Amazing Race 15: Episode 5

By Daron Aldridge

October 27, 2009

Tennessee is so proud.

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The brothers make it to the yacht club and Dan is doing the Roadblock. Dan also adopts Big Easy's swim method of boat propulsion. Not only does he copy Easy, Sam copies Flight Time's cheerleading to Big Easy. Flight Time chants "Do it for the ‘Hood!" and Sam offers his version for Dan, "Do it for the suburbs!" Great, now I have to figure out to assign the point since there are two teams who contributed. I'll follow BOP's This Weekend, Watch This, by Curt David, and give each team a half point. That puts the Globetrotters in the lead for the episode title game.

While Big Easy and Dan are still in the water, the girls show up and unsurprisingly Tiffany does it because it's physical. Has Maria done any of the Roadblocks? The producers have obviously removed the one-time rule that each team member has to do a set number of Roadblocks. That's a shame because it'd be fun to see Maria fail miserably at a challenge instead of just have Tiffany carry her through.

Back on shore, Dan gets the combo quickly but Big Easy is putting in the wrong combo 8, 7 and an unknown third digit. As he struggles, Tiffany finishes and gets the combo. Big Easy is convinced that the 8 and 7 are correct. Interspersed with his genuine words of encouragement, Flight Time jokingly observes, "If we stay here long enough, Lance and Keri might show up." Brilliantly played, Flight Time. If I had been taking a drink, I would have definitely snarfed. (For the uninitiated, that's the completely made-up verb for laughing at the right time, which makes liquid come out your nose. You're welcome for that visual.)

That sizable lead that Meghan and Cheyne had at the beginning is dwindling away with each failed hookah inspection. They fail to notice the importance of the three or four extra pieces lying on the ground. But they needn't worry about Ericka and Brian, who are at the Gold task and using paper for long division to get the correct ounces needed. About the time Brian finishes his calculation the exchange rate changes and it's back to the math. Ericka laments, "My American education's dumbed me down to use a calculator for everything."




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Canaan and Mika get to the Roadblock and Canaan easily gets the watch. He figures out the combo like everyone else, except Big Easy, and then Mika asks, "Does the Muslim clock work differently???" Seriously, this is too easy to make fun of now. Ericka, I contend you're a much greater success story from the American education system than Mika. Every week, she strives to prove blonde jokes were historical statements.

Mika and Canaan are now ahead of the Globetrotters, who are the last ones stuck at the Roadblock. Finally, Big Easy steps back and starts over. That's all he needs to realize that it's the time not the actual number.

After not being about to figure out the ounces and a few failed attempts, Brian convinces Ericka that it's time to move to Glass. Meanwhile Gary and Matt choose Glass and papa Gary comments that they used to call it something else and not a hookah. That's the wrong kind of tobacco there, Cheech.


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