The Amazing Race Recap

By Daron Aldridge

November 8, 2010

What have you gotten me into this time, son? (He's the Hank Hill of Amazing Race.)

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At the tower now, Mallory and Thomas are looking for the clue with the same results as the previous teams, until Thomas spies it for them and they try to leave the tower before anyone sees them. This makes me realize that without a clue box, there is no way for these teams to truly know where they are in the rankings, since they are essentially paired up with whoever they got to the tower with.

Nat & Kat and Nick & Vicki get to the church first. The sneaky producers keep the riddles coming with the teams having to figure out where Peter the Great is buried (the answer is at the Peter and Paul Fortress). Embarrassingly, the first few locals they ask have no idea about the answer. Arriving at church and no doubt rested from their cab ride, are Michael & Kevin and Brook & Claire who question Nick about lying to them. Nick tries to play it off that they are lost but they are not buying it. No worries, because Nick points out that they will be penalized for the cabs. Maybe Nick & Vickie did take one of the rest periods to read up on the rules and terminology of the race after their Fast Forward faux pas in Norway.

Nick & Vicki and the doctors find the answer and notice the clue doesn’t prohibit cab rides for this route info. So, the inked couple tries to flag down a cab and the doctors head back to the original bridge to get their cab with their bags in it. Right behind them are the rule-breaking teams.

Stephanie is now at the tower looking and looking and looking for a clue.




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The doctors get their cab and Nick regresses into angrily muttering under his breath that Vicki’s technique for getting one is dumb. With that kind of attitude showing back up, I am actually hoping they get eliminated or supremely humbled, so he has to eat those words…again.

Thankfully for a long cab ride, Claire goes back and rereads the clues and realizes the error of their Kevin-following ways. So, they have their cab driver take them back to the tower and then they will walk to the church as detailed in the clue. They hope that will keep them from getting dinged like Kevin and his dad but I am not convinced that it will undo their mistake. We will just have to see what Phil says.

Stephanie tags out of the tower and Chad heads up. He spots the church figurine and thinks it is hilarious that she missed it right in front of her. I think it is hilarious that they are the third team to stupidly get in a cab when they are told to walk.

Nat & Kat are the first at the fortress and it’s a Roadblock. They are to play Gorodki, which is described as Russian bowling. The person has to throw a bat and clear three different formations in two shots each to get their clue. And we get treated to a clip of Phil almost being crippled by a Gorodki player. Good times, da? Kat warms up her throwing arm for the Roadblock and clears the first set.


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