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EP11 :' The Family Christmas Card '
Slowhatch:
OK, I get it now (just finished watching). It wasn't a cheesy LuxuryCart product placement, it was a cheesy Buick product placement :lolCX:. I should have seen it coming, what with Pandora's spoiler about the car give-away at the mat >^%.
puddin:
*mutters* it was a cheesy show
should have seen the Godlewski's boot coming , if it wern't for the spoiler ( which I admit some of you were right , probably the Bransens "Hot" with one of the Weavers *gag * ?) I would have had the Godlewski's picked to be booted next every episode ..lost big on my game picks but its not for money sooo...
Good thing is I'll save on asprins ,the sisters were frustrating ..I have 3 sisters and wonder if thats how we sound :lolCX: , my poor mom !! another good thing we get to see the Bransens one more time and Wally kick someones ASS =]/ , gosh he's crabby in the previews . Still I'm palcing them in 3rd spot ..leaving the Weavers ( bad guys ) ~vs~ the Linz ( good guys ) for a race to the finish line ..now that Spoiler ( Linz winning ) I have to beleive with or without spoilers .
rmax:
yeah, apart from my MW game picks, I'm glad the Godski sisters went rather than the Bransens.
I may be in the minority, but I'm still enjoying the race, even with the low-skill challenges (I keep imagining that if Carissa Gaghan or the Black boys were still in it, it would be a lot more fun). That said, it will be good to get back to traditional racing, with airport and taxi crises, and yes, even the disgusting food tasks.
The Weavers really do bring it on themselves, don't they? I mean, how hard would it have been for them to come out of their trailer and try to socialize with the other teams? They're like fake martyrs, being persecuted by their own imaginations.
The preview next week, where Rolly and Tommy (?) have a scuffle, makes me think Ma Weaver's going to yell child abuse! Kettle, meet Pot!
gingerman28:
Fellow TAR detectives, we did alright this time around. We were just way off on the eliminated team; but I think we had in the back of our minds the fact that CBS had placed an "X" on the Branded Bunch (hence the name) and we had a reported spotting of a team with four girls at an ice cream vendor in Toronto. So just maybe the Godlyones were sent along with the three other teams to Toronto to act as decoys. That would account for the four teams on the Air Canada flight.
But we had the events down cold and we had the itinerary and order of events pretty much as the script was written. Was lucky to find the Red Lodge Mountain Golf Club at the last minute, and this made the rest of the trip complete. So they did go on down toward Debois on route 287. After the overnight (not with RV connections it seems) it looks like hired men drove the teams on into the Wind River Indian Reservation (probably no trailers or campers allowed inside the reservation). Once again one task (wagon wheels) took a lot less time than the teepee build. Must have been frustrating for the Weasels and Godlyones to see the Linzzips and the BrandedBunch race past them.
And my speculation that the Bransens and Weasels must have driven past the ranch at 15200 route 287 and then turned around at some point and driven back up the highway toward the north. We did see them turn left across the highway into the roadway leading through the 15200 gate. When both the Linz and Godlewskis arrived they both spotted the ranch to their right and turned right directly into the road without crossing the highway. Nice to know you can be right sometimes.
After the Detour,three of the teams took the long road down to Riverton on route 26/287 and then back north again on route 120 right into Cody. The sisters were not that far behind the Weasels at this point but made the really wrong (actually stupid) decision to drive back north on route 287 and back again through Yellowstone Park (remember it is summer and tourist time is at its height) where there is a speed limit of 35 or 40 mph and where they said this morning they got stuck in traffic. This made them really late at the Cody Buffalo Bill gig. The other three teams overlapped eachother, but the sisters were there all by their lonesomes.
Still when the sisters arrived at the golf course in Red Lodge, the Weasels had only found one golf ball. So if they had taken the longer but much faster road to Cody, they might have been ahead of the Weasels at some point (that is again if the stupid sisters could have stopped bickering and concentrated on looking for the balls)
Next week, since our spoiler from Billings was dead right about the location of the pit stop and the fact that the car would be the winner's extra prize (does Wally get to keep it and loan it out when one of his girls wants it? And remember they each have a "life-time" of free gas from BP and ARCO!) then it follows that the teams will be leaving after a traditional 12-hour pit stop in the early morning for the Billings, Montana airport. Just guessing but through Minneapolis to Toronto?
Well, fellow detectives: especially Puddin, Chateau, Sups, and Peddler, this is my swan song for TAR8. I will watch what you all come up with, but now my time must be concentrated in getting ready for our Christmas and New Years holiday trip to Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary (if I don't spend more time on preperations I am afraid wifey will be taking some kind of drastic action - like steal my key board!) So while you all are glued to the screen as EP11 and/or EP12 brings the final three to the finish line in Davis State Park, I will be reclining in my Delta Airlines first class seat (yeah, I'm splurging all my frequent flyer miles as a Christmas gift to ourselves and just to use up as many miles as I can in case Delta doesn't make it out of bankruptcy!) sipping champagne and enjoying filet mignon!! (yeah, I wish). In Budapest and Vienna I hope to vist sites from TAR3 and TAR6 and get my picture took at places you all might recognize.
So, I take this opportunity to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Years. And I hope that the saddest days of your future will be no worse than the happiest days of your past.
GMan
puddin:
I miss you already Gman }bH{ , please enjoy your trip and be safe and take lots & lots of pictures .
( If you have access to your e-mail I will keep you up to date ?? :kussC: )
And Kudos to the all the TAR Detectives =]/
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