Unfortunately I piked out of doing  a decade in review of reality TV, as I just don’t have the corporate knowledge of the last ten years. However other people were not quite as gun shy.

Here is a list from the US from Reporter which outlines their top 10 outrageous reality TV moments of the decade.

There are obviously some shows on it that I have never heard of or seen, however the near domestic violence incident between Johnathan and Victoria on The Amazing Race does, as does the Johnny Fairplay “dead grandmother” manoeuvre.

One YouTube video that I found particularly disturbing to watch was an excerpt from The Surreal Life  where Mini-Me urinated into a corner. That was the least excruciating part of the scene, it was more the fact that the producers allowed a person the size of a toddler to drink so much alcohol where they must of risked him either dying of alcohol poisoning or choking on his own vomit. On the plus side I did not realise that little Peter Brady (Christopher Knight) had such a fit looking body.

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The quote of then night if not the series was when Erika was talking to camera about how her mother was not real happy that she married a white guy that by watching him on the show “they would be able to see what a wonderful guy he was”. All I could do was laugh, as I am sure Brian’s family would not be having the same feelings about Erika after seeing her throw tantrums and pout throughout the series.

To be honest last nights most memorable moments were given by Erika:

• The Cirque De Soleil challenge mega tantrum where there were flailing legs, and crying and then the usual well you do it you are taller because it is ALWAYS Brian’s fault;
• Her manic smile when she realised they were in the lead thinking she was on the way to $1 million, and maybe if she just shut up while they were counting the chips they may have got the right amount;
• Her death stare, with pout, when they were in the cab going to The Monte Carlo knowing they were in last place; and
• Her departing line to the marrying couple in the Elvis chapel when leaving saying “marriage is wonderful”.

By the way props goes to Cheyne who I have thought has been carried by Meghan for a lot of the race, for staying calm and taking control of the chip counting. Their teamwork, and methodical strategy meant they were accurate and out of there first, when they arrived last.

Bad luck to the gay guys, who came in second, but props to Wayne Newton (or was it the joker in disguise) who was gracious when they could not remember his name.

This series again showed why it is one of the  best reality shows on TV. Thumbs down to Channel Seven for moving it from its Thursday night timeslot just at the end of the season.

Here are interviews with Erika and Brian, who I did not realise were the first interracial couple on the race ever.

Here is a really good and comprehensive interview with the gay guys Dan and SamMeghan and Cheyne.

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Firstly I just want to say I am not happy with the day change for The Amazing Race, as I nearly forgot it was on last night.

Anyway the final three have been decided, with the seemingly invincible Megan and Cheynne winning the leg yet again.

However was I disappointed the Globetrotters were eliminated? Yes. Did I think they deserved to be? Yes.

Seriously you take a four hour time penalty for not completing the Roadblock challenge. You would have been able to write down all the combinations in that time. And seriously the second letter in the word could only be A or R there are not words starting with FN or FZ.

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It was down to the final four racing from Finland to Prague, and they are all pretty strong competitors any of them could take out of $1 million.

Quote of the night goes to Brian, husband of Erika, when he said that they were such an nice team. Now I know it is the way they edit people but she appears to be just awful.

The highlights from her tonight was when she was doing the Roadblock none of which she is too successful at she always complains that Brian should have done it. Anyway they got lucky and it was a non-elimination round.

I think those gay brothers must have some bad karma coming to them, however in those same circumstances (top three position at stake) I may have done the same thing.

There was much debate in how household on which detour to do the fast (kayaks)  or the slow (the ropes) – I said ropes as at least there was an end point, partner thought kayak would not be that hard, I think that proved to be incorrect, and the boys would have twice as much co-ordination then us.

I liked the fact the roadblock gave teams the opportunity to catch up and over take, however I was disappointed when Erika and Brian came in last on the mat that it was a non-elimination round.

At this stage I am not sure who is going to win, however Cheyne and Megan have not put a foot wrong all series. However in my heart I would like the Globetrotters to win.

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Firstly apologies for not getting this blog post up last night, but I was exhausted.

Regardless of whether you are enjoying this season as much as the other you have to admit this has been the season where you just cannot pick what will happen at the pitstop.

Last week, Mika refused to go down waterslide letting the Globetrotters to get past and avoid elimination. Also Maria and Tiffany were like cat’s with nine lives as twice previously they had finished last at the pitstop. Once in Japan when it was a non-elimination round, and the other time in Cambodia when Zev and Justin lost their passports so could not continue on in the race.

