The Amazing Race 13 is once again going to be delayed for most of you east coasters tonight, thanks to the Steelers-Chargers game.  If you turn to CBS right now, you'll end up watching 60 Minutes interview Barack Obama.  Not a terrible surprise for those expecting The Amazing  Race.  The remaining five teams tonight travel to the Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.  We will see if the propaganda regarding this little known Asian country is based in any truth.  Starting at around 8:30pm ET, I'll be here to give some very in-depth and intense live thoughts.  Be prepared.  Kazakhstan ain't no Princess Cruise. 

Hey - it's a quasi-racist promo for tonight's episode of Amazing Race.  They are really going to play up the Borat thing.  This promo is followed by the Toyota "Saved By Zero" commercial.  I just head-butted a rusty nail.  This commercial is followed by Andy Rooney's weekly Old Man Jabbering segment.  Rooney talks about how the best form of media is the newspaper, and it'd be a shame if the newspaper business faded away.  He has no argument, really, and I'm pretty sure that Rooney has never used the internet.  He attacks TV.  This might have been an interesting editorial in 1955.

The teams set out at night from Humayan's Tomb in Delhi, India.  Nick and Starr are the first to depart - they are told to head to Almaty, Kazakhstan.  I'm guessing there's not a ton of available flights.  At the hotel, Dallas and Starr start to flirt a little.  Starr is pretty aggressive.  Impressive.  These two teams continue to buddy up.  Terence and Sarah depart, immediately start bickering.  Ken and Tina follow, and think that their intra-team relations are improving.  Andrew and Dan depart last.

Borat Reference #1 via Dallas.  Borat Reference #2, courtesy of Andrew. 

All the teams are at the airport now.  They are all going to have to connect in Frankfurt.  Ken and Tina get on the flight, but Terence and Sarah do not.  Nor do Andrew and Dan.  Terence and Sarah get another flight, arriving an hour and a half later.  Andrew and Dan don't get on that flight, and find another one.  There will be a bunching here in Kazakhstan.  Teams are heading to a chicken factory late at night, where they have to wait until morning for it to open.  All teams will be tied. 

Andrew and Dan make it to the factory minutes before the factory opens.  The teams run in a free for all when the chicken gate opens.  The next clue is a road block.  One member of each team has to search a gigantic chicken coop to find one of six golden eggs.    Also, there is a Fast Forward available.  Teams have to cab it to a local restaurant where they have to eat cow butt, or something.  Nick and Starr, and Terence and Sarah, decide to go for it.  The other three teams stay and do the coop search.  They have to wear big white suits while doing it. 

Toni is the first person to find a golden egg, and they are in first place.  Teams have to now search the factory for a giant crane truck.  They take the cranes out into the country and walk along a path searching for a Mongol warrior (there are only two).   Andrew, meanwhile, is the second to find the golden egg.  Tina finds it soon after.  Nick and Starr arrive at the restaurant, followed closely by Terence and Sarah.  They get seated and served.  Terence is a vegetarian, so this was not a good decision.  Terence flat out says he can't eat it.  Uh-oh. 

Will Terence sack up and eat?  He goes for it.  Toni and Dallas are int he crane, which is driven by a local.  THe last two teams depart in their cranes.  Starr is being a champ.  So is Nick.  Terence and Sarah are struggling, Terence unable to go after it.  Toni and Dallas, meanwhile, arrive at the Mongol warriors.  THere are a bunch of them.  And they have birds of prey.  It's a Detour.  Play Like Mad or Act Like Bulls.  In Play, they travel to a museum, they have to play a simple song on instruments, and then play them in public to win tips.  In Bull, teams have to get in a two-person cow costume, travel the streets, drink a glass of milk, then head to a bazaar.  Toni and Dallas do the cow costume. 

Terence and Sarah give up and leave.  Sucks for them.  Ken and Tina decide to do the cow costume.  Terence vomits outside the restaurant.  Terence takes responsibility.  Andrew and Dan are having a difficult time in the crane truck.  Nick and Starr finish the fast forward.  They head to Old Square, the location of the leg's pit stop.  Andrew and Dan are still struggling to find the Mongol road.  Could be editing, but they want to make it seem like Terence and Sarah have a chance.  Sarah talks to the chickens.  Andrew and Dan call Kazakhstanis terrible people.  Sarah finds the egg. 

Nick and Starr are team number one.  They win a Wave Runner.  Cool.  They are dominating this game.  And, Nick used the word "behoove" in casual conversation. 

Dallas makes her mother be the ass of the cow.  Ken is the ass of their cow.  Dallas moos audibly.  Andrew and Dan finally find the park with the Mongols.  They bicker at each other while on the path.  Dallas and Toni miss the milk stand.  Ken and Tina do not.  Tina doesn't think it's the right milk place.  She forgets that the clue is on the bottom of the milk glass.  Dallas figures it out, head to the bazaar.  Tina finally figures it out.  THey head to the meat section of the bazaar, but no - they mess up again, thinking they have to take the cow costume back first. 

Toni and Dallas arrive at the bazaar, get their next clue.  It tells them to make their way on foot to the next pit stop.  They have to bring their cow head to the pit stop.  Ken and Tina run into Dallas and Toni, learn they need to take their costume to the pit stop.  Terence and Sarah decide to do the cow costume.     Andrew and Dan foolishly leave their shoes at the costuming place.  Andrew and Dan are moving slow in the cow costume.  Terence and Sarah get cowed up and find someone to lead them to the milk stand.    Andrew and Dan arrive at the milk stand first and are taken by a man to the bazaar.  Terence and Sarah are seemingly right behind them. 

Toni and Dallas are team number two.  Ken and Tina are team number three.

Andrew and Dan are idiots.  They get in a cab when they were expressly told not to.  They arrive at the pit stop.  They now have to head back to the end of the detour and return to the pit stop on foot.  Could be close.

Andrew and Dan catch a cab, head to the bazaar.  Terence and Sarah reach the bazaar.  Andrew and Dan start their walk back, though they're unsure where they are.  They don't have their shoes, which could be an issue.  They bicker some more.  It's a race to the finish. 

Andrew and Dan are team number four.  Wow, undeserved.  Terence and Sarah were idiots to go for the fast forward.  They have been eliminated.

5th Place/Eliminated: Terence and Sarah
4th Place: Andrew and Dan
3rd Place: Ken and Tina
2nd Place: Toni and Dallas
1st Place: Nick and Starr


-Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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