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Coutzy's Commentaries on AusTAR 2! Episode 9 announcement.
Coutzy:
Previously on The Amazing Race Australia, teams turned on each other and on Paul and Steve. The workmates were U-Turned for a 2nd time but came back to win the leg.
Father and Daughter Ross & Tarryn couldn't complete the Roadblock, but escaped elimination.
8 teams remain, who will be eliminated tonight?
Intro. My rice is gonna get cold.
Coutzy:
Istanbul, Turkey. This 2.5 thousand year old city straddles Europe and Asia, and was once the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
Paul and Steve depart at 9:59 AM and must make their way to a traditional Turkish Bath built in the 16th century. Teams must wash and scrub each other with a bar of soap until it reveals their next clue.
Paul and Steve don't seem too keen on scrubbing each other. Paul describes washing Steve's armpits as rather awkward.
Michelle and Jo depart 10:32 AM and talk about how Paul has rubbed almost every competetor the wrong way.
Paul and Steve has come up with a novel idea. They decide that Grace and Jo will probably have the most discomfort, and they've revealed the Detour: Shine or Design?
Shine- Locate marked shoe shine stalls and convince 10 customers to have their shoes shined for no less than 4 Lire each.
In Design, they must find a marked carpet stall and take a photo of an exotic Turkish pattern, then find a perfect match among the carpets to get their next clue.
Before they go to the Detour, they will face the Yield.
Paul and Steve fret for a bit over who to Yield and Michelle and Jo enter the bath in their smalls, much to the delight of the red blooded males in the audience.
Michelle offers that several people probably have fantasies about Cheerleader Twins rubbing each other.
Sticky & Sam and Grace and Jo depart at 10:51 AM
Sam enters the bath and upon seeing Michelle and Jo offers "Woah!" then asks them to do it a bit slower. They also offer to swap partners.
Grace finds the soaping very relaxing, Jo thinks its awkward.
Paul and Steve are at the Yield and choose to Yield Michelle and Jo and there's an interesting continuity moment when Steve puts their CO picture up, then it's suddenly gone again. In the meantime their at the shoe shine. They're struggling to attract customers.
Coutzy:
Shane and Andrew depart 11:01, Lucy and Emilia 11:24 AM
The Cops discuss their families and how much they miss them. I smell a loved ones task.
Steve has found two customers, and Paul says he has the Used Car Salesman in him.
Michelle and Jo are done with their soap. They have a bad feeling that they'll be Yielded.
The Sisters are at the bath and feel significantly more confident now. Then they laugh.
Shane and Andrew say that they're at least not soaping their sister. Grace argues about Jo not doing her toes, claiming that she did his whole body. Jo says she's a sucker.
Sticky and Sam, JoGrace and The Cops are done with their soaps.
The CHeerleaders are at the Yield and as expected, they stand around looking pissy. Michelle (Or Jo) calls them stupid then says they hate it when people play dirty.
Ad break.
This incident sums up people on the race a lot for me. Michelle and Jo were happy to have a giggle when Paul and Steve got U-Turned, but when they've been Yielded all of a sudden it's playing dirty? Whether you love or hate the U-Turns and Yields, you have to stick with one. You're not allowed to hate a race mechanic because it went against your favourite team. That would be like hating teams having to drive themselves because Debbie and Bianca got themselves lost. Hate Paul and Steve if you like, but hate them because they chose to Yield your favourite team. Don't hate the Yield itself (Unless of course, you hate the entire concept of the Yield, in which case go nuts.)
The same goes for smart vs. stupid use of these powers. Just because they used it on your favourite team doesn't make it the worst use of it ever. Conversely, using it on a team you hate doesn't make it smart use of the power.
Coutzy:
We're back.
The Cops and Sticky and Sam have gone to the carpets.
Shane and Andrew have chosen a simple design, Sticky and Sam have gone for one slightly more complicated. The Cops have declared it like a needle in a haystack.
Bakc at the baths, Lucy and Emilia are done with the soap and are heading for the shoe shine.
Paul and Steve are done, and will now travel to Rumeli Castle, where they will discover an Intersection inside. (I hate Intersections)
Michelle and Jo's Yield is done and they're off to shine shoes. They think it'll be easy to get male attention, which I would have done with my sister anyway.
Paul and Steve get to the intersection and lament the fact that they Yielded the 2nd place team and forced themselves to wait more.
JoGrace are at the shoe shine, and true to form Grace wants to dance. She doesn't find anyone with that method.
Shane and Andrew find Sticky and Sam's carpet, and immediately tell them that it's theirs. Hello Muppets of the Week.
Sticky and Sam repay the faith and hang around to help the cops.
Michelle and Jo are done with the shoes, and Lucy and Emilia have arrived. Lucy immediately pulls out the good old Aussie saying Cheap as Chips. Good stuff.
STicky and Sam, by their estimation have wasted 30-45 minutes finding Shane and Andrew's carpet. They pick one out but it's wrong, and the cops switch tasks, so St/Sa take their leave.
Grace shines the shoes of a man who has small feet. She makes the inevitable foot size/penis size reference, though a lot less blunt than that.
Lucy and Emilia said they've been waiting for the chance to have a good perv, and they've been very patient, but finally Turkey has deliverd. Lucy says that if she lived in Istanbul, they'd be dating already. She asks for his number, but makes no reference to being in town.
Hunners Chick and Ross and Tarryn depart after 1 PM. Ross laments that he was the one that couldn't do it, but is happy he's competing with James and Sarah over Paul and Steve.
Michelle and Jo are at the Intersection and decide to work with Paul and Steve.
Teams must now enter the castle and break through the line of four Turkish Oil Wrestlers. One of the 4 must get through and take a turkish lamp from off a table. The wrestlers arrive and Steve drops our first uncensored "****!" of the race. Paul says the biggest one there is giving him eyes. The trick here is there's only 3 wrestlers and 4 racers, so if they play distraction, one should be able to get through.
Michelle (Or Jo) sneaks past on the side and gets sandwiched as she nears the table. They are playing decidedly rougher than in TAR 9, that's for sure.
Jo (Or Michelle) grabs the lamp in the resulting chaos, but Michelle (or Jo) is on the ground holding her jaw.
To be clear: Paul did not bowl her over. One of the challenge extras did.
Polaroid:
Paul & Steve yielding the team that they would eventually have to work with at the intersection. :lol:
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