Amazing Race Recap: There’s no crying in recaps!

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By Fran and Berry | Thursday, October 18, 2012 | 7:30 pm | 13 Comments
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Team Sporty is released from the holding area. They are fierce today! They’re going on about how tough they are and how they don’t cry they get mad. Then one of them in a really thick southern accent is like, “Cryin’ means yur hurt by it. I cud get punched in the face and I still won’t cry.” She giggles it off, but we cry for her because she’s so sad. We really hope that they’re setting up this “no crying” thing because they end up crying a lot in this episode.

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“You cud hit me in the face all day n’ I wudn’ care cuz thar ain’t no cryin’ in a baseball.”

Back at #AntikaJayaPadangRestaurant Lexi spills her plates all over the place. Maybe she should take her GIANT backpack off? Team Dong finishes first because he used to work at a pancake house. What pancake house offers dong flapping? Is THAT what flapjacks are?! Team Choke Out finishes next. Now they’re on their way to the Surabaya Gubeng Train Station and take a train to the town of Mung-eel? During their journey they must keep their eyes open for their next clue. It looks like the clue is hooked on the back of a man who sells cotton candy on the train. All the teams are finishing up the plate serving.

Truckasaurus and Tall & Tiny leave. Tall & Tiny say how they watch AR all the time and they’re the team that they would be frustrated by and say, “What the hell is their deal?!” At least they know how they come across. All the front teams are now on the first train. Twin N’s just missed the train.

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“Great, now I’m stuck alone with you.”

Team Choke Out finds out that the trains run three hours apart. Yeesh, three hours is a big gap, unless when they get there the museum, or whatever it is, is closed and they have to wait until the next day, which is super possible.

The front team alliance grows stronger. The teams on the first train, led by Team Dong, agree not to U-Turn each other. Mama Mia doesn’t want to be part of the alliance, they keep to themselves and look out the window for the clue.

Back at the train station, Team Sporty is being obnoxious and dumb trying to see if any teams are ahead of them. “ASK HIM IF PEOPLE LIKE US WERE HERE.” Oh baby, there ain’t no one else like you. No one can yell English as slowly as you can.

On the train the snack guys are making the rounds. The teams sniff out the clues really fast. Not so slick AR. Detour: Lion Head or Egg Head?! Egg Head requires teams to light their hair on fire and cook an egg. Then they have to cover the eggs in sriracha and eat them. Yum, Rooster sauce! Lion’s head is wearing a 40 pound lion mask and walking down a parade route with some fancy footwork thrown in. Either way they all have to take the bicycle rickshaws. Team Dong can’t cram into a single bike cab. It’s funny.

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Franklin Double Dong Roosevelt

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13 Comments

  1. 1
    Pikey578
    Posted October 18, 2012 at 11:47 pm

    This was a good episode and I really enjoyed the race to the end. I was so glad when Team Sporty lost – talk about perpetuating the (I think often unfair) stereotype of Ugly Americans! I would be glad to see Tall & Tiny and the Truckers go next. Then I don’t care who leaves after that since I don’t mind the remainder of the teams. But I am finding it hard to pick one team that I really want to win this time.

    Great recap!

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    JimbobJones Jimbob Jones
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 1:11 am

    Seriously, what the hell do we need to do to eliminate Tall and Tiny?

    If they don’t get eliminated in the next 2 episodes, I want them to win the whole damn thing.

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    chooch850 chooch850
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 1:42 am

    This race is never won or lost by any strategies or getting any type of head start. They are always, at some point, getting put back on an even keel. It’s either at an airport or a museum that opens at 7am or a boat that doesn’t leave until 9pm , so they all end up together. It’s that stupid taxi driver or some sort of local transporter who is suppose to know their way around town that gets the team in trouble with a flat tire, running out of gas or just not knowing where the hell they are going!!

