The Amazing Race Recap

By Daron Aldridge

November 28, 2011

Take off the helmet. People still know who you are and that we lost.

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  • Grandparents Bill & Cathi: Here’s the team I undersold at the outset and regret it because they are just as likeable as Teams Dude and NFL in my book. If they can eke by Ernie & his not-so-better half, then I will be watching a final three that pleases me no matter who wins. I just hope they get ahead of them this leg and push the engaged couple down a peg.


  • Team Test Drive Jeremy & Sandy: What’s to say about them that hasn’t already been said? Nothing, because there is really nothing noteworthy about them at all. I am not actively cheering for or against them. That’s not an endorsement to the casting agent that scouted them out for the race. Maybe I should just dub them Team Apathy, as in my apathy toward them and not necessarily toward each other. They are mediocre racers whose time here may be up...but I don’t care one way or another.


  • All right, let’s pick up where we left off: Amani & Marcus are in first place and are the only ones that know that they are still racing. Ernie & Cindy are en route to Phil, as are Jeremy & Sandy. Sadly (for anyone who likes nice people, that is), Team Dude and Ma & Pa are still trying to master the flexing and posing intricacies of Belgium bodybuilding.




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    Team NFL rips out their unexpected clue and is pointed to the Ford Proving Grounds for their next task. As Marcus expresses his desire to keep fighting for that first place finish, the engaged couple show up to receive the same news. Ernie’s facial expression in reaction to Phil’s “However…” leads me to believe that he wouldn’t have been surprised if they were penalized for the train ticket snafu.

    It may be the exhaustion talking but Sandy mispronounces the word “proving” when reading the clue. This may be the most memorable thing she has done outside of correcting pig Laurence that she sews up bodies and not clothing. Man, I don’t miss that jerk.

    Team Dude finally gets the bare minimum of points to proceed from the bodybuilding task, as do Bill & Cathi. They are both in last but there is still too much racing ahead to count either of them out. Thanks to the language barrier and the lack of a working printer at the place they stopped for directions, Amani & Marcus get passed by Ernie & Cindy, who show up first at the Roadblock/Ford Mustang commercial.

    In what is possibly the most fun-looking challenge ever on the show, the team member must take a Mustang on the driving grounds and perform three tests satisfactorily: Reach 100 mph and brake to a given spot; slalom through a series of cones in under 16 seconds; and do a double donut victory lap.

    Without hesitation, Ernie accepts this Roadblock. These last couple of legs have really highlighted his egotistical side. So, maybe they are a better match they we initially thought. Cindy gives us a peek at her deductive brilliance at the Roadblock. Our Miss Marple here says she "thinks" they are the first team, “judging on the setup of the outfits, the cars and number of clues.” WOW, I am really glad she explained her highly developed analysis of the situation to us at home. We’re kinda…um…slow…and stuff…SQUIRREL.


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