eta: re, Ken & Tina.

Yeah, but even there it came off as a huckster style thing to me. See Ken's comment about not knowing it was holy water. It's definitely true about their attitudes, though, because I expected them to want fewer people, but they really did go at it wholeheartedly. And especially with it being their own super special challenge, they could have really been cranky about it but they weren't.

I was wondering what it was going to be after last week; I kept thinking about the pink goths' yoga challenge and picturing Ken & Tina having to do that. Hee.

I liked that it was a really tightly designed leg, so that the speed bumped team (no matter who it was) had a good chance to catch up to the others, and that being dense about clue reading or oblivious to what it was you were supposed to be looking for could really change the finishing order.

Also, the fact that the last leg meant that this leg didn't start off with everyone spread out, but instead all the teams were within 50 minutes of each other, that made it all the more exciting to see the order change. I loved that Team Divorcee ended up so far behind after the paint fun (which I would have loved to participate in!).

Whoever manages to not be a TOTAL ASSHOLE ABOUT THIS will win." The racers who ran through the crowd treating the revelers like enemy soldiers got pelted much worse than the ones who took it in stride.

I don't know about that - it seemed to me more that as the day wore on the crowd was more and more focused on getting the racer. I was a little uncomfortable watching (whichever of the two women it was) actually, though when Terrence got hammered pretty hard it eased up.

(Though I have to say, even knowing a little bit about Holi Day in advance, I'd still be pretty pissed off if someone threw paint in my mouth.)

I'm thinking that keeping your (one's) mouth closed would have helped a great deal with that.

I still can't get over how dumb the ex-wives were with that challenge. They watched two different teams come and go, only going to the ladder once, didn't they?

Also, how did Tina's hair get to be so uniformly green? It was very impressive!!

I still can't get over how dumb the ex-wives were with that challenge. They watched two different teams come and go, only going to the ladder once, didn't they?

And they even said at one point "are we doing something wrong?" which might have been their cue to go back and, I don't know, read the clue.

Yeah, definitely Starr got off easiest being first. They didn't really even notice her until she was up on the ladder. And if you specifically took note of where the ladder was, you could pretty much get straight there.

However, I can see how you could get really really disoriented on your way, with a faceful of pigment.

Wee! New TOP CHEF in T-minus...

OK, can someone explain this elimination challenge to me? I must have missed something, because I thought they were teamed up, but everyone is acting like it's head to head, one on one. If so, why was EVERYBODY shopping together?

I thought that, too. It's weird that they decided to make them go head to head.

I don't know about that - it seemed to me more that as the day wore on the crowd was more and more focused on getting the racer.

Agree. The paint throwers organized themselves into two columns and pretty much forced the later arrivals to run between them, pelting them pretty hard. (I wonder if that stuff stings if it's throw hard enough.) The first person through was barely noticed by the paint-throwing crowd.