The Amazing Race 17 Recap

By Daron Aldridge

October 11, 2010

I'd have a doctor look at that, Phil.

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Dating Jill & Thomas are at the mercy of cabbie who must stop to ask for directions pretty much immediately after hiring him. Both of them are actually appreciative that he had the sense to ask before wasting time driving around aimlessly. Meanwhile Team Glee is doing what Team Glee does best: serenading their driver Samson to drive faster. And Nat & Kat gamble big by pointing out that a good cab can keep in the game but a bad one can lose the race for you. This sounds just like the overconfident fool on Survivor who declares he is 100% safe and is then voted out by the end of Tribal Council.

With just as much foreshadowing, inked-up Nick & Vicki say they need to communicate and we know by now that at some point Nick’s communication will be to berate his teammate.

At the Roadblock, Chad arrogantly starts to do tricks during his jump rope session, which of course backfires and allows Rachel to finish first albeit by only a couple minutes. He actually laughs off the mistake, which means that he may fulfill his promise to not lose his cool anymore.

As they leave, Team Glee’s Connor and son Kevin each step into the ring for their team. Kevin is the first one to have to redo the wrist taping portion. Even if you messed up each of the three sections of this very straightforward task, you wouldn’t be that delayed. It’s just too simple. Thomas, Gary and Vicki are now there and trying to make up ground.




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The lone void is Team Rhyme Time (the doctors), who are not only lost but also brilliantly in a jerky way stopped in the middle of the road in front of Chad & Stephanie and Katie & Rachel. Nat has the driver stop so she can get out and ask the others for guidance. Given they don’t have much of a choice, they point her in the right direction. Unfortunately for her, the driver refuses to turn around.

As the teams get through the Roadblock, Gary & Mallory make up the most headway with by moving from ninth to sixth place. With everyone else gone and Team Glee leapfrogging ahead of Team HSN on the way to the next clue, the doctors finally arrive and complete the Roadblock.

Team Glee gets the next clue and they must load of a pair of wheelbarrows with the supplies listed. Illustrating how thorough and put together Jonathan & Connor are, they have no issues with the task but then get a new task on the race – the Pop Quiz. They go to a mock class and when it is time to identify Ghana on a map of Africa, they must do so correctly to proceed. It’s time to either make their fellow Princeton Tigers proud or wish they had told everyone they went to Yale instead. They are several incorrect attempts into the task when Team HSN finally arrives to load up their supplies.


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