For once, my Sunday schedule isn't totally screwed.

Holy crap, how can Big Easy NOT read that watch right? I mean come on now...

He's from the 9th Ward!

Oh, and I loved when the dad told the son that he used to call a hookah something else.

And, the gay brothers actually did something smart with the calculator.

Oooooh, Baywatch brothers!!!

Sheesh. I can't believe she wouldn't go down a 5 second water slide to possibly win a million bucks. I'm now thinking Canaan should have really pushed her when she was sitting on the top of the slide.

Mika is such a whiny crybaby b*tch! Good riddance.

She must be an ABC cheerleader.

Mika was afraid of water. That's a little different since she was going into a pool. Personally, had Canannon not grabbed her and seemed like he was going to push her, she might have been able to do it. After he did that, she couldn't trust him. I don't really blame her for that.

I do blame her for knowing ahead of time she had these paralyzing fears and going on the race with in no way prepared to deal with them. She's very young, and that showed.

If you are in a situation like that, just think of how many years(decades?) you would have to work eight hours a day to make a million bucks. Would you rather do that or spend five seconds going down a water slide? Of course, I would not have had any trouble with the water slide, but I know something like the huge bungee jump off the dam early last season would have terrified me. I guarantee I would still do it. Thinking about the money would definitely help.

The 2 questions they should ask when you apply for the show is...

1) Can you swim??

2) Are you afraid of heights?

If you can't do any of them then you shouldn't be on the show......yes it made for good drama....but it was painful to watch her cry like a baby for such a simple task......and I am pretty sure I would have done the same thing as the Globes if faced with potential elimination.......

It was painful to watch her cry like that and I felt sorry for him because her fear caused them to potentially lose that money.......

If I were him....I would have run right up behind her when she was sitting at the top of the slide and pushed her down....and immediately followed...........that was his once chance to get her to go.....I would rather live with the anger from her for doing something like that than living with the fact we Lost the chance of $1 million for not doing it........it's something that you would think about in your head over and over.........

Why go on the show??

Glad that the Globes are still there...I would have probably freaked out at the top of the water slide too...but I would have made myself do it...I would have screamed like a baby the whole way down! I would be surprised if Mika & Canaan are still together at this point...yes, he did say that he forgives her etc. but that would take a lot of forgiveness...

I said to MrLurk jokingly that Mika should pray for God to give her the strength to overcome her fears...

I forgot to add, I was surprised that more teams DIDN'T have trouble with the briefcase...I'm not sure if I would have realized that the time was the combination...

I thought for sure more people would have had trouble with that.......

Good for the poker girls to handle that gold task really well.....it's amazing how many people couldn't figure out the exchange........

At least Erika said...it's a sorry state when you can't figure out math without a calculator....

I do not think I have ever seen a grown adult with water wings before. Over life saving devices, but not water wings on the arms & they looked exactly something my 2 yr old wears when she goes in the pool. I would have been more embarrassed by the water wings than going down the slide, but I have been down several slides like that. Its very thrilling, and usually there is a pile of guys down at the end of those slides... because no matter what type of bathing suit a woman has on.... you get a major wedgie or your bottoms come practically off. Someone gets flashed.

One of the poker girl's top lifted up.....there was a little blur.....

Seriously....what girl/woman that age wears water wings?? Those things would not have saved her if she were drowing........

Guess you have to respect that paralyzing, irrational fear when it overrides the competitive spirit that should propel you right down that slide. So I agree, fear of heights should be an elimination factor for inclusion on the show. Wouldn't stop people from lying, of course, nor would it stop CBS and the producers from wanting them on the show for the very reaction this episode has evoked.

that was funny

i think he was making it more complicated than it was

i can't really swim & don't lkie heights, but i'd like to think that i could make myself do it for 1 million

It depends on how crippling the fear was. The bungee jump you mentioned, I don't think I could do that for 10 million dollars. But I won't go on the show because I know I probably couldn't do some of those tasks because of my fear of heights.

Money isn't everything and some fears take a lot more than dollar signs to get passed.

Loved that!!! Probably one of the best off the cuff lines I've ever heard on a reality show. The teams this season are really funny and fun to watch.

Glad to see Zev & Justin finally got to the Elimination Station. (posted in another thread)

I don't think I could be so forgiving if I were Canaan. And to be at the top of that slide for 45 minutes?!?! (as heard in the elimination station video) Then to give Big Easy lip for telling Mika not to slide. Thats just crazy, it's not like she was going to do it anyways, and if she was, she could have gone after Canaan and not just walked away. It could have possibly been a non elimination leg.

Everyone has a fear of something, but like most of you have said, it's not like this wasn't something to be expected when running the race. Unless she had never heard of the Amazing Race before (in which case, why did she sign up?) all contestants know the "challenges" are there to test and challenge you.

ITA. I also agree with someone who said that if you are terrified with heights, wait, no. Not terrified, absolutely gripped with a "phobia like fear" of heights or water, you shouldn't go on the show.

I have BOTH of those. Its one thing to be afraid of water and go in a pool. Its one thing to be afraid of heights and jump down 20, 30 feet. But to have paralyzing phobia of either one and to have to go down a SIX STORY STEEP drop into shark filled water, it is too much. The only way to conquer those fears are to face them. But when they are that embedded, you simply can NOT go from 0 to 100 just like *that*.

I also am claustrophobic. That slight bit of tunnel at the end, with water all around you, no matter how quick it is, if I had known it was there, would have been overwhelming. ....... (Yeah, I am consumed with phobias! LOL!!!)

Which is exactly why she, (and I) should never have gone on the show with that tremendous a fear. I feel for her, , but she should have known better.

I do think its wonderful though, no matter how upset with her he was, that he said "Forgiveness is freeing." and that it would be something he would let go of and still love her... no matter the 'potential' financial loss. THAT, my friend, is love.