Saturday, April 8, 2017

TAR 29, Recap Leg 2, 4/6/17

Welcome to Leg 2! Last time, on Why Doesn’t Anyone in Panama Know Where the Panama Canal Is?, 11 teams started Amazing Race 29.  That is, after they created them from 22 strangers.  Team Fun found the Express Pass, and some teams got along while others didn’t.  In the end, Seth and Olive came in first, and Kevin and Jenn were slapped with a two hour penalty that caused their last place finish and elimination.  Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)

Arrival at the pit stop last episode:
1st – Seth and Olive, Team Justice League, #TeamAmerica 
2nd – Becca and Floyd, Team Nerdgasm, #TeamFun 
3rd – Matt and Redmond, Team Athletic Men. #TheBoys
4th – Brooke and Scott, Team Will and Grace, #TeamBrookeandScott
5th – Shamir and Sara, Team Hot Young People, #TheSAndSExpress
6th – Tara and Joey, Team Old Folks, #TeamMomAndDad
7th – Vanck and Ashton, Team Beauty and the Geek, #TeamVanckAndAshton
8th – London and Logan, Team Vapid Models, #TeamLoLo 
9th – Jessie and Francesca, Team Lori And Bolo Redux, #SwoleSisters
10th – Liz and Michael, Team Backwoods Hipster, #TeamLizandMike

Cinta Costera III, Panama City, Panama

11:16 PM Seth/Olive (1st)
Clue: Fly to São Paulo, Brazil!  Once there, make your way to Helipark Táxi Aéreo e Manutenção Aeronáutica in Carapicuiba and sign up for a chater helicopter into the city to find the Praça de Sé to get your next clue!

Seth is happy he got his first choice, as he thinks he picked a really strong partner.  In the meantime, we find out that everyone has to go to a specific travel agent to get flights, and it doesn’t open until 5 am, so everyone else arrives, and we don’t get departure times.

Becca/Floyd (2nd) – are a happy team.
Matt/Redmond (3rd) 
Brooke/Scott (4th) – are still recovering from leg 1.  Brooke feels that they don’t know each other’s limits yet.
Shamir/Sara (5th) – and Sara views herself as the cool tempered one.  Apparently, being from the Bronx makes Shamir an alpha male.  OK.
Tara/Joey (6th)
Vanck/Ashton (7th) – still don’t know how to work together.  Ashton just thinks they are different. (Toyouke: "Ashton is clearly very conscious of being on television and doesn't want to look bad by saying what she really thinks.")
London/Logan (8th)
Jessie/Francesca (9th) – are convinced that they would have picked each other anyway.
Liz/Michael (10th) -  are not discouraged by last place and really want to do well!

So teams make their way to the travel agent.  Teams arrive (we assume) in the following order:

1- Seth/Olive
2- Becca/Floyd
3- Matt/Redmond
4- Brooke/Scott  
5- Shamir/Sara
6- Tara/Joey 
7- Vanck/Ashton
8- London/Logan
9- Jessie/Francesca
10- Liz/Michael

Once there, teams start jockeying for flights.  (Toyouke: “They're going to bunch because of the flight so I don't know why we made them bunch at the travel agent. “)  It ends up that there are six different flights.  So, teams get flights in the following order:

Flight 1
1) Vanck/Ashton
2) Matt/Redmond

Flight 2
1) Seth/Olive
2) Shamir/Sara
3) Brooke/Scott

Flight 3
1) Liz/Michael

Flight 4
1) London/Logan

Flight 5
1) Becca/Floyd
2) Tara/Joey

Flight 6
1) Jessie/Francesca

(Toyouke: “See how did everyone end up on so many flights and how far apart are they? The girls are taking off in the dark again so did they wait all day? “)  Anyway, we board, and we magically end up at Guarluhos International Airport in São Paulo.  Teams arrive in the following order:

1- Vanck/Ashton  
2- Matt/Redmond 
3- Shamir/Sara
4- Seth/Olive  
5- Brooke/Scott
6- Liz/Michael
7- London/Logan  
8- Becca/Floyd 
9- Tara/Joey 
10- Jessie/Francesca

Teams now make their way to the heliport in order to sign up for flights.  Teams arrive and sign up in the following order:

1- Matt/Redmond – who had made a deal with Ashton to wait and flip a coin.  Yeah right.  (Toyouke: “I can't hate the boys that much for taking the first slot. It's a race. Oh and then Matt says "it's a race"? New favorite team.”)
2- Vanck/Ashton -  apparently Ashton holds grudges.  (Toyouke: “Ashton, you are talking about first vs. second in a group of 10 teams. Calm down. Also, you should know better.”)
3- Shamir/Sara
4- Seth/Olive  
5- Brooke/Scott
6- Liz/Michael
7- London/Logan  
8- Becca/Floyd 
9- Tara/Joey 
10- Jessie/Francesca

Teams sleep, and then return to the heliport for their flights.  It appears that all teams get their own helicopters, and that they take off in the order that they signed up.  (Toyouke: “Why won't the producers tell us how far apart the helicopters are? I would like to know the lead the boys have and how much time Ashton is whining about.”)  So, teams fly in their helicopters and arrive at the helipad in the city in the following order:

1- Matt/Redmond 
2- Vanck/Ashton 
3- Shamir/Sara
4- Seth/Olive  
5- Brooke/Scott
6- Liz/Michael
7- London/Logan  
8- Becca/Floyd 
9- Tara/Joey 
10- Jessie/Francesca

Teams then make their way to the road, and find the Praça de Sé on foot.  Teams arrive and get their clues in the following order:

1- Matt/Redmond 
2- Shamir/Sara 
3- Vanck/Ashton 
4- Seth/Olive  
5- Liz/Michael
6- Brooke/Scott
7- London/Logan  
8- Becca/Floyd 
9- Tara/Joey 
10- Jessie/Francesca

And we get the Detour Clue.

DETOUR:
Keep the Beat OR Work Your Feet
*Keep the Beat: Teams must travel to the Santa Ifigenia region of São Paolo and find a samba group.  Team members must learn how to play a chocalho and a surdo, and then perform a piece with the samba band.  If they perform it correctly, they will get their next clue.
*Work Your Feet: Teams travel to the Bràs region of São Paolo and find the viaduct with a makeshift gym in it.  Teams work together to recreate a workout station using refrigerators, oil drums, and tires.  Once correctly assembled, teams get their next clue.

(Toyouke: “"Learn some music" or "build gym equipment from trash". Seriously?”)

1- Matt/Redmond choose Work Your Feet – and forget to fill their barrel with water.
2- Shamir/Sara choose Keep the Beat – and Shamir bangs up his hand.  Poor baby.  (Toyouke: “How did Shamir jack up his hand that bad from drumming?”)
3- Vanck/Ashton choose Work Your Feet
4- Liz/Michael choose Keep the Beat – (Toyouke: “"We're gonna put our band geek mafia skills to the test" should have been the episode title.”)
5- London/Logan choose Keep the Beat 
6- Seth/Olive choose Work Your Feet
7- Brooke/Scott choose Work Your Feet – and in an effort  to get their quicker, they abandon their taxi.  (Toyouke: “All of a sudden Brooke has completely lost it. It's early for Killer Fatigue. Also how did they get stuck in such bad traffic when no one else seemed to?“)  Brooke proceeds to fall on her elbow.  Brooke: “Pain is temporary, elimination is permanent.”
8- Tara/Joey choose Work Your Feet
9- Becca/Floyd choose Keep the Beat
10- Jessie/Francesca choose Keep the Beat 

Much instrument playing and gym building ensues.  So, teams complete the detour in the following order:

1- Matt/Redmond 
2- Vanck/Ashton  
3- Seth/Olive 
4- Shamir/Sara  
5- Liz/Michael
6- London/Logan
7- Becca/Floyd  
8- Brooke/Scott 
9- Tara/Joey 
10- Jessie/Francesca

Teams are now instructed to make their way to Avenida Paultista.  Once there, teams had to find the marked bicyclist to get their next clue.  Teams find the bicyclist in the following order:

1- Vanck/Ashton – (Toyouke: “Oh no, now I'm going to have to listen to Ashton gloat about karma because the boys got lost, won't I. Ugh.”)
2- Liz/Michael  
3- Matt/Redmond  
4- Seth/Olive  
5- Shamir/Sara
6- Brooke/Scott
7- Becca/Floyd  
8- Tara/Joey 
9- London/Logan 
10- Jessie/Francesca

Once they arrive, teams get the first roadblock clue.  

ROADBLOCK:

Who likes things squeaky clean?

In this roadblock, one team member must rappel down the side of Instituto Cervantes São Paulo and clean one window.  Once the window is completely clean, a judge leans out the window to give roadblockers  their next clue.  If not, the roadblocker must return to street level to get back to the top and fix their window.

The following teammates take the Roadblock:

1- Ashton
2- Liz
3- Redmond
4- Seth
5- Shamir – who apparently has never worn a harness before and thinks that his junk is falling off.  (Toyouke: “The harness wouldn't be a problem if Shamir would clean the damn window properly. Then he could take it off.”)  Diva.  But he ends up in an ambulance anyway and takes five tries to get his window clean.  Oh, and he punches a window.  (Toyouke: “Damn, Shamir.  I wonder if he'll get a penalty for that.”)
6- Scott – who is deathly afraid of heights and falling, but takes the Roadblock so his partner isn’t in pain.  “I cried for the first twenty minutes.”  (Toyouke: “Also Scott is being kind of weird about Brooke's injury. Like, overly careful. I can't tell if he really is worried or if he's putting on a show for the camera.”)
7- Becca
8- Tara
9- Logan
10- Francesca

After much window washing, teams complete the Roadblock in the following order:

1- Liz/Michael
2- Vanck/Ashton  
3- Matt/Redmond  
4- Seth/Olive  
5- Brooke/Scott
6- Becca/Floyd
7- London/Logan  
8- Tara/Joey 
9- Shamir/Sara 
10- Jessie/Francesca

Teams find now that they must travel to Trianon Park, an urban rain forest, the PIT STOP of the second leg of this racearoundtheworld.  The last team to arrive MAY be eliminated!

1- Liz/Michael – who win a trip for two from Travelocity to Barbados, complete with a submarine tour and a rum distillery visit.
2- Vanck/Ashton – who is thrilled to be in second. Oh, but she holds grudges. 
3- Matt/Redmond – Redmond: “Oh I wanted to win so that Phil could say, ‘You’re the winners of Leg 2,” and I could respond, “Great!  Where is it so I can put it on?”) 
4- Seth/Olive 
5- Becca/Floyd
6- Brooke/Scott  
7- Tara/Joey   
8- London/Logan  
9- Shamir/Sara – and Shamir is still bent out of shape about the harness.  (Toyouke: “Oh what, like you're going to sue Phil or something? Please. If you aren't going to quit and you aren't going to demand to speak to a producer about dangerous conditions then quit bitching about it.”)
10- Jessie/Francesca

And Jessie and Francesca are eliminated.  If you watch the episode, this is fairly obvious.  But they enjoyed each other.

ORDER NOW:
1st – Liz/Michael  
2nd – Vanck/Ashton 
3rd – Matt/Redmond 
4th – Seth/Olive 
5th – Becca/Floyd 
6th – Brooke/Scott 
7th – Tara/Joey
8th – London/Logan
9th – Shamir/Sara

Next week: We’re off to Tanzania and the island of Zanzibar!  Shamir and Sara are still at each other’s throats.  And there’s a Blind Double U-Turn on the horizon!  Until next time!

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