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Emmy-winning Reality Show created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster and airing on CBS since September 5, 2001. Hosted by Phil Keoghan, the show could vaguely be considered the Reality Show version of Around the World in Eighty Days.Eleven teams of two peoplenote Though five seasons have featured twelve teams (Seasons 3, 4, 10, 15, and 34) and Season 35 had thirteen, while Season 8 featured ten teams of four go on a journey around the world, following clues and performing tasks in order to find their way to the designated Pit Stops; the last team to arrive is usually (but not always) eliminated.The most common types of tasks that the racers must perform along the way: Detour — "A Detour is a choice between two tasks, each with its own pros and cons." For Seasons 1-4, one route was typically shorter but harder (or scarier) to use while the other was longer but relatively easier. Starting with Season 5, it became more of a choice between two conflicting skill sets, such as brains vs. brawn, or something highly technical vs. grunt work. However, up until about Season 12, the tasks were still unbalanced enough that teams could easily see that one was much faster than the other. The producers got better at this after the first All-Stars, and it's now uncommon to see all the teams choose the same Detour. Season 25 featured the Blind Detour, where teams are only given the names of the tasks, and must travel to the task location before receiving instructions. Roadblock — "A Roadblock is a task that only one team member can perform", and the choice must be made with only a vague clue to hint at the task. As of Season 6, the rules specify that no one racer can perform more than a set number of Roadblocks, meaning the tasks must be split between teammates somewhat fairly. The non-participating teammate is in no way permitted to help with the task; should they even help verbally (regardless of whether the active partner listens or can even hear them), the team will incur a time penalty. Fast Forward — A special task that allows a team to bypass all other tasks and head directly to the Pit Stop. This is only awarded to the first team to complete the task, and teams are limited to one Fast Forward per race. The earliest seasons had Fast Forwards available on every leg, but due to the expense of setting them up they were cut back in Season 5 to only once or twice a season. Starting in Season 18 they might not appear at all, and seem to have been retired completely after Season 29. Yield/U-Turn — Introduced in Season 5, the Yield allowed one team to hinder the progress of another, forcing them to wait for approximately 30 minutes before they were able to continue. Come Season 12, it was replaced by the U-Turn, which is placed immediately before or after a Detour and forces the targeted team to complete both Detour tasks. Season 17 later modified this into the Double U-Turn, where two teams can each hinder a group behind them. Other variations include the Blind (or Blind Double) U-Turn (seen occasionally starting in Season 14), where the team(s) using it can remain anonymous; and the Must Vote U-Turn, which forces all the teams to vote at the beginning of the leg for who should be U-Turned at the upcoming Detour. The Yield was temporarily brought back for Season 32, but with a twist of finding a ten or twenty minute timer in leg two and then being able to use it once throughout the season. Speed Bump — Introduced in Season 12, this is a short penalty task for teams that place last in non-elimination legs (prior to this, non-elimination penalties involved the confiscation of money and possibly possessions, or a time penalty on the next leg if they did not come in first).A few seasons of the American show have had gimmicks applied to their setup: The Family Edition (Season 8), which expanded teams to four people (including kids) and limited itself to traveling North America. Three All-Stars seasons (Seasons 11, 18, and 24), bringing back several previous racers. S18 was titled "Unfinished Business" instead of "All-Stars" to hype up My Greatest Second Chance. Blind Date (Season 26), where all the teams are dating couples and half of them only met each other at the starting line. Season 29 (with no special title), a non-romantic expansion of the "Blind Date" concept where all 22 racers are strangers. Season 31 (again, no special title is given), a version of the "All-Star" casting that includes veterans from CBS' other major reality shows, Survivor and Big Brother, in addition to Race vets.The show has done well with both critics and fans, with the possible exception of the aforementioned Family Edition, which sacrificed exotic world locales and interpersonal drama for a competitive family road trip.The Amazing Race, like all reality shows, consists of a camera crew following the teams as they race across the globe; accordingly, for legal and political reasons, all participants must be U.S. citizens, and legally able to travel outside of the U.S. The show is much less frustration-wrought than, say, Survivor — less emphasis is placed on knocking the other team out of the proverbial race, which allows for a more 'relaxed' atmosphere while showcasing some of the absolutely gorgeous scenery and geography in many of the world's most exotic countries.Heck, it's even mildly educational, owing to the fact that some of the clues require calculation, riddle- and puzzle-solving, and a passing familiarity with the notable landmarks in a given country.Not to be confused with Amazing Freaking Grace, though that hasn't stopped some from making that pun anyway. Also not to be confused with Tár, in which an 'a' was replaced by 'á', and also it's not an acronym at all along with a regular viscous organic black liquid. (That is called "Tar".) | |
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Second-Hand Storytelling: In the finale, there was a fight between Rachel and Caroline & Jennifer in the customs. Since they couldn't film the fight in that section of the airport, the fight had to be told by confessionals from all three teams. From Caroline & Jennifer's POV, Rachel appearantly cut in front of them. From Rachel POV, she arrived at the customs first, and then Caroline accused her of cutting in front of them. | |
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I Was Quite a Looker: Brought up by Carmit during the nude posing Fast Forward in Season 2. | |
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The Artifact: The Fast Forward. For the first four US seasons, there was one on every leg, in theory giving each team a chance at one free pass. However, for budgetary reasons (as it was not cost-effective to set up all those single-use tasks, especially when half of them never got used, and therefore never made it onto the show), starting with Season 5 and in all the foreign versions, the Fast Forward was cut back to only one or two per season, although the "one per team" rule still applied. With most of the strategy drained out of deciding whether or not to go for it on any particular leg, the Fast Forward has mostly become a cheap and/or easy win for a team that was already in the lead, as no team outside of the lead pack would dare risk it, as to not get it would mean certain elimination (as happened to Terence & Sarah on US Season 13, or Joey "Fitness" & Danny on US Season 20). | |
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Instant-Win Condition | |
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Instant-Win Condition: Even though it's not true, teams tend to see the Fast Forward as this (five times a team(s) has won the Fast Forward and failed to finish first; Dennis & Andrew (3) and Mark & Bopper (20) were so far behind when they took it, they still lost the leg). Subverted in Season 1 with Joe & Bill, when, after winning the Fast Forward, they decided to save money and take the bus instead of finding an alternate route to traverse the over 100 miles to the Pit Stop, solely because they thought there was no way the other teams could catch them. The next morning they rolled into the Pit Stop in last place, only to be saved by another team's even worse mistake. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The extensive marketing on season 6 meant spoilers for Beau's replacement were circulating as early as when the season began airing, while an early ad with Beau discussing hotel room service foreshadowed his COVID lockdown in Greece. Furthermore, Channel 10 took the liberty of advertising near their logo what country the Race was going to (most notably "Greek Week", a phrase also used in advertising of Gogglebox during the relevant period, but also "Turkey Mayhem"). | |
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Tempting Fate: China Season 2's contestants, on a special preparation episode before the Race premiere agree that bungee-jumping would be the most terrifying challenge to face. Lo and behold, Leg 2 features bungee-jumping as a Roadblock! | |
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Amphibious Automobile: The Fast Forward in the Netherlands in involved eating herring on an aquatic bus. | |
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Calvinball: The shemozzle race in New Zealand, which involved crawling through a crate dripping with molasses and a tunnel full of feathers, then riding an inner tube down a tarp into a muddy pond, all while holding eggs. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The show hasn't had strict 12-hour Pit Stops since the forced redesign in Season 12, partially in order to better control equalizers, but also to reduce time that the teams sat around at airports and task locations waiting for them to open, they just never mentioned the change on the show. Even before that, not all Pit Stops were exactly 12 hours either, some being 24 or 36 hours long. The producers stopped letting teams intermingle at the Pit Stops midway through Season 14, which is why teams are shown interacting with each other a Pit Stops before that, but often don't know who was eliminated until everyone shows up at the airport in the next leg after that. Before Season 19, the single use of a Yield/U-Turn was determined by whether you had your "Courtesy Of" sticker available. Since Season 14 featured a Blind U-Turn which did not require the use of the sticker, Luke has mentioned that he would have been able to use the other U-Turn if he got to it first. | |
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Eliminated from the Race: The Trope Namer. | |
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"They Don't Call It The Amazing Race For Nothin!" (Brook, Season 17, Episode 1); counts as both a regular Title Drop, as well as providing the title for that episode, after Claire shot the watermelon into her face. | |
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Twist Ending | |
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Twist Ending: Episode 11 revealed that the final leg would be run by 4 teams. | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: It's actually rare for a losing team not to be graceful in defeat (though the Elimination Station may be a different story), and many teams in the Final 3 are just happy having gotten to run the whole race. | |
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Asian Drivers | |
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Asian Drivers: The Roadblock in season 2, leg 3 had teams earning their driver's license in India, which led to many of the teams talking about how crazy the drivers were there, and about how ridiculous it was to learn the rules of the road when no one followed them. This challenge was repeated in season 7. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: The final task in the final episode was a musical task in which the teams had to hit keyboard notes in a particular order, that order being the order of tasks on the race. As the teams ran into the sports arena, they were greeted by an orchestra, which was playing the show's theme song. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: The promo shown at the end of Season 17 prominently featured a large number of teams, more than could be in a single season, and led to a number of false cast lists popping up on various sites. | |
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Celebrity Resemblance: Some teams in the Brazilian version gave married couple Perri & Maristela the nickname "Mr. and Mrs. Bean" due to Perri's resemblance to Rowan Atkinson. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Rick from the first season of China Rush handed out clues in a Roadblock in China Rush 2. | |
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Unwinnable by Design | |
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Unwinnable by Design: For three teams in Leg 3. The flights out of China were split 6-3 with a three-hour deficit for the last three teams, making it impossible for those teams to catch up and guaranteeing they would be the last three teams to check in. The second Roadblock, which was the final task in the finale, where a contestant had to sky dive from a helicopter to finish the race. It basically meant that the first person that signed up for the charter won the race. | |
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Those Two Guys: Since all teams are pairs, you will end up seeing several of these amongst teams who aren't given the airtime to differentiate them as individual characters. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Though different from the usual kind. The show normally ignores stuff surrounding the production, but the premiere showed how spoiler hounds tracking racers' progress on Twitter helped Kaylani & Lisa recover their lost passport, preventing their automatic elimination. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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"Good Doing Business With You" (Dustin, Season 11, Episode 10); Dustin & Kandice buy Danny & Oswald's Yield (the last Yield ever used). Danny & Oswald later act like it was a Deal with the Devil, and seem to lose any and all heart to win the race. | |
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Failed a Spot Check: A subtle version of this in the first leg sandcastle Roadblock. As confirmed by Matt & Daniel, many teams didn't think to dig underneath the sandcastles, expecting the clues to simply appear when they knocked the castles over (despite it saying they would be beneath the sandcastles in the clue). Though searching 400 sandcastles and having to rebuild them would be taxing in itself, this led to teams not finding a single one in all of them and thus the last three teams felt it better to take a penalty over continuing their fruitless efforts. The penultimate leg (set in Belfast, Northern Ireland) had a Detour in which one of the challenges involved teams going to the dry dock where the Titanic was built and serving a five-course first-class meal to reenactors. Three of the final four teams attempted this challenge, and all of them initially didn't realize there was a reason why the menus they picked up only had two of five courses listed for each person at the table - the menus were sitting on a signboard which listed the other three courses. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Season 1, each clue at the start of each leg had a flag of the destination province while the greeters at the end of each leg (including the Chocolate Task judge in the final leg) were each wearing their respective provincial flowers. Only 1 team remembered this detail and vaulted them from last to first to win the race. | |
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Share Phrase: "It's on like Donkey Kong", originally said by Frank near the end of Season 1, has been quoted by several teams over the course of the series, such as Chip on Season 5, B.J. on Season 9, Jen on Season 12, Cara on Season 14, and Cord on Season 16. (Chip's usage of it is probably the most well-known.) | |
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Basketball Episode: While waiting for the train to Kunming, China. The Globetrotters broke out a basketball, and played a game with Jet & Cord and Kisha & Jen. | |
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Patriotic Fervor: A Roadblock had teams sitting and watching the performance of a patriotic Vietnamese song and dance. | |
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Mythology Gag: When teams completed the Country Line Dancing Roadblock in Calgary in Season 1, the show played Cowboys Jet & Cord's Leitmotif from US Seasons 16 and 18. | |
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Funny Background Event: When Ericka is shown scouring the Estates Theater long after the other teams have left, the guy who played Don Giovanni is shown sitting next to Brian clearly having lost interest in playing his role. | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: This season had the most scenic route since Season 22. | |
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Oddly Named Sequel: "Australia versus New Zealand" for season 3 and "Around the World" for season 6. The latter lampshades the fact the Race was back to being international after COVID-19 forced season 5 to stick to Australia. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: The top two teams in leg 7 were able to finish the course in about two hours. The U-turn vote started at 07:00 and Chris and Bret came across a clock while looking for the Pit Stop that showed the time as about 09:10. | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: The polka Detour in Poland had teams dressing up in traditional Polish costumes to do a polka dance routine, and had to remain dressed like this for the remainder of the leg. One teammate dressed as a male and the other as a female, this included all-male and all-female teams. Most teams had no problem cross-dressing for the purpose of the Detour, but Danny complained long and hard about dressing as a woman, much to Tim's annoyance. | |
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Everyone Went to School Together: T.K. & Rachel, Nathan, and Stella had all attended the same high school in Fountain Valley, California. | |
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Mega Meal Challenge | |
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Mega Meal Challenge: One or both team members have to eat a massive amount of food. | |
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Regional Riff | |
