History Funny / TheAmazingRace

* Jet & Dave pranking Jody & Cory, by writing "Check the Cannons" in the sand at an overnight equalizer.

* Leg 5 of TAR Canada features a challenge wherein the teams must perform a traditional Thai puppet show. The show is a three-person act and must be done in silence. Zed and Shabbir neglect to [[ReadTheFreakingManual read the latter part of the clue]], and repeatedly speak during the performance. At one point, when discussing their next attempt, they agree that they'll be able to succeed if they talk themselves through the steps. What makes it even funnier is the annoyed/exasperated look on their third puppeteer's face; it's a combination of WhatAnIdiot and "I am SO done."

* During leg 5, Arun & Natalia go so lost in Switzlerland that by the time that they arrived at the Pit Stop, the greeter had [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere already left]].

* In Leg 2's Road Block, teams had to sort through a basket of mail for one marked as their next clue. Anthony, Caro and Penn all found theirs in less than 30 seconds, but due to Ryan playing mind games with them and having them think that just because it's marked with the race logo that it isn't the clue, they spend 30 minutes going through every box just to find it. It takes several other teams also finding theirs easily that they realize they already found it, and the realization on their faces is priceless.

* What were Hayley & Kaylynn required to do for their second Speed Bump? [[GirlsWithMoustaches Put on fake beards and mustaches]] and wear them for the rest of the leg. [[ManlyFacialHair Riley & Maddison]] did beard bumps with them at one point, and one of the local vendors at the meat market even requested to feel them!

* What were Hayley & Kaylynn required to do for their second Speed Bump? [[GirlsWithMoustaches Put on fake beards and mustaches]] and wear them for the rest of the leg. [[BadassBeard Riley & Maddison]] did beard bumps with them at one point, and one of the local vendors at the meat market even requested to feel them!

* In leg 1, the teams had to search a bunch of fake fish for one that matched theirs and unlock a lock on it. However, Hung & Chee didn't memorize what their fish looked like and ended up deciding to just unlock every single one. ''It works''.

** On leg 9 Jo, while doing the frozen waterfall climbing task yelled she was going to draw inspiration to drive her picks into the ice wall by imagining it was Paul's face. She then yelled at Paul, who was getting ready right next to her, to make sure he had heard her. Cut to Paul and Steve in their post-leg interview, Steve laughing his ass off while Paul said:
-->'''Paul''': Gee, that was a nice thing to let me know.

** Jo, while doing the frozen waterfall climbing task in TAR Australia 2, said she was going to draw inspiration to drive her picks into the ice wall by imagining it was Paul's face. She then yelled at Paul, who was getting ready right next to her, to make sure he had heard her. Cut to Paul and Steve in their post-leg interview, Steve laughing his ass off while Paul said:
-->'''Paul''': Gee, that was a nice thing to let me know.

** Leg 4. A number of teams know they are in last place getting to the mat and their reactions, most funny though is the 2nd last team.
** The teams were required to drive to the village/township of Australia located within Cuba. The look on several of the teams faces when they read the clue as "drive yourselves to Australia" without reading the second line is priceless. It becomes even funnier when you realize that the first task they have to do in the town is feeding and catching a crocodile.

In the following route task they have to transport an ox drawn cart of pots through a parade. Everyone losses most of their pots (except Ross & Taryn), some the moment they start moving. A meagre 15 minute penalty is applied to all but one team.

* Jo, while doing the frozen waterfall climbing task in TAR Australia 2, said she was going to draw inspiration to drive her picks into the ice wall by imagining it was Paul's face. She then yelled at Paul, who was getting ready right next to her, to make sure he had heard her. Cut to Paul and Steve in their post-leg interview, Steve laughing his ass off while Paul said:

** On Leg 6: In the second nation vs. nation challenge all teams from Australia/New Zealand had to work together to find all the babushka with teams from their own country. John rushed off with Murray instead of sharing comparative information with the rest of the group. Leading to a group facepalm moment when John finally realized the inefficiency:

Stan/Wayne:
-> "Hulk Smash!!!"
-> "I had to guide you there, I was worried you were going to go off the side of a cliff!"
-> "It's what I do!"

** In leg 13, [[NoSenseOfDirection Stan & Wayne get comically lost]]. They parking in a bush, which gets lampshaded by the teams looking down from above as well as Stan & Wayne themselves.

