We're Not in Oklahoma No More
Last night was the first episode of the new season of the Amazing Race - the teams started at an old west movie ranch (huh?) coming in by stagecoach among fake shootouts... (weird.)
And we meet the teams:
Chester & Ephraim - Former NFL teammates from Houston Texas. Ephraim told Chester he should play football so he made him who he is today :)
Rowan & Shane - Theatre performers from Charlotte, North Carolina - make their living in a production called the Queen of Bingo, in which they both dress as bingo ladies (oh sweet Jebus.)
Tim & Marie - Exes from Morristown, NJ - they don't get along but they still hang out. (They seem like a powder keg these two.)
Leo & Jamal - Cousins from Southern California, known as the Afghanimals - cause they are Afghan and [party] animals (ho-boy.)
Ashley & Ally - LA Kings Ice Crew teammates from Long Beach, CA. They like sparkly things. ('Nough said.)
Travis & Nicole - Married ER physicians from Atlanta, Georgia - they are a team at home and at work and think they'll be formidable on the Race.
Hoskote & Naina - Father & Daughter of Indian descent from California - father knows best and he'd like her to have an arranged marriage - she's a modern woman and will do what she wants (hmm.)
Tim & Danny - Oil plant workers from Oklahoma - they're small town, work long hours, but need the money for a sick wife's medical bills and their children.
Brandon & Adam - Childhood friends (The bearded wonders) from California - by their own admission they are a little off kilter.
Nicky & Kim - Major League Baseball wives from the mid-west - (brunette barbies) but they have personalities, they tell us.
Jason & Amy - dating, from New England - they are competitive and compatible - she makes sure we know she's smart (we'll see if she's book smart or if she can apply the smarts in the Race.)
Phil tells them that in just a few minutes they will be taking off for South America. The team that wins the first leg will win an Express Pass for themselves and one to give to another team before the 5th leg of the Race.
-The first clue is just a phone call away - they have to run to the product placement Ford Hybrid cars and make a call to the other side of the world to get their instructions... off they go!
Iquique, Chile - they have to drive to the LA Int'l airport - they're warned there is limited space on the first flight. Once in Chile they have to look for Javier (the guy on the phone.)
-Leo & Jamal are just trying way too hard with the Afghanimal thing - seriously dudes, dial it down.
-Tim & Marie are fighting already - she's telling him to drive faster from the backseat, he complains about how shrill her voice is and she calls him dumb. (That's going to get old fast.)
-Tim & Danny - Okies get lost trying to find the airport and the woman they try to ask for directions doesn't speak English... (language barrier already and they haven't even left California.)
On the first flight we have Leo & Jamal, Chester & Ephraim (way to go boys, they are my team in the pool so I'm biased), Rowan & Shane, Tim & Marie (did I mention her hair is blond on top and bright pink on the bottom - and I think she pulls it off), blond barbies Ally & Ashley, brunette barbies Nicky & Kim and finally the married doctors Travis & Nicole.
Just missing out by the hair of their chinny chin chins are Brandon & Adam (which I'm sure will be quickly called Duck Dynasty, how could they not?), Hoskote & Naina, Jason & Amy and Okies Tim & Danny - they will arrive 2 1/2 hours after the first flight.
Getting to know you in the airport and the Afghanimals make their (wild and crazy guy) moves on Ally & Ashley - going for the eye candy, how original. We'll see if this proves to be an alliance or not.
On with the Race - once they land in Chile they have to make their way by taxi to some remote place where Javier will hand them their next clue.
-When they arrive at the airport, Afghanimals are yelling, "my wife is pregnant," to get through the crowd, others are yelling, "We're in a Race" - but it's the doctors, with Nicole speaking Spanish that get the first taxi.
The second flight is just heading from Santiago and these later four teams seem discouraged already.
The first seven teams are seeing some paragliders as they are driving in the taxis and Chester & Ephraim sum up how they feel about that: "Oh Hell, NO!"
-They get the clue to a ROADBLOCK: Who is good at follow the leader? One team member must follow their partner in a car while they paraglide from the rugged cliffs. Once they reunite on the beach (landing site) they will get their next clue.
-The clue is a little tricky, whoever says they are good at following the leader means they are driving and the other person is doing the paragliding. Oops.
-Dr. Travis is the first one gliding and Nicole explains to the taxi driver in Spanish what they need to do - speaking the language has been invaluable to them at this point.
-Former NFLer Chester has to glide since Ephraim volunteered to follow the leader (yup, they were tricked).
