Amazing Race: Angry Showgirls

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Yes, I’m still catching up from the end of last season. This is the second to last episode, “Cobra in my Teeth,” where the final four teams run around Indonesia eating cobras, hard-boiling eggs in a volcano crater and putting makeup on each other. Come join the commentary from Amy, Steve and me.

The first task the teams had to do was eat some cobra meat. Shockingly, Amy who hates most things has eaten snake and says it tastes like chicken. I agree with her since I have also eaten rattlesnake before. Each person on the team had to eat their own serving.

The Afghanimals were excited heading out since they were in first place and they were the only team to ever been u-turned twice and still be in the race. When the Exes read the clue, Marie started to freak out since she seemed to be able to handle any task but is an extremely picky eater. On the other hand, Providence Amy was quite excited about an eating challenge. She also hoped that Marie would have problems due to being a picky eater. The ER doctors talked about Nicole being horrible in the last challenge and how Nicole was a medical student and Travis was her supervising physician. Amy summed up their relationship the best with, “Way to be a completely creepy teacher.”

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Amy was quite sad that the live snakes had to see the other snakes being eaten. She said if she was a snake, “I would totally try to bust out and bite everyone who ate my friends!”

While the Afghanimals were choking down their snake, the Exes were being lost at the wrong entrance to the camp. They were at the south entrance when they should have been at the north entrance. Providence Amy team showed up and asked where the Exes were when everyone should know better than to trust what the Afghanimals tell them. They were told the Exes already ate and left. The ER doctors showed up and commented that the snake did taste like chicken. See? All three teams were out of there before the Exes figured out where they were supposed to be.

The next task was at a volcano crater. I cannot pronounce the name of the volcano. It sounded like it involved all the letters of the alphabet. It was a road block where one team member had to take 60 eggs and carry them while riding on the back of a motorcycle for 8 miles to a hot spring in the crater where they had to hard boil a dozen eggs in a basket tied to a stick. They wouldn’t know if they did it correctly until they returned and the judge would open them to see.

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Jamal, Travis and Jason decided to do the road block. Riding on the back of the motorcycle seemed to be okay, but once they were off of it, they had to run down a crazy path to get to the crater. I thought I would have tripped and broke all the eggs at that point. The guys all discussed how long they thought they would have to boil the eggs for them to be done. Travis said 10-12 minutes. Jason wanted to wait for 15 minutes since it took a while to get down there and he didn’t want to come back. Then some eggs started to crack in the water and Travis thought it was boiling faster than they expected. Travis and Jason ended up leaving after 8 minutes, even though Jason seemed like he wanted to stay longer. Jamal decided to stay a couple more minutes.

While the guys were debating about eggs boiling, the Exes finally found the place to eat the cobra. Marie did freak out slightly when she saw it was meat that she had to eat, but then realized they were the last team and she wasn’t going to be the only one that didn’t eat the snake so she did it.

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All the guys got back with their eggs. The judge opened up all the eggs. They didn’t really look hard-boiled, but everyone was hoping they were. Then the judge started sticking his fingers in each one and throwing out the ones that weren’t done. Jason only had six good eggs. None of Travis’ eggs were done. Shockingly, Nicole wasn’t saying she was embarrassed by Travis not being able to boil eggs. The guys were bummed since not all the eggs were done so that meant they had to go back to the crater again. Jamal was hoping his extra two minutes did the trick. His eggs did look better but there were a couple that weren’t done so he had to go back too. Jason said he was waiting 20 minutes. Travis said he was going to wait 15 minutes, but Jason said he was going the full 20 minutes. When Jamal got back down to the crater, Jason and Travis were telling Jamal to tell Marie that it only took 8-10 minutes, so they are fine with Jamal lying if it benefits them and they aren’t doing it. Interesting.

When the Exes showed up, it was Marie’s turn to do a roadblock. Tim realized the task required patience and knew that was one thing Marie did not have. He was convinced she was going to come back with soft-boiled eggs. Marie said she didn’t know how to hard boil an egg. I was thinking, it didn’t seem like Travis or Jason did either and they would eventually get it. Little did I know how little she knew. She was holding the basket of eggs above the water. She wasn’t actually putting it in the water. I said that she was hoping the camera man was going to tell her what to do. Later on she was telling the camera that she was 29 and had never boiled an egg before. Steve’s response was, “She’s only 29?” I said it was hard living. Amy suggested that pink hair ages someone. She did finally get the eggs in the water though.

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After the eggs, teams moved onto the detour. They had to choose between painting each other up like a traditional bride without the use of a mirror or search through tea fields trying to find a pair of shears. Providence Amy team got done with the roadblock first, but Providence Amy said to wait for Travis & Nicole before deciding on the detour. I said, “Let’s wait for Travis and Nicole and let them eventually win the million dollars so that we can be friends.” This team is so frustrating!

When Providence Amy and ER docs arrived at the makeup challenge, they realized that everyone needed a clean-shaven face. Jason was excited that he had just shaved his face. Travis had a goatee so he had to shave that off first. Jason and Travis were laughing at the makeup being put on them. I asked what would have happened with Oklahoma was still in the competition. Amy said that there would have been a massive breakdown.

