The Amazing Race 25 - Episode 5 Recap

Morocc' and Roll

By Daron Aldridge

October 28, 2014

In a few years, we'll be one of the worst Amazing Race teams ever!

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Let me back up and clarify that Kym & Alli aren’t complaining about the vegetarian cart they chose and just like in last week’s bakery and restaurant, the cyclists are angling for a sampling. The ladies must love hitting up Costco on a Saturday afternoon. They are the next ones done but in quick succession, they are joined by nearly everyone.

One of the lone holdouts is Team DDS. The Speed Bump is now behind them and Phil is on-site to tell us that Misti & Jim are approximately 12 minutes behind the lead teams. Hulking Jim steers his cart to the set-up location and Tim & Te Jay and Adam & Bethany are just now finishing up, the latter of which seems to be moving at a slower pace than they are capable of.

The tannery turns out to be not the Detour (which would directly precede the U-Turn) but rather this week’s Roadblock. One person has to go into the tannery and collect three unfinished goat hides. Then soak them in whatever chemical concoction there is a-brewing in these pits and strip the remaining fur from them. After that, they deliver three completed hides to a cobbler, requiring them to navigate the winding backstreets of Marrakesh, to get a receipt, which has to be returned to the tannery.

Side note: I am liking the tasks they are throwing at teams this season. They’re unique and appear straightforward but seem to always end up more challenging than on the surface.




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The minuscule lead out of the food cart task that the Survivors had evaporates and save for the team with the Save, they all arrive and begin opting for (or in some cases conceding to do) the Roadblock. These are Keith, Brooke, Amy, Kym, Bethany, Tim and Nici.

Bethany expresses her excitement to get to do a Roadblock and get past the nervousness of not having done one yet. You would think that the chore of not only stripping the fur from a hide but also tightly maneuvering a bike around streets would have caused some reservation for them since Bethany has only one arm. But that girl just jumps right in and tackles the task.

Speaking of "jumping right in," candy scientist Amy takes a nice one-legged dip in the mystery solution that the hides are soaked in, a smell of which will likely follow them for the remainder of the leg. The other teams take this opportunity to openly complain and near-retch because of the smell and conditions of the tannery. Not that this is as bad of a case of Ugly Americanism that we’ve seen in the past, but it’s a bit insulting to the locals.

Chompers is now on the Roadblock scene and surprisingly, Jim doesn’t stop Misti from volunteering to do the Roadblock. She is determined to recover from the last leg’s Roadblock that significantly contributed to their last place finish.

Apparently, looking on the positive side of things in the heat of competition is not viewed very favorably by Dr. Jim because when candy girl Maya describes the tannery as just being part of the local experience, Jim later tells the camera that “No, it just smells like #$%^!”


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