The Amazing Race 24: All-Stars
The Amazing Race 24: All-Stars
By Daron Aldridge
February 25, 2014
The cowboys are back on the train and heading to the tower thanks to the directions from a local. Atop the tower well before any of the others have gotten their bridal shop clue, Jet & Cord jump in the first open car (#15) and when the door slides into its locked/closed position the clue is visible. Sadly, the guys clue reads “Try Again.” Meaning they now have to take the 25-minute trip around the top of the building before they can jump into another bubble.
What transpires back on the ground during those 25 minutes? The store that the cowboys found their clue in was down a little alley way and the clueless tandem of the cousins and twins literally stopped a few yards from it before turning around.
The second flight has arrived and all the remaining teams have converged on the bridal street, which as you can imagine is not very received by the teams on the first flight not named Jet & Cord. The twins decide to ditch the Afghanimals and team up with singers Jennifer & Caroline. Not sure this is an upgrade or wise decision for either team.
Teams Fetch and Murphy’s Law now have their clues and are heading to the tower, where they arrive during the cowboys’ second go-round. The boys had hopped into number 16 and gotten their clue to travel to the stadium they can see below. It appears that the clue is only in the even numbered cars. Jet & Cord now needn’t do anything but wait and enjoy the lack of observation skills as each team stands there dumbstruck for five minutes looking everywhere but at the door for the clue. They get to leave well before any of the other teams.
Of that second bunch, only Brendon & Rachel have the clue in their first bubble and David & Connor and Margie & Luke are stuck taking another slow spin.
Our Lone Rangers are on the scene at the stadium for the first Roadblock of season 24. The team member has to put on a flame adorned unitard and take an elevator 300 feet into the air. They will then be harnessed into a wire rig and must perform five flips before being lowered back down. Cord reluctantly accepts the task and heads up. The flips cause him no problems to complete but the fellow is literally shaking in his boots at the height.
Before he can get down, Brendon has arrived and taken the Roadblock for Team Fetch, bounding all the way to the elevator.
Jet & Cord are now heading on foot to Phil and are in the express lane to Express Pass-land. They are checked in as number one and Phil gives them their reward. Jet explains that if anyone asks him for the extra pass, he is just going to say that the decision has been left up to Cord.
On the building, two parent/child teams are finally in a car with the correct clue and others are quickly joining them, except the perpetually lost twins and singers. In the bubbles and on the heels (of Achilles' heel as the case may be) of David & Connor and Margie & Luke, Leo & Jamal have a car with the clue.
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