But finally their luck ran out they were unable to complete either of the detour challenges even though they had plenty of time to do it. They first attempted the dance challenge but were unable to hit the hammer hard enough to hit the bell, then they went to do the golf, but gave up on that pretty easily. Then it was back to the dancing, and after nearly 80 hits they were getting nowhere. Maria did not even look like she was trying. Then it was back to the golf, by this stage they were completely knackered.

But maybe their elimination was karma for kind of cheating in the bell counting challenge where the gay brothers gave them the number.

It is unfortunate they hit these obstacles as this would have seen Erika and Brian eliminated. Oh my god does anyone like this woman? She shrieks and nags her husband Brian, and then when she is doing challenge extremely badly she starts sulking and says “Brian should have done this challenge”. Then when she finally completes it she is haranguing him as they walk in the clogs to the detour.  Hello they would not be this far behind if she could pay attention to detail.

Also she is hysterical when she finds out she has a 30 minute time penalty for not following the instructions of riding a bike to the detour. I wonder if she would have been so tolerant with Brian if he had completely fucked up the bell counting roadblock. I doubt it.

Oh and a special shout out to the father and son team who stopped the dancing challenge because they had to eat a herring. That is postively gourmet compared to some of the disgusting things they have to eat in previous seasons. Cows lips anyone?

Here is an elimination interview with Maria and Tiffany on Reality Wanted.

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 There were a couple of interesting things on The Amazing Race tonight:

1. That the Harlem Globetrotters took a lot of time to figure out the briefcase code, in fact I would have had difficulty that it was saying 8.35.

2. That the black beauty queen thought she had married up. I hope she was being ironic; and

3. The great waterslide fiasco of country singers Mika Canaan. I am still trying to work out what was more ridiculous the fact she wouldn’t go down it or the floaties she was wearing on her arms.

If you missed it below is the clip of the fiasco of Mika trying unsuccessfully to overcome her fear of heights and water.

 

Reality TV World has an interview with Mika and Canaan, and yes they are still together.

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Previously, on The Amazing Race: Cambodia, monkeying around and, ultimately, heartbreak as favourite team Zev and Justin lost a passport and were eliminated. “Eight teams remain. Who will be eliminated next?”

Sam and Dan are leaving the pitstop first. They tear into their clue, which tells them to fly to the Persian Gulf and find the world’s tallest building. Phil explains that the teams will have to “figure out” that this is the Burj Dubai. Not much of a challenge, is it? Our new race leaders declare that they will use their unexpected head start to “finish first”. It’s not looking good, though – they ask their cab driver “Where is the Persian Gulf?”. Really? They’re going to need some smarts if they want to protect their “head start”, which is only two minutes. It’s going to be whittled down in fairly short order, too, as Flight Time and Big Easy know where the Persian Gulf is and head straight for an internet cafe to research the tallest building and organise flights.

Brian and Ericka head off next, a mere minute after the ‘trotters, and let us know that they have $160 for the leg. As they hustle their cab driver off to the airport, they interview that they believe in karma and are taking a “help people out” approach to their race. Ericka even knows that they will be headed for Dubai, although Brian doesn’t seem to believe her. She’s adamant and convinces him. The ‘trotters have had Mr Google confirm that their destination is Dubai, too. They can’t get online tickets at such short notice, so head to the airport.

Gary and Matt are in fourth place and are disappointed to be playing “follow the leader”, however they are still only ten minutes behind Sam and Dan. They have no idea where the world’s tallest building is, though. Meghan and Cheyne are hot on their heels, having checked in only two minutes after them. Meghan nods intensely as Cheyne explains that they have the “front runner type mentality”. Whatever that means.

Sam and Dan are the first at the airport and race up to the ticket window to book “tickets to the Persian Gulf”. The masked woman behind the security screen has no idea what they’re talking about. It dawns on them that the Gulf is, like, a large area and that they’ll need to narrow it down a bit. Duh. Ericka and Brian arrive to rescue the boys. “The Persian Gulf isn’t even a country, we’ve gotta go to Dubai,” says Brian, rather too helpfully.

Lance and Keri are now on the mat. “Nothing could tear us apaht,” says Keri. I have enough faith in the TAR editors to believe that this will have ironic resonance as the episode goes on. “And we have a lot of non-refundable deposits on the wedding at the moment, so I’m not going to lose out on that,” adds Lance, romantically.

Mika and Canaan are next to go. When they read that they are destined to visit the world’s tallest building, Canaan says “Oh, schnikes!”. This non-expletive conveys his concern for Mika, who is afraid of heights. Schnikes, indeed.

