The Amazing Race, season 28: Legs 5 to 9
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spiderbraidsLeg 5:
1. We're staying in Chamonix this week, for tasks taking place around Mont Blanc, starting by picking up a backpack of supplies, which include a baguette "for some reason" :-) After a ride up the gondola, we get a really photogenic and breathtaking task: scaling across a wire strung across a high drop to retrieve a clue... that has been affixed to the side of a rock face (!) Ashley (/Burnie, Rooster Teeth gamers) has to do it twice after a blizzard blows away the first clue she took, while Sheri (/Cole, Alabama) keeps having panic attacks :-0
2. That clue is a Detour between delivering some explosives and lunch to some guys whose job it is to deliberately cause avalanches (!) and setting up a campsite... This is where the baguette comes in... though the so-called Clevver girls Erin/Joslyn are the only team to be confused by this (ironic huh?), picking up some crew guy's lunch bag along with the dynamite sticks they're supposed to pick up :-D + :-/ They eventually notice their baguettes and are like "Hey, people eat baguettes around here..." Raising the question of which is worse, TAR leaning on stereotypes for the tasks (see: Mariachi task in Mexico) or the contestants going along with them :-/ B/A are the only ones to do the camping task, under the idea that doing a different task than the others will help them make up ground... the reality does not bear this out :-/
3. Over to another part of the mountain for the Roadblock: "Who has the wind beneath their wings?" It involves paragliding from a mountainside and... spotting a guy in a gorilla suit (er, "yeti") and telling the person at the bottom what flag he's waving (well, guess :-)) Of course the real challenge isn't spotting the yeti, but rather getting airborne: Brodie(/Kurt) waxes philosophically to a camera on a selfie stick about how the real reward of TAR, rather than the $1m, is getting to do things they'd never get to do otherwise... like faceplanting in Mont Blanc snow :-) which allows Tyler/Korey to overtake them, because this Roadblock calls for contestants to "queue up" for their attempts...
4. Pitstop at some guy's statue, and T/K take the leg and get the usual Travelocity trip (to the Philippines), while Cole talks about Sheri "woman(ing) up" and doing the tasks despite their fear of heights (!) (Wonder if he's secretly a BH6 fan ;-)) There's a good chunk of suspense on who will get airborne first between Ashley and Erin (and thus avoid last place and elimination)... and only after we see that Ashley is the one who's airborne that we then flashback (in B&W even!) to Ashley getting airborne... as Clevver get the boot, right before the show takes a three-week break for March Madness :-/
Leg 6:
1. After a lengthy chat at the Chamonix pit stop with Kurt/Brodie (Team Frisbee) about the latter's relationship with Blair(/Scott, father/daughter), plus the reveal that an Express Pass is up for grabs on this leg, we're heading to Armenia (ooh, new country!) where the first stop is the Yerevan Opera House, and of course some of the contestants make opera singing noises to tell their cabbies :-D
2. After a morning bunchup, everyone goes inside the building to look for their next clue, and there's shots of teams rummaging through the seats, the stage, some of the performers on stage (performing the Sabre Dance) and even a cabinet backstage, interspersed with close ups of a vacuuming janitor... Sure enough, the clue turns out to be held by the janitor :-D :-D
3. After running up a really big staircase for the next clue pick-up (no Rocky references to be found, though :-/) a Detour between making a carpet and making a traditional flatbread. Former has Tyler explaining that in college, he was the Fruit of the Loom (... I'll give you a second to get the joke ;-) ) for making friendship bracelets, and another promising not to let her dog pee on her carpet ever again :-) The bread task is pretty much straightforward, other than a) the flatbread being baked by slapping it to the inner wall of the "oven", and b) the bonus of an old lady host dancing :-)
4. Next stop is Republic Square to get on an old bus, that also comes with a bunch of random locals ready to party with the team that gets on theirs (one bus per team), but first, the teams that did the carpet have to scramble to find cabs to get to the Square, with Tyler/Korey last to get one (!)
