SO I finally got caught up and what can I say about the previous episode that hasn't been said. Apparently, Karma visited Bad Dad in the form of an ulcer and that is going to make the race pretty much suck for him for a while. Yikes.
Every freaking time I see "Marianna and Julia" on the screen, my brain sees "Marijuana". And as much as I loved Team Marijuana, and as much as they didn't deserve it considering how they coped with the barren camels, I won't be seeing Teram Marijuana again. No doubt Grandpa is equally, if not more, upset. Sounds like Team Marijuana served as his little blue pill from what he had to say about them, which...ew.
I do love the "Grandpa" shirt. It's so efficient. It not only provides a useful label for which to substitute his name, which we will not remember anyway, but it also eliminates the need to ask that cumbersome yet polite question, "Do you have grandkids?"
Well, we have found the shrieker this season and her name is Lorena. She really seemed to be invoking the spirit of Flo, especially in the way she had to relate every detail in a completely annoying and useless way by childishly WAAAH-ing such helpful things like, "It kicked the bowl!" or "It's moving!" to her partner, who really can't do anything to help. I mean, what could he say? Other than, "Stop f*cking shrieking! You're scaring the camel!", I mean. Honestly, if someone was trying to milk me and making those kind of sounds, I would kick her ass away, too. Seriously.
And just as in the true spirit of Team Flo, they managed to eke out in the end and not be eliminated. So we can be subjected to the awfulness of Team Shriek possibly to the very end. All I can say is, no wonder she wants to marry that guy. He's the only one still around after hearing that mess. Now we know why he likes to keep one foot out the door. Personally, I would have both feet firmly down the block. In another state, preferably.
Though I cannot STAND the blondes, who have rather disgustingly displayed their narrow-minded self-centeredness to the entire country, I did sympathize with their plight involving the cab driver. Con artists who prey on tourists unfamiliar with the culture and surroundings deserve jail time. But when I weigh the sins of the con artist against the behavior of the blondes, the back of my brain goes, "Hee!" So, there it is. And did she say they didn't have time to do their makeup? The closeup of the same shot tells us they had plenty of time to dip their faces in a bowl of Mary Kay before getting in the cab. They were perilously close to being Goths.
The other teams were fairly unremarkable, which is a bit of a letdown. I loved the Teach/Learn task. I probably would have gone with Learn as there was more of a known variable, which is how quickly you can memorize something. Teach totally relies upon the unknown, which is how well the kids could pick up on the words. But it was really cool to watch. I disagree that it was the "stereotypical Amazing Race in Africa episode" simply because of the Teach/Learn task. But honestly, what would you have them do differently?
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
