30 January 2005
By Stacy
In The Amazing Race
Previously on The Amazing Race…Jonathan Baker and the V-Chip ended their disastrously embarrassing run across the continents by landing on the Mat of Judgment last and being given the boot by the Philiminator. What you didn’t see was all of Phil’s minions and production assistants high-fiving each other and doing Snoopy dances off-camera.
And…exhale.
Five teams remain…who will be eliminated…next?
The location: Ethiopia.
The time: 1:16 p.m. Hayden & Aaron depart first and kick off this week’s home-game installment of The Amazing Race Jeopardy!
“Phil, I’ll take Ethiopian capitols for $200.”
“Very well. And the answer is…the capital of Ethiopia.”
Bolo: “What is Adidas Abbaba?”
Kris & Jon and Kendra & Freddy opt out of trying to answer.
Rebecca: What is Adeeeees Abbaba (Adam: Rebecca…it’s Yabba Dabba Doo).
General thoughts on the show because, despite watching it twice this week, I’m suffering Amazing Writer’s Block and can’t get out my standard recap/review/whatever. Sorry…I’ll try to get it back together for this Tuesday.
This week’s host country was Sri Lanka, not Sarika Lanka, Bolo. Luckily, the ticketing agent at the airport probably hears that bungled phrase quite a bit, so she knew where you wanted to go.
Freddy, you’re such a nancy boy. Only nancy boys use phrases like “nancy boy.”
Rebecca caught on that the only way she can get Potato Head to quit whining like, ahem, a nancy boy…is to suck up to him and tell him how wonderful and competent and capable he is. I imagine it was more painful for her to actually do than it was for me to watch.
Would it have been against the Amazing Rules for Bolo to have taken Lori’s admission ticket up to her, instead of waiting for her to come all the way back down the 3,478,120 steps to retrieve it? I’m just wondering.
I so would have played Elephant Polo instead of climbing the trees, even if the view was better from up there.
Kris and Jon…God is most definitely their co-pilot. I believe it more when the team members don’t try and shove it down our throats.
Did anyone else wish the Amazing Producers would have played some keystone cops music (or at least the Benny Hill theme song) as Hayden & Aaron, Freddy & Kendra and Adam & Rebecca ran all over the place, tripped over each other and fell into the pool during the confusing final swim to the pit stop?
Better yet…did anyone else have flashbacks of that 1980 Chanel No. 5 “Share the Fantasy” commercial with the hottie swimming sensually across the swimming pool? No? Okay.
I love how the Philiminator is getting more involved with the feuding couples this year. After Lori & Bolo get the bad news that they’re the last team to arrive…and they’ve been eliminated, Lori lets loose on Bolo. After the dust settles, Phil says to Bolo that although his wife is mad at him right now, he’s sure Bolo has lots of nice things to say about her. Aww. Way to make Lori feel like a raving bitch, Phil. Nicely done.
Two more weeks!
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