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Regional Riff: Played with during a cricket Detour. After having the teams compare the challenge to "just like hitting a baseball," the challenge is scored by sitar versions of "Charge" and "Take Me Out To The Ball Game". | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Certain unfortunate wardrobe choices, amplified by the Limited Wardrobe, can lead to some very "memorable" outfits, such as Teri & Ian's disposable underpants (Season 3), or the Holy Trinity of ugly pants, Kelly's khakis on Season 7, Rachel's skintight gray pants on Season 12, and the multicolored nightmare worn by BJ (or Tyler) after losing all their clothes (and borrowing some from Yolanda) on Season 9. | |
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Truncated Theme Tune | |
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Truncated Theme Tune: For every episode except the first and last, they cut all the teams out of the title sequence, playing a shorter version of the theme before showing the title card after a few seconds. They would go back to the full theme in every episode in the following season. | |
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Potty Emergency | |
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Jen (14) "pissing away a million dollars" on the penultimate leg. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Several female teams have fallen into this, though sisters Mary & Peach from US Season 2 are probably the best example. This seems to be a bad combination for female teams, as the girly girl tends to lag, forcing the tomboy to carry her weight. | |
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Face Plant | |
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Face Plant/The Pratfall: Racers fall down... a lot, and 95% of the time it's played for laughs, and plenty of times they even get back up and start laughing themselves. | |
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Black Gal on White Guy Drama | |
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Black Gal on White Guy Drama: Brian & Ericka from Season 15 revealed there was some controversy in their family about their inter-racial relationship. Unlike most media examples, the white male Brian was the one who was actually portrayed as a victim of racism by Ericka's mother. Though the other teams and most of the viewers didn't bat an eye at their relationship, this revelation from Ericka serves as a reminder that any stigma surrounding interracial marriages often affects the white partner as much as it does the POC partner. | |
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Binocular Shot | |
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Binocular Shot: In Episode 12, the racers had to identify the Philippine flag through binoculars. At one point, Brandon looked through the binoculars with the lens cover still on one side, and a single circular frame, offset to one side of the screen, was shown. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: Usually only the finale references more than the previous episode. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: In a season full of nasty people, no one really hesitated about giving money to Don and Mary Jean so they didn’t have to beg for money in Senegal. | |
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Evolving Credits | |
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Evolving Credits: Starting with Season 14. Early on each team has an "in their home environment" shot before a turn-to-the-camera-and/or-the-camera-pans-to-you portraits, both filmed in a single session (Sometimes just the same shot from two angles). Around Episode 5 or 6, each team's is replaced by action from of the the first half of the season. Teams eliminated early are often shown in their fatal challenges, while the continuing teams at that point team are shown doing other challenges or in transport - occasionally also a Crowning Moment of Funny. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: According to Chezzi's podcast, a Roadblock occurred in season 7 before the Bollywood dancing Intersection. | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! | |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Used on the racers themselves in Seasons 1 and 2. The teams get a clue telling them to go to mat and find Grant, only to have him tell them that they're still racing, and hand them their next clue. | |
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Rubber-Band A.I. | |
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Rubber-Band A.I.: The third season was particularly guilty of this as due to the unusual course with legs in the same province not run consecutively, everyone had to fly between each destination meaning that all teams were always bunched together. The first leg was even worse, after trying to complete a task that involved finding a pair of bicycles, teams were split in two flights to their initial destination, only to be bunched again when the venue they were looking for would not open until the next morning. | |
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Sex Sells | |
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Sex Sells: The reason women generally have a huge advantage when it comes to selling tasks. It doesn't always play out this way, but men will point it out when a woman blasts by them on a selling task. | |
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Catharsis Factor | |
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Catharsis Factor: Seemingly invoked in leg 9. The first challenge was a brutal needle in a haystack challenge, which was followed by a Detour where one option was smashing plates to hunt for a clue. Needless to say, every team picked the smashing plates challenges in order to vent some stress. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: The premiere had the teams bungee jumping off of the dam from the beginning of GoldenEye. As it was the only task in that part of Switzerland, sandwiched between two train rides, the Roadblock was there simply to allow the racers to emulate James Bond. | |
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OnceAnEpisode | |
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Most seasons have a leg that feature the Travelocity roaming gnome, starting with Season 7. Even discounting that, one of Phil's Once an Episode lines is "For winning this leg of the race, you have won a trip to beautiful [place] from Travelocity." | |
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The Precarious Ledge | |
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The Precarious Ledge: The Roadblock at Eiger mountain in Switzerland, where teams had to climb out on a slim board bolted to the mountain's north face. | |
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Directionless Driver | |
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Directionless Driver: Comes up more than you would expect, but there seems to be at least one team per season who would prefer to work off of maps than ever ask for directions from locals. | |
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Sequel Escalation | |
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Sequel Escalation: While the first season was fairly standard, the second season had more challenging tasks (the very first thing teams had to do at was climb rope ladders to their cars which were each suspended by cranes) but was also longer both to the racers (13 legs compared to 10) and to the viewers (28 episodes compared to 20. There was even one episode that was entirely devoted to the teams getting from the final clue to the Pit Stop.) | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: Despite that the season had one of the most "average" routes ever, it did increase the difficulty. | |
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Celebrity Edition | |
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Celebrity Edition: Vietnam Seasons 2 and 3 were billed as this, as was China Season 1. | |
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Unintentionally Unwinnable | |
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Unintentionally Unwinnable: Poor Bill and Joe got hit with this again in one of the most poorly designed duo of legs (6&7) in the show’s entire history. When they were in Tanzania in 6, there was a local holiday that messed with the flight schedule. They couldn't get on a flight to Poland and ended up over half a day behind everyone else with Eric and Danielle. They were saved by a non-elimination leg on 6 which got them a thirty-minute penalty if they didn't come in first (this was before the speedbump). 7 had a Fast Forward with teams already racing before they checked in for 6 which made not coming in first a Foregone Conclusion. They were able to make up a lot of time on 7 due to a bus equalizer but the poorly designed intersection made it impossible to get thirty minutes ahead of anybody. Dustin and Kandice had wanted to do the intersection with them to help them since they were friends but they got there in an odd placement and had to work with Charla and Mirna. They beat Eric and Danielle (who were their intersection partners) at the roadblock but not by thirty minutes and were eliminated. To this day, they still maintain that Eric deliberately slowed them down at the intersection to stop them from getting thirty minutes ahead of any of the other teams. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Leg 5, Vietnam. What could have been an extremely exciting leg involving a Double U-Turn (with obvious divides between alliances, no less) was rendered a Foregone Conclusion after Dave & Connor quit early in the leg due to the former's injury, thus ensuring the rest of the teams were safe even before the first commercial break. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Mike & Liz got mad at London & Logan for not helping them when the two teams were in last and again at Brooke & Scott for U-Turning them, despite the fact that they U-Turned Vanck & Ashton two legs earlier. | |
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Doom Magnet | |
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Doom Magnet: You would not believe just how many tragedies have happened in places that were just featured on the race: Season 1: The series premiere, which left from New York City, aired on September 5, 2001, six days before the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Season 6: The racers traveled through Sri Lanka only months before it was devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Season 8 went through New Orleans a month before Hurricane Katrina hit, which was actually doubly tragic, because the Schroeder family, who were actually from New Orleans, got eliminated there—and then their home was severely damaged a month later (Fortunately, the Rogers family was kind enough to take them in for a while). Season 14: On the night the second Bangkok leg aired, violent protests broke out in the city. Season 16 is the race's biggest example: The prize for winning the first leg was a trip to Vancouver, including a skeleton ride at the Whistler Sliding Center. A fairly obvious tie-in with the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games... only one of the Olympic athletes died going down that track on the day of the opening ceremony, mere days before the episode aired. Also, that and the next leg went through Chile - aired a week before it was hit with an 8.8 earthquake. Then, after the fourth leg, one contestant (Louie) was put under investigation under suspicion of being involved in a police run cocaine ring in Rhode Island. The next leg was packed with comments from Louie & Michael talking about how their jobs as cops prepared them for the race. Then, leg 10 features He Pingping, the shortest man in the world, only to have him die between the episode filming and airing. Season 18: In a less direct example, Phil's hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand was hit by a major earthquake mere hours after the premiere. It then took a more direct turn when the 2011 Japan earthquake hit right after the Tokyo leg aired. Season 21: The Race finished in New York City, with the episode airing a month after it was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. The Coney Island boardwalk that featured so prominently in the final episode was destroyed. Season 23: One of the less fatal examples; in the second episode, Kim DeJesus first reveal to the another team that she is married to a professional baseball player. Two days after the episode aired, her husband's team, the Tampa Bay Rays, was eliminated from the playoffs. Also, The Houston Texans, the football team Chester & Ephraim played for together and whose jerseys they wore, went from a 12-4 division winner the previous season to losing 14 straight games, the second game in that streak coming the day of the season premiere. Season 24: An episode featuring the teams traveling from China to Malaysia aired the day after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished and crashed over the Gulf of Thailand while traveling from Malaysia to China. Season 25: Typhoon Ruby/Hagupit hit the Philippines days after the first of two episodes set there aired. Season 27: A series of terrorist attacks on Paris occurred two weeks after the leg there aired. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The show itself, as a Meta example. It has dominated the Emmy's Reality-Competition Program category since its inception in 2003, winning the first seven awards, and ten overall, quintupling the number of awards won by every other reality show combined. Even if the show never won another award, it would take until 2022 for all the other reality shows combined to catch up to the show's ten Emmys. | |
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Time-Passes Montage | |
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Time-Passes Montage: Usually when an "operating hours" equalizer is involved. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Played for most of the 2nd and 3rd place teams. It's rare that a team hits the Finish Line completely distraught or dejected. | |
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Pie in the Face | |
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Pie in the Face: One on the Detour choices in Germany. | |
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The Magic Poker Equation | |
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The Magic Poker Equation: Averted during the five card stud task in the third leg. Only one team won their hand with something higher than a low pair (Brent & Caite's two pair), and several teams won with a high card. | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight | |
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The first clue in Taiwan is one of the most notoriously tricky in the series. They were simply told to go into a commercial district and "look up." The clue was a giant red and yellow sign written in Chinese that many of the teams spotted then disregarded at first. | |
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True Blue Femininity | |
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True Blue Femininity: Light blue is an even more popular choice than pink for all-female teams when they're given team colors, and is generally assigned to the less girly or more mature teams. The most well known is probably Dustin & Kandice, with their light blue jackets across Seasons 10 and 11, and Nat & Kat were also assigned blue when they won Season 17. Like with Pink Means Feminine, downplayed due to teams generally being forced to dress alike, at least early on. | |
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Sibling Team | |
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Sibling Team: This season has the most sibling teams ever at four. Aparna & Eswar are the first brother and sister pair since Justin & Jennifer way back in season 19. | |
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Only Smart People May Pass | |
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Only Smart People May Pass: Tasks like this are more prevalent in the later seasons, as well as the clues. | |
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What Have We Ear? | |
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What Have We Ear?: In the finale, David Copperfield pulled clues out from behind the contestants ears. | |
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Disney Acid Sequence | |
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Disney Acid Sequence: The Roadblock in the German leg had teams traveling through a freaky labyrinth inside Berlin's Salon zur wilden Renate. Multiple racers even said walking through the maze was like being on a drug trip (see Mind Screw below). | |
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Stubborn Mule | |
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Stubborn Mule: Tends to happen with almost any animal based task when it involves leading the animal from point A to point B. | |
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Recurring Traveller | |
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Recurring Traveller: Phil Keoghan, Allan Wu, and all the other hosts, showing up at the Pit Stops to officially check the teams in. | |
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Beach Episode | |
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Beach Episode: The three teams had twelve hours to waste in Barcelona, so they went to the beach. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Most of the teams in Season 5 where none of them decide to U-Turn in Philippines anybody since they think is a cheap move, by doing so they indirectly saved Louisa & Treauri note Front runners who finished 1st in 3 consecutive legs from elimination. | |
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Mischief-Making Monkey | |
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Mischief-Making Monkey: The Roadblock in Bangkok had teams preparing a feast for sacred monkeys. The monkeys kept interrupting the task by dashing in and grabbing the food, forcing racers to keep fixing their work. | |
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Swan Boats | |
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Swan Boats: Season 2 had the teams paddle one of these in South Korea. | |
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Seriously Scruffy | |
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Seriously Scruffy: A result of the teams being constantly on the move. Though teams are allowed to carry grooming products with them, the constant travel causes personal grooming to slip as the season goes on and teams either spend their spare time resting, doing research, or ditch their products all together while lightening their backpacks. | |