Maria and Tiffany are last out, and know that their continued presence in the race is pure luck. Unless, of course, they had something to do with the disappearing passport…?

The teams at the airport, which now include Meghan and Cheyne, are being way too chummy. Ericka seems to be doing the flight research for all of them. Seriously, this is a race. There needs to be some Snidely Whiplash action sometime soon; this is too much like drowning in melted marshmallow. We cut to Lance and Keri who are at the internet cafe trying to book flights. Keri’s suspicious that they have a dodgy computer, but Lance “knows about booking flights” and says that the tickets are “disappearing because people are booking them”. I’d be on board with that interpretation if we weren’t seeing the blue screen of death. Keri takes Lance’s whiny tone as a signal to shut up. Probably wise. Unfortunately this is all manufactured tension – all teams eventually end up on the same flights. Grrr.

Brian and Ericka are in first place out of the airport which, as any seasoned observer of this show knows, means absolutely nothing. Still, they high five each other. Well done! As the teams taxi to the fountain, they provide a banal commentary on Dubai: “It’s hot. And humid”, “Whoo, it’s hot!”, “Lots of concrete”. The poker players make it to the fountain first, so take one of four slots in the first elevator. Mika and Canaan are cracking the shits because they weren’t taken to the water fountain. Well, it seems they were taken to the hotel, but then went somewhere else. At any rate, Canaan is frustrated enough to use the word “damn”. Schnikes, you don’t want to get him riled up! So, in the first group are: Maria and Tiffany, Brian and Ericka, Sam and Dan, and Meghan and Cheyne. In the second group: Mika and Canaan, Lance and Keri, Flight Time and Big Easy, and Gary and Matt.

It’s 5.30am and the first group is donning hard hats for their elevator ride. Outside, Mika is crying about the forthcoming ordeal. Flight Time interviews that Mika was “scared about the possibility that we might have to jump off”, which shows that she is a scholar of Race history. That thought hadn’t occurred to me at all. The first teams get out of the elevator and finds the clue box, or – in Tiffany’s alternate history – “we trudged up to the 124th floor of the world’s tallest building”. Trudged? Right. According to the clue, and Phil’s helpful narration, they will now “find this parking structure” (it’s obviously a night for strangely chosen words) and drive themselves “out into the scorching desert” where they will “ride in 4×4s” to the next clue. The camels shown in the accompanying clip may or may not be integral to the action.

Fast Forward! Drive around a race track in an F3 car. Woo hoo?

Brian – a.k.a. Mr Karma – suggests to the other teams that they should act “like it was crazy!” when they get out, to freak the other teams out. Well, as long as he’s prepared for what comes around, I guess… Canaan advises Mika not to pay attention, but she’s a sobbing little blonde jelly at this stage. Meghan and Cheyne are the only ones going for the Fast Forward (they’re front runner types, remember?). Mika is so relieved that nobody has had to jump off that she says she’s the “happiest (she’s) ever been”.

First four have found their cars at the “parking structure”, and the second group is heading there too. Well, three of the second four teams are. Lance and Keri are, for some reason, blazing their own trail. “It’s all right, good pace baby, I won’t kill you” says Lance, reassuringly, as they jog away from the other teams. “Everybody went the other way,” responds Keri, without much conviction. The three teams find their cars and drive out, with mixed emotions. Mika’s excited to see the building again through the sunroof. Does this excitement account for Gary saying “I’m about ready to wet myself”? Lance might also be about to wet himself, with the whiny crybaby tears of a whiny crybaby. He wishes they’d gone with the other teams. Keri remains quiet.

On the road, the ‘trotters take a right and Mika and Canaan take a left. Whose sense of direction is best? Flight Time is navigating for the HGTs and has a compass, and the faith of the Big Easy. Canaan and Mika are equally convinced they are right. Keri and Lance finally find their car, and Lance doesn’t want Keri to ask anybody for help. No, of course not. She should just trust you because you’ve demonstrated an unerring intuition for the race so far. Moron.

Meghan and Cheyne are at the racetrack. “It’s really easy for me to just jump into any sort of situation,” Cheyne tells us. I wonder when the producers will reveal that they are droids.

Back in the desert, our first three teams marvel at the heat and sand and then transfer to their 4×4 shuttles. What a boring leg. Fly. Get in a lift. Drive a car. Be driven in a car. I’m glad the teams are telling us how awesome and fun the experience is, because it does not make good television.

