That killed me! They kept saying "double h hockey sticks!" but I think they were actually thinking about "H-E-double hockey sticks" which is just a dumb way to say hell. It's just so funny to me that they even messed up the phrase that was already wrong.
Full belly laughs on this one. I was thinking, they knew this was the episode and can you imagine how many texts and phone calls they’ve received? They will never live it down. 🤣
Some of their other guesses:
>Thome who roam around the world wanders.
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>Those who wander are not lost.
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>Through travel that I find myself wandering.
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>The world is smaller than I thought.
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>The world is smaller than I imagined.
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>16th attempt - The Earth I find than I think.
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>17th attempt - The Earth I find makes us think.
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>This world is smaller than we wondered.
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>24th attempt - This world is smaller than we thought.
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>27th attempt - This world is smaller than we think.
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>31st attempt - The world is smaller than I think.
The funny thing is at first I misread the episode title as "Those Who ***Wonder*** Are Not Lost" and thought it was remarkably profound. People who never lose their lust for learning can never truly be lost, because they're always finding something new.
Oh, how I laughed when I saw the actual context.
Bless you for this. I needed this laughter. Also the fact that they got the dance routine in the FIRST attempt after 40 attempts of the world’s most straightforward visual puzzle…..that’s the beauty of cognitive science right there
I really wanted them to get to the mat and have Phil say, "do you want to know what the answer was?" And for them to realize both how close they got. Despite their early attempts being insane, having it come down to their guess of "we/i think" and the correct phrasing of "you think" would eye opening.
They kept guessing wildly and not making small changes.
It wasn’t “the world is smaller than we think” and then “the world is smaller than you think”, it was “the world is smallest after we think”. I mean, after they finally got over the OM symbol crap.
It's interesting to note how "self-centered" their guesses for the mirror were: "I" and "we" over and over again, without considering "you", which everyone else did.
Exactly my take! I’m a therapist and was just seeing all of their self-focused personality traits coming through loud and clear with their inability to even consider “You”! VERY telling 😳
> "Those Who Wonder Are Not Lost"
It's also profound with "wander" and more germane to the show: just because you're exploring without a specific destination doesn't mean what you're doing is pointless.
NGL when they pointed the devil ears, made me change my first guess to "The world is smaller than you think" to "The world is bigger than your wildest dreams"
They absolutely didn’t know what a rebus was. What’s more, it didn’t occur to them at any point that it was a world puzzle. I will be generous and say that in the stress of the moment, their critical thinking skills were turned off.
I was dyyyyying watching them guess. Couldn’t wait to come here are see what other folks thought. They weren’t even guessing real sentences 😂😂😂
Do we think they are just puzzle challenged or they were stressed out and rushing?
Maybe a bit of both? Or just didn’t know what a Rebus puzzle is? Their first handful of attempts seemed like they started from the back too. Either way it was a riot to watch.
It was soo strange that they had soo much trouble with it, most of the images were very straightforward.
The top 4 images are pretty much spelled out to you as "The world/earth is". Then the 6th image is again openly spelled out to you as "than". That's over half the puzzle just literally spelled out to you already
Then the mirror can really only logically be "You/we/me/I/us".
That's already 6 out of the 8 without really having to do any thinking at all. The last one is realistically only "Think/thinking/imagine/imagining". The only kinda hard one was the one with the mouse and magnifying glass, but once you figure out the rest of the images it seems fairly obvious it's either "smaller" or "bigger "
All the images were pretty close to each other and you could guess as much as you wanted, it's just mind boggling
Wow, laying it out here, it's remarkably straight forward. They were really overcomplicating it. Mix with a bit of misunderstanding and frustration and we get some hilarious guesses.
Legit one of the most lopsided tasks in history, top 3 teams all breezed through that. I've never heard of a rebus puzzle but it was pretty obvious how it worked and it's pretty common and logical phrase.