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Amazing Freaking Grace | |
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Amazing Freaking Grace: Season 4, leg 1, had teams sing one of their clues to this tune. | |
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Meditating Under a Waterfall | |
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Meditating Under a Waterfall: A Detour in Japan featured this. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock: Some tasks have to be performed in a certain amount of time, otherwise the teams have to start over. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: The world is a very beautiful place! | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: One of the locals watching the final trailer setting task got in a great line while the teams were fighting against the wind knocking down all their work: | |
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You Are Too Late | |
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You Are Too Late: Judy and Therese fell victim to this. While they did spend a little bit of time with the wall at the Demilitarised Zone, they were in ninth place by the time they were on the verge of checking in... before Nurses Femi and Nick passed them on the home stretch by mere moments. | |
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Emergency Cargo Dump | |
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Emergency Cargo Dump: Teams will often dump their backpacks on the way to the mat if they think they are in a footrace for either first or next-to-last. Most teams also ditch their bags for the finale and just run with their fanny packs but how exactly they ditch their bags varies. Jaymes & James in 21 just gave all their stuff to someone at the airport in Paris. Kelsey & Joey from 27 checked them at the gate when offered and went back and got them. Kristi & Jen from 30 just left theirs on the plane. | |
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Lockdown | |
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Lockdown: While it was never actually seen in the show, Phil spent ten hours detained in an impenetrable customs room in Season 10 when they visited Ukraine. He was using his New Zealand passport because he had been told if he was using it instead of his American one, he didn’t need a visa. He had put his American passport in his checked luggage and couldn’t get to it. The guards didn’t speak much English and were confused as to why he was traveling with a bunch of Americans on a different country’s passport. Luckily he was able to get the consulate in Kiev to print him a new passport but he made it back to do the arrivals with only ten minutes to spare. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Phil tells Brooke and Robbie at the mat that "the final leg starts now." | |
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Matryoshka Object | |
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Matryoshka Object: Leg 6 of AvNZ had teams taming up with their fellow countrymen to locate three complete sets of Russian nesting dolls from amongst several rooms filled with them. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Season 1 had a couple of features that were changed in later seasons, the most notable being that Phil only showed up at the mat to greet the last team instead of being there to greet every team like he would in every season thereafter. Also, the first episode was edited challenge to challenge, meaning each task was shown to completion before moving onto the next one, making it impossible to tell what order the teams were in, especially since it was the only season not to give team placements over the course of the leg, only showing what position teams were in when they checked into the Pit Stop; the route flags were yellow and white instead of the yellow and red of later seasons (the yellow and white flags would be brought back for Family Edition, and in countries such as Vietnam, that have a yellow and red flag); clue boxes and the Pit Stop mat were not standardized, and changed to reflect each country; and poor course planning resulted in two of the final four teams falling hopelessly behind with no chance of catching up to the two lead teams, something that the producers have taken steps to avoid since then. Unlike just about every other season, Season 1 did not have any tasks in the destination city. The top two teams (the third place team was a day behind) arrived in New York, got a clue, and headed straight for the finish line. In season 2, Phil sometimes greeted teams by saying "You're the X team to arrive" and meaning it as a successful check-in. In later seasons, Phil is famous for saying "You're the X team to arrive" equals something is wrong - usually a penalty or the halfway point of a double leg. The first four seasons as a whole had a lot more exposition than later ones, with teams (and Phil) talking about things like rules (both written and unwritten), money usage, travel, and how each little move affected their placement in the Race. Such exposition was cut out in later seasons as that information was expected to be common knowledge among fans by then. Many episodes in those seasons would also start with shots of the teams interacting at the Pit Stop, and Confession Cams were done solo instead of in pairs. Originally, penalties were issued at the beginning of the leg following when they were earned (unless the penalty eliminated the team, then Phil would call the penalized team and the last team to check in into a meeting to tell them the new results). However, after Season 4, the rules were changed so that teams could not check in until all earned penalties had been served. (Season 21 briefly reverted to the original version, though, when production had to improvise to deal with a unique situation at the moment.) | |
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Always Second Best | |
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Always Second Best: Averted with the final four. Usually, Justin & Diana were in first, Kelsey & Joey in second, and Logan & Chris and Tiffany & Krista racing to avoid last place. | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Richie & Mimi from the Vietnamese version. | |
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If You Can Read This | |
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If You Can Read This: The final challenge required the teams to place psychedelic posters of the eliminated teams in the order of their elimination. They also had to place three posters representing the three non-elimination legs. These posters featured host Phil Keoghan's complete Opening Narration that was played along with the show's opening theme in Season 1. | |
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Stunt Casting | |
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Stunt Casting: All the teams this season were internet celebrities and/or very popular on social media. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: Right after being eliminated due to failing to read their clue properly in Leg 2, Luz & Chen from Philippines Season 2 got into an extremely heated argument at the Pit Stop which concluded with them deciding to not be friends anymore and the end card even reveals that they had not spoken to each other ever since. Chen did not even come Back for the Finale to cheer with Luz for the Final 3 teams at the Finish Line. | |
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Long-Runner Tech Marches On | |
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Long-Runner Tech Marches On: Cell phone and smartphone proliferation has had a huge effect on the race metagame and the way the course is set up. Racers are barred from carrying phones themselves, but it's become increasingly easier to borrow a local's phone to call a cab or Google information about their clue or something. This has led to things that caused teams problems in early seasons, such as locating the location of a picture they were given, much easier. As GPS devices become standard issue in cabs across the world, the "bad cabbie" problem is tending to change from "he doesn't know how to get there" to "he doesn't understand what the team is saying" or "he drives slowly/badly". Teams in the earlier seasons almost always wore all cotton and cargo pants were the go-to choice for both men and women. As the years have gone on and moisture wicking synthetic fabrics have become more readily available, it’s replaced cotton. Men wear cargo pants less often now but women pretty much exclusively wear synthetic leggings unless they’re in conservative countries where it’d be considered rude/offensive/illegal. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The Norwegian version began and ended at Holmenkollbakken in Oslo. | |
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Auto-Revive | |
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Auto-Revive: The Save Pass, which saves the team who holds it from one elimination. | |
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Flat World | |
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Flat World: Lampshaded In-Universe during the Miles Detour in Lisbon, where teams had to measure out Magellan's circumnavigation route via a giant compass and a flat map. Three teams forgot the world was round when they got to the end of the map, while one team was able to correct this, restart from the other side of the map, and give the right number, two other teams kept giving ridiculously large numbers to the task judge until they just gave up and switched Detours. | |
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Green Aesop | |
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Green Aesop: The fourth leg in Copenhagen centered around this, with one task involving driving 20 miles in an energy efficient car while using less than a tenth of a gallon of gas, and the Pit Stop was outside of a self-sustainable apartment building. | |
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Driving Stick | |
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Kynt & Vyxsin (12) having stick shift problems in Italy. However, no mention was made of their ultimate elimination after U-Turning a team that was in front of them until much later. | |
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Arrows on Fire | |
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Arrows on Fire: The second leg Roadblock involved shooting flaming arrows to light a target on fire. | |
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Idiosyncratic Ship Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Ship Naming:invoked Commonly used both in-show and out for teams. The originators were US Season 1's "Team Guido" (Bill & Joe), who named themselves after their pet dog. Other examples from the US version include Team Cha-Cha-Cha (Oswald & Danny from Season 2), the Double-Ds or the Pinks (Dani & Danielle from Season 9; the latter name for their wardrobe, and the former given by another team as a play on their names (but with a Double Entendre involved)), and the Afghanimals (Leo & Jamal from Seasons 23, 24, and 31). Occasionally they're Portmanteau Couple Names; like Momily (Nancy & Emily, the mother/daughter team from Season 1), Heave (Heather & Eve from Season 3), Dandrew (Dan & Andrew from Season 13), and Brenchel (Brendon & Rachel from Seasons 20 and 24). By Season 26, the show itself has begun providing these in #EngineeredHashtag labels to use on social media. | |
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Failure Montage | |
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Failure Montage: This was done during the Sports Broadcasting Roadblock in the first episode of Season 3. It got so bad that one of the task judges (the host of the sports show) did a Head Desk while the rest of the production crew of the sports show were laughing. | |
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Celebrity Impersonator | |
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Celebrity Impersonator: In the AvNZ finale, teams had to travel to Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles and take pictures with three people impersonating Australian born celebrities. | |
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier | |
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: The route had to be redirected to an unprecedented three legs in mainland China due to the then ongoing swine flu. Tammy and Victor were able to spend all of those three legs getting the locals to help them without any of the other teams knowing what they were saying. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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American Season 30 had the Partner Swap, replacing the not-seen-for-a-long-while Intersection.note An Intersection had two teams join forces on tasks until a specific point. The partner swap added the step of the two united teams separating so that each new team had 1 member of the old team. | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile: The leg 5 Detour involved transferring a crocodile between pits at a croc farm. | |
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Are We There Yet? | |
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Are We There Yet?: Individual examples would be pointless - let's just say in all of its various incarnations in well over 15 years of broadcast, more than one frustrated racer has been heard asking this. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: Sometimes, after an elimination, a team member will blame themselves for whatever mistakes that caused them to be last (whether Justified or not) | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: If a racer expresses a phobia at any time, expect them to have to face that phobia before the end of the season. This was much more prevalent in the earlier US seasons, where a lot of contestants were afraid of heights, and they were forced to face them multiple times per season. Later seasons greatly reduce the number of height-related tasks, and teams come in expecting them. | |
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Man on Fire | |
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Man on Fire: In Season 2, there was a Roadblock where teams had to do a stunt which involved being set on fire. | |
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The Casanova | |
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The Casanova: Shay & Guy's plan for the race during their introduction was to flirt with the many female teams in competition. | |
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Crossdresser | |
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Crossdresser: Deliberately invoked. When required to wear an outfit, uniform, or costume, teams are often given the exact same set of clothing, regardless of gender orientation. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: The DVD summary says that a female team finally wins the race, not only spoiling the end of this season for those arriving late, but the previous 16 as well (Season 11 in particular, as two of the teams in the finale were female/female). | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack: They played the Jamaican folk song "Day-o" as the roadblock in the first task in order to not have to pay to license something. | |
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Belly Dancer | |
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Belly Dancer: In China Season 2, the fourth leg of the race had contestants head over to Turkey; one of the events there involved each and every duo to take part in a belly dancing session with professional dancers. Each team was not allowed to continue until the dancers were satisfied with the team's dancing performance. | |
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat | |
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Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Mark & Michael committed this in Season 14, Episode 7. One option in that episode's Detour is transportation by rickshaw with air pumps provided in the case of a flat tire. Mark & Michael hide the pumps which they get penalized for when they arrive at the Pit Stop. If that isn't bad enough, they are assessed another time penalty for following a taxi along the way. As a result, they miss out on a trip to Hawaii when a team checks in a few minutes before their penalties time out. | |
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Game of Chicken | |
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Game of Chicken: The high risk, high reward nature of Fast Forwards can turn into this when two teams simultaneously decide to go for it. While there are still teams who value each individual leg win, the Metagame has evolved to the point where most teams would rather finish in the middle of the pack and stay in the game rather than take an All or Nothing shot, where you have a 50% chance of winning the leg, but are almost guaranteed elimination if you fail. Generally, one of the two teams will talk themselves out of going for the Fast Forward when they see another team going for it, conceding the leg win to give themselves a better chance to stay in the game. | |
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Griefer | |
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Griefer: Many challenges include locals whose only point seems to be annoying or distracting the contestants on challenges that take a lot of time or concentration. | |
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Mood Motif | |
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Mood Motif: An overabundance of them. When they're not using a Regional Riff, it's probably this. The most notable are those used for the first and last place teams coming into the Pit Stop. | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty: The RCMP task judge in Season 1, who chewed out Jet for his sarcastic attitude and reduced Celina to tears. | |
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Final Exam Finale | |
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After the teams on Season 17 were smart enough to take detailed notes throughout the race in anticipation of the Final Exam Finale, Season 19's Final Exam Finale instructions specifically forbade the use of notes. (There was no Final Exam Finale in Season 18.) This did have a precedent in Season 12 which disallowed the use of a pen and paper to solve its final task. | |
