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Episode Title: | I Told You Less Martinis And More Cardio |
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Original Air Date: | February 18th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x01 -- Season: 11, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Eleven teams from previous seasons take off on a new adventure around the world. The lively mix of teams includes a past winning team, a diverse of group of players and many familiar faces both hated and loved. The teams take off from the starting line at Miami, Florida and each takes one of two flights departing for Quito, Ecuador. Tension builds early on as one team lies to another about the arrival times of the flights. Once in Ecuador, the teams takes taxis to the Plaza San Francisco and then travel to Pim's Restaurant, three-miles away, where they receive one of three fifteen-minute staggered departure times for the next morning. That morning, teams make their way to the Hacienda Yarahurco in the Cotopaxi National Park, guided by a provided map and with the advice to head to the north entrance. Once teams arrive, they take part in a Detour that involves either searching for missing items from the uniform of a soldier or wrangling and then grooming a horse. Several teams find themselves at the wrong end of the massive park, a costly mistake for one team that ultimately leads to their elimination. |
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Episode Title: | Beauty Is Sometimes Skin Deep |
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Original Air Date: | February 25th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x02 -- Season: 11, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The teams take off from their Pit Stop, an active volcano at Mirador Cotopaxi. They receive a clue instructing them to travel 7,400 miles to Santiago, Chile and then take a taxi for 17 miles to the headquarters of Codelco. There, the teams take part in a Roadblock that is ultimately rendered largely meaningless when they all make the same flight traveling 230 miles to Chuquicamatta in Calama, Chile. Once at their destination, the teams put on their safety gear and take part in a Detour that requires them to choose between two tasks traditionally involved in Chilean mining operations. The teams then use marked vehicles to travel the treacherous Valley of the Moon before emerging on safer ground and heading for the Pit Stop at the Valley of the Dead. One team makes a crucial mistake by failing to properly read a clue and posted signs regarding a speed limit. Due largely to this mistake, they fall behind and are eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | I'm Sorry I'm Wearing A Bathing Suit. It Is Very Weird, I Know |
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Original Air Date: | March 4th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x03 -- Season: 11, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The nine remaining All-Star teams receive a clue that directs them to travel from their Pit Stop at the Valley of the Dead in Chile four miles to a church in the village of San Pedro de Atacona by the same name. There, they find that they must fly 800 miles to Puerto Montt and then drive 30 to fishery in Metri. As teams maneuver for flights, several find themselves behind when they are unable to catch an early flight, but catch a small break when the flight arrives slightly early. At the fishery, one member of each team completes a Roadblock that requires them to transfer fish from one tank to another. Afterwards, the teams travel fifty miles to Petrohue and find La Maquina, a popular spot for adventure spots. All teams take part in a watery Detour and one loses time—but not position—after neglecting to pick up a clue. Ultimately, one team is unable to make up time after struggling to find the Detour location and is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | No Babies on the Race! |
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Original Air Date: | March 11th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x04 -- Season: 11, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Eight All-Stars teams take off from their Pit Stop at the Playa Petrohue and receive a clue instructing them to fly 800 miles to Punta Arenas, Chile and then take taxi fifteen miles to Lord Lansdale's shipwreck. The teams arrive on two flights and take part in a Detour, where lack of attention-to-detail allows teams on a later flight to catch up to teams that had gained a lead. One team experiences a near-meltdown during the Detour, but regroups and rallies by switching tasks. Meanwhile, a previous top team finds itself falling behind. The teams take two charter flights leaving three hours apart and find themselves faced with a Roadblock that requires one member of each team to sort through mail. As reward, each team receives a message from a past team, some negative and some positive. One team lies to another, hoping to gain an advantage. This team, however, is ultimately unable to recover from falling behind and is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | You Need to Watch Your Jokes, Guy |
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Original Air Date: | March 18th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x05 -- Season: 11, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining seven teams take off from their Pit Stop at the "End of the World" in Argentina and travel to the nearby Marshall Mountain chain, where they hike a half a mile and then use an avalanche beacon to search for another containing a clue. The clue instructs them to fly 7,000 miles to Naputo, Mozambique. Though teams are provided with tickets arriving at 3 P.M., all successfully negotiate tickets for an earlier flight arriving at 9 A.M. They then travel 45 miles via provided cars to the Apopo Training Field where one member of each team takes part in a Roadblock involving trained rats. After completing this task, they then face a Detour that involves either fancy fingernail-care or heavy lifting. Teams race for the Pit Stop, where two teams have a foot-race that leads to virtual tie. One team arrives last but is delighted to learn that they are not eliminated. |
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Episode Title: | We're Going to Trade You for Food Now |
