Feel free to disagree. *Click on the picture to look at the full bracket, i haven't figured out how to make it smaller yet*
Monday, March 16, 2009
First bracket impressions.
Feel free to disagree. *Click on the picture to look at the full bracket, i haven't figured out how to make it smaller yet*
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Vickie got some splainin to do. So do I.
RAW RESULTS
3/9/09 -- Jacksonville (FL) Veterans Memorial Arena
6-MAN TAG TEAM MATCH
Rey Mysterio, Finlay, Christian def World Tag Team Champions The Miz/John Morrison and Kane
Mysterio pins Morrison, 619 combination
SINGLES MATCH
Kofi Kingston def Chris Jericho to earn a spot in the Money In The Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 25
Pinfall, Jericho distracted by Ric Flair appearance
NON-TITLE DIVAS MATCH
WWE Divas Champion Maryse def WWE Women's Champion Melina
Pinfall
SINGLES MATCH
John Bradshaw Layfield def CM Punk to become the NEW WWE INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION
Pinfall, Clothesline from Hell after JBL ranked CM Punk's eyes
2 VS 1 HANDICAP MATCH
Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase def WWE Champion Triple H
Forfeit, Triple H did not show
STORYLINE DEVELOPMENTS
* Undertaker appeared on Raw and gave a great shoot to HBK. Taker's in-ring ability may have diminished in recent years as he grows older, but his shoots the past few weeks have been great in promoting this match.
* The reason Triple H didn't show in Jacksonville is because he tried a little bit of breaking and entering fun with a sledgehammer "in St Louis", where Randy Orton was interviewed in his "home" (it was actually done in Florida according to WrestleZone). After a few minutes of throwing Randy Orton out a window and breaking other IKEA-made things, the "police" showed up and HHH was "arrested", as Randy Orton was held back to avoid fighting Hunter further.
* And now for a moment I'm ashamed of: John Cena made me laugh last night. During Contract Signing II: Electric Boogaloo between Show and Edge, Cena got entered in the WHC match at WM25, making it a triple threat. As it turns out, Cena got this entry because of what he said to make Vickie cry at FNSD last Friday: Cena had some footage to show from his hometown of Boston, where Raw was last week. It revealed that Big Show and Vickie had been having an affair behind Edge's back. To which Cena replied: "Vickie, you got some 'splainin to do!", using Ricky Ricardo's voice from I Love Lucy. I am so ashamed of laughing at that. Long story short, it's Cena in a title triple threat for the 2nd straight year, I have no honor left, and I hope that Edge gets the triple threat win in Houston (though we all know what's going to happen).
RAW GRADE: [ C ]
ECW RESULTS
Taped 3/9/09, Aired 3/10/09
Jacksonville (FL) Veterans Memorial Arena
SINGLES MATCH
WWE Tag Team Champion Primo def World Tag Team Champion The Miz
Pinfall, Backstabber
Bonus: Primo and Carlito have a chance to become undisputed tag champs Friday on FNSD (8pm ET/PT, MyNetwork TV HD)
SINGLES MATCH
Tyson Kidd def DJ Gabriel
Pinfall, springboard elbow
Kidd: 4-0 in WWE competition
16-MAN BATTLE ROYAL
Christian wins battle royal to earn a spot in the Money In The Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 25
Competitors: Shad Gaspard, JTG, Vladimir Kozlov, William Regal, The Great Khali, Chavo Guerrero, Paul Burchill, Ricky Ortiz, Kung Fu Naki, Jimmy Wang Yang, Goldust, Charlie Haas, Dolph Ziggler, Tommy Dreamer, R-Truth
ECW GRADE: [ B- ]
WRESTLEMANIA 25 CARD AFTER ECW
SINGLES MATCH
WWE Champion Triple H defends vs Randy Orton
TRIPLE THREAT MATCH
World Heavyweight Champion Edge defends vs The Big Show and John Cena
SINGLES MATCH
The Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels
8-MAN MONEY IN THE BANK LADDER MATCH
Winner earns right to challenge either World Champion or WWE Champion any time before WrestleMania XXVI
CM Punk vs Kane vs Mark Henry vs MVP vs WWE United States Champion Shelton Benjamin vs Kofi Kingston vs Christian vs TBD
25-DIVA BATTLE ROYAL
Competitors TBD, advertised as tri-branded with guest divas from WWE history
3/9/09 -- Jacksonville (FL) Veterans Memorial Arena
6-MAN TAG TEAM MATCH
Rey Mysterio, Finlay, Christian def World Tag Team Champions The Miz/John Morrison and Kane
Mysterio pins Morrison, 619 combination
SINGLES MATCH
Kofi Kingston def Chris Jericho to earn a spot in the Money In The Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 25
Pinfall, Jericho distracted by Ric Flair appearance
NON-TITLE DIVAS MATCH
WWE Divas Champion Maryse def WWE Women's Champion Melina
Pinfall
SINGLES MATCH
John Bradshaw Layfield def CM Punk to become the NEW WWE INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION
Pinfall, Clothesline from Hell after JBL ranked CM Punk's eyes
2 VS 1 HANDICAP MATCH
Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase def WWE Champion Triple H
Forfeit, Triple H did not show
STORYLINE DEVELOPMENTS
* Undertaker appeared on Raw and gave a great shoot to HBK. Taker's in-ring ability may have diminished in recent years as he grows older, but his shoots the past few weeks have been great in promoting this match.
* The reason Triple H didn't show in Jacksonville is because he tried a little bit of breaking and entering fun with a sledgehammer "in St Louis", where Randy Orton was interviewed in his "home" (it was actually done in Florida according to WrestleZone). After a few minutes of throwing Randy Orton out a window and breaking other IKEA-made things, the "police" showed up and HHH was "arrested", as Randy Orton was held back to avoid fighting Hunter further.
* And now for a moment I'm ashamed of: John Cena made me laugh last night. During Contract Signing II: Electric Boogaloo between Show and Edge, Cena got entered in the WHC match at WM25, making it a triple threat. As it turns out, Cena got this entry because of what he said to make Vickie cry at FNSD last Friday: Cena had some footage to show from his hometown of Boston, where Raw was last week. It revealed that Big Show and Vickie had been having an affair behind Edge's back. To which Cena replied: "Vickie, you got some 'splainin to do!", using Ricky Ricardo's voice from I Love Lucy. I am so ashamed of laughing at that. Long story short, it's Cena in a title triple threat for the 2nd straight year, I have no honor left, and I hope that Edge gets the triple threat win in Houston (though we all know what's going to happen).
