The Amazing Race Season 17, Episode 12

By Daron Aldridge

December 13, 2010

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The other two teams show up and get prepared as Kat is ready and waiting for Nat to step out on the platform. With a pained, panicked expression on Nat’s face, the producers cut to commercial. My blessed DVR allows me to get back to the race and not sit through a Yogi Bear trailer.

Nat is slowly making her way out on the platform and sits next to Kat on the swing. At this point, Jill is voicing her own apprehension and Brook is feeling the same fear. With a simple 1-2-3 count, the doctors are plummeting 150 feet and then swinging back and forth. As they are lowered to a raft in the water, Nat happily proclaims, “I didn’t pee myself.” The audience at home is happy to hear it too. Nat opens the clue to learn that they will have to ride in a helicopter to a "surprise destination." I guess after the bungee drop, a helicopter is nothing because Nat jumping up and down with excitement.

Jill & Thomas take the drop just a few minutes after the doctors and Team HSN is waiting for their turn, which happens as quickly as it did for the others. All three teams are neck and neck in the helicopters and enjoying a nice aerial, scenic view of LA.

The doctors touch down first at the Rose Bowl for their final Roadblock. Nat chooses to do it and it is surprisingly not football related. The player has to decorate three sections of an official Rose Bowl float to the satisfaction of the floral director (a job I didn’t know existed). Nat is making pretty good progress as Jill & Thomas land.

The dating couple had a strategy to work the Roadblocks, so that Thomas would have the last one (not sure why), and he takes this one but immediately regrets the decision. Brook, on the other hand, is jumping with joy at the prospect of decorating the float and dives right in.




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Nat’s first pass in incomplete with one section of roses not done correctly. She has to redo the same group as the other two are working on it but even with the setback, she is still two sections completed and approved. She is successful on the second go-round and gets the clue.

The producers get back into the riddle clue mode with the clue consisting of the following three statements.

I am Sancho Panza’s master.
I am the place to hear the Symphony in the Glen.
Monroe’s Year of the Itch.

Phil enlightens the audience that the three answers will be combined for the location of their clue. The doctors have the brilliant strategy to borrow someone’s iPhone to search for the answer. Apparently, the LA cab industry is boycotting Apple because they are unable to find a cabbie with an iPhone and therefore, can’t execute their plan.

Despite his apprehension about the decorating task, Thomas is careful to do it right the first time and it pays off. He is done and with clue in hand, they jump in a cab. The doctors have also given up on the iPhone search and are pleading with some customer service rep on the other line to look something up on the Internet.


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