The Amazing Race 25 - Episode 5 Recap
Morocc' and Roll
By Daron Aldridge
October 28, 2014
With no sense of a leader - because the teams are only separated by a minute or so each - the locating of the cobbler proves to be more difficult. Bethany begins to struggle with tying down her bundles to the bike but a pair of locals helps out and secures her load.
Aside from Nici and Misti, who is getting encouraged by Jim because she is about to pass Nici, all the teams have wandered around and somehow all ended up lost and on the same location. Bethany rolls up and is grilled about who is behind her. To the girl’s credit, she just says that she was focused on herself and not those around her. That is the type of approach that has worked well for many teams in past seasons, so I hope they stick to it.
Misti has officially leaped ahead of Nici but can’t quite get her bike loaded up. This puts the two leaving at the same time and Misti failing to control her bike, which knocks Nici down.
The mild-mannered Moroccan cobbler gets a face full of crazy Americans trying to get a receipt and the scene, minus Tim and Amy, who split off from the others, is complete madness with no one having the upper hand. In no discernible order, most of the teams are heading back to the tannery. And the leader is…
…Keith, sort of. The Survivor alum gets back first but just ahead of Nici. At this point, Shelley is by her side so technically, their team is together but Whitney is not with Keith. This erupts into a yelling match between mom and Keith, both of which have the U-Turn weighing on their actions.
At one point, Keith pulls the tried and true bully phrase of “If you push me one more time…” To which Shelley replies, “You’ll WHAT?!?” The implication is pretty clear that Keith was threatening more than just an argument and Shelly had the backbone to call him out on it. Finally, the tannery guy gives the Survivors their clue and the teams will now be heading to Ben Youssef Madrasa.
The tensions run very high between these two teams, and an interview segment with Whitney shows her acting as if she showed restraint in not lashing out at the Super Fannies. But then she is shown telling Keith, “We gotta beat those bitches.” Keep it classy, Nashville. As a reality show veteran, she should have known that the camera caught her outburst and it would be aired.
With the same sense of chaos that has permeated this leg, the teams hit the next clue as a mob and it’s the Detour: Tea Time or Twirl Time. For Tea, they have to pick a tea set with 10 glasses and spices and deliver it to a restaurant. Then they have to watch and perfect a tea pouring demonstration, which includes having tray-holding person using only one hand, and the tea pourer employing an exaggerated and elevated pouring technique to pour two pots into cups. For Twirl, the teams dress up as part of a group of street musicians. One person keeps the rhythm on a drum and the other has to twirl the tassel on their hat for one minute straight before getting their clue. As is tradition on these recaps, my inclination would have been to go with Twirl Time before seeing the tasks performed because it required finding one location and one minute doesn’t seem that long.
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