Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.

'Objects In Space'


Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


Nora Deirdre - Oct 05, 2008 4:31:19 pm PDT #6946 of 23273
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I feel those southern belles are not long for the race.


lisah - Oct 05, 2008 5:01:45 pm PDT #6947 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

Who got eliminated?

Stupid fucking football interfered with my taping.


Kathy A - Oct 05, 2008 5:14:28 pm PDT #6948 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The couple that was racing to get enough money to get married. It sounded to me like they were people who bought into the whole American Dream ideal--need enough to buy a 3000 square foot house, two SUVs, and have college funds for all of our kids before we even get engaged. I just hope that they realize that having an apartment isn't all that bad to begin your lives together.


lisah - Oct 05, 2008 5:17:32 pm PDT #6949 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

The couple that was racing to get enough money to get married.

Ah, yeah, they did seem to be getting a little bit of the loser edit from the 25 minutes football didn't fuck up.

Who came in first?


Kathy A - Oct 05, 2008 5:21:06 pm PDT #6950 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Team Your Cheatin' Heart--they won matching ATVs. They beat out the Geeks in a footrace (as one of the geeks pointed out, a footrace with an ex NFL player was only going to have one result).


lisah - Oct 05, 2008 5:31:07 pm PDT #6951 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

They beat out the Geeks in a footrace (as one of the geeks pointed out, a footrace with an ex NFL player was only going to have one result).

Hah. Well. Unless he had bad knees. I was happy to at least get to see the geeks kick ass at the challenge they did.


Kathy A - Oct 05, 2008 5:31:56 pm PDT #6952 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The highlights of the last half of the show (that I recall): Geeks were the only ones to do the container detour, and they aced it by being first in their taxis on the way to the roadblock. Everyone else did the brute strength detour, but the Divorcees got held up by getting the info from both of the detours mixed up and they started looking for a container (I believe they were thinking Tupperware-sized) after finishing getting the boat into the water. It took them a while to realize they were doing something no one else was and finally get to their taxi.

Speaking of, Team Needy Guy missed the marked path to the taxis and ended up in town searching for a taxi. They might still be there if it wasn't for Mom and Son stopping while passing them and pointing out that the taxi parking lot was back at the beach.

The roadblock was a rather poorly designed one that involved writing down a list of town names and asking a local which one was the pit stop destination. It took a few teams some time to realize that was what they were supposed to do, instead of getting bogged down by all the advertising signs also painted on the wall along with the list. Oh, and they also had to ask their taxis to wait for them, which the Divorcees forgot to do. It took them a while to realize that their taxi was in the holding area with the rest of the taxis and hadn't driven away completely, so they fell about five slots back after the roadblock.

The bottom two teams not eliminated were the Frat Boys and the Pink Southern Belles (complete ditzes).


lisah - Oct 05, 2008 5:39:12 pm PDT #6953 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

Thanks for the recap, Kathy! that's actually much less stressful than watching the show


sumi - Oct 05, 2008 6:24:29 pm PDT #6954 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Well, I liked that the detour emphasized not over-thinking the clue and that the people who did themselves in were pretty much the ones who did just that. (I'm talking mainly about Nick here.)


sumi - Oct 05, 2008 6:29:59 pm PDT #6955 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Long Way Down: I hope that Fox intends to show the final episode since they somehow screwed up and showed the penultimate episode this week AND next week.