The Amazing Race 5

The Amazing Race 5
Season Information
Version:	United States
Continents Visited:	6
Countries Visited:	12
Cities Visited:	31
Distance Traveled:	72,000 mi (116,000 km)
Starting Line:	Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California
Finish Line:	Trammell Crow Park, Dallas, Texas
Filming Dates:	January 30, 2004 - February 27, 2004
Season Run	July 6, 2004 - September 21, 2004
Number of Legs:	13
Number of Teams:	11
Winners:	Chip & Kim
Runners-Up:	Colin & Christie Brandon & Nicole
Cast
Season Chronology
Previous:	The Amazing Race 4
Next:	The Amazing Race 6

The Amazing Race 5 is the fifth season of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. It premiered on July 6, 2004 and ended on September 21, 2004 on CBS. The entire season was released on DVD on April 24, 2012.

Development

After initially hesitating to renew the show and a possible cancellation, CBS finally approved The Amazing Race for a fifth season in late September 2003. Casting had a quick turnaround as applications were due on October 8, 2003 after being advertised for three weeks.

Filming began on January 30, 2004 and concluded on February 27, 2004. This season traveled a total of 72,000 miles (116,000 km), across twelve countries on six continents.

After much deliberation of airing later in a fall timeslot, the start date of the season was moved up and aired in the summer like The Amazing Race 4. For this season, the show aired on Tuesdays at 10 pm immediately following Big Brother 5, making for a 120-minute primetime block.

This season also implemented permanent changes that would last for the rest of series. The first was adding a penalty for the team coming last in Non-Elimination Legs. The other was limiting Fast Forwards to only certain legs.

American Airlines was the only official sponsor of the season and would provide the prizes awarded to first place teams on certain legs.

Twists/Changes

• Fast Forward Reduction: Beginning with this season, Fast Forwards are now only available on certain legs of the Race.
• Yield: Teams would encounter a Yield at a predetermined point in each of the first eleven legs. A team that uses their Yield power may force another team to stop racing for a predetermined amount of time. However, a team may only use the Yield once.
• Ties Disallowed: After an instance in the previous season in which three teams tied for first place at the Pit Stop and were each awarded a prize, teams were no longer allowed to tie for placements beginning with this season. Teams that check in at the Pit Stop within seconds of each other are now released for the following leg in one minute intervals.
• Penalties for Non-Elimination Legs: Beginning with this season, a team that comes in last in a Non-Elimination Leg now incurs a penalty.
  • Surrender Money: The team must relinquish all accumulated money in their possession. They would also not receive any money at the start of the next leg.

Teams

Chip & Kim  1st place  Chip & Kim Married Parents	Colin & Christie  2nd place  Colin & Christie Dating	Brandon & Nicole  3rd place  Brandon & Nicole Dating Models	Linda & Karen  4th place  Linda & Karen Bowling Moms	Kami & Karli  5th place  Kami & Karli Twins
Charla & Mirna  6th place  Charla & Mirna Cousins	Marshall & Lance  7th place  Marshall & Lance Brothers	Bob & Joyce  8th place  Bob & Joyce Internet Dating Couple	Jim & Marsha  9th place  Jim & Marsha Military Dad and Daughter	Alison & Donny  10th place  Alison & Donny Dating
Dennis & Erika  11th place  Dennis & Erika Once Engaged

Episodes

Episode		Air Date	Leg	Destination	First Place	Last Place	Finish	Viewership (millions)	Ratings/Share (18-49)
1	"Clearly, I'm More Intelligent than You"	July 6, 2004	1	United States → Uruguay	Alison & Donny	Dennis & Erika	1st Eliminated 11th Place	10.30	4.3/12
2	"It Turned Ugly Just Now"	July 13, 2004	2	Uruguay → Argentina	Brandon & Nicole	Alison & Donny	2nd Eliminated 10th Place	10.50	4.3/12
3	"I Got Electrocuted"	July 20, 2004	3	Argentina	Colin & Christie	Jim & Marsha	3rd Eliminated 9th Place	11.10	4.6/13
4	"Who Says Pageant Girls Don't Eat?"	July 27, 2004	4	Argentina → Russia	Chip & Kim	Bob & Joyce	4th Eliminated 8th Place	10.10	4.3/12
5	"Are You Good at Puzzles?"	August 3, 2004	5	Russia → Egypt	Colin & Christie	Linda & Karen	Non-Elimination Leg	10.60	4.5/13
6	"Why Can't We Get a Camel?"	August 10, 2004	6	Egypt	Colin & Christie	Marshall & Lance	Quit 7th Place	10.40	4.7/13
7	"Are You Sure This Is Safe?"	August 17, 2004	7	Egypt → Kenya → Tanzania	Chip & Kim	Charla & Mirna	5th Eliminated 6th Place	8.70	3.9/10
8	"I'm Going to Jail"	August 24, 2004	8	Tanzania → United Arab Emirates	Colin & Christie	Kami & Karli	Non-Elimination Leg	10.50	4.5/12
9	"If You're Gonna Whine, Just Shut Up!"	August 31, 2004	9	United Arab Emirates → India	Colin & Christie	Brandon & Nicole	Non-Elimination Leg	10.00	4.3/11
10	"If They're Screwing the Helmet to My Head, It Can't Be Good"	September 7, 2004	10	India → New Zealand	Colin & Christie	Kami & Karli	6th Eliminated 5th Place	10.80	5.1/13
11	"It's Okay, Run Them Over!"	September 14, 2004	11	New Zealand → Philippines	Chip & Kim	Colin & Christie	Non-Elimination Leg	10.30	4.7/13
12	"You've Just Made Me a Millionaire"	September 21, 2004	12	Philippines	Brandon & Nicole	Linda & Karen	7th Eliminated 4th Place	12.80	5.6/14
			13	Philippines → Canada → United States	Chip & Kim	Brandon & Nicole	3rd Place
						Colin & Christie	2nd Place

Leaderboard

This chart shows each teams ranking per leg according to their official check in at the Pit Stop. However, time penalties issued before the start of the next leg due to improperly performed tasks are not reflected here.