The rest of the teams get to the ROADBLOCK and they all fall victim to the switcheroo - the only team that freaks out though are the Baseball wives, well the one that has to paraglide is of course terrified of heights - her name is Kim and she is worried about her son Spidey (really? you names your son Spidey?) but finds strength in making him proud.
-Four teams have let their cabs go so they're stranded until they can get other cabs. Jamal gets a guy to order two taxis for himself and Ashley but when they come Marie takes his, he's not happy and calls her a b*tch (nice) - but four cabs came anyway so they are all headed for the beach.
-Nicole and Ephraim end up being let out of their taxis pretty far away from the landing zone which allows Rowan & Shane to reunite first and get the clue to make their way to Muelle Prat and search for their next clue. But soon everyone has landed and reunited - they are all looking for Muelle Prat.
And a lot of them speak Spanish - Leo is speaking like a local.
2nd flight has just arrived - One of the bearded ones speaks Spanish as does Smarty-pants Amy - (I think it's all the Californians actually, which makes sense.) These four teams are going to be competing hard not to be the first team eliminated, you can see how much more stressed they are.
Muelle Prat: The Doctors are the first team to the next clue box and it's another ROADBLOCK: Who's got both oars in the water?
- They have to choose a heavy, cumbersome, row boat and search the harbour for one of 3 specific fishing boats from which they must collect 5 fish. Once they deliver the fish to the fishmonger they'll get their next clue.
-Whoever did the paragliding must be the person to row the boat, so Travis is the first out and apparently he hasn't rowed a boat in years (it shows.)
2nd flight is arriving at the paragliding - and all of them are tricked by the clue - the Okies are the last to arrive.
Back at the rowing - Leo and Jamal read the clue wrong and Jamal gets in the boat (Leo should have). Jamal can't even stay seated, he's a train wreck trying to row.
-Travis finally finds one of the boats and gets his fish.
-Rowan is also in a boat... he quips, "They don't call me "rowin'" for nothing."
-Travis is the first to get the next clue - it's a picture of a beautiful building - the Municipal Theatre of Iquique. It is the Pit Stop for this leg of the race - the first team will get the Express Passes and the last team will be eliminated.
-Marie & Tim reading the Roadblock clue tells us they have to make their way on foot to the Pit Stop... as we see Travis & Nicole get into a cab (OH NO! Always be reading the clue!)
-Everyone in the boats is having a heck of a time rowing, especially the girls, those boats are big, and cumbersome.
-Travis & Nicole arrive at the Pit Stop and are told - they are the first team to arrive, however, the clue said they had to make their way on foot and they took a cab.
Phil, "What is the first clue of the Amazing Race?
Both: "Always read the clue." (Ha! Exactly!)
-They have incurred a 30 minute penalty... the longest thirty minutes of their lives. (Couldn't they take the cab back and then come back on foot? Didn't they use to have that option? Maybe not anymore.)
-Back at the Rowing: Finally someone realizes that Leo should be the one in the boat and Ashley tells him. "CRAP! JAMAL! COME BACK!"
-Tim has collected his fish with Marie shrilly yelling at him of course, and they get the clue to the Pit Stop... with Travis & Nicole still having 19 minutes on their penalty.
-Back at the paragliding, the bearded one (Brandon) has a false start, he doesn't keep running, he jumped, and they bailed (oops).
-Back at the boats, Rowan is the next to get the clue to the Pit Stop. Chester finally finds a boat to collect the fish from but there are only 4 fish left, so he has to find another boat to get one more. Jamal is still trying to get the boat back to switch places with Leo. Kim collects her fish, Chester sees her and gets one from that boat and Ally finally finds a boat, it's just getting to it.
-Leo & Jamal finally switch spots and they seem most upset that they let girls beat them (the Afghanimals are sexist? No.)
-Back at paragliding - Jason, Hoskote, Tim and finally bearded Brandon get up in the air. His original misfire has landed Duck Dynasty in last place (that's gotta hurt.)
-Leo gets to a fish boat but it only has 2 fish left - he's still searching.
-The paragliders are all landing and meeting up with their partners... but where is Naina? She's still in the taxi, allowing Brandon & Adam to make up one place.
-Ally gets all her fish and then Leo finally comes in with 5 fish.
-When Naina finally gets to the beach her father blames her for waiting too long at the launch site, then wants to know what the hold up was... (typical dad.)
The second flight start arriving at the rowing - Tim & Danny see the sea lions and say, "Holy, what's that?" (Oh, Oklahoma). The guys are hitting the row boats, Jason rowed crew in school so he's tearing it up - Oklahoma Tim - not so much, they have motors on their boats back home (Oh, and that is a good deal of butt crack, thank you CBS censors for the blurring.) Bearded Brandon is struggling with the rowing and Adam starts yelling at him to pick it up when Hoskote & Naina finally show up.