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Original Air Date: | March 25th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x06 -- Season: 11, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Teams take off from the their Pit Stop at Fort Aleza in Maputo, Mozambique and are instructed to fly to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 1,400 miles away. A scramble for flights immediately begins and teams find that flight placement in this leg plays a major role in where they will ultimately end up. One team makes a risky move in opting to take standby-only seats on a flight, which ultimately gains them valuable time and allows them to arrive in first. One team is disappointed when they believe they have secured seats on a flight, but are removed, told that they had been given the seats in error. Once in Mozambique, teams takes one of four dhows (ferries) into Zanzibar, where they then take part in a Roadblock that requires them to choose between either a task that "taxes the mind" or one that "taxes the muscles." They then traveled 15 miles by taxi to the "bush country" of Kikungwi for a Roadblock that involved skill and accuracy. In a leg that involved a great disparity between first and last, a close finish led to the elimination of another team. |
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Episode Title: | If I Were In Town, I Would Ask For Your Number (Part 1) |
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Original Air Date: | April 1st 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x07 -- Season: 11, Episode: 7 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | In the first portion of a two-parter, teams left their Pit Stop at the Old Fort in Zanzibar, having received instructions to fly 5,000 miles to Warsaw, Poland and then find the Czapski Palace and a courtyard with a composer dressed as Frédéric Chopin playing the piano. Teams were provided with tickets but were under no obligation to use them, leading to a scramble to find earlier flights. Most teams were successful, but two trailing teams were forced to the provided flight and then missed a connection, placing them far behind. Once in Warsaw, the teams took part in a Detour, with one option requiring precision and skill and other requiring brawn and a bit of luck. Both tasks produced a clue leading teams to Jan III Sobieski Lozenki. Upon finding this monument, teams traveled a short distance to the nearby Pit Stop. The two trailing teams battled it out for last place, and one was pleased to find that they were not eliminated. However, both of these trailing teams arrived at the Pit Stop after others had already left for the next leg. They faced an uphill struggle to remain in the game as events continued in the second part. |
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Episode Title: | If I Were In Town, I Would Ask For Your Number (Part 2) |
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Original Air Date: | April 1st 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x08 -- Season: 11, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The teams continue in the second part of a double-length episode. Departing from the Pit Stop nearby the Jan III Sobieski Lozenki statue in Warsaw, Poland, the teams learn that they must travel by charter bus to Auschwitz, Birkenau. The charter buses carry three teams and leave four hours apart. Upon arriving at the Auschwitz concentration camp, teams are required to light a candle and have a moment of silence for the victims of the Holocaust. It's a very emotional moment that teams find themselves reflecting on and in some cases relating to personal experiences, or past history of their own families. Teams then proceed forty miles to a theatre in Krakow where they find themselves facing an Intersection, requiring them to pair up with another team. Two teams work this great advantage by partnering for a Fast Forward, but one loses a sizable lead by being forced to wait for the trailing charter bus. All teams ultimately find themselves heading to the Pieskowa Skała castle. Those that did not claim the Fast Forward must first complete the Roadblock before checking in, but one is too late and is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | The Way You Look, Yeah |
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Original Air Date: | April 8th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x09 -- Season: 11, Episode: 9 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The teams are instructed to travel from their Pit Stop at the Pieskowa Skała castle in Krakow, Poland and fly to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, over 5,500 miles away. Once there, the teams search for the best way possible to get to the Batu Caves, traveling by both bus and train. A Detour proves frustrating for some teams and even more frustrating for another, who first has to wait out a Yield before making their way to their chosen task. Stress and frustration cause two teams to switch Detour tasks, which one arguing over the specifics of what's required for a particular task. After completing the task, the teams then travel by taxi six miles to Taman Sri Hartamas and locate a newspaper. A Roadblock proves physically tiring for several of the Racers, but assistance from locals and perseverance see them through the task. Ultimately, a missed flight connection dooms one team. Unable to quickly attain alternate travel, they fall far behind and do not arrive in Malaysia until well after the other teams, leading to their elimination. |
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Episode Title: | We Are Trying to Make Love, Not War |
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Original Air Date: | April 15th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x10 -- Season: 11, Episode: 10 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The four remaining teams compete in the tenth leg. At the Pit Stop at the "Mansion on the Hill" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, they receive a clue instructing them to fly approximately 1,500 miles to Hong Kong. Teams find themselves in a struggle for standby flights, with confusion and bitterness regarding line order. Following Dustin and Kandice's choice to use the Yield in the previous leg, the other teams align against them in the hopes of becoming the final three. Once in Hong Kong, the teams travel 22 miles to a laundry. A high-speed fast forward catapults one team to first place, but they find themselves in dire financial straits. The remaining teams all take part in a physically demanding climbing task for the Detour, though one waffles as to which task to choose before making their ultimate decision. This team then makes a critical error when instead of taking the Star Ferry to Hong Kong Island, they instead end up on a completely different ferry to Kowloon. After kicking down doors in the Roadblock and carefully pulling Travelocity gnomes across a pond, the teams head for the Pit Stop, the Hong Kong Jockey Club. The two trailing teams face heavy traffic and navigation confusion and one receives some relieving news upon arriving at the Jockey Club. |