RAW GRADE: [ C ]
ECW RESULTS
Taped 3/9/09, Aired 3/10/09
Jacksonville (FL) Veterans Memorial Arena
SINGLES MATCH
WWE Tag Team Champion Primo def World Tag Team Champion The Miz
Pinfall, Backstabber
Bonus: Primo and Carlito have a chance to become undisputed tag champs Friday on FNSD (8pm ET/PT, MyNetwork TV HD)
SINGLES MATCH
Tyson Kidd def DJ Gabriel
Pinfall, springboard elbow
Kidd: 4-0 in WWE competition
16-MAN BATTLE ROYAL
Christian wins battle royal to earn a spot in the Money In The Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 25
Competitors: Shad Gaspard, JTG, Vladimir Kozlov, William Regal, The Great Khali, Chavo Guerrero, Paul Burchill, Ricky Ortiz, Kung Fu Naki, Jimmy Wang Yang, Goldust, Charlie Haas, Dolph Ziggler, Tommy Dreamer, R-Truth
ECW GRADE: [ B- ]
WRESTLEMANIA 25 CARD AFTER ECW
SINGLES MATCH
WWE Champion Triple H defends vs Randy Orton
TRIPLE THREAT MATCH
World Heavyweight Champion Edge defends vs The Big Show and John Cena
SINGLES MATCH
The Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels
8-MAN MONEY IN THE BANK LADDER MATCH
Winner earns right to challenge either World Champion or WWE Champion any time before WrestleMania XXVI
CM Punk vs Kane vs Mark Henry vs MVP vs WWE United States Champion Shelton Benjamin vs Kofi Kingston vs Christian vs TBD
25-DIVA BATTLE ROYAL
Competitors TBD, advertised as tri-branded with guest divas from WWE history
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
In Soviet Russia, U-Turn Forks You!
So we discovered in Race #1404 that one team isn't as innocent as they appear. And yet no one can discover that. How you ask? Well....
The first step in this leg was to get to Siberia and find out what destination was on the back of the 10-ruble note, which was some sort of dam. The dirty play started early, as the cheerleaders (Jaime and Cara) used an accidental taxi-to-taxi call to dupe the midgets (Mark and Michael) into thinking they were really agents at Lufthansa. It ended up all being in good fun, as the midgets actually got to Krasnoyarsk first, along with Kisha/Jen and Christie/Jodi. Meanwhile, the trickster cheerleaders ended up missing a Moscow connection along with the other teams.
But there was a bunchup potential at the dam as the three leaders had to wait for the dam to open. The other teams, however, were far behind, allowing the three leaders to get to the detour, a key factor in this leg. Their choice: stack a tall pile of firewood and hope you don't knock down the stacks, or build some shutters and take them to a marked house. All three teams tried to go on the stacking route, and while the female teams stacked well, the midgets' stack came tumbling down, causing them to switch tasks. Meanwhile, the black sisters finished the stacking first, leading them to the route marker where a new twist awaited: the BLIND U-turn.
Those of you who are new to the game, the U-turn, of which there are only 2 in the race, allowed any team to force any other team to backtrack and complete the other detour option. However, this time, with the blind U-turn, the team choosing to force the backtrack could remain secret whereas before the team had to declare that they did it. Seeing as how no one had arrived from the 2nd flight, both female teams passed on this opportunity and went to the road block.
Meanwhile, as the midgets couldn't find the house they were to deliver shutters to, the other five teams arrived and all of them tried to stack. 3 teams failed in their stacking mission: hottie Amanda and jock Kris, the cheerleaders, and the gays Mel and Mike. The cheerleaders stayed strong with deaf kid Luke and Margie and the Asians Tammy and Victor, while the hottie/jock and the gays went to shut themselves in, so to speak.
With their successful stack, Margie and Luke hit the blind u-turn point in 3rd and decided to do the evil deed: they pulled the u-turn on Amanda and Kris, quoting that they wanted to keep Jaime and Cara in the race. Apparently they didn't hear that Lufthansa was suing the cheerleaders (kidding). Anyways, this is a move that no one would expect from them in retrospect, which could really play to Luke and Margie's advantage if more blind u-turns/yields pop up later in the race.
Unbeknownst of their fate, the daters joined the gays and the midgets in trying to build the shutters and find the house. After what seemed like hours searching for the house, they finally found it, and the male teams quickly assembled their shutters, putting the daters in last place behind the teams who had finished their log stacking.
And this was ALL before they were forced to turn back to wood stacking, holding their belief that the blacks had u-turned them and that the actual perpetrators, Luke and Margie, probably felt bad.
Those perpetrators had long been held up at the Roadblock, which is something I NEED TO DO when I visit Siberia. They had to complete a 3-mile bobsled course in less than 4 minutes while looking for seven letters on the route. After that, they had to unscramble those letters to spell the name "Chekhov", advertised as a Russian playwright. I would've gone with another way to spell a Star Trek officer, but no matter.
Anyways, Kisha, after going twice to spot all seven letters, struggled along with Christie to spell the name. They eventually got it pretty close to each other, leading to a virtual footrace to the pit stop at some musical comedy theater. Finding the wrong theater entrance, the blacks fell to 2nd, allowing the flight attendants to win the leg and take home some motorcycles.
Luke, however, (DESERVEDLY) struggled coming up with the name at the road block as the Asians snuck ahead to grab 3rd. He eventually made it, but seeing him emotionally struggle was satisfaction for me in their u-turn move.
Despite his struggles, he and Margie comfortably finished in a transfer spot, as the U-turn was too much for Kris and Amanda to overcome. I thought it might be a non-elimination point, but Amanda and Kris, as it was revealed, are now out.
So now we have all four couples out of the race in the first 4 legs. Two aren't surprising (Brad/Victoria and Linda/Steve) but two very much are (Amanda/Kris and Preston/Jennifer). And all 3 female teams are still in the race, a combination that has never won the race. Could we be looking at history this series?
Finishing Order for Leg 4:
1. Christie/Jodi (motorcycles)
2. Kisha/Jen
3. Tammy/Victor
4. Margie/Luke
5. Jaime/Cara
6. Mel/Mike
7. Mark/Michael
8. Amanda/Kris (eliminated)
The first step in this leg was to get to Siberia and find out what destination was on the back of the 10-ruble note, which was some sort of dam. The dirty play started early, as the cheerleaders (Jaime and Cara) used an accidental taxi-to-taxi call to dupe the midgets (Mark and Michael) into thinking they were really agents at Lufthansa. It ended up all being in good fun, as the midgets actually got to Krasnoyarsk first, along with Kisha/Jen and Christie/Jodi. Meanwhile, the trickster cheerleaders ended up missing a Moscow connection along with the other teams.
