Amazing Race = Airport Chase = Szzzzzzzzzz

Amazing Race = Airport Chase = Szzzzzzzzzz by Roxanne McDonald

Again the “Amazing Race” is more an airline ticket chase and a hurry-up-and-wait snore than anything else, the show reduced to too many scenes of negotiating, haggling, and hassling in airports.

And we already have a reality TV show dedicated to airports—“Airline”– though it hasn’t been on in awhile. Gee, I wonder if people got sick of it? Any hints, there, “Amazing Race,” that maybe if the flight planning element (and the waiting and the bitching) were removed from “Amazing Race,” maybe the format of the game would return to being exciting for viewers and less ridiculous (always on stand-by, etc.) for racers?

This week, then, it was not the flight to Honk Kong but the fight to Hong Kong…. Oswald negotiates for his team to be at the top of the wait list, and Danny tells him he is his hero. The Beauty Queens request to get on the wait list. Charla and Myrna request to get on the wait list (adding that there are some people on that list or in this race who are not so nice).

Oswald and Danny return to confirm the airline agents are maintaining an exact order for the list.

The Beauty Queens discover there are two teams ahead of them on the list.
The Beauty Queens tell their ticketing clerk that Danny and Oswald were behind them, so the order of the list is not “right”, is not fair.

Oswald slips back to the counter to inform them otherwise, that he and Danny were indeed ahead of them and therefore rightfully in front of them on the list.

The agent, still unbelievably patient, tells them the chances are slim for all of them, anyway [so get over yourselves]….

Charla and Myrna do some weird allying with Eric and Danielle, suggesting no more “giggling or phoniness” and presuming that the final three teams will be Charla and Myrna, Eric and Danielle, and Danny and Oswald and saying how this will be “fun” [for you, maybe, Myrna].

Donny and Oswald give Charla and Myrna some stand-by code for the list, because Charla and Myrna have shared information with them before, and, as Oswald says, “it goes back to kharma.”

The Beauty Queens, frustrated that Charla and Myrna are getting preferential list treatment and as usual intercepting at the airline counter, say that Myrna is “oh, my, God…so

pushy,” and that she “wins the pushy award of the list.”

The Beauty Queens say, “We have to get on this flight.”
Myna then says, “We have to get on this flight.”

And the ninth installment of “Amazing Race” is almost half over. See what I mean? Snoooorrrrre.

The only redeeming airport moment to date is when Charla activated her little rollerball shoes, took Myrna’s hand, and was pulled like a kid on a ride through Hong Kong International. Now that was cute.

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