5. After a bus ride into the sticks, a Roadblock: "Who's feeling drained?" involving doing an oil change for a cab... in the shadow of Mount Ararat (!) Not exactly the most Armenian of tasks, but anyways, there's a ramp for two cars to do it at a time (with the obvious intent of allowing teams to overtake each other, but we will soon see how that pans out), and the first two to get on the ramp are Frisbee and Alabama, the latter of which is represented by Sheri, who quips that her husband usually does these things :-)
6. And we soon see why, because after the trivial task of draining the old oil, she hits a snag trying to remove the old oil filter... She later finds a chain wrench tool thingy for removing the filter, but she's apparently turning it the wrong way :-/ giving more fodder for my mother to comment on how grueling the tasks on the show are... Meanwhile, Frisbee does their job quickly, and I note that they're getting their new oil from a barrel using a manual crank a la the Cambodia leg from some years back :-) It's not until Scott tells Sheri that she's been turning it the wrong way (after he's already done the task, mind) that she gets it done, but if his intent was to knock out T/K (who are on the task by this point in next-to-last place), it backfires in two ways, the first being that T/K still finish before Alabama...
7. After the oil change, contestants then get to ride the cabs to The Temple of Garni, where Frisbee gets themselves the Express Pass, valid until leg 9, whereas (and here's the other reason Scott's idea backfires) Alabama are not only spared from elimination through lack of automotive know-how, but also get another envelope, for this is one of those TBC legs...
Leg 7
1. Next stop is quite a mouthful: Tbilisi in Georgia (another new country! :-)) Apparently they get there by night train and have a clue pickup at a fort on top of a hill, but since the Detour is where I came in, let's pick up from there... Detour is between cleaning underground wine "barrels" (giant clay pots, essentially) and making a hazelnut candy, which involves poking through nuts with a needle, leading to lots of blood on Tyler/Korey's part and them christening it "Bloody Thumbs 101" :-) as well as the obvious pun on how crazy the task is and the even more obvious double entendre about dipping their nuts (the hazelnuts, that is, into a glaze)... Burnie astutely observes that the last leg they learned how to make bread, so he quips that they might learn how to make a whole meal by the time the race is done :-) while Zach hilariously runs into a language barrier as he asks for tips from the local adjudicator... and gets them in Georgian and mistakes them as a name for the maneuver :-D
2. Team Alabama are the only team to immediately choose the wine task, which involves taking already fermented grapes out of the "barrel" and cleaning it with water, which takes surprisingly long for Cole to find ... Other teams only join in because the nut task only allows 4 teams at a time, or because they've pricked their fingers too much :-0 (And in dancers Dana/Matt's case, they're already coming back from their first attempt to find the vineyard when they see Tyler/Korey quitting candy and so double back to the wine...)
3. Roadblock at Rustaveli national theater: "Who's light on their feet?" Involves dancing, which pleases Dana ever so much :-) Surprisingly, Team Frisbee's Kurt turns out to also be a salsa lover, and he christens the dance he has to learn "Georgian salsa" :-) It's a complicated quickstep routine that also depends a lot on the hand gestures... First out of the theater are Burnie/Ashley, who however then end up at a different park from the pit stop and have to get directions, before ending up behind Zach/Rachel in a 4-team dog pile at the top, with Z/R getting a trip to the Turks and Caicos :-)
4. The real excitement comes when it's down to just Korey and Scott competing for their survival (and yes, there is a Korey/choreography pun :-D)... Might sound ridiculous for Scott, the father, to be doing this task but Blair notes that Scott can really groove at weddings, and surprisingly Scott is the first to finish, but we're not done yet...
5. Rushing out of the theater, Scott apparently takes one of T/K's bags by mistake (and it may have been caused by Blair taking both their bags in preparation for leaving :-/) and as they realize this, Korey has already finished and is frantically looking for the missing bag... Scott comes back to return it, so it essentially boils down to a cab/foot race... which T/K win and cry in relief at being safe, while just like in Leg 2, we swap one parent/child team with another for the boot... though before they go, Scott points out that Blair's had more success by age 15 than when he was 50...
