A team that had been fairly invisible, Marianna & Julia, were eliminated in The Amazing Race 12 episode 3. Unfortunately, Lorena & Jason survived by the skin of their teeth, in spite of Lorena blowing past mere breakdown right into sheer embarrassment. On the other side of the coin, Azaria & Hendekea won the leg for the second time, while Nathan & Jennifer continued strongly following their near elimination in episode 1.
As usual, the show’s behind tonight. Worse than usual, though. Due to the football overrun, it’s about a 55 minute delay. A live blog will begin when 60 Minutes is over.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived. Given the design of the previous leg, everybody’s pretty bunched up.
First: Azaria & Hendekea
Second: TK & Rachel
Third: Nathan & Jennifer
Fourth: Kynt & Vyxsin
Fifth: Ronald & Christina
Sixth: Nicolas & Donald
Seventh: Shana & Jennifer
Eighth: Lorena & Jason
Teams must follow a marked path to find the tribal chief and obtain the next clue and a gift, a chicken, which they must keep with them for the entire leg. They have no money for this leg of the race. From there, they must take a taxi to a nearby village.
When they arrive at the village, there’s a detour, shake your pan or shake your booty. In shake your pan, they must pan for at least one ounce of gold. In shake your booty, they must learn a dance, and if the judges aren’t impressed, they incur a 10 minute penalty.
Shake your pan: Nicolas & Donald, TK & Rachel (after seeing Nathan & Jennifer fail the dancing)
Shake your booty: Nathan & Jennifer, Azaria & Hendekea, Ronald & Christina, Kynt & Vyxsin, Shana & Jennifer, Lorena & Jason
Nathan & Jennifer choose shake your booty because she’s a dancer, not taking into account that Nathan’s not a dancer and that it’s not just about learning a dance but making it your own. The judges don’t like them. Azaria & Hendekea, however, do get a positive reaction. Nicolas & Donald find out how easy the gold mining is. Ronald & Christina also get rejected due to lack of creativity. Kynt & Vyxsin blow everybody away and move on without penalty. Shana & Jennifer also move on without penalty. TK & Rachel finish up with the mining. Jason & Lorena? Uh, well, they’re around somewhere. I guess. When they do show up, they do the dance, where they’re given good reviews.
Faux French proves worse than faux Spanish. Multiple people use the word merci to say please.
From there, they must go to a market, and they will come upon a new twist to the race, a U-turn. In the U-turn, they can force one of the other teams to do the second task they have not yet done.
Azaria & Hendekea are first and choose not to use the U-turn. Nathan & Jennifer also choose not to use the U-turn. Kynt & Vyxsin, Ronald & Christina, and Nicolas & Donald follow and don’t use the U-turn as well. Shana & Jennifer choose to use the U-turn on Lorena & Jason. TK & Rachel, close behind, think it was a really bad move, which means it’s a really good move because if the blondes didn’t do it, it doesn’t sound like they would have been smart enough to do so themselves. Later, Jennifer tells us she’s not happy about it and that it’s Shana’s fault.
When they arrive at the market, they must load up a bunch of items onto their bikes and take them to the destination. These items include plants and a live goat.
Road block: Azaria, Jennifer (of Nathan & Jennifer), Christina, Nicolas, Vyxsin, Shana, Rachel, Jason
The main chore of the road block is navigating the hot streets where they don’t understand anybody. Everybody struggles, but nobody seems to struggle any more than the rest, no matter how they may be trying to edit it. Shana is afraid the goat will bite, but Jennifer comforts her by saying they ram rather than biting.
Jason discusses staying positive. Has he seen his partner? Granted, she hasn’t had a breakdown yet this leg. He says he doesn’t want to lose the race because of the U-turn. What he might want to do is think back to the camel task if he’s looking for the flaw in their race.
After the road block, Vyxsin gets emotional, as it gave her a closeup look at what she considered a sad surrounding environment, with garbage and poverty everywhere. She later says she appreciates that everybody’s greeted them with a smile, not caring about how different they look, and she’s upset that such wonderful people have so little.
First: Azaria & Hendekea (by a split second, they win Yamaha motor scooters)
Second: Nathan & Jennifer (Jennifer starts crying, apparently expecting sympathy)
Third: Ronald & Christina
Fourth: Nicolas & Donald
Fifth: Kynt & Vyxsin
Sixth: Shana & Jennifer
Seventh: TK & Rachel
Eighth: Lorena & Jason (eliminated)
Lorena made her bed last time around. It was a miracle they even survived that. After they’re eliminated, Jason gives us some excuse about a deeper love between people who aren’t married than people who are or some nonsense. I hope she’s not expecting a commitment any time soon.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 12 episode 5 We’ve Really burned Bridges, for Sure, which airs Sunday at 8/7c(ish) on CBS.
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