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Episode Title: | Good Doing Business With You |
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Original Air Date: | April 22nd 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x11 -- Season: 11, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The four remaining teams continue in the eleventh leg of the race. Marked for elimination, Eric and Danielle struggle to remain in the race. Charla is involved in a task 600 feet off the ground. Two teams make a pact to Yield another. |
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Episode Title: | Low to the Ground, That's My Technique |
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Original Air Date: | May 6th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 11x13 -- Season: 11, Episode: 13 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The All-Stars final three -- Dustin & Kandice, Eric & Danielle, and Charla & Mirna -- compete in the final leg to determine who will win the one-million-dollar prize. The teams take off from their Pit Stop in Guam and are instructed to fly 3,500 miles to Honolulu, Hawaii. One team secures an early flight, but the advantage is largely neutralized when the teams must sign up for charter flights leaving ten minutes apart in Hawaii. The teams travel to Kaumalapau Harbor via Jeeps and find themselves in involved in a Detour that tests their ability at a skill either above or below water. All teams then travel to Shipwreck Beach and crossing rocky terrain, face a challenging kayaking task to retrieve their next clue. Ultimately, all teams board the flight to Oakland, California, en route to their final destination city of San Francisco. A final task tests the ability of the racers to think like their partners. When one team proves rather more adept at it than the others, it turns out to be advantage they need to secure victory. They cross the finish line in San Francisco's Botanical Garden first and become the winners of The Amazing Race: All Stars. |
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Episode Title: | Donkeys Have Souls, Too |
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Original Air Date: | November 4th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 12x01 -- Season: 12, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The premiere of the twelfth season of The Amazing Race begins with a new crop of eleven teams heading out on a race around the world for one-million dollars. Teams include a grandfather and grandson, a couple in trouble, blonde girls from Los Angeles, a father and daughter, a Goth couple, and a couple of lesbian ministers. The teams take off on their international journey from the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hill, CA. |
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Episode Title: | I've Become the Archie Bunker of the Home |
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Original Air Date: | November 11th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 12x02 -- Season: 12, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining ten teams head to the Netherlands for the second leg, where they face a pole-vaulting challenge. |
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Episode Title: | We've Really Burned Bridges, For Sure |
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Original Air Date: | December 2nd 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 12x05 -- Season: 12, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining teams take off for the fifth leg of the race from their Pit Stop at the Hotel de Ville and receive a clue instructing them to fly 3,000 miles to Lithuania. All teams end up on flights arriving less than an hour apart and are shuffled thanks to many teams' difficulties in navigating the confusing streets of Lithuania. Teams arrive in marked cars at St. Ann's Church, where a Roadblock requires one team member to make deliveries. Several racers struggle with this task, allowing some teams that found themselves behind to rapidly catch up. Upon completing the task, teams travel to a Lithuanian outdoor ethnographic museum. There, teams search among hundreds of gnomes (Lithuania being the "Land of Gnomes") for a Travelocity Roaming Gnome that must accompany them to the Pit Stop. Teams then choose from Detours that involve either meticulous counting or challenging stilt-walking. In the end, one team is unable to recover from both bad navigation and power struggling and is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | Cherry on Top of the Sundae That's Already Melted |
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Original Air Date: | December 9th 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 12x06 -- Season: 12, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | With five teams eliminated, the teams take off from their Pit Stop at a windmill in Lithuania and receive a clue instructing them to fly to Dubrovnik, Croatia. As the scramble for flights begin, teams try to follow the lead of others, or risk finding their own potentially better option. An error in the tickets received by one team causes them to fall dangerously behind. Upon arriving in Dubrovnik, teams travel to the base of the Fort of St. Lawrence and encounter a Roadblock. The task requires them to help with the restoration of the local architecture. After riding a zip-line, teams are plunged into another task, a Detour. The task allows team to choose between either taking hard physical labor up front, or saving it for the end of the task. One team encounters difficulties with transportation upon completing the task, and is forced to redo part of the leg over after not following the stated instructions in a clue. In the end, however, one team is unable to catch up to another, and is eliminated in a close finish. |
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Episode Title: | This Is Forever, Now |
