Welcome back to Amazing Race everyone! The leg begins where we left off - Stockholm! Phil reminds us it's the birthplace of ABBA. OMG if they had an ABBA challenge that'd be AWESOME! Team BroMos would nail it.
After an extended commercial about them winning a Travelocity triop, Team Trotters take off at 2:23am (kill me) for Tallinn, Estonia! Oooh fun! I don't think the show's ever been here before! Once there, teams must use a key to open a door to a secret club. If it's a sex club, I resign.
Team Trotters gets to the ferry building and discover that the earliest ferry doesn't leave until late afternoon - almost 12 hours later! Yikes. There's gonna be alot of solitaire playing during this leg. They're pissed too since it kills their lead.
Next up, Team Master Race heads out and Cheynne comments about pulling over and letting Meghan "work her magic". Does this man have no decency? I DECLARE!
Meghan comments that they had some "difficulties" on the last leg. HAHAHAHA. Yes. Difficulties = my boyfriend's a lame ass.
Team Oreo heads out and comments that they're not concerned with never finishing first since Ms. America won the big title that way. Yes. Now, did the pageant also consist of 2 over-achieving bro-mo's and 2 over-grown giants? Cause if not, you're screwed.
Question: If you were driving along and a frantic dude with a girl in the back and a guy with a video camera in the front pulled up and asked you to pull over. Would you? If yes, ARE YOU INSANE?!
Team Bromos then heads off...
Who the F is this dude? Has it been like 6 days that they've been at the pit stop?!
The brothers decide that they're no longer going to argue. So the producers take them both aside and tell them the other one called them fat. Aaaaaaand GO!
Team Oreo arrives at the Ferry building to find Team Trotter's shoes outside their car...
"Now begone! Before someone drops a Mercedes on you too!"
Team Master Race then arrives to the dismay of everyone else. Everyone's PISSED that the next ferry isn't until 5pm. I'd be PSYCHED! "Let's enjoy the city and booze it up in.... wait... WTF ARE WE?"
Team Farm Boys, the last team to leave, takes off and starts the last leg of the race that I'm sure they'll ever be on.
Team Trotters takes a moment to reflect on how awful the brothers were to each other during the hay challenge. Team BroMos take a moment to say they should win and Team Trotters should lose. Feel that, Pa? A storm's a brewin'!
Teams finally board the ferry (there was nothing of interested that happened for like 8 hours?! Naked Twister?! Nothing?!) They're all excited because it's a 16 hour trip and they each get rooms to rest in.
FERRY?! They're on a friggin' Norwegian Cruise Liner!
Matt tells us that he's wearing the black head band to let other teams know he means business...
You know what would also help? If you wore your balls instead and stopped making Grandpa do everything.
The doors open on the ferry the next day and teams race out a long walkway. They all jump in taxis and start yelling at their drivers to hurry. I look forward to hearing what "Chill the fuck out." in Estonian sounds like.
Team Master Race arrives at the secret society first with Team BroMos right behind them. They all see the speed bump with the faces of Team Farm Boys on it. Poor guys. So screwed. Everyone starts frantically sticking keys in the hole to find the right one. It's like a bad 70's party where no one gets laid.
One of the keys work and Team Master Race and Team BroMos quickly slip in a slam the door shut in Team Oreo's face as they arrive. OH HELL NO! No one does that to Ms. America!
Teams inside then find out that it's a Road Block: solve a secret message of the ancient brotherhood of the black heads. They get a key to a room to a guy with a scroll and a message and.... zzzzzz..... fuck it. Good luck everyone!
Seriously? Any minute their mothers are gonna show up to bring them to chess practice followed by a Dungeons and Dragons tournament.
Teams reach the main room and find their candles with the room keys attached...
"I am the living (brain) dead! Ahhhhh!"
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Comments (12)
Great episode. Hated to see Matt and Gary cut, though...they were my second fav team. Your recap was side-splitting, as usual! This is my first season watching TAR and I'm soooo into it. I just can't decide which I look most forward to: the next episode...or the next recap!
1 of 12 | Posted by southern_essence | Posted on November 20, 2009 10:23 AM
Why don’t they just call the ‘speed bump’ what it really is: a time waster. Last season they had to assemble soup…this season they had to sit in a sauna. Where is the challenge in that?
Hey, Matt. The word has CANDLE in it. Do you think that could be a CLUE???
And lastly, why was everyone so sluggish? The “ferry” ride was 16 hours, and they all head privacy and beds for a change. You would think they would have been well rested.
This show (just like Survivor) has become a real disappointment.
2 of 12 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on November 20, 2009 10:51 AM
bBitz, you freaking kill me, I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes!! TFF. I'm so stupid that when I saw team bromo's blurring out the front, I'm thinking they are hanging out a little. But now reading the recap I notice the one has SHORTS on. Them having boners never crossed my mind. Maybe they thought it would be to their advantage to help keep them from sinking in the mud!
All I can say is Candle A Bra.
