Amazing Race
Amazing Race

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Bollywood Travolta

Hopping up onto an outdoor stage to join a couple of dancers, Phil explains that the Roadblock requires racers to "Work on the set of a Bollywood movie and learn a dance routine." This is a pretty spare set, I have to say. Not a key grip in sight. But after learning the dance, they'll "join a group of thirty extras and perform it for a Bollywood director." The lead choreographer will judge their performance and hand them their next clue when he's satisfied that they've got the steps down. Dave nominates Other Rachel for this one, saying she was a "high school dance phenomenon." Of the five choreographers waiting, each of them holding a costume to lend to a racer, Other Rachel picks the one holding something in bright orange. "Thank God that alluded to dancing and I didn't inadvertently select it," Dave says, as always making a casual remark that sounds like it should be preceded by the words "This is your captain speaking."

The Border Patrol, Team Big Brother, and Ralph and Vanessa all arrive at the college at roughly the same time and head out back. Opening the clue, Art reads, "Who's got all the right moves?" JJ tries to give this one to Art, who protests that he did the last dance. After a flashback to the bottle dance in Leg 3, in which Art snarled at JJ, "You owe me!" JJ concedes and agrees to do this Roadblock. Rachel will be taking this for her team, and so will Vanessa, but most people seem more interested in JJ. "I don't know how many males that are federal law-enforcement-oriented also double as quality dancers," Dave remarks a bit gleefully.

Other Rachel comes running out of a changing tent in her cream-colored silk pajamas and her bright-orange scarf to join the group of dancers who are dressed all in orange. As she starts learning the routine from that group's choreographer, Other Rachel interviews that she was in dance from elementary school through high school, but this is her first Bollywood experience. Sounds like a glaring omission from her Midwestern dance educators. Dave says that if he'd picked this, "We'd probably be here for hours," and the choreographer tells other Rachel, "Shake your buttocks." Yeah, Dave doesn't strike me as so much of a buttock-shaker. "At this point in time, I am encountering some difficulty simulating an aftward vibration," he'd tell us.

Amazing Race

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