Leg 8:
1. This week we're heading to Dubai, but first we get to see the other teams see T/K arrive at their waiting area, and then we have a confessional with Brodie talking about wanting to win another trip so he can take Blair along... And it's also one of those "take the gnome along" legs, as they have to pick theirs up at a Bedouin tent, and (for the guys) learn a traditional Bedouin greeting: nose snogging :-) before picking a Detour between racing camels (on bikes) and leading camels across a mile of desert :-0
2. Driving issues are plenty, as Alabama get confused by all those highway signs and end up missing their turn-on out of town before the Detour pick-up, while Z/R overshoot the entrance to the camel racetrack, and it's a long way to loop around, allowing Burnie/Ashley and Tyler/Korey to go first... which the camels beat them handily, but everyone gets a head start for their 2nd go, unless they choose to switch to the other camel task which both of these teams do... Frisbee edge out the camels on their first go (!) while Rachel turns out to have a fear of going fast on bikes (wha?) and Alabama (...when they eventually get there) comments that the racing camels have endurance like... racing camels :-D
3. At the other task, after teams lead their camels across the desert they get to have some flatbread and camel milk at an oasis, which the dancers comment they should have at the end of every Detour :-) No comments from Burnie/Ashley having to deal with food for a third leg in a row, tho :-/ Z/R manage to get a Star Wars reference in :-)
4. Next stop is Atlantis Aquaventure (site of Mika's meltdown back in season 15, which Tyler notes) for a Roadblock involving swimming with sharks to grab a puzzle and then solve it above the surface. Even though this is a Roadblock, both team members get to wear gaudy gold-colored swimming trunks or two-pieces (for which Dana apologizes to her mom :-)), for reasons that will become clear in a moment... Frisbee do the shark part of the task, but the puzzle proves beyond them (Frisbee being Frisbee, they compare it to throwing a disc to someone from a water slide :-) ) and so they decide to use their Express Pass... (And yet everyone else makes it look easy. HUH...) Meanwhile, after biking makes mom's butt ache and Cole does some beatboxing in the car :-D Alabama gets lost again (yawn) to the point that they're not even sure if they're still in Dubai and eventually stop at a grocery to get directions...
5. After the Roadblock is the reason both team members get to wear swimming gear: because they're riding a different and even faster water slide from that of Mika's meltdown :-) Unlike back then, nobody seems to have an issue with it :-)
6. Getting to the Pit Stop involves riding a local taxi boat, and it's a close race between Frisbee and Burnie/Ashley... And Frisbee takes the win, plus a trip to Helsinki :-) while T/K offer to show Phil their Bedouin greeting :-D
7. A good chunk of the final segment of the show revolves around Dana and Matt having a meltdown with Dana seemingly threatening to refuse to complete the leg over Matt's inability to listen to directions (!) It's night time by the time the dancers arrive at the pit stop and talk about their issues, but they're still ahead of one other team... as incredibly, Alabama lucks out into another non-elimination, and it's the standard kind with the Speed Bump and everything, and Sheri quips, "Please don't let me drive" :-D Cole tries to make an inspiring speech for the end of the episode... but just randomly trails off :-D
Leg 9:
1. After a quick plug by Team Frisbee for the Travelocity app while perusing the Helsinki trip they'll take after the race, the reveal that B/A are apparently the only other team to know that Frisbee's used their Express Pass, and an observation about Frisbee's inbalance on splitting the Roadblocks, they're heading to Bali, where the first task is to carry two offerings to two temples, with the 6 teams paired off in order of arrival at the temple at night... The first is a fruit basket, and both T/K and Alabama carry all the way to the nearby temple, until they're turned back and end up having to go back to the pickup, before finding out that the temple they're supposed to deliver the fruit to is right next to the pickup :-D and it takes so long for them to do this that the 2nd pair of teams (Frisbee, B/A) catch up (!)
