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Well so far its been an amazing race
for 7 teams, but one team is going to find it a little less amazing as
they get eliminated from the competition.
So we start from El Jem - and the teams get a globe and a word -
Tataouine. I'm immediately thinking that one of the obstacles may be
having to find remnants of Jabba The Hut somewhere in the desert (and I
find out later that I'm right - sort of). Team Guido takes the lead,
followed by The Frat Pack and The Mom/Daughter team.
So how long does that alliance last between the Greeks and Mom/Daughter?
Well, after they get into the car, they speed past the husband and husband
team into first, leaving the women in the dust, so the answer is not
incredibly long. But all of the teams figure out that Tatouine is a place,
and they get there without much of a time delay.
And the three teams are all ahead of the rest of the pack. Paul and Amie
get bonus time, since they got screwed up by a production problem (those
wacky production gremlins - they cause my computer to crash and my e-mail
to be wiped, I think), and move up to fourth. Then the Lawyers, F/M, and
Karyn and Lenny.
The next segment is all about how close everyone has gotten.
Barrrrrrrrrrf. In the interest of my sanity (and everyone else's) I'll
skip most of it - except to say that they all love each other (except for
the Frank and Margarita, since Frank wants to win and Margarita wants to
love, and the lawyers, who are bitching and moaning about how nothing has
gone their way the enitre trip and how they're going to be in last after
this episode. You guys weren't bitching when you were in first, were you?)
Detour time - either play a time-consuming audio game at Ksar Hasada
(which was used in the film Star Wars - see I was sort of close) or go to
an easier place but a good half hour away from the competition. Everyone
picks the audio game, which requires a team to find the second set of a
walkie talkie unit. The Frat Pack quickly find the other set, and after
seeing the Guidos arrive, pull a play from Lando and Carla's handbook on
Lost (Episode 1) and get on the roof (which is nowhere near the
transmitters). Thinking that they are spying, Team Guido jump on the roof
to start looking, which allows all of the teams to catch up to them as the
Frat Pack run away and increase their lead.
In the rest of the team cluster, Nancy and Emily maintain third, and Paul
and Amie stay in fourth but the skew changes after that. Frank and
Margarita are in fifth, followed by Lenny and Karyn, and the Lawyers are
in the daunting position of the basement. They can't use the fast forward,
because they already used it, to they have to catch up the normal way. (By
the way, this is the second straight episode that they haven't mentioned
the Fast Forward at all. Did they phase it out while no one was looking?)
After Ksar Hadada, the teams have to follow a path of yellow stones to
take to their next destination. You know the first segment wheere eveyone
was loving each other and CBS was trying to make feel good tv? Not this
time around. Now, its the bitching session, where teams are bitching about
losing first (Bill and Joe) or Their relationships (Frank and
Margarita/Lenny and Karyn/Nancy and Emily/Paul and Amie) or finishing out
of the race altogether (Lawyers, of course), or bitching because they
enjoy to bitch each other out (Drew and Kevin - aka, the Frat Pack).
But the most bitchingest thing in this race right now has to be Amie's
stomach. Amie is doubled up in the back tossing her cookies while Paul is
wandering aimlessly in the desert.
A split dumbass award goes to Amie's stomach, for breaking down in the
middle of this important journey, and Amie, who stupidly wants to
continue, and Paul who stupidly lets her continue.
So coming down the stretch is a roadblock - one person has get the team to
the Pit Stop using a camel and a compass. Drew feels screwed that Kevin
got the camel. Actually, I feel more sorry for the camel. Who knows what
frat people do if they had a camel at their party...they bitch and moan
and reclaim first place.
Team Guido (bitching more about losing the lead than about the camel) come
in second, followed by Nancy and Emily and the Lawyers. Frank and
Margarita and Lenny and Karyn come in 5th and 6th, repsectively. Paul and
Amie don't even make it to the camel, since they get so lost that they
find the flag in the desert and drive to it.
It may have been better that way. Amie probably would have yakked all over
the camel, and from what I heard, yak and camel don't get along that well.
But they do finish in last and they get to go Iloveyoubuhbye.
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