"The Am-AH-zon Race" pits the teams against the jungles of Peru .. and the members of Team Amazon against each other, resulting in what proves to be yet another tense (and highly-unusual) elimination ceremony.
The cast heads to Paris, France, next week .. but will the 'City of Love' be able to heal one player's now-broken heart..?
The story moves at a brisk clip .. yet, it still feels a bit like an 'incomplete' episode; as if this had perhaps originally been planned as a two-parter, which was then trimmed-down to just one episode. The challenges faced by the other two teams definitely seemed to take a 'back-seat' to the Amazons' misadventures.
It was very nice to see Team Victory actually victorious, for once!
DJ and Lindsay were indeed a 'dynamic duo'. Loved the foreshadowed gag of "the best team everr" .. and their moment in the first-class cabin was long-deserved, and rather sweet.
Poor cute little monkeys, though..!
Alejandro's eye-patch provides a nice touch of 'evil' to his persona, this episode (as does Heather's gold tooth). His feud with Owen would seem to threaten his grander schemes to win the game, though .. Team CIRRRRH arguably lost the challenge this time entirely because Alejandro had let Owen 'get' to him.
Sierra's 'laptop'! The 'mouse-as-a-mouse' was funny .. but her desktop image was hilarious:
Gwen finally got several fun scenes in this episode (her main role thus far in the series had been simply to argue with Courtney and Heather). The team's horrified reaction to her initial optimism, her fruitless (and 'fruit-of-the-loom'-less!) search through Cody's pockets, and especially her facial 'tics' and sped-up speech caused by Cody's epi-pen, provided most of the episode's biggest laughs.
But it was the elimination ceremony that marks this as a 'milestone' episode in the series. Not so much that it turned out to be a false-alarm -- but that the votes were revealed to all, and especially the fact that Cody had voted-off Sierra.
Sierra's self-confidence is now shattered .. and, arguably, that's the main 'asset' Team Amazon had going for it, in the early episodes; Sierra had been the decisive team-mate behind their wins in Egypt, Japan, and Germany.
Now Courtney, Gwen and Heather are gonna have to start working together -- and Cody's likely gonna have to come to terms with Sierra's feelings -- if they want to become a 'winning team' again.
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** Not that this is 'x-rated', per se .. but Cartoon Network did see fit to trim this scene out of "Broadway, Baby!" a couple of weeks ago:
This silliness will likely air intact on the Teletoon broadcast, though..!
It was very nice to see Team Victory actually victorious, for once!
DJ and Lindsay were indeed a 'dynamic duo'. Loved the foreshadowed gag of "the best team everr" .. and their moment in the first-class cabin was long-deserved, and rather sweet.Poor cute little monkeys, though..!
Alejandro's eye-patch provides a nice touch of 'evil' to his persona, this episode (as does Heather's gold tooth). His feud with Owen would seem to threaten his grander schemes to win the game, though .. Team CIRRRRH arguably lost the challenge this time entirely because Alejandro had let Owen 'get' to him.
Sierra's 'laptop'!
The 'mouse-as-a-mouse' was funny .. but her desktop image was hilarious:Gwen finally got several fun scenes in this episode (her main role thus far in the series had been simply to argue with Courtney and Heather). The team's horrified reaction to her initial optimism, her fruitless (and 'fruit-of-the-loom'-less!) search through Cody's pockets, and especially her facial 'tics' and sped-up speech caused by Cody's epi-pen, provided most of the episode's biggest laughs.
But it was the elimination ceremony that marks this as a 'milestone' episode in the series. Not so much that it turned out to be a false-alarm -- but that the votes were revealed to all, and especially the fact that Cody had voted-off Sierra.
Sierra's self-confidence is now shattered .. and, arguably, that's the main 'asset' Team Amazon had going for it, in the early episodes; Sierra had been the decisive team-mate behind their wins in Egypt, Japan, and Germany.
Now Courtney, Gwen and Heather are gonna have to start working together -- and Cody's likely gonna have to come to terms with Sierra's feelings -- if they want to become a 'winning team' again.
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** Not that this is 'x-rated', per se .. but Cartoon Network did see fit to trim this scene out of "Broadway, Baby!" a couple of weeks ago:
This silliness will likely air intact on the Teletoon broadcast, though..!
The Drama Plane takes-off at 3:00 PM EDT/PDT (check local listings, for other time zones).
I'm still not 100% in-love with the 'musical' aspect of this season .. but when the songs are paired with clever visuals like the museum paintings here (or the 'pop-art look' in New York City), it's hard not to enjoy them, a little.
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Though, there will be plenty of new ones to get to know..! 
Bruno's been 'around' -- with various names and roles -- since the first season:
