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 Posted: 01/18/05 - 23:05 Post subject: Amazing Race 6-9 1-18-05 The Yield is not Enough
Props to Survivordog at survivorsucks.com for the running commentary. 
I'll post comments and thoughts Wednesday.
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Phil: This is Corsica, in the heart of the Mediterranean. Overlook known as the La Pietra was the 7th pitstop in a race around the world. Hayden/Aaron not eliminated; the 2nd of 3 pre-determined non-elim spots.
Will Hayden/Aaron rebound?
Rebecca/Adam, 12:12 am.
CLUE: Travel by ferry to Nice.
Phil: In Nice, they'll find this bust of WWI hero Albert (the first?) for their next clue.
Freddy/Kendra, 2:03 am.
Freddy conf: Our team chemistry is doing great!!
Lori/Bolo, 2:13 am.
He calls it NICE as in "wow, that's NICE."
Kris/Jon next ...
Jonathan/Victoria 2:18 am.
Arguing about which ferry leads when and where ...
Hayden/Aaron 2:51 am.
Other teams got $151 for this leg of the race ... neener, neener!!
Ferry leaves in the morning.
Hayden/Aaron go off to beg.
Hayden: You speak English? We're in a (pumps arms in circular motion) race!!
They get their money, little by little.
Corsica Ferries ... departure time is 11:30 am.
Hayden: Begging is not fun!!
The ferry loads.
Hayden/Aaron get tickets just in time.
Nice, France.
Jonathan heads for the taxis.
Freddy heads for the subway/train.
Jonathan, CLUE: Fly to the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Phil: They'll sign up for one of two charter flights to Labibella, a small town in Ethiopia's highlands.
Rebecca: It's gonna be really hard. It's hot, sad, impoverished ...
Adam: Rebecca! Don't talk about what's wrong with it!!
Kendra: It's gonna be depressing, third world. We just went to a third world country.
Jon, to Kris/Jon's cabbie: Can we hurry? We're in a race!
Jonathan at the ticket agent: We have to be very fast right now!!
Agent: Computer is down right now.
Bolo: We need to get to Addis Abia, Ethiopia (lol)
Agent: 6:15 pm.
Other teams can't seem to find anything for today.
Bolo has an Air France opening for this evening.
Agent: Arrive tomorrow. Leaves 6:05 tonight.
Agent to Freddy: All tickets to Addis are now booked.
Kendra: They (Lori/Bolo) totally butted in front of me in line. (Liar, liar, pants on fire!!)
Bolo: As far as we can see, we're the only ones on this flight!!
Freddy: There's a flight through Cairo ...
Hayden: We're gonna spend the night in Nice. (Lufthansa to Zurich/Cairo/Addis)
Kris/Jon get SwissAir tix on a different flight.
Phil: First to depart, Lori/Bolo have a layover in Rome.
Lori/Bolo hunker down in Rome during their long layover.
Adam arises early and tries to secure earlier tix. He suceeds!
They might actually meet up with Lori/Bolo in Rome!!
Kris/Jon get on the Alitalia with Adam/Rebecca.
Rebecca shared the info with Kris.
Adam is mad at Rebecca for sharing info.
Adam: I'm gonna have to break my neck again. We might not make the first charter in Ethiopia!
Rebecca: I hate being with you. You make me so miserable all the time!!
Adam: Move over!
(Sits on the same seat as her)
Rebecca: You're so abusive! I wasted 2 years on you !! I'm not gonna waste another minute!!
COMMERCIAL.
Adam: Stop crying. It's gonna be okay. Sorry, Rebecca. I love you. I'm sorry.
Reb conf: It is so frustrating when we have a blowup like this, it takes us out of the race.
Lufthansa thru Cairo: Hayden/Aaron, Freddy/Kendra.
Alitalia thru Rome: Jonathan/Victoria, Adam/Rebecca, Kris/Jon.
The Rome teams hook up with Lori/Bolo on the same flight to Ethiopia.
The first charter leaves at 8 am. The second, 30 minutes later.
The footrace is ON to sign up for the charter.
Rebecca finds the counter first.
Jonathan finds it second.
Lori/Bolo get the 3rd spot.
Kris/Jon first on the later flight.
The last two teams arrive in Addis, 3 a.m., and teams get on their charter flights. The later arrivals head for the 2nd charter flight leaving at 8:30.
CLUE, Jonathan: Driect your driver to take you to Lewz Village.
Phil: This overlook has the next clue.
Lori/Bolo, Jonathan/Victoria, Adam/Rebecca in the lead. Jonathan stops to ask a local directions and offer money for tour guiding. The second airplane is now arriving in Laribella with the last 3 teams and Victoria has a cow.
Kendra: These people choose to be this way! It's refreshing! The animals aren't even as skinny!
Victoria is pissed that Jonathan has brought the tourguide on the ride.
Lori/Bolo and Adam/Rebecca first to the overlook.
Bolo takes a big tumble running down the hill ...
DETOUR, Adam.
Raise the roof? Or Mud the Hut?
Manual labor.
Join a group of locals and carry a thatched roof 2/3 of a mile to put a roof on a house. Physically demanding, but quicker. Or, cover a wall with traditional mud and plaster. It could take a long time.
Jonathan: Victoria, you need to get your head in the game here!!
J/Vic choose to do the mud wall of the hut.
Last 3 teams choose their DETOUR.
Hayden/Aaron, roof.
Freddy/Kendra, mudding.
Kris/Jon, roof.
Freddy: I cut my finger! Bad!!
Kendra: Omigod!! Honey! You are bleeding! You need first aid!!
Freddy: Wait (UGH!!) till we're done!! Aargh!!
Adam puts the top on the roof.
CLUE, Rebecca: Deliver two mules three miles to St. George's Church, below ground level.
Bolo finishes the mud.
Kendra: You're cut and you're sticking your hands in crap??!?!?
Rebecca: Is there instructions on donkey handling?
Teams doing the roof finish.
Hayden/Aaron 2nd.
Kris/Jon 3rd.
Rebecca seeks help with her mules ... they won't go anywhere.
Shades of "Colin: My ass is broken!"
Adam walks the donkey like a dog.
Scooping mud, Victoria shrieks: Ieeeee!!! Omigod!
Jonathan: What's wrong with her!?!?
Victoria, shrieking, takes her hand over to workmen, who pour water on it.
Kendra: Jonathan! Help her!!
COMMERCIAL.
Victoria: Omigod! Omigod!!
Kendra: you okay sweetie?
Victoria: I don't want to get eliminated because my fingers hurt!
Jonathan: Mind over matter.
Kris: I get it. Stubborn as a mule.
Jonathan finishes mudding, gets CLUE: Deliver 2 donkeys ...
Victoria: Where's the donkeys? Help me out here! Come on!!
Kendra: Oh there's a YIELD ahead. We don't want to be the last team.
Victoria, walking now: Come on, Jonathan!
Kendra is running.
Victoria: Gimme my shoes! My feet are chewed up!
Jonathan: Donkeys are over there!
Kendra: Come on, donkeys, go!
(Looks like a race to see which team gets to yield whom?)
Victoria: Freddy and Kendra beat us!!
I don't want to lose because of yoU!!
Hayden/Aaron, CLUE: YIELD.
Phil: A team can force another team to yield.
Aaron: We choose not to yield anyone.
ROADBLOCK: Who has an eye for detail?
Phil: One team member makes their way in to this deep, subterranean church. Find a specific pendant which is waiting with the priest; match it to one on a worshipper inside the church (and there are about 100 worshippers) for the next clue.
Hayden goes inside.
H conf: The energy inside the church is like nothing I've ever experienced.
Kris/Jon and Lori/Bolo wrestle donkeys.
Suddenly ...
Kendra: I can't breathe!
Freddy: It's hyperventilation! Control your breathing!
Kendra: It's asthma! This hasn't happened to me in 15 years!
Kendra conf, after recovering slightly: The kids were wonderful. They held my backpack and everything. I want to take them home!!
Victoria: SHut up!
Jonathan: Have some self respect!
Hayden, to child: My name is Hayden.
Boy: My name is (Goliah?)
Hayden conf: One of my most moving experiences.
Hayden, CLUE: Make your way to pitstop, Lalibela lookout.
Phil: The last team to arrive may be eliminated.
Lori does the ROADBLOCK.
Kris does the ROADBLOCK.
Neither of them YIELDS anyone.
Kendra can't get the donkeys through a religious ceremony ...
Neither can Jonathan/Victoria.
Finally Jonathan/Victoria read their CLUE again ... they only have ONE donkey and they must EACH have ONE, or a total of TWO ...
Victoria: We're done.
Jonathan: We were in such a hurry.
J/Vic have to head back for another donkey.
Meanwhile ...
Lori has trouble finding a matching pendant.
Lori: This is stupid!
Kris finds the pendant, 2nd to get the pitstop clue.
Kris/Jon get directions from a child.
Lori finally finds the correct pendant, gets clue in 3rd.
Adam and Freddy seem to have a disagreement over which is which donkey ... as Adam rushes to the YIELD with Rebecca.
Adam & Rebecca YIELD Freddy & Kendra!.
Freddy blesses out Kendra for not being in the right place at the right time and getting YIELDED.
