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| 2 | [-United States original: [[Characters/TheAmazingRace1 1]] | '''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]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace17 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]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRace35 35]]\ |
| 3 | ''Asia'': [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia1 1]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia2 2]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia3 3]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia4 4]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia5 5]]\ |
| 4 | ''China Rush'' and ''China'': [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceChinaRush1 China Rush 1]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceChinaRush2 2]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceChinaRush3 3]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceChina1 China 1]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceChina2 2]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceChina3 3]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceChina4 4]]\ |
| 5 | ''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]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAustralia7 7: Celebrity Edition]]\ |
| 6 | ''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]] | [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceCanada9 9]]-]]]]] |
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| 8 | [[quoteright:348:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cast-of-the-amazing-race-2-3_5544.jpg]] |
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| 10 | Following the cult success of the series debut, the second season aimed to build on the momentum of the first, while fixing the balance issues which plagued it (with more straightforward clues and equalizers, and a smoother difficulty curve). However, a few things did remain the same, as heavy focus was put on the villain team once again, and contestants continued to rally against those who they thought played "dirty." Overall, the season would come to be defined by the LoveTriangle between two teams, and the iconic footrace to the Finish Line between them. Though the more popular teams ended up getting a bit overshadowed thanks to the LoveTriangle taking center stage, the second season is considered a strong one, despite its roughness in some places. |
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| 12 | !! Chris Luca & Alex Boylan (''The Boston Boys'') |
| 13 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ChrisAlex_9065.jpg |
| 14 | -->'''Alex''': We do have this alliance with Wil... It didn't end up mattering because it was a non-elimination round, but that showed his true colors... You know, I've been pretty cool, but after he did that, screw him, I think I'm just gonna take his girl, just for him steppin' in front he's gonna have to learn a lesson the hard way. |
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| 16 | Best friends, and half of the series' most memorable alliance. Alex's flirtations with Tara would prove to be the key to them winning the race, as she would constantly help them out, even against her own partner's protests. Though they were good at physical tasks, they tended to be weak at communicating with non-English speakers and travel in general, and Tara gave them a lot of help in these area's, practically carrying them into the finale. Chris & Alex tailed their allies through San Francisco, passing Wil and the lagging Tara during the final sprint to the Finish Line to win the million dollars. Alex later started his own reality show, ''Around the World for Free'', in which participants traveled the world relying only on the generosity of locals. |
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| 18 | * DownToTheLastPlay: This was only time the finale came down to a footrace, but it would affect team's perceptions of finale strategy for years. In [[Characters/TheAmazingRace14 Season 14]], Tammy & Victor would U-Turn Kisha & Jen on the pretense of them not wanting to have to face the sisters in a footrace in the Finale, even though Kisha & Jen were the least threatening of the remaining teams. |
| 19 | * FelonyMisdemeanor: Alex's, "I'm gonna take his girl," quote was in reaction to Wil stepping on the mat first when they were the last two teams to check in on leg 6. So they (and Tara) got mad because Wil did not want to risk getting eliminated just in case they were wrong about it being a non-elimination leg. This was not the only time all three of them got mad at Wil for actually trying to win the Race. |
| 20 | * FollowThatCar: They tailed Tara & Wil's taxi to the Finish Line, then beat them in a footrace. |
| 21 | * GlobalIgnorance: Chris's frustrated statement, when they were lost in the penultimate leg, that "everything's a mile and a half in this country," when they were already back in Hawaii. |
