The Amazing Race 24: All-Stars - Episode 6

The Amazing Race 24: All-Stars - Episode 6

By Daron Aldridge

March 31, 2014

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As the teams soak in the Sri Lankan landscape on their train ride, you get the feeling that this really is the calm before the storm and this leg is teed up to be a close from start to finish. As they pull into the Alawwa station, the teams jump off like bandits in an old west film and sprint to the Ceypetco Fuel Station. At the station, they find the Roadblock.

This week, the Roadblock has teams selecting a specific colored card that corresponds to the same card on the window of the dozens of tuk-tuks (three-wheeled cabs) lining the street near the gas station. The person has to guide four of their tuk-tuks to the station and put three liters of gas in it before they get their clue. Oh yeah, there are only two gas pumps available.

Team Fetch sends Rachel into the Roadblock fire and she happily picks the color green. With reckless abandon (and blatant disregard for clue-reading), she starts herding all green cabs to the pumps for fueling. She ignores the color card on the windshields, so we know she muffed this task already.

The others for the Roadblock are John, Cord, Big Easy, daddy David, Jennifer and Jamal. There are many approaches to completing this task, all of which seem to include yelling at cabbies.

David has decided to employ the method of getting all four of his tuk-tuks at once and then lining them up for the pump. Rachel continues with directing all the green ones to the pump and thinks she is making significant headway on the task. She has the assertiveness needed to control the lines but no clear grasp of the basics of the task.




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On the more strategic front, Cord notices that no one is really using the other side of the pumps; so he directs his tuk-tuks to loop around. This, of course, illicits a snarky “the cowboys don’t need to wait in lines” from Leo but Jet stands there not accepting the bait to argue with him. The brothers have mastered the art of not letting the other teams impact their game.

My favorite of all the approaches to this task: Big Easy. At 6’9”, Big Easy literally was pushing tuk-tuks out of the way that were trying to nudge their way in front of his cabs in line.

If CBS had secured the rights to the song, this task would’ve been ideal to be accompanied by Muse’s “Madness.” Now that I think about it, they may have already done that for March Madness. How no one sustained an injury during this task with all pushing and shoving and near collision with vehicles and people, I will never know - especially with injury-prone David in the mix. Maybe they have finally shaken off the curse of Murphy’s Law (but I will continue to label as such.)

Since she wasn’t really doing the task right, Rachel gets four gassed up first but doesn’t get the actual clue or even a clue as to what she did wrong. So, what’s the best solution? Do the same wrong thing all over again?!? She continues down this crazy path again until stopped by John. The blond bonehead didn’t do this out of a desire to help but rather because Rachel was trying to steal one of his tuk-tuks to get filled.


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