-Brandon finds one of the boats that is out of fish and it flusters him - he's not sure what to do now. (Oh, he's obviously not the brains of the operation.) Tim, having collected his fish points Brandon in the right direction (oh, that was nice.)
-Naina & Hoskote misread the clue to this Roadblock and she thinks she's the one that has to perform the task (uh oh.) She is having a hard time rowing (come on Dad, figure it out...) Naina decides to re-read the clue to make sure she knows the names of the boats she's looking for... and she finally realizes Dad should have done this, she's got to go back. Dad blames her for the mistake... which kinda was her fault. And he's rowing in the dark as she cries on the dock. The adventure didn't even begin for them, but she is so proud of him.
Here's How They Finished:
1) Nicole & Travis -Nope. Read your clue!- 30 minute penalty.
1) Tim & Marie - fighting exes come in first proving that the teams that fight tend to do well - always on edge keeps them sharp I guess - so these two win the Express Passes.
2) Nicole & Travis - they are very disappointed in themselves for not using their doctor's attention to detail - they vow to shape up.
3) Rowan & Shane - BINGO!! (I have a feeling the Bingo thing is going to be a recurring theme.)
4) Chester & Ephraim - My NFL boys
5) Nicky & Kim - Baseball Barbies
6) Ally & Ashley - Hockey Barbies
7) Leo & Jamal - Afghanimals
8) Jason & Amy - Smarty pants and "I rowed crew in college"
9) Tim & Danny - Sweet Oklahoma boys.
10) Brandon & Adam - Bearded wonders - Double high fives.
11) Hoskote & Naina - ** ELIMINATED ** It ended for them way too soon. Naina didn't get to have the transformative experience with her father she was hoping for, he still thinks Father Knows Best (which he may, but I still feel for her.)
And with Hoskote & Naina leaving: Bryon L, Kevin & Elaine R, Jenn G, Krista H, and Roxanne S. are out of the pool, also way too soon.
Next week: Teams crack up (breaking up rocks or is that salt?), and strip down, (into cold salt baths) with the boys ogling all the girls in bikinis (of course.)
It was a good start to another great season of the Amazing Race, I for one can't wait to have another armchair tour of the world.
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen.
Last night was the first episode of the new season of the Amazing Race - the teams started at an old west movie ranch (huh?) coming in by stagecoach among fake shootouts... (weird.)
And we meet the teams:
Chester & Ephraim - Former NFL teammates from Houston Texas. Ephraim told Chester he should play football so he made him who he is today :)
Rowan & Shane - Theatre performers from Charlotte, North Carolina - make their living in a production called the Queen of Bingo, in which they both dress as bingo ladies (oh sweet Jebus.)
Tim & Marie - Exes from Morristown, NJ - they don't get along but they still hang out. (They seem like a powder keg these two.)
Leo & Jamal - Cousins from Southern California, known as the Afghanimals - cause they are Afghan and [party] animals (ho-boy.)
Ashley & Ally - LA Kings Ice Crew teammates from Long Beach, CA. They like sparkly things. ('Nough said.)
Travis & Nicole - Married ER physicians from Atlanta, Georgia - they are a team at home and at work and think they'll be formidable on the Race.
Hoskote & Naina - Father & Daughter of Indian descent from California - father knows best and he'd like her to have an arranged marriage - she's a modern woman and will do what she wants (hmm.)
Tim & Danny - Oil plant workers from Oklahoma - they're small town, work long hours, but need the money for a sick wife's medical bills and their children.
Brandon & Adam - Childhood friends (The bearded wonders) from California - by their own admission they are a little off kilter.
Nicky & Kim - Major League Baseball wives from the mid-west - (brunette barbies) but they have personalities, they tell us.
Jason & Amy - dating, from New England - they are competitive and compatible - she makes sure we know she's smart (we'll see if she's book smart or if she can apply the smarts in the Race.)
Phil tells them that in just a few minutes they will be taking off for South America. The team that wins the first leg will win an Express Pass for themselves and one to give to another team before the 5th leg of the Race.
-The first clue is just a phone call away - they have to run to the product placement Ford Hybrid cars and make a call to the other side of the world to get their instructions... off they go!
Iquique, Chile - they have to drive to the LA Int'l airport - they're warned there is limited space on the first flight. Once in Chile they have to look for Javier (the guy on the phone.)
-Leo & Jamal are just trying way too hard with the Afghanimal thing - seriously dudes, dial it down.