2. Still not the worst part of the task, since the 2nd offering is a snake, and it's this one that teams have to carry (on their necks!) to the "nearby" temple, leading to a hilarious Britney Spears reference by Korey (accompanied with picture :-)), and a hilarious bit of the dancers and Zach/Rachel (the last pair) literally racing to the other temple with snakes on their neck :-D
3. Speed Bump for Alabama is at another temple, and calls for them to sell several bowls of spicy noodles, before gobbling down a bowl themselves (yum!), while the Roadblock asks: "Who's worth their salt?" It's a two part task involving taking water from the ocean by the "bucket"-ful and dumping it on to a given patch of sand, before then scooping up some prepared salt and putting it in small bags. Obviously a job for the guys... so it's a surprise for everyone (viewers and contestants alike) to see Rachel King take this task... and struggle hard with it :-\ (The clue pickup is right next to the setup for what turns out to be the 2nd half of the task, might have had something to do with it?) It's revealed that one half of team Frisbee is a cancer survivor... and it's Kurt, the guy who's done 5 Roadblocks and is doing this one (!)
4. Cole compares doing the 2nd half of the task to scooping up ice-cream at his old job, before quipping that he's never gone to a hospital for going crazy... but he'd go crazy over tying up the salt bags :-D T/K ask Frisbee why they're not using their Express Pass, and later in a cab (correctly) conclude that they must have used it in the previous leg...
5. B/A are in the lead heading to the next task, expecting to rock the Detour... except it's a 2nd Roadblock: "Who's ready to fly a kite?" Well, no reason to be cryptic when as usual for double Roadblocks, the partner has to do it, and it's also pointed out that Brodie has to do the all the remaining Roadblocks, and he's not exactly knocking this one out of the park... Task involves putting together a kite based on a sample (which the other contestants sit under to avoid the heat :-D), before flying the kite, which is awesome :-) Korey absolutely knocks the task out of the park HARD to take the lead :-D
6. Last part of the leg is rowing a catamaran to a boat waiting offshore, and T/K make pirate quips as they check in in 1st, and get themselves $5,000 each, while B/A are stuck in second for the 4th time in a row (!) It comes down to Z/R and Frisbee to avoid elimination, and even Phil notes the tight finish... Team Frisbee beats The Kings, and Z/R decide to "walk the plank" after their elimination... which since the boat doesn't actually have a plank, consists of them jumping over the railing :-)
1. We're staying in Chamonix this week, for tasks taking place around Mont Blanc, starting by picking up a backpack of supplies, which include a baguette "for some reason" :-) After a ride up the gondola, we get a really photogenic and breathtaking task: scaling across a wire strung across a high drop to retrieve a clue... that has been affixed to the side of a rock face (!) Ashley (/Burnie, Rooster Teeth gamers) has to do it twice after a blizzard blows away the first clue she took, while Sheri (/Cole, Alabama) keeps having panic attacks :-0
2. That clue is a Detour between delivering some explosives and lunch to some guys whose job it is to deliberately cause avalanches (!) and setting up a campsite... This is where the baguette comes in... though the so-called Clevver girls Erin/Joslyn are the only team to be confused by this (ironic huh?), picking up some crew guy's lunch bag along with the dynamite sticks they're supposed to pick up :-D + :-/ They eventually notice their baguettes and are like "Hey, people eat baguettes around here..." Raising the question of which is worse, TAR leaning on stereotypes for the tasks (see: Mariachi task in Mexico) or the contestants going along with them :-/ B/A are the only ones to do the camping task, under the idea that doing a different task than the others will help them make up ground... the reality does not bear this out :-/
3. Over to another part of the mountain for the Roadblock: "Who has the wind beneath their wings?" It involves paragliding from a mountainside and... spotting a guy in a gorilla suit (er, "yeti") and telling the person at the bottom what flag he's waving (well, guess :-)) Of course the real challenge isn't spotting the yeti, but rather getting airborne: Brodie(/Kurt) waxes philosophically to a camera on a selfie stick about how the real reward of TAR, rather than the $1m, is getting to do things they'd never get to do otherwise... like faceplanting in Mont Blanc snow :-) which allows Tyler/Korey to overtake them, because this Roadblock calls for contestants to "queue up" for their attempts...
