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Amazing Race recap, leg 5

// October 26th, 2009 // fun

I figured from the previews last week that the Mika/Canaan thing would be okay, but probably a little bit overblown by whoever makes those teasers at the end of every episode.

Nope, they weren’t kidding. In fact, it was much better than I could have ever expected and desired, giving us one of the best endings EVER on the Amazing Race.

Before that, let’s gloss over some of the other highlights on this leg, which seemed easy for Meghan and Cheyne, who left the pit stop first and finished first.

Although I sense something going on with that team, especially Meghan. Maybe I just didn’t notice it before, but she certainly seems more uptight and fun-less right now. I started counting the number of times Cheyne told her to “relax” and stopped around three.

Some hilarious lines tonight.

“Let’s do it for the hood!”

“Let’s do it for the suburbs Dan!”

So funny. Also:

“We stay here long enough, Lance and Keri are gonna show up!”

Followed up by:

“Do it for the hood? The hood is mad at me right now!”

Seriously, the Globetrotters are so very lucky to be in the race still after letting three teams pass them while Big Easy couldn’t figure out 8:35pm.

Oh, on a side note, while the poker girls thought Dan and Sam had a “Baywatch” moment, I really would have to say it was Ericka.

Now, let’s get to the GOOOOOOD STUFF.

Mika. First she’s afraid of water, heights and then we find out this leg she’s “never run before”??? She’s never even run? What they heck does that mean? Like really never run? I just keep saying it over and over in my head because it’s stunning.

But not that stunning when the end of the leg arrived and she just needed to go down a 6-story slide and not be eliminated for the race, but couldn’t do it. Even seeing the Globetrotters behind her and given two-minutes wasn’t enough motivation.

Now, many will want to bash Big Easy for being a jerk to Mika, telling her she couldn’t do it, she should come back, what have you. And yes, maybe it was…but Canaan was close to throwing his GIRLFRIEND down a SLIDE for a million dollars, so it’s hard to blame either of them for what they were doing.

I was so tense during the whole thing, because she just wouldn’t go down, while the producers kept making us believe the Globetrotters were catching up. Usually this is all false excitement, but not tonight.

They caught up, Mika suffered the most epic FAIL on Amazing Race ever, the Globetrotters passed them, and Mika and Canaan were eliminated. And even when they arrived at the mat, I’m surprised Phil didn’t say “Mika and Canaan…you’re the last team to arrive…AND…you still need to do the slide before I can check you in.”

I’ve never seen a finish quite like that. Amazing excitement all-around. I feel bad for Canaan though…I have to say, if I was just dating some girl and that happened…it would certainly be hard to forget about it. He was nice in the interview afterwards…but what about when they get home?

“I just wish I was in Nashville right now.”

Now you are Mika.

The Contest

Here are the standings now…Dave keeps increasing his lead:

Dave 44
Adrian 37
Tracy 33
Ryann 32
Jina 30
Nicky 26
Josie 23
Mike 23
Ralph 18
Chris 14