| 22 | * {{Jerkass}}: While not as bad as Tara & Wil (or Gary, for that matter), Alex outright taunted, baited, mocked, and even threatened Wil with physical harm, not to mention hitting on Tara right in front of him, and they were both downright nasty to Blake for no apparent reason other than him doing everything in his power to win the race. |
| 23 | * TheLoad: Though they were feared by the other teams at the time due to their physical prowess, they're one of the weakest teams to ever win the Race, as they were weak at most aspects of the game, barely avoided elimination four times, and got by mostly due to their alliance with Tara & Wil. |
| 24 | -->'''Alex''': ...we're better friends with the teams in the front. So we're hopin' if we can catch up with them we can ride their coattails. |
| 25 | * LoveTriangle: Alex with Tara & Wil. |
| 26 | * MoralMyopia: In the penultimate leg, Chris complained about Wil following Alex to the clue during the swimming Roadblock, this was right after they had followed Tara & Wil to the previous two clues. |
| 27 | * MusclesAreMeaningful: The best example of why alpha-male teams became so feared in the early seasons, since despite racing unremarkably up until the final leg, they ended up winning it all on a footrace. |
| 28 | * TheNicknamer: They had nicknames for every team except Tara & Wil, and they were generally picked up by the others. |
| 29 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In the third leg, they helped Russel & Cindy do the fish carrying Detour, even though the two of them were at the back of the pack at that point. Sticking around caused them to barely miss a train, which would have given them a lead on the pastors had they left right away. |
| 30 | * NoSenseOfDirection: When they weren't attached to Tara & Wil, they got lost a lot, especially in the last several legs. |
| 31 | * RealityShowGenreBlindness: After winning the Fast Forward in Australia, Chris asked Alex if any other teams could go for it that leg. |
| 32 | * SatelliteCharacter: Chris, mainly due to the LoveTriangle. |
| 33 | * ThereIsOnlyOneBed: In the first leg. This is one of the few times the actual bed is shown. |
| 34 | * ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: The quote at the top of their character entry. Alex ended up doing just that. |
| 35 | * UnderdogsNeverLose |
| 36 | * UnskilledButStrong: They had poor communication and travel skills, but they were able to brute force their way through most of the season on the back of their alliance with Tara & Wil. |
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| 38 | !! Tara Lynch & Wil Steger [[quoteright:158:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TaraWil_8198.jpg]] |
| 39 | -->'''Wil''': [Tara and I] have the best chance of winning, because I got Tara. I got sunshine. |
| 40 | -->''[[DescriptionCut (cut to pouring rain outside)]]'' |
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| 42 | Separated couple, ''the'' original fighting couple team. Their deteriorating relationship became the focus of the season, with Tara constantly flirting with Alex despite Wil's complaints that they should be running the race for themselves. In the finale, Tara was unable to keep up during the long run to the Finish Line, allowing Chris & Alex to pass them and leave them 2nd, and providing a cautionary tale to all future teams on being careful when making alliances. |
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| 44 | * AesopAmnesia: In Thailand, it only took 5 seconds for Wil to forget how he had promised he would be more humble after the previous leg, and start being rude to their boat driver. |
| 45 | * AlasPoorVillain: Wil's final speech, with him tearing up and trying to figure out what he could have done better while Tara celebrated with Alex, earned him much of the little sympathy he does receive. |
| 46 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Wil got drunk at the third Pit Stop, and started saying things which upset the other teams. (Chris & Alex did as well, [[ManipulativeEditing but the editing decided to focus on Wil's mouth]], and Alex & Tara's flirting.) |
| 47 | * AmicableExes: Very much averted. Though they said they were this, and they still were business partners, it very quickly became clear that there was nothing amicable at all between them. |
| 48 | * BackstabBackfire: Wil's repeated attempts to get rid of Chris & Alex were undone by Tara insisting on keeping them around. |
| 49 | * BatmanGambit: Attempted and failed in the final leg. Wil tried to shake off Chris & Alex tailing them by driving off course from the Finish Line, but this only lost them time. |
| 50 | * CallItKarma: Wil was oddly the first major proponent of it, and would mention it every few legs. |
| 51 | * CassandraTruth: Wil never missed an opportunity to tell Tara that helping out Chris & Alex was a bad idea, and they should be concentrating on the race instead of helping another team. |
| 52 | * ChewingTheScenery: Wil would go on pretentious rants that would fall into this. |