3 of 12 | Posted by featherhead | Posted on November 20, 2009 11:46 AM
Too funny bBitz, your screen caps were hilarious. I am loving this season, although the sauna speed bump was just dumb. And was that blond in the sauna a "working" girl? I'm just sayin'. I would love to win a red cedar sauna, they are about $10,000. What's up with having the teams in underwear every other challenge? Love the show, love your recaps, I still like all the remaining teams. I guess I'd like Oreo for the win. Gary and Matt were sweet, I wonder why they weren't together while Matt was growing up?
4 of 12 | Posted by soapboxx | Posted on November 20, 2009 11:56 AM
Not only is SURVIVOR better than EVER but I'm really enjoying this season of the AMAZING RACE.
I see it this way; Dan and Sam are on that NARROW boardwalk racing toward Phil. The only way the Globetrotters can get to Phil first is to push their way past BroMos. Globetrotters are then responsible for slip and fall situation.
I didn't find the Estonia guys hot at all. They should have been a lot hotter.
I still like all the teams. I'm thinking THE MASTER RACE will win.
5 of 12 | Posted by Mr Dangerous | Posted on November 20, 2009 12:30 PM
I had a problem with the unlocking of the door part, where the waiting team just snuck in behind the team that actually opened the door. To me opening (unlocking) the door is part of the actual task. I assume this because when Phil announces the task (as the teams open their envelopes), he says something to the effect - "First, teams must open the door to the secret society using a ring of keys....". To me, if a team does not perform this part of the task, they should incur a penalty.
Also, I agree with Mr Dangerous, the globetrotters caused that fall. It didn't look to me like one of the BroMos turned around to push Big Easy down.
6 of 12 | Posted by philo | Posted on November 20, 2009 12:49 PM
the blurring . . . so lame, they would not have blurred wet bikini tops . . . not that I care or am I into the Bro's . . .
A sauna is not a task . . . how kind of the producers to only hit them with a five minuter . . . it's painful when a word can throw someone off--if he really didn't know, he could have found something with a number tag on it . . . Their loss could not be helped.
I agree the trotters were more to blame, it's not the first time they were kinda sleezy in their game. I thought the waterslide trash talk was out of place, and very low . . . the importance of beating them by a second is clearly dumb, as was going the wrong way, and I say go Bro's. Can't say for sure, but do the trotters think they have it all over the Bro's coz they're gay . . . .in that case, I would hope Dan did push him, kah!
thanks, B-bitz, I don't know why I still hate master race as a nickname, but I still just do . . . sorry to see farm boys go, but glad with the ones left.
Guess I'd rather see trotters or the blond team go, I'd prefer Oreo for the win . . .
7 of 12 | Posted by juddfan | Posted on November 20, 2009 1:39 PM
This is the first season I've watched this show too, and I have to say: ZZZZZZ.(Well, I'd be able to sleep if these people weren't yelling all the time).
What's the point of staggering the times when they know full well that there's ONLY ONE FUCKING FERRY TO ESTONIA AND IT ONLY LEAVES 15 HOURS AFTER THE FIRST TEAM TAKES OFF?
That's right, I'm yelling at you, stupid producers.
Why bother to shove each other? It doesn't matter who comes in first, as long as they don't come in last (and even that doesn't appear to matter all that much since there's no knowing when suddenly the episode will turn into a non-elimination round).
Thing is, I always this show was more difficult than this, that the people really had to use their own resources (or convince other people) to get to the places they needed to go. (In other words, I never watched because I thought the show was too high-brow for me!)
But this show is all about taxis, cars, ferries, airplanes -- it's all just given to them (sort of, eh-hem, like the immunity idol in Survivor this season), there's no risk, no danger, no real effort involved.
And the challenges? Who's coming up with this shit? Did they outsource that part of the show to Japan? It's all completely random, has very little to do with anything...
In other words, the perfect reality tv trainwreck!
8 of 12 | Posted by itchy | Posted on November 20, 2009 2:06 PM
Best picture caption in a recap ever:
"And now can you show us your "O" faces? Yup. That's what we imagined."
Just too perfect a match to the picture and the personalities (or lack thereof) of those pictured therein.
Itchy: the show did used to have much more challenge and risk in it. I've been disappointed in this season. Hopefully they'll pick it up next season, because this is one of my favourite reality shows (usually).
9 of 12 | Posted by Lizbot | Posted on November 20, 2009 4:18 PM
Good recap. Loved the Vball challenge. Farm boys lost it on their own... and I think they had a great experience... so no tears for them...
Hope the challenges get more challenging... and don't sire too much advantage to any one team.
10 of 12 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 20, 2009 4:49 PM
Oh my god, i was so confused as to why they blurred the boys' crotches, did they really have boners just from playing mud volleyball with half naked Estonians? They really need to find boyfriends.
11 of 12 | Posted by Theo | Posted on November 20, 2009 5:29 PM
im only in the middle of your recap, but i had to comment on your photo comment of the guy in the towel. i was thinking the SAME THING...why is this guy walking on the street wearing a bath towel??!! haha
12 of 12 | Posted by chrissy | Posted on November 20, 2009 8:50 PM