MrX

That scene with the Vietnamese woman having the driver drop her off on Duke's dime was pretty funny

Patman

Pwned!

chowderhead

It didn't matter in the end (unless they could have saved some cab fare by not taking that woman) because they all ended up on the third bus to the village. What did them in was getting separated from the rest of the pack and not finding the coal making task. They probably wandered for a while until they stumbled onto the bird cage task. I think they were far behind after that.

Man, I thought the Cho brothers were gone after saying it's didn't matter if they won the race because they got to run it together as brothers. doh!

Jadzia

"It's like Frogger, dude!"

(Dated reference lost on younger viewers.)

LorenzoL

I agree.

As somebody indicated in the previous threads, I can't believe what a bitch Mary is towards Dave. The guy is talking about his dad and his tour in the Vietnam war while driving, and all you hear in the back, is her yelling for him to drive faster because other cars are passing them. She acts like the nicest woman in front of strangers but treats her husband like shit.

SunMonkey

Wishing Tom and Terry had blown it with the penalty. Oh well.

movieking

I also thought that this episode was extremely boring. I am not so sure that it was just the fault of the tasks though, as none of the teams are especially captivating either.

Groucho

In the earlier interviews when they were showing David and Mary, I was wondering why his face was covered with coal. "Did CBS think we'd forget he was a coal-miner, so they made him smear it on for the interview?" Then, when I saw the detour it all fell into place.

Jim

I didn't find the episode lackluster. Things I found interesting:
- The twist of not giving teams money at the start. Possibly cost Duke & Lauren since they had to walk 1.5 kilometers or miles to a task. Might have got on an earlier bus otherwise since they sold the flowers quickly.
- The Vietnamese woman surprising Duke & Lauren by having the cab go to her brother's house first.
- Peter & Sarah getting on the wrong bus and going from first to last, but then making up time to finish in the middle.
- The time penalty for T&T at the finish made that more tense with the on-screen clock counting down.
- Peter marching through the rice paddy oblivious to Sarah behind him who seemed to be having problems sinking in.

Overall, I'm liking this season because there are more physically challenging tasks than in recent seasons. I also like how they reversed the direction of the race by going to China first. I'll admit that in many past seasons I've had more of a rooting interest in one or more teams, but these teams are holding my interest. Of course, if either of a couple of teams I won't mention win the race I'll chalk it up as a terrible season.

cdollaz

What was up with the foreheads getting all pissy at the beauty queens at the travel agency? They had a shot at that agent but passed on her. Too bad.

saoirse

I have to say most of those teams showed no respect last night.

That's why I'm now going for the Asian team followed by the gay couple.

They were the only teams that stoped for any length of time to show respect. The Asian team had a nice moment of silence.

Shannon Nutt

Please, DON'T go there.

cdollaz

You expect them to stop in the middle of a race?

saoirse

For a minute? I sure do. The asians did and it didn't affect their result. Just being in a race does not mean people have to be jackasses.

cdollaz

I don't think not bowing down to a jacket makes you a jackass.

JayDerek

I felt bad for thinking this, but when they showed Sarah having a hard time crawling on the rice paddys, my mind had a mental image of Gollum leading the Hobbits through the marsh.

mugwump

I realize that the teams that did stop to say a word or two or observe a moment of silence were doing it as a tribute to all of the men who suffered in that place but I couldn't help but wonder what percentage of the teams didn't know that John McCain wasn't in fact dead.

I thought it was in poor taste to make the Hanoi Hilton a featured stop in a trivial game show. What's next, find the clue at Dachau?

cdollaz

Apparantly it's a museum now so I don't see the problem. A lot of historical landmarks have some type of unsettling past.

Flave

Actually, that's what I found quite shocking. The Vietnamese have actually set up a museum in Hanoi that graphically depicts the horrific conditions that American POWs had to endure? Wow.

JasonF

A couple of seasons ago when they were in Africa, they had the racers go to a building that had been used to house slaves prior to shipment across the Atlantic. Same deal as here. I think it's a good thing -- it probably got a lot of the teams giving some thought to the sacrifices our servicemen made in Viet Nam, teams that otherwise wouldn't have thought about it.

Jadzia

I was wondering if John McCain had ever been back to see that museum and his old flight suit. That would be surreal.

I have to say, seeing his flight suit and the horrific conditions he had to endure adds an ironic twist to the "Mission Accomplished" flight suit.

Ravenous

Ep was alright. Though I wish the gay team had been eleminated. The size of that "bitches" head must be about 48 lbs.

Sucks to see the lesbian go... she was the hottest chick on there!

clckworang

Oh, I think they still have Frogger. Of course, I don't think it's anything like the game we played way back when.

BDB

yeah I'd have loved to see the gays gone, they are v.annoying.
Duke creeps me out a little bit, when he touched her face at the end she looked like she was thinking wtf!

I laughed at Sara not being able to cross the paddy fields, and like others have mentioned they have been to other places like the hanoi hilton.
Robben Island for example where Mandela was held captive for years.

I like david and mary at this point, i'd be surprised if they win, but they are good people.

chowderhead

Tom and Terry should have received a longer time penalty than they did (30mins) for going on the motorscooters. In Season 2, Heather and Eve received a 37 minute time penalty for taking a taxi instead of walking to the pitstop. The 30 minutes was the time penalty and the 7 minutes was the time it would have taken to walk to the pitstop. I think, Tom and Terry should have received something similar as it would have taken some time to walk the 1.5 km to the cluebox.