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Flashback Effects | |
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Flashback Effects: All flashbacks to previous seasons are done in muted colors with travel documents layered in over the edges of the screen. | |
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Produce Pelting | |
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Produce Pelting: One Detour late had the locals pelting racers with tomatoes as part of La Tomatina, the local tomato festival. | |
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Signature Line | |
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Signature Line: Colin's "My ox is broken! This is bull***!" from Season 5. My Ox Is Broken even became the name of a tie-in anthology book. A Switchback task in Season 25 echoed this in the Philippines. | |
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Shark Tunnel | |
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Shark Tunnel: Season 1, leg 4 had racers wait in one of these while their teammate did a Roadblock in the surrounding tank. | |
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A Storm Is Coming | |
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A Storm Is Coming: The snowstorm in Greece in season 6. The Indian monsoon in season 7. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: From Episode 9: | |
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Romantic Spoonfeeding | |
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Romantic Spoonfeeding: One Detour in leg 2 had teams feeding each other noodles with chopsticks. | |
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No Sense of Direction | |
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No Sense of Direction: Due to being filmed during Covid-19, mainly set in Australia and the ridiculous high amount of legs, Season 5 has a lot of legs they had to self-drive, some even spanning 100km between 2 challenges. This causes instances where teams dropped placements due to this. | |
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Chewing the Scenery | |
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Chewing the Scenery: The Roadblock that required contestants to memorize a Hans Christian Andersen poem called for "dramatic flair," which invariably led to a lot of this. | |
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A Death in the Limelight | |
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A Death in the Limelight: This has become a way for fans to determine who will be eliminated at the end of the episode. | |
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Rubber-Band A.I. | |
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Rubberband AI: Averted for the first five legs, as the teams were not all fully equalized for the first time until the beginning of leg 6. However, leg 6 the proceeded to hit the teams with three equalizers, an operating hours equalizer, followed by two trains. | |
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FanService | |
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Fanservice: The whole point of the body building pose-athon. | |
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Fake Food | |
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Fake Food: The "find a fake piece of food in a table full of real food" Roadblock. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: This was emphasized for nine of the eleven teams returning for Unfinished Business. Only Jaime & Cara (14) and Amanda & Kris (14) were exempt, as the former finished 2nd without any obvious mistakes, and the later was U-Turned out of the Race. Those mistakes were: Kynt & Vyxsin (12) having stick shift problems in Italy. However, no mention was made of their ultimate elimination after U-Turning a team that was in front of them until much later. Christina (12) panicking and falling apart on the Final Puzzle. Mel & Mike (14) sticking with a bad cab in Phuket. Jen (14) "pissing away a million dollars" on the penultimate leg. Luke (14) choking on the final surf board in the Final Puzzle after having 8 of the 11 surf boards placed by the time the other teams got there. Zev & Justin (15) losing a passport on the fourth leg. Big Easy (15) being unable to unscramble the word "Franz," even with the "F" spotted to him, and taking a game ending penalty instead. Jet & Cord (16) standing by as Dan & Jordan cut in line at the Shanghai airport in the finale, and allowing it to affect their game afterwards. Gary & Mallory (17) getting lost for nine hours in Oman due to buying an uninformed map. | |
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Shopping Montage | |
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Shopping Montage: There was one of these, with several teams involved, and was used to set up the flirtation between Alex and Tara, as well as the cliquish nature of the teams. This was obviously before teams learned the importance of money management. In the next leg, Oswald & Danny, while waiting for a booking agency to secure them flights, took time off to shop, refreshing themselves and distancing themselves from the more cutthroat teams. The net result? They got the first flight out, drove in luxury to the airport, and came in an easy first on that leg. And most importantly Danny got that perfume he wanted. | |
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Fleeting Demographic | |
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Fleeting Demographic: Bertram justified only teams being selected from Seasons 12-17 for Unfinished Business by claiming that people might not remember contestants from earlier ones. Though this hasn't stopped Survivor or Big Brother from recycling contestants repeatedly, unlike those shows, people do not automatically become celebrities for running or even winning the Race. | |
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Culture Equals Costume | |
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Culture Equals Costume: Costumes play a big part of the race; locals hired to run tasks and pit stop greeters will usually be in traditional costumes, and often racers will be put in costume as part of a task. Averted, of course, for everyone else the racers encounter. | |
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Bar Slide | |
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Bar Slide: A task had the teams do this while aiming for a target on a bar made entirely of ice. | |
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Human Chess | |
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Human Chess: A Detour had the teams setting up human pieces on a Chinese Chess board. | |
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It's the Journey That Counts | |
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It's the Journey That Counts: Most contestants will say that being on the show was more important than actually winning it. | |
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Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Like the US version, the Australian version implemented this in later seasons to make it easier for the production crew to locate teams. This is probably most obvious in the intial part of season 7, although Bec and Kate's teal boob tubes were a similar shade to Team Denyer's teal shirts. | |
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Token Minority | |
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Token Minority: This season had 6 teams that could be considered minorities. | |
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Try Everything | |
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Try Everything: The Roadblock in the second leg involved finding the location of the Pit Stop on a wall filled with Portuguese words and phrases. Instead of trying to work out the clue logically, most teams just wrote down everything and repeated it all to the judge until they got it right. | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience: The Japanese Game Show Detour in the finale, including the sound effects and graphics to go along with them. | |
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Translation by Volume | |
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Translation by Volume: It happens, and far too frequently to list individual examples. | |
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Tar and Feathers | |
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Tar and Feathers: Shemozzle racing in New Zealand involved getting covered in molasses and feathers. | |
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An Insert | |
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An Insert: Showing off clue packets and other items involved in tasks. | |
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Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity | |
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Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity: When the producers realized teams were no longer intimidated by jumping off things, they started making the teams climb them instead, such as in the US Season 10 premiere, where the teams had to climb the Great Wall of China to get to the Pit Stop on top. | |
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Spotlight-Stealing Squad | |
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Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Just like the previous season, the most dominant team got the most focus due to the poor editing. | |
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Face Your Fears | |
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Face Your Fears: The first task in Season 1 involved teams reaching in terrariums filled with animals for clues. The teams who grabbed clues out of the terrariums with the scarier animals (snakes, spiders, rats, and scorpions) got on the better flight. | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, seasons 33-35 were filmed using a chartered plane instead of having them fly commercial. | |
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Dress-Up Episode | |
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Dress-Up Episode: At least Once a Season the producers will provide teams with costumes they must dress up in. Some of these are culturally relevant, others are just Rule of Funny. Some are both. | |
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Spy Speak | |
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Spy Speak: The Switchback in Washington, D.C. had the racers exchanging a briefcase with a spy after exchanging code phrases. | |
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Fetch Quest | |
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Fetch Quest: Get Object A, take to Location B to receive your next clue, return to starting point to retrieve your teammate. Season 2 had a multiple step fetch quest, in a Roadblock, where a contestant had to go from spot to spot before being told to rejoin their teammate. Two teams messed this up and had to do it over. | |
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Paranoia Fuel | |
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Paranoia Fuel: Intentionally invoked by the producers in the first leg with the surprise elimination of Bilal & Sa'eed at the Meridian Gate which would otherwise be a normal conditional bunching point, threatening the other racers to stay aware of what other twists might be prepared for them later on. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
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Small Role, Big Impact: The Amazing Race Asia 4 is not as well-known as other international versions, but the tasks, mechanics, and locations were used as a template for many future seasons that would go on to be acclaimed: Hamerotz Lamillion 2, Australia 2, and 25 note Leg 9 was almost a replica of the final leg of Asia 4 . | |
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Breather Episode | |
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Breather Episode: Leg 6, where everybody dance along together until they are allowed to race, scrubbing oil off of hairy naked men and Rachel Reilly didn't Wangst for once. After this the race became way more nasty. | |
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Mobstacle Course | |
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Mobstacle Course: Done in leg 6 with tuk-tuks, as seven teams raced to fill up four tuk-tuks apiece, with only two gas pumps available. This caused traffic jams at the pumps as contestants fought to get their tuk-tuks to the gas pump, with contestants standing in front of, block, redirecting, and even pushing tuk-tuks out of the way. | |
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Pink Means Feminine | |
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Pink Means Feminine: The second most popular choice for female team colors behind light blue. Pink is generally assigned to the more girly teams, though it's generally downplayed due to teams being asked to dress alike by the show. | |
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Elimination Catchphrase | |
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Elimination Catchphrase: "I'm sorry to tell you, you've both been Eliminated from the Race." | |
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Foreign Wrestling Heel | |
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Foreign Wrestling Heel: The Roadblock in Bolivia had one team member learn a wrestling routine in which they had to fight against a local woman, making them this by default. | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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The finale took a trip to Industrial Light & Magic, complete with an appearance from Darth Vader. | |
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Non-Gameplay Elimination | |
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Non-Gameplay Elimination: Hannah & Margalit were forced to quit the race after Margalit suffered a severe abdominal infection in leg 5 and was rushed to hospital. She recovered soon after they were removed from competition, and thus were able to return for the finale. Pnina from Season 4 was really unlucky, as she and her daughter Hen didn't even last a full first leg. She had to be hospitalized for a broken wrist after tripping right at the Starting Line and then had to be sent straight to the Pit Stop to be eliminated. | |
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Viva Las Vegas! | |
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Viva Las Vegas!: The last leg takes place in Las Vegas. | |
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Gay Aesop | |
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Gay Aesop: Monster Trucker Rob has a mini-Gaesop at the Finish Line. Coming from the South he had some preconceived notions about homosexuality. Racing with the winning Beekman Boys caused him to re-evaluate his beliefs. | |
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Fatal Family Photo | |
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Fatal Family Photo: Canada utilizes on this much more than any other version, as the series frequently shows photos of the teams long past the team introductions. If a team has photos shown at the beginning of the episode, it's generally an indication that something important will happen to them that leg, in particular being eliminated. | |
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New Rules as the Plot Demands | |
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New Rules as the Plot Demands: It was not the producers' fault, but they should have told the viewers about the new Roadblock rule at the start of the season, not when everybody realized that Dave did only 4 Roadblocks over the course of the first 11 legs, thus giving the illusion of this. | |
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Tightrope Walking | |
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Tightrope Walking: A rather common type of task, done with lots of safety equipment to prevent falling. | |
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Joke and Receive | |
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Joke and Receive: In Season 30's Leg 7, Conor and Lucas get their vehicle stuck in the mud during the Detour and have to use a manual winch to get out. Conor says the bog was unavoidable and if anyone could get past it without getting stuck, he wants to see a instant replay of that. The show cuts to reshowing how Cody and Jen got past the same mud without getting stuck from earlier in the episode with the words "Instant Replay" in the screen corner. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: The poorly kept secret that the second season would be leaving the country was never mentioned to the teams, and they spent two legs in Canada before the clue to start the third leg told them to fly to Hong Kong. Though considering teams had to bring their passports with them, and other such things people have to do before traveling abroad to certain locations, there was at least some sort of hint that it would be happening. | |
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
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Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Teams had to go through one of these in Vienna. | |
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Proud to Be a Geek | |
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Proud to Be a Geek: Some of the teams this season. | |
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Call It Karma | |
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Call It Karma: Some racers, especially in Seasons 10-15, seem to think that winning the race is all about racking up more Karma points than your opponents (Some of the fans aren't much better). Call It Karma teams especially hate the Yield and the U-Turn, and will vilify any team who uses them, regardless of the context. This is despite that, aside from Freddy & Kendra (who both Yielded and were Yielded by Adam & Rebecca on Season 6) and Dave & Connor (who were U-Turned by Brendon & Rachel and U-Turned Leo & Jamal on Season 24), only one other team has won the race after being Yielded (Eric & Danielle, Season 11), while ten have won after using the Yield or U-Turn (Chip & Kim (5), Freddy & Kendra, the Linz Family, (Family Edition), BJ & Tyler (9), Tammy & Victor (14), Nat & Kat (17), Ernie & Cindy (19), Bates & Anthony (22), Dave & Connor, and Amy & Maya (25), though their U-Turn was wasted, as the team they targeted won the Fast Forward). | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: The year-and-a-half layoff, and the fact that four teams couldn't make it back to resume racing, led the producers to bring back two teams that did get eliminated before production was suspended. Michael and Moe (eliminated in Leg 1) and Arun and Natalia (eliminated in Leg 3, immediately before the hiatus) were brought back to Switzerland when the show resumed with Leg 4. | |