4. Pitstop at some guy's statue, and T/K take the leg and get the usual Travelocity trip (to the Philippines), while Cole talks about Sheri "woman(ing) up" and doing the tasks despite their fear of heights (!) (Wonder if he's secretly a BH6 fan ;-)) There's a good chunk of suspense on who will get airborne first between Ashley and Erin (and thus avoid last place and elimination)... and only after we see that Ashley is the one who's airborne that we then flashback (in B&W even!) to Ashley getting airborne... as Clevver get the boot, right before the show takes a three-week break for March Madness :-/
Leg 6:
1. After a lengthy chat at the Chamonix pit stop with Kurt/Brodie (Team Frisbee) about the latter's relationship with Blair(/Scott, father/daughter), plus the reveal that an Express Pass is up for grabs on this leg, we're heading to Armenia (ooh, new country!) where the first stop is the Yerevan Opera House, and of course some of the contestants make opera singing noises to tell their cabbies :-D
2. After a morning bunchup, everyone goes inside the building to look for their next clue, and there's shots of teams rummaging through the seats, the stage, some of the performers on stage (performing the Sabre Dance) and even a cabinet backstage, interspersed with close ups of a vacuuming janitor... Sure enough, the clue turns out to be held by the janitor :-D :-D
3. After running up a really big staircase for the next clue pick-up (no Rocky references to be found, though :-/) a Detour between making a carpet and making a traditional flatbread. Former has Tyler explaining that in college, he was the Fruit of the Loom (... I'll give you a second to get the joke ;-) ) for making friendship bracelets, and another promising not to let her dog pee on her carpet ever again :-) The bread task is pretty much straightforward, other than a) the flatbread being baked by slapping it to the inner wall of the "oven", and b) the bonus of an old lady host dancing :-)
4. Next stop is Republic Square to get on an old bus, that also comes with a bunch of random locals ready to party with the team that gets on theirs (one bus per team), but first, the teams that did the carpet have to scramble to find cabs to get to the Square, with Tyler/Korey last to get one (!)
5. After a bus ride into the sticks, a Roadblock: "Who's feeling drained?" involving doing an oil change for a cab... in the shadow of Mount Ararat (!) Not exactly the most Armenian of tasks, but anyways, there's a ramp for two cars to do it at a time (with the obvious intent of allowing teams to overtake each other, but we will soon see how that pans out), and the first two to get on the ramp are Frisbee and Alabama, the latter of which is represented by Sheri, who quips that her husband usually does these things :-)
6. And we soon see why, because after the trivial task of draining the old oil, she hits a snag trying to remove the old oil filter... She later finds a chain wrench tool thingy for removing the filter, but she's apparently turning it the wrong way :-/ giving more fodder for my mother to comment on how grueling the tasks on the show are... Meanwhile, Frisbee does their job quickly, and I note that they're getting their new oil from a barrel using a manual crank a la the Cambodia leg from some years back :-) It's not until Scott tells Sheri that she's been turning it the wrong way (after he's already done the task, mind) that she gets it done, but if his intent was to knock out T/K (who are on the task by this point in next-to-last place), it backfires in two ways, the first being that T/K still finish before Alabama...
7. After the oil change, contestants then get to ride the cabs to The Temple of Garni, where Frisbee gets themselves the Express Pass, valid until leg 9, whereas (and here's the other reason Scott's idea backfires) Alabama are not only spared from elimination through lack of automotive know-how, but also get another envelope, for this is one of those TBC legs...
Leg 7
1. Next stop is quite a mouthful: Tbilisi in Georgia (another new country! :-)) Apparently they get there by night train and have a clue pickup at a fort on top of a hill, but since the Detour is where I came in, let's pick up from there... Detour is between cleaning underground wine "barrels" (giant clay pots, essentially) and making a hazelnut candy, which involves poking through nuts with a needle, leading to lots of blood on Tyler/