The Amazing Race Recap: Who Wants to Party?!

Recaps

By Fran and Berry | Tuesday, October 9, 2012 | 10:00 am | 7 Comments
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Mama Mia lands and hops in a cab. They admit that they like to have a jump on the other team so they can be their lone wolf selves. The second flight from Jakarta lands and teams race to get cabs. Except Big Willie from Team Tall & Tiny, he’s just yawning and stretching and wondering why everyone is in a hurry, because they’re all going to the same place right? Yeah, you’re all going to the same place, it’s called the finish line and the point is to get there first! Maybe he was home schooled, by a substitute teacher.

A night time cab race ensues. FAST FAST FAST!! Twin N’s admit to liking Trey and Lexi, Team Texas. They like them because they are cute and from Texas. One of the Twin N’s give a sweet and condescending “aw, they’re so far away from home.” BTW it’s night so you know the Alun Alun Stadium doesn’t open until 6 am or something, so Monster Trucks will totally catch up.

Mama Mia gets there first and just as we suspected they can’t get in until 8am. Okay so we were two hours off. Big whoop! Teams have to take a number for pole races. Mama Mia probably took number one because it’s gone when Amy and Daniel get there for number two. Choke Out is three. And so on and so forth. Team Amy and Choke Out seem to be on good terms. As are Twin N’s and Team FNL, they decide to work together, be allies if you will. Team Sporty are pretty hot and they are pretty disappointed that “they don’t have air conditioning in this place.” Hm, something tells us that they are not talking about the stadium and they are just bummed that Indonesia as a whole isn’t air conditioned.

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“How do you do sports with no a.c.?!”

Truckasaurus is still on their way to Surabaya. They are kidding themselves into thinking they’re in first place. They know that the other teams are younger and more fit, but they think that, “Ma and Pa will be able to roll by them.” A better metaphor for them would be something about demolishing them FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY!!! So, they get there, find out they are in last place, but then they kid themselves into thinking they like being in last place.

Morning rolls around. Daniel (the other person on Team Amy) reminds us about how they lost the first leg, but they won’t lose the second leg. Um, if he talks that much about losing legs no wonder they’re on and off again so much! Jaymes and James, Team Dong, are hoping they get to whip some bulls with their toy whip. Weird. CUE PHIL!

Phil yells over the crowd, “Teams must now witness the carapansappi the traditional maduran sport of bull racing!” They have to get on the back of a motorcycle and race the bulls. So, they don’t even have to do anything? They just are along for the ride? Ooookay. Getting pretty lazy Amazing Race. Maybe they originally had the teams racing the bulls but on the dry run mock race an intern cranked the bull’s tail too hard and fell and cracked his head open. Emmy award winning safety precautions.

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“I got a hat. It’s got a fish on it. Fish are dumb.”

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7 Comments

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    Jimbob Jones
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    Is it just me, or does the guy on Team Amy (I won’t even bother giving him a name) look like the type of guy who would crash on your couch “for one night” and still be there six months later?

    That has to be the quickest Philimination of one of my ponies ever.

    I have a love/hate relationship with the TwinNs. You can’t not like them, because they’re so damn excited and happy and nice, but they need to tone it the hell down.

    Right now I’m having a hate/hate relationship with Team “I’ll call him George” (that would be Tall and Tiny). So, they freak out about stupid balloons, practically give up every time things get bad, but then can’t be bothered to run to the finish or seem to care about the race. And these are the people teaching kids. You know what they say: “Those who can’t do, go on the Amazing Race and whine about balloons”

    Other than that, I can’t think of anyone else this season. Seriously, they’re all blanding together (and yes, I spelled it that way intentionally). I’m sure someone will show up eventually. But for now, the Philiminations have no impact on me.

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    JJB
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    Is it just me or does the guy on team Amy look like T.J Lavins long lost cousin? Thats all I could think while looking at him 0-o

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    carol
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 6:29 pm

    @JJB – (read you comment, scroll back up the page) OMG, that is perfect.

    Did anyone else get annoyed with Team Amy Amy’s veneer lisp? I always hate it when a team comes in last simply because of a cab driver but I guess that is a huge part of this race.

    Do they plan out the whole race before they cast the racers? Or the other way around? It will be interesting to see if they go to India this season.

    That kid next to Phil was wickedly cute, she should travel around with Phil the whole time and do that.

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    Mister_Dangerous
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 7:49 am

    I like the idea of the cutie kid traveling around with Phil.

    You can call Jaymes and James Team Dong but they’ll be Team Delicious to me.

    Uh, team Tall and Tiny seem like a “couple” to me. I’m saying that because of the way they interact with each other. That’s not how you behave when you’re with a friend; that’s how you behave when you’re with your lover.

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    Pegalicious
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 10:56 am

    Drat. Didn’t expect my favorite team to be gone so soon. Darned incompetent taxi drivers!

    @Jimbob Jones, your portmanteau “blanding together” is the perfect description of the remaining racers.

    I’m sure I’ll find SOMEone to care about, but right now I could not care less. I DO care about your wonderful recaps, Fran and Berry, and will continue to eagerly await them every week.

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    swan70 Shannon
    Posted October 12, 2012 at 11:36 am

    @carol,she probably talks that way because she’s deaf in one ear.Hearing impairments very often affect your ability to speak correctly.
    I was sad to see them go,esp. because of the bad taxi driver luck.I liked them.I think Amy is an incredibly inspirational person.
    Totally agree about that little girl.OMG she is just too adorable.

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    AmyOops AmyOops
    Posted October 13, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    @Jimbob: Totally agree the contestants are “blanding” in this season. Snore. We need at least one (but preferably two) teams we can all hate on. Makes the show more interesting.

    I’m sure I’m just delusional (or conspiracy nutso)…but…the first thing that popped into my head when Team Amy got eliminated was that something was were afoot (no pun intended). Shenanigans? Could Amy have done every crazy-ass stunt/amazing feat/physical freakshow that AR usually puts them up to? What if they have some super cool new shit to foist upon the contestants, but knew Amy couldn’t have done them?

    A planned out/planted/cab driver/actor? Hmmmm.

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