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Travel Montage | |
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Travel Montage: Given that traveling is the main premise of the game... | |
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time | |
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: The producers said this about this season in general. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang: While this did not work for Shamir & Sara and Vanck & Ashton, it is the main reason why London & Logan made the final 3 and are well-liked. | |
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Villainy-Free Villain | |
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Villainy-Free Villain: With a few exceptions, the worst thing most "villains" on the show do is be a huge Jerkass. | |
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Comeback Mechanic | |
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Comeback Mechanic: The Fast Forward acted as this for the first four seasons. If a team fell to the back of the pack, they could use their Fast Forward to put themselves back in the front. Later, with only one or two per season, teams who had fallen behind had to hope for an equalizer, or that someone has made a worse mistake than them. | |
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Zig-Zagging Trope | |
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Some foreign editions of the Race zig-zag this by not even featuring the eliminated teams at all at the Finish Line, such as in China Rush Season 1. | |
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Overshadowed by Awesome | |
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Overshadowed by Awesome: Guaranteed to happen on any All-Star seasons, as an increase in competition means that teams who led their seasons are all of a sudden running with the pack, while teams that would otherwise be expected to make the Final 3 on a normal season are all of a sudden scratching and clawing to stay in the race. Unless they're a top tier team like Dustin & Kandice and Rob & Amber (on All-Stars), Zev & Justin (on Unfinished Business), or Dave & Connor (on the second All-Stars), no team really has a chance of standing out. In the case of Unfinished Business, this happened to every former Final 3 finisher, with the aforementioned Zev & Justin who finished 9th and Gary & Mallory who finished 6th being the dominant teams. | |
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Bears Are Bad News | |
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Bears Are Bad News: Had two fake bears, one on a dogsled course in Sweden, one in a circus in Russia. | |
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Cast Speciation | |
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Cast Speciation: Across all of the versions, there's an informal quota of different team types to keep the dynamics interesting. A typical season will have the teams roughly split in thirds between couples (usually about half married/ half dating), family members (mostly siblings with an odd parent/child or cousins team), and friends. This has affected casting choices. For example, Sarah and Peter from Season 10 of the American version were called a dating couple but were actually Just Friends. The production team told them they had the friend quota already filled but they needed another dating couple and they agreed to pretend to be a couple. | |
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Confession Cam | |
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The first four seasons as a whole had a lot more exposition than later ones, with teams (and Phil) talking about things like rules (both written and unwritten), money usage, travel, and how each little move affected their placement in the Race. Such exposition was cut out in later seasons as that information was expected to be common knowledge among fans by then. Many episodes in those seasons would also start with shots of the teams interacting at the Pit Stop, and Confession Cams were done solo instead of in pairs. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: Hadas & Inbal (Season 1) were generally a subversion, but the results of their first task almost played the trope absolutely straight. To explain, during the safari drive task of the first leg, instead of tying their log to the towing hook like everyone else did, they actually tied it to the truck, and to make sure it didn't fall off, they double and triple knotted it; cue them falling from 1st place to 4th place when they try everything they can to get it off, including trying to untie it unsuccessfully, burn the rope, cut it with their leg razors, and eventually smashing a mirror they had with them and using a shard to cut the rope. They lampshaded their stupidity only moments after leaving the task. | |
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Shocking Elimination | |
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Shocking Elimination: One of the many reasons why the season is considered a success, as it happened a lot, especially with Seth & Olive, Becca & Floyd, and Matt & Redmond. | |
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Theme Twin Naming | |
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Theme Twin Naming: Played straight with Khai Shing & Khai Sheng of China Rush 3; averted with Frank & Ivar (Norge). | |
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To Be Continued | |
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To Be Continued: At the end of the first part of double legs. Season 21 is notable for having one in the first Moscow leg without it being double-length, brought about since two teams fell victim to a missed connecting flight and thus were left hours behind and one other team lost one of their passports. Normally, one of these situations would lead to a team being sent directly to the Pit Stop for elimination, but with three teams involved, and it being a non-elimination leg anyway, it was left on a cliffhanger instead. | |
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Back for the Finale | |
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Back for the Finale: Some foreign editions of the Race zig-zag this by not even featuring the eliminated teams at all at the Finish Line, such as in China Rush Season 1. Particularly averted with Chen from Philippines Season 2. See We Used to Be Friends below. | |
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Two Men, One Dress | |
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Two Men, One Dress: The cow costumes teams were forced to don for the Act Like Fools Detour in Kazakhstan. They then had to run all around Almaty wearing them. | |
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Coordinated Clothes | |
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Coordinated Clothes: Though teams are assigned a color, several teams a season will take it a step further to this. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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The Switchback in Leg 10 was the ox-plough Detour from Episode 11 of Season 5, the last time the Race went through the Philippines, though this time it was used as just an additional task. Included with the task were shots of Colin in the middle of his Villainous Breakdown, with Phil calling it the "biggest breakdown ever." The name of the task on screen was even "My Ox is Broken." | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory!: When the teams drive themselves, it's common for them to get in the left side of the car in countries where the steering wheel is on the right. | |
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On the Next | |
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On the Next: Somehow manages to combine Trailers Always Spoil, Trailers Always Lie, and Pseudo-Crisis all into a 15 second clip. | |
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Visible Boom Mic | |
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Visible Boom Mic: The show is usually very careful about editing the show to hide any trace of the camera and sound team following along with each team of Racers, but sometimes they get caught in shots anyway. In Season 4, leg 2, the teams are packed into a crowded alley, and it became all but impossible for the cameramen to avoid each other. In Season 5, leg 8, after Colin changes the spare tire on his cab, the sound guy can be seen getting back into the cab with them. In Season 6, leg 2, the camera/sound crew are clearly visible when Meredith & Maria finish the Holmenkollen challenge. The infamous scene in Season 6 where Jonathan shoved his wife Victoria in a fit of rage at a Pit Stop showed a cameraman in the frame. In Season 7, leg 2, Brian & Greg's cameraman got caught on camera during their race to the Pit Stop with Megan & Heidi. Then when Brian & Greg flipped their car, all pretense got dropped as both Brian & Greg and Lynn & Alex's camera crews got each other on camera. In Season 8, leg 1, during Phil's opening speech, an extra person can be seen standing off to the side near the line of teams. In Season 14, leg 6, during Jaime's rant at her cab driver in the streets of Jaipur, a second cameraman can be seen running ahead of them. At Season 19's 8th Pit Stop, a fan can be seen taking pictures of teams running up to the mat. In Season 20, leg 7, during the fight between Brendon & Rachel and Art & JJ and Vanessa & Ralph at the Nairobi airport, shots of various cameramen can be seen as they angle to get shots of everyone's faces. In Season 21, leg 1, an overhead shot of the in-progress starting line challenge showed multiple cameramen scurrying around on the bridge. In leg 4, when Trey & Lexi's cab was passing Gary & Will's, you can see Gary & Will's camera and sound guys through the open windows. In leg 7, sound men can be seen as Jaymes & James and Natalie & Nadiya are at the pool Detour. In leg 9, the cameraman can be seen as Natalie & Nadiya do the Fast Forward. The finale (legs 11 and 12) included at least a dozen of these. In Season 32, leg 5, you can briefly see the cameraman in the car with Will and James when one of the other cars drives past them at the Paris airport. | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone: In the Season 1 finale, the final 3 teams received a free upgrade to business class on their flight to Toronto. | |
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Production Throwback | |
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Production Throwback: The Season saw the return of teams booking their own flights, the Express Pass, and the voting U-Turn. | |
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Luck-Based Mission | |
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Luck-Based Mission: "Needle in a Haystack" tasks. One of the most hated types of tasks. Whether you get a good or bad taxi driver can have a significant impact on how you do in a leg. In earlier seasons, this sometimes factored heavily in the finales. Later seasons have been designed so that performance on the tasks has a better chance to offset an unlucky choice of cabbie. | |
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Falling Chandelier of Doom | |
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Falling Chandelier of Doom: The unused Detour in Austria involved assembling a chandelier. If they failed to do it correctly, the task judge would drop the chandelier to the floor. | |
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The Day the Music Lied | |
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The Day the Music Lied: Happens when a team realizes they've made a mistake, generally accompanied by a Record Needle Scratch or, alternately, a gong for particularly bone-headed moves. | |
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Split Screen | |
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Split Screen: Beginning with Season 14, which made it easier for viewers to keep track of where teams were in relation with each other...so long as the editors were being honest, that is. | |
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Values Dissonance | |
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Values Dissonance: In-Universe The female teams are often treated quite badly in India. It took Nancy & Emily (Season 1) one and a half hours to buy train tickets there, and Tian & Jaree (Season 4) complained about being groped during a very crowded train ride there. It remains a very popular destination for the show but nowadays one of the guys will almost always help the female teams out to stop them from getting groped/ hit on. | |
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Interface Spoiler | |
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Interface Spoiler: In the earlier seasons, viewers would know whether a leg was a non-elimination leg because Phil would only say that "the last team to arrive here...may be eliminated" instead of "will be eliminated" on them. This was fixed in later seasons with Phil saying "may be eliminated" on any leg that could plausibly be a non-elimination leg. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Season 2's leg 2 prize were two round trip tickets to Hong Kong. In the previews for Leg 3, the contestants are shown heading to Hong Kong. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: When the teams competed in a Japanese Game Show Detour, the host for the task was the same person who hosted the Japanese Game Show Roadblocks in Seasons 15 and 20. | |
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Camera Abuse | |
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Camera Abuse: During the Gorodki Roadblock, there were cameras set up behind the pin formations, which would repeatedly be knocked over by the teams' bats. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: At the beginning of the 6th leg, after two straight legs in China, teams were given a clue telling them to find a tea shop, eliciting groans from everyone (except Chinese speakers Ron & Christina) about how they were going to have to stay in China. However, after drinking a cup of tea, they were sent to India. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Hannah & Margalit of Season 1 had their own Klezmer-style theme. | |
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Elimination Statement | |
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Elimination Statement: Generally much more positive and supportive than on other Reality Shows. | |
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Odd Name Out | |
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Odd Name Out: Take a look at the names of all the tasks and related material: Detour, Roadblock, Yield, Intersection, U-Turn, Speed Bump, Switchback, Express Pass and... Fast Forward? One has to wonder why no one thought of calling it a "Shortcut" instead. | |
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Blind Date | |
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Blind Date: Five of the teams met each other for the first time at the Starting Line. | |
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Saved for the Sequel | |
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Saved for the Sequel: Lucy & Emilia (2) were originally chosen for Season 1, but had to drop out due to their mother falling ill. | |
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Standard Snippet | |
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Standard Snippet: When coming across a musical task, expect it to involve one of these. | |
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Action Mom | |
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Action Mom: Renata & Ana Paula in Latin America 4, who became the second team to win the first three legs of the race (After Rob & Amber in All-Stars), and six of the first eight. And are only the second team (after Marc & Rovlison in Asia 2) to put up two streaks of 3+ straight leg wins. Besides Renata being a fire fighter, the few times they struggle with tasks they repeat the names of their children. | |
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One-Hit Kill | |
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One-Hit Kill: The U-Turn used to function as one in its early seasons, though there were often other factors that contributed to a team's loss than just the time spent on a U-Turn. It has since become much more forgiving on teams as Detour tasks are relatively easy on a U-Turn leg. The US version even introduced the Double U-Turn so that at least one team would survive it. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: A stop at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial was followed by rubber chickens in a Japanese game show. | |
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Language Barrier | |
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Language Barrier: Exploited in the finale. Even though the teams were back in the U.S., none of the idling cabs waiting outside the Rose Bowl (the ones set up by production to be waiting for the teams) had drivers who even remotely spoke good English. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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Rule of Funny: Almost any time they make the racers dress in costume. There's no special need for it, it's usually not for safety, and it's just there to make the racers look ridiculous. To prove this example, in Season 18, the teams have to dress up as kangaroos... for no real reason. Several challenges have a band playing local music, for no apparent purpose except driving the racers completely nuts as their patience wears thin and the music keeps distracting them. Then there are the non-musical locals whose only purpose is to laugh at the teams when they mess up. In Switzerland during Seasons 14 and 22, the racers had to take 50-pound wheels of cheese down a very steep hill... and were intentionally provided with very cheap equipment. | |
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Landing Gear Shot | |
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Landing Gear Shot: Given that it is a race around the world, the show uses this trope all the time during travel sequences. | |
