The Amazing Race Recap
By Daron Aldridge
March 30, 2010
There is not much suspense about how this plays out as we also see that Brandy and Carol made the same mistake. So, the tally is five teams chose the Ox Trot Detour and carelessness cost three of the five valuable time. While I do enjoy watching Team South Carolina mess up, I found the fact that Brandy and Carol messed up in the exact same way they mocked Brent and Caite for messing up to be karma in action.
We are looking at two teams fighting for third and fourth place and another two battling for last place but with Brandy and Carol needing a miracle to make up lost ground, they learn they too have to return to the start of the Detour.
Brent and Michael get the next clues from the Roadblock. To prove that the detectives are playing a smart and cautious game, even though Michael dropped the bottle on the boat deck shattering it, they specifically say they aren't touching it until they get to shore because that was what the clue instructed. These guys want to make sure they avoid penalties at all costs.
Jet and Cord are motoring to the Roadblock and Cord jumps in for the bottle. Brent explains that on the shore they decide to work with Michael and Louie to find the pitstop because they would rather Carol and Brandy be eliminated first.
Brent and Caite are number three and Michael and Louie are number four. Phil then pulls a Jeff Probst-tribal council inquisition. Louie says they are in it to the end and will be in the final three with Brent and Caite and the cowboys. They want Carol and Brandy out next because as Michael says, "They have chips on their shoulders and they are negative people. Be negative somewhere else." This lets Caite once again to complain about the "Where's her tiara?" comment from Carol on the first leg in LAX!! Let it go. If you focus on your race and not trying to bump someone else off, then you might be doing better.
So it's clear that they want the ladies out next also. With his mind working overtime to come up with something quippy to say about them, Brent explains that everyone wants the girls gone and says, "From what I've heard, it's pretty anonymous." At the sound of Brent's poor word choice and limited grasp of multisyllabic words, Phil cocks his eyebrow so perfectly that Duane Johnson must be beaming with pride. Michael throws him a lifesaver and says "Unanimous?"
Jet and Cord swim to the shore and foolishly leave the bottle on the boat. They couldn't get the contents of the bottle out and just assumed it was the directions, so they just left it and decided to follow their gut. After not prioritizing airplane seating and then leaving a coconut, this would be mistake number three for the cowboys this leg. Phil informs that they must go back and get the clue before he can check them in. Here is that miracle that Brandy and Carol need.
The guys start swimming to their boat and about half way to the boat they see Brandy and Carol pass them. It's time for the producers to manufacture suspense with shots of the ladies wandering around and the boys hustling back.
Brandy and Carol get there in fifth place, which is good enough to ensure another week of pissing off Brent and Caite.
With the frustration starting to show, Jet slaps the map on the mat with a "There's your map," and surprisingly that is the first thing resembling an outburst from these guys after seven legs. The many slip-ups this leg by Jet and Cord nearly eliminate them but are saved by this being a nonelimination leg.
A Speed Bump awaits them next week but I hope there isn't that much of a time gap between teams because I still have the cowboys as my favorite team, followed by Super Fuzz and Steve and Allie.
I'll keep my fingers crossed until next week.
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