'''The Amazing Race 5''' was the fifth installment of the popular
reality television show, ''
The Amazing Race''. It aired between
July 6,
2004 and
September 21,
2004.
Filming began on
January 25,
2004 and finished on
February 27,
2004.
In this edition of the race, several rule changes were introduced, including:
★ 'Yield'
>Yield<
- This was a new element in the game that allowed one team to force another team to stop racing for a predetermined amount of time. The Yield was available on each leg, though it was not presented on each episode.
★ 'Fast Forward decrease' - This race had Fast Forwards (passes to skip directly to the next Pit Stop) on only two legs, as opposed to previous seasons, where they were available on all legs except the last two.
★ 'Non-elimination penalty' - Beginning this season, teams finishing last on non-elimination legs were penalized by being stripped of any money they had accumulated. In addition, they received no money at the start of the next leg. In previous seasons, there was no penalty for finishing last on non-elimination legs.
Contestants
The following teams participated in the Race.
Main articles: Amazing Race 5 contestants
Results
The following teams participated in the Race, with their relationships at the time of filming. Placements are listed in finishing order:
| Team | Relationship | Position (by leg) | Roadblocks performed 4 |
|---|
| 1<> | 2 | 3 | 4<> | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9<> | 10<> | 11 | 12 | 13 |
|---|
| Chip & Kim | Married Parents | 8th1 | 8th | 7th | 1st | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 1st> | 2nd | 1st | Chip 9, Kim 1 |
| Colin & Christie | Dating | 7th | 6th | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 4th< | 3rd | 2nd | Colin 8, Christie 1 |
| Brandon & Nicole | Dating / Models | 6th | 1st | 3rd | 5th | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 2nd | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | Brandon 9, Nicole 1 |
| Linda & Karen | Bowling Moms | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 6th | 7th | 6th | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | | Linda 4, Karen 6 |
| Kami & Karli | Twins | 9th2 | 9th | 5th | 7th | 6th | 3rd | 5th | 5th | 4th | 5th | | | | Kami 5, Karli 3 |
| Charla & Mirna | Cousins | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 5th | 6th | | | | | | | Charla 4, Mirna 2 |
| Marshall & Lance | Brothers | 2nd | 7th | 8th | 3rd | 5th | 7th3 | | | | | | | | Marshall 1, Lance 4 |
| Bob & Joyce | Internet Dating Couple | 4th | 5th | 4th | 8th | | | | | | | | | | Bob 1, Joyce 2 |
| Jim & Marsha | Military Dad & Daughter | 10th | 3rd | 9th | | | | | | | | | | | Jim 1, Marsha 1 |
| Alison & Donny | Dating | 1st | 10th | | | | | | | | | | | | Alison 0, Donny 1 |
| Dennis & Erika | Once Engaged | 11th | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dennis 0, Erika 0 |
Chip and Kim arrived first in the pit stop, but forgot to pick up a clue which caused them to fall to 8th.
Kami and Karli arrived second in the pit stop, but forgot to pick up a clue which caused them to fall to 9th.
Marshall & Lance decided to quit the Amazing Race, due to Marshall's knee injury.
The Roadblock count does not include the results of any unaired Roadblocks.
★
Red means the team was eliminated.
★
Blue means the team was the last to arrive at a pit stop in a non-elimination leg of the race. This means that while the team was not eliminated, they were forced to give up all their money and did not receive any money at the beginning of the next leg.
★
Green means the team won the Fast Forward clue.
★ A yellow
> means that team chose to use the Yield;
< indicates the team who received it;
<> indicates that the yield for that leg was seen on-air but not used.
Episode title quotes
Episode titles are often taken from quotes made by the racers.
#Clearly, I'm More Intelligent than You – ''Alison''
#It Turned Ugly Just Now – ''Kami''
#I Got Electrocuted – ''Charla''
#Who Says Pageant Girls Don't Eat? – ''Brandon''
#Are You Good at Puzzles? – ''Brandon''
#Why Can't We Get a Camel? – ''Marshall''
#Are You Sure This is Safe? – ''Nicole''
#I'm Going to Jail – ''Colin''
#If You're Going to Whine, Just Shut Up! – ''Karen''
#If They're Screwing the Helmet to My Head, It Can't Be Good! – ''Linda''
#It's Okay, Run Them Over! – ''Christie''
#You've Just Made Me a Millionaire – ''Chip
Notable race events
Pre-Race
★ Chip McAllister portrayed a young
Muhammad Ali in the 1977 film ''
The Greatest''. Ali portrayed the adult version of himself.