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Mood Dissonance | |
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Mood Dissonance: While Jen & Kisha and Margie & Luke were having the fight at the mat, the Pit Stop Greeters sat calmly and ate their food. | |
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Written Sound Effect | |
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Written Sound Effect: Used during the Japanese Game Show Detour. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: In Leg 3, there was outcry among the fanbase for showing underage girls without shirts on. While they at least censored out anything too revealing, it showed how aspects of nudity are viewed in different cultures | |
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Underdogs Never Lose | |
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Underdogs Never Lose: Matt & Dana, who were consistent but often slumped into the middle of the pack, and Sheri & Cole, who were always on the bottom, finished in the top two and beat Tyler & Korey (who won 6 legs), Kurt & Brodie (who won 3 legs), and Burnie & Ashley (who were usually in 2nd or 3rd place). | |
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Reality Show Genre Blindness | |
The Amazing Race / int_abaead71 | comment |
Reality Show Genre Blindness: In China Rush 3, Janelle & Karin and Yu Ping & Yu Chenjing decided to take the Fast Forward in Jilin...when they knew that they were one of the last teams to arrive. Luckily for both of them, the other teams opted not to take it. But not so lucky for Yu Ping & Yu Chenjing, Janelle & Karin finished the Fast Forward first. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: With the tendency for teams to get a touching send-off after being eliminated or losing, even teams people originally rooted against can invoke this response upon realizing just how passionate they were about the race. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Season 2 onwards; it's usually a line overheard on that leg of the race. The one exception is Season 8, episode 3, "I Don't Kiss, I Make Out," which was never said during the actual episode. | |
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Oscar Bait | |
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Oscar Bait: At least one episode per season serves as Emmy Bait by taking time out of the competition to have the teams talk about the heart-wrenching or inspirational local sights. Considering they've won the ten of the twelve Emmys given out for "Outstanding Reality-Competition Programming", it's obviously worked. More specifically, they often use India legs for this purpose. The two most obvious Emmy Bait moments, neither of which actually ended up getting nominated for the Emmy, were the Slave House visit in Senegal in Season 6, and the Auschwitz visit in Season 11. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Season 7, Episode 9: The entire first half of the episode played out like this. Rob was feeling so overconfident with Lynn & Alex gone that he asked older couple Gretchen & Meredith if they had gotten on the earlier flight, just to mess with them. Gretchen & Meredith freaked out and went running to Uchenna & Joyce. The two couples borrowed someone's phone, and actually found a flight that would get them in two hours earlier. Rob, after "confirming" there were no faster flights to Istanbul, sat around mocking the "idiot" teams that were already in the air, getting a two-hour jump on him. Even Rob & Amber fans found this episode immensely satisfying to watch. | |
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Precap | |
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Precap: Season 3 had one for the entire season prior to the first episode, giving away that some teams would be lasting several legs. | |
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Reunion Show | |
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Reunion Show: All three seasons had this. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Phil has two variations on the Catchphrase he uses to greet teams at the Pit Stop. He normally uses, "You are team number n," to check the teams in. However, he sometimes uses the far more ominous, "You are the nth team to arrive," which always precedes either a penalty or another clue, yet teams are always caught off guard when Phil follows it up with, "However..."note Though this was finally averted by Nicole in Season 23. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: All-female teams, particularly blond ones, often tend to be cast more for their supposed attractiveness over potential racing ability, though teams such as Dustin & Kandice (US 10 & 11), Jaime & Cara (US 14 & 18), Jess & Lani (Asia 4), Bar & Inna (Israel 2), Sam & Renae (Australia 1), Jo & Michelle (Australia 2), Valeria & Bohdana (Ukraine 1), Lam Anh & Thu Hien (Vietnam 2), Yvonne & Chloe and Parul & Maggie (both Asia 5), Le Hang & H'Hen Nie (Vietnam 6), and Tia & Fay (Israel 7) have demonstrated themselves to be more than just looks. | |
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Midseason Replacement | |
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Mid Season Replacement: The recent seasons have almost exclusively been aired this way. Since the whole season is filmed at once and the editing is fairly simply, CBS can easily sit on the completed full season and swap it in once a spot on the schedule opens up. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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Loophole Abuse: In the second Double U-Turn, the leading three teams going into Amsterdam - all which had a good 3+ hour advantage on the trailing two teams - conspired to use the Double U-turn specifically against the stronger of the trailing teams, Abbie & Ryan (who were also the ones in contention for the $2 million prize); one team used their U-Turn on Abbie & Ryan, while a second team used the U-turn on the team that provided the first U-turn, knowing full well it wouldn't affect them, but specifically to deny Abbie & Ryan from using the U-turn on the other trailing team. | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: The season kicked off with the theme song played by the UCLA marching band. The normal title sequence played a little later on, though. | |
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"Ugly American" Stereotype | |
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"Ugly American" Stereotype: In the earlier seasons, there was typically a team or two who fit this stereotype. The most notorious example would be Kendra of season 6 who called a couple of low income countries they visited some variant of “dirty� and wondered why people in Africa kept “breeding and breeding�. This casting choice has fallen out of style for obvious reasons and now they go out of their way to find more respectful people (as well as having a formal diversity quota). | |
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My Greatest Second Chance | |
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My Greatest Second Chance: For all the teams, with three of them (along with one half of a fourth) having their third chance. | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: In the first episode of the revived series, Gen Z Siblings Alana and Niko grabbed the wrong postcard and went to the Lotte Tower. Realising their blunder, they went back to the first checkpoint, and by the time they finally click into gear, they missed the roadblock due to arriving there at night. Needless to say, they checked in last and were eliminated. | |
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Epic Race | |
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Epic Race: One of the definitive non-fictional examples. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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There's the "Fan Favorites Finish Fourth" trend, which (aside from the above) includes Kevin & Drew (1), Linda & Karen (5), Gretchen & Meredith (7), and Flight Time & Big Easy (15). | |
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Linked List Clue Methodology | |
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Linked List Clue Methodology: The show is set up for teams to go from clue to clue without knowing the ultimate destinations. | |
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race | |
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race: This has become an increasingly popular strategy. Nowadays teams don’t necessarily care about winning individual legs unless there’s a game-based prize like an express pass. A lot of teams who win individual legs don’t even end up taking the prizes because they end up paying half the value in taxes. A team who wins a lot of legs gets a lot of vacations they don’t want to pay for. All that matters is being consistent and getting yourself into the final three to give yourself a shot at the prize. Kisha & Jen and Colin & Christie who’d win returnee seasons both say that this was the lesson that they learned the first go around. It’s better to pace yourself and not run out of steam at the end so you can win the last leg (although the latter team wound up winning several legs anyways). | |
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Five-Token Band | |
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Five-Token Band: The Back Pack, which consisted of Lyn & Karlyn (black single moms from Alabama), Erwin & Godwin (Asian brothers, one of whom went to Harvard), David & Mary (a coal miner and his wife from Kentucky), Tom & Terry (boyfriends), and Kellie & Jamie (college cheerleaders). | |
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Failing a Taxi | |
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Failing a Taxi: Will happen from time to time, and is always played for drama. Most of the time it happens because teams will be tasked with finding a cab in an area that doesn't have many. | |
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Victimized Bystander | |
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Victimized Bystander: The bamboo Detour in leg 5 involved teams carrying forty bamboo poles to a rickshaw and then taking the rickshaw to a construction site. The teams repeatedly lost control of the poles as they turned corners, and kept smacking locals with them. | |
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Obvious Rule Patch | |
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Obvious Rule Patch: In Season 1, teams were only allowed to buy one set of plane tickets, and weren't allowed to switch, even if they found a faster flight or their original flight was delayed. This was changed on the very next season, and multiple flight bookings has become an important part of the Metagame ever since. The first two seasons had no rules in place for when a team's car broke down. These were instigated in Season 3 after several time credits were issued in Season 2 (including one that saved Blake & Paige from an elimination, which they received after Paige threatened to sue). After Season 3, it became standard on selling tasks, where teams had to reach a certain amount of money made, for each individual item to have a minimum amount it could be sold for. This was after Ken & Gerard completed such a task by selling massive amounts of fruit for what would average out to be very low prices, and repeatedly going back to the stall to get more to sell. Ties were disallowed after Season 4, to prevent having to give out multiple prizes for 1st place ties, and, more importantly, to keep two teams from accidentally tying for last. Limits on how many Roadblocks a racer could perform were instigated after Season 5, after the three women who made the Final 3 that year performed a total of three Roadblocks combined. After the first All-Stars, limits were put on the practice of bringing locals along in the team's vehicle to help with navigation and other tasks (see Loophole Abuse). The original penalty for qutting a Detour was 24 hours (far longer than the 4-hour Roadblock quitting penalty), which had only been applied twice (Nancy & Emily in Season 1, Maria & Tiffany in Season 15). Due to the production complications this would cause if someone quit on a non-elimination leg (since they would still have to keep track of the lagging team despite them being essentially done for - see the mess in Season 21 when James & Abba lost a passport on such a leg), the penalty was shortened to 6 hours after Season 15, which only applied to Nick & Vicki in Season 17. After the teams on Season 17 were smart enough to take detailed notes throughout the race in anticipation of the Final Exam Finale, Season 19's Final Exam Finale instructions specifically forbade the use of notes. (There was no Final Exam Finale in Season 18.) This did have a precedent in Season 12 which disallowed the use of a pen and paper to solve its final task. Somewhere along the way, it became forbidden for teams to pay taxis to drive somewhere and follow behind them in self-driving legs. The first time the rule was enforced in the show was when Michael and Kevin got a penalty for doing it in Season 17. When the cheese hill task from Season 14 was brought back for Season 22, they made a rule where teams had to use proper equipment to carry their cheese, fixing the loophole that allowed teams such as Margie & Luke to just roll their cheese down the hill and chase after it, rather than carrying it. Chuck & Wynona were eliminated as a result of rolling their cheese. Other minor changes were made to keep teams from taking advantage of loopholes, such as buying cellphones from locals (which Rob & Brennan did on Season 1) or switching their damaged car for another team's car at the Pit Stop (Dustin & Kandice on Season 10). After the group of five alliance steamrolled its way to the top five spots in season 32 via excessive answer sharing (the only other big alliance group came in season 10 but it was with the back of the pack teams), the production team changed the rules. | |
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Whole Costume Reference: All the time with locals and Pit Stop Greeters. | |
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Storming the Castle | |
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Storming the Castle: The first task of the Race had teams scaling the walls of Eastnor Castle while dirty water was thrown on them. | |
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We Wait | |
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We Wait: The Water Supply Detour in leg 8 was simple, all you had to do was fill up nine jugs with water, only you had to wait in a line for forty minutes or so to get to the hose. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
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Sadistic Choice: The producers learning how to balance Detours means that instead of choosing between a hard Detour and an easy one, there are now times when teams have to choose between two brutally hard ones. | |
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Wire Fu | |
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Wire Fu: One of the Hong Kong Detours had the teams climbing a bamboo scaffold while stunt men fought around them. | |
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Color-Coded Characters | |
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Color-Coded Characters: By accident (or maybe not), the Final 3 teams on Season 7 all ended up being associated with different color clothing (Uchenna & Joyce: yellow, Rob & Amber: red, Ron & Kelly: light blue). After that, teammates would generally wear same color shirts, if only for the first leg or so. Teams have started referring to each other by the colors of their shirts in the first leg (as teams are not allowed to interact prior to the start of the race), and even calling themselves "The <insert color here> team". Prior to this, teams were denoted by both numbers on their backpacks and different colored bandannas. However, the numbers were rarely, if ever seen, and the bandannas, when worn, were not always in a noticeable position, and often times were even completely discarded by the teams. | |
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Pitbull Dates Puppy | |
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Pitbull Dates Puppy: Some couple teams come off like this under the stresses of the Race, though most don't tend to act that way in real life. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: The labyrinth in Berlin's Salon zur wilden Renate was built to deliberately invoke this. | |
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Recap Episode | |
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Recap Episode: Seasons 2 and 3 had the "After the Race" episode, which took place after the 6th leg, and featured the five eliminated teams sitting together and talking in a very Reunion Show style manner. | |
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Binge Montage | |
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Binge Montage: A quick one was used near the beginning of episode 3, when several of the teams ended up hitting an overnight equalizer at Patong Beach in Thailand, with said teams having drinks together. | |
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Both Sides Have a Point | |
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Both Sides Have a Point: The Kisha & Jen / Margie & Luke fight. Luke definitely childishly overreacted to Jen running into him (a tendency he's shown on all of his seasons) but, at the same time, it was late in the season and Jen should probably have known better at that point to run up behind him and scare him because he couldn't hear her. Then at the mat, Kisha and Jen having escalated finally came to a head. Kisha tried to apologize (as pointed out the next episode by Victor) but Margie was then the one who wouldn't have it. However, given that she has a disabled and gay son, it's also understandable that she's very sensitive to even the perception of him being made fun of. | |
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Path of Most Resistance | |
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Path of Most Resistance: Showed up on a lot of early Detours, where one was scary or physically challenging, but fast, while the other was safe, but tedious and time-consuming. Used very frequently on the first four seasons, but not too often anymore, as the longer option was rarely taken. | |
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Metagame | |
