After being U-turned by Tim & Marie in The Amazing Race 23 Episode 8, one of the least threatening teams bowed out of the race, as Nicky & Kim were eliminated.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Nicole & Travis – 12:38AM
Second: Jason & Amy – 12:52AM
Third: Tim & Marie – 1:15AM
Fourth: Leo & Jamal – 2:06AM (slept in)
Fifth: Ally & Ashley – 2:06AM
Jason & Amy have decided they want to keep working with Nicole & Travis. Marie remains delusional and argumentative even with her own partner. Leo & Jamal find out the reason they were U-turned: they lied about having used the U-turn themselves.
Teams will now fly more than 4000 miles to Bandung, Indonesia. Everybody will be on the only flight.
Their first task is to pick up two rams, watch them butt heads in a ram head butting arena, and load them back on the truck. They will then travel by train back to where they came from.
First train: Ally & Ashley, Travis & Nicole, Leo & Jamal
Second train (1 hour later): Jason & Amy, Tim & Marie
The detour is a choice between for the elephants or for the birds. For the elephants requires them to pick up food from a market, transport it on hand trolleys, and feed the elephants. For the birds requires them to pick up birds, bring them to a competition arena, and get them to sing.
Elephants: Leo & Jamal, Ally & Ashley, Jason & Amy, Tim & Marie
Birds: Travis & Nicole
Ally & Ashley show up at their final destination rather than the place they are supposed to start. Being at the front of the pack didn’t last very long for them. Eventually, they get into a shouting match but still refuse to switch detours, despite being the only team whose taxi won’t let them transport the massive sugarcane, which effectively puts them in last place.
The road block requires teams to properly assemble an angklung, a traditional Indonesian instrument.
Road block (in order of arrival): Nicole, Leo, Amy, Tim, Ally
Nicole can’t figure it out, so she goes to the judging area to try to peek at Leo’s. His response is that she’s a hypocrite, so he takes his apart so she won’t see it. Tim, who it turns out was in chorus and is very musical, manages to leapfrog Nicole, but he ends up a minute behind the lead team. Then Amy passes Nicole, too. Jason insists that Amy go back to help Nicole, then he gets frustrated that she takes too long to help. Not only did they just screw themselves in the event they end up getting lost, but it also would have been smarter to let them get knocked out in favor of the weaker team. This is the failure of the concept of an alliance on this race. Help people when you can… but not to your own detriment.
The pit stop for this leg of the race is Bosscha Observatory.
First: Leo & Jamal (win $7500 each)
Second: Tim & Marie
Third: Jason & Amy
Fourth: Nicole & Travis
Eliminated: Ally & Ashley
I expected things to come down to the train ride, but these teams completely blew that expectation apart. Having fallen behind on the detour, Ally & Ashley have been eliminated.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 23 Episode 10, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.