This is our first year watching Amazing Race from beginning to end, and we are excited! This week the contestants were shocked to discover that one team would be eliminated before even crossing the start line. The teams had to sort through a gigantic wall of license plates to find the one referenced in their clue. Shockingly, it took every team at least one wrong try before they noticed the characters on the clue were also on the appropriate license plate. Eventually they caught on, but there were only so many license plates to go around. Eric and Lisa got the boot, which was fine because we had already decided we were over them. The blond yoga instructors had already lost our interests the second the said “We’re like yoga in the hood.” Sure you are, guys.
After that things got under way for real. The teams raced to Tokyo where they had to participate in a Japanese game show called Sushi Roulette. The best thing about this challenge was clearly the audience members. Oh Japan, you know your game shows. This challenge was 80% luck and 20% wasabi tolerance. The giant wheel of sushi was spun, and whoever received the coveted wasabi bomb had two minutes to choke it down. Most teams were able to do it in just in time. A couple people failed the first time and actually had to eat another one just moments after. One of the Globetrotters ate it in about 30 seconds and made my brain explode. Once the team has successfully eaten the wasabi bomb, they were assigned 20 Japanese tourists from the game show audience and needed to herd them through the ridiculously busy streets of Japan and make their way to the pit stop. The horrible poker girls actually lost 2 of their tourists! Luckily for them, this was a non-elimination leg. The next day folks had to herd ducks through a course while Courtney screamed in terror from the comfort of our couch. Big props to Zev for being the surprise duck whisperer. There was also some mud slinging – literally. They had to cover the base of a tree with some super nutrient mud. Messy! At the end of the leg, Garret and Jessica got the boot. Meh. Okay with that, but would much prefer to go back in time and eliminate the poker chicks.
He’s a quick breakdown of the couples who made it across the start line (sorry Eric and Lisa):
Sam and Dan – two gay brothers, what are the odds? They’re not mentioning that they’re gay to the other teams in hopes on staying on the good side of cute girls who want to fruitlessly flirt with them. It is working pretty well on the poker girls, so well played you guys! So far they are amusing us.
Zev and Justin – Zev has Asperger’s Syndrome, so that automatically put him high on our list. Combine that with his deadpan one liners and bluntness and he’s aces. We’re all about this team.
Flight Time and Big Easy – two Harlem Globetrotters who are sweet as sugar, athletic (obvs), and likeable to a ridiculous degree. My favorite quote of the night came from Flight Time during the tourist herding challenge in Tokyo: “They Thought Godzilla Was Walking Down the Street".
Gary and Matt – the requisite “''father and son who never communicated much before but whose relationship will grow in leaps and bounds on the trip” team. Amazingly enough there wasn’t any awkwardness of bickering between them (at least not so far), and their farming background gave them a leg up during the duck challenge. Plus the son’s hair is pink – so that’s cool.
Mercy and Ron – the older couple. They’ve only been dating for about a year (bold choice taking on the race so early in a relationship). She was super perky during the tourist challenge. I don’t remember a whole lot about him other than being older. So we’ll see how that goes for them!
Mika and Canaan – newly dating, uber religious, and he’s saving himself for marriage. . ''He likes me for the right reasons,'' said Mika. ''It's not because he wants to have sex.” Awwww, how sweet. Not as sweet? Canaan during the duck challenge: ''God, I want to rip her head off right now!''
Brian and Ericka – she’s a former Miss America, so that’s impressive. You know that she should be able to keep her cool, after being put through all of that pageant drama. Plus they’re a married interracial couple – so that’s fun too. Brian’s the one to keep an eye on. He somehow managed to bargain their way onto a sold old flight, and came up with the idea to have several teams pool their money together to buy up the remaining seats on a bus so that they could leave earlier to catch up with the other teams (as it turned out, it didn’t make any difference – all of the teams ended up waiting together for the dock to reopen the next morning, but still). He’s a clever little minx!
Garret and Jessica – they got eliminated at the end of the second leg, so we’ll never find out whether their on-again-off-again relationship has what it takes to make it (spoiler alert – probably not). They kept telling us that she’s got a hot temper and he’s the one that keeps his cool. And yet, he’s the one who hit the wall (literally) when Phil told them they had been eliminated.
Meghan and Cheyne – all I can tell you about this couple is that they’re childhood sweethearts and, more importantly, we are super annoyed by the way Cheyne spells his name. Dude! Your name is “Shane” – did you’re parents hate you or something?
Lance and Keri – we’re totally ready for these Massholes to be eliminated at the next convenient pit stop. He’s rude, condescending, and a “meathead.” (His wife’s words, not mine!). Despite Keri’s claim that he’s “smaaaaaht”, I really don’t think I’d trust him to represent anyone I know if court (oh yeah, he’s a lawyer – did I forget to mention that?).
Maria and Tiffany – 2 professional poker players who are playing mind games before they even hit foreign soil. They decide to tell everyone that they work with a non-profit organization that serves homeless youth, because who wants to help out a couple of rich poker players? This strategy worked well for them for a little while, until their cover was blown by a poker fan in the airport on the way to Vietnam. Everyone quickly realized that they were liars, and basically horrible people, so they shouldn’t be expecting a whole lot of help in the future.
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