That's about it. They thought the last place team was on their heels, so they did exactly the right thing and U-Turned them (made them do both detour tasks before they could go on).

(As it was, the actual last place team was far enough behind that they wouldn't have caught up anyway. Without realizing it, the blondes had caught up to and passed a different team, who were the people they saw coming up behind them.)

Cue the usual variety of reactions, which for the most part, @@. But whichever one of the blondes it is seems to have bought in to the whole "unfair! dirty play!" shit. Not sorry to see the last of their bickering and second-guessing.

One of the blondes wanted to do the U Turn and the other didn't think they needed it, but the blonde who wanted to do the U Turn just went ahead and did it.

There was some speculation on worldcrossing that they meant to U Turn the team that was right behind them (the couple that came in first this week -- the hippie couple) and mistakenly U Turned the last place team.

There was some speculation on worldcrossing that they meant to U Turn the team that was right behind them (the couple that came in first this week -- the hippie couple) and mistakenly U Turned the last place team.

Well, but they didn't know it was the hippie couple right behind them - they thought it was Jason and Lorena.

Yeah, they clearly thought that TK and Rachel were Jason and Lorena. I like the u-turn and given what they thought there circumstances were: the Blondes were totally right to use it. It's too bad that it turned out to be a moot point and that they couldn't deal with the aftermath.

The team that is U-Turned has to complete both Detour tasks. And they don't find out until they have completed one and gone to get the next clue.

Ooh, I *love* that. So much better than the Yield!

Is TAR on iTunes? I'd really love to get a (legal) copy of that ep.

Heh. That's the same evil task mindset that put shakers filled with pepper in the salt piles, so that the contestants might very well get (genuinely) emotionally dramatic for the cameras.

Yeah. I think the blondes way overreacted to using the U-Turn. I heard more of them making a fuss about using it than I did other people criticizing them for using it. But then, the team they U-Turned did get eliminated, so they did affect the race. Probably. Maybe not.

The U-Turn could be really miserable, especially down the road if a team has bailed on one task and had to go back and do it again after all, especially if it's one of the messier needle in a haystacks, where the teams working on it early make it much more difficult for the teams later by the chaos.

Also, the blondes didn't get hit by a bus. Doggone trailers.

I like TK & Rachel a lot. I would totally hang with them.

I also adore the grandson/grandpa who are genuinely resourceful and take advantage of their individual strengths, without criticizing their individual weaknesses. I would definitely have taken the counting task; years of working inventory control would have rendered that one pretty simple for me. But that team was brilliant for realizing their mistake and counting the errors back out. I would probably not have thought of it, and just gone back and counted again, which would have taken much much longer than just subtracting out the twenty.

Team Implosion can get off my screen any time now.

But that team was brilliant for realizing their mistake and counting the errors back out.

Yeah, that was pretty impressive, that he was able to do that. And do it right! It would have really sucked if the blondes had beaten them at that point.

Yes, can they be eliminated next please?

I'm not sure that doing the U-turn really changed things that much for Jason and Lorena - they started out an hour behind the next people and I don't think there was really any place where they could have caught up.

I think since the blondes knew how far behind Lorena and Jason started out, when they thought they saw them close behind them at the U-Turn, they panicked because they assumed they had fallen so far behind that they were fighting it out to last place.