The Amazing Race. Now Optimistic with a Real Truth Flavor!
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 08:27am by freakgirlA fun episode of TAR this week, with all the weird tasks we’ve come to expect – furniture hoisting, bicycle searching, mud jumping and naked old men. Plus a jerky father thrown in for good measure. More dirty details after the jump.
Our teams started out in Ireland and soon found out they would be traveling to Amsterdam. Woot! Roadblock in a hash bar!
You wish, hippie.
Our first bit of airport drama involved Ronald and Christina versus Nick and Donald. Actually, it was just Ronald being a total dick and “explaining” to Nick that he didn’t like his behavior, and Christina stood around wishing for death. Pssst, Christina, you should consider yourself lucky he wasn’t around while you were growing up. You’d probably be either in jail or in the grips of a massive eating disorder.
I don’t have any flights available, but perhaps you’d like to borrow my magical unicorn?
The Detour this week was a choice between hoisting furniture up into a building, or searching for some bikes and riding them five miles to a drop-off point. I thought the bike task would be more difficult, but I didn’t realize that the hoisters would have to figure out how to tie several different kinds of knots. Knots which, by the way, completely flummoxed TK. Too bad bongs aren’t made with rope.
Speaking of stupid, did you notice either Shanna or Jennifer (I don’t know which is which yet) driving while holding on her highbeams with her finger? (DIRTY) Oy.
Huh?
Christina and her father chose the Bicycle Detour, as did the Friendly Lesbians. Ronald spent the entire detour berating his daughter and demanding that she stop having a such a positive attitude (I am not kidding), while Kate and Pat snickered in the background.
Over at the Roadblock, teams found out that one member would have to pole-vault over a muddy ditch. Good times!
Nice pole, Phil.
Everyone ended up filthy dirty, with the exceptions of Jason and Rachel, who sailed over hardly touching the mud. Not so much for everyone else, including Grandpa. For reasons that escape me, he decided he’d perform the task better in his underpants. Poor Nick.
Grandpa, please put your clothes back on.
Christina also struggled with the task, as her father kept up a constant stream of “encouragement” that was actually “obnoxious.” The second she told him to shut it, she sailed over the ditch with ease. Also, during this Roadblock, we found out the only thing goths are afraid of. Mud.
“So you see, if you measure the velocity and the wind resistance against the weight of your fat ass, you will find that I am a total tool.”
Lorena and Jason finished the leg first. Kate and Pat finished last and were eliminated. And they deserved it. They seemed like nice people, but you can’t go on this show and expect to get ahead by waiting for somebody else to mess up.
1. yahtzee said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 10:32 am )
Perfect recap, Freakgirl – particularly the caption below grandpa. I thought Ronald reached Jonathan levels of obnoxiousness last night. Go away.
2. GeekBoy said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 10:49 am )
Kynt & Vyxsin: WORST HIGH-FIVERS EVER!!!
3. freakgirl said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 11:32 am )
I could watch that animation all day.
4. Jen in OH! said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 1:14 pm )
Oh, lesbian ministers, just when I started to dig you, you’ve disappeared. Maybe more gay women next season. ::sigh::
5. Michael said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 2:33 pm )
Oh noes! I’m just finding out they’re gone since I forgot to extend the record time on la TiVo. As with Jen, I was just warming to them, never more so than when they said, although religious, they did not expect GOD to give a lick whether they won the race.
6. Michael said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 2:45 pm )
And good goth, I am enjoying Pinky and the Brain. Didn’t someone call them that? Does that make any sense as a team nickname, other than, pink?
Watching Christina and her dad, I know what it’d be like for me and my dad on this Race. I wanna do the Race so bad I can taste it, just not with him.
7. freakgirl said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 3:05 pm )
Pinky and the Brain. Love it.
8. Jack said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 3:14 pm )
Christina needs to consult a lawyer on how to divorce her father. Kind of like Drew Barrymore in that movie from the 80s. (I’m totally dating myself.)
You’re right that the ministers deserved to go last night, but I was shocked that I liked them. I expected them to be more the “preachy” type of ministers, so it was nice to hear their comment about God not caring what happens on the race. I think the last time TAR had ministers (Cindy & Russell, Season 2?), they were pretty normal as well, and not too preachy. Maybe TAR has better casting agents than most reality shows.
9. Michael said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 5:37 pm )
Is that a panty on Kynt’s arms?
“Son, you got a panty on your head.” Name that movie!
10. freakgirl said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 6:05 pm )
Um, “Weird Science?”
Did everyone enjoy the clothesline with the giant bra and undies behind Phil at the Mat? WTF?
11. Rain said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 9:14 pm )
Nope. “Raising Arizona”!
12. Soosan said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 9:14 pm )
Yeah, I caught the bra shot too. odd
13. jen said ( Monday, November 12, 2007 at 9:40 pm )
did you hear Ronald tell his daughter that she needed to lose some weight when he was trying to ride that bike with her in the cart. I’m nominating him for Dad of the Year.
14. freakgirl said ( Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 8:16 am )
Ah, “Raising Arizona!” I suck.
Jen, right after Ronald said that, he fell on his ass into a ditch. And God smiled.
15. Maggie said ( Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 7:17 pm )
The word “panties” is so creepy to me I can barely say it, but take half of it away and it becomes the most hysterical word in the english language. PANTY.
Son, you got a panty on your head.
16. Michael said ( Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 8:06 am )
True, true, Maggie.
There’s also something about freakgirl saying “ditch” and also “muddy ditch” that I find hysterical.
17. Michael said ( Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 8:08 am )
Doesn’t the blonde in the light blue Patagonia look like she’s doing Joey’s “smell the fart” acting?
18. Michael said ( Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 8:08 am )
Or was it just “fart acting.”
I’ll stop now.
19. freakgirl said ( Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 10:32 am )
ha ha! “smell the fart.”
20. Rodney said ( Monday, December 10, 2007 at 6:16 pm )
Kate & Pat seemed like very nice ladies. But they were incredibly slow, and the show pretty much did everything to showcase that. So it’s no surprise they went out second.