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In Season 1, teams were only allowed to buy one set of plane tickets, and weren't allowed to switch, even if they found a faster flight or their original flight was delayed. This was changed on the very next season, and multiple flight bookings has become an important part of the Metagame ever since. | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork | |
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Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Not every team finds themselves ultimately getting along, Tara & Wil (US Season 2) being the best example. | |
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There Is Only One Bed | |
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There Is Only One Bed: Due to an overnight equalizer, the teams ended up staying overnight in Thailand, and were provided with five rooms, for what ended up being eight teams, including five Blind Date couples. | |
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Final-Exam Boss | |
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The final legs often have a Final Exam Challenge that will require the racers to remember all of the countries they visited, sometimes placing them in the right order. In Season 17, Nat and Kat had took detailed notes and when confronted with this, whipped out their notebook which allowed them to breeze through it. At the time, this was actually not against the rules as there wasn't anything saying they could not reference their notes. | |
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Needle in a Stack of Needles | |
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Needle in a Stack of Needles: Unintentionally in leg 7 of Season 4, where upon arriving in Sydney teams had to find a man holding an umbrella in his right hand and ask him, "Any clue about the weather, mate?" As it was about to rain when teams got in, almost everyone was carrying an umbrella, resulting in a mad scramble to ask everyone they saw. | |
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Backseat Driver | |
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Backseat Driver: Enforced every time teams are tasked with driving themselves because of the way the camera crew positions themselves in the car (the driving team member in the driver's-side front seat, the cameraman in the passenger front seat, the non-drving team member is in the driver-side back seat, and the soundman is in the passenger-side back seat. This arrangement keeps the soundman out of camera range and allows both team members to be in-frame. | |
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Muscles Are Meaningful | |
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Muscles Are Meaningful: The raft task in leg 1 of Season 2 subverted this in general. Though the task involved rowing rafts to the Pit Stop, so it looked like the male/male teams would have an advantage, the teams had to build their own rafts, and because the male teams were heavier in general, the actual paddling part of the task became much harder as a result of quickly built rafts being bogged down and even falling apart. | |
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Digital Avatar | |
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Digital Avatar: Used in the Industrial Light & Magic challenge in the finale. | |
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Nice Guys Finish Last | |
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Nice Guys Finish Last: The three teams that made it to the final leg could be considered villains (Justin & Diana were very arrogant, Chris & Logan were always fighting and about to kill each other and Kelsey & Joey were willing to do anything). However, the nicest of the three teams did end up winning. | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: Both racers and fans are guilty of this one. It's understandable for a team to overreact when they're Yielded or U-Turned (though Eric calling Dustin & Kandice "Dirty Pirate Hookers" was probably going too far), but there are those who are willing to vilify a team simply for copying another team's flight arrangements or, even worse, having a "bad attitude". | |
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Cringe Comedy | |
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Cringe Comedy: This show is devoid of a lot of the interpersonal conflict that's ubiquitous throughout other competition shows but in the odd case that there is a blowup between two teams, it's Played for Laughs. Notably in season 31, when Rachel and Elissa barely beat out Corinne and Eliza the latter misunderstood something that Rachel said and took it as an insult. note Rachel said she was "blessed", meaning that she was glad she got to do the race with her sister but Eliza, in particular, took it as her rubbing their loss in their faces They had a complete meltdown on the mat with Phil, the little girl who was the task greeter, Rachel, and Elissa all just standing there having no idea what to do. | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Averted; a leg in France had WWI-themed tasks and described the bravery of the French soldiers against Germany. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Not just for the fans, as one Detour had the teams scrub oil off of hairy, nearly naked men. | |
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Undesirable Prize | |
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Undesirable Prize: Subverted, where Snapple was a sponsor. It appeared the prize was solely to taste two new Snapple flavors, and then Phil revealed they were also getting a feast that night, a private Bollywood-style performance, and a million rupees (or roughly $20,000 cash). | |
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Knights and Knaves | |
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Knights and Knaves: Referenced in the second leg of AvNZ, when the Roadblock had two monks serving as task judges, one of whom would always tell the contestants they had failed, even if given the correct answer. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: A roadblock in Austria had the teams doing chimney sweeping. The clue was "Who's feeling lucky, as lucky can be?" | |
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Description Cut | |
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Description Cut: The editors love this trope, and it is done several times a season. Done typically when one team says something about the placement of another team that turns out to be completely wrong. A few examples: Season 1, Episode 3: While walking to the Hotel de Ville, Joe & Bill started talking about how all the other teams would get stuck in traffic or not be able to find it. Cut to almost every single team showing up at the Roadblock before them. Season 1, Episode 5: A slightly different, but still deliciously ironic, one from Season 2, Episode 11: Season 5, Episode 4: A similar cut was done with Susan & Patrick (7) on their way to the 4 lbs. of meat Roadblock. Season 7, Episode 9: The entire first half of the episode played out like this. Rob was feeling so overconfident with Lynn & Alex gone that he asked older couple Gretchen & Meredith if they had gotten on the earlier flight, just to mess with them. Gretchen & Meredith freaked out and went running to Uchenna & Joyce. The two couples borrowed someone's phone, and actually found a flight that would get them in two hours earlier. Rob, after "confirming" there were no faster flights to Istanbul, sat around mocking the "idiot" teams that were already in the air, getting a two-hour jump on him. Even Rob & Amber fans found this episode immensely satisfying to watch. Season 9, Episode 11: Ray & Yolanda, when going for the Fast Forward: Season 10, Episode 8: The entire episode played out like this, with Rob & Kim and Tyler & James laughing about how Dustin & Kandice had to do the Intersection with one of the Pit Stop, and about how the Fast Forward was going to put them so far ahead, only to have Dustin & Kandice win the leg. From leg 1 of Unfinished Business: | |
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Finally, Mai & Oliver spent hours on the first task and the place wound up closing putting them so far behind that their cab breaking down was basically Kick Them While They're Down. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
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Series Continuity Error: Season 4, episode 5 started with Allan saying, "Once again, the Richards took 1st place," even though it was their first leg win. | |
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Game Show Physical Challenge | |
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Game Show Physical Challenge: Teams race around the world, completing various challenges so they can advance. Besides the running between waypoints, many challenges are, in part or whole, physical, such as climbing or moving freight on foot. | |
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Poison Mushroom | |
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Poison Mushroom: The second Express Pass teams "won" to give to another team quickly turned into this, leading to the eliminations of Jessica & John and Kristen & Darren, not to mention all the backlash it causes with the teams who do not receive the extra Pass. | |
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Blindfolded Trip | |
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Blindfolded Trip: Between the fourth and fifth legs, the teams were taken by bus from Hamburg, Germany to Les Monthairons, France. | |
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Genre Mashup | |
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Genre Mashup: It's a Travelogue Show mixed with a Reality Show. | |
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Tank Goodness | |
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Tank Goodness: A Roadblock involved driving tanks. | |
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Spoiler Opening | |
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Spoiler Opening: The opening titles showed actual locations teams would be going to and tasks they would be doing, making it quite easy to work out whether certain teams were going to make it through to the next leg of the race. It was not until Season 14 that they started to show shots from the season during the credits again, and then they were only ever shots from the current or previous episodes. | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
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Foreign Queasine: One or both team members have to eat a local "delicacy," which they usually find gross. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: In comparison to where the original series was going at the moment. The Asian series aired during U.S. Seasons 10-17, when the game was getting far more competitive, and teams could be serious and make game moves without being seen as villains by the other teams. This level of competitiveness never made it to Asia, resulting it teams being far friendlier with each other, doing things such as giving money to teams hit with a mugging penalty or when they couldn't pay for their cabs. At the same time, while there were teams who were seen as villainous by the other teams due to playing "dirty," no one, save for Laura & Andy in Season 1 and Geoff in Season 3, were ever portrayed as being villainous on air. This level of friendliness was most likely due to most of the teams being media personalities in their own countries, with careers and images to worry about. This mentality still persist in Season 5, 6 years later. | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: One China Detour in Season 2 (lifted from US Season 14) required teams to listen to customers ordering food in Chinese, then repeat the orders to a chef. It led to the teams saying such phrases as, "Salty fried small tea bag." | |
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War Memorial | |
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War Memorial: A common clue location in Emmy Bait episodes. The most contentious of these visits happened in Season 22, where the U-Turn was located at a B-52 Bomber used as a Vietnam war memorial, only the show made no mention of its status, setting off a number of viewers, who said it was insulting to veterans. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: Not so much of the show, but the attitude of the teams coming in has definitely shifted towards the darker over the course of the series. In the early seasons, the general attitude was one of a bunch of people taking an epic adventure around the world together, and there just so happened to be a million dollar prize at the end. Teams who played cutthroat were generally despised by the audience and the other teams, and were cut as the villains. Sometime around the first All-Stars, the general attitude shifted from "playing fair" to "playing to win". Also contributing to this is the elimination of the "eat, sleep, and mingle" Pit Stops during Season 14, which means teams in later seasons spend a lot less time socializing with each other, and are therefore more willing to play cutthroat. The biggest example of this shift is from Unfinished Business, where fans got upset about the teams working too much together, and giving each other answers to challenges. In the early seasons, this kind of cooperation was normal. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Put a million dollars on the line, and anything can become epic. In US Season 16, they did this with pouring champagne, and it actually worked. | |
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HA HA HA—No | |
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Hahaha No: The Roadblock on leg 10 involves searching the Prague Opera House for a tiny case with a tiny cello inside. Some teams try bringing a empty case or a giant cello, only to have the judge give a "Hahaha...No" laugh at them. | |
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British Royal Guards | |
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British Royal Guards: One of the Detour choices in the second leg had teams changing the guard at Buckingham Palace. | |
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Crowded-Cast Shot | |
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Crowded-Cast Shot: There's one at the beginning and end of every season (Save for US Season 1). The one at the beginning is generally used for promotional purposes, while the one at the end always precedes the Flyaway Shot that ends the season. | |
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Read the Freaking Manual | |
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Read the Freaking Clue: The most painful example of this in the series had to have happened to Phuc Vinh & Linh Chi in Vietnam Season 2. In the final leg, they arrived at the Finish Line 1st and would have won, except they were issued a 30-minute penalty for using notes during a task and violating traffic regulations. While serving their penalty, Lam Anh & Thu Hien checked in and were declared the winners. | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Schmuck Bait: The Austria Detour was a choice between "Long Hard Walk" or "Quick and Easy Meal". Three teams took the bait, a task which was nearly impossible to complete since it required both teams to finish a meal full of meat within a strict time limit. On top of that, failure essentially meant you had to do the other option since it's not like you can eat any more the second time. The penultimate leg's detour was a choice between "On the Rocks," a straightforward drink mixing task, or "On the Beach," in which a team had to sell bikinis, and the women had to change into them right on the beach, which almost no one is going to do in front of random strangers. Zev & Justin only chose the latter because they were so far behind that it was their only (incredibly long) shot. | |
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Edible Ammunition | |
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Edible Ammunition: The watermelons teams shot at suits of armor using a giant slingshot. | |
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Canada, Eh? | |
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Canada, Eh?: Averted, as the whole goal of the first season was to give people a greater appreciation of their own country. | |
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Pseudo-Crisis | |
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Pseudo-Crisis: Almost every commerical break is led into by one of these, with the team resolving the issue or completing the task right after from coming back from the break. | |
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Mobile Kiosk | |
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Mobile Kiosk: Kevin & Drew had a hot dog cart during their Cameo. | |
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Metal Detector Puzzle | |
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Metal Detector Puzzle: The show will use this every once in a while. One of the rarer task types. | |
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Friendship Moment | |
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Friendship Moment: The whole point of having teams of two instead of individual racers. | |
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Barely-There Swimwear | |
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Barely-There Swimwear: Much to the embarrassment of everyone except Ernie and Marcus during the bodybuilding task. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Beauty Queens Valeria & Bohdana from Ukraine 1, who rattled off five straight victories to win the season, and set the record for the best finishing average of any female team in any version until Natalie and Meaghan in Canada 2. | |
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World Tour | |
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World Tour: One of the main premises behind the game. | |
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MacGuffin Location | |
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MacGuffin Location: Everywhere, every episode, with each new clue leading a team to a new MacGuffin Location. | |
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Eat That | |
