Catch up on Amazing Race Canada
Susan and Sharnjit are cut as The Amazing Race heads to Buenos Aires
We’re only two episodes into The Amazing Race Canada, but the competitors have left Toronto behind and jetted off to Chile. Here are three key things that happened in this week’s episode:
EASY COME, EASY GO
Teams were on the hunt for two Express Passes in Santiago, but a three- way race to reach them ended when Hamilton and Michaelia snagged them. They have to give one of the passes — which lets a team bypass any challenge they choose — to another team by the end of the fourth leg.
That will be a big advantage, given what happened next. As a transgender man, Hamilton wasn’t comfortable wearing the chest- baring traditional dress to perform a Rapa Nui dance in a public square. The engaged teens chose to use the Pass rather than attempting the other half of the Detour, which involved memorizing a poem in Spanish and reciting it.
Arriving first at the Pit Stop earned the two round- trip tickets to Delhi and six months of free gas. Ka- ching!
KERTHUMP
That’s the noise of golden boys Gino and Jesse plummeting from first to 10th.
The brothers kept talking about their bad luck with cabs, but viewers only saw one taxi that didn’t wait for them outside one task. Hardly earth- shattering.
Then again, “kerthump” could also be the noise of viewer’s palms hitting their faces across the country when Gino asked his brother if Chile is in Europe. Gino, who has a degree in geography. Yeah, that guy.
TAKING DIRECTION
“Sharn’s and my sense of direction, we’ve come to learn, sucks,” Susan says late in the episode.
“Everything that could go wrong is going wrong,” highlighted the state of their affairs as Susan and Sharnjit made their way to the final task. The correctional officers from Vancouver stayed at the back of the pack pretty much the whole episode and couldn’t move up, becoming the second team to be jettisoned from the Race.
Next week: The Race keeps the international party going as it heads to Buenos Aires, Argentina.