Mika and Canaan are not sure they are on the right track. They stop to ask some people and are given directions, but still lack confidence that they are not in last place. Are they? Well… Lance and Keri are driving along a freeway. “This exit?” asks Lance. “No,” answers Keri. He stays in the right, i.e. exit, lane. “No! No!” says Keri. He takes the exit. “So, you’re telling me I shouldn’t have taken this exit?”. Duh.

Back in the desert, the teams have spotted the marker and instruct their drivers to stop. God knows why – I don’t remember the clue saying that they had to run a couple of hundred meters to the clue box. Why not be driven right up to it?

Roadblock: beat the desert heat. “Teams will have to… literally… drink in the landscape.” I hope Phil is going to provide instructions as to how this can… literally… be done. Or is it… literally… as straightforward as “I’m drinking, and I’m in a landscape”. No, it’s one of those dull search-for-something-in-a-large-area tasks. Yawn. Brian takes the task for the team because, as Ericka explains, “chocolate melts”. Now I’m worried for the HGTs. Or for Ericka’s generalisations. The ‘trotters and Gary and Matt are now in the 4×4s, so our other three teams had better start finding those buried jars of water. Tiffany finds an urn, but it’s empty, so they’ve made no progress by the time the next two teams arrive.

Lance and Keri? Still driving around Dubai. “I’m going to go 44 East,” decides Lance. “Use your judgement,” says Keri. “My judgement sucks.” So, he has a small amount of insight, then. Just doesn’t apply it.

Ugh. Meghan and Cheyne at the racetrack. He’s making his first attempt at a 45 second lap. She’s crying because it’s “so hard not having the control”. He’s screaming “I am the man!”. Ugh, again.

Back in the desert, Brian has found an urn full of water. He’s being secretive as he fills his water bag and it seems that finally, the race is on! But, no – as soon as his bag is full he tips off Tiffany and Sam. Or Dan. Whichever. That ol’ karma thing again. Now they get to go to Ski Dubai for their next clue. The poker players and Sam and Dan are soon on their way, too, despite a small mishap with Samdan’s ladle. No problem – they’re all in an alliance! Because that’s how Survivor works! What? This is… oh.

Matt doesn’t need any sneaky alliances to complete the task – he’s done almost as quickly as the first three. Flight Time has faith that Big Easy can also do it – “he got through Katrina”.

Canaan and Mika! I’d forgotten about them. They don’t think they’re going the right way, but then they spot Brian and Ericka on their way back. Brian tells them where the Conservation reserve is because… karma. Yeah, we get it.

Maria must have done something nasty to somebody, because she has run over a stake and broken the radiator on her car. Or, as Tiffany puts it, “it gave the tummy of our car a little tickle and now it’s bleeding radiator blood”. Samdan are waiting for them, because they’re in an alliance. And because they’re stupid.

The ‘trotters are done, and a new car arrives for the poker players just as Canaan heads off into the desert. Lance and Keri? Who knows/cares. Wow, it’s all about the self-deprecating racial putdowns today – Maria has an excuse for her bad driving. “It’s because I’m an Asian female driver.”

Meghan and Cheyne are officially team number one and have a trip to Jamaica for their “efforts”. Meghan’s proud of what she’s “achieved”. I’d love for them to realise that their passports were missing, around about now. Oh, and for them to explain how watching your partner drive a car is an “achievement”.

The bad news? Lance and Keri have caught up. The good news? Lance is doing the roadblock. He and Canaan are running – running! – around the desert looking for urns. Fortunately, God is attending to things other than providing a magic water jug in response to Lance’s prayers.

Proving that karma doesn’t trump reading a map, Gary and Matt take the lead from Brian and Ericka and head into Ski Dubai. Phil explains the detour, whilst skiing. Build a snowman or Find a snowman. Please, another “find something small in a vast area” challenge? Boo! “Build” seems the obvious choice, until the details emerge: the snowman must be built outside. Hmm. Matt thinks “finding” will be easier.

Back in the desert, Canaan has found water. Lance? Not so lucky. He finds an urn, but it’s empty, so he picks it up and flings it into the sand. He’s so charming.

Back in the snow, Gary and Matt are searching for their snowman. “Do you know what a Dubai snowman looks like?” asks Matt. “I hope it’s not white!”. What colour does he think it will be? The other teams all arrive, and all choose “find”.

Mika and Canaan are back on the road. “Isn’t it funny that you can drive 110 miles an hour here and it only feels like 60?” muses Mika. “It’s 110 kilometers an hour, so it is only 60,” explains Canaan. “Ohhhhh.”

