AMAZING RACE – 10/7/12

 
Next, we see footage of a couple of the airhead teams (Nadiya and Natalie / Lexi and Trey) teaming up.   Wow, that should be a real power alliance.  These morons are probably going to end up at the bottom of the ocean following each other around.
 
Anyway, the first task is called Race with the Bulls.  The teams have to hop on a moped with a “professional” driver and race against a couple bulls hooked to a weird contraption that some guy is straddling.  There are some interesting sports in some of these countries.  Not going to see this one in the Olympics for awhile, I think.
 
Ryan proves again what an idiot he can be.  He says how he was holding on to the driver and saying “Oh God, please don’t let me fall off in front of 10,000 Indonesians!”  First of all, idiot, there aren’t 10,000 Indonesians there.  You just aren’t that important.  But there are millions watching this show on TV that you’ve apparently forgotten about.  I personally wanted to seem him get thrown off the back of the bike and trampled by the bulls.  But you know how I feel about Mr. Jujitsu.  What the hell was so hard about riding on the back of a moped anyway?  It’s not like he was the one riding the bulls.  He was basically reenacting a scene from “Revenge of the Nerds” at about 3 miles per hour and was crying like a girl about falling off. This is Mr. I-Kick-Ass-For-A-Living?  Whatever.
 
So, next we’re at the Road Block.  This one is having one team member basically run an amusement ride for the local kids by pedaling a bike while simultaneously making balloon art.  Some of these tasks are kind of stupid.  This is where I wish they’d stop having all these useless crap tasks for them to do.  So far, this leg of the race seems to be a whole lot of nothing.   There is the potential for a million or two here!  Fear Factor had contestants sharing beds with scorpions, eating live bees, trying to drive race cars up onto moving car carriers and pretty much almost dying for $50,000.  I’m thinking we need to step it up a little here.  Blowing up balloons does not really measure up to the prize on the line here.  How about a couple of tasks that actually takes them a couple of minutes to complete at least, huh?  
 
Anyway, this show just loves Amy and we’re back to her 40th interview in 1 ¼ shows that can be summed up as “Even though I have prosthetic legs and no spleen, I can still [fill in the blank]” speech. “I’m able to snowboard, drive, shop, comb my hair, put on my socks, open the refrigerator, trim my pubes…”  Yeah CBS, we get it already.  She wouldn’t be on the show if she wasn’t as dynamic as she is.  I KNOW I’m an awful person for saying all this but it is kind of getting annoying they way they keep coming back to that same theme constantly.
 
Back to Lexi and Trey – He reads the clue: “Who likes to party?”  Then they sit there staring at each other and asking each other “Do you like to party?” over and over with “duh” expressions on their faces for five minutes.  This is a race, you dullards.  Probably shouldn’t use up so much time just deciding who wants to do a task.  This one may involve basic addition and trip you up for a few hours, so you might want to get a head start.  I seriously almost expected the sun to set behind them before they decided who was going to blow up a few balloons.  
 
Jaymes and James have now made it to the balloon task.  They are shown basically dragging local kids over.  I get it that you need to complete this task guys, but try to avoid pulling the kids over by their faces.  I will give them extra credit for treating this like a race though.  What was a little disturbing was the mom that was pushing her four kids toward these two, who were acting pretty creepy.  Anything to get your kids out of your hair for five seconds, I tell you.  Apparently that’s universal.