Amazing Race All-Stars: The Tyrant Makes Charla Jump
4/23/2007 at 8:16 AM
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Last week, Phil was nice enough to keep Eric and Danielle in the race. But would the lovers be able to make up a huge time deficit to stay in the chase? And after using a yield two weeks ago, would the Beauty Queens get paid back in kind? The karma comes heavy as the teams race out of Hong Kong, ever closer to that $1 million prize. Who's one step closer to claiming it? Let's find out.
Oswald and Danny are the first to leave Hong Kong, and don't have far to go: Macau is the next stop. Lucky for them--after starting with no money--there's $73 in the clue envelope. Once they get their ferry tickets, they're short on money. "Are we allowed to prostitute ourselves during the race?" Oswald asks.
The Macau Tower is the next stop for racers, and its holding a yield. Since DuKa already used theirs, they can only get served not serve it up. Lucky for them, Oswald and Danny will use their yield for some cash! They agree to stop Eric and Danielle for only $45.
Just when we're thinking about how rough the teams are playing, Mirna brings it up, "Other teams probably see me as a tyrant, but I'm here to win." Oh honey, we don't think you're a tyrant--we just think you're irritating! It's DuKa who are earning some serious bad karma with their tactics.
In fact, Charla offers the boys some cash--too bad they already took the loot from the Beauty Queens. By the time the Macau Tower opens for business, Eric and Danielle have almost caught up with everyone else. And that's when Oswald yields Eric and Danielle. Mirna doesn't get why he'd do that... And later Oswald tells her why. "It's like making a deal with the devil," Mirna says.
While she thinks it over, some of racers tackle a Road Block: walking 660 feet above the city on the tower's observation deck. They then "skyjump" down to the ground. After they do, it's off to Lou Lim Ioc Garden.
When Eric finds out he's been yielded, he gives the boys the finger--but he doesn't call them "dirty pirate hookers." He does say that he has "no respect" for them any more. We can hardly blame him. Getting yielded twice in one race has to hurt. While they wait out the half-hour, the Blondes get stuck with a bad taxi driver. The karmic retribution has already started!
As a tropical downpour starts, the teams get tasked with a Detour. It's Noodle or Dragon: making noodles or schleping wooden dragon heads across town. Oswald and Danny are having trouble finding the start of Dragon, which prompts Ozzy to rephrase that old saying about his cab driver: "God give me the patience to withstand the things I cannot change, and the intelligence to hide the body of this man once I'm done killing him."
The blondes are the first to noodle making, which involves bouncing on a big lever to flatten dough. "Ride the pony," Dustin yells, and Kandice gets her jollies. Eric and Danielle surge past Charla and Mirna after they make their noodles too thick--way to screw up the challenge Charla.
The Beauty Queens are the first to find the Mini Mokes. They're headed to Triho de Taipa Pequena 2000, a park overlooking Macau, to find this week's pit stop. The Blondes check in with Phil and hardly believe they've finished first.
Eric decides to follow a taxi this week--unlike last--and hustles to Taipa to wait out the 30-minute penalty. Mirna, we should've guessed, doesn't know how to drive stick, but that doesn't stop her from checking in before the penalty has expired.
While Eric and Dani wait out the 30, DuKa comes out to spread a little disinformation. "Danny and Oz came up to us...We were like, ok, we'll give you money and you yield someone but us," the girls say. We remember DuKa requesting that Oswald and Danny specifically yield Eric and Danielle. But the devil's in the details right? Though ChaChaCha comes in last this week, Phil spares them the ax as this is yet another non-elimination leg.
The Pit Stop:
DuKa win a pair of wave runners for coming in first this week. We're all losers for thinking that we'd finally have another elimination leg around here. Phil, we're watching to see teams sent home in shame! Major kudos go to Eric for putting Oswald and Danny's photo on his butt. (He swiped it from the Yield station.) It's so tacky, yet so perfect: just like Amazing Race!
Coming Next Week:
Charla and Mirna fly with the Air Force on a relief mission and Danielle freaks out on a Road Block--classic!
Story Credits: pbb and markj
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