Yeah, the final episode looked very Hawaiian.

There's a BBC series called Secrets of the Ancients / Secrets of Lost Empires that does exactly that. I wish I could remember if it ever aired in the States.

This does sound like it is right up my alley.

On the Mythbusters front this season feels like a lot of the episodes are rushed. I really enjoyed watching more of the details on the builds in the earlier episodes it felt like more of the episodes were spent on the builds. It also seems like they are almost intentionally setting themselves up to have to retest some of these in their re-visited episodes.

TAR: Goodbye, Danny & Oswald! You ran a good game at least in the sense of having some class, wit, and out of the box thinking. If you'd been Yielded, you wouldn't have been crying that it was sooooo unfair.

I just remembered that the blondies came in 4th last year, in similar circumstances -- they had the 30 minute penalty, but legitimately came in last in the leg. That seems somehow fair to me -- they didn't get screwed because of their performance in the previous leg, just the current one.

I like the BQs. They're good natured and race well (except when they do the eyerolly things like miss the detour or forget the gps thingie). They're fun to watch.

They really seem to be enjoying themselves -- which neither of the remaining teams seem to and they aren't taking everything about the race as some sort of sign or morality/immorality.

Much speculation that the BQs mess up and Charla/Mirna win. I hope not. (Speculation based on the season long 'evil' edit the BQs have been getting and the reverse edit on Charla/Mirna.)

Charla is usually the more clueful of her duo, but I kept having to laugh at the poor Navy guy who had to remind her again and again that she shouldn't touch the screen of the GPS device....

"Ma'am. I said you're not supposed to touch the screen. Ma'am. Don't touch the screen. Not at all. Ma'am...." Poor guy.

I can't imagine Charla and Mirna winning -- that would be a travesty!

Though when the woman pointed out to Danielle that she might be hitting the buttons on the sides of the GPS, I wondered if that was maybe the problem - and either Charla didn't notice the buttons there or wasn't able to hold the thing without touching them.

IIRC, depending on what type of dwarfism she has, her hands may be unusually proportioned, which I suppose could add to the problem -- perhaps the only way she could get a grip on it was the "wrong" way. But given how flustered she seemed, it could just be panic-stupidity.