But there was a bunchup potential at the dam as the three leaders had to wait for the dam to open. The other teams, however, were far behind, allowing the three leaders to get to the detour, a key factor in this leg. Their choice: stack a tall pile of firewood and hope you don't knock down the stacks, or build some shutters and take them to a marked house. All three teams tried to go on the stacking route, and while the female teams stacked well, the midgets' stack came tumbling down, causing them to switch tasks. Meanwhile, the black sisters finished the stacking first, leading them to the route marker where a new twist awaited: the BLIND U-turn.
Those of you who are new to the game, the U-turn, of which there are only 2 in the race, allowed any team to force any other team to backtrack and complete the other detour option. However, this time, with the blind U-turn, the team choosing to force the backtrack could remain secret whereas before the team had to declare that they did it. Seeing as how no one had arrived from the 2nd flight, both female teams passed on this opportunity and went to the road block.
Meanwhile, as the midgets couldn't find the house they were to deliver shutters to, the other five teams arrived and all of them tried to stack. 3 teams failed in their stacking mission: hottie Amanda and jock Kris, the cheerleaders, and the gays Mel and Mike. The cheerleaders stayed strong with deaf kid Luke and Margie and the Asians Tammy and Victor, while the hottie/jock and the gays went to shut themselves in, so to speak.
With their successful stack, Margie and Luke hit the blind u-turn point in 3rd and decided to do the evil deed: they pulled the u-turn on Amanda and Kris, quoting that they wanted to keep Jaime and Cara in the race. Apparently they didn't hear that Lufthansa was suing the cheerleaders (kidding). Anyways, this is a move that no one would expect from them in retrospect, which could really play to Luke and Margie's advantage if more blind u-turns/yields pop up later in the race.
Unbeknownst of their fate, the daters joined the gays and the midgets in trying to build the shutters and find the house. After what seemed like hours searching for the house, they finally found it, and the male teams quickly assembled their shutters, putting the daters in last place behind the teams who had finished their log stacking.
And this was ALL before they were forced to turn back to wood stacking, holding their belief that the blacks had u-turned them and that the actual perpetrators, Luke and Margie, probably felt bad.
Those perpetrators had long been held up at the Roadblock, which is something I NEED TO DO when I visit Siberia. They had to complete a 3-mile bobsled course in less than 4 minutes while looking for seven letters on the route. After that, they had to unscramble those letters to spell the name "Chekhov", advertised as a Russian playwright. I would've gone with another way to spell a Star Trek officer, but no matter.
Anyways, Kisha, after going twice to spot all seven letters, struggled along with Christie to spell the name. They eventually got it pretty close to each other, leading to a virtual footrace to the pit stop at some musical comedy theater. Finding the wrong theater entrance, the blacks fell to 2nd, allowing the flight attendants to win the leg and take home some motorcycles.
Luke, however, (DESERVEDLY) struggled coming up with the name at the road block as the Asians snuck ahead to grab 3rd. He eventually made it, but seeing him emotionally struggle was satisfaction for me in their u-turn move.
Despite his struggles, he and Margie comfortably finished in a transfer spot, as the U-turn was too much for Kris and Amanda to overcome. I thought it might be a non-elimination point, but Amanda and Kris, as it was revealed, are now out.
So now we have all four couples out of the race in the first 4 legs. Two aren't surprising (Brad/Victoria and Linda/Steve) but two very much are (Amanda/Kris and Preston/Jennifer). And all 3 female teams are still in the race, a combination that has never won the race. Could we be looking at history this series?
Finishing Order for Leg 4:
1. Christie/Jodi (motorcycles)
2. Kisha/Jen
3. Tammy/Victor
4. Margie/Luke
5. Jaime/Cara
6. Mel/Mike
7. Mark/Michael
8. Amanda/Kris (eliminated)
Friday, March 6, 2009
Don't hide things.
Also known as your lesson from HK #505, where we visited the cuisine and culture of Japan, a new dish found its way into Ramsay's heart, and another idiot was (deservedly) sent packing.
We start with a visit to an Asian supermarket in Lipstick City, as Scott Ferrall, of Sirius-XM Howard 101 fame, calls it, for the obligatory "Cook Something Good and Cheap" challenge! The challenge was to cook something "Asian Fusion" (whatever that is) with 25 minutes to shop and $100 to spend. Not much for something that has to impress the editor of a food website. They then had an hour to cook it. So far, the challenges have been extremely competitive and this challenge was no exception, with Ramsay and Tanya Steel (the editor in question) choosing 2 red dishes vs. 1 blue dish. In addition, Carol's dish, some tuna sushi thing, was recommended by Ramsay as one of the best things he's ever tasted on HK, going so far as to put it on the menu for the next night's service. So for a 2nd straight reward, the girls got to have a Japanese fun day! But we'll get back to that later.
Let's talk about the main theme: the rebirth of Lacey, who, as you remember, got moved to the blue boys in #504. Throughout the challenge, the boys did not acknowledge her at all, preferably wanting her gone. But after the challenge and through the punishment, which was to make fortune cookies and origami, Lacey started to gain respect by teaching the guys how to make origami. Ok, so it took a non-food thing for the guys to respect Lacey, but she eventually became one of the few pluses of the next night's service. Keep that in mind.
Back to the red girls, who got a hilarious treat: wrestling in large sumo suits. The funny part was who demonstrated the suits at first: Ramsey and Jean Phillipe, who makes a rare appearance in a reward. Then they all dog-piled on each other and that made me happy. Of course, they made themselves happy by getting drunk on sake.
But all the happiness would end with the next night's service, which featured one table of note: a table of sumo wrestlers. They order everything on the menu, continuing Fox's proud tradition of stereotyping Asians (Family Guy, American Dad, Banzai, etc.).
Anyways, it was a total disaster of a service yet again. Giovanni and LA put out good appetizers and that was key as you'll find out. Lacey, continuing her renaissance, developed into a leader this service, trying to use her words to keep things moving in the blue kitchen. Call it motivation to beat Red if you want, but Lacey definitely was a comeback player this episode and maybe Ramsay sees potential in her yet.