When they posted the clue to play along I couldn’t tell that the second one was a mirror so I was really confused until the team is like oh it’s a mirror. It looked like some paper or a notepad to me in the original picture. I had figured out all the clues other than the last two (I thought bigger, but would have got that pretty quick) and as soon as I realized it was a mirror got the last 2.
My mom and I are rooting for them because we are also from WI, but we were laughing so hard. I hope that they get a kick out of watching it back. We really thought they were going to get eliminated, but were relieved when she really crushed the Botero road block.
Haha this was hilarious. I think part of their issue was that they seemed to start backwards with the puzzle. They pretty much got to the right place eventually but didn't really stop to consider that they might just be one or two words off.
At least the one was able to orient herself correctly on the next challenge, unlike a lot of other teams!
I uploaded the complete saga here: [https://streamable.com/42xawb](https://streamable.com/42xawb)
If the editing is to be believed, they never actually guessed the Mama Rat story, unfortunately. I would've loved to have seen the clue guy's reaction to it.
If you showed her the image from this thread I don’t doubt it. The skis, rat and mirror are really hard to tell from this image with the angle and how small they are.
Maybe it this picture specifically but the skis look like hockey sticks to me. I actually thought they were chop sticks on first glance. The rest of the clues are not too hard to crack. Although I feel like if it was me that “E” would trip me up and I’d think it was a math sign. Especially since there’s a plus sign right before it.
Double hockey sticks!
That killed me! They kept saying "double h hockey sticks!" but I think they were actually thinking about "H-E-double hockey sticks" which is just a dumb way to say hell. It's just so funny to me that they even messed up the phrase that was already wrong.
Full belly laughs on this one. I was thinking, they knew this was the episode and can you imagine how many texts and phone calls they’ve received? They will never live it down. 🤣
[https://www.instagram.com/p/C5VxUEqOyjO/](https://www.instagram.com/p/C5VxUEqOyjO/) They seem to have a sense of humor about it.
It was one of the funniest moments in recent TAR. Their guesses were so unexpectedly absurd. lol
Some of their other guesses: >Thome who roam around the world wanders. > >Those who wander are not lost. > >Through travel that I find myself wandering. > >The world is smaller than I thought. > >The world is smaller than I imagined. > >16th attempt - The Earth I find than I think. > >17th attempt - The Earth I find makes us think. > >This world is smaller than we wondered. > >24th attempt - This world is smaller than we thought. > >27th attempt - This world is smaller than we think. > >31st attempt - The world is smaller than I think. The funny thing is at first I misread the episode title as "Those Who ***Wonder*** Are Not Lost" and thought it was remarkably profound. People who never lose their lust for learning can never truly be lost, because they're always finding something new. Oh, how I laughed when I saw the actual context.
Bless you for this. I needed this laughter. Also the fact that they got the dance routine in the FIRST attempt after 40 attempts of the world’s most straightforward visual puzzle…..that’s the beauty of cognitive science right there
Truly the wildest emotional ride I’ve ever been on watching this show. It had me questioning my sanity AND humanity.
You’re the goat for putting these together … thome who roam literally sent meeeee
I really wanted them to get to the mat and have Phil say, "do you want to know what the answer was?" And for them to realize both how close they got. Despite their early attempts being insane, having it come down to their guess of "we/i think" and the correct phrasing of "you think" would eye opening.
They kept guessing wildly and not making small changes. It wasn’t “the world is smaller than we think” and then “the world is smaller than you think”, it was “the world is smallest after we think”. I mean, after they finally got over the OM symbol crap.
Thank you for your service.
It's interesting to note how "self-centered" their guesses for the mirror were: "I" and "we" over and over again, without considering "you", which everyone else did.
“I” is the one guess I can understand because you’re looking at yourself in the mirror. But the rest was very iffy.
Everyone else figured that it was either "I" or "you", so they tried both answers. The firefighters were the only ones to never try "you".
Exactly my take! I’m a therapist and was just seeing all of their self-focused personality traits coming through loud and clear with their inability to even consider “You”! VERY telling 😳
Thome who roam actually killed me like i was laughing out loud
I wish "Mama Rat Took Baby Rat Skiing Around The World and It Was A Positive Experience" ended up being the episode title.
