Miss Alli‘s recaplet is up for the second TAR episode, which includes many excellent things (both the mini-recap and the episode):

The race moves to Argentina, and things kick into high gear. Marshall and Lance blow their brilliant plan to publicize their restaurant to their enormous advantage by muttering about “useless foreigners,” Charla and Mirna learn that prostitutes are busy, and Jim and Marsha learn that you should always do your own research. After an excellent detour involving mysterious tango dancers and horny dogs, Alison and Donny make the classic mistake of taking a bus instead of a taxi, and begin to dig into a hole. An equally excellent cow-chasing roadblock and a taxi standoff lead to a tense finish in which Chip and Kim, Kami/Karli, and Alison and Donny all seem in danger of Philimination. Shockingly, karma comes through for once, and the stupidest stunt of the season comes to a merciful end as Alison and Donny are sent home, not a moment too soon. Hookers, dancing, foam, arguing…what more could you ask for?

I swear, that episode is going to be one of the two they’ll submit for next year’s Emmy nominations. It was non-stop, and thankfully the departures between midnight and 1am had teams headed for a task that was open all night, then toward some transportation that left at 430am. What a nice change from 6 to 8 hour waits (with bunching) at airports or Ferris wheels, waiting for them to open.

Still laughing at “Mine keep having sex.” Heh. Good doggies! Help Allison screw the pooch!

And I’m still so very, very happy about that outcome, but now that I’ve seen the extended video at CBS.com, I’m even happier. Philimination couldn’t have happened to a horribler team.

(If that’s not a word, it should be)

And I am now officially a little scared of Chip, because he went from Nice Guy to Loud Guy in a rather frightening display in the Cabgate dispute with the twins, after his and Kim’s driver passed the twins in a cabrace on the way to the Roadblock.

Now might be a good time to check the TAR Glossary. I’ll probably be throwing a lot of wacky terms around in the coming weeks.

Also, inside jokes from TWOP are another form of shorthand. For instance, a phrase that’s almost sure to make it into Miss Alli’s extended recap will be “blah blah blah dwarfcakes,” which some clever poster used on the TWOP discussion thread for this episode. Basically, “blah blah blah fishcakes” is a TWOP joke for any boring excuse or exposition that we’ve heard too many times on any given show, from an off-the-cuff joke that unexpectedly grew legs, thus proving the theory of evolution.

The TWOP / TAR FAQ (got that?) is here.

The general TWOP FAQ (posting guidelines, site-wide terms) is here.