History Characters / TheAmazingRace23

* PortmanteauCoupleName: Their alliance with Leo & Jamal was called the "Ice-ghanimals".

* InSeriesNickname: [[PortmanteauCoupleName Jamy]][[note]]Pronounced "Jamie"[[/note]].

* ShockingElimination: They went from first to last, and even during the leg they looked to be safe within the middle group far ahead of Ally & Ashley and Leo & Jamal, whose cab drivers had gotten them lost and didn't have an Express Pass like Tim & Marie.

* ShockingElimination: Mostly because they went from first to completely out of the game so suddenly. As soon as they hit their first flight delay, [[ADeathInTheLimelight along with some really blatant editing]], it became painfully obvious they were on their way out.

* [[ImNotHereToMakeFriends We're Not Here To Make Friends]]: They didn't even wait for the season to start, invoking it in their Pre-Race interviews. Later used after stealing Jason & Amy's cab.

* PortmanteauCoupleName: Their alliance with Ally & Ashley was called the "Ice-ghanimals".

* [[ImNotHereToMakeFriends We're Not Here To Make Friends]]: They didn't even wait for the season to start, invoking it in their Pre-Race interviews.

* {{Jerkass}}: Travis transformed into an unbearable jerk towards Nicole staring in Leg 9 when she struggled with the instrument roadblock. This continued through the finale, where he criticized Nicole for taking too long at the Robot Roadblock, and then yelled at her for being TheLoad during the last four legs of the race at the [[FinalExamFinale final puzzle]].

* OldShame: [[{{In-Universe}}Tim expressed this]] about being in chorus in high school before the musical Roadblock in Leg 9.

* MsFanservice: Amy got into a bikini twice during the season: at the salt pool Detour in Leg 2 and the phone booth Detour in the penultimate leg. (The camera mounted in the latter got [[SexSells a closeup view of her cleavage]] as she exited the water.)

** They expanded on this assertion in post-race interviews, citing such things as that they would have easily won the sixth leg if they hadn't gone for the Fast Forward, and that, new rules and changes in the game, such as two Express Passes, meant they had to face difficulties prior teams had not[[note]]because teams haven't dealt with multiple Fast Forwards in previous seasons, with Joe & Bill (on Season 1) and Dustin & Kandice (between Seasons 11 and 12) finishing directly behind the Fast Forward three different times each[[/note]], so you couldn't just compare them straight up to previous teams with better statistics.

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The tenth episode started with them boasting about being the only team to survive two U-Turns, which is true, but ignores the twice Yielded [[Characters/TheAmazingRace8 Weaver Family]] and [[Characters/TheAmazingRace11 Eric & Danielle]], who both went on to make their respective Final 3's. [[note]]Although as of [[Characters/TheAmazingRace24 All-Stars]], they are the only team to have survived a U-Turn THREE times.[[/note]]

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The tenth episode started with them boasting about being the only team to survive two U-Turns, which is true, but ignores the twice Yielded [[Characters/TheAmazingRace8 Weaver Family]] and [[Characters/TheAmazingRace11 Eric & Danielle]], who both went on to make their respective Final 3's.

* NiceHat: Jason.

* TwoFirstNames: Both of them.

* TwoFirstNames: Rowan Joseph.

Exes, the first pair to appear on the show since John Vito & Jill during [[Characters/TheAmazingRace11 All-Stars]], and the first new pair since [[Characters/TheAmazingRace6 Season 6]]. Marie made an instant impression with her bullying attitude and her constant yelling at Tim. After winning the double Express Passes, Marie attempted to use the second Pass as bait to get other teams to help them, at times even demanding help from them, which got on the nerves of everyone. However, with all of the fan favorites dropping out so early, her aggressive, no nonsense attitude, combined with the borderline abuse she heaped on Tim, became one of the most entertaining parts of the season. Despite a few rough patches, mostly due to Marie trying brute force her way through the game without listening to Tim's suggestions, they made the Final 3, where they fell behind early at the Supply Drop Roadblock, due to Amy's lucky second drop being a little more on target than Marie's first lucky drop. They would never catch up with Jason & Amy, ending up in 2nd place. They were one of ten teams included in the initial cast leak for [[Characters/TheAmazingRace24 All-Stars,]] but Marie said in interviews that she never wanted to run the Race again due to her portrayal in the first half of the season.

