The Amazing Race 9-28-08

The teams start out at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Everybody showing up in their matching outfits, 'cept the frat boys. Phil goes over the rules, in case someone has never seen the show.

The first clue sends them to Salvador, Brazil. They don't indicate how much money they got.

On the first flight.
The Geeks, Mark and Bill
Mom and Dad, Ken and Tina
Terence and Sarah
Brother and Sister, Nick and Starr
Aja and Ty
Kelly and Christy

Scheduled to arrive three hours before
On the second flight.
Mom and son, Toni and Dallas
The Frat Boys, Andrew and Dan
The Hippies Anita and Arthur
Marisa and Brook
Anthony and Stephanie

The first flight is delayed in Rio, but still arrives first. They are looking for a sandwich shop. They must drive a cart filled with candy through a busy street market. The teams liken it to the worst shopping cart ever. Kelly and Christy end up with the bad cabbie and get hopeless lost.


The next clue sends them to a Brazilian military base where they will spend the night outdoors under mosquito netting. They will sign up for one of three buses the next morning 45 minutes apart.

9:00 bus has
Terence and Sarah
Nick and Starr
The Geeks
Ken and Tina

9:30 bus has
Aja and Ty
Kelly and Christy
The Frat Boys

9:45 bus has
Mom and Son
The Hippies
Marisa and Brooke
Anthony and Stephanie


Terence is the first whiner at the mini pit stop. Sarah is networking and he wants her to "connect with me." Starr was flirting with someone I think it was Dallas.

After they get off the bus they have to take a taxi to a church. However, it is difficult to find a taxi, and more whining about how people aren't nice. They all walk by the detour clue. The choices are Hard Way Up, or Soft Way Down.

In Hard Way Up the teams have to climb a staircase, Escadario de Paso, on their hands and knees and answer a spiritual question. If they get the question wrong they have to go down and do it again.

In Soft Way Down. They have to go to the top of a building and climb down a rope netting 240 feet. There can only be three teams on the netting at one time. The first team there misses a critical clue and goes up the elevator and not through the marked doorway to the service stairs. All teams choose this one, except for the Frat Boys who climb the stairs and get have to answer "How many steps have you climbed?" They guess for and get it wrong. The next time they guess 53 and get it right.

They need to go to the Pit Stop. First there was Nick and Starr. As the winners of this leg of the race they win a trip from Travelocity to Belize. The last team to arrive is the Hippies.