COMMERCIAL.
Kendra: My fault? How dare you!! Are you kidding!
Jonathan: We're still in this!
Victoria: Let's go!
Rebecca: Who has an eye for detail? ADAM, HURRY UP!
Rebecca, as Adam falters: Never send a woman to do a man's job.
Jonathan's tour guide takes them back for the other donkey.
Kendra: If we're not out of it, we know who NOT to help next.
Man: Welcome to Ethiopia:
Phil: Hayden/Aaron, you're team #1. You've won a vacation to Mexico.
Hayden: We needed a little kick in the pants to get going.
Phil: Lori/Bolo, you're team #2. You don't smell so good right now!
Phil: Kris/Jon, you're team #3.
Jon: Still in it!!
Adam, frustrated: Please let's go back!!
Kendra, CLUE: Who has an eye for detail? You do, Freddy!
Jonathan, looking tired, walking slowly with donkeys.
Kendra, pointedly to Rebecca: Why did you guys YIELD us?
Rebecca, defiantly: Too many questions.
Freddy finds the pendant wearer almost immediately and kisses the man on his sleeve.
Adam, to man: Can I see?
Man shakes head, NO.
Adam has to leave, again, to Rebecca's frustration.
Finally Adam finds it on his next pass.
Adam gets clue in 5th, furious.
Rebecca: We're not in last! It's okay!!
Jonathan sends Victoria to do the Pendant search.
Victoria has little problem with the pendant.
It's ON ... to the pitstop.
Phil: Freddy/Kendra, you're team #4.
Jonathan, to the kids: Everybody put your arm up, like THIS!!!
All raise their arms.
Phil: Adam/Rebecca ... you're team #5.
Here comes Jonathan and his ... procession.
Jonathan: Thank you! Thank you!
Jonathan/Victoria, together, jump on the pad.
Jonathan: Non elimination?
Phil: You're the last team to arrive. Sorry to tell you, you've both been eliminated from the race.
Jonathan: Very trying day. Very disappointed.
Victoria: I'm happy I had this experience with Jon. I'm just disappointed.
Jonathan: The world is a tough place.
Victoria: We definitely connected, and enjoyed every minute of the race, no matter what it seemed like.
Jonathan/Victoria hug, and cry, alone.
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 08:04 Post subject:
Bye, bye Jonathan & Victoria!
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 08:41 Post subject:
Program note:
TAR 6-10 1-25-05 Elimination leg
TAR 6-11 2-01-05 Non Elimination with the final Yield
TAR 6-12 & 6-13 Two hour final
I was sorry to see J&V go. Vic was really coming into her own the last three weeks.
Here's where the "Yield" works (as long as you have adam doing the roadblocks).
After watching it two more times, here's a list of best of comments from last night epsode & additional comments.
When they showed the clip of everybody waking up at Nice Airport, I almost lost it laughing. Hayden looked absolutely horrendous when she sat up. Kris, on the other hand, looked absolutely adorable. But what else did we expect?
From Kendra
“It’s gonna be all...third-world. We just CAME from the third world.”Ahh, THERE’s our KKKendra. The world may resume its normal orbit.
Rebecca
“You’re so abusive. You’re like, just as bad as Jonathan and Victoria!”
Kendra
This place is not as third world as the last place, it green and the animals look well fed,“But you know it’s a “different kind of poverty,” and these people “actually choose to live this way.” Wow.
Aaron
Aaron saying he had a lot of experience leading asses (while pointing jokingly at Hayden)
Kendra
KKKendra, on Ethiopian children--“I just wanted to take them home!”
S99So they can serve her croissant in bed and fan her and feed her grapes.
Rebecca
Never send a woman to do a woman's job.
Other notes.
Did you see Bolo conk his head while getting on the plane?
It’s fitting that an Ass was J & Vic their undoing. The Donkey didn’t help either.
Kendra: “You have a cut on your hand and you’re sticking your hands in crap.”
Freddy: “Maybe it’s holy crap.”
Phil (as Lori/Bolo arrive at the Pit Stop): “You guys just…really don’t smell so good right now.”
Lori was rude in the Church.
Adam and Rebecca used the yield and the yielded team beat them to the pit stop. That was awesome. Poor Adam - he's a doofus
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 08:51 Post subject:
Roadblocks. Thanks to survivorsucks.com for the data.
This season there are 12 roadblock task, to avoid the problems of season 5 where Chip did 11 of the 12 roadblocks, a new rule was added that no team can complete more than six road blocks.
So here's a running tally after 9 episodes here's the running tally.
