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The Best Race Legs: One By One
TheZanies:
Apskip, when it comes to TAR (and Survivor), what can I say, I'm shallow, I like eye candy and I'm the first to admit it :lol: That said, I don't think I'm THAT shallow - I pull for the babes BUT they also have to be capable racers, they can't be total airheads and get my support; Caite and Jordan from the current season come immediately to mind - there's no way in Hades I could pull for those 2 dum dums; sure, they're cute/hot, but, I know it's not nice to say, they're total morons and incompetent. Allie, on the other hand, is cute and up until now a good racer so I'm pulling for her.
As far as the women on TAR Asia, I agree with your list - Pailin is hands down the most beautiful though my personal favorite is Paula because she's so adorable, in a cute kinda way. I like cute. The only girl I would disagree with you (and I'm probably in the minority here) is Natalie, she didn't do much for me. Miss Universe and all that, definitely pretty but I just don't know, something about her, maybe the fact that she was a spoiled diva on the show is clouding my judgment.
Caelestor:
Here's the best episodes of each season for me (note this list is not all-inclusive at all):
S1: Leg 2 (Zambia + Paris): The race's first roadblock barely pushes this episode past Leg 1.
S2: Leg 9 (Coober Pedy): Amazing tasks, Great quotes.
S3: Leg 12 (Hue): Great tasks + Flo's epic meltdown. Can't name a bad episode in this season, which I feel is TAR's best to date.
S4: Leg 9 (Kota Kinabulu): The jungle setting + memorable moments.
S5: Leg 5 (Giza): Can't beat having a leg at the oldest wonder of the world.
S6: Leg 8 (Lalibela): So many great locations that season, but going far off the beaten path made this episode special. Iceland was great too, felt it was a bit overextended though.
S7: Leg 6-7 (Botswana): Animals and kayaking: the entire country was just awesome.
S8: Haven't watched it
S9: Leg 6 (Italy + Greece): So many famous landmarks in one episode.
S10: Leg 2 (Mongolia): Great tasks indicative of the country's culture.
S11: Leg 6 (Zanzibar): Best tasks of the season, slightly dampened by the flight chaos.
S12: Leg 7 (Italy): Overnight self-driving + Leonardo Da Vinci: Amazing combo.
S13: Leg 5 (Cambodia): Boating on Tonle Sap and a visit to Angkor Wat revealed a lot about Cambodia.
S14: Leg 1 (Switzerland): TAR's best premier next to maybe TAR 1's.
S15: Leg 7 (Netherlands): Self-driving and an intriguing detour set this episode apart from the others (which isn't saying much).
TheZanies:
Caelestor, that's a pretty good list.
My list would probably read Episode 1 for each season hahaha That's when I'm so excited about discovering all these new teams.
The worst for each season would generally be the final episode, seeing how my favorite teams very rarely make it that far :'(
apskip:
The good news is that my list is "And Now for Something Completely Different." Since a reference point is needed for numbering systems, I based this list on a combination of "My OX is Broken" for AR1-AR 9 and "Circumnavigating the Globe" for AR 10-AR14. No effort was made to have each season represented and I do not have any wins for AR8, AR11, AR14 or AR15 and I do have a 3-way tie for ep. 3, a 2-way tie for ep. 11 and a 6-way tie for ep. 12 (typically the finale of many Amazing Race seasons). Here is my list:
Ep. 1 - AR12, Ari vs. the donkey in Ireland
Ep. 2 - AR4, Venice masked ball
Ep. 3 - AR6, IKEA fiasco plus unrolling haybales at Haggvik Farm, Sweden
AR7, Debbie and Bianca go off course and meat-eating ROADBLOCK in Mendoza
AR13, wrestler training ROADBLOCK in El Alto, Bolivia
Ep. 4 - AR5, caviar eating challenge in Pushkin, Russia
Ep. 5 - AR3, Dieselgate driving in the middle of Spain
Ep. 6 - AR1, Tunis airport incident with Joe/Bill trying to delay Nancy/Emily
Ep. 7 - AR4, in Alleppey India bull-surfing and elephant ride vs. bicycles with chicken cages
Ep. 8 - AR2, Oswald and Danny buying plane tickets to travel in style and Sydney Opera House Australian slang race
Ep. 9 - AR1, faceoff at the temple of the Dawn in Bangkok plus transportation choices to get to Krabi
Ep. 10- AR2, everything around Queenstown New Zealand and sheep sorting at Inverary Station ranch
Ep. 11- AR3, ROADBLOCK in HoChiMinh City to find cyclos
AR5, "my ox is broken" Plow DETOUR in exurbs of Manila, Philippines (thanks chill_sd for info on DETOUR, not ROADBLOCK)
Ep. 12- AR5, ROADBLOCK on Lagen Island, el Nido, Philippines, with Colin on the ascender
AR6, Kris and Jon make a big mistake in taking the later plane from Honolulu to Chicago
AR7, pull back in of the aircraft in San Juan, Puerto Rico to allow Uchenna/Joyce to stay even with Rob/Amber
AR9, match the flags ROADBLOCK at Red Rocks Amphitheater above Denver
AR10, Oster Tank School in Kiev exurb, then Find the Music or Make the Music DETOUR in Kiev
AR14, sorting and placing the surfboards at the Surfboard Fence on Maui, Hawaiian Islands
Ep. 13- AR2, the famous competition from Oakland International Airport to downtown San Francisco won by Chris and Alex, then
the downtown SF to Fort Baker parking lot won by Wil/Tara, finally the infamous long run from the parking lot to Finish Line.
chill_sd:
Just one note, Apskip. In AR5, episode 11, "My ox is broken" was a Detour, not a Road Block. The fact that Christie refused to help Colin with this task often gets this confused with a Road Block. The other side of the PLOW<=>FOWL detour involved herding ducks.
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