The Amazing Race 19, Episode 6 – We Love Your Country Already; It is Very Spacious
The Leg
  
Amani & Marcus open the first clue and teams must now fly to Lilongwe, Malawi. All teams get on the same flight and the leg really begins as the teams run out of the airport. Jeremy & Sandy get the first taxi and teams must head to Limbe Tobacco Warehouse, Gate 7 for their next clue.
Keeping their lead, they find the Road Block.
In this Road Block, teams will take part in the production of Malawi’s biggest cash crop, tobacco. Teams will use a short dolly to transport ten 200-lb sacks of tobacco.
  
The men of each team choose to do the Road Block and the local workers gleefully mess with the teams by pushing their own sacks around and psyching them out with cheers and songs.
While five teams get underway at the Road Block, Bill & Cathi and Amani & Marcus get caught up in traffic and fall way behind as Jeremy, Ernie, and Justin finish first.
Teams must now head to Memorial Tower for their next clue, and the Detour.
In All Sewn Up, teams head to White Horse De-signs shop in Old Market where they will choose one customer and finish sewing the seams on their suit jacket and pant leg using a manual sewing machine.
In Not Grown Up, teams head to Lilongwe L.E.A. School where they will build a homemade toy truck using old milk cartons and bottle caps. Once the child successfully test drives the new toy, they’ll get their next clue.
  
Jeremy & Sandy, Justin & Jennifer, Zac & Laurence and Andy & Tommy choose Not Grown Up. Across town, Ernie & Cindy’s taxi driver doesn’t know how to get to the Old Market, so Bill & Cathi and later Amani & Marcus catch up to them at the All Sewn Up Detour.
Jeremy & Sandy and Justin & Jennifer stay out in front and now head to their next clue at R-K Furniture Shop. They open the next clue telling teams to transport two locally handcrafted beds to the next Pit Stop at Kumbali Village.
  
Teams can ask the shop owner to call a truck for them. Justin & Jennifer get the first truck out. Andy & Tommy arrive at the shop 3rd, but the shop owner directs them to take the 2nd truck that arrives over Jeremy & Sandy.
Zac & Laurence are clueless again as Ernie & Cindy and Bill & Cathi head off before them while Amani & Marcus’s bad luck continues in last.
Justin & Jennifer run off to the Pit Stop, carrying their beds and Andy & Tommy are right behind. They get to the Mat and after Phil tells them they’ll be sleeping on those same beds tonight, he informs Justin & Jennifer that they did not pay their truck drivers, so they have to go back and do so before checking in.
That allows Andy & Tommy to once again slide into first place and win a trip to the British Virgin Islands.
The other teams arrive and struggle to carry their beds as Justin & Jennifer run back to the trucks then back to Phil to still check-in as Team #2. Bill & Cathi are right there with them, but Phil tells them to wait as Jeremy & Sandy walk in and get checked in as Team #3 much to Bill & Cathi’s bewilderment. Phil tells them they did not pay their driver either, so they head back as Zac & Laurence pass Ernie & Cindy to finish 4th and 5th respectively.
Amani & Marcus arrive and start lugging their beds to the Mat, but Bill & Cathi easily pay their truck driver and run back to Phil to officially check-in 6th. That leaves Amani & Marcus in last, but Phil tells them this is a non-elimination leg.
 
Episode Thoughts
It was a better episode this week. It is always fun to see the locals happy, excited and involved in the leg. And even more fun to have kids on the Race.
The tasks were alright. It seemed like the sewing Detour could’ve been faster had Ernie & Cindy not gotten lost. The other side of the Detour was awesome, but needed more kid interaction. And the Road Block was that traditional, annual physical labor Road Block that usually appears.
It wasn’t that apparent that this would be a non-elimination leg, so that was a surprise. But I wonder if we’ll be having a double leg/zero hour Pit Stop soon too. I certainly hope so. Seeing as they will be staying in Malawi next leg, this would’ve been the perfect spot for a TBC-leg. Especially after all that physical work this leg.
The legs continue to be pretty linear which means taxis will be the make or break for the team which in turn means a higher likelihood of teams getting screwed over. Eek.
Also, TAR edits in in-Race scenes into the opening as they’ve done since the graphics refresh. I still wish they took a page from TARAu with the glossy opening credits though.
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