Pretty much everyone else screwed up, though. J undercooked his beef wellingtons with the wrong fan setting, but in my mind, that wasn't the biggest error. Both Robert and Andrea were wasting/hiding food, which is a BIG NO-NO in Chef Ramsay's kitchen. Robert, in particular, was derided by the use of the name "Bobby" by Ramsay, which made Robert ignore him. You can imagine the downward spiral from there. After the service, Robert and Ramsey met privately, and Robert explained that he and his dad, named Bobby, didn't have a good relationship, thereby explaining the irritation over "Bobby". Surprisingly, Ramsay understood and said he would respect Robert's wishes.
So for the 2nd straight episode, we had a double knockout on the kitchen. But at least we had a Best of Worst for the first time this season: Giovanni and LA for their respective teams. They nominated J and Andrea, respectively, which I think were the type of choices that should've been made last week. I think both nominees have potential to go all the way but both needed swift kicks in the ass by Ramsay.
And that's exactly what happened, as Ramsay asserted his power for the first time this season and kicked out Colleen (YAY!) instead, keeping J and Andrea in the game, and in my mind deservedly so.
Btw, Fox is a bit full of shit for starting Hell's Kitchen at 9:05 due to American Midol overrun. I'm sure 65-70% of the Hell's Kitchen audience couldn't care less who was in American Idol, and I'm sure DVR users are probably pissed this morning. At least the episodes are on-demand.
We start with a visit to an Asian supermarket in Lipstick City, as Scott Ferrall, of Sirius-XM Howard 101 fame, calls it, for the obligatory "Cook Something Good and Cheap" challenge! The challenge was to cook something "Asian Fusion" (whatever that is) with 25 minutes to shop and $100 to spend. Not much for something that has to impress the editor of a food website. They then had an hour to cook it. So far, the challenges have been extremely competitive and this challenge was no exception, with Ramsay and Tanya Steel (the editor in question) choosing 2 red dishes vs. 1 blue dish. In addition, Carol's dish, some tuna sushi thing, was recommended by Ramsay as one of the best things he's ever tasted on HK, going so far as to put it on the menu for the next night's service. So for a 2nd straight reward, the girls got to have a Japanese fun day! But we'll get back to that later.
Let's talk about the main theme: the rebirth of Lacey, who, as you remember, got moved to the blue boys in #504. Throughout the challenge, the boys did not acknowledge her at all, preferably wanting her gone. But after the challenge and through the punishment, which was to make fortune cookies and origami, Lacey started to gain respect by teaching the guys how to make origami. Ok, so it took a non-food thing for the guys to respect Lacey, but she eventually became one of the few pluses of the next night's service. Keep that in mind.
Back to the red girls, who got a hilarious treat: wrestling in large sumo suits. The funny part was who demonstrated the suits at first: Ramsey and Jean Phillipe, who makes a rare appearance in a reward. Then they all dog-piled on each other and that made me happy. Of course, they made themselves happy by getting drunk on sake.
But all the happiness would end with the next night's service, which featured one table of note: a table of sumo wrestlers. They order everything on the menu, continuing Fox's proud tradition of stereotyping Asians (Family Guy, American Dad, Banzai, etc.).
Anyways, it was a total disaster of a service yet again. Giovanni and LA put out good appetizers and that was key as you'll find out. Lacey, continuing her renaissance, developed into a leader this service, trying to use her words to keep things moving in the blue kitchen. Call it motivation to beat Red if you want, but Lacey definitely was a comeback player this episode and maybe Ramsay sees potential in her yet.
Pretty much everyone else screwed up, though. J undercooked his beef wellingtons with the wrong fan setting, but in my mind, that wasn't the biggest error. Both Robert and Andrea were wasting/hiding food, which is a BIG NO-NO in Chef Ramsay's kitchen. Robert, in particular, was derided by the use of the name "Bobby" by Ramsay, which made Robert ignore him. You can imagine the downward spiral from there. After the service, Robert and Ramsey met privately, and Robert explained that he and his dad, named Bobby, didn't have a good relationship, thereby explaining the irritation over "Bobby". Surprisingly, Ramsay understood and said he would respect Robert's wishes.
So for the 2nd straight episode, we had a double knockout on the kitchen. But at least we had a Best of Worst for the first time this season: Giovanni and LA for their respective teams. They nominated J and Andrea, respectively, which I think were the type of choices that should've been made last week. I think both nominees have potential to go all the way but both needed swift kicks in the ass by Ramsay.
And that's exactly what happened, as Ramsay asserted his power for the first time this season and kicked out Colleen (YAY!) instead, keeping J and Andrea in the game, and in my mind deservedly so.
Btw, Fox is a bit full of shit for starting Hell's Kitchen at 9:05 due to American Midol overrun. I'm sure 65-70% of the Hell's Kitchen audience couldn't care less who was in American Idol, and I'm sure DVR users are probably pissed this morning. At least the episodes are on-demand.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Red and White is for the Polish version of Race.
My thoughts on Race #1403:
So for the 2nd straight episode of Race, it was all about the Asians. But unlike the last episode, they were the dumbest and unluckiest people on the face of the earth, and got very lucky to stay in the race.
First off, we found out that they had a 100-minute lead (!) at the start of this leg from their dominating performance in #1402. But it went all downhill from there, as they jumped on a flight for Romania all by themselves. Only problem is: Lufthansa mechanics obviously can't do shit. So they get to join the rest of the lead teams on the next flight out of Munich to Bucharest. One team, however, was not on that flight. We'll come back to that later.
Anyways, the Asians wind up getting the first taxi out of there but they can't quite find the roadblock: a gymnastics challenge. Guess who got out of that challenge first. THAT'S RIGHT: Mel and Mike, who I would guess watch gymnastics furiously at the Olympics. They move on to the train station to take a trip to Transylvania.
Meanwhile, the Asians end up getting into the gymnastics room in 8th place. Tammy chose to do it and struggled mightily, as the stress was getting to her. It didn't help that Victor was barking orders the entire time. This would become a theme of this episode. They got to the train station still in 8th, but they got lucky as an early morning train bunched up the 8 teams together. Yes, I know there are 9 teams in the race at this point; keep reading.
The next route marker in Transylvania was a detour. Choice #1 made you load a horse cart with some gypsy belongings, and trying to avoid Borat in the process. Choice #2 made you drag a coffin off a hill and open it to reveal some frames you drive a stake into. Find a flag and you win.
The gays and the couple (Amanda/Kris) went to the gypsies, cause, after all, the gays would probably fit right in. The gypsies' random musical instruments and stuff they made the teams tow made me giggle unstoppably.
