Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Amazing Race: India

Nick and Starr repeat their win in Leg Six of The Amazing Race. But a lot of hijinx ensues in between the two wins.

Six teams travel 2,000 miles from Cambodia to New Delhi, India. All teams are on the same flight, eliminating the time deficits for the late finishing teams of the last leg.

Dallas and Starr admit their attraction to each other in separate camera interviews. Dallas feels his mother and Starr's brother's presence hamper their chances to get to know each other.

The frat boys start the race nervously, knowing they are at a physical disadvantage to all the other remaining teams, mostly because they are so clumsy.

After arriving in New Delhi, teams must taxi to an auto yard called Moonlight Motors. Here, some distance develops between the teams based on drawing good or bad taxi drivers. Ken and Tina's cab driver has the hardest time finding the auto yard and Tina's bark cranks up.

At Moonlight Motors, the teams face a Roadblock in which one team member must tape off and paint the bottom half of a taxi green. The green shows that the taxi runs on natural gas. Andrew and Dan, in the lead for once, finish first but fall apart later at the next Detour.

Ken does the painting with Tina, barking at him every second. Sarah must also endure her partner's constant criticism. Because Sarah and Terence are newly dating and they are experiencing their first relationship difficulties on national television, they punctuate each sentence with "babe." The word sounds more and more like an insult than an endearment.

After the Roadblock, racers must taxi through downtown Delhi to the Ambassador Hotel and search the garden for an Indian doorman. Ken and Tina are the only ones who made their taxi wait, but remember how bad their driver was? What should have been a big advantage was a big hindrance. They dump their taxi at a gas station.

Launder Money or Launder Clothes

Tonight's Detour is Launder Money or Launder Clothes. The first option involves crashing a wedding, making sure the team has ten rupee notes that add up to exactly 780 and attaching the ten bills to a necklace. The teams must find a groom and hand him the necklace.

In Launder Clothes, teams must iron and fold twenty pieces of clothing with a traditional charcoal-heated iron. Four of six teams choose to Launder Clothes. Kelly and Christy don't seem to have experience handling an iron. But Andrew and Dan, the frat boys, have never ironed in their lives. Wrinkled piece after piece is rejected by the laundress. Then a gust of window blows over their pile of clothes. Andrew stomps around in frustration.

Terence and Sarah jump on the Launder Money task. They search the streets for someone to give them the correct change. When Sarah gets what she needs from a circle of boys, she shouts "I love you." One boy responds, "kiss?"

Nick and Starr arrive first at Baha'i House, the national headquarters for the Baha'i faith for the Pit Stop. Ken and Tina unbelievably have more taxi trouble and good editing makes it seem like there is a race between them and the frat boys for last.

I am happy for the frat boys when they come in fifth, second to last. Ken and Tina pull up to the mat last, but lucky for them, it is a non-elimination round. So we have some more barking to look forward to next week.

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