Lance has found a water-filled urn and so is, unfortunately, done with the roadblock. As he takes the clue from the bedouin, he throws down the challenge items, saying “have a bag, have a ladle, have a nice life”. He’s foul.

Brian and Ericka are the first to find the snowman. They keep their karma in mind and show the other teams what it is they’re looking for. Tiffany and Maria decide to ditch “find”, anyway, and go with “build”. Gary and Matt also bail on “find”, but Samdan don’t want to quit. At least, Dansam does, but Samdan doesn’t. Big Easy takes a spill but it’s not played for laughs, for some reason.

Playing for laughs, though, are Lance and Keri who are still en route to Ski Dubai. Or are they? They’re really not sure where they’re going, although Lance is pretty sure that it’s Keri’s fault if they’re lost. He calls her “baby” a few times, just to make it clear that, even though she’s screwed up, he still loves her. And hopes she’ll forget that her one mistake doesn’t add up to all of his.

Teams building snowmen in the 130 degree heat are looking on the bright side: “At least we’ll be warm!”. Mika and Canaan are still on the road. Lance and Keri are heading in the right direction, now, they think. They’re laughing about directionally challenged, right as we see them continue along a road despite a sign indicating that Dubai is to the right.

Brian and Ericka? You’re team number two! Ericka explains that Brian believes in karma. Who knew?

Samdan finally ditch “find”, rationalising – somehow – that if they go to build, the ‘trotters won’t find a snowman. Which they do, almost immediately, if you believe the edit. Yay! As they head out to their car, they see Mika and Canaan and advise them to get their coats. Oh, c’mon! Why is everybody so nice? (Lance, you’re not included in that assessment, but you’re not interesting-nasty, you’re just hideously charmless.)

Matt and Gary use their Montana skills to complete a pretty good looking snowman fairly quickly. Mika and Canaan choose “build”, because Mika’s never done sledding. Are you kidding me? It’s sliding. God help her if she actually has to complete a real challenge.

Maria and Tiffany are done building. So are Samdan. “Schnikes!” Canaan’s getting worried. Maybe they don’t need to be – Maria and Tiffany are having difficulty communicating – Maria doesn’t seem to understand simple directions, and by “simple directions”, I mean “west”. Mika and Canaan finish, which leaves Keri and Lance still to complete. Well, still to find the challenge, really.

Tiffany and Maria resolve their directional incompetence and arrive at the pitstop in 6th place, after Samdan. Lance and Keri? Building a snowman. Pleasebeaneliminationround. Pleasebeaneliminationround. Pleasebeaneliminationround.

“Mika and Canaan? You’re team number seven.”

Lance and Keri have finished their snowman and instead of racing off to catch up to the others, Lance wants to kick the snowman. He’s a douche.

Aaaand “I’m sorry to tell you, you have been eliminated.” Yay! Lance explains that he and Keri are “different personalities… I wouldn’t want to marry myself”.

Let’s hope that in the next episode, the teams wake up and realise that they are in a competition.

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One of the reasons I like watching The Amazing Race is seeing Americans appear totally ignorant about the countries they are travelling through. However tonight the contestants hit a new low, when they could not recognise the iconic Jackie Kennedy-Onassis.

 I know we don’t expect they yanks to know much about what is outside their country, but really this was ridiculous. Only about three teams recognised her.

It was an OK episode but for some reason it was not the most entertaining, here are a few thoughts on it:

• The poker player girls have got to be the luckiest team in the history of The Amazing Race, both times they have come in last to the pit stop they have been given a get out of jail free card, once it was a non-elimination leg, and tonight they benefited off the bad luck of another team;
• Just as I had decided Zev and Justin were my favourite team, and was very happy when they came in first, it was discovered Zev did not have his passport. They were told be Phil they had to go and find it before the last team was checked in. Unfortunately they did not. But why wasn’t it in the bum bag? Anyway I am sure they will have to live with that stuff up for the rest of their lives.
• Lance is a tool and if Keri marries him she is a fool;
• Also Mika and Canaan don’t appear to be members of MENSA either, but then members of MENSA don’t appear to be members of MENSA either (I’m thinking of you Sabrina from The Apprentice);
• I know they showed people struggling with the monkey manouvre road block but I thought it was too easy and not that entertaining;
• Did Phil tear up when he told Zev and Justin they were eliminated?
• Does this mean the brother’s get the Velocity prize for coming first by default?

Here is an interview with the guys on Reality Wanted (by the way there are no spoilers there).

