someone else’s palms that was on the plane?

Sawyerisms

Hurley – Stay Puff

Trivia:

1. What is Claire’s baby daddy name?
2. What is Ethan’s last name?
3. On what other TV drama did Claire play a pregnant young girl?
4. What is Claire’s last name?