| 53 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Wil flip flopped on their alliance with Chris & Alex so much, you could never tell where he stood at any given moment. |
| 54 | * DopeSlap: Wil gave one to Tara in leg 4. |
| 55 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted. This is why people started turning on Tara as well as Wil. |
| 56 | * DramaticallyMissingThePoint: It seemed that Tara really didn't understand that she was racing at some points. |
| 57 | -->'''Tara''': Alex and Chris are cool guys, and all Wil can think about is beating people, beating people, beating people. |
| 58 | * DrivingStick: Wil couldn't get his car out of low gear in both the second leg and the tenth leg. |
| 59 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: In their introduction, Tara first words sums it up best |
| 60 | --->'''Tara''':" I'm not so confident that we will we get along because we fight a lot." |
| 61 | * FailingATaxi: They lost what little lead they had on Chris & Alex in San Francisco when they couldn't find a cab. |
| 62 | * FatalFlaw: Their relationship. |
| 63 | * FelonyMisdemeanor: Wil went off on Blake in the first leg for "cutting in line" to sign up for departure times at the hotel. Tara initially found the signup sheet, yet was not able to sign up for a boat because Wil was nowhere near her. When she went to find him, Blake & Paige took the final spot on the first boat, even though Wil was standing next to him, yelling that they had been there first. So really, Wil's dislike of Blake (which would come up time and again when Blake would "break the rules") stemmed from his own ignorance of the rules. |
| 64 | * FollowThatCar: When they lost their clue in Alaska, and they didn't know where to go next, Wil just waited until Chris & Alex took off and told their pilot to, "Follow that plane". |
| 65 | * FourthDateMarriage: They'd known each other for three and a half years, and been separated for two, which means they met, dated, married, and got tired of each other within a year and a half. |
| 66 | * HairTriggerTemper: Wil. |
| 67 | * HollywoodThin: Wil called Tara, "Bony," for a reason. |
| 68 | * HonorBeforeReason: Tara chose to put her alliance with Chris & Alex over the Race, and even over her own teammate. Gary & Dave even pointed out that it seemed as if she'd rather be seen as nice than win the race. |
| 69 | * ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Wil's frustration with the mining Detour in Australia led him to say, "I'm not a miner." Tara's response? "No, you're an idiot." |
| 70 | * ImNotHereToMakeFriends: Wil was alone in this sentiment, though it's justified, as this is probably one of the few times where making friends cost the team the race. |
| 71 | * {{Jerkass}}: Both of them. Wil more so early on, but Tara more so later on. |
| 72 | * JerkassHasAPoint: They were not together anymore, so yes, technically Tara could flirt with whoever she wanted, but they were running a race together, and she started putting her relationship with Alex over her relationship with Wil. She also didn't think he had a right to get upset when she made him sit and wait for Chris & Alex so they could run legs together. |
| 73 | ** At the wood carver's market in Namibia, after it had gone dark and teams were under speed restrictions, Wil yelled at Gary & Dave when they pulled in, accusing them of speeding. It wouldn't be until the next episode that we learned that they were speeding, and Gary & Dave were given a time penalty for it. |
| 74 | * LaserGuidedKarma: The bad will Wil built up between him and the other teams eventually came back to bite them in the finale when they lost their clue and no one was willing to help them. Blake & Paige even mocked them, writing Wil a fake clue to Siberia and laughing about it with Chris & Alex. |
| 75 | * LoveTriangle: With Alex. |
| 76 | * {{Malaproper}}: Wil had an excellent one in the first leg, when he said, "you can turn a corner, and there will be another team right there, breathing down your throat." (Which was kind of prophetic, considering Alex ended up breathing down Tara's throat.) |
| 77 | * TheMasochismTango: While both Paul & Amie and Lenny & Karen fought in [[Characters/TheAmazingRace1 Season 1]], those were both generally one sided arguments mostly caused by the men not wanting to be there. Frank & Margarita had their splats as well, but they didn't let their fighting affect their performance that much. Tara & Wil were the first true fighting "couple," who managed to excel at the race despite constantly being at each other's throats. |
| 78 | * TheMillstone: Tara became this due to her waning loyalty to Wil, constantly feeding Alex information and giving a very demoralizing rant to Wil in the final leg. It's also widely speculated that Tara actually ''threw'' the final footrace. |
| 79 | * MinorInjuryOverreaction: This was one of the complaints that Tara had about Wil, as he tended to blow up everything to epic proportions. |
