Happy Election Day everyone! A little treat to take everyone's mind off the hectic election day - last week's AMAZING RACE recap! This past Sunday's will be up soon. I know - i know - I'm awesome. Hee hee. bBitz in '12! My campaign slogan for my second term would be "Because I didn't have enough time to do shit the first time around."
In the previous episode, teams raced around Bolivia with Ken & Tina coming in first (even after Ken tried to chuck her from atop New Zealand's highest tower) and the poor, sweet blondes came in last. But most importantly, they came in first in Phil's Dad's book.
Teams are off to Cambodia! Ken & Tina still say they're getting along well (as long as they're winning)...
And Ken almost ruins the good will when he calls himself and Tina, "an old man and an old woman." I love the look on Tina's face. It's old.
Kelly & Christy declare they're actually really smart but they've gotten "caught up" in things. Yeah - I hate it when other things happen. How are you suppose to "read directions" when there are other things happening. Why can't everyone just be quiet while they form words aloud! It's just not fair!
Prayer becomes a big player again. Tina "prays" that Terence and Sarah don't make the first flight and what happens?!
Terence gets pulled over! Surprisingly only for speeding - apparently douchbaggery is still legal in New Zealand.
Dallas and Toni are off now too. Dallas admits he doesn't know where Cambodia is. Has anyone else noticed that this guy never knows where ANY country is?! I'm almost afraid he'll make it to the end of the race, only to scream, "Usah?!?! Where the fuck is Usah?!"
Terence and Sarah make a mad dash to catch up to Ken and Tina. You can just see the glee pour over Sarah's face when she says she can't wait to see Tina's face when they make it onto the plane. I'm sure Sarah will feel otherwise when she turns to stone.
Best part - they make a run for the plane and...
Terence can whine faster than he can run. This guy is a running trainer folks! I assume lesson #1 is: "When the race starts, start off at slow pace and yell to the people ahead of you, 'Hey guys! Wait up!' Works every time."
Meanwhile, Starr's arm is doing better and isn't nearly as painful as Dan's personality. Dan gets all snooty with Andrew about not knowing where Cambodia is and Andrew fires back "Well I didn't go to a fancy private school." YEAH! This would've played out much better if Dan said this to Dallas and Dallas made Dan eat his own teeth.
Back at Flight Centre, the Divorcees and Toni/Dallas are booking flights at the same time.
And the Divorcees like totally get all "Mean Girl" on him! An 80's movie reference?!? OUCH! BUURRRRNNN!!! They're like the love-child of the Olsen twins and Lindsay Lohan.
Dallas calls them out and says "They think they're God's gift - I wonder what they look like when they don't paint their faces in the morning." OH SNAP! Now there's a zinger! Dallas - 1, Divorcees - 0! I love how Toni looks the proudest while he comes out with that!
Meanwhile, Aja and Ty are getting along again. Ty even says he's choose Aja over a Porsche. Wow. Now THERE'S a game show I'd like to watch. They'd just keep offering the guy shit until he yells the catchphrase, "DUMP THE BITCH!" I'm SO today's Merv Griffin!
Dan and Andrew don't make it in time to the flight center but are actually smart enough to run to the gate and get on the flight with everyone else. Unfortunately Ty should have traded Aja in for the Porsche - they might've made it fast enough to get on the plane.
All teams (except Aja and Ty) make it to Cambodia and immediately scramble for taxis. And of course once they all make it to the taxis they all berate the taxi drivers. Ahhh - Amazing Race providing American ambassadors to the world. I swear by season 15 of this show there'll be a world-wide taxi union that will refuse to cart any AR contestants around.
Don't worry though - the drivers get even by dropping people off at the wrong location.
And apparently the Divorcees get dropped off in the middle of an outbreak. Suckers. Either that or their perfume is as nauseating as I would guess.
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Comments (8)
Yay for getting caught up! As always, your recap had me cracking up. I loved the line under the pic of Terrence and the broken boat. ""When the moon hits your eye - spend time with me - you'll wanna die - that's amore!" How true is that?!?! I don't think I'd be able to spend 5 minutes with that guy before I would want to hurt him.
I was sad that Ty and Aja were eliminated last week, and after what happened on this week's episode, even more so. That's usually how it works though. Anyways, I look forward to reading this week's recap soon! :-)
1 of 8 | Posted by JustJesse | Posted on November 4, 2008 2:12 PM
"Soon the Fat Frats figure out what they were doing wrong. Turns out they had to pump FAST."
I would have thought the Fat Frats would have had experience doing that. Guess having to do it with someone else is what threw them...
Great recap, as always :)
2 of 8 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on November 4, 2008 3:55 PM
Apparently the Fat Frats didn't know that there wasa valve on the pump to let the gas flow... that one of them started furiously pumping at the same time was a coincidence.
3 of 8 | Posted by Insidious Heresy | Posted on November 4, 2008 6:09 PM
Did anyone else notice that Tina kept speaking snippets of Spanish to the locals, even though she was in Cambodia? She did it in India too. Apparently, in Tina's mind, all brown people speak Spanish. What an idiot.
4 of 8 | Posted by Norwego | Posted on November 5, 2008 8:20 AM
Great recap (I appreciate your brevity, as well).
It was hard not to feel sorry for Terence when they had such bad luck on the boat (although I was sort of hoping the cop would either beat him - more - senseless or lock him up overnight).
5 of 8 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 5, 2008 9:56 AM
Oh yeah I feel sorry for Terrance..uh..never. I like the comment about the divorcees cologne, isn't it Eau d' Desperayshawn? Any pix of Dallas shirtless are worth the time! Totally like Toni & D. Watching Tina and Ken is just sad because you can tell they'll probably never work it out and neither of them are the "babes" they must have considered themselves at one time and REALITY is a bitch when it bites you in the mirror. Tina doesn't have the money to afford a good looking Adonis boy toy that will lie to her, and Ken's had so much life force drained from him by Tina that he'll need the next two decades to recover. Wow I'm bitchy right now. But it's because I wrote out a check for $976.22 in property taxes while reading the recap. I'm goping to have to keep my "realities" separate from now on!
6 of 8 | Posted by soapboxx | Posted on November 5, 2008 11:47 AM
I remember Dallas' chest being bigger. Maybe it's the angle. Regardless, it was nice to see it again.
At least Tina knows when something is her fault. That's good.
7 of 8 | Posted by Mr Dangerous | Posted on November 6, 2008 8:32 AM
This episode annoyed me because there was no way in hell Aja and Ty were going to make it. It bothers me when they make them do tasks even though it's clear they are going to be eliminated.
Anywho, those lovely little taxis are called "tuk-tuks" not "tut-tuts".
8 of 8 | Posted by pixiegal262 | Posted on November 6, 2008 11:09 AM