The Amazing Race 22: Episode 9

The Amazing Race 22: Episode 9

By Daron Aldridge

April 22, 2013

Why didn't they put the cheese at the bottom of the snow-clad mountain?

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Joey & Meghan are channeling Team Cape Fear with a similar refrain that their consistent poor performance doesn’t quite reflect how good they really are. Sadly, Team YouTube, if that were true then I wouldn’t have been able to put the word “consistent” in that last sentence. There comes a point when you must accept your mediocrity in some areas.

While the teams are catching some shut eye on the train ride, Bates wakes up and realizes that his backpack is missing. He has a pretty good attitude about it. He clearly didn’t want to pull a Zev & Justin, so he had his passport on him in the Race-provided fanny pack. The loss of his bag is more of an annoyance than a setback but does give Jennifer the chance to up the flirting and offer him some of her clothes if he needed it. Specifically, her underwear. Wow…not sure her grandpa John Wayne would approve of that offer.

The dash from the train station puts all the teams in route to the Ministry of Finance via taxi with no real leader. It’s more of just a mass of teams...

...that is, until Max & Katie get to the clue first. It directs them to get in their Ford and use its fancy pants onboard computer to answer three Race-inspired questions to get their next destination.




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The first question: Which U.S. president said tear down this wall? Max immediately jumps the gun and spouts off JFK. He embarrasses himself in front of his conservative brethren and corrects it to Reagan, who he claims is his favorite president. Surprisingly Katie doesn’t point out that she knew it even though she wasn’t even alive when the Berlin Wall was still in place.

The next question: Which leader did Reagan say it to? Gorbachev is Max’s answer and it’s right.
Final question: Where did Reagan say it? Max goes two for three on first guesses when he correctly chooses the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. That is their destination and it is a nice 100-mile drive for the teams.

Now we get to see if any of the other teams stumble on the trivia portion of the Amazing Race.
God bless multiple choices. Otherwise Team YouTube and Caroline & Jennifer would still be sitting in that parking lot. Here’s a sample of their guesses: Was it Roosevelt?...Maybe Bill Clinton?...Was it in the '80s?...The Great Wall of China???

They both correctly pick Reagan from the choices and move on to the next chance to embarrass the American education system. They both just throw a WAG out there for the last two questions and get it correct. Team Slapshot and the Sock ‘er Moms are sprinting up to the cars before the others are able to get out of the parking lot. Barring any massive navigation issue, all the teams should be fairly tight together. If someone does get lost, my money’s on Joey & Meghan but I am still uneasy about Bates & Anthony being near the back right now.


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