How Often Do You Get Holy Water from the Incredible Hulk?
Monday, November 10, 2008 at 09:21am by freakgirl
This week on The Amazing Race, the teams continued their travels in India. Also, one team was so dumb, I laughed until my head fell off.
When the teams left the Pit Stop, they went straight to a Roadblock. Each team member had to run through a traditional celebration where partiers throw colored dye powder and water all over each other. Then the team member would climb a ladder and flip through hundreds of envelopes marked “Try Again,” looking for one that said “Amazing Race.” That’s it. No twist, nothing complicated. All they needed to do was remain calm while having powder thrown at them. Starr completed hers immediately and she and Nick were on their way. Next up were Toni and Dallas, who also completed it without incident. Then the divorcees arrived. Kelly did the roadblock and ran straight into the crowd, where she was covered in paint, and then ran in a circle and straight back out over to Christy. Without doing anything. This would happen a lot. Then, when she finally decided to climb the pole, she just grabbed any old envelope. Seriously, she did this three times. I’m starting to think these women can’t read. Terence/Sarah and Dandrew quickly finished, while Kelly continued to run around screaming, “I’m seriously gonna die.” Yeah, whatever. Oh, and did I mention they didn’t ask their cabbie to stay while they performed the Roadblock? Good times!
Meanwhile, Ken arrived at the celebration and powered through by pushing everyone out of the way like he was running for a touchdown. And Tina got clobbered with a pot of green dye, which instantly colored her white hair to bright green. Oddly enough, she looked pretty cool.
The next task was finding a clue at a bird hospital. Everyone did fine with this, with the exception of Terence/Sarah, who inexplicably dug through birdseed and poo in their search. This is also where Ken/Tina hit their Speed Bump, a task where they had to hand out holy water to people in the street. They seemed to enjoy themselves a lot.
Finally, the Detour was a choice between navigating the busy streets counting power lines, or hauling chilis and then pounding them to powder. Everyone but Terence/Sarah chose the power lines. Nick/Starr and Toni/Dallas figured out how to do the task reasonably quickly, and worked together to finish. Meanwhile, Terence and Sarah were making their chili powder, and Sarah complained as much as Terence did earlier about the paint. Other than that, though, they were fine this week.
The two dumbest teams in the universe hit the Detour next — Kelly/Christy and Dandrew. Both teams repeatedly performed the task wrong, following the wrong numbers along the wrong power lines. They continued to make the same mistake, over and over. Finally, Dandrew asked the divorcees if they could work together, and Kelly/Christy rudely said no, saying they didn’t want to give them an edge. And that’s when I realized I wanted to see them lose more than I wanted to see Dandrew lose. Crazy how things turn out. By this point, Ken and Tina had arrived and finished the task CORRECTLY and on the first try. The divorcees couldn’t believe it, and on their way out, Ken/Tina showed Dandrew the right way to complete the task. HA!!!!
In the race for last place, I was pleased to see our tie-dyed divorcees land on the mat last. Glad to see them go. In their goodbye interview, they managed to get in yet another dig at their husbands. Classy.
Order of Finish:
1. Nick & Starr
2. Toni & Dallas
3. Terence & Sarah
4. Ken & Tina
5. Andrew & Dan
6. Kelly & Christy (ELIMINATED)
1. Jack said ( Monday, November 10, 2008 at 1:20 pm )
My favorite part last night? At the begining of the Roadblock, when Terrence said to Sarah “Who’s my girl?”, and she responds “You are!!… I mean, oh, I am!” Terrence is Sarah’s girl… heh heh heh.
My second favorite part was the divorcees getting eliminated. Which would have been my favorite if I didn’t have to hear more bitching about ironing her ex-husband’s sheets, or somesuch. God, just zip it already, lady.
Has Dandrew ever NOT finished in the bottom 2 or 3?
2. freakgirl said ( Monday, November 10, 2008 at 1:30 pm )
I see after looking at some of this week’s insider videos, that Ken also misread the clue and wasted a bit of time just like Kelly did. But it seems Tina actually DID read the clue and set him straight much earlier than Christy figured it out.
3. Maggie said ( Monday, November 10, 2008 at 3:17 pm )
Was there an extraneous amount of sheet-ironing in their marriages, I wonder? Who the hell irons sheets? I don’t know, I suppose it’s possible that they married sheet-obsessed tyrants. I don’t know their stories, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they both decided to get married at the same time, and then divorced at the same time. They are BFFs, after all.
I thought those paint-throwing revelers were way too aggressive. It was kind of scary! At first I really enjoyed watching them get pelted but then I found myself getting agitated at how violent it seemed. And I wonder what kind of damage was done to the racers, breathing in all that dye particulate.
I am in love with Dallas and got a bit emotional when Toni was talking about how proud of him she was. Aw.
So glad the divorcees are gone. Dandrew, you’re next!
4. Yahtzee said ( Monday, November 10, 2008 at 3:30 pm )
Maggie – I agree with you on the over-aggressiveness of the paint people.
Loved the guy wandering off the matt to go back to watering flowers.
5. Maggie said ( Monday, November 10, 2008 at 4:30 pm )
Me, too. It was so funny when Phil called, “Oh, Sir! Sir!”
I also loved how Sarah was complaining because the spice man was “not sympathetic” to how hard the challenge was for them. Does she think that everyone on the planet was placed there in order to rub her back and get her over the hump? The only person that signed up to board your support train, Sarah, is Terence.
One more thing that I loved was the angle at which they were shooting the spice man, from the floor, and his belly was in the way of the shot.