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By Fran and Berry | Tuesday, November 6, 2012 | 10:00 am | 11 Comments
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Fran with Berry here ready to ruffle your international feathers with this weeks AR recap. If you remember last week the fabulous Goat Boys came in last, but it was a non-elimination round so they are still in this thing. Although it almost seemed like they would have preferred to be eliminated. Crouching in a corner petting a goat doesn’t seem like a proactive way to “prove ‘em wrong!”

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“Hold it together and look grateful.”

“You said that out loud.”

“Sh*t. Goat sh*t.”

The teams remaining are:

Mama Mia (James and Abba)

Choke Out (Ryan and Abbie)

Twin N’s (Nadiya and Natalie)

Team Dong (Jaymes and James

Friday Night Lights (Trey and Lexi)

Truckasaurus (Rob and Kelley)

Goat Boys (Josh and Brent)

Before we go to the first commercial we are treated to a visit by Jen and Kisha! Remember them! Sisters from seasons 14 & 18! AR flashback to that diving challenge in Russia, where Jen had to do a high dive but she was super scared but did it anyways. I totally remember that! Wait, that AR memory was just a promotion for The Life of Pi? What?! How does that AR moment have ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE LIFE OF PI?!?!? If they just showed a straight up commercial it would have been way more effective. This weird conjoining of two seemingly unrelated things (a roadblock from six seasons ago on the Amazing Race and a new epic movie) doesn’t make me want to see the movie, it confuses and frustrates me! My brain is only so big. I can’t handle it! It’s like when Pizza Hut wanted you to read, they’re not supposed to go together!

Back to this season and this show. Mama Mia is first to leave. They rip open that shiny new yellow envelope and: Teams will now get the heck out of Bangladesh and fly to Istanbul, Turkey! Hooray!! Once they arrive they must proceed to the Kabatas Ferry Terminal where they’ll find their next clue.

Abba’s knees are paining but according to him they won’t stop. “I am hurt but I’m not slain.” James says that he’s taking it to biblical proportions. Cool! When’s the begatting gonna start?

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“Amazing Race? We thought this was the Jesus auditions.”

Choke Out leaves second and they are all too happy to leave Bangladesh. Ryan says, “When your Samsung 52 inch goes fuzzy on you don’t bitch go to Dhaka.” He has a 52 inch phone!? Wow, he must have a big pocket.

Twin N’s are on their merry screamy way. They complain about Choke Out in the cab. The best insult they can muster is, “weirdo.”

Truckasaurus leaves and refuses the first taxi that comes for them, they want a newer taxi. Rob says that he uses his cockiness to overcome obstacles. And that he makes his own drive. Does that mean he makes his own Drive, the motion picture, fan fiction movies?

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Sherbet lovers.

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11 Comments

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    KJN KJN
    Posted November 6, 2012 at 10:32 am

    Soooo glad team Truckasaurus is gone! Ugly Americans (well, him anyway). Screaming at people that live in terrible circumstances that they are responsible for them losing a million dollars. People that probably can’t even comprehend the idea of a million dollars. Besides, you’re responsible for that, you big, fat doucher!

    I sure wish Twin N’s and FNL hadn’t taken Team Abba’s money. While it may not have been against game rules, it was all kinds of awful watching a “rock star” and a lawyer(!) beg for money in such a poor country. I don’t blame them for doing what they had to do to stay in the game, but it was a pretty unfortunate thing to see.

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    featherhead
    Posted November 6, 2012 at 11:50 am

    I was watching last year’s season of RHoBH and the ladies went to Chippendales and James (with the dark hair) was on camera. I was looking for the other half of team dong but couldn’t find him.

    I thought the Twinnies should have been penilized for taking the money they found. They knew who’s it was.
    Still mad about the goat boys!!

