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There is a hilarious commercial for Bud Light lampooning product placement making the rounds, involving the filming of a knights and damsels movie.

They're saving that for the finale ..

So much for the theory that people who lose one of their senses have heightened perception in their remaining senses. I had expected Luke to do better.

All the best to Margie and Luke and here's to them and the courage it took to do AR...twice, but I did feel that they wanted their cake and eat it too. They wanted to prove that Deafness is not a "disability" yet they played it up when it was advantageous to them. I do feel that Luke has been sheltered and has not really matured. Do you think the producers gave him that tray so that he could bring several tea cups at a time so that they could complete the task and that everyone could go home? These guys should have known that the "pointless" tea-tasting in China was going to come into play later. Luke and Globetrotter weren't even trying to figure out the flavor.

I have a lot of respect for Margie. She had to be the strong one and keep it together the whole time. Even when she passed out from the heat in their last season, she was the calm one.

Too bad its finale is May 8. May 18 is a Wednesday.

I can't believe Luke was crying like that. I mean, its not a hard task, its just drinking tea and showing the cup. What is hard about that? I did like how the people from India cheered for him and picked him up, that was touching.

Talk about running the gamut of emotion for me during this. I was completely annoyed watching him cry over something so simple as tasting tea to then having a smile on my face when he finished and they all picked him up and cheered.

I have never been that big of a Margie/Luke fan for many of the reasons mentioned already. I did think it was a nice moment for the guys to pick him up at the end. Given the amount of drinks consumed by some I did wonder if we might run into another situation where a contestant had to use the bathroom so bad it might have cost them a spot in the race.

I have to admit I would have gone for the painting detour because the navigation challenge seemed like one that could get hairy quickly. However, it looked like everyone who did that challenge manged to finish it quickly.

Yeah, it seemed like the fact that there's a lot of English speakers in India made it much easier to get directions and made that detour easier than they planned.

But, the painting detour gave us the best line of the night with Kent saying "This is just like us getting ready in the morning."

No comment about the girls that didn't open the bottle for the longest time? I was hoping they'd get themselves so lost they'd be out of it, for that stupid of a mistake.

Do you think Phil offered Margie and Luke the tea at the pit stop?

LOL!

The sisters were definitely lucky that there was a Snapple connection to the city or it would have cost them even more time. I also didn't like the way that they (at least the younger one) treated the people who didn't have a clue what they were asking.

Are you deaf? I ask only because people always say that those who are deaf or blind have other heightened senses. When they got to this point I thought Luke was going to get it first because of that. But once it went on and on and on I figured that Luke didn't really pay attention when he first had the tea. Whether or not you have heightened senses, if you don't pay attention when you first drank it in China, you are screwed in India. I'm guessing that the Trotters didn't pay attention either as they were one of the last teams as well and just resorted to drinking tea like crazy and hoping to get it on a fluke.

Hard for me to understand someone thinking that lemon snapple, for example, tastes the same as papaya mango snapple, unless you lack the sense of taste. I can understand not telling the difference between the same kind of tea from different brands (like say Snapple vs. Lipton), but papaya mango tea? Come on. But that's me.

As much as I hate to say it, Luke was a crybaby and I'm kind of glad to see him gone. I only say kind of because the Trotters are still around. It seems like they put in bunching points for their benefit because once everyone is bunched together, the Trotters have others beat in physical tasks (like running).

Unless you were tall, like the Trotters. They couldn't have done the navigation thing because they couldn't have fit in that yellow cart. I don't think Luke and Margie combined could have fit in the cart either, since Luke is pretty tall.

I was surprised to see them get to the tea shop as quickly as they did after that ..

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The cowboys are pretty tough - if they could just stop making stupid mistakes they'll be in the final for sure. Vixen must have been pretty stressed to jump into the Ganges - that water may have mythical properties but getting in it is the last thing one should do.

The scene where cremation was taking place on the Ganges was a powerful piece of televison IMO .. and a real learning experience for me as I had no idea .. in fact, a great idea for a documentary ..

It made me remember George Harrison, who had his remains scattered on the sacred river .. in Varnasi, no less

I'd already seen the cremations somewhere. Can't recall if it was in a documentary or a travelogue.

An Idiot Abroad, perhaps?

This season has been very enjoyable both with the teams and viewing it in HD finally.

I don't think I've ever seen any of the "Idiot Abroad" series.

I think it was probably in this Michael Wood Documentary about India and the Ganges River, but I'm not certain:

http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/

All of the scenes reminded me of my time in Vienna - though carrying a couch around was certainly not one of them. Cowboys keep cutting it close. Looking forward to the Swiss scenery.

I never would have taken the "easy" eat some food challenge. I don't know how they eat that stuff. My stomach always felt like it was full of rocks when I traveled through there.

I liked Mallory's idea: "I could throw up and try again."

The "clue" should have tipped them off on the food challenge .. "Quick and easy" .. ?? I would have avoided that for sure ..

Now there's a Detour I would have excelled at! The quantity looked easily achievable although that 12 minute time limit might have been an issue.

And the schnitzel actually looked really good compared to the horrible looking food they have at most of the food challenges.

However, the only teams that should have even considered an attempt at that challenge, the Globetrotters and the Cowboys, skipped it. And every other team should have looked at the plate and realized that the 12 minute limit was too short for them.

I couldn't have eaten half of it. I walked away from more food in Austria and Southern Germany than anyplace else. I always went to Italian restaurants whenever I could.

Did anyone eat all of it?

^ that's why there's different food for different people. I love schnitzel and ate something about that size in Munich about 2 months ago - probably took me about 15 min so I may have been able to do it on time. The thing that is unknown is how hungry those people were. I still remember the AR season in which Boston Rob (of survivor fame) talked some other contestants into taking the time penalty in Argentina at a meat eating challenge.