The Asians, among other teams, went for the coffins, but they made a crucial error as they went for white and red markers on a trail up a mountainside instead for the yellow and red arrows that you should always look for. Believing in his own mind, Victor went up this wrong path for hours despite Tammy's pleas to turn around. The big brother/little sister complex was clearly in play here and after self-defeating himself, Victor FINALLY turned around and got through the challenge, despite misplacing the key for a while.
Meanwhile, the gypsy move (the midgets and the blacks also chose this route; everyone else went for the coffins) turned out to be the correct detour choice in this leg; the 4 teams that went for the gypsies all finished in the top 5, including Mel and Mike, who won the leg and get to go to Costa Rica, and Amanda and Kris, who suffered a minor delay in misplacing their fanny pack with their passports and stuff. This probably cost them the win in this leg cause they can outrace the gays for sure. A sobbing Victor and Tammy stepped on the mat in 8th place, as the Asians hope they can rework their relationship.
Where was the 9th team, you ask? Committing 2 cardinal sins of the Race. Brad and Victoria gambled on a quicker flight to Amsterdam in hope they would make a narrow connection to get to Romania faster. But as fate would have it, their Munich to Amsterdam flight was delayed, making the transfer impossible and forcing an overnight layover at AMS. As a result, the geezers never caught up and were eliminated hours after Tammy and Victor checked in. What have we learned from Brad and Victoria? 1. You don't go extremely westbound (MUC to AMS in this case) in an eastbound race, it will cost you in the end. And 2. Narrow connections are gonna burn you in the end because of all the customs BS that you have to go through.
So now we are down to 8. The Asians were my favorite to win it all but now I don't know. We'll see if they regain their composure in #1304.
#1403 Finishing Order:
1. Mel/Mike (trip to Costa Rica)
2. Amanda/Kris
3. Kisha/Jen
4. Margie/Luke
5. Mark/Michael
6. Christie/Jodi
7. Jaime/Cara
8. Tammy/Victor
9. Brad/Victoria (eliminated)
Over the weekend in sports:
Pistons finally get a quality win in Boston. But I think it's too late to save their season, as the NBA's economic contraction has hit the Pistons hard in their quest to bid for 2010 free agents.
Kyle Busch wins in his hometown of Vegas. He's looking to pick up his regular-season form right where he left off last season. Note I said regular-season.
Wings lose 8-nil to the Predators on the same week they defeated San Jose at home. That's not the way you're gonna win the West.
Albert Haynesworth is going to be a Redskin and $100m richer. But Washington will still suck.
Liverpool loses 2-nil away to Middlesbrough. I think we can now just give the crown back to Manchester United where it's going to go for a 3rd straight year.
Speaking of United, they're 40% of the way to total football domination after a penalty kick win in the Carling Cup final over Spurs. The way their defense is playing, who's to say that they won't complete the quintuple?
Nobody cares about who won the Tiger-less WGC final.
Michael Phelps says he'll swim in May in his 1st eligible event. I'm sure they'll put up hash marks to mark where he's supposed to start.
Tomorrow about 8am ET -- TEB's first Raw review, and boy should it contain some fireworks.
So for the 2nd straight episode of Race, it was all about the Asians. But unlike the last episode, they were the dumbest and unluckiest people on the face of the earth, and got very lucky to stay in the race.
First off, we found out that they had a 100-minute lead (!) at the start of this leg from their dominating performance in #1402. But it went all downhill from there, as they jumped on a flight for Romania all by themselves. Only problem is: Lufthansa mechanics obviously can't do shit. So they get to join the rest of the lead teams on the next flight out of Munich to Bucharest. One team, however, was not on that flight. We'll come back to that later.
Anyways, the Asians wind up getting the first taxi out of there but they can't quite find the roadblock: a gymnastics challenge. Guess who got out of that challenge first. THAT'S RIGHT: Mel and Mike, who I would guess watch gymnastics furiously at the Olympics. They move on to the train station to take a trip to Transylvania.
Meanwhile, the Asians end up getting into the gymnastics room in 8th place. Tammy chose to do it and struggled mightily, as the stress was getting to her. It didn't help that Victor was barking orders the entire time. This would become a theme of this episode. They got to the train station still in 8th, but they got lucky as an early morning train bunched up the 8 teams together. Yes, I know there are 9 teams in the race at this point; keep reading.
The next route marker in Transylvania was a detour. Choice #1 made you load a horse cart with some gypsy belongings, and trying to avoid Borat in the process. Choice #2 made you drag a coffin off a hill and open it to reveal some frames you drive a stake into. Find a flag and you win.
The gays and the couple (Amanda/Kris) went to the gypsies, cause, after all, the gays would probably fit right in. The gypsies' random musical instruments and stuff they made the teams tow made me giggle unstoppably.
The Asians, among other teams, went for the coffins, but they made a crucial error as they went for white and red markers on a trail up a mountainside instead for the yellow and red arrows that you should always look for. Believing in his own mind, Victor went up this wrong path for hours despite Tammy's pleas to turn around. The big brother/little sister complex was clearly in play here and after self-defeating himself, Victor FINALLY turned around and got through the challenge, despite misplacing the key for a while.
Meanwhile, the gypsy move (the midgets and the blacks also chose this route; everyone else went for the coffins) turned out to be the correct detour choice in this leg; the 4 teams that went for the gypsies all finished in the top 5, including Mel and Mike, who won the leg and get to go to Costa Rica, and Amanda and Kris, who suffered a minor delay in misplacing their fanny pack with their passports and stuff. This probably cost them the win in this leg cause they can outrace the gays for sure. A sobbing Victor and Tammy stepped on the mat in 8th place, as the Asians hope they can rework their relationship.
Where was the 9th team, you ask? Committing 2 cardinal sins of the Race. Brad and Victoria gambled on a quicker flight to Amsterdam in hope they would make a narrow connection to get to Romania faster. But as fate would have it, their Munich to Amsterdam flight was delayed, making the transfer impossible and forcing an overnight layover at AMS. As a result, the geezers never caught up and were eliminated hours after Tammy and Victor checked in. What have we learned from Brad and Victoria? 1. You don't go extremely westbound (MUC to AMS in this case) in an eastbound race, it will cost you in the end. And 2. Narrow connections are gonna burn you in the end because of all the customs BS that you have to go through.
So now we are down to 8. The Asians were my favorite to win it all but now I don't know. We'll see if they regain their composure in #1304.