| 80 | * NearVillainVictory: They came this close to winning the Race, only the fact that it was one of the longest run ups to the Finish Line in show history kept it from happening. |
| 81 | * NeverMyFault: Tara blamed Wil for everything that went wrong for them. Wil alternated between blaming her, the other teams, or the locals. |
| 82 | * NoAccountingForTaste: For both of them. Particularly Wil, as Tara admitted toward the end of the race that he was treating her better, meaning she was treating him worse. |
| 83 | * NoSocialSkills: During her final leg rant towards Wil, this is one of the things Tara accuses Wil of. |
| 84 | * [[ReadTheFreakingManual Read the Freaking Clue]] |
| 85 | ** They admitted in leg 4 that they did not read the inside of the clue telling them how to get to the Pit Stop, causing them to get lost. |
| 86 | ** Wil did not read the clue for the Sydney Roadblock, and went back to get Tara before completing the task, forcing him to do it over. |
| 87 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tara gave a scathing one to Wil in the final leg. |
| 88 | * SanitySlippage: Both Tara and Alex mocked Wil for suffering from this. Though it may not have been so much Sanity Slippage as it was Wil getting frustrated with a partner who was actively working against him. |
| 89 | * SitcomArchNemesis: With Blake. |
| 90 | * SoreLoser: While Phil was giving Chirs & Alex their winners' speech, Tara and Wil continued to argue over what had cost them the race. |
| 91 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: They were essentially the main characters of the season, and the LoveTriangle took over the entire plot by the end of the season. |
| 92 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Wil had this with both Tara and Chris & Alex. Tara herself, by the end of the season, could not look at Wil without showing visible disgust. |
| 93 | * [[ThisIsACompetition This Is A Race]] |
| 94 | -->'''Wil''': Your head's not in the game. You can't go over to these people and try to be buddy buddy with them. It's, it's cutthroat, this is a game for a million dollars, Tara. |
| 95 | -->'''Tara''': That's the way ''you'' play, then. |
| 96 | -->'''Wil''': No, that's ''how'' you play. |
| 97 | * VerbalTic: Wil had a tendency to add "dude" or "man" to every sentence in which he addressed Tara. |
| 98 | * VillainousBreakdown: At the ice sphere challenge, while the other teams knew to use a chisel and hammer immediately to break the ice, Wil just threw everything at it in desperation, including the reckless use of a flamethrower. |
| 99 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Heights for Wil. |
| 100 | * WorkingWithTheEx |
| 101 | * WrongGenreSavvy: While the making of alliances is important to social games like ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', the Race is not a social game, and therefore making alliances with other strong teams is not necessary to make it to the end, nor is it beneficial. |
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| 103 | !! Blake Mycoskie & Paige Mycoskie (''Team Smiley'') [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BlakePaige_59.jpg]] |
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| 105 | Siblings, their constantly positive attitudes hid their cutthroat natures, as they were a team that would do anything to win. They were badmouthed by the other teams, who saw Blake's somewhat bold and inventive, if not always successful, moves as "cheating." They would make the Final 3, where they were taken out of contention when they fell behind while running through the streets of San Francisco, reaching the Finish Line 3rd. Blake later became the CEO of TOMS Shoes, a charitable organization which gives shoes to a child in need for every pair of shoes sold, after seeing so many children without shoes in a return visit to Argentina. |
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| 107 | * TheAllAmericanBoy: When Introduced by Phil, They was referred to as All American Kids. |
| 108 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Especially with Chris & Alex and Tara & Wil, not an episode went by without the other teams talking about how much they disliked Blake, or how big of an idiot he was. |
| 109 | * BatmanGambit: Blake seemed to attempt one nearly every episode, often ill-thought out. |
| 110 | * BrotherSisterTeam: The first on the race. |
| 111 | * CuttingTheKnot: In legs 4 and 12 they passed up teams on the run to the Pit Stop by leaving the standard path to cut straight to the mat. While this sort of thing would become standard practice later, they were the only team to do this in either location, and were called cheaters for doing it. |
| 112 | * FailedASpotCheck: They lost all their money in leg 2, and had to beg for more to buy bus tickets. |
| 113 | * FelonyMisdemeanor: |
| 114 | ** Mary & Peach were "personally offended" in leg 4 when Blake & Paige left the path to cut straight to the Pit Stop, making enough of a huff that the siblings waited to open their clue until after Mary & Peach in the next leg. |