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    Mummy Butterfly
    Posted November 6, 2012 at 11:50 am

    I have to believe that the “begging” for money for Team Abba was taken care of by the producers. Does anyone remember when the last place team use to lose all their money? Then one season, it happened in an ultra-poor country, and the other teams ended up leaving money for the last place team for just this reason? (So the “rich Americans” wouldn’t be begging in a poor country.) I can’t for the life of me remember the season, but since then – in general on non-elimination legs, they added speed bumps and don’t take the cash. I can’t imagine (nor do I really blame the producers) that this wasn’t staged.

    In fact, as an American, I kinda hope it was. Very sad at Twin N’s. I had held out hope that Trey would convinced Lexi to return at least their half of the money. Glad to see Truckasaurus is gone! :D

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    Mister_Dangerous
    Posted November 6, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    See, the reason why I liked Truckasaurus is because they were very blue collar/working class.

    The other teams: The bland whites (\Choke it out\ and \FNL\) along with ABBA and the GOAT BOYS are very savvy about how they want to be portrayed on TV and act accordingly.

    With Truckasaurus: what you saw was what they were. I’m not saying they were perfect but they weren’t phony or fake like the bland white teams.

    The Twin Ns are the most like Truckasaurus. They seem very \common\ and don’t have the social grace that comes from living amongst the middle class.

    Jaymes and James TEAM DELICIOUS (Dong) are working class but they’re entertainers first and foremost.

    My pick for the final three would be Goat Boys, TEAM DELICIOUS (dong) and the Twin Ns.

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    Miss Molly
    Posted November 6, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    The twins are saprobic.

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    Chicken Lips
    Posted November 6, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Boy, and I thought I didn’t like Twinnies before – now I really hate them! I mean, seriously – you find money on the street with no one around, finders keepers. You find money on the street with people around, you at least look around to see if someone looks like they are doing something where they could have dropped it and you say, “hey, this yours?”. You find money in a room full of people that you know and that you know would have that much money on them – you say “Hey, who dropped their money?” Bitches! I was pissed that they didn’t get a penalty. I hope that kharma was watching so it can bitch slap the ever lovin’ snot out of those two whiny loud rude obnoxious bitches.

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    JimbobJones
    Posted November 6, 2012 at 9:42 pm

    @Chicken Lips — Totally agree. I actually liked them before. I found them a bit annoying, but felt their hearts were in the right place. But to take money when you know whose it is? That’s scummy.

    What now? Is it “good play” for teams to steal stuff out of other backpacks or to flatten the tires of the rest of the cars when they have to drive?

    It’s astounding how much I can’t STAND them now.

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    msjacqmills
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 7:29 am

    I’m with you Chicken Lips and JimbobJones. I’m waiting for some sweet kharma to kick them in the ass. Hopefully they lose their passports or their cab gets a flat and knocks them out of the game.

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    Pegalicious
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 9:04 am

    Ditto, Chicken Lips, JimbobJones, msjacqmills. I couldn’t believe they’d just pick up the $$ and not let Mama Mia know they’d found it.

    Not sorry to see Truckasaurus go. Preview implied Mama Mia has problems again next week; hoping it’s totally misleading (as TAR seems wont to do).

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    Chris Velazquez
    Posted November 7, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    I’m not happy at TwiNNies for what they did, but at the same time, I find it hard to judge them if I had been in the same situation. James & Abba really need to keep an eye on their things, first this with the money and now next episode looks like their cab takes off with their things.

    I guess TwiNNies got no penalty because Mama Mia dropped their money and the girls found it, it’s not like the girls opened the guys’ fanny pack and took the money from it. Not their obligation to give back the money they found either. Not happy with it, but at least I still think they’re not as bad as those Choke Out douchetards.

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    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted November 8, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    Hate the Twins, and theft is NEVER right…even in a game. If you have to cheat to win, it isn’t really winning.

    Didn’t mind the Truckasaurus team. Would rather they stayed than the mean-spirited twins and the other team that split the money with them.

    Previews show Team ABBA now loses their passports. I think they are distracted because of the bad news they received about their dad.

    What is the point of these Mickey Mouse speedbumps? Eat some ice cream…combine some soup ingredients…sit in a sauna bus. What a bunch of crap.

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