The Amazing Race All Stars Recap

By Daron Aldridge

March 29, 2011

The agony of defeat.

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The gates are opening and the teams on a collision course with a Roadblock that was hinted at in the previews: Taste Tea. One person has to select a papaya and a mango from a table and then present it to a man with the tea wheel they got in China. Then it’s the daunting part. They have to identify the same tea they tasted in China approximately 18 hours earlier from a table with thousands of cups of tea. I bet Gary & Mallory would like to Express Pass their way out of this one.

Since everyone is essentially tied for first, here’s who stepped up to the tea challenge for their respective teams: Kisha, Kent, Zev, Flight Time, Jet, Mallory, Ron, and Luke. Ron’s well-exercised taste buds and sense of smell pay off in huge dividends as Angry Dad quickly picks the right one. Their clue under the cap of a bottle of iced tea directs them to the Tiwari Tea Stall. Now it’s time for them to find a cabbie they can trust when he says he knows where to take them. That rarely happens.

The remaining teams are using the ineffective method of choosing by color and then downing the tea before taking it to the clue holder. It’s like a giant experiment in trial and error, in which too much error results in you being on the verge of wetting your pants. The aforementioned Depends would definitely come in handy at this Roadblock. (Mental note: If I get on the Amazing Race, bring a pack of Depends, the unofficial sponsor of this recap.)




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Jet finally uses the ol’ sniffer to identify the distinctive papaya or mango scent. He nails it that time and the cowboys are in second. The brothers quickly figure out the clue is under the cap. Kisha gets the right one for her team and they are close behind in third. Too bad that the sisters are just randomly asking where they make Snapple. While this is clearly wrong, someone appears to point them to the right area of town.

Next departing from the worst tea party in history are the Goths in fourth and an exhausted Mallory finally guesses right for her team to put them in fifth.

Zev, Flight Time and Luke continue to fill their bellies with tea but not their hands with a clue. At this rate, the caffeine in the dozens of cups they are consumed should carry them through the rest of the leg. A dropped cup by Zev in disgust at being wrong again is a great time for the first commercial break.

Thanks to March Madness, we appear to have a decreased number of ads, which shows that CBS really does care.

An exasperated Zev is the first one out of the commercial break to finish the Roadblock, leaving the Globetrotters and Margie & Luke battling for last. As Zev & Justin get in a cab, we cut to Ron & Christina leaving one lost cab to find another one and Kisha & Jen employing the same technique. The sisters are still trying to find the Snapple factory. They need to snap out of that way of thinking quick before the others pass them up.


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