| 115 | --->'''Mary''': It was nice of Paige and Blake to offer us to leave first today. Welcome to the world of being human. |
| 116 | ** Carrying their bags on a plane in leg 10 when the other teams had to check theirs. You would have thought it was the end of the world, and Chris & Alex deliberately blocked their way off the plane until the other bags had been taken into the terminal. |
| 117 | * GoodIsNotDumb: Tara & Wil and Chris & Alex constantly ragged on Blake for being an idiot. Despite this, he made several brilliant strategic moves, including being the first team to beg for money, being one of the first teams to use a cab driver's cell phone to call for information, thinking to rent a metal detector so that they could complete the MetalDetectorPuzzle Detour prior to it opening in the morning, getting his bags on a flight when all the other teams had to check theirs, and getting preferred parking on a ferry, most of which were decried by the above teams as "cheating". |
| 118 | ** Of course, good is not necessarily smart either, as many of his plans did backfire, and racers like [[Characters/TheAmazingRace5 Colin]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRace7 Rob]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRace12 Christina]], and [[Characters/TheAmazingRace21 Natalie & Nadiya]] would pull off similar, and even trickier, gambits on the other teams. |
| 119 | * KidHero: Sure they're 25 and 21, but they were portrayed as young kids compared to the other teams. It did not hurt that Blake started the third leg wearing a sport coat and tie, along with shorts and a baseball cap, essentially looking like a kid in some sort of private school uniform. |
| 120 | * LamarckWasRight: The reason why they chose the golfing Detour over mining in leg 9, as their dad was an avid golfer. |
| 121 | * LetsGetDangerous: They were a mid-pack team until they hit Australia, then they started rattling off top 2 finishes. |
| 122 | * LonersAreFreaks: Subverted. They were unpopular with the other teams for keeping to themselves, but much more popular with the fans. |
| 123 | * LoopholeAbuse: One of the best/worst offenders in the series. They were the first team to beg for money, creating the Game Breaker that would plague the game until it was curtailed in Season 10, got the idea to circumvent the "operating hours" limitation at the [[MetalDetectorPuzzle metal detector Detour]] by finding a metal detector and searching the area over night so they could go right to the clue in the morning, and the "time credit will not be awarded" note that's given every time a team gets delayed due to means out of their control is due to them as well, as Paige threatened to sue if they were eliminated due to such an occurrence. All this happened just on the second leg. |
| 124 | * MrFanservice: The cameras loved getting shots of Blake without a shirt on. |
| 125 | * NoSenseOfDirection: Tasked with finding the Murray House in Hong Kong, and with their cab driver not knowing where that was, Blake just instructed him to drive to the Western District, because it sounded right, putting them way off course. |
| 126 | * PerpetualSmiler: They earned themselves the nickname "Team Smiley" from the other teams for a reason. |
| 127 | * PolitenessJudo: Discussed at the beginning of the fifth leg, though they were not as adept at it as Oswald & Danny. |
| 128 | * [[ReadTheFreakingManual Read the Freaking Clue]]: Like Wil, Blake did not read the clue for the Sydney Roadblock, and went back to get Paige before completing the task, forcing him to do it over. |
| 129 | * RealMenLoveJesus: Leading to him praying for the salvation of the Buddhists of the world in Thailand. |
| 130 | * TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: Unlike most of the other contestants in Race history that fade out of the limelight, Blake took his experience on the Race and following travels, using the inspiration to found the highly-successful TOMS Shoes, which helps to provide footware to impoverished countries. |
| 131 | * SecondPlaceIsForLosers: In his Intro, Blake stated nothing scares him but second place. |
| 132 | * SharpDressedMan: Blake, who is the only contestant to ever wear a tie and a sport coat on the Race. |
| 133 | * SitcomArchNemesis: With Wil. |
| 134 | * [[ThisIsACompetition This Is A Race]]: Quoted at the beginning of the third leg, when Blake declined to wake up Peggy & Claire when they overslept their Pit Start time. |
| 135 | * {{Troll}}: In the final leg, when Tara & Wil lost their clue, Blake wrote them a fake one telling them to get lost in the most desolate part of Siberia, as payback for the way Wil had been treating them the entire race. |
| 136 | * WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Paige had a Texas flag sports bra. |
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| 138 | !! Oswald Mendez & Danny Jimenez (''Cha-Cha-Cha'') [[quoteright:159:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/OswaldDanny2_6823.jpg]] |