★ Alison Irwin of
CBS's
''Big Brother 4'' and
''Big Brother: All-Stars'' was the first contestant on a previously aired
reality show to take part in this race.
★ Erika, Alison, Nicole and
Christie competed against one another in various
beauty pageants. Christie was a former
Miss Teen USA champion, while Nicole was the winner of
Miss Texas USA.
In-Race
★ Natalia Rodriguez Lassiy, Miss Uruguay who competed in
Miss World 2003, welcomed the teams in the Pit Stop of 'Leg 1'.
★ Nicole took 4 hours to complete the
caviar challenge in Saint Petersburg in 'Leg 4'.
★ Marshall and Lance were the first team in Amazing Race history to quit. Marshall was suffering from a knee injury in the Roadblock in
Luxor,
Egypt, on 'Leg 6' and the team arrived at the task site after all others had left. They decided to give up.
★ After 'Leg 6', Amazing Race 5 marks the most girls remaining on the show: nine.
★ The woman that welcomed the teams in the Pit Stop of 'Leg 11' ''(Rotorua, New Zealand to Manila, Philippines)'' was Luli Arroyo, the daughter of the current Philippine president,
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
★ In 'Leg 12' where the teams are tasked to find the
Philippine flag, the other two flags the teams chose were actually those of
the Czech Republic and
Equatorial Guinea, both similar in design to the Philippine flag.
★ On the final leg ('Leg 13'), Colin ordered the limousine in
Dallas by using a fake
credit card number. Teams were only allowed to use their provided credit cards for purchasing airfare.
★ A tire blowout in Dallas on Colin and Christie's limousine was not shown in 'Leg 13'. This mishap essentially prevented them from winning the race.
★ There were 36-hour pitstops in 'Leg 4'; 'Leg 6'; 'Leg 10' and 'Leg 12'.
Post-Race
★ Two challenges were edited out of the program since they did not affect team placement. The first was a nut finding Roadblock in the markets of
Dubai; the second, a
tipi building challenge in
Banff,
Alberta[1]. The clam-hunting task in the Philippines, presented as a normal challenge, was originally one of two Detour choices. The yellow Detour clue is visible in several Racers' hands, particularly Kim's, and the second Detour choice was never presented on-air.
★ Charla & Mirna appeared on ''
MADtv'' in an ''Amazing Race'' parody.
★ Colin & Christie gave one of their trips to Dennis and Erika.
★ Charla & Mirna appeared in the audience of ''
The Price Is Right'', but neither of them was chosen into Contestant's Row.
★ Charla & Mirna and Chip & Kim appeared on Bravo TV's Battle of the Network Reality Stars. Charla & Mirna were each eliminated, but Mirna returned and ended up on the winning team.
★ Charla appeared in the "reality stars" themed first game of Season 7 of ''
Celebrity Poker Showdown''.
★ Colin proposed to Christie during the
Early Show interview after the race.
★ Charla appeared on HBO's ''
The Comeback'' starring
Lisa Kudrow.
★ Charla & Mirna were featured in recap on various episodes of
The Soup on
E!.
★ Erika is now a
producer with the show and was on-hand during the Season 12 open casting call in Cabazon, CA.
★ Charla & Mirna were selected to race in ''
The Amazing Race All-Stars''. Lance & Marshall sent them a letter in the mail-sorting Roadblock on Leg 4, where they called Charla & Mirna annoying in every language they knew, and hoped they would be eliminated very soon. Mirna later said, "At least we're not fat-asses who quit!"
★ Colin & Christie were expected to be on the
All Stars edition, but they didn't make it because Christie was pregnant.
★ Christian Dating couple Brandon & Nicole are no longer dating. Nicole is now engaged.
★ Dating couple Alison & Donny broke up.
★ Karli got married.
★ Marshall got married, with Kami, Lance(his brother), Dennis & Erika, Chip & Kim, and Colin & Christie attending.
Prizes
Individual prizes were awarded to the first team to complete a leg.
★ 'Leg 1' - A vacation to
Hawaii provided by
American Airlines website
AA.com.
★ 'Leg 6' - A vacation to exotic
Mexico provided by American Airlines website AA.com.
★ 'Leg 7' - A vacation to sunny
Latin America provided by American Airlines website AA.com.
★ 'Leg 8' - A vacation to sunny
Caribbean provided by American Airlines website AA.com.
★ 'Leg 9' - A vacation to exotic Mexico provided by American Airlines website AA.com.
★ 'Leg 10' - A vacation to
Europe provided by American Airlines website AA.com.
★ 'Leg 11' - A vacation to Hawaii provided by American Airlines website AA.com.
★ 'Leg 12' - A vacation to sunny Caribbean provided by American Airlines website AA.com.
★ 'Leg 13' - $1,000,000
Race locations
@ = ''Additional task''
Route map
Leg 1 (United States → Uruguay)
★
Santa Monica,
California, '
United States'
(
Santa Monica Pier) (Starting Point)
★
Flight:
(
Los Angeles International Airport) to
Montevideo, '
Uruguay' (
Carrasco International Airport)
★
Punta del Este (The Hand in the Sand)
★ Gorriti Island
[2] @
★
Punta del Este (Dock)
★
Maldonado (Meat Warehouse)
@
★
Punta del Este (
Conrad Hotel)
★ Punta Ballena (
Casapueblo) (
more info)
@ Teams had to search for three different departure times hidden on 11 trees.
@ Teams had to carry a 55 pound slab of meat, 10 miles from the meat warehouse, to a butcher.
The Detour for this Leg of the Race was Zips or Chips. In Zips, Teams had to ascend into a penthouse and travel by
zip-line down to the hotel pool to receive their next clue. In Chips, Teams had to play
roulette in the hotel casino with 20 chips and would receive their clue if they won a game. If they lost all of their chips they would have to do the Zips task.
Leg 2 (Uruguay → Argentina)
★ Montevideo (
Shake Mega Disco) @
★
Colonia del Sacramento (Ferry Station)
★
Buenos Aires, '
Argentina'
(
Recoleta Cemetery) (Grave of
Evita Perón)
★
San Antonio de Areco (La Estancia La Invernada)
★ San Antonio se Areco (
La Porteña)
@ Teams had to rip open a foam ball, to get the clue inside.
The second Detour was Perro or Tango. In Perro, Teams had to walk eight
dogs to three checkpoints.In Tango, Teams had to travel to a theatre. The teams were then given a photo of a tango dancer in the theatre. they had search the theatre, which was filled with tango dancers, who looked similar to each other, to find the dancer who matched their photo. they then gave the photo to the dancer. if the teams gave it to the wrong dancers, the dancer would take the photo and they would have to get a new one. The first Roadblock of the race was to play a game traditionally played by a children into a ranch, ribbon roping. One team member had to remove a
bandana from the neck of one of the
calves.
Leg 3 (Argentina)
★
Flight:
Buenos Aires (
Jorge Newbery Domestic Airport) to
San Carlos de Bariloche (City Airport)
★ San Carlos de Bariloche (Civic Center)@
★ San Carlos de Bariloche (Chocolate Factory)
★ San Carlos de Bariloche (
Villa Catedral)
★ Bahia Lopez
@ Teams had to find the mayor. They were not told he was in the Civic Center.
The Roadblock required one team member to search through 11,000
chocolates (by biting into them) until they located one with a white center. The Detour was Smooth Sailing or Rough Riding. In Smooth Sailing, each teammate had to
paraglide in tandem with an instructor off a 5,000 foot mountain. In Rough Riding, teams had to
mountain bike a six-mile course down the mountain.