#1403 Finishing Order:
1. Mel/Mike (trip to Costa Rica)
2. Amanda/Kris
3. Kisha/Jen
4. Margie/Luke
5. Mark/Michael
6. Christie/Jodi
7. Jaime/Cara
8. Tammy/Victor
9. Brad/Victoria (eliminated)
Over the weekend in sports:
Pistons finally get a quality win in Boston. But I think it's too late to save their season, as the NBA's economic contraction has hit the Pistons hard in their quest to bid for 2010 free agents.
Kyle Busch wins in his hometown of Vegas. He's looking to pick up his regular-season form right where he left off last season. Note I said regular-season.
Wings lose 8-nil to the Predators on the same week they defeated San Jose at home. That's not the way you're gonna win the West.
Albert Haynesworth is going to be a Redskin and $100m richer. But Washington will still suck.
Liverpool loses 2-nil away to Middlesbrough. I think we can now just give the crown back to Manchester United where it's going to go for a 3rd straight year.
Speaking of United, they're 40% of the way to total football domination after a penalty kick win in the Carling Cup final over Spurs. The way their defense is playing, who's to say that they won't complete the quintuple?
Nobody cares about who won the Tiger-less WGC final.
Michael Phelps says he'll swim in May in his 1st eligible event. I'm sure they'll put up hash marks to mark where he's supposed to start.
Tomorrow about 8am ET -- TEB's first Raw review, and boy should it contain some fireworks.
Friday, February 27, 2009
You couldn't cook my cock.
That might be my favorite "Hell's Kitchen" (Thursdays 9pm ET/PT on FOX HD) quote ever.
So yeah, in my last blog post, I talked about the previous episode of the Amazing Race. I'll be doing that from now on, and on Friday mornings, expect my update on Hell's Kitchen.
So here's who we have being told to f*ck off by Gordon Ramsey in Series 5:
Andrea "Keystone" Heinly -- Age 30 -- Reading, PA
Ben "Look At My Beard" Walanka -- Age 26 -- Chicago
Carol "Down South" Scott -- Age 30 -- Knoxville, TN
Coi "I'm too cool for a last name" -- Age 22 -- Austin, TX
Colleen "Ass-Kisser" Cleek -- Age 41 -- Papillion, NE
Danny "I'm Too Good" Veltri -- Age 23 -- Edgewater, FL
Giovanni "Italiano" Filipponi -- Age 37 -- Destin, FL
J "Letters Are Fun" Maxwell -- Age 32 -- Clifton Park, NY
LA "Not From LA" (real name Alicia) -- Age 23 -- Las Vegas
Lacey "Cheese and Whine" D'Angelo -- Age 24 -- Charlotte
Paula "idk" Dasilva -- Age 28 -- Coconut Creek, FL
Robert "I'm Going For The Peter Griffin Look and Not In A Good Way" Hesse -- Age 29 -- Quogue, NY
Seth "I Love To Be Cocky" Levine -- Age 27 -- New York City
Already gone as we entered episode #504 are:
Wil "Where Does The Sausage Go?" Kocol -- Age 27 -- Elgin, IL -- Eliminated in #501
Ji-Hyun Cha (got nothing bad to say) -- Age 27 -- Palisades Park, NJ -- Left due to injury in #502 (ankle)
"Sorry" Charlie McKay -- Age 24 -- Las Vegas -- Eliminated in #503
In case you haven't been watching, the contestants are divided into same-sex teams at the start.
All right, so after Charlie's exit, Seth (who was nominated in both the men's service losses #501 and #503) is prancing around the dorm saying how he's still in. Yeah, you do that for a while and people will begin to hate you. Oh wait, THEY ALREADY DO!!! Then Robert calmed everyone down with a pretty funny impression of Ramsay. Robert is looking to be my dark horse favorite I'll look for. He hasn't really made any glaring mistakes yet, although the preview for #505 next week says he will get yelled at. So we shall see.
A new day comes and finally there is no rude awakening for the contestants (like there was in #503 or #504). But they are up pretty early, and for good reason: It's time for the obligatory "let's serve breakfast to kids event"; in this case, some high schoolers from some Southern Cal place. The women served the cheerleaders while the men served the football players. All told, the service went relatively well, with the women finishing their service first in our 2nd really close battle of the season (after the dinner service in #502), and hence (finally) winning a challenge.
Actually, we all won from this challenge, as the girls got to go to a Beverly Hills hotel and lounge around in their bikinis. Carol, Paula, Andrea, Coi, you girls are really easy on the eyes. ;) Likewise, thanks to Fox for not showing much of Lacey and insiting LA keep her shirt on. >_>
Meanwhile, the men were punished, although not as bad as how the girls have been punished so far in my honest opinion. Seriously, they made the girls carry out some heavy beef in #503, that was evil. Anyways, the men had to clean up the entire restaurant AND prep both kitchens for dinner service that was, oh by the way, THE SAME NIGHT.
But before punishment, Danny and Ben had a fun little argument about each other's cooking abilities, to which Ben gave us our quote of the series.
So we ended up going into dinner service, which I think was affected greatly by having it the same night as the reward/punishment challenge. Both teams, as you shall see, completely were off-track all night, and I honestly think it was because the girls were relaxing all day and the guys were cleaning all day. But I'm not going to excuse their pitiful performance for that. Let's count the many ways that the two teams failed:
And those nominees were Lacey and Colleen (again) for the girls and Seth and Ben for the guys. Ok, I'm going to give a mulligan to Lacey in this nomination, even though I hate that bitch; Coi was planning to nominate herself and I don't think Lacey really made many mistakes in this challenge, so let Coi go and give herself a wakeup call. Also, J made a more serious error than Ben did in this service, but I'll let that go. Besides, we all knew that it was gonna be between Seth and Colleen for this elimination.
And it ended up being Seth eliminated in an "it's about god damn time" moment. DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE ASS ON YOUR WAY OUT, ASSHOLE!
As a final twist, Ramsay moved Lacey over to the guys' team, breaking the gender divide pretty early. But we all know she has no chance: the favorites seem to be Andrea, Paula, and Robert at this point. We shall see how it continues to develop.
So yeah, in my last blog post, I talked about the previous episode of the Amazing Race. I'll be doing that from now on, and on Friday mornings, expect my update on Hell's Kitchen.