Place	Team	Leg 1	Leg 2	Leg 3	Leg 4	Leg 5	Leg 6	Leg 7	Leg 8	Leg 9	Leg 10	Leg 11	Leg 12	Leg 13	Average
1	Chip & Kim	8	8	7	1	4	2	1	3	2	4	1>	2	1	3.39	11-1
2	Colin & Christie	7	6	1	2	1►	1	2	1	1	1	4<	3	2	2.46	10-1
3	Brandon & Nicole	6	1	3	5	3	4	4	2	5	3	3	1	3	3.31	11-1
4	Linda & Karen	3	4	6	6	7	6	3	4	3	2	2	4		4.17	5-6
5	Kami & Karli	9	9	5	7	6	3	5	5	4	5				5.80	5-4
6	Charla & Mirna	5	2	2	4	2	5	6							3.71	4-2
7	Marshall & Lance	2	7	8	3	5	7								5.33	1-4
8	Bob & Joyce	4	5	4	8										5.25	1-2
9	Jim & Marsha	10	3	9											7.33	1-1
10	Alison & Donny	1	10												5.50	0-1
11	Dennis & Erika	11													11.00	0-0
Notes		[1]					[2]		[3]					[4]
Legend:      The team finished in first place      The team finished in last place and was eliminated from the race      The team finished in last place in a non-elimination leg      The team that won The Amazing Race      The team that crossed the Finish Line second      The team that crossed the Finish Line third ► The team used the Fast Forward pass > The team used the Yield < Recipient of the Yield
Notes: 1: Chip & Kim and Kami & Karli initially arrived 1st and 2nd, respectively, but they had missed the clue to the Detour, having simply arrived by chance at one of the options. They had to go back and retrieve the clue before checking in, causing them to fall to 8th and 9th, respectively. 2: Marshall & Lance, exhausted and already in dead last, decided to quit the race during the Roadblock, marking the first time ever that host Phil Keoghan had to eliminate a team still on the race course. 3: Leg 8 had an unaired Roadblock that involved buying and delivering nuts. All teams have confirmed which member participated in this Roadblock. 4: Leg 13 had an unaired Roadblock that involved pitching a teepee. All three teams have confirmed which member performed the task.

Trivia

Franchise

• First season to visit all six inhabitable continents.
• Featured the longest route ever traveled by the race, at 72,000 miles (116,000 km)
• First time visits to Uruguay, Argentina, Russia, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, and Canada.
• This season introduced the Yield, which allows any one team to force another team to stop racing for a predetermined amount of time.
  • Only season to have a Yield available on every leg of the Race.
• First season to start in the same city (Los Angeles) in back-to-back seasons.
• First season to feature a contestant with disability: Charla Baklayan Faddoul, who was born with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism.
• Charla & Mirna are the first Asian-American team.
• First season to feature only one all-male team: Marshall & Lance.
  • Fewest all-male teams, 1 (tied with The Amazing Race 6, The Amazing Race 12, and The Amazing Race 29).
• First season where the majority of contestants are female.
• First season where a team was eliminated outside of the Pit Stop.
• First season where the final three teams are all co-ed teams.
  • Coincidentally, all the final three teams were in love relationships.
  • First season where an all-male team failed to qualify for the final leg.
  • First season where the final three teams are in the ratio of equality contestants: 3 male and 3 female.
• Last standard-format season where there was no limitation on the number of Roadblocks each team member may perform.
• First season to feature a Non-Elimination Leg with more than six teams remaining.
• First season to implement a penalty for the last team to arrive at the Pit Stop in a Non-Elimination Leg.
  • First season to require teams finishing last on Non-Elimination Legs to turn over all the money that they accumulated throughout the race and also not receive any money at the start of the next leg.
• First season that a same-gender team did not win a leg.
• First season to have three all-female teams finish in the top six.
• First season to disallow ties at Pit Stops.
• First season not to travel to either Alaska and Hawaii in the final leg.

US

• For the first time, a member of each of the the final three teams (Kim, Christie, and Nicole) performed only one Roadblock on the entire Race, making them the second, third, and fourth (last) people to perform only a single Roadblock to reach the final three, following Flo Pesenti in The Amazing Race 3.

Reception

• Zap2it (04/06/2004): "CBS' summer loaded with reality series"
• John Crook at Los Angeles Times (07/04/2004): "Teamwork and tantrums on Amazing Race"
• John Deiner at Washington Post (07/04/2004): "Amazing Race: It's Travelicious"
• Hal Boedeker at Orlando Sentinel (07/04/2004): "CBS' Race Outdistances Reality Rivals"
• Washington Post (07/05/2004): "Off and running: Amazing Race launches 5th season of global trek"
• Steve Johnson at Chicago Tribune (07/06/2004): "Amazing Race: All adrenaline, all the time"
• People.com (07/12/2004): "Picks and Pans Review: The Amazing Race 5"
• Joe Rhodes at New York Times (11/16/2004): "An Audience Finally Catches Up to The Amazing Race"
• Joe Reid at Decider (02/11/2016): "Stream the Season: Why You Should Make The Amazing Race 5 Your Next TV Binge"

External links

• CBS.com - The Amazing Race 5