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Original Air Date: | December 23rd 2007 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 12x07 -- Season: 12, Episode: 7 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The five remaining teams continue on the seventh leg of the race. Donald waffles about an opportunity to gain a huge advantage. Kynt argues with Vyxsin, ordering her to "stop this car!" The teams encounter new challenges and opportunities in Italy, and one team faces a setback when they lose both their clue and their way. The teams participate in a flag-twirling challenge, where one team falls apart and faces a "nightmarish" experience. |
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Episode Title: | I Just Hope He Doesn't Croak on Us |
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Original Air Date: | January 6th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 12x09 -- Season: 12, Episode: 9 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining four teams take off from their Pit Stop at the Bandra Fort, a nearly 500-year-old fort in Mumbai, India built by the Portuguese, and receive a clue instructing them to fly nearly 4,000 miles to Osaka, Japan. Once in Japan, teams travel to Kishiwata Castle by taxi, where they find another clue instructing them travel by taxi to Noda Station and locate a cleaning man who has their next clue. The clue gives details for a Roadblock task that requires one member of each team to become a taxi driver and do a taxing taxi drive through the streets of Osaka. Upon completing the task, racers return to their partners with the clue, which instructs them to travel to the sixteenth century Buddhist Kita-Mido Temple. The next task they face is a Detour requiring them to either sniff out flowers or take part in a robotic soccer match. In the end, one team makes a critical mistake in boarding a flight that arrives over three hours after the other teams' flight. They arrive in Osaka, complete the tasks, and receive surprising but pleasant news upon arriving at the leg's Pit Stop, Tempozan Park. |
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Episode Title: | Sorry, Guys, I'm Not Happy to See You |
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Original Air Date: | January 13th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 12x10 -- Season: 12, Episode: 10 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining teams continue in the penultimate leg of the race, with the guarantee that one team will be eliminated and the first three at the Pit Stop will be the final three racing for one million dollars. They take off from their Pit Stop in Osaka, Japan and receive a clue instructing them to travel to the Floating Garden of the Umeda Sky Garden. Its 10 A.M. opening time gives the lowest ranked team a great advantage and, upon arriving there, teams receive a clue instructing them to fly 1,000 miles to Taipei, Taiwan. Once in Taiwan, teams travel by high-speed rail to Taichung and then taxi to Acrobatics Jeep. One team, becoming increasingly infuriated by the placement of another, declares themselves to be "out for blood" and threatens to "rip the dreads" out of another racer's head. Teams face a Roadblock that requires one member of each team to undergo two harrowing rides in stunt cars. They next take another high-speed rail trip, but one must complete a Speed Bump before continuing. All teams complete the Detour, in which they walk barefoot on jagged stone. They race for the Pit Stop at Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Plaza, a monument to the late president of China. One team arrives last and receives the news that they have not reached the final three and are eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | The Final Push |
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Original Air Date: | January 20th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 12x11 -- Season: 12, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Ronald Hsu & Christina Hsu, TK Erwin & Rachel Rosales and Nicolas Fulks & Donald Jerousek are the three teams racing for the top prize of one million dollars. They take off from their Pit Stop at the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Plaza in Taipei, Taiwan and receive a clue instructing them to immediately fly to the final destination city of Anchorage, Alaska, over 4,500 miles away. As teams scramble for flights, all obtain the same flight, but one manages a valuable upgrade. Once in Alaska, teams travel to 6th Avenue Outfitters, an adventure store, to pick up vital gear for tasks and a clue. One team, however, neglects to pick up their gear and does not realize their mistake until reaching the Detour. This particular Detour, at the Ship Creek Boat Launch, requires teams to choose between tasks involving either cod or crabs. The teams then taxi sixty miles to the Twenty Mile River and then take a high-speed boat ride to the Twenty Mile Glacier, which they scale. Next, teams take a thrilling taxi ride across the Alaskan wilderness to Merrill Field and taxi to Goose Lake Park. There, they face the final Roadblock, in which one member of each team is required to complete a task that involves the placement of various objects featured throughout the race. Teams then receive two clues instructing them to travel to statues, and then finally are instructed to travel to the Girdwood Airport and run to the finish line. In a near-photo finish, one team just ekes out another to win The Amazing Race 12 and claim the one million dollar prize. |
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Episode Title: | Bees are Much Calmer than All This! |
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Original Air Date: | September 28th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x01 -- Season: 13, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | To start the thirteenth season of The Amazing Race, eleven teams are transported by classic cars to the Los Angeles Coliseum. After receiving a set of initial instructions, they all scramble for clues which direct them to travel on one of two flights to Salvador, Brazil. Several teams are excited to catch the earlier flight, but disappointed when a delay shaves an hour an a half off the three hour lead that they had hoped to enjoy. The teams are directed to find a sandwich shop called O Rei Do Pernil, where they then receive a task instructing them to become old school barristas. They deliver a cart to a man named India in a coffee shop called Parąca de Se, who then gives them a clue directing them to a Brazilian military base. The teams spend the night at the military base and then depart in three groups-- one leaving at 9 in the morning, one at 9:30 and a final one at 9:45. The teams find a church in Pelourinho, the historic center of Salvador and also find a Detour involving a choice of upward or downward travel. One team makes a critical mistake at their task, forcing them to repeat previous actions. Ultimately, however, it is another team who is unable to overcome both their early mistakes and slow progress and is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | Do You Like American Candy? |