* RealityShowGenreBlindness: A minor case in their final leg. They reacted badly to the travel agent screwing up their flight plans prompting her to suggest the 2-stop layover to Lisbon instead of a later one-stop flight to Lisbon. At this point, they were not racing for last, and teams have previously been broken with flights with 2 or more layovers. The two-stop flight to Lisbon would turn out to be their downfall, as it later turns out that the 1-stop flight would end up being the second flight to Lisbon, one which Brandon and Adam were able to take.

** They expanded on this assertion in post-race interviews, citing such things as that they would have easily won the sixth leg if they hadn't gone for the Fast Forward, and that, new rules and changes in the game, such as two Express Passes, meant they had to face difficulties prior teams had not[[note]]because haven't dealt with multiple Fast Forwards in previous seasons, with Joe & Bill (on Season 1) and Dustin & Kandice (between Seasons 11 and 12) finishing directly behind the Fast Forward three different times each[[/note]], so you couldn't just compare them straight up to previous teams with better statistics.

** They expanded on this assertion in post-race interviews, citing such things as that they would have easily won the sixth leg if they hadn't gone for the Fast Forward, and that, new rules and changes in the game, such as two Express Passes, meant they had to face difficulties prior teams had not[[note]]because haven't dealt with multiple Fast Forwards in previous seasons, with Joe & Bill, on Season 1, and Dustin & Kandice, between Seasons 11 and 12, finishing directly behind the Fast Forward three different times each[[/note]], so you couldn't just compare them straight up to previous teams with better statistics.

** They expanded on this assertion in post-race interviews, citing such things as that they would have easily won the sixth leg if they hadn't gone for the Fast Forward, and that, new rules and changes in the game, such as two Express Passes, meant they had to face difficulties prior teams had not[[note]]because there didn't used to be Fast Forwards on every leg[[/note]], meant that you couldn't just compare them straight up to previous teams with better statistics.

* OldShame: Tim expressed this about being in chorus in high school before the musical Roadblock in Leg 9.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Despite having just broken up with Marie, Tim actually had a crush on Ally, and they shared an entire row of plane seats en route to Abu Dhabi, according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJz_qAI-UQ this deleted scene]].

* IKnewIt: Leo, for correctly predicting that the "Indonesian delicacy" was going to be snake.

* RomanceOnTheSet: To many people's surprise, Ally actually had a thing for Tim Sweeney according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJz_qAI-UQ this deleted scene]].

* WeHardlyKnewYe: They barely got any airtime until they hit the second Roadblock, and by then it was fairly apparent they were going to get eliminated.

* RoseHairedGirl: Marie.

* TheMasochismTango: Only over the last four legs.

Exes, the first pair to appear on the show since John Vito & Jill during [[Characters/TheAmazingRace11 All-Stars]], and the first new pair since [[Characters/TheAmazingRace6 Season 6]]. Marie made an instant impression with her bullying attitude and her constant yelling at Tim. After winning the double Express Passes, Marie attempted to use the second Pass as bait to get other teams to help them, at times even demanding help from them, which got on the nerves of everyone. Despite a few rough patches, mostly due to Marie trying brute force her way through the game without listening to Tim's suggestions, they won three legs and made the Final 3. In the finale, they fell behind early at the Supply Drop Roadblock, due to Amy's lucky second drop being a little more on target than Marie's first lucky drop, and they would never catch up with Jason & Amy, ending up in 2nd place. They were one of ten teams included in the initial cast leak for [[Characters/TheAmazingRace24 All-Stars,]] but Marie said in interviews that she never wanted to run teh Race again due to her portrayal in the first half of the season.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the season, once the winner was announced and all that was left to do was take the final cast photo, Brandon talked about how nothing could beat their experience on the Race, except maybe getting to run it again, right before the All-Stars preview was shown. [[spoiler: Subverted in that they were not the ones coming back, Leo & Jamal were.]]

The 23rd Season of the Race started off with a lot of potential. There were some likable and interesting teams, a few potential good villains, and it looked like Season 23 could follow up on the momentum built by the previous two seasons. Unfortunately, it then suffered perhaps the worst possible elimination order in the show's history. Starting in the second leg, all the fan favorite teams started dropping off one by one, as the season ended up with an uninspiring top five full of teams that were either unlikable, or just kind of boring. To make matters worse, one of the few remaining likable teams did a hypocrisy-fueled FaceHeelTurn, and entered into an answer sharing alliance that was responsible for the elimination of two teams. All in all, Season 23 ended up on the weak side.