Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?

Doyle ,'Life of the Party'


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]


Jesse - Mar 08, 2009 4:35:30 pm PDT #8338 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Woody Allen? Someone funny? I want to put it in my Facebook status!


sumi - Mar 08, 2009 5:37:11 pm PDT #8339 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

It was Woody Allen.

I think u-turning Amanda and Kris was a smart move. And we've got three all female teams left! And no more couples. It's kind of amazing.


Jesse - Mar 08, 2009 5:44:04 pm PDT #8340 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Thanks!


Jessica - Mar 09, 2009 4:17:37 am PDT #8341 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

TAR: Good move on Luke's part, as much as I like Amanda and Kris. They were a very strong team, so U-turning them was smart.

It was smart, but I would have preferred to see the stunt men gone because they apparently SUCK AT DOING EVERYTHING. It's kind of unbelievable how many things they did wrong this leg.

(In principle, I'm glad to see all the young white couples eliminated, but also in principle, I'd rather the most competent teams make it to the finals. So I have competing principles here.)


lisah - Mar 09, 2009 5:25:51 am PDT #8342 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

I had to fast forward through much of TAR because I was so anxious about Mel & Mike maybe getting eliminated! I realized after that I never understood the bobsled challenge because I ff'ed through the instructions. What was the point of it? Finding the letters in Chekhov's name? or did they just have to find letters and then figure out whose name they were spelling?


SuziQ - Mar 09, 2009 5:28:53 am PDT #8343 of 23273
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

did they just have to find letters and then figure out whose name they were spelling?

This. And I was amazed at how many of the teams had NO CLUE who Chekhov was.


Jessica - Mar 09, 2009 5:29:36 am PDT #8344 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I realized after that I never understood the bobsled challenge because I ff'ed through the instructions. What was the point of it? Finding the letters in Chekhov's name? or did they just have to find letters and then figure out whose name they were spelling?

They had to finish the course in under 4 minutes and spot letters along the way. Then they had to spell the name of "A Russian playwright" using those letters.

Of all the teams, only Victor knew who Chekhov was! I was surprised at how many teams were guessing. (And it never occured to me that Luke would have that much trouble, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense - he can't "sound it out" in his head the way the other guessing teams could.)


sumi - Mar 09, 2009 5:30:35 am PDT #8345 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

They had to find the letters while doing the bobsled in 4 minutes or under and then spell out the name.

(I was surprised by the number of people who didn't know who Chekhov was and guessed the name.)


lisah - Mar 09, 2009 6:05:16 am PDT #8346 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

And I was amazed at how many of the teams had NO CLUE who Chekhov was.

Oh, yeah, I gathered that. dag, people! Not even Mike & Mel knew??? That's disappointing.


Kathy A - Mar 09, 2009 6:10:26 am PDT #8347 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The most interesting thing for me was seeing how far behind the lawyer sibs got during Victor's forest trek--they were two hours behind the second-to-the-last group!