The Amazing Race - Season 13, Episode 7
What a shame. Just when I make the final decision to give up on long recaps for this season, as it's too much of a time drain, and there's nobody to really root for except Toni and Dallas, they throw a really good episode our way.
The teams stay in India, the better to watch the crushing tides of humanity wear on their sanity. First, they're off to the Roadblock, which is shaping up to be the best task each week. In this case, the chosen team member has to go to a ladder, climb up it, and comb through a bunch of fake clues in order to find a real one. Sound simple? That may be because I failed to mention that the team member is doing all this while being pelted with colored powder and jets of dye. Starr and Dallas make it through all right, but the natives get restless after that, and all further Roadblockers (and in many cases, their waiting partners) get absolutely annihilated. Kelly and Christy, perky and confident after coming in second last week, quickly drop several places when Kelly can't withstand the barrage of paint.
From the Roadblock, it's off to a bird hospital, where teams hunt through the cages for the Detour clue. This is also where Ken and Tina meet their Speed Bump, which requires them to go serve holy water to any pedestrian who wants it. The Detour is a fairly complex choice, asking teams to choose between spotting small numbered tags on a web of power lines, or grinding up a bunch of chili powder, which assaults all the senses except possibly hearing. That's too bad for Sarah, as she'd probably welcome deafness to escape from Terence's constant nagging. All the other teams go for the power lines. Nick/Starr/Toni/Dallas decide to work together, with the result that they speed through it, and come to the mat as teams one and two, respectively. Terence and Sarah recover from their chili pain to come in third. As I always like to see, the power line task handily shuffles the dumbest teams to the back of the pack. The Fratties and Kelly/Christy have real issues with the whole "power line" part of the clue, and just write down every number they come across, which befuddles them in a hurry.
They're so bad at it that Ken and Tina spring back from the Speed Bump and pass both of them. Though not my favorite people on the planet, Ken and Tina are no dummies, and actually get out of their taxi for a few minutes in order to clear traffic by hand. Impressive. They deserve to stay in the race, and do, getting to the mat in fourth place, green hair and all. That leaves it as a race between the Fratties and Kelly/Christy. Though the Fratties ask the ladies if they'd like to work together, they're snootily dismissed. Fine, then. The Fratties work out the numbers and pass Kelly and Christy, dooming the latter to elimination. It's about damn time. I haven't been so happy to see such damn prisses get their comeuppance since... Well, since last Tuesday.
Overall Grade: B+
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