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Friday, January 7, 2022

The Amazing Race 33, Episode 1 Recap



After waiting since the December 16th, 2020 finale of The Amazing Race season 32, I and my fellow American viewers of the globetrotting show eagerly turned our TVs, apps, or streaming devices on to CBS for the two-hour season 33 premiere on January 5th, 2022. Indications of the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on TV production were felt right away on this season — all teams were virtually connected and therefore did not line up at the starting line in a physical location such as Los Angeles. When fan-favorite host Phil Keoghan announced that teams were able to commence the competition, they flew from their various places of residence to London, England in the UNITED KINGDOM. Once they arrived in London…

● Teams proceeded to Trafalgar Square in search of someone dressed in a red phone booth costume. Their clue card took them to the richly ornate Canada Gate near Buckingham Palace. Teams then encountered a…

Detour, choice between “Artist Den” or “Digiben”: teams choosing the Artist Den option used wallpaper paste to assemble an artwork mural "puzzle" of the Union Jack flag. Several teams had difficulty determining the artwork’s correct orientation on the wall. The major difficulty of the Digiben detour is figuring out what (or who) a “bobby” is. Teams choosing the Digiben option had to find a bobby — a blackly uniformed London Metropolitan Police officer — who handed them a clue taking them to Parliament Square. At the square near Victoria Station, teams were on the lookout for Little Ben, a miniature version of the Big Ben clock tower (Elizabeth Tower). The final detour clue took them to the Underground subway’s Piccadilly Circus train station where a deejay played music and offered the next clue.

● Teams visited The Chipping Forecast restaurant in Soho. They found "Queen Elizabeth II" and "Boris Johnson" lookalikes seated at a table having a "nosh" — of course, they were eating fish and chips! The queen and prime minister impressionists gave teams their Pit Stop clue.

Pit Stop: National Museum of History, London


  Season 33, Episode 1 Pit Stop Results

  1st — Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone (childhood friends)
       1st place prize — vacation for two to the Turks and Caicos islands
       — resort, spa day, and snorkeling

  2nd — Dusty Harris and Ryan Ferguson (best friends)

  3rd — Cayla Pratt and Raquel Moore (flight attendants)

  4th — Kim Holderness and Penn Holderness (social media-savvy couple)

  5th — Caro Viehweg and Ray Gantt (dating couple)

  6th — Akbar Cook and Sheri Cook (educator couple)

  7th — Connie Greiner (store manager) and Sam Greiner (coach and teacher)

  8th — Isaiah and Taylor Green-Jones (YouTuber couple)

  9th — Arun Kumar and Natalia Kumar (father/daughter duo)

  10th — Lala and Lulu Gonzalez (quarreling twin sisters)

  11th — Michael Norwood and Moe Badger (singing police officers)
       Eliminated from the competition


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