Amazing Race
Amazing Race

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M. Giant: B- | 565 USERS: C+
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Build Me Up, Buttercup

After they leave, Bill and Cathi arrive in second place, and Cathi's taking this one. Andy and Tommy get there in third, and this one's Tommy's. Cathi's busily memorizing the poem as Bill tells us that Cathi was an English teacher, so he mock-threateningly says, "I think she better do it right!" Too bad she was never a geography teacher, because she's not able to find the theater on her wheel map, even though the Amazing Editors can (and helpfully pop it out in an onscreen bubble), so she figures she'll just go ask somebody at a nearby hotel. While Tommy finishes memorizing the poem and checking his wheel-map, Cathi gets directions from the hotel clerk. She should have brought the bike in to have him show her on that.

Amani and Marcus are leaving at 11:43, in fourth place. As they get going, Marcus interviews about how proud he is of Amani. She modestly says she's not Peyton Manning, but can hold her ground. Well, who among us is Peyton Manning, after all? Seriously, I'm asking. Is he a football player or something? They get to the statue and she takes on the Roadblock. While she tries to memorize the poem, Marcus keeps calling out numbers and nonsense phrases, on the theory that distracting her now will pay off later. Like the mental equivalent of swinging two bats in the on-deck circle, I guess. He keeps doing it all the way up to the point where she gets on her bike and rides off, while Bill and Andy laugh. It must be refreshing to see another team interfere with itself so they don't have to.

Tommy has stopped for directions, and learns that according to the map, he's currently some distance northeast of his bike's tire. "Was it still spinning when you were looking at it?" Andy asks him in a post-leg interview. Cathi realizes she's gone the wrong way and has to turn around and go back. And thus it is that Amani, who was just in fourth place a minute ago, is the second racer to arrive at the theater. She gives a rather more heartfelt (and much less cheesy) performance than Cindy and gets a bravo and a clue, so she's heading back while Cathi and Tommy are both stopped for directions yet again. She rides back up to the statue, to the amazement of everyone still waiting there. "Oh my God, are you serious?" Marcus boggles. "You don't know who you run with, darling," she coolly pants as she opens the clue sending them to Legoland. Even Andy and Bill are impressed. In the car, Marcus has an appropriate football metaphor to deploy. Of course.

Amazing Race

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