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Original Air Date: | October 5th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x02 -- Season: 13, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The ten remaining teams take off from their Pit Stop in a seventh century fortress in Salvador, Brazil and receive a clue instructing them to fly to Fortaleza, Brazil. Tensions erupt when one team feels they secured an early flight for all teams and seeks a small compensation in return. Once in Fortaleza, the teams receive a clue instructing them to travel to a beach known as Barraca d Manoel. Here, a Detour choice allows one team to set itself apart from the pack by providing a task suited to their skills. Later, a Roadblock requires searching for a clue hidden in plain sight. While some find the clue almost right away, others waste time searching for non-existent leads in distracting advertising information. One team twice makes time-wasting clue-reading mistakes, but ultimately another team is eliminated. |
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Episode Title: | Did You Push My Sports Bra Off the Ledge? |
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Original Air Date: | October 12th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x03 -- Season: 13, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining teams are instructed to fly from Fortaleze, Brazil to La Paz, Bolivia, but not before a rivalry between two teams heats up at the Pit Stop. The teams fly 1,200 miles and find themselves in area that is over 12,000 feet above sea level, leaving some racers struggling to breathe the thin air. The teams camp beside a local statue and then take a newspaper delivery. They scour the newspapers for a clue, which instructs them to travel to the Narvaez Hat Shop in Plaza Mario and then purchase a traditional cholita hat to receive their next clue. This clue turns out to be a Detour, in which the teams face a choice between a task that is arduous but not overly physical or one likely to leave less physically inclined teams winded. After completing this tax, the teams travel by taxi eight miles to Los Titanes del Ring, where a Roadblock sends one member of each team up against a female wrestler. Many teams struggle at this task, but ultimately one team is done in not so much by their poor performance as by their failure to properly read the instructions given in a clue. They check in last at the Pit Stop, the hilltop park of Mirador el Monticulo, and are eliminated. |
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Episode Title: | I Wonder If They Like Blondes in New Zealand? |
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Original Air Date: | October 19th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x04 -- Season: 13, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | At the Pit Stop in La Paz, Bolivia, frustrations continue to build between two teams. The remaining teams receive a clue instructing them to fly 6,900 miles to Auckland, New Zealand. There, the teams face tricky nighttime navigation to the Gulf Harbor, where they must untie a Gordian knot. Inside the knots, the teams find a clue instructing them to travel to Mount Eden, a dormant volcano and Auckland's highest point. The knots also include a clue for the Fast Forward, which one team successfully completes, providing a break from the leg's challenging and often frustrating tasks. The other teams forge ahead with those tasks, first completing a detail-oriented Roadblock. They then travel to the City Life Hotel and search for Travelocity gnomes from the rooftops. After finding the gnomes, the teams receive a clue instructing them to drive to Kiwi 360°, a local landmark. The teams then face a Detour choice between two tasks that are both gruelingly physical in their own way. One racer is injured during one of these tasks, but plows ahead nevertheless. Ultimately, two teams fight it out on separate tasks late at night, but one ends up being too late and is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | Do It Like a Madman |
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Original Air Date: | October 26th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x05 -- Season: 13, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The seven remaining teams take off from their Pit Stop at Summer Hill in New Zealand and receive a clue instructing them to fly over 5,600 miles to Siem Reap, Cambodia. The teams scramble for flights, with one team that was running behind catching a critical flight that enables them to catch up with all other teams. Meanwhile, another team fails to secure this flight, leaving them dangerously behind and scrambling to make up time. In Siem Reap, the teams travel to a roadside pumping station where they're instructed to use a hand pump to fill a truck with 25 liters of fuel to receive their next clue. Most teams complete this task with ease, but one is left gawking until they stumble upon the solution. The teams are then driven in their trucks to Siem Reap Harbor and then make their way by motorized boats to the waterfront community of Kho Andeth. One team is forced to paddle after suffering a boat breakdown. At Kho Andeth, the teams face a Detour choice involving either gathering objects or hauling fish. The teams then travel to Angkor Wat for a Roadblock testing sense of direction. The teams race for the leg's Pit Stop, the Bayon Temple, but one team is unable to catch up after being behind the entire leg and is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | Please Hold While I Singe My Skull |
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Original Air Date: | November 2nd 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x06 -- Season: 13, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The six remaining teams take off from their Pit Stop at the Bayon Temple in Siem Reap Cambodia and receive a clue instructing them to fly 2,000 miles to Delhi, India and then find a place called Moonlight Motors. All teams secure the same flight, but difficulties arise for some teams throughout the leg as they try to navigate the complicated streets of India. At Moonlight Motors, the racers face a Roadblock that requires one member of each team to spray-paint a car. During this task, one racer's badgering of their partner causes them to fall dangerously behind. The teams then head to the Ambassador Hotel, where a doorman gives them a clue that leads them to a Detour. One team's ineptitude at their chosen task task causes them to lose valuable time, but another team loses even more due to continued navigational problems. In the end, this team checks in last at the Pit Stop, but is delighted to find that they are not eliminated (though the reprieve comes with a string attached.) |
