Something tells me they've cut the budget on The Amazing Race--even more than last season--because we're still in the same damn country as episode one and the main means of transportation is a bus! I love that they skipped everyone opening the envelope with the route info and just started with the first-place Big Brother team leaving and then the rest of them just suddenly appearing at the bus station. No wasted time giving us info we already have about the teams and their relationships. If you missed anything, just go to the CBS website.
All the teams were on the same bus from Valpairso to Santiago. Brent and Caite whined about the lesbian couple joking about her tiara. Hey, if you can't take a little teasing, get outta the kitchen (or whatever), you pair of big model-babies. What the women said wasn't so bad. Go back to your photo shoots. When everyone ran to get their tickets for the second bus, the Asian couple held a place for the lesbians and everyone bitched because they got the last four seats. Hey, there is no rule against forming alliances and making deals, so the other teams should just suck it up.
Then some of them got clever--the supposedly dumb ones--the cowboys, the beauty queen and male model and the reality people. They all found a faster bus going through another town to make a connection. But the cowboys discovered the connecting bus was at another terminal. I thanked the Lord when they didn't say anything and prayed again as Team Big Brother and Team Such As all got in taxis for the other terminal and then just missed their bus (Hooray!) Then it got even sweeter when they rushed back to the first terminal and missed the bus there too! Sweet! They had to wait til 1 AM for the next bus. But the victory was bittersweet. They were behind the cowboys, the lesbians, and the Asians, but still ahead of everybody else.
Once everyone got to Puerto Vargas, it looked like Team Grandma would battle it out for last place with Team gay/straight. But the undercover cops' keen powers of observation failed them and they totally missed the location for the last challenge, allowing the brothers to surge ahead and the gay brother to sashay around with the llamas, doing that weird strip dance. Sidenote: Joel McHale pointed out on The Soup that the police guys can't really be undercover anymore because they're on national TV. another interesting sidelight: while waiting for one of the buses, the male half of the Big Brother team actually said he didn't understand how dogs could speak Spanish but not English. Incredible! Right up there with his partner asking for tickets to China when they wanted to go to Chile. Yet these mental giants keep placing high. Unbelievable.
It looks bad for the gay/straight brothers and the cops. The former's lack of stick shift skills and the latter's ironic cluelessness (they're cops and they keep missing stuff and getting lost) is gonna bite them. I don't see them lasting much longer. The cops are so worried about female teams beating them. The way things are falling out, it looks like it'll be the cowboys versus team Big Brother and Team Such As (NOOO!) Go cowboys! I also noticed the two cowpokes don't like to hug.
Day 3--Valpairiso to Santiago; half the teams to Puerto Vargas
Day 4--rest of the teams to Puerto Vargas. Challenge with llamas or candors and roadblock with German refugees, several kicks in the head by cows.
Jet (like James Dean's character in Giant) and Cord finish first. Win a sailboat.
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