* On leg 8: Cat & Jesse's cab driver kept yelling at them to hurry up when he ran ahead of them to the next location (perhaps he was a secret fan of the race). Teams had to carry two stones up to Minčeta Tower. Once there, the watchman would reveal the question "How many stairs did you count to reach me?". Cat & Jesse instead of guessing answered: "a billion!"..."as many as it took to reach you!"

** In the second Eqypt leg, Colin bumped into Mirna. Mirna said with a completely straight face in the interview " A crazy person is trying to assassinate me."
* Season 7, seeing mastermind Rob (this after his two appearances on ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', and already have played many mind games with the other teams including rule-abuse on quitting Roadblocks) over-strategize to the point where they were racing for last place. Rob and Amber along with Ron and Kelly had secured earlier flights than the ones Uchenna and Joyce and Merideth and Gretchen had already gotten. Rob decided to brag on this point to Merideth and Gretchen, which as a result had them scouring with Uchenna and Joyce to find better ones, and ended up with even a better arrival time than Rob had found. The look on Rob's face - after their arrival in the next city - when he discovers this is perfect.

* Season 12, Donald, a 68-year-old man, pole-vaulting a ditch in his underwear

** Dan's marching "prowess"

** Special note goes to Viktor from Season 14, who managed to pronounce a REALLY LONG Russian place name "badly". The camera just pauses on him with no music while he reads it out.

* Inaudible dialogue is often subtitled to make things easier for the viewers, but when Season 16's Jordan (the female one) attempted to speak to teammate Jeff with a mouthful of baguette, [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped the subtitle simply read "??????????"]]

** The jokes made about Chester & Ephraim's muscularity in leg 2 count. One was they were talking about why they couldn't do the Brining Detour involving adding salt to water to make you float with them saying it would take a mountain of salt to get them to float. At the Mining Detour where you had to break a large rock of salt, when Chester & Ephraim arrives Brandon says "They're just gonna bite it in half."
* Brendon and Rachel may have been more ''[[{{Wangst}} annoying]]'' than funny, but their introduction in Season 24 was fairly amusing with them only showing Rachel crying.

** On Leg 2, SEVEN teams checking to the mat nearly at the same time. Even Phil was so surprise and confuse that he mistook Dave and Conner for being 5th place instead of 4th place even starts joking around by counting the teams once Jet and Cord arrived. Some of the quotes by them regarding this rare occasion:
-->'''Caroline''': It IS a party! XD

* Leg 1 of Season 25. [[DumbBlonde Lisa]]'s answer to Adam's question that the sun sets at the east and rise in the west. Cue to Amy (who happen to be near them) and Adam's [[{{Beat}} long pause]] while looking in a 'Did-you-really-say-that' expression.

** Leg 2. The punting challenge especially Shelley and Nici antics including Nici taking a pee in the river where Shelley and 4 locals (who happens to row near them) laugh themselves silly; unbelieving what Nici did. Before that cue to this lines about punting when they hit on the bridge:

* Leg 2 of Season 26, Libby and CJ, already in last place, missing the bullet train from Tokyo to Nagano, Japan...because they were taking a selfie. The editors adding a "#SelfieFail" graphic/hashtag just made the moment even funnier.

** If you're curious how Laura's not too happy of him being 'obnoxious', she hits him with the bouquet of flowers much to everyone's amusement.
** Leg 7 of Season 26: Blair being grateful that Hayley's crush on their bush pilot keeps her from yelling at him about being last. Said pilot [[FunWithSubtitles is immediate identified]] as Hagen - Handsome Bush Pilot.

* One task involves figuring out what beverage in Iceland is called "The Black Death". A guy off the street tells the Yale pair "It's literally [[MustHaveCoffee coffee.]]" The correct response is a brew called Brennyvin. In other words, ''alcohol'' is his coffee.
* We see several teams complete the first leg and it's quite dignified. When we get to Conor Daly and Alexander Rossi, there is no fanfare or anything- they're already at the mat and past the "you are the X team to arrive" statement, and Rossi is goofing around and making the blonde Icelandic gal greeting them crack up.

-->'''Cedric:''' I was- I was surprised that they didn't have any Emojis. I mean, early centuries, they should have had ''some'' facial expressions, Emojis, or something.

* Mixed with heartwarming but the difference in Colin’s attitude is also really funny. Who’d have thought the high strung guy who gave us the famous “My ox is broken, this is bullshit!” line that almost got arrested in Tanzania would now be a calm guy who practices meditation every day, hugs other racers, and talks about putting love into the universe?