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Episode Title: | My Nose Is On Fire |
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Original Air Date: | November 9th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x07 -- Season: 13, Episode: 7 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining teams take off from their Pit Stop at the Baha'i House and receive a clue instructing them to travel to Deshbandhu Apartments. Once there, they participate in a Roadblock that frustrates several racers (including some not actually participating in the task) as they are pelted with various colored dyes. Upon completing this trial, the teams receive a clue instructing them to travel into Old Delhi and find the Charity Birds Hospital and search through cages of injured birds for their next clue. At the hospital, most teams proceed forward with the leg's Detour, but one finds itself faced with a Speed Bump for having come in last in the previous leg. As this team struggles to make up time, the remaining teams struggle to varying degrees with the Detour tasks, one involving a confusing search for numbers and one involving the creation of hot chili powder. In the end, the final outcome is determined by one team's poor performance at finding the numbers. This team, which had previously been gaining momentum, is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | I'm Like an Angry Cow |
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Original Air Date: | November 16th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x08 -- Season: 13, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining teams travel to Kazakhstan and face chickens. |
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Episode Title: | I'm Like an Angry Cow |
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Original Air Date: | November 16th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x08 -- Season: 13, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining teams travel to Kazakhstan and face chickens. Several teams race for a Fast Forward. Andrew and Dan have an argument. |
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Episode Title: | You Look Like Peter Pan |
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Original Air Date: | December 7th 2008 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 13x11 -- Season: 13, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The final three teams, Nick & Starr Spangler, Andrew Lappitt & Dan Honig amd Ken & Tina Greene set off from their Pit Stop at VDNKh Park and receive a clue instructing them to fly to their final destination city: Portland, Oregon. All teams make the same flight, connecting them through Frankfurt, to reach Portland. Once there, the teams travel to a local adventure park. At this point, one team faces taxi difficulties that essentially put them out of the race. At the adventure park, all teams complete a Detour choice requiring them to overcome their fear of heights by traversing a log high in the air. They then travel by taxi to The Bridge of the Gods, where their fear of heights is again tested, this time by a 2,000 foot zip-line ride to an island. At this island, the teams were faced with a complicated task-- a game board testing their memory of the events throughout the race. The race contained ten game pieces, each representing a leg of the race and behind each was a symbol representing either Route Info, Roadblock, Detour or Pit Stop. Teams had to search through 150 clue boxes for pictures to place in the appropriate spots on the game-board. Each time they placed a correct picture, a green light would appeared and they were able to move on to the next one. Upon completing this task, teams found a clue that directed them to travel to the Portland Building and search for a green dinosaur. They then searched on foot for a Russian food cart and finally a donut shop before receiving the clue directing them to the finish line at a local mansion. The results come down to a taxi race for the finish. |
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Episode Title: | Don't Let a Cheese Hit Me |
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Original Air Date: | February 15th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 14x01 -- Season: 14, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Eleven new teams take off on a race around the world for one-million dollars in the premiere of the fourteenth season of The Amazing Race. The teams take off from the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base near Long Beach, California. They immediately receive a clue instructing them to fly to either Zurich or Milan and then travel by train to Locarno, Switzerland. Once in Switzerland, the teams travel to the Church of San Antonio. Upon signing a register, they receive a message from a priest with one of three departure times for the next morning: 7:15 A.M., 7:30 A.M. and 7:45 A.M. After camping out that night, the teams travel to the Verzasca Dam (Valle Verzasca) and face a Roadblock requiring "nerves and steel"-- a 70 story bungee jump. After completing this jump, the second-highest in the world, the teams travel by train to the Interlaken and search for Kleine Rugen Wiese. There, they take part in a task requiring them to join the local workforce and transport 200 pounds of cheese from an aging shed to the bottom of a hill. To aid in this task, teams don an an antique cheese rack, but many racers end up simply carrying cheese or sliding slowly down the hill when their cheese racks break. Upon completing this task, the teams receive a clue instructing them to travel to the last postal bus stop in the town of Stechelberg. They then listen for a group of yodelers to lead them to the leg's Pit Stop. In the end, two teams find themselves in an extremely close foot-race, with one falling just slightly behind and being eliminated. |
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Episode Title: | Your Target Is Your Partner's Face |