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Eat That: Most seasons have at least one eating challenge. They come in three varieties: Foreign Queasine: One or both team members have to eat a local "delicacy," which they usually find gross. Mega Meal Challenge: One or both team members have to eat a massive amount of food. A combination of both of the above. | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: The US version of the Amazing Race was popular in Canada, and they asked if casting could be extended to Canadian citizens. Due to legal reasons, they couldn't, but told Canadians that they could make their own version. Which they did. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: In the second leg, teams were blessed by a Polynesian priest before getting their Detour clue. Two legs later, a Roadblock had the teams search through a number of surfboards for one that had the picture of the same priest on it (with the clue only telling them to look for something they had "encountered" on the course). | |
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Global Ignorance | |
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Global Ignorance: The teams were visiting a school in Ghana and tasked with identifying Ghana on a map. It went about as well as you would expect. | |
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Universal Driver's License | |
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Universal Driver's License: The show takes full advantage of the fact that many people believe this trope to be Truth in Television, making teams operate things like doubledecker buses, armored personnel carriers, and shipyard cargo cranes, as well as extending it to things like dogsleds and donkey carts. Count on at least one shot each season of a team member saying something like, "How hard can it be?" just before they screw up royally. | |
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Chariot Race | |
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Chariot Race: The Roadblock in Morocco featured one of these. | |
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History Repeats | |
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History Repeats: Both of the first two seasons had only one of the Final 3 teams enter the finale having previously won a leg. This had only happened in one other season in the franchise to that point, Vietnam's second celebrity edition, which aired the same summer as Canada Season 2. | |
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I'm Not Here to Make Friends | |
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I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Invoked at least Once a Season. | |
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Hilarious Outtakes | |
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Hilarious Outtakes: The credits of the Brazil version had some. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The contestants are guilty of mangling foreign languages every season, especially when they get into Eastern Europe or Asia. Sometimes they use El Spanish "-o". Oftentimes averted when the race brings the racers to a place where one (or more) of them is fluent (or at least competent) in the local language. | |
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Manipulative Editing | |
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Manipulative Editing: Leg 2 of Season 4 had five of the ten teams receive four-hour penalties for not finishing the Roadblock in time. However, the beginning of the next leg had two of those teams, Alan & Wendy and Claire & Michelle, only receive two hour and twenty minute penaltiesnote Alan & Wendy supposedly left at 7:20, while the team who checked in after them, Ivan & Hilda, left at 5:00, while Jess & Lani and Hussein & Natasha received full four hour penalties. To further muddle things up, Claire & Michelle supposedly left the Pit Start at 7:30, yet somehow managed to be at the ticket counter at the airport at 7:25. So either two of the teams received shorter penalties for no reason and Claire & Michelle learned to time travel, or every team received only a two-hour penalty, but Alan & Wendy and Claire & Michelle's start times had to be modified to explain why they made a flight that took off an hour before they were supposed to start the leg. | |
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Down to the Last Play | |
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Down to the Last Play: Though the finales in all three seasons have been pretty close, the second season has the record of being the closest of all the versions of the show. It ended with a boat race and then a sprint to the finish line with only a few yards separating the two teams. | |
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Fake Difficulty | |
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Fake Difficulty: The toy chariot racing in Rome. It was easy when teams were alone, but got harder when more and more teams shows up. | |
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Covered in Mud | |
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Covered in Mud: The Frog of Luck Detour resulted in this for all the teams who chose it. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Some teams exist purely to be hated by the audience, so that the fans can be happy when they're eventually eliminated. | |
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The Load | |
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The Load: It always seems there's one racer who's near-useless on tasks, leaving their partner to do all the work. These contestants are the reason that limits were put on Roadblocks, to make it harder for one teammate to carry another through the season. | |
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The Maze | |
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The Maze: Teams had to navigate a hedge maze to get their final clue in Austria. | |
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Mystical 108 | |
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Mystical 108: The wedding garland teams had to make in a Detour in India contained 108 flowers. | |
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Follow That Car | |
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Follow That Car: Just about every episode of the show has some variant of this trope. The second season finale was even titled "Follow That Plane". | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Heavily subverted. A lot of female teams talk about using their looks to their advantage. However, this rarely comes into play, and bringing it up pretty much guarantees a team's elimination down the line. | |
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The Taxi | |
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The Taxi: The second most common form of transportation (after airplanes), with entire seasons turning on teams getting good or bad cab drivers. | |
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That Russian Squat Dance | |
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That Russian Squat Dance: This was a Detour option in Moscow, and all but one of the teams did it. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot: A part of most eating tasks. Occasionally a Vomit Indiscretion Shot (or, at times, as close as it could get without trying to cram the cameraman into the bathroom stall with the racer). | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted. The first six seasons of the series thus far manages to have at least two contestants sharing the same names as one another. Season 1 had two Inbals, Season 2 with two Alons, Season 3 with two Elirans, Season 4 with three Shays (though one went by with his last name on the show), Season 5 with two Lees and a team who are both named Avi, and Season 6 with a team who are both named Mor. Finally played straight with Season 7, as all contestants have different names. Season 8 is an interesting case, as there are two Netas, even though one was promoted preseason as Netanel. Plus, one team shares the same names with a team from a previous season (Both Seasons 7 and 8 have a Tali & Gili, though the former are an all-female team of friends while the latter are a team of siblings). | |
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Nightmare Retardant | |
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Nightmare Retardant: The Spookers Haunted House in New Zealand in Season 2. In-Universe for every team except Sophie & Aurelia, as teams were not scared, but instead spent more time laughing, and Pamela & Vanessa even got annoyed and pushed past several of the "ghosts." | |
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Anti-Climax | |
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Anti-Climax: The Season 3 finale had one team put on a bad flight after a ticketing agent messed up their tickets, and another team get a horrible cab driver to begin the leg, making it obvious the third team was going to win with half the episode remaining. The finale of Season 4. One of the teams was on a flight that arrived hours after the other two teams, and half-way through the episode the team that was in second quit the Roadblock and took a 4-hour penalty. | |
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Down L.A. Drain | |
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Down L.A. Drain: The season started there. | |
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Oddball in the Series | |
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Oddball in the Series: TAR 8, the "Family Edition", which instead of teams of two racing around the world, had families of four racing mostly around the USA, with a couple of excursions. It was meant to mimic the American tradition of the family road trip, but it proved unpopular with fans and was never done again. TAR 33, due to external circumstances, namely, the COVID-19 pandemic. First, the race was suspended for a year and a half after three legs were completed. Secondly, when the race finally reconvened, four teams had been "discharged", because for various personal reasons they were unable to return. Thirdly, that led the producers to fill out the cast by bringing back two teams that had been previously eliminated. Fourthly, continued COVID restrictions meant more restricted travel; the teams mostly avoided public transit, they flew on charter flights rather than commercial travel like every other season, and they didn't race around the world, instead running a few legs around Europe before returning to the United States. | |
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The Alleged Car | |
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The Alleged Car: Some of the cars the teams are given turn out to be this, and it's obviously quite deliberate. This is much more common in the early U.S. seasons than in later seasons, as Product Placement has replaced these so-called cars with much nicer ones. | |
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Fairytale Wedding Dress | |
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Fairytale Wedding Dress: The Greek wedding dress challenge in season 6. Notably, all the men in the male/female teams wore the dress. The Indian wedding dress in season 7 which some men had to wear. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Season 21 is notable for having one in the first Moscow leg without it being double-length, brought about since two teams fell victim to a missed connecting flight and thus were left hours behind and one other team lost one of their passports. Normally, one of these situations would lead to a team being sent directly to the Pit Stop for elimination, but with three teams involved, and it being a non-elimination leg anyway, it was left on a cliffhanger instead. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: See Foreign Wrestling Heel, during which male contestants who took the Roadblock were forced to do this. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: China Rush with Hilton. While it's manageable enough as they are prizes for leg wins, in the later stages of Season 3 Hilton teddy bears pop up for some reason. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The U-Turn, which replaced the Yield. American Season 30 had the Partner Swap, replacing the not-seen-for-a-long-while Intersection.note An Intersection had two teams join forces on tasks until a specific point. The partner swap added the step of the two united teams separating so that each new team had 1 member of the old team. | |
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Dartboard of Hate | |
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Dartboard of Hate: Season 4 did this with the bow and arrow Detour in the penultimate leg, as teams were aiming for the picture of another team, and had to hit it three times to complete the task. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Some cab drivers, especially in countries where traffic is prone to be like this in general. In US Season 4, Tian & Jaree's cab driver in India drove on the wrong side of the highway at night with his lights off. From US Season 17, in Ghana: | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: The lighthearted, easy going, and comedic relief teams generally tend to trail off near the end of each season, when things get more competitive and they find it harder to keep up with the more cutthroat teams. three such teams have managed to win the race (Chip & Kim from Season 5, BJ & Tyler from Season 9, and Josh & Brent from Season 21), but only after they had an elimination scare and got serious. Other such teams are: Jon & Al (4th place on Season 4) are probably the most fitting, seeing as they were actual clowns. Danny & Oswald finished 4th on both Seasons 2 and 11, winning three legs on both Seasons. Wisecracking Zev & Justin fell just short of the Final 3 on Unfinished Business. Andy & Tommy finished 4th on Season 19, becoming the first team with at least five leg wins to miss the Final 3. Ken & Gerard (3), Nicolas & Donald (12), and Dan & Andrew (13) all made the Final 3, only to finish a distant third. There's the "Fan Favorites Finish Fourth" trend, which (aside from the above) includes Kevin & Drew (1), Linda & Karen (5), Gretchen & Meredith (7), and Flight Time & Big Easy (15). Starting with Season 7, 5th place became the axing point for such teams with Lynn & Alex (7), the dysfunctional Paolo Family (8), Fran & Barry (9), Erwin & Godwin (10), Uchenna & Joyce (who on All-Stars did not seem to have the same drive after winning Season 7), Kynt & Vyxsin (12 and Unfinished Business), Mark & Bopper (20), Meghan & Joey (22), and Becca & Floyd (29) going out. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Episode 6: The Roadblock has teams digging through a patch of sand searching for a wooden scarab. As each team reads the clue, they invariably ask: "What's a scarab?" | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: One of the main themes behind the race, with "teamwork" being one of the main skills necessary to win the Race that Phil brings up in his pre-Race speech every season. Sure, teams like Zach & Flo (3), Freddy & Kendra (6), and Eric & Danielle (11) have managed to win with less than stellar teamwork, but bickering and in-fighting usually kills a team's chances. | |
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Sequence Breaking | |
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Sequence Breaking: There was three u-turns in the race | |
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Surprise Difficulty | |
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Surprise Difficulty: In-Universe. Even racers who have been fans of the series for years have finished the first leg in shock of how difficult the Race actually is. Even racers who've won other Reality Shows have commented on it. | |
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The Piano Player | |
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The Piano Player: In one challenge, there was a room full of Russian pianists repeatedly hammering out iconic classical pieces while the racers constantly freaked out trying to identify them. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: note On the part of the editors. At the beginning of the German leg, there was a puzzle regarding Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech. Max was the first to the puzzle and had (incorrectly) guessed John F. Kennedy as the speechmaker note and further established his and Katie's Villain Cred by stating that Rush Limbaugh "would be upset with him" for getting a question on Reagan wrong. Guess what other American President turned out to be the password to the Roadblock later on?note Not a Chekhov's Gag as only one team had this experience, at least on-screen. | |
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Nuns Are Funny | |
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Nuns Are Funny: Missionaries of God's Love sisters Judy and Therese, from the revived series. In the first episode, they take a long time dealing with the postcard clue and turn to God for help, Judy takes her time to complete her roadblock set to "The Blue Danube Waltz", and had one of their dumplings stolen by Instagrammers Sid and Ash as they ask for more dough to make them. | |
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This Is a Competition | |
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This Is A Race: Usually used to justify breaking an alliance. Also quite possibly the most quoted non-Phil line in the series. You can actually see the how this attitude changes in the US version, where, early on, teams who held a competitive attitude over a friendly one were seen as unlikable or villainous by the other teams, and alliances were seen as a necessity by a lot of the teams. The shifting towards a more general competitive attitude was a major plot-line in Season 10, where the teams who valued friendship over the competition were portrayed as inept, while the most competitive team, Dustin & Kandice, were seen by the other teams and portrayed by the editing as the villains, but were wildly popular and are still seen as one of the best teams to ever run the race. | |
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Innocently Insensitive | |
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Innocently Insensitive: The show itself became this in leg 5, as Leg 5 was set in Vietnam and featured a communist propaganda song and the wreckage of an American B-52 bomber that - though the show didn't mention this part - served to commemorate a victory over the Americans. Production had acknowledged they made a mistake and a formal apology was offered at the start of the next episode, though this was only broadcasted on CBS. | |
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