The BEST episodes of The Amazing Race season 8
Every episode of The Amazing Race season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Amazing Race season 8!
This reality television game show pits 11 teams against each other in a worldwide, 30 to 40-day journey through diverse cities and countries spanning the globe. The first team to reach the final destination will be rewarded with $1 million.
#1 - The Family Christmas Card
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/2005
The teams continue from the last episode after being told they have not reached a Pit Stop and travel 49 miles to Dubois, Wyoming's Turtle Ranch. There, they face a Detour involving either Pioneer Spirit or Native Tradition. The Linz and Bransen Families opt for Pioneer Spirit in which they have to attach four wheels to a covered wagon and then drive a team of horses a quarter of a mile. Native Tradition involves building a tepee and the Weavers and Godlewskis chose this task. Next, the families travel 221 miles to Cody, Wyoming and find the Hotel Irma. They dress in period clothes and take a picture with "Buffalo Bill." Then they travel 73 miles to Red Lodge Mountain Golf Course in Montana and do a two-person Roadblock involving finding golf balls matching the color of a flag. The teams check in at the Pit Stop at Green Meadow Ranch, but one is eliminated, leaving the final three teams.
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#2 - We're Getting Out of the Country, Girls
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2005
The teams set off from their Pit Stop in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana and receive a clue telling them to fly more than 2,000 miles to Panama City, Panama in Central America.
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#3 - Don't Talk to Me Like I Was an Animal or Something
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/2005
The teams take off from their Pit Stop in the Salt Lake City Library and receive a clue telling them to drive to Park City High School where they will find another clue. This clue instructs them to wait until 6 A.M. at which point they will leave in shuttles departing every ten minutes and then help a crew to inflate a hot-air balloon, which they will then ride. In mid-air, the Godlewskis and Weavers have a sort of collision. No real damage is done, but later the Weavers' balloon has a less-than-controlled landing. The teams next participate in a Detour at Heber Valley Railway --- Spike It or Steam It. Most of them choose Spike It, which requires them to accurately construct a section of railway track using old-time tools. The Weavers opt for Steam It in which they fill a tender with 400 pounds of coal. Next the teams travel to Bear Lake Rendezvous Beach, spend the night and then depart fifteen minutes apart. After traveling 137 miles to Dunham, they arrive at Dunham Ranch in Wyoming and participate in a two-person Roadblock that requires them to round-up cattle. Afterwards, they wait for Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park to erupt, before finally traveling to a ranch at the address 15200 where Phil tells them that they are still racing and they have not arrived at the Pit Stop.
#4 - You Look Ridiculous
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/2005
One family watches as one of their own takes an uncontrollable spin in a car during one of the challenges. Also, racers must leave their fear of heights on the ground as teams endure the flight of a lifetime filled with gravity-defying activities. Meanwhile, the rivalry between two families escalates into a high-speed food fight.
#5 - I Don't Roll with the Punches, I Punch
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2005
Teams make their way from Capos, Costa Rica to Arizona.
#6 - How's That Face Feel?
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/2005
The families take off from their Pit Stop at Lake Powell, Arizona and receive a clue instructing them to drive to John Ford's Point at a Navajo park in Monument Valley, Utah. There is then a two-person Roadblock in which two members of each family must ride a helicopter to the top of Elephant Butte. They then travel to Gemini Bridges Mohad, Utah, 180 miles away. A Detour requires a choice between Drop Down or Ride Down in which they must either rappel down a cliff or take a six-mile bike ride. All families except the Weavers choose Drop Down. Later, the families participate in a second Roadblock in which one member must do a ski jump. The Pit Stop is at the Salt Like City Library, but the last team to arrive is not eliminated.
#7 - How Do We Know We Aren't Going to Get Shot?
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2005
The nine remaining families set out from the Rohrer Family Farm in Lancaster, PA and drive to Washington D.C.
#8 - Think Like an Office Chair
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2005
The teams set off from their Pit Stop in Huntsville and drive one hundred miles to Anniston, Alabama.
#9 - I'm Sick of Doing Stuff I Can't Do
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2005
The teams travel 600 miles from their Pit Stop at the Miraflores Locks in Panama to San Jose, Costa Rica on three charter buses leaving in half-hour increments. Once in San Jose, the teams wait for the Volcano State Park to open and then receive a clue telling them that something's brewing at the Doka Estate Coffee Plantation, 17 miles away. What's brewing turns out to be a Roadblock in which one family member must sift through 800 pounds of coffee beans for a single red one --- but one team has to wait after they are Yielded by another. After completing the task, the teams travel 90 miles to the town of Jaco and find a man named Javier at a surf shop called Roca Loca. Their new clue directs them to do a Detour with a choice of either Relic (travel to Rainmaker Adventure Rainforest, cross rickety bridges and search for four Mayan relics) or Ripe (gather fifteen bushels of bananas and then use pulleys to get them to a distribution center.) One team gets stuck in the mud and has to scramble to avoid elimination.
#10 - I Don't Kiss, I Make Out!
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2005
The families travel from their Pit Stop at the Welbourne Manor, once owned by a general in the Confederate Army, to Charleston, South Carolina, flying more than 500 miles.
#11 - Go Mommy, Go! We Can Beat Them
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2005
A Family Edition featuring ten families of four. The teams are varied, including a team composed entirely of sisters, a familiy with eleven and eight year-old sons, a widow and her children, and many others.
#12 - 25 Days, 50 Cities, and More than 600 Consecutive Hours as a Family...
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/2005
The teams set off from their Pit Stop in eastern Montana and receive a clue telling them to fly to Montreal, Canada and then find the basement of the C.D.P. Capital Building in Montreal’s underground city.