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Original Air Date: | February 22nd 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 14x02 -- Season: 14, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Fresh off the first elimination, the ten remaining teams continue on with the race, this time heading for Bavaria, Germany. Included in the tasks along the way is a task involving team members throwing pies at their partners. One racer becomes lost in the Alps. A second team is eliminated from the race. |
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Episode Title: | I'm Not Wearing That Girl's Leotard! |
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Original Air Date: | March 1st 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 14x03 -- Season: 14, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining teams set off from the Pit Stop at the Schloss Hellbrunn in Salzburg, Austria and receive a clue instructing them to travel by train to Munich and then fly 700 miles to Bucharest, Romania. A team that had been in the lead finds its advantage neutralized when their flight is forced to turn around, while another team ends up on a flight so late that it doesn't land in Romania until after the other teams have already completed the leg's Roadblock and boarded a train for the next destination. The Roadblock requires one member of each team to complete a series of gymnastics and the next destination turns out to be Buskov, Transylvania. In Transylvania, the teams travel to the Biserica Neagra (Black Church) and then take part in a Detour task that requires them to either load and unload belongings from a horse-drawn carriage, or unlock and untangle a coffin. One team completing the latter task bleeds valuable time by hiking up a mountain, following the wrong set of arrows, while a team completing the former task has a brief moment of panic when they lose their fanny pack. Upon completing the Detour, the teams travel by taxi to the leg's Pit Stop, the Vila Panoramic, but the team on the late flight is unable to recover, their hopes of one million dollars dashed. |
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Episode Title: | It Was Like a Caravan of Idiots |
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Original Air Date: | March 8th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 14x04 -- Season: 14, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The eight remaining teams continue the race, this time braving the cold of Siberia. Teams become frustrating by a task that requires them to build a wall. One racer encounters a dead-end after taking a harrowing ride. |
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Episode Title: | She's a Little Scared of Stick, But I Think She'll Be OK! |
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Original Air Date: | March 15th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 14x05 -- Season: 14, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining teams continue the race, resuming their jaunt through Siberia. |
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Episode Title: | Rooting Around in People's Mouths Could Be Unpleasant |
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Original Air Date: | April 12th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 14x08 -- Season: 14, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining five teams continue on with the race, this time heading for Bangkok, Thailand. The teams participate in task required them to perform karaoke. After making a critical mistake, Mark and Michael get into an argument over their commitment to the race. |
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Episode Title: | He Made Me Look Like Alice Cooper |
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Original Air Date: | May 3rd 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 14x11 -- Season: 14, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining four teams learn that the destination that they have reached is not a Pit Stop and they are still racing. They search the area shops of a Bei Hei streets for a Travelocity roaming gnome, which they must keep until the leg's Pit Stop. The gnome features a clue instructing them to travel to Gu Gong Xi Bei Jiao. There they find a set of electric bikes, which they must ride across the forbidden city of Gu Gong and Tiananmen Square to the Dongdan Station. A Detour has teams choose between either getting dressed up for an opera or taking restaurant orders in Mandarin Chinese, but a U-Turn forces one team to complete both tasks. Along the way, two teams find themselves majorly lost, leading to a scramble to find their way. Teams travel to the Dong Hua Men Yi Shi street market, where a Roadblock requires one member of each team to eat Chinese delicacies. The final three is determined at the Pit Stop, Niao Chao ("The Bird's Nest"), but a last-second bathroom break results in one team falling victim to the final elimination. |
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Episode Title: | Season 15 Premiere |
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Original Air Date: | September 27th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 15x01 -- Season: 15, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The teams depart from Los Angeles on a race around the world for one million dollars. |
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Episode Title: | It's Like Being Dropped on Planet Mars |
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Original Air Date: | October 4th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 15x02 -- Season: 15, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The ten remaining teams depart Cai Be, Vietnam, on the third leg of a race around the world for one million dollars. Returning to Ho Chi Minh City, the teams find dealing with the frustrating gridlock of the city's streets to be as taxing as the Race tasks themselves. |
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Episode Title: | Sean Penn Cambodia Here We Come |
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Original Air Date: | October 11th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 15x03 -- Season: 15, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The nine remaining teams depart Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's Reunification Palace for Phnom Penh, Cambodia on the fourth leg of a race around the world for one million dollars. After a Detour in involving choosing between either matching scarves in the city's Russian Market or selling motorcycle helmets on the streets and a Roadblock including training as a Cambodian royal monkey dancer, one team sees their ability to continue jeopardized due to a lost passport. |
