RECAP: The Amazing Race - "Don't Ruin the Basketball Game (Kunming, China)"

Oh, Amazing Race. Every time I think you've learned your lesson, you go and piss me off yet again. Despite the fact that TAR is one of the best reality shows on television, it is not without its bad habits, and this week's episode was a prime example of that most hated of Amazing Race occurrences: bunching. Regardless of how far ahead or behind some teams might be, the producers decide WHO CARES?! It's not as though these people are RACING or anything! Let's have them arrive at a train station/airport/bus terminal, only to discover that they have to wait NINE HOURS for the next train/plane/bus; surely that won't piss ANYONE off!

RECAP: The Amazing Race - "This is the Most Stupid Day Ever (Lijang, China)"

I want you all to take a minute and look at that picture with me. This exercise is called "How Angry can Looking at a Pair of Human Beings Make Me?", and the answer to that question is (for me) "Extremely". Folks, I dare say that Kent and Vyxsin are the dumbest team I have ever seen on The Amazing Race, and that is saying A LOT. Keep in mind, this is a show that has featured the following:

• A girl who made her team lose because she wouldn't go down a water slide
• A team that thought a "battlement" was a person
• A team that couldn't unscramble the word "Franz" and instead took a 4 hour penalty
• Multiple teams getting angry at locals in foreign countries for not speaking fluent English

There are dozens of other instances that could have gone on that list, but I got lazy and didn't feel like trying to remember stupid things that had happened in past seasons. Regardless, I can't remember ever seeing a single team make more dumb mistakes in the course of a single episode in all the seasons of this show that I've watched.

Internet Goodness: Barbra Streisand

I cannot get enough of this song.

RECAP: The Amazing Race - "We Had a Lot of Evil Spirits Apparently (Japan)"

If I were to go on The Amazing Race, here is a list of things I would not do:

1. I would not take with me a partner who was physically incapable of running The Amazing Race.
   
2. I would not start crying like a teenage girl who just found out that Justin Bieber is off the market at the first sign of any difficulty.
3. I would not pick a Detour that was CLEARLY entirely based on luck and was infinitely more difficult than the other branch.
4. I would not give up and quit the Race after (what seemed like) 20 minutes of trying a specific task.

In case you couldn't guess, we saw ALL of these things happen on Sunday's episode of The Amazing Race, and all from one particular team.

Internet Goodness: The Creep

Oh Lonely Island, I'll never get tired of you.

RECAP: The Amazing Race - "I Never Looked So Foolish in My Whole Entire Life (Outback)"

A couple of days late, a few bucks short; it's the latest recap of The Amazing Race, brought to you by your (least) favourite (un)faithful blogger. Ech. I just referred to myself as a blogger. Then again, I think you actually have to blog to be considered one of those, so maybe I'm in the clear.

RECAP: The Amazing Race - "Head Down and Hold On (Australia)"

The Amazing Race is back, which means it's time for these teams to address their UNFINISHED BUSINESS...at least according to the producers. It's not an all-star season, as some of these teams finished in 5th place or worse, and it's not a fan-favourite season either, as at least two of these teams are comprised of people that were nearly universally loathed in their respective seasons. Instead, we're given the subtitle "Unfinished Business"; in other words, these are teams that were eliminated thanks to some stupid little mistake that they made, and this (presumably) is their chance to redeem themselves.