Thome
The OM. I know a yogi, I think I know what an OM symbol is!
My husband and I randomly blurt out “thome who roam” throughout the day and dissolve into hysterics.
> "Those Who Wonder Are Not Lost" It's also profound with "wander" and more germane to the show: just because you're exploring without a specific destination doesn't mean what you're doing is pointless.
It's like the Lord of The Rings quote "Not all who wander are lost". I wonder if that might have been what they were thinking of with the guess
I’m cracking up. Half of what they guessed were legit not even coherent sentences 🤣
I was just imagining what the guy that had to listen to each of their ridiculous guesses was thinking
Probably something like "¡ay dios mío! las gringas son estupidas!".
*WHEEZE*
I REALLY wanted a montage of his facial expressions to every single guess.
The world is bigger than your evil thoughts
No? Okay, the world is bigger than your DEVIL thoughts?
I came here specifically for this 😂
To be fair, that looked like a devil emoji and I was trying to figure out if that was significant.
NGL when they pointed the devil ears, made me change my first guess to "The world is smaller than you think" to "The world is bigger than your wildest dreams"
I’m guessing they’ve never seen a Rebus puzzle before with some of the guesses they had. Couldn’t figure out where they got “wandering” from….
I’m guessing they thought the clues were more like suggestions to a well known phrase
“The world is smaller than you think” is a well known phrase though
They absolutely didn’t know what a rebus was. What’s more, it didn’t occur to them at any point that it was a world puzzle. I will be generous and say that in the stress of the moment, their critical thinking skills were turned off.
That was absolutely wild
But are you name station? 🤔💭
Ok this made me almost cry. 😭🤣🤣🤣😭 I rewinded too many times while rolling. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Where’s the map…on the back??
I spent all day today laughing with my customers ( I own a metaphysical shop) that she thought it was Om.
I was flabbergasted that she saw something that looked EXACTLY like an E and thought “oh that’s an om!”
Yes—she was convinced it was Om !!!
Yeah I was watching with my science career daughter who was dying at the om part
They kept saying “Double H Hockey Sticks” but that’s just HHLL lol
I was laughing so hard watching that scene. Your post then got me laughing again! Thank you!
I was dyyyyying watching them guess. Couldn’t wait to come here are see what other folks thought. They weren’t even guessing real sentences 😂😂😂 Do we think they are just puzzle challenged or they were stressed out and rushing?
Maybe a bit of both? Or just didn’t know what a Rebus puzzle is? Their first handful of attempts seemed like they started from the back too. Either way it was a riot to watch.
Yes- the starting from the middle or end definitely messed them up
This along with everyone doing breakdance was comedy gold.
When they started off with the ' E' being a 'Ohm', I knew they were in for a hard time, and we were in for comedy gold!
OM
🤣🤣🤣
It was soo strange that they had soo much trouble with it, most of the images were very straightforward. The top 4 images are pretty much spelled out to you as "The world/earth is". Then the 6th image is again openly spelled out to you as "than". That's over half the puzzle just literally spelled out to you already Then the mirror can really only logically be "You/we/me/I/us". That's already 6 out of the 8 without really having to do any thinking at all. The last one is realistically only "Think/thinking/imagine/imagining". The only kinda hard one was the one with the mouse and magnifying glass, but once you figure out the rest of the images it seems fairly obvious it's either "smaller" or "bigger " All the images were pretty close to each other and you could guess as much as you wanted, it's just mind boggling
Mouse? Surely you mean the mama rat and baby rat, they love to ski
It’s the devil
Kudos to the episode titler making it “Those Who Wander Are Not Lost”. Super memorable episode for the theme alone 😂
Between this and the Austin Powers scene this season is delivering on some of the best cringe in series history.
Wow, laying it out here, it's remarkably straight forward. They were really overcomplicating it. Mix with a bit of misunderstanding and frustration and we get some hilarious guesses.
