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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Twin N’s reach Phil and are team number six. Truckasauras is seventh. Rob looks like he’s going to eat Phil’s head off he’s so excited.

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“Get over here Phil, I got some ketchup with your name on it!”

Tall & Tiny find out that they are U-Turned. Then they U-turn Truckasaurus just in case they are behind them. They should have U-Turned Sporty because they are in last place being dumbasses, not crying dumbasses. Tall & Tiny are eating their eggs Mr. Peepers style.

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Fred Armison plays the best characters!

Team Sporty, “It is so frustrating when a guy from this country [Indonesia] can’t speak any english.” It’s probably more frustrating to be going about your day and having foreigners with cameras screaming their language at you and getting pissed when you can’t understand them. Sporty finally manages to get on the right path just as Tall & Tiny leave Egg Head and it’s a race to Phil! Sporty vs. Tall & Tiny both in bike cabs, both assuming they are last! Sporty comes up from behind, the two teams are in the same shot! This isn’t just editing magic, they are actually neck and neck! Sporty passes them, then the road splits!! The teams go in different directions! Who went the right way?!?! Tall & Tiny!! Wow, they come in as team number eight! Pretty good AR! An actual race!

So Sporty has arrived in last place. They have been Philiminated. Phil gives them a stern and disappointed, “What happened?”

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“It’s your fault I have to spend another week with Tall & Tiny!

@PhilKeoghan OUT!”

 

God, I would just DIE if Phil said anything to me in that tone. So shameful! Worse than my father’s reaction when I told him that I was marrying Berry! In Sporty’s sign off they say the hard part for them is that they are way stronger than Tall & Tiny and it’s hard to go home knowing they are a lot better than teams that are left. Too bad, so sad. But not sad, mad! Sporty isn’t crying over their Philimination and neither are we! See you race fans next week! xofranberry

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Fran and Berry are not just a sexy elderly couple who competed in Season 9 of the Amazing Race, they are also us, Mike Betette and Amanda Ohly.  We are similarly married and similarly carry backpacks all over the world.  Some people ask us "how do you keep the spark alive in your marriage?"  And to that we respond: reality tv.  Tons of reality tv.  Sexy, fighty, douchey reality tv.  We are both comedians living in Los Angeles and we love Robin Hood and we did NOT contribute to the Harlem Shake.  Google us for more, ya dirty stalker!

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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