Amazing Race, Season 30,
Episodes 9 and 10
Bahrain and Thailand –
For reasons only CBS can understand, the Amazing Race has been on steroids, a two-hour telecast last week followed
by this week’s two-hour telecast, which set up next week’s two-hour finale.
So many detours, so many road blocks, so many quips, so many
tears.
Did I say tears? Long story short, Lucas of #TeamOceanRescue
turned to mush at the end of Episode 9. Because he lost his passport, he and
Brittany were eliminated, taking the pool’s Team Franny with them.
“I feel like I let my family down, I let my friends down,”
Lucas wailed, “and most of all I let Brittany down.” Which he did. But Brittany
“I got him,” she told host Phil Keoghan. “That’s all I ever
wanted.”
Ok, Ok. So what have learned, what do we know going into the
deciding episode?
First of all, the performance of #TeamYale, Evan and Henry, would
lead one to question the value of an Ivy League education.
Faced with a challenge that tested their math skills –
something about measuring the various parts of an elephant and then calculating
its weight – the Yalies were stumped, continually getting the wrong answer. Earlier,
their brains didn’t help them in finding some clues in a sea of bottles.
On top of this, the other remaining duos, led by Jessica of
#TeamBigBrother, have gone all mean-middle-schoolers on Evan and Henry, making
fun of them, not sitting with them in airports. “Evan totally wears the pants
in that relationship,” Jessica said,
Jessica? Feminist? By her admission, she’s letting Cody do
all the work. He carried the timber; he milked the camel; he captured the
frogs; he ate the scorpion. She gushed and complained, thought a female camel
had testicles, and professed her love for her partner. He doesn’t seem to mind,
but you have to suspect that sometime in the finale she’s going to have to pull
her own weight or else.
Which brings us to #TeamExtreme. Mathematically, Kristi and
Jen would have to be the favorites, as they have never finished lower than
third on any leg. But, they, too, seem like an unbalanced duo with Jen simply
being the better racer. Jen did the elephant math.
Kristi had trouble with a
memory challenge in an earlier episode. I see problems.
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| Conor Daly and his mom, Beth Boles |
Alex and Conor, #TeamIndyCar are trending strong. They won
both of this week’s episodes and they seem to be smart, resilient and
well-matched.
Beyond that, Conor’s a jokester supreme, coming up with more
one-liners than the rest of the racers combined. I declare them finale
favorites.
Overheard:
Cody: If we can
make them (#TeamYale) as uncomfortable as possible, I’m fine with that.
Brittany: At this
point in race, it’s either be smart or be eliminated.
Lucas: I give her
the passports because I forget stuff all the time.
Conor: First rule
of the Amazing Race club is to always have your travel documents, aka,
passports, with you.
Jessica: (Cody’s)
a beast; he’s a competition animal. He lives for this stuff.
Henry: I’m just
expressing a specific concern.
Evan: Well, I
don’t know what specific concern you’re expressing.
Conor: This is
not how I planned to spend the day, hunkering underneath a large animal of the
desert squeezing its nipple.
Jen: I was really
excited to have, like, face time with animals.
Brittany: Most
importantly, I still have my ring, safe and sound.
Conor: Daddy’s
got a brand new frog.
Jen: Suffice to
say that we may have beaten Yale at math.
Conor: Alex,
Alex, please eat them (the scorpions) before they kill me.
Jessica: I
contributed like nothing to this leg of the race.
Cody: We want
Yale gone.
Order of finish
Episode 9:
1) Alex and Conor #TeamIndyCar
2) Kristi and Jen #TeamExtreme
3) Evan and Henry #TeamYale
4) Cody and Jessica #TeamBigBrother
Order of finish
Episode 10:
1) Alex and Conor #TeamIndyCar
2) Cody and Jessica #TeamBigBrother
3) Kristi and Jen #TeamExtreme
4) Evan and Henry #TeamYale
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