The Amazing Race 23: Episode 10

By Daron Aldridge

December 2, 2013

More depressing: staring into the abyss of a black hole or a non-elimination leg?

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Leo & Jamal are not doing well with this task and their slow progress gives Jason & Amy time to arrive and start up. Regardless of how slow the boys are going, they are at least at the right spot. Tim & Marie’s cab decided to drop them off at the SOUTH entrance and the exes are wandering all over the site looking for their task. This is immediately reminiscent of last week’s inability to see the tower that was 20 feet behind them. Tim & Marie have mastered the wander aimlessly/thoroughly search the wrong place portion of the Amazing Race.

By now, Travis & Nicole are at the eating challenge and the cousins decide to lie to the doctors and daters that Tim & Marie got there first and blew through the task. These guys claim that they were just trying to get inside their heads but I suspect that Leo & Jamal just like to lie for the sake of lying and will find any opportunity to do so.

Well, for all the difficulty and build up, none of these three teams stumbles too hard with the cobra. They all leave for the Kawah Dumas Crater for their next clue in quick succession and in the order they arrived. Most important for them, they all get out of there before Tim & Marie finally arrive following their walking tour of CIC.

As the exes enter at the correct spot, you would think that Marie would feel at ease with all the other snakes but alas, she is not. “Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?” Well, okay, maybe it does because tough-as-nails Marie is a blithering mess at the prospect of eating something. Cue the commercials and products you probably already bought on Black Friday.




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Of course, with a million dollar chance on the line, Marie does stomach the task and they get their clue to the crater. Sadly, this challenge is over without a pop-in from Johnny Lawrence or even a team making a fleeting Cobra Kai reference. I blame the Jaden Smith remake for sullying the nostalgia of the original Karate Kid.

Anyway, the New Englanders and Afghanimals hit the crater at virtually the same time and it’s the Roadblock. The teams have to grab two large egg crate trays, ride on the back of a scooter, deliver those eggs and then take a dozen eggs up the mountains to the steaming water on the crater. They have to boil the eggs completely before they can get their clue. A local man will inspect the eggs for hard-boiledness. Jamal and Jason take off for their teams and Travis joins them shortly thereafter. In a glimpse into the rules of the game, the Roadblock clue specifically states that Marie must do this task. I guess Tim has done a lop-sided amount of Roadblocks, so she gets this one by default.

As the girls and Leo wait, Amy asks Leo how Marie was able to do the cobra task so quickly. He hems and haws and gives a lame/unconvincing answer. This prompts Amy to just call it out that they are such liars. Eerily, virtually the same conversation is taking place at the egg-boiling crater with the boys. Jamal freely admits they lied just to mess with the other teams. This just further proves my insistence lying is just a hobby to Leo & Jamal.


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