| 139 | -->'''Oswald''': So we found out, ''again'', how much it is worthwhile to be polite to people when you're asking for things. |
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| 141 | Homosexual Cuban-American best friends. They were easily the most popular team of the season due to their amicable interactions with the local cultures and their CampGay nature. Though their tendency to calmly and patiently deal with all obstacles often got them an advantage over the other teams, their lack of a sense of urgency would ultimately cost them in their final leg, as they fell behind and finished 4th. However, that same attitude made them the face of the season and earned them a spot in [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAllStars2007 All-Stars]]. |
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| 143 | * AllThereInTheManual: Danny's boyfriend died of AIDS shortly before the Race (it was mentioned briefly during their EliminationStatement), which they would explain in interviews for All-Stars was the reason they were so easily emotionally effected during this season. |
| 144 | * BreakoutCharacter: Despite getting less airtime than Tara & Wil, they became the defining team of the season. |
| 145 | * CampGay |
| 146 | * DrivingStick: Oswald didn't just learn to drive stick for the race, he learned to ''drive'' for the race. |
| 147 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Their Intro tells use all about their fabulous personality. |
| 148 | * FriendshipMoment: Danny said this about Oswald letting him use race funds to buy cologne in Hong Kong, saying it was proof that their relationship was more important than any game could be. |
| 149 | * GameBreakingInjury: Danny hurt his foot going into the fourth leg, causing them to go for the Fast Forward that leg. |
| 150 | * TheLoad: Oswald became more and more disenchanted as the season wore on, with Danny having to constantly prod him to keep racing. |
| 151 | * LonersAreFreaks: Like Blake & Paige, subverted due to being unpopular with the other teams but popular with the fans. |
| 152 | * LoopholeAbuse: |
| 153 | ** They were one of the first teams in Race history to befriend a local in Bangkok, who helped them to navigate the complex city and get to the tasks easily; fans of the show call such locals "Ferns" based on her name. |
| 154 | ** In the fourth leg they used their PolitenessJudo to get a ride into town from an employee at the rent-a-car counter (paying him whatever they felt was fair), causing the future rule where teams had to take a legal cab, and could not accept rides from locals. |
| 155 | * ParanoiaFuel: InUniverse. Caused this due to their isolation from the other teams (to avoid the constant drama), as the others thought their constantly being calm under pressure, and how they mysteriously showed up at the last minute at some locations was done deliberately to mess with their heads. |
| 156 | -->'''Dave''': You see how calm, cool, collected Cha-Cha-Cha was? |
| 157 | -->'''Gary''': I know, I kinda hated to see that. |
| 158 | -->'''Dave''': They're so zen. |
| 159 | -->'''Gary''': It seems like Cha-Cha-Cha spends their whole nights in a spa, and we're sitting here sweating like hogs. And we're like... |
| 160 | -->'''Dave''': Palpitations and anxiety. |
| 161 | * PlatonicLifePartners: They were not a couple, even if they were constantly mistaken for one by the audience. |
| 162 | * PolitenessJudo: While the other teams would rush around, frantically yelling at people trying to get ahead, they took their time and calmly talked to the locals, often getting an advantage as a result. |
| 163 | -->'''Oswald''': The reservation agent told us, I'm gonna help you, and the only reason I'm gonna help you is because you guys are the only ones who've come in here calmly and politely. |
| 164 | * ShooOutTheClowns |
| 165 | * ShoppingMontage: Their most famous moment was going out shopping while waiting for a travel agent to book them flights in Hong Kong, juxtaposed by the stress of the other teams trying to get their own tickets. They eventually coasted to a first place finish and refreshed the Killer Fatigued Oswald. |
| 166 | -->'''Oswald''': The moment she said, ''"I need an hour to get your flight ready,"'' we said, ''"We need an hour to go shopping.''" |
| 167 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Being Hispanic and gay. They stated in a post-race interview that they just wanted to be themselves, and if they were a role model to either minority, that was a bonus. |
| 168 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Oswald with heights. |
| 169 | |
| 170 | !! Gary Rosen & Dave Lepeska (''Itchy and Scratchy'') [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GaryDave_7050.jpg]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | Former roommates and comedy writers. Despite being the intended comic relief team, Gary's snide comments ended up being a very "love it or hate it" form of humor, and constantly put him at odds with the other teams. They finished 5th when their Detour switching in Australia put them behind everyone else. |
