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TAR 21: Caitlin King & Brittany Fletcher "Best Friends"

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sapphirepit:
They got a couple seconds on the bump during the detour!

Have they even done a confessional scene on the broadcast (not counting the extras online)

starrynight:

--- Quote from: Airlinesguy on August 31, 2012, 06:48:10 AM ---Dustin & Kandice #2? *hopes* :please:

--- End quote ---

The Australian second season pretty much had that?

Jobby:
Nadiya and Natalie > Dustin and Kandace. :lol:

But anyway, this team is underrated. MORE SCREENTIME PLEASE!!!!!! :knuckles:

starrynight:
I liked the passion they had for the race but this is now The Amazing Taxi Race and it doesn't matter how good you are at tasks if you get bad taxis.

apskip:
'Amazing Race' Exit Interview: Caitlin and Brittany
The BFFs talk us through their torturous, taxi-centric exit
By Diane Vadino 1 hour ago
'The Amazing Race'/CBS

Another team fell victim to poor communication with their taxi driver on "The Amazing Race" this week, as blond besties Caitlin King and Brittany Fletcher were sent home in Indonesia. We talked to them about their final leg, what sparked the race-rage that had them screaming at their Indonesian driver for not speaking English, and how close they really were to staying in the show.

Bing: ‘The Amazing Race’ | Indonesia

MSN TV: So what went so wrong with the end of Sunday night's leg of the race?

Caitlin: We were just so confused why we couldn't get any sort of communication with this guy—no hand gestures, no nothing. It was frustrating. It felt like we were out of control. It had been a long long already, and we were obviously mentally worn out.

It looked like it began with the problem paying your first driver.

Brittany: We had been standing there for 15 minutes trying to pay that guy, and he didn't give us any hand gestures. Will and Gary were [so far behind us], and you see them come up—that shows you how long we were standing there.

Caitlin: It was baffling to us. We were trying to figure out how much we owed him. He was giving us nothing back, no sign, no number. On top of that, while we were trying to have a conversation all these locals were yelling. We had no idea what was going on. At one point he was like, 'It's free, it's free,' but if we had taken it as free we know we might have been penalized at the end for not paying him. It was just really frustrating and we were kind of lost.

Brittany: It wasn't like I jumped out of the [pedicab] yelling at him. It'd been a long time.

Photos: Meet the teams

Do you feel like you could have strategized differently or was this just bad luck?

Brittany: If we'd been at a challenge where we obviously couldn't do something we would have regretted taking that task. But we were showing him the cross streets and then he'd take us a different route and he had no idea where he was going. It's hard to say you would have done anything differently. We'd done the best we could. We had been right with the twins at the train station—

Really?

Brittany: I think we actually beat them to the train station.

It didn't seem that way from the episode.

Caitlin: We were neck and neck. They made it look like it was just the twins, and they almost made it, but actually the train had gone by the time we got there. We got there at, like, 7:34 and the train left at 7:35.

Brittany: It was one of those things where it's our of your control. We knocked the Roadblock out in five minutes. We just had a day of bad drivers.

What was it like being in the pedicab race right at the end with Will and Gary?

Caitlin: It was just a rush of emotion—we didn't know there were going to be right in front of us. We were trying to keep uiet and then take off. It would have worked for us if he hadn't turned left at the fork in the road.

Brittany: We really thought we had the advantage because our driver had actually taken us to the Pitstop about 45 minutes prior [while we were lost.] But it didn't work out.

It sounds like you had a really tough exit. Does that spoil the experience of being in the race?

Caitlin: Definitely not. It was a great experience—at the end of the day, we're getting the opportunity to travel around the world for free and meet all these great new people. Of course, we're competitive and we wanted the million dollars—but 15 years from now, is it really going to matter?

What do you think about these two taxi-centric losses?

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