They do reveal in the interview that the passport was found as it was handed in. They lost it in the monkey manouvre challenge when Justin put his hand in the bum pack to get out a light.

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Tonight the race when from Tokyo to Cai Be with all the teams catching up at the airport so it was even except for the poker girls who had to complete a speed bump in this leg.

Thoughs on the episode:

• Canaan has something in common with Xenogene from Beauty and Geek as he is sexually pure. This is because of his faith. But his faith does not extend to not saying “I want to rip her head off right now” when he was frustrated with his girlfriend Mika later in the race.
• Regular commenter Sourkraut is right about the huge backpacks, I hope they have to fly Qantas at some stage of the race as those packs will well and truly not be allowed as carry on luggage;
• I love the way Sam and Dan showed outrage at the girls lying about their occupation, but then admitted to wanting the girls to think they are straight;
• The poker girls managed to get all the teams off side by being found out that they had lied to everyone about their occupation.
• I kept on expecting a motorbike in Ho Chi Minh city to slip under one of the cars in the flooded streets;
• The beauty queen Erika is intense she said she ‘was going to throw up’ because she was on a bus that was leaving an hour later than the other one, also condescending to Zev when she said she “was so proud of him” for giving his jacket to a wet guy. Also did we really need to see her g-string in the duck challenge?
• Lance is a tool, and it cracked me up that the poker girls were dubious about being a lawyer, to be honest I am too.
• Phil is looking particularly hot this season (ok sorry that comment was a tad self indulgent).
• The mud challenge was evil.
• Megan and Cheyne seem really nice.
• The Roadblock of moving all the ducks in ten minutes would have been tough, but it also gave people at the back of the pack to move up some places. I like challenges like that.
• Gary and Matt came in first and deservedly so they ran a great leg, and Jessica and Garrett were eliminated, and deserved to be considering he pushed a guy on a motobike out of the way.

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The Amazing Race started off not with the teams flying in on exotic modes of transport but bussed in to a graffiti ridden canal beside the Los Angeles River. In fact they tried to glam it up for the viewer as a movie location, yes I did remember it from Grease and Terminator, but was this a sly way of producers cutting back the budget.

Backing up my budget cut theory was the fact that only eleven of the twelve teams were going to leave the country, a first for the show. The challenge was to find the specific Japanese number plate to hand to Phil to get a ticket on a flight to Tokyo.

Maria and Tiffany who were professional poker players were the first to find it.They also had a strategy of not telling the other teams this is what they did, as they did not want them to  think they made a lot of money and not be sympathetic towards them. So of course instead of picking a neutral profession such as an accountant or call centre manager, they are saying the work for the homeless. Are these girls the Johnny Fairplay of this season’s Amazing Race?

Anyway they had a fractured relationship even before they had left the airport.

The second flight caught up with the other one, so it became a level playing field.

When they got to their first clue it was a Japanese game show. Oh too funny. They had to wait for all the teams to arrive. They had to play sushi roulette. It was a roadblock where they played until they received a wasabi bomb and then they only had two minutes to eat it.

Cheyne actually ate it pretty quick, as did Ron with 20 seconds to spare.

They then had to get 20 people from the audience and lead them to a shinto shrine which was the pitstop for this leg of the rate.

Marcy, Ron’s partner seem a bit kooky “I am in my body and having a really good time” . WTF? She will be interesting to watch. I could not work out why they were not asking for directions, and they lost a lot of time.

Back at the wasabi roadblock Maria did not complete the wasabi roll in the two minutes, and then rolled one again straight away, and then turned to Tiffany and said she could not do another one. But she did and got it done just in time.

Megan and Cheyne were first to arrive and they won a trip to Aspen and Vaile by Velocity of course. With Zev and Justin coming in second who look like they are going to be hilarious. The poker girls were smart to go into a hotel to get a map and directions. Well I thought that at the time, but it did not work out so well for them.

Brian dudded on the wasabi and his wife Ericka looked like she could have killed him, and they were the last team left at the roulette table. However they powered through to the shrine and came in as team number six.

I love the way Maria and Tiffany thought that the two gay brothers were hot, and the boys thought the girls were worthy due to them “working with the homeless”. However karma got them and Maria and Tiffany lost some of their Japanese team, so incurred a two hour penalty as it was a non-elimination leg, but they will have a speedbump in next week’s episode. They will find it difficult to stay in the race.

By the way a big thank you to Channel Seven for televising it so quickly as it only started in the US two weeks ago.

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