Amazing Race Week 2

This was actually a good episode for getting to know the contestants. Starting out, we get to see Terence and Sarah, the "newly and probably short-termed" dating couple at the pit stop, Camp Travelocity. Terence (and, dude, you need a nickname) is just a weirdo. He's obsessed with Sarah talking to anyone else. DING DING DING, I can hear the female alarm bells going off all over the country.

Brother and Sister Nick and Starr leave the Pit first at 4:00 am, and they have to fly to Brazil. One by one the teams depart for the airport. Nick and Starr and the Cheaters figure out that there is a plane leaving at 6:45 am but it has only one seat. SOMEHOW, the plane suddenly gets changed to a bigger plane (and, when the hell does that happen in the US???). Tina (Cheater Wife) of course takes credit for it and has to tell EVERYONE that she got them a bigger plane so they better pucker up. The plane has no assigned seating but Tina is assured from the check in lady that she will get a front row seat. Instead of getting in line, Tina walks around to everyone repeating her, "I got us a bigger plane" story. Of course, everyone else lines up to get on the plane. The Cheaters start a huge fight that since TINA GAVE BIRTH TO THE BIGGER PLANE, it's only fair they get the best seats. Anyone hear the hand of fate winding up?

OH, I forgot to mention that Terence bumped his head getting to the airport and is now neurotically nursing a head wound. Sarah, just get the hell out of that relationship.

Once in Brazil, they have to take taxi's to the Plaza do Cumbuco. The Cheaters and others at the front of the plane blindly run around looking for taxi's while the last teams off the plane figure the right way out quicker. Anthony and Stephanie get a bad cab. Ok, I gotta bag on these 2. They are not young and have been dating for a while but Anthony won't commit unless they win the Amazing Race and can afford to marry. haha. I think he's said this enough times over the years that Stephanie called his bluff and got them on the show. He wants them to be financially secure before they marry, although he's a mortgage broker (good luck with that these days) and she's a financial salesperson. Anyway, their cab has issues and Anthony gets out to slooooooowly push it. You think he really want to win and get married?

At Plaza do Cumbuco, teams are instructed to take dune buggies to the Barraca D Manuel where they get their next clues: Detour. Teams have to chose between Beach It, which means moving a boat into the water, or Docket, which is finding a clue in a storage container in a huge lot of storage containers.

Mark and Bill go the docket route. Ok, there 2 are hilarious. From their bios: "Mark and Bill, friends for over 23 years, first met at a science fiction club and have been bonding over their love for comics and games ever since" At one point when they find the clue they actually do, what I believe to be, an impersonation of Yoda.

Terence and Sarah finish the boat thing first but walk right by the taxi stand, and spend a while screaming at each other looking for a cab. The other teams, one by one, drive by. Finally, Mom and Son stop and tell them where to go.

The Blonde Divorcees, Kelly and Christie live up to their haircolor as they finish the boat thing but then begin to crazily dig in the sand looking for the container-um, the one mentioned in THE OTHER DETOUR. After watching 6 other teams finish the boat thing and then run for the taxi's, they give up the search and go to the cabs. There they re-read the clue and figure out there never was any container.

After the detour, teams head to Parque de Vaquejada and get a Roadblock. A Roadblock is a task that only one person can do. Just had to get that in. So, this is the weirdest roadblock and somehow something in the instructions are missing. They have a long wall with Brazilian words and places on it and somehow the contestants have to find their next destination. With no rhyme or reason, the contestants finally just write down everything and read the list one by one to the painter dude who gives them their next clue, leading to the Pit stop.

Ken and Bill and The Cheaters finish first and race to the mat. Cheaters are first to arrive and win a pair of ATV's. And, since there are 2 of them, they will be easy to divide in the final divorce.

Christy and Kelly again fail to read the clue and don't tell their taxi driver to wait. They finish but have to wonder around for a while looking for a cab.

All the other teams make it to the Pit, and it finally comes down to Anthony and Stephanie, who are eliminated and won't be getting hitched any time soon.