Leg 4 (Argentina → Russia)
★ San Carlos de Bariloche (Bariloche Bus Station)
★
Flight:
Buenos Aires (
Ministro Pistarini International Airport) to
Saint Petersburg, '
Russia' (
Pulkovo Airport)
★ Saint Petersburg (
Battleship Aurora)
★ Saint Petersburg (
Bronze Horseman)
★
Pushkin (Old Tower Restaurant)
★ Pushkin (
Catherine's Palace)
This leg's Detour was Block 5 Shots or Drink 1 Shot. In Block 5 Shots, teams had to travel to an ice hockey rink and block five slap shots by professional hockey players. In Drink 1 Shot, teams had to travel to a Palace, and perform a
cossack ritual: Balance a shot glass of
vodka on the blade of a saber, and tilt the sword to drink the vodka, without dropping the glass. The Roadblock required one team member to eat one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of
caviar.
Leg 5 (Russia → Egypt)
★ Saint Petersburg (
Hermitage Museum)
★
Flight:
Saint Petersburg (Pulkovo Airport) to
Cairo, '
Egypt'
(
Cairo International Airport)
★ Cairo (
Tower of Cairo)
★ Cairo (Pharaonic Village)
★
Giza (
Giza pyramid complex)
★ Giza (Base of the Pyramid)
★ Giza (
Sphinx)
The Fast Forward on this leg of the race was to carry a
sarcophagus into the temple. In the Roadblock for this leg of the race, one team member had to descend into Osiris Shaft to retrieve a satchel containing puzzle pieces which were used to find the next clue. The Detour was Rock & Roll or Hump & Ride. In Rock & Roll, teams had to use traditional techniques to transport two stone blocks. In Hump & Ride, teams had to transport two camels loaded with carpets to a merchant.
Leg 6 (Egypt)
★ Giza (
Great Pyramids)
★
Flight:
Cairo (
Old Cairo Airport) to
Luxor (
Luxor International Airport)
★ Luxor (
Karnak Temple)
★ Luxor (Habu Temple)
★ Luxor (Crocodile Island)
The Detour for this leg of the Race was Herd It or Haul It. In Herd It, teams had to load ten goats into a sailboat and deliver them to a shepherd on the other side of the
Nile River. In Haul It, teams had to haul water from the Nile and transport it by donkey to fill a cistern. In the Roadblock, one team member had to use archeological tools to dig, in a plot of sand, for a stone
scarab.
Leg 7 (Egypt → Kenya → Tanzania)
★
Flight:
Luxor (Luxor International Airport) to Cairo (Cairo International Airport) to
Nairobi, '
Kenya'
(
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport)
★
Kilimanjaro, '
Tanzania'
(
Kilimanjaro International Airport)
★ Mto Wa Mbu
★ Kibaoni (Kavishe Hotel)
★
Lake Manyara (Lookout)
The Detour was Buzzing or Busy. In Buzzing, teams had to travel by bicycle to a local
honey farm and harvest two kilograms of honey. In Busy, teams had to travel to a furniture store and deliver two chairs to a specified house. The Roadblock required one team member to eat an
ostrich egg.
Leg 8 (Tanzania → Kenya → United Arab Emirates)
★
Flight:
Kilimanjaro (Kilimanjaro International Airport) to Nairobi, 'Kenya' (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport) to
Dubai, '
United Arab Emirates'
(
Dubai International Airport)
★ Dubai (
Burj al-Arab) ''(Unaired)''
★ Dubai (Port)
★ near Dubai (Desert Oasis)
The unaired Roadblock involved buying nuts in the market and delivering them to a ship. The Detour was Off Plane or Off Road. In Off Plane, teams had to travel to the Al Quwain Aero Club and tandem skydive 10,000 feet with an instructor to a landing site in the Margam Dunes. In Off Road, teams had to travel directly to the Margam Dunes and drive an ATV over a six mile course to the skydiving landing site.
Leg 9 (United Arab Emirates → India)
★ Dubai (
Wild Wadi) @
★
Flight:
Dubai (Dubai International Airport) to
Kolkata,
West Bengal, '
India'
(
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)
★ Kolkata (
Sahid Minar)
★ Kolkata (Hindu Temple)
★
Garia (Globe Brick Factory)
★ Garia (
Sealdah Station)
★ Kolkata (
Victoria Memorial)
@ Team members had to take turns to ride a free waterfall slide.