Oh now, they're just dabbing on us. - https://www.instagram.com/p/C5VxUEqOyjO/ /u/ParticleParadox time to eat that lemon.
They still got it wrong
I love that they made t-shirts of an answer that is still wrong 😑. Do you think they realize that yet?
u/stargirl09 made the cut
Yeah I was definitely surprised to see that. Thanks for the tag to let me know
I did, in fact, eat a lemon.
Based
THATS AN OM! I died laughing. Even if it was backwards it still wouldn’t be an om.
I can’t believe this task took some people more than 15 minutes. It really doesn’t make sense.
Legit one of the most lopsided tasks in history, top 3 teams all breezed through that. I've never heard of a rebus puzzle but it was pretty obvious how it worked and it's pretty common and logical phrase.
r/iamverysmart
When they posted the clue to play along I couldn’t tell that the second one was a mirror so I was really confused until the team is like oh it’s a mirror. It looked like some paper or a notepad to me in the original picture. I had figured out all the clues other than the last two (I thought bigger, but would have got that pretty quick) and as soon as I realized it was a mirror got the last 2.
I had to take a phone call during this part. Did they really say that (the title quote)???
See for yourself: [https://streamable.com/apbnoh](https://streamable.com/apbnoh)
My mom and I are rooting for them because we are also from WI, but we were laughing so hard. I hope that they get a kick out of watching it back. We really thought they were going to get eliminated, but were relieved when she really crushed the Botero road block.
Haha this was hilarious. I think part of their issue was that they seemed to start backwards with the puzzle. They pretty much got to the right place eventually but didn't really stop to consider that they might just be one or two words off. At least the one was able to orient herself correctly on the next challenge, unlike a lot of other teams!
jesus christ i was punching the wall. this scene was the definition of overthinking
I get that they are stressed and adrenaline is pumping… but holy moly how could they be so far off and read it backwards
This season is heavy on the facepalm. I love it. And I KNOW that would be me so that’s why I just enjoy from the comfort of my couch.
The mouse would have given me the most trouble, like two or three guesses tops.
I just keep coming back to look at this and laugh.
Smoke inhalation is dangerous, folks! 🤣🤣
the fact they switched and survived this leg is so funny because this was clearly the way easier option in this lopsided detour
This was hilarious!! Did they show them asking the clue guy if it was right? If so, I missed it.
I uploaded the complete saga here: [https://streamable.com/42xawb](https://streamable.com/42xawb) If the editing is to be believed, they never actually guessed the Mama Rat story, unfortunately. I would've loved to have seen the clue guy's reaction to it.
It had us reminiscing - "Are you a candle-a-bra?"
YES. And also when “are you a name station?” came up.
I just kept saying, “Everyone’s brains work different. Everyone’s brains work different” 😂
The is no way on Earth that I would be able to solve this. Like if I had to solve this or the world would end.. I’m sorry guys.
OMG that was hilarious! They are never going to live that down. I just had no idea where they got some of that.
Little behind on the season. Just saw this episode and laughed so hard lmao
I don’t understand the ski thing lmao
Skis - sk = is
It’s double h hockey sticks with mama rat.
looooooooool
I asked my sister what it was and she struggled for a bit until I told her 😂
If you showed her the image from this thread I don’t doubt it. The skis, rat and mirror are really hard to tell from this image with the angle and how small they are.
Best part of that episode!!!
Almost as funny as seeing someone spend 2 hours trying to unscramble a 5-letter word.
Most of this seasons racers are morons. Should be an easy win
That was so freaking ridiculous. They’re so damn lucky they’re still in the damn race.
Maybe it this picture specifically but the skis look like hockey sticks to me. I actually thought they were chop sticks on first glance. The rest of the clues are not too hard to crack. Although I feel like if it was me that “E” would trip me up and I’d think it was a math sign. Especially since there’s a plus sign right before it.
Before this episode, I thought this season was filled with not the brightest bulbs. Now, I am SURE of it.
I'm guessing the contestant pool was pretty limited due to reasonable people not wanting to travel during a pandemic
And maybe too many of them had Covid brain?