The Amazing Race 7: Episode 3
Well, I'll say this for my Sweetie, he may not be as good at picking who is going to finish better on the Amazing Race (of the four seasons we've picked I've done better than him 3 seasons), but he definitely picks teams with a special style of dysfunction. This week the teams had to drive from Santiago, Chile, to a location in the middle of the Andes in the middle of the continent. Here's a map for reference. Sweetie's team drove for 2 hours a) without crossing mountains and b) toward the ocean, and that was the death of them.
Although they almost made it out because it turns out that Bianca has what has become a necessary trait for at least one team member to have on the Amazing Race and that is a stomach of steel. The past three seasons eating challenges have involved teams eating an INHUMAN amount of some local food. A couple of seasons ago it was something like a POUND of caviar. Tonight it was FOUR POUNDS of cow. And not just a nice prime rib, but kidney, intestines and brain. This challenge was so over the top that three teams - that's 1/3 of the field for those keeping score at home - quit the challenge to be assessed a 4+ hour penalty rather than having to eat it all. I believe that is unprecedented in Amazing Race history. Last season a couple of teams quit a challenge late in the game because the last shuttle of the day was about to leave. Beyond that I don't believe a team has ever QUIT a task before, with the exception of the brothers a couple of seasons ago who knew they were in last place and one was exacerbating a knee injury with the task at hand.
It may not have been three teams quitting were it not for the slimeball - aka Rob, Mr. Survivor. Strategically he is doing things to help get himself ahead in the game - stealing cabs, convincing other teams to take a penalty after his penalty already started, bribing locals to be at his beck and call - but I have to believe that this karma is going to come back to get him later on in the game. Actually, it started tonight. The gay guys were a smidge behind Rob and Amber on a physical challenge and the opportunity to kick Rob's ass gave the gay boys the added push necessary to pull ahead. Had it been any other team sitting in spot #1 I don't know that the boys would have had it. Kudos to the sacrificial lambs for actually winning a leg of the race.
But the real kudos tonight go to the editors of the show. There were a couple of BRILLIANT cuts. Granted, they had to have the material available, but they nailed it. Once Debbie and Bianca realized that they were at least 2 hours off course one of them commented that the only thing that might save them now is if another team got a flat tire. BAM! Brian and Greg get a flat on the mountain bikes they're navigating through a detour. The gay boys speculate that the only way they can come in first on this leg of the race is if Uchenna and Joyce get lost. BAM! Uchenna and Joyce get lost.
This season of the Amazing Race has spent more time in South America than I believe all past seasons of the Amazing Race put together, so I'm predicting that they're going to be hightailing it to some other far away land next week. Stay tuned and see if I'm right.
Although they almost made it out because it turns out that Bianca has what has become a necessary trait for at least one team member to have on the Amazing Race and that is a stomach of steel. The past three seasons eating challenges have involved teams eating an INHUMAN amount of some local food. A couple of seasons ago it was something like a POUND of caviar. Tonight it was FOUR POUNDS of cow. And not just a nice prime rib, but kidney, intestines and brain. This challenge was so over the top that three teams - that's 1/3 of the field for those keeping score at home - quit the challenge to be assessed a 4+ hour penalty rather than having to eat it all. I believe that is unprecedented in Amazing Race history. Last season a couple of teams quit a challenge late in the game because the last shuttle of the day was about to leave. Beyond that I don't believe a team has ever QUIT a task before, with the exception of the brothers a couple of seasons ago who knew they were in last place and one was exacerbating a knee injury with the task at hand.
It may not have been three teams quitting were it not for the slimeball - aka Rob, Mr. Survivor. Strategically he is doing things to help get himself ahead in the game - stealing cabs, convincing other teams to take a penalty after his penalty already started, bribing locals to be at his beck and call - but I have to believe that this karma is going to come back to get him later on in the game. Actually, it started tonight. The gay guys were a smidge behind Rob and Amber on a physical challenge and the opportunity to kick Rob's ass gave the gay boys the added push necessary to pull ahead. Had it been any other team sitting in spot #1 I don't know that the boys would have had it. Kudos to the sacrificial lambs for actually winning a leg of the race.
But the real kudos tonight go to the editors of the show. There were a couple of BRILLIANT cuts. Granted, they had to have the material available, but they nailed it. Once Debbie and Bianca realized that they were at least 2 hours off course one of them commented that the only thing that might save them now is if another team got a flat tire. BAM! Brian and Greg get a flat on the mountain bikes they're navigating through a detour. The gay boys speculate that the only way they can come in first on this leg of the race is if Uchenna and Joyce get lost. BAM! Uchenna and Joyce get lost.
This season of the Amazing Race has spent more time in South America than I believe all past seasons of the Amazing Race put together, so I'm predicting that they're going to be hightailing it to some other far away land next week. Stay tuned and see if I'm right.
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