Meanwhile, Marie was shaking her eggs next to her ear. Amy asked if she was trying to listen to them. I thought she might be. I’m not sure what she was expecting to hear. Tim was thrilled that she was staying down at the crater for so long. How long was her eggs actually in the water compared to hanging out above the water? Tim also said that whenever Marie does cook, everything she makes is well done, like a hockey puck, so maybe her eggs will be well done in this challenge.

The Afghanimals picked the shears in the tea fields challenge. Amy asked, “What is up with this season and the outfits?” as the guys were changing into their tea leaf picker outfits. I said, “Outfits are hilarious!” Amy was then excited that we got to see where tea comes from and told the snakes to not eat her tea when the guys passed by a sign warning them of snakes in the fields. They didn’t search long before Jamal found a flag and claimed he found the shears. I’m not sure how those two objects look alike.

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Shockingly, Marie hard boiled the eggs on the first try. Tim told her that he didn’t think she could do it. She said she does overcook things so that’s why she was able to do it. They were debating about which detour to choose. Tim didn’t want to do the same one as everyone else and he thought they would choose the makeup one. Marie said that Travis and Jason couldn’t do makeup, but she thought Tim could since he was so metro and he would be fine.

Over at the makeup challenge, the guy who would be judging it was petrified when looking at Travis and Nicole. They had most of the makeup on, but when they were applying gold pieces onto Travis’ face, they would not stay on since he was sweating so much. Nicole was using bobbi pins to keep them in place.

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The Exes arrived at the makeup challenge and started laughing at what the other teams looked like. They also thought they had a chance of catching up. While Tim went to shave off his stubble, Marie said she doesn’t wear makeup, which made Steve talk like Marie saying, “I don’t eat things. I don’t do eggs. I don’t like makeup. I don’t do things. I don’t like things.”

Meanwhile, the Afghanimals were getting fed up with not finding the shears, after they were told the flag was not shears. They had walked up and down over and over again. They thought they were in last place so they decided to switch over to the makeup challenge, until they showed up there and learned they would have to shave their beards. They refused to do that and also saw how long it was taking and felt better about going back to the tea leaf field.

The other teams were feeling better after seeing the Afghanimals too. Providence Amy looked like they were almost done. The Exes were actually pretty close to being done too. The ER docs looked so bad, mostly because Nicole was horrible at putting makeup on. Travis had black smudges all over his face since Nicole didn’t seem to know how to wipe off her fingers before touching his face. If only Travis could have seen how bad he looked, he would have been berating her.

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Providence Amy team finished up the detour first. They were headed to the pit stop. Could they actually come in first? They love to get lost on the way to the pit stop!

The Afghanimals were back in the tea fields. Jamal told Leo to quit looking on the ground since that’s what he did before when they couldn’t find it. He told him to look at the top of the tea leaves for the shear handles. Leo told Jamal to shut up since the shears would have fallen down to the ground. The camera nicely showed us that they were at the top so Jamal was correct.

At the makeup, the two teams were finishing up at the same time. Travis looked like a mess, but they tried to get the judge to accept it. They were denied. The Exes were done, but they didn’t pass either. Tim noticed that some black was on Marie’s face so he worked on cleaning it up. Travis’ entire face had smudges on it so that was going to take a bit longer to clean up. The Exes were still not done since Marie had a bunch of jewels that were not on her face. They had been knocked on the ground. Amy said, “Floor jewels? So yucky!”

While the Exes searched the ground for jewels, the Providence Amy team ran down 500 steps to get to the pit stop first. I was sure I would have fallen down those steps about a million times if I had to go down them. They won a trip to Cancun and it was their first time coming in first place in the race since they are usually getting lost on their way to the pit stop and coming in second place.

The Exes finished up the makeup task second and took off. The ER docs tried again and again but were not good enough. Travis thought it was something he had done, but Nicole said she had to fix Travis’ face. She knew what was wrong, but kept saying she didn’t know what she could do to fix it. She gives up so easily and wants someone to fix it for her all the time. Too bad her buddy Providence Amy had already taken off and couldn’t do the makeup for her. She did finally get over it and started to clean up his face. They did finally get it  and headed to the pit stop, convinced they picked the wrong task.

The Afghanimals were still arguing with each other. Jamal told Leo he was going to go down Leo’s rows since he was sure he was looking wrong. As soon as he did, he found the shears so Jamal was correct again. Leo had his head down so much, he couldn’t see the shears at the top. They were heading to the pit stop in last place. They commented that it was in the first six rows they checked, but they weren’t looking at the top of the leaves. If they had done that first, they could have saved hours and come in first place.

The ER docs passed the Exes on the way to the pit stop. Marie started freaking out when she saw the taxi pass her and started yelling at the cab driver to go past them. Then all the teams were stuck in traffic. They arrived at the pit stop at the same time. Tim and Marie were faster running down the steps so they came in second place and the ER docs came in third place. Phil told Travis that he looked like an angry showgirl. The Afghanimals came in last place, but were told it was a non-elimination leg so they would be continuing on in the finale. One more episode left!

 

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