| 173 | |
| 174 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Their hats, which had the first initials embroidered on them. |
| 175 | * DeadpanSnarker: Gary. |
| 176 | * FailedASpotCheck: They cost themselves 1st in the fifth leg when they went running into the temple, passing up the clue outside. |
| 177 | * IWasBeatenByAGirl: When they got passed by Mary & Peach during the river rafting Detour in Thailand. |
| 178 | * InformedAbility: At the midway point, they bragged about how they were going to be using ObfuscatingStupidity to exploit the others' weaknesses. Instead, they coasted on a Fast Forward the next leg, and were eliminated two legs later. |
| 179 | * {{Jerkass}}: Gary, in particular during his rant on why Thailand couldn't be colonized by the British. Blake referred to them as "ugly Americans" at one point. |
| 180 | * LargeHam: Gary. |
| 181 | * MotorMouth: Gary. |
| 182 | -->'''Chris''': Gary gets on my nerves because he just talks and talks, and then when he doesn't have anything to talk about, he just talks about somethin'. |
| 183 | * NerdGlasses: Gary. |
| 184 | * NeverMyFault: Gary, in their EliminationStatement, joked about this, blaming everyone, including the gods and fate, before himself for their loss. |
| 185 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: They claimed to be acting as complete goofballs to lull the other teams into a feeling they could be trusted. |
| 186 | * [[ReadTheFreakingManual Read the Freaking Clue]]: Part of the reason they struggled so much on the mining Detour on their final leg was that they weren't even digging in the right pile, instead using their shovels to poke at the walls. |
| 187 | * SatelliteCharacter: Dave to Gary. |
| 188 | * VitriolicBestBuds: In their introduction, they admitted while they fight a lot, they do still care for each other. |
| 189 | |
| 190 | !! Mary Lenig & Peach Krebs [[quoteright:158:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MaryPeach_1104.jpg]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | Sisters, and the only all-female team to win a leg without a Fast Forward for the first six seasons. Despite her and her sister's doubts coming into the race, Peach demonstrated herself a surprisingly adept racer, but a series of small mistakes in Hong Kong caused her to be hit hard by Killer Fatigue, and she forced Mary to stop racing, putting them out in 6th place. |
| 193 | |
| 194 | * ActionGirl: Mary. |
| 195 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Mary was the responsible one, Peach the foolish one. |
| 196 | * HolierThanThou: Mary's "Welcome to the world of being human" comment to Blake & Paige. |
| 197 | * TheLoad: Peach stated she was planning to ride on Mary's coattails after departing for the third leg. While she was not this for the most part, but she did cause them to give up the race. |
| 198 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: They are two of seven siblings, with Peach being the youngest. |
| 199 | * NonGameplayElimination: Of the MercyKill variety. |
| 200 | * ObiWanMoment: For Mary if not so much for Peach when she gave into Peach's Killer Fatigue and stopped racing to eat, essentially bowing out of the Race. |
| 201 | * ParanoiaFuel: InUniverse. They received this in South Africa when locals warned them against going to their next destination, threatening that they would be killed. The rumor turned out to be totally false. |
| 202 | * SiblingRivalry: Particularly shown when they went out shopping. |
| 203 | * SiblingTeam: The first team of sisters. |
| 204 | * SurpriseDifficulty: InUniverse. Discussed by Peach at the beginning of the second leg. |
| 205 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mary being the tomboy, Peach the girly girl. When they were stuck in the mess that was the Sao Paolo airport, trying to get to South Africa, Peach's suggestions of how they should relax were for her to get her nails done, and Mary to have a beer. |
| 206 | * WeakButSkilled: Despite being the only team without a male, they smoked everyone on the river rafting Detour when Mary deduced a superior technique of using their bamboo polls to propel them along. This would lead to their sole leg win. |
| 207 | |
| 208 | !! Cyndi Kalenburg & Russell Kalenburg [[quoteright:159:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CyndiRussell_4915.jpg]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | Married pastors, they were very subdued compared to the bigger personalities of their competition. They finished 7th when they got overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of Bangkok, getting lost in the "Confusion Now" Detour and falling far behind the other teams. |
| 211 | |
| 212 | * BrainsAndBrawn: Self described. |
| 213 | * FailedASpotCheck: At the "Confusion Now" detour, they missed the sign pointing to the birdcages. |
