The Amazing Race 23: Episode 4

The Amazing Race 23: Episode 4

By Daron Aldridge

October 21, 2013

I hope the water doesn't damage our beautiful beards.

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Behind them are Jason & Amy, to which Jason steps up for them on this Roadblock. They might want to get Amy into some of these Roadblocks before long because at some point she is going to have to do some. He swings with no problem or fear but the release cord gets twisted around the bungee and he’s kinda just dangling there for what seems like minutes. This type of snag isn’t good since all the teams but Nicky & Kim are en route to the Roadblock.

One by one, the teams offer up a team mate to the icy waters of Norway: Nicole for the doctors, Ex-Tim, Ally, Jamal and OK-Tim. In this order but not really that close to one another time-wise, they all finish the task without a problem.

The trailing team of Nicky & Kim has hammered a sufficient amount of jerky and is off to the speed boats. Given the rapid clip that this leg is going, I don’t see how they can catch up and avoid elimination. Oh yeah…because I think it will be a non-elimination leg.

Team Beardo is now at the next task, which features super-liminal product placement. The teams have to select a certain 2013 pickup truck (the make and model of which are repeated over and over but I don’t give them the courtesy here). They must hitch a sled with a giant rock on it to their truck, chain the rock to the sled like an example shows and then drive forward far enough to reveal their clue. The clue is a parchment with ‘Viking Longhouse’ written on it and a bag of Viking coins.




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The super outdoorsman nature of Team Beardo helps them rip through this rock-hauling task with ease and they quickly snatch up the clue and coins. They are off to see Phil. The boys’ rugged experience is equaled by Jason, who works for a snow plow company in Boston. So he is quite familiar with how to use chains and heavy equipment. Amy just beams with pride as he makes short work of the task. Clue and coins in hand, they are off.

Nicky has successfully completed the Roadblock for the baseball wives but they are still very much behind all the other teams, who are converging upon the rock sled task. Travis & Nicole don’t encounter any issue with their sled and get their clue and coins but the "rush rush rush" mentality of the exes has once again caused them grief. In her now usual haste, Marie scoops up the coins but doesn’t see/grab the parchment. They officially have no idea where they are going. The pressure of the other teams arriving was too much for her. In the car, they literally are just driving and wondering out loud if the destination is written on the coins.

A rift may be forming in the faux-Race marriage of Ally & Ashley and Leo & Jamal as they arrive close to one another at the task and the girls immediately see a problem for them. The truck is a manual transmission and they can’t drive a stick shift. When will teams learn that if you are going on the Amazing Race, you MUST learn to drive a manual transmission before the Race even begins or you will be in deep trouble at least once on the race?


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