-Tim & Marie are fighting already - she's telling him to drive faster from the backseat, he complains about how shrill her voice is and she calls him dumb. (That's going to get old fast.)
-Tim & Danny - Okies get lost trying to find the airport and the woman they try to ask for directions doesn't speak English... (language barrier already and they haven't even left California.)
On the first flight we have Leo & Jamal, Chester & Ephraim (way to go boys, they are my team in the pool so I'm biased), Rowan & Shane, Tim & Marie (did I mention her hair is blond on top and bright pink on the bottom - and I think she pulls it off), blond barbies Ally & Ashley, brunette barbies Nicky & Kim and finally the married doctors Travis & Nicole.
Just missing out by the hair of their chinny chin chins are Brandon & Adam (which I'm sure will be quickly called Duck Dynasty, how could they not?), Hoskote & Naina, Jason & Amy and Okies Tim & Danny - they will arrive 2 1/2 hours after the first flight.
Getting to know you in the airport and the Afghanimals make their (wild and crazy guy) moves on Ally & Ashley - going for the eye candy, how original. We'll see if this proves to be an alliance or not.
On with the Race - once they land in Chile they have to make their way by taxi to some remote place where Javier will hand them their next clue.
-When they arrive at the airport, Afghanimals are yelling, "my wife is pregnant," to get through the crowd, others are yelling, "We're in a Race" - but it's the doctors, with Nicole speaking Spanish that get the first taxi.
The second flight is just heading from Santiago and these later four teams seem discouraged already.
The first seven teams are seeing some paragliders as they are driving in the taxis and Chester & Ephraim sum up how they feel about that: "Oh Hell, NO!"
-They get the clue to a ROADBLOCK: Who is good at follow the leader? One team member must follow their partner in a car while they paraglide from the rugged cliffs. Once they reunite on the beach (landing site) they will get their next clue.
-The clue is a little tricky, whoever says they are good at following the leader means they are driving and the other person is doing the paragliding. Oops.
-Dr. Travis is the first one gliding and Nicole explains to the taxi driver in Spanish what they need to do - speaking the language has been invaluable to them at this point.
-Former NFLer Chester has to glide since Ephraim volunteered to follow the leader (yup, they were tricked).
The rest of the teams get to the ROADBLOCK and they all fall victim to the switcheroo - the only team that freaks out though are the Baseball wives, well the one that has to paraglide is of course terrified of heights - her name is Kim and she is worried about her son Spidey (really? you names your son Spidey?) but finds strength in making him proud.
-Four teams have let their cabs go so they're stranded until they can get other cabs. Jamal gets a guy to order two taxis for himself and Ashley but when they come Marie takes his, he's not happy and calls her a b*tch (nice) - but four cabs came anyway so they are all headed for the beach.
-Nicole and Ephraim end up being let out of their taxis pretty far away from the landing zone which allows Rowan & Shane to reunite first and get the clue to make their way to Muelle Prat and search for their next clue. But soon everyone has landed and reunited - they are all looking for Muelle Prat.
And a lot of them speak Spanish - Leo is speaking like a local.
2nd flight has just arrived - One of the bearded ones speaks Spanish as does Smarty-pants Amy - (I think it's all the Californians actually, which makes sense.) These four teams are going to be competing hard not to be the first team eliminated, you can see how much more stressed they are.
Muelle Prat: The Doctors are the first team to the next clue box and it's another ROADBLOCK: Who's got both oars in the water?
- They have to choose a heavy, cumbersome, row boat and search the harbour for one of 3 specific fishing boats from which they must collect 5 fish. Once they deliver the fish to the fishmonger they'll get their next clue.
-Whoever did the paragliding must be the person to row the boat, so Travis is the first out and apparently he hasn't rowed a boat in years (it shows.)
2nd flight is arriving at the paragliding - and all of them are tricked by the clue - the Okies are the last to arrive.
Back at the rowing - Leo and Jamal read the clue wrong and Jamal gets in the boat (Leo should have). Jamal can't even stay seated, he's a train wreck trying to row.
-Travis finally finds one of the boats and gets his fish.
-Rowan is also in a boat... he quips, "They don't call me "rowin'" for nothing."
-Travis is the first to get the next clue - it's a picture of a beautiful building - the Municipal Theatre of Iquique. It is the Pit Stop for this leg of the race - the first team will get the Express Passes and the last team will be eliminated.
-Marie & Tim reading the Roadblock clue tells us they have to make their way on foot to the Pit Stop... as we see Travis & Nicole get into a cab (OH NO! Always be reading the clue!)