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Episode Title: | I'm Like Ricky Bobby |
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Original Air Date: | October 18th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 15x04 -- Season: 15, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The eight remaining teams depart Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for Dubai, where they ascend the world's tallest building, Burj Dubai. With a racetrack Fast Forward included in the mix, teams face a water-collecting Roadblock in the sweltering desert followed by a sub-freezing Detour at a massive indoors skiing center. |
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Episode Title: | Do It for the Hood! Do It for the Suburbs! |
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Original Air Date: | October 25th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 15x05 -- Season: 15, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The seven remaining teams depart the Souk Madinat Jumeirah pitstop, staying in Dubai. The Roadblock involving retrieving a watch to use to unlock a briefcase and Detours of weighing a half-millon dollars in gold or assembling a dozen hookahs are made even worse by stifling 130° heat. But Mika faces the ultimate test of courage when a six-story waterslide clashes with her dual fears of water and heights. |
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Episode Title: | This Is Not my Finest Hour |
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Original Air Date: | November 1st 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 15x06 -- Season: 15, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The six remaining teams depart the Dolphin Bay Beach pit stop in Dubai on the seventh leg of a race around the world for one million dollars. |
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Episode Title: | Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound |
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Original Air Date: | December 6th 2009 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 15x11 -- Season: 15, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | CBS - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | The final three teams race home from Prague to the United States, with the finish line holding a one million dollar prize for the first to cross it. |
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Episode Title: | You Don't Get Paid Unless You Win |
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Original Air Date: | April 10th 2011 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 18x07 -- Season: 18, Episode: 7 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | As I've said, there were things that I liked, and didn't like. Some twists. The first thing that makes my score lower was the staying in India. Why would The Amazing Race stay in an over-visited country?
The Roadblock? It was kind of like a scavenger hunt. It seemed kind of difficult and kind of easy. That won't change my score, however.
The Detour? Why can't The Amazing Race think creative anymore? Going on a boat, doing a task that's not very physical. Let's do the Feed a Buffalo part first. That's just "Ride, Get, Ride, Go, Get your clue". That's too easy. The poop task involved no physical things, except being smelly. It wasn't very interesting.
India? Visited too much!
I will now review the teams in the order they came in:
Flight Time & Big Easy - I was worried Zev & Justin would take their third win! I'm so glad you both took it from them! Good job! You're one of my favorites! You made my score higher for taking Zev & Justin's first place!
Zev & Justin - I like Justin, but I really don't like Zev at some moments. I didn't want to see you both get your third win, I just didn't want it to happen. If you both won first place, this episode would've been rated lower than a 7.
Kisha & Jen - I'm not really sure what happened with you both at the Detour (I wasn't really paying attention). I think it was a fight? Don't fight, please. You're one of my favorites. Gary & Mallory - Good job!
Jet & Cord - It was pretty dumb to see you both miss an easy flight to catch. You seem to have flight/train/boat problems but luck with catching up. I hate that! So that's a reason my score is lower!
Kent & Vyxsin - I was worried at the last minute when The Amazing Race editors were showing Ron & Christina as if they were in front of you. I'm so glad you both took the last spot for the top 6!
Ron & Christina - Picturing you both elminated: GREAT! But I was kind of sad when you both were eliminated. (I don't like this team if you don't know). The reason I was sad was because Ron was tired, at least he didn't get all complainy like he usually does.
Overall an episode with ups and downs. 7-Good |
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Episode Title: | I Cannot Deal with your Psycho Behavior |
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Original Air Date: | April 17th 2011 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 18x08 -- Season: 18, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | The remaining six teams depart from the Ramnagar Fort near Varanasi, India on the eighth leg of a race around the world for one million dollars. |
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Episode Title: | Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen |
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Original Air Date: | May 1st 2011 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 18x10 -- Season: 18, Episode: 10 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | The five remaining teams depart from the Moos Restaurant at the base of the Alps in Zermatt, Switzerland on the tenth leg of The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business. |
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Episode Title: | This is Where It Ends |
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Original Air Date: | May 8th 2011 (Sunday) |
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Original Air Time: | 8:00 PM (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 18x11 -- Season: 18, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | 60 min |
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Episode Summary: | In a special two-hour final of The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, the teams racing to the Finish Line will be determined, followed by the million dollars being handed out to the victors. |
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