Keep in mind that there were only two Fast Forwards in this season of the Amazing Race. Lori & Bolo Adam & Rebecca used them
This is based on the teams still alive in the race:
1. Adam and Rebecca: Adam 5, Rebecca 3. (FF)
2. Lori and Bolo: Lori 4, Bolo 3. (FF)
3. Kris and Jon: Jon 4, Kris 4.
3. Freddy and Kendra: Kendra 4, Freddy 4.
3. Hayden and Aaron: Aaron 4, Hayden 4.
After this episode, Adam and Rebecca became even more uneven in their ratio, with Adam extending it to 5-3 upon Rebecca's request. Lori and Bolo broke their evenness, with Lori doing the roadblock and putting them at 4-3. All the other teams are exactly even at 4-4, including the eliminated Jonathon and Victoria.
Here is also the raw data, by episode:
Roadblock #1: Norway's Zipline (Ep 2)
Jon (1st)
Bolo (1st)
Adam (1st)
Kendra (1st)
Aaron (1st)
Roadblock #2: Sweden's Hay Bales (Ep 3)
Aaron (2nd)
Jon (2nd)
Adam (2nd)
Freddy (1st)
Bolo (2nd)
Roadblock #3: Senegal's Lake Rose Salt Harvest (Ep 4)
Kendra (2nd)
Hayden (1st)
Kris (1st)
Lori (1st)
Adam (3rd)
Roadblock #4: Germany's Go-Cart (Ep 5)
Freddy (2nd)
Hayden (2nd)
Jon (3rd)
Rebecca (1st)
Lori (2nd)
Roadblock #5: Germany's Bungee-Launch (Ep 6) "Girl Power"
Kendra (3rd)
Hayden (3rd)
Kris (2nd)
Rebecca (2nd)
Lori (3rd)
Roadblock #6: Hungary's Spiced-Up Soup (Ep 
Lori and Bolo - NEITHER (FF)
Jon (4th)
Aaron (3rd)
Rebecca (3rd)
Freddy (3rd)
Roadblock #7: Stomping Corsica's Grapes into Wine (Ep 9)
Adam and Rebecca - NEITHER (FF)
Kendra (4th)
Kris (3rd)
Bolo (3rd)
Aaron (4th)
Roadblock #8: Matching Pendants at Ethiopian Church (Ep 10)
Hayden (4th)
Lori (4th)
Kris (4th)
Adam (5th)
Freddy (4th)
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 09:17 Post subject:
Loved last nights episode. Adam is a complete idiot and it was so funny when Rebecca said "never send a woman to do a woman's job". Happy to see John and Vic go. Victoria was getting on my nerves really bad last night. I have a feeling Lori and Bolo will be the next to go by next weeks previews. The previews showed Lori losing it with Bolo. Poor Bolo, he seems really nice.
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 10:06 Post subject:
| Dancer wrote: | | Loved last nights episode. Adam is a complete idiot and it was so funny when Rebecca said "never send a woman to do a woman's job". Happy to see John and Vic go. Victoria was getting on my nerves really bad last night. I have a feeling Lori and Bolo will be the next to go by next weeks previews. The previews showed Lori losing it with Bolo. Poor Bolo, he seems really nice. |
I thought Rebecca said "never send a woman to do a man's job", calling Adam a woman and oddly enough herself a man.
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 10:45 Post subject:
I loved Aaron's ass comment!!!
I realized at the end of last night that I was enjoying the train wreck that is Jonathon and Victoria.  Much more than most of the other teams. Not that I wanted them to win, but they were ridiculous and thus, fun to watch....
The Ethiopian children!!!!  What a beautiful country with such friendly seeming people.
Kendra:     
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 11:16 Post subject:
See ya Jonathan and Vic!! What the heck happened to her anyway?? I couldn't tell what happened to her hand. It looked pretty minor, she was screamin like she cut her freekin hand off.
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 11:19 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | See ya Jonathan and Vic!! What the heck happened to her anyway?? I couldn't tell what happened to her hand. It looked pretty minor, she was screamin like she cut her freekin hand off. |
She's a major whiner though, it seemed like it was nothing. Every negative thing that happened to them turned into an all out breakdown for her. How sweet of those guys to help her by pouring water on her hands.
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 11:19 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: |
I thought Rebecca said "never send a woman to do a man's job", calling Adam a woman and oddly enough herself a man. |
I stand corrected Rebecca did said "Never send a woman to do a man's job".
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 11:20 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | See ya Jonathan and Vic!! What the heck happened to her anyway?? I couldn't tell what happened to her hand. It looked pretty minor, she was screamin like she cut her freekin hand off. |
splinter.
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Posted: 01/19/05 - 11:22 Post subject:
| scorch99 wrote: |
splinter.
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Decent amount of blood, like the other guy who didn't whine.
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