The Fast Forward instructed teams to travel to a temple and engage in head shaving, a traditional Hindu ritual. For the Roadblock, one team member was required to use a traditional mold to make 20 mud
bricks. The Detour required a choice between Heavy but Short or Light but Long. In Heavy But Short, teams had to travel over ten miles to Land's Down to transport a taxi a half-mile to a local garage. The taxis have no engines so teams had to push them. In Light But Long, teams had to travel to Calcutta's largest flower market to find a particular stall and receive a garland, which they must then release into the
Ganges River.
Leg 10 (India → New Zealand)
★
Flight:
Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport) to
Auckland, '
New Zealand'
(
Auckland International Airport)
★
Rotorua (
Rotorua Museum)
★ Rotorua (Matapara Farms)
The Detour was Clean or Dirty. In Clean, teams had to drive 13 miles to
Okere Falls and complete a one mile whitewater river sledge course. In Dirty, teams had to travel ten miles to
Hell's Gate and search for clues buried in a hot mud pit. In the Roadblock, one team member had to inflate a
Zorb and ride it down a hillside. At the bottom of the hill, the rider had to get out and push the Zorb a short distance, then join his/her teammate and run to the Pit Stop.
Leg 11 (New Zealand → Philippines)
★ Auckland (
Westhaven Marina)
★
Flight:
Auckland (Auckland International Airport) to
Manila, '
Philippines' (
Ninoy Aquino International Airport)
★
Cavite (Malagueña Motors) @
★
Victoria,
Laguna (Field behind a giant duck icon)
★ Manila (
Coconut Palace)
@ Teams must decorate a jeepney completely, when its finished teams will get their next clue and next destination.
In the Roadblock for this leg, one team member had to climb a 70 foot ladder to the underside of
Auckland Harbour Bridge. From there he or she had to walk along narrow girders until reaching the clue, and were then lowered to a waiting boat below. The Detour was Plow or Fowl. In Plow, teams had to choose a marked field and use an
ox-drawn plow to till the soil, until the plow caught on a buried rope attached to a hidden clue. In Fowl, teams had to herd 1,000
ducks from one pen to another 50 yards away.
Leg 12 (Philippines)
★ Manila (
Luneta Park)
★
El Nido,
Palawan (El Nido Pier)
★ El Nido, Palawan (Island with correct
Philippine flag)
★ El Nido, Palawan (
Giant clam) ''(Task shown but not indicated as a Detour)''
★ El Nido, Palawan (Lagen Wall)
★ El Nido, Palawan (
Lagen Island)
The Roadblock for this leg required one team member to climb a 150 foot rock wall using an
ascender.
Leg 13 (Philippines → Canada → United States)
★
Flight:
Manila (
Ninoy Aquino International Airport) to
Calgary,
Alberta, '
Canada' (
Calgary International Airport)
★
Banff ''(Shopping task, unaired)'' @
★
Banff National Park (Outside
Banff Springs Hotel) ''(Unaired)''
★
Sunshine Village (Lookout Mountain-
Continental Divide)
★ Calgary (
Canada Olympic Park)
★
Flight:
Calgary (Calgary International Airport) to
Dallas,
Texas, 'USA'
(
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport)
★
Fort Worth (
Fort Worth Stockyards)
★ Dallas (Trammell Crow Park) (Finish Line)
@ Teams must pick an article of winter clothing (either jacket or gloves) for the rest of the leg.
There was a final Roadblock of this race, which went unaired, that required one team member to build a
teepee outside the Banff Springs Hotel. The final Detour was Slide or Ride. In Slide, teams had to complete the Olympic course on a two-man
luge in 34 seconds or less. In Ride, teams had to use
mountain bikes to complete the Olympic
slalom course in three minutes or less.
External links
★
Official website
★
TARFlies Times (Season 5)
★
★
Final Four interview video (The Early Show)
★
Charla and Mirna - Amazing Race Wiki
★
Chip and Kim's website
★
Charla and Mirna's fansite
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