So here's who we have being told to f*ck off by Gordon Ramsey in Series 5:
Andrea "Keystone" Heinly -- Age 30 -- Reading, PA
Ben "Look At My Beard" Walanka -- Age 26 -- Chicago
Carol "Down South" Scott -- Age 30 -- Knoxville, TN
Coi "I'm too cool for a last name" -- Age 22 -- Austin, TX
Colleen "Ass-Kisser" Cleek -- Age 41 -- Papillion, NE
Danny "I'm Too Good" Veltri -- Age 23 -- Edgewater, FL
Giovanni "Italiano" Filipponi -- Age 37 -- Destin, FL
J "Letters Are Fun" Maxwell -- Age 32 -- Clifton Park, NY
LA "Not From LA" (real name Alicia) -- Age 23 -- Las Vegas
Lacey "Cheese and Whine" D'Angelo -- Age 24 -- Charlotte
Paula "idk" Dasilva -- Age 28 -- Coconut Creek, FL
Robert "I'm Going For The Peter Griffin Look and Not In A Good Way" Hesse -- Age 29 -- Quogue, NY
Seth "I Love To Be Cocky" Levine -- Age 27 -- New York City
Already gone as we entered episode #504 are:
Wil "Where Does The Sausage Go?" Kocol -- Age 27 -- Elgin, IL -- Eliminated in #501
Ji-Hyun Cha (got nothing bad to say) -- Age 27 -- Palisades Park, NJ -- Left due to injury in #502 (ankle)
"Sorry" Charlie McKay -- Age 24 -- Las Vegas -- Eliminated in #503
In case you haven't been watching, the contestants are divided into same-sex teams at the start.
All right, so after Charlie's exit, Seth (who was nominated in both the men's service losses #501 and #503) is prancing around the dorm saying how he's still in. Yeah, you do that for a while and people will begin to hate you. Oh wait, THEY ALREADY DO!!! Then Robert calmed everyone down with a pretty funny impression of Ramsay. Robert is looking to be my dark horse favorite I'll look for. He hasn't really made any glaring mistakes yet, although the preview for #505 next week says he will get yelled at. So we shall see.
A new day comes and finally there is no rude awakening for the contestants (like there was in #503 or #504). But they are up pretty early, and for good reason: It's time for the obligatory "let's serve breakfast to kids event"; in this case, some high schoolers from some Southern Cal place. The women served the cheerleaders while the men served the football players. All told, the service went relatively well, with the women finishing their service first in our 2nd really close battle of the season (after the dinner service in #502), and hence (finally) winning a challenge.
Actually, we all won from this challenge, as the girls got to go to a Beverly Hills hotel and lounge around in their bikinis. Carol, Paula, Andrea, Coi, you girls are really easy on the eyes. ;) Likewise, thanks to Fox for not showing much of Lacey and insiting LA keep her shirt on. >_>
Meanwhile, the men were punished, although not as bad as how the girls have been punished so far in my honest opinion. Seriously, they made the girls carry out some heavy beef in #503, that was evil. Anyways, the men had to clean up the entire restaurant AND prep both kitchens for dinner service that was, oh by the way, THE SAME NIGHT.
But before punishment, Danny and Ben had a fun little argument about each other's cooking abilities, to which Ben gave us our quote of the series.
So we ended up going into dinner service, which I think was affected greatly by having it the same night as the reward/punishment challenge. Both teams, as you shall see, completely were off-track all night, and I honestly think it was because the girls were relaxing all day and the guys were cleaning all day. But I'm not going to excuse their pitiful performance for that. Let's count the many ways that the two teams failed:
- Coi could not cook spaghetti to order to save her life.
- J served a butt of lettuce in a caesar salad. You just don't do that, J, and he knew it.
- Seth, continuing his ineptitude, wiped off the counter with a dirty rag.
- Colleen, continuing her ineptitude, made too many beef wellingtons.
- The tomato butter sauce was not made for the girls. That was supposed to be done by the guys as part of their punishment. Even when it was ordered to be made, Ben screwed it up before another guy (I forgot who made the 2nd batch) made it better.
- Appetizers and entrees were being returned left and right.
And those nominees were Lacey and Colleen (again) for the girls and Seth and Ben for the guys. Ok, I'm going to give a mulligan to Lacey in this nomination, even though I hate that bitch; Coi was planning to nominate herself and I don't think Lacey really made many mistakes in this challenge, so let Coi go and give herself a wakeup call. Also, J made a more serious error than Ben did in this service, but I'll let that go. Besides, we all knew that it was gonna be between Seth and Colleen for this elimination.
And it ended up being Seth eliminated in an "it's about god damn time" moment. DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE ASS ON YOUR WAY OUT, ASSHOLE!
As a final twist, Ramsay moved Lacey over to the guys' team, breaking the gender divide pretty early. But we all know she has no chance: the favorites seem to be Andrea, Paula, and Robert at this point. We shall see how it continues to develop.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Whoops, I got whipped cream in your ear.
So every week, this show called The Amazing Race (Sundays 8pm ET/PT on CBS). The best reality show on TV today. And I thought "Gee, since I have a blog, let's tell you what I thought of this week's episode."
And I will.
First, let me give you some nicknames I'll use for the teams (for simplicity):
1st entering the leg: Margie and Luke (mother and deaf son) or "Helen Keller and his son"
2nd entering the leg: Tammy and Victor (Asian siblings/lawyers) or "Me Love Them Long Time"
3rd entering the leg: Mark and Michael (midget stuntmen) or "The Shorties"
4th entering the leg: Mel and Mike (gay father and son) or "Fabulous"
5th entering the leg: Amanda and Kris (stereotypical dating couple) or "They Tried Too Hard to be Good-Looking"
6th entering the leg: Brad and Victoria (married couple, he's 52, she's 47) or "Geriatric XIV"
7th entering the leg: Jaime and Cara (former NFL cheerleaders) or "Give Me An F-A-I-L"
8th entering the leg: Kisha and Jen (black sisters) or "Sister, Sister"
9th entering the leg: Steve and Linda (married rednecks, he's a carpenter) or "The Rednecks"
10th entering the leg: Christie and Jodi (blonde flight attendants) or "Fasten Your Fail"
Already eliminated: Preston and Jennifer (the other stereotypical dating couple)
Got it? Good. Now let's go thru what haepenned.
We start Leg 2 on a rainy night in Switzerland with Keller and son revealing that they get to go to Munich. You know who else we....never mind. Anyhoo, 7 teams make it on the first flight out of Switzerland while 3 have to settle for a flight 100 min later. The road block would make this time difference irrelevant, because the road block would bunch everyone up and really be the deciding factor in this leg. The road block looked cool: get on top of a mountain and tandem paraglide with an expert to a designated landing zone. That is, unless winds got in the way; then you could wait there (which was stupid) or walk down a path to the landing zone that would take about 60 minutes.
As fate would have it, the wind picked up. Which turned out to be bad news for Fabulous. Mel hurt his groin in the cheese-rolling challenge in the last leg, and it turns out he was the one to choose the road block. So it would've meant further injury for him to walk down. As a result, all of the teams passed him before the wind died down. He got to jump, but not before Fabulous (who entered the block 2nd) slipped to 5th.
The other big factor in this block was the Rednecks, who selected dumbass Linda to do the block. On the trail down, there was a fork in the road, and Linda failed to see the yellow and red sign that guided the players down. She ended up 3 miles down the road from the landing zone and had to bum a ride to Steve. That probably would've been a penalty, but as you'll see later, it wouldn't matter.
Meanwhile, Me Love Them Long Time pretty much ruled the rest of the leg. Tammy got to the bottom of the trail 1st and they stayed in that position thru the detour to the pit stop. The detour was SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH THIS LEG. Their choice: a boring Segway obstacle course (which the midgets and the gays selected) or throw pies at a target until a cherry one popped up. Little did they know that their target was their partner's face. Yeah, probably one of the 5 best tasks I've ever seen on the Amazing Race (granted, I missed last season because I had to work and CBS didn't get Amazing Race up on demand until this season). But yeah, the Asians got through the pies in about 7 tries and went through a little diversionary "get a piece of wood" route marker before hitting the pit stop 1st in Salzburg, Austria.
At the end of this short leg (no pun intended for the midgets), Linda's mistake was too much to overcome. Despite "Fasten Your Fail's" best attempts to blonde moment their way out of the race, they made it in the last transfer spot and the Rednecks are gone to the fail villa. And despite their error earlier, Fabulous got into Salzburg 2nd.
After this 2nd leg, Tammy and Victor have to be the prohibitive favorites. They lost a close footrace to Keller and Son in the first leg and utterly dominated the 2nd leg. I see them making it all the way to the end of the race at least. Others I think will make it in the final 3 are Mel/Mike (they are resilient) and Mark/Michael (dark horse picks to win it all).
Christie and Jodi have to be next on the chopping block: they can't get lucky from their blonde moments forever.
2nd leg finishing order: Tammy/Victor, Mel/Mike, Amanda/Kris, Margie/Luke, Brad/Victoria, Jamie/Cara, Kisha/Jen, Mark/Michael, Christie/Jodi
Gone: Steve/Linda, Preston/Jennifer
And I will.
First, let me give you some nicknames I'll use for the teams (for simplicity):
1st entering the leg: Margie and Luke (mother and deaf son) or "Helen Keller and his son"
2nd entering the leg: Tammy and Victor (Asian siblings/lawyers) or "Me Love Them Long Time"
3rd entering the leg: Mark and Michael (midget stuntmen) or "The Shorties"
4th entering the leg: Mel and Mike (gay father and son) or "Fabulous"
5th entering the leg: Amanda and Kris (stereotypical dating couple) or "They Tried Too Hard to be Good-Looking"
6th entering the leg: Brad and Victoria (married couple, he's 52, she's 47) or "Geriatric XIV"
7th entering the leg: Jaime and Cara (former NFL cheerleaders) or "Give Me An F-A-I-L"
8th entering the leg: Kisha and Jen (black sisters) or "Sister, Sister"
9th entering the leg: Steve and Linda (married rednecks, he's a carpenter) or "The Rednecks"
10th entering the leg: Christie and Jodi (blonde flight attendants) or "Fasten Your Fail"
Already eliminated: Preston and Jennifer (the other stereotypical dating couple)
Got it? Good. Now let's go thru what haepenned.
We start Leg 2 on a rainy night in Switzerland with Keller and son revealing that they get to go to Munich. You know who else we....never mind. Anyhoo, 7 teams make it on the first flight out of Switzerland while 3 have to settle for a flight 100 min later. The road block would make this time difference irrelevant, because the road block would bunch everyone up and really be the deciding factor in this leg. The road block looked cool: get on top of a mountain and tandem paraglide with an expert to a designated landing zone. That is, unless winds got in the way; then you could wait there (which was stupid) or walk down a path to the landing zone that would take about 60 minutes.
As fate would have it, the wind picked up. Which turned out to be bad news for Fabulous. Mel hurt his groin in the cheese-rolling challenge in the last leg, and it turns out he was the one to choose the road block. So it would've meant further injury for him to walk down. As a result, all of the teams passed him before the wind died down. He got to jump, but not before Fabulous (who entered the block 2nd) slipped to 5th.
The other big factor in this block was the Rednecks, who selected dumbass Linda to do the block. On the trail down, there was a fork in the road, and Linda failed to see the yellow and red sign that guided the players down. She ended up 3 miles down the road from the landing zone and had to bum a ride to Steve. That probably would've been a penalty, but as you'll see later, it wouldn't matter.
Meanwhile, Me Love Them Long Time pretty much ruled the rest of the leg. Tammy got to the bottom of the trail 1st and they stayed in that position thru the detour to the pit stop. The detour was SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH THIS LEG. Their choice: a boring Segway obstacle course (which the midgets and the gays selected) or throw pies at a target until a cherry one popped up. Little did they know that their target was their partner's face. Yeah, probably one of the 5 best tasks I've ever seen on the Amazing Race (granted, I missed last season because I had to work and CBS didn't get Amazing Race up on demand until this season). But yeah, the Asians got through the pies in about 7 tries and went through a little diversionary "get a piece of wood" route marker before hitting the pit stop 1st in Salzburg, Austria.
At the end of this short leg (no pun intended for the midgets), Linda's mistake was too much to overcome. Despite "Fasten Your Fail's" best attempts to blonde moment their way out of the race, they made it in the last transfer spot and the Rednecks are gone to the fail villa. And despite their error earlier, Fabulous got into Salzburg 2nd.
After this 2nd leg, Tammy and Victor have to be the prohibitive favorites. They lost a close footrace to Keller and Son in the first leg and utterly dominated the 2nd leg. I see them making it all the way to the end of the race at least. Others I think will make it in the final 3 are Mel/Mike (they are resilient) and Mark/Michael (dark horse picks to win it all).
Christie and Jodi have to be next on the chopping block: they can't get lucky from their blonde moments forever.
2nd leg finishing order: Tammy/Victor, Mel/Mike, Amanda/Kris, Margie/Luke, Brad/Victoria, Jamie/Cara, Kisha/Jen, Mark/Michael, Christie/Jodi
Gone: Steve/Linda, Preston/Jennifer
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