History Characters / TheAmazingRace17

[-United States original: [[Characters/TheAmazingRace1 1]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace2 2]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace3 3]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace4 4]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace5 5]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace6 6]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace7 7]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceFamilyEdition 8: Family Edition]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace9 9]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace10 10]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAllStars2007 11: All-Stars]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace12 12]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace13 13]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace14 14]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace15 15]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace16 16]] | '''17''' | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceUnfinishedBusiness 18: Unfinished Business]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace19 19]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace20 20]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace21 21]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace22 22]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace23 23]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAllStars2014 24: All-Stars]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace25 25]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace26 26]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace27 27]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace28 28]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace29 29]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace30 30]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace31 31: Reality Showdown]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace32 32]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace33 33]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace34 34]]\\

''Australia'': [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAustralia1 1]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAustralia2 2]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAustraliaVNewZealand 3: Australia v New Zealand]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAustralia4 4]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAustralia5 5]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAustralia6 6: Around the World]]\\
''Canada'': [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada1 1]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada2 2]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada3 3]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada4 4]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada5 5]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada6 6: Heroes Edition]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada7 7]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada8 8]]-]]]]]

The heavily tattooed dating couple that bumbled their way through most of the race, with Vicki doing her best to stay positive while Nick constantly berated and quit on her. Despite being so clueless that even Phil couldn't help but make a sarcastic quip at their expense, they managed to make the top 4, where they would cause the producers a huge headache after they took a 6-hour penalty for quitting the Detour, yet were non-eliminated. Fans were ready to riot had they made the Final 3 after Nick had essentially quit the race, but they missed the equalizing flight on the next leg, and finished a distant 4th.

* UnwinnableByDesign: The producers didn't even give Nick & Vicki a chance to catch up to the other teams after their six-hour penalty. Of course, the Race's reputation already took a hit for unintentionally letting them survive quitting a task (as, again, it is forbidden by law to change non-elimination legs), but instead of manipulating the Pit Start times to allow Nick & Vicki to catch up at the airport, as the producers have been known to do, they made it so Nick & Vicki wouldn't be able to make it to the airport until the first flight had already left.

* ShesGotLegs

* GrumpyBear: Nick.

* GrumpyBear: They definitely brought down the mood at the Elimination Station with their bitterness and complaining.

** During the fifth Elimination Station webisode, Tony ensured the other teams that someone really fun was about to show up, as they had been drawing good energy to the house. Then [[GrumpyBear Katie & Rachel]] walked in.

* {{Nerd}}: What the other teams referred to them as.

* OnceDoneNeverForgoten: In an interview, Claire said that no matter what she does for the rest of her life, she expects to always be remembered as the woman who got hit in the face with a watermelon.

* {{Jerkass}}: Chad, especially during the earlier legs. Also in his final leg to a certain extent.
-->'''Chad''': Big smart doctor can't even put a bicycle together?!

The seventeenth season of the Race, where a female team finally won. On the heels of two disappointing seasons and their first Emmy loss, the Race needed to do something to shake up the show, so they reverted to what worked so well in Seasons 12-14, more savvy teams and more tricky mental tasks, and they ended up with one of the toughest and most memorable fields the Race had ever seen. This season contained the most unsubtle {{Foreshadowing}} the show had ever used, as, by the time the finale rolled around, most long time fans realized that a female team was finally going to win the Race. A good season, it erased many of the bad feelings left over from the two previous seasons, and left the fanbase excited heading into [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceUnfinishedBusiness Unfinished Business]].

* {{Corpsing}}: After the watermelon incident, Brook just could not stop laughing. Several times she broke at the end of otherwise serious sentences about how her partner just hit herself in the face with a watermelon. During the {{Confession Cam}}s, Claire started cracking up as well.

* GlobalIgnorance: See NeverLiveItDown.

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. They said that their Princeton friends would never let them forget being unable to find Ghana on a map on their first try.

The seventeenth season of the Race, [[TheOneWith The One Where]] a female team finally won. On the heels of two disappointing seasons and their first Emmy loss, the Race needed to do something to shake up the show, so they reverted to what worked so well in Seasons 12-14, more savvy teams and more tricky mental tasks, and they ended up with one of the toughest and most memorable fields the Race had ever seen. This season contained the most unsubtle {{Foreshadowing}} the show had ever used, as, by the time the finale rolled around, most long time fans realized that a female team was finally going to win the Race. A good season, it erased many of the bad feelings left over from the two previous seasons, and left the fanbase excited heading into [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceUnfinishedBusiness Unfinished Business]].

* ActionGirl: Granted their 4th leg was a mess, but they had strong performances in the first 3 legs and a burning desire to win that might have carried them a lot further had they not been the victim of an equalizer-free leg 5 that made the game UnintentionallyUnwinnable for them.

* ActionGirl: Granted their 4th leg was a mess, but they had strong performances in the first 3 legs and a burning desire to win that might have carried them a lot further had they not been the victim of an equalizer-free leg 5 that made the game UnwinnableByMistake for them.

* {{Adorkable}}: Quite possibly the posterboys for this on the race.

* FlowerInHerHair: Both of them, at different times during the race.

* {{Adorkable}}

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. In an interview, Claire said that no matter what she does for the rest of her life, she expects to always be remembered as the woman who got hit in the face with a watermelon.

* AllThereInTheManual: In leg 7, they were coming off of finishing last in a non-elimination leg, but inexplicably did not have to do a Speed Bump. It was leaked on Nick's Facebook page after the episode aired that the judge for the piano Detour on the previous leg had accidentally rejected their entry when they had actually completed the Detour correctly. So, the leg was hastily turned into a non-elimination leg with no Speed Bump penalty. However, it was later reported that the lack of a Speed Bump was due to a production error that effected several teams, the maestro, did not in fact make an error, and that the leg was pre-planned as a non-elimination leg (which is more believable, as it is forbidden by game show laws to change the predetermined non-elimination leg order, and the producers have not done anything to save teams from production errors since they made rules about it following Season 2).

* BadassGrandpa: At 53, Gary was beating guys half his age at tasks.
* CoolOldGuy: Gary.

* MotorMouth: Mallory.

* PerpetualSmiler: Mallory.

* [[ReallyDeadMontage Elimination Montage]]