    This has been the worst season for stupid taxi drivers I’ve ever seen……

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    itchy itchy
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 2:00 am

    Yep, Chooch nailed while I never watch this show. It’s just a bunch of people running through exotic locations yelling at each other while performing humiliating tasks. Which ordinarily I’d love to watch. But it’s all entirely random. And every time a team gets a leg up they stop the entire fucking momentum of the show with yet another chartered plane ride.

    I just can’t believe this show is still on. And wins awards.

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    lindaw205
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 4:24 am

    This is my first time to watch this show and I don’t think I’m really understanding it. It doesn’t seem as though coming in first, second, third, etc gives much of an advantage. And to have good, smart competitors eliminated because of a bad taxi driver is ridiculous. Not sure I’ll be watching anymore of it.

    And I thought they telegraphed the ending with the title of the episode.

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    Flippy Floppy
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 6:07 am

    Why didn’t Lexi remove her back pack?? She tried the first two trips with twenty plates with an additional 30 pounds on her back. Now I want them eliminated because that was jsut stupid.

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    Daniel McBane
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 7:18 am

    Actually, pretty much everyone gets a bad taxi driver at some point during the race. The smart teams realize they have a bad one and switch immediately. In this case, the girls had a pretty huge lead anyway, but lost it when they couldn’t find the U-Turn thing. They blew their lead first, then they kept sticking with a driver who had already proven useless.

    And it’s not like they would have a hard time finding another driver. I’ve been to Indonesia. It’s a country made up pretty much entirely of taxi drivers. They deserved to lose and they were kind of pissing me off, because I really want the tall-short team off my tv screen.

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    Mister_Dangerous
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 7:52 am

    I watched the first six seasons (again) recently and I noticed one thing. The teams that are usually at the top of the heap in the first episodes are usually the teams remaining in the final episodes. That doesn’t bode well for tall and tiny and truckasaurus.

    Part of the enjoyment for me is seeing all the places (buildings and monuments) that I never knew existed before. Like the Gate of India (1924)! I would love to go to India just to see The Gate of India.

    The only team I didn’t like just got eliminated so I’m down with the rest of the teams.

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    wcsdancer
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 11:55 am

    I wondered why Lexi didn’t take off the backpack too! She had her race partner to hold/watch it, it’s not as though it would have been stolen.

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    Pegalicious
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    I have not, alas, done much traveling, but I remember an excruciating experience in Martinique quite a few years ago where several Americans seemed to think that, if they screamed more loudly in English, the French-speaking inhabitants would magically understand them. Team Sporty is definitely cut from the same cloth, and I was not sorry to see them go. Kinda rooting for the Goat Boys.

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    AmyOops AmyOops
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    An *actual race* on AR. I was floored lol.

    I kinda figured T&T (hey…when’s that back on?) would not be eliminated because those two were all “positive” and “don’t give up”, blah-de-bla-blah. It could have been a swerve, but wasn’t.

    I think I’d like at least ONE team to cause some dramaz and be cray cray.

    Love love love the twins. They crack me the hell up!

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    Chicken Lips
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 9:51 pm

    OK, so I’m sure that there are really some dumbass taxi drivers in the world – there are so many dumbasses in the world I’m sure some of them become taxi drivers. However, most of the time these “lost” taxis are carrying the rudest or meanest race contestants. I think that some of these people know exactly where they should go and just get “lost” to be dicks to the people being dicks to them. And I love it. Watching this show, it’s no surprise why people in other countries think all Americans are rude. Talking slower can help if you talk a mile a minute usually, but talking louder does nothing but make locals not want to help you.

    Now last week, What’sTheirFaces did get a dumbass taxi driver that knew where every Wajiba business was EXCEPT the one they needed. This week, I think they were just screwing with Blondies. You go, cabbie, you go!

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    Chicken Lips
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    Oh, and they should call that statue Aloha that way there won’t be any “Hello/Goodbye” arguments – it will be what it is forever in our souls.

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