The Amazing Race 23: Episode 6

The Amazing Race 23: Episode 6

By Daron Aldridge

November 4, 2013

Rejected Village People.

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In second and not terribly far behind them it seems are Nicky & Kim, who have their best showing of the Race so far in Austria. Leo & Jamal also rebound nicely from some subpar legs lately and hit the Pitstop in third place.

While they finish, the Ice girls and the Okies are still singing their hearts out with their coaches to get it to a satisfactory performance.

At the palace, shockingly, Marie gets some direction from local children through the maze. I can only guess that the children feared that she would devour their souls if they didn’t help her and judging by the shell of a man that Tim now is, it’s not an unfair assumption.

As they work the maze, Jason & Amy arrive and see their cab right there, which means they know the exes were the thieves. They sprint to make up as much ground as possible and catch up to Tim & Marie, which they pretty much do. The exes are checked in as number four and the New Englanders are number five. The obvious tension between the teams leads Phil to ask about it and then we get the unprecedented commercial break in the middle of a check-in.

Fight…fight:
Jason to Phil: “Our friends here stole our cab.”
Marie counters: “You would’ve done the same thing.”
Jason: “No we wouldn’t because we didn’t do it just now.”
Marie: “You don’t know if you would’ve done until you are in the situation.”
Jason: “We WERE in the same situation because there were TWO cabs waiting for the other two teams and we DIDN’T steal their cab.”
Marie: “You can’t say you wouldn’t…”
Jason: “Yes I can because we DIDN’T.”




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During this fight, Amy gets silenced to the background when she tries to also argue because Jason was all kinds of fired up. Awkwardness abounds, but Marie is definitely a deluded person who thinks that she is infallible. Just admit you stole the cab and it’s not against the rules, so suck it up, Jason. Actually have the backbone that you pretend to have.

Also, I take issue with whomever oversees their previews for each week. Because heading into this leg, they showed Jason & Amy on the mat with Tim & Marie. So that eliminated the drama about the Fast Forward immediately. Clearly they will either not complete the Fast Forward or they have bad taxi luck rivaled only by Chester & Ephraim's airport downfall. Shame on you, CBS advertising department for spoiling your own show.

Back at the Roadblock, Ally finally delivers a passable performance and the girls are off for the palace Pitstop. All sweaty and nervous, OK-Tim tries again and is given what must have been a pity “good enough” and the boys leave in last place. Tim apologizes to Danny, who is understanding and even concedes that he couldn’t have done any better.

Ally & Ashley navigate the maze and find Phil for a sixth place finish. To eliminate or not eliminate…that is the question. The Okies saunter up to Phil, knowing their position but Phil informs them that they are indeed last and eliminated from the Race.

While they didn’t make it too deep into the Race, Tim & Danny easily outperformed my expectations. Be proud, fellas.

Next week, Ex-Tim appears to have had his fill of Marie and confronts her mid-task on her insistent berating and overall personality. Until then, have a good week.


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