* In leg 10 there was no roadblock but instead a pretty involved task trying to tie three boats together in a Dutch canal. The locals were not having it with these bumbling Americans. One guy straight up asked Tyler and Korey "Are you boys idiots or something?"

* At the beginning of the race, it starts with a bunch of clips being shown, as this season saw the race hit a 1 million miles around the world. And of course, [[NeverLiveItDown the clip of Claire getting hit in the face with a watermelon is shown.]]

* The Amazing Race Australia, episode 1; half the teams are neck and neck at the final task, counting money and trying to find the right amount...when an ice-cream kart inexplicably shows up, with the tune playing loudly and annoyingly to the only team near it, Mo and Mos. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It's funnier in the actual episode than on paper, really.]]

** Leg 4: Chris & Adrienne, are the first to go have their incense bundles checked, but forget about presentation and orientation, leaving them in a mess. Hayley & Mikayla jokingly mention to the other teams that they'll "See them in 5 Minutes!".

** When Tom & Tyler propose to form an alliance with Hayley & Mikayla on leg 5 they tease them with "Ooooh...Big Words!" Tyler responds with: "Why does the word alliance scare you so much, it's like Tommy & the word Commitment?"; to which the girls laugh.
** At the start of leg 7, a local Mukuni lady greats each of the teams in turn...by sipping tea and spitting/spraying it all over their faces. She then gives them their next clue.
Tom & Tyler appear to have slept in, and are greeted by the camera crew at their hotel room door. They successfully catch up to 4th place, where they would have started the race.

** Also In leg 7 (near the pitstop at Zambia elephant cafe): Teams are instructed to walk Not run to the pit stop.
On their brisk stroll Tim & Rod shout banter with Tom & Tyler just a few meters ahead of them. The former ask them to give them the leg, with Tom & Tyler laughing that they already spent a long time looking at the waterfalls.

Femi & Nick have an odd half jog/half walk stroll to the pitstop where Beau congratulates them on not getting lost this time.
Sid & Ash loose a narrow lead to Jasmine & Jerome by forgetting to unlock the car to retrieve their bags (the boot door bouncing back and nudging Sid on the head as he opened it).

** In leg 5, Holly and Dolor receive what they refer to as the "Fred Flintstone car" with rainbows painted on it. They struggle to drive the manual car, having to yell at the traffic building up behind them that "We're stalled!"
** In leg 13, Stan & Wayne get comically lost. Parking in the bush, which gets lampshaded by the teams looking down from above as well as Stan & Wayne themselves.

"Hulk Smash!!!"
"I had to guide you there, I was worried you were going to go off the side of a cliff"
"It's what I do!".
** Also in leg 13, Skye-Blue and Jake help MJ & Chelsea, by taking them all the way to the pitstop, not knowing the latter hadn't completed the detour yet and was aiming to go their first. Beau greets them, but tells them they have to go back out to complete the spaghetti challenge.

* On The TAR Asia 3, there was a Detour where on option was to play Blackjack until you win 9 times while wearing lavish outfits. Vince and Sam got there first so they decided to mess with Henry & Bernie by switching the name tags on their clothes so it looked like the dress was for Henry and the tuxedo was for Bernie

** In leg 5, Holly and Dolor receive what they refer to as the "Fred Flintstone car" with rainbows painted on it.
They struggle to drive the manual car, having to yell at the traffic building up behind them that "We're stalled"/

** In leg 7 (near the pitstop at Zambia elephant cafe): Teams are instructed to walk Not run to the pit stop.

** In leg 5, Jasmine and Jerome, Viv & Joey and Femi & Nick claim the first bus. They apologize to Tom & Tyler who they know will catch up, but smiling on camera confess they are "secretly stoked" to be ahead of the most dominant team. They then state to each other that they would make a good final three, with Femi & Nick suggesting they split the money six ways, everyone bursts out laughing.

* In leg 5, Holly and Dolor receive what they refer to as the "Fred Flintstone car" with rainbows painted on it.

** When Tom & Tyler propose to form an alliance with Hayley & Mikayla on leg 5 they tease them with "Ooooh...Big Words!"
Tyler responds with: "Why does the word alliance scare you so much, it's like Tommy & the word Commitment?"; to which the girls laugh.