The Amazing Race – Season 9 – Episode 10
THIS WEEK – 1st
LAST WEEK – 4th, arrived at 12:23pm
Ray and Yolanda – This episode, Ray and Yolanda find out how much further you can go when you devote your energy to racing and not fighting with one another. Last place to first place. They may still have some problems, but if the Hippies bite the dust, then I’m voting for these guys. Joseph from Mojo may be channeling Captain Redneck and all his womanly charms, but these guys are channeling the navigation skills from the Old Folks! Gotta give ’em their props this episode. Oh, and 1-year leases on the new Mercedes M-Class for both of them.
THIS WEEK – 2nd
LAST WEEK – 1st, arrived at 11:47am
The Sickening Frat Boys (Eric and Jeremy) – I hate it when these guys do something smart. Canceling the cabs on the Hippies and Ray & Yolanda was brilliant. Wicked, but brilliant. There won’t be a team in future race history who use their real names for call-ahead cab reservations ever again. Hanging around the Hippies seems to have hurt them in the karma department, though, since their *OWN* cab didn’t show up! Too funny! Also, I wish Ray would have seen Jermey macking on Yolanda. It would have been even funnier to see them racing with broken noses. 😉
THIS WEEK – 3rd
LAST WEEK – 2nd, arrived at 11:48am
Mo Jo (Joseph and Monica) – It’s like somebody put the Frat Boys on one side of a coin and Mojo on the other, flipped it to see who I dislike the most and the coin landed on it’s edge. Honestly speaking, though, the Frat Boys are “what you see is what you get”. Mojo, on the other hand came across all nicey-nice and quiet at first. It’s the Amazing Race equivalent of moving into the suburbs only to find out your next door neighbors are really abusive drunks who tip over your trash can, spray paint your dog, and pee on your welcome mat. Grr, I hate that. So, let’s see, it’s “okay” to work with the Frats to cancel all the other team’s cabs and leave them stranded. It’s not okay for the Hippies to talk some smack about you afterwards? It’s “okay” to be in a race for a million dollars and be in the lead. It’s not okay for another team to yield you so that they can try and win the million dollars instead? And what are we, here, twelve years old? Monica tattling to Phil at the checkpoint about how nasty the Hippies are and how they are playing mind games. It’s called “strategy” – kinda like that whole canceling cabs thingy. Besides, I’m not sure *mind* games would work with Monica. She stays with Joseph who incessantly teases her, makes fun of her when she’s down, and calls her names. Perhaps going with the Hippie’s rumors and hanging with Eric from the Frat Boys might not be such a bad idea for her after all.
THIS WEEK – 4th – Saved yet *again* by a non-elimination round!
LAST WEEK – 3rd, arrived at 11:56am
Hippies (BJ and Tyler) – If there were any more non-elimination rounds, Amazing Race would have to move to a premium cable channel, because these two would most likely be racing in the nude. BJ’s down to shorts and no shoes. How’s that going to work??? Somehow a “race for money” has tainted their happy-go-lucky karma because no matter what these guys can’t stay out in front of the pack. I was disheartened to learn that after their first non-elimination they really did tell the other teams to leave them money or they’d yield them. But hey, like they said, they were being honest and playing the game. I’m betting I’d be just a tad bit ruthless with a million dollars on the line too. That’s a *lot* of incense and beads. If you watch the end 3-way race to the mat, BJ blew it by trying to shortcut around the other teams and running down an embankment and through some water instead of going over a bridge to go the final distance to the mat. Monica from Mojo would have been dead last. Guys! C’mon!!! On the plus side, BJ finally got to do a fun task and go sky-diving. After some of the crap tasks he’s had to do (digging in hot desert sand for one) maybe feeling a bit more equal to Tyler will bring them more team harmony.