-Everyone in the boats is having a heck of a time rowing, especially the girls, those boats are big, and cumbersome.
-Travis & Nicole arrive at the Pit Stop and are told - they are the first team to arrive, however, the clue said they had to make their way on foot and they took a cab.
Phil, "What is the first clue of the Amazing Race?
Both: "Always read the clue." (Ha! Exactly!)
-They have incurred a 30 minute penalty... the longest thirty minutes of their lives. (Couldn't they take the cab back and then come back on foot? Didn't they use to have that option? Maybe not anymore.)
-Back at the Rowing: Finally someone realizes that Leo should be the one in the boat and Ashley tells him. "CRAP! JAMAL! COME BACK!"
-Tim has collected his fish with Marie shrilly yelling at him of course, and they get the clue to the Pit Stop... with Travis & Nicole still having 19 minutes on their penalty.
-Back at the paragliding, the bearded one (Brandon) has a false start, he doesn't keep running, he jumped, and they bailed (oops).
-Back at the boats, Rowan is the next to get the clue to the Pit Stop. Chester finally finds a boat to collect the fish from but there are only 4 fish left, so he has to find another boat to get one more. Jamal is still trying to get the boat back to switch places with Leo. Kim collects her fish, Chester sees her and gets one from that boat and Ally finally finds a boat, it's just getting to it.
-Leo & Jamal finally switch spots and they seem most upset that they let girls beat them (the Afghanimals are sexist? No.)
-Back at paragliding - Jason, Hoskote, Tim and finally bearded Brandon get up in the air. His original misfire has landed Duck Dynasty in last place (that's gotta hurt.)
-Leo gets to a fish boat but it only has 2 fish left - he's still searching.
-The paragliders are all landing and meeting up with their partners... but where is Naina? She's still in the taxi, allowing Brandon & Adam to make up one place.
-Ally gets all her fish and then Leo finally comes in with 5 fish.
-When Naina finally gets to the beach her father blames her for waiting too long at the launch site, then wants to know what the hold up was... (typical dad.)
The second flight start arriving at the rowing - Tim & Danny see the sea lions and say, "Holy, what's that?" (Oh, Oklahoma). The guys are hitting the row boats, Jason rowed crew in school so he's tearing it up - Oklahoma Tim - not so much, they have motors on their boats back home (Oh, and that is a good deal of butt crack, thank you CBS censors for the blurring.) Bearded Brandon is struggling with the rowing and Adam starts yelling at him to pick it up when Hoskote & Naina finally show up.
-Brandon finds one of the boats that is out of fish and it flusters him - he's not sure what to do now. (Oh, he's obviously not the brains of the operation.) Tim, having collected his fish points Brandon in the right direction (oh, that was nice.)
-Naina & Hoskote misread the clue to this Roadblock and she thinks she's the one that has to perform the task (uh oh.) She is having a hard time rowing (come on Dad, figure it out...) Naina decides to re-read the clue to make sure she knows the names of the boats she's looking for... and she finally realizes Dad should have done this, she's got to go back. Dad blames her for the mistake... which kinda was her fault. And he's rowing in the dark as she cries on the dock. The adventure didn't even begin for them, but she is so proud of him.
Here's How They Finished:
1) Tim & Marie - fighting exes come in first proving that the teams that fight tend to do well - always on edge keeps them sharp I guess - so these two win the Express Passes.
2) Nicole & Travis - they are very disappointed in themselves for not using their doctor's attention to detail - they vow to shape up.
3) Rowan & Shane - BINGO!! (I have a feeling the Bingo thing is going to be a recurring theme.)
4) Chester & Ephraim - My NFL boys
5) Nicky & Kim - Baseball Barbies
6) Ally & Ashley - Hockey Barbies
7) Leo & Jamal - Afghanimals
8) Jason & Amy - Smarty pants and "I rowed crew in college"
9) Tim & Danny - Sweet Oklahoma boys.
10) Brandon & Adam - Bearded wonders - Double high fives.
11) Hoskote & Naina - ** ELIMINATED ** It ended for them way too soon. Naina didn't get to have the transformative experience with her father she was hoping for, he still thinks Father Knows Best (which he may, but I still feel for her.)
And with Hoskote & Naina leaving: Bryon L, Kevin & Elaine R, Jenn G, Krista H, and Roxanne S. are out of the pool, also way too soon.
Next week: Teams crack up (breaking up rocks or is that salt?), and strip down, (into cold salt baths) with the boys ogling all the girls in bikinis (of course.)
It was a good start to another great season of the Amazing Race, I for one can't wait to have another armchair tour of the world.
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen.
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