| 214 | * HappilyMarried |
| 215 | * HighSchoolSweethearts: Called as such in their introduction. |
| 216 | * NoSenseOfDirection |
| 217 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted with Season 4 team Russell & Cindy. |
| 218 | * RealMenLoveJesus: Russell |
| 219 | * SleevesAreForWimps: Russell often wore sleeveless shirts. |
| 220 | |
| 221 | !! Shola Richards & Doyin Richards [[quoteright:159:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SholaDoyin_6683.jpg]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | Twins, they started off as a solid team until they got lost in Namibia, being the only team to fail to find the Matterhorn Sand Dune before it closed, which left them in the dust in 8th place. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | * DrivingStick |
| 226 | * GameBreakingInjury: Shola hurt his ankle after going for the Fast Forward in leg 2. |
| 227 | * NoSenseOfDirection |
| 228 | * NonGameplayElimination: Of the MercyKill variety. After missing the Detour, they were taken straight to the Pit Stop. |
| 229 | * PoppingButtons: For the Dancing Detour in South Africa, the coveralls they were given were much too small for their lanky bodies. |
| 230 | * SiblingTeam: The first team of brothers. |
| 231 | |
| 232 | !! Peggy Kuhn & Claire Jinks (''The Gutsy Grannies'') [[quoteright:159:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/PeggyClaire_2667.jpg]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | Grandmother team. Despite their nickname, they were anything but gutsy, and struggled throughout the early legs of the race until flight delays on one of their three connecting points to South Africa put them a whole day behind the other teams, and they were forced to go directly to the Pit Stop for elimination in 9th place. |
| 235 | |
| 236 | * CharacterShilling: Their [[ReallyDeadMontage Elimination Montage]] consisted of teams gushing about how amazing they were. |
| 237 | * [[ReallyDeadMontage Elimination Montage]]: The first team to get one. Unlike teams in later seasons, theirs did not include shots of their time on the race, just other teams talking about how "amazing" they were. |
| 238 | * HeavySleeper: One of four teams in the series to miss their leg start time due to sleeping in (Along with [[Characters/TheAmazingRace3 Andre & Damon]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRace17 Chad & Stephanie]], and [[Characters/TheAmazingRace23 Leo & Jamal]]). |
| 239 | * InformedAbility: Their nickname - they didn't rappel in the first leg, and Peggy got cold feet over hang gliding, with the other teams telling her she'd have to relinquish her nickname if she didn't do it. |
| 240 | * IronicNickname: They were anything but gutsy. |
| 241 | * NonGameplayElimination: Of the MercyKill variety. |
| 242 | * SomethingWeForgot: They disappeared halfway through the third leg, only for the show to cut back to them still in London after all the other teams had checked in. |
| 243 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: The editors sure did try to wring an inspirational story out of them, showing the other teams giving them an ovation at each of the first two Pit Stops, and even giving them a gushing montage upon their elimination. |
| 244 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Peggy with hang-gliding. |
| 245 | |
| 246 | !! Hope Davis & Norm Davis [[quoteright:159:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HopeNorm_7217.jpg]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | Married parents. A bad cab driver dropped them to the back of the pack in leg 2, and they were beaten to the Pit Stop by Blake & Paige (after the siblings got a replacement vehicle due to confusion over the rules), ending up 10th. |
| 249 | |
| 250 | * CrackDefeat: On a later season, they would have survived the second leg, but since there were no rules yet against giving time credits for production errors, Blake & Paige were bumped in front of them. |
| 251 | * HappilyMarried |
| 252 | * ItRunsInTheFamily: Before running of the cliff in leg 2, Hope says both she and her eldest son has a fear of heights. |
| 253 | * OutOfFocus |
| 254 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Hope with hang-gliding. |
| 255 | |
| 256 | !! Deidre Washington & Hillary Washington [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DeidreHillary_4001.jpg]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | Mother-daughter pair, they went out first when Deidre struggled at rappelling. |
| 259 | |
| 260 | * LongLostRelative: Hillary went to live with her dad after her parents divorced, and she and her mother were just beginning to get to know each other again. |
| 261 | * SoProudOfYou: Said by Hillary after Deidre climbed down the rappel. |
| 262 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: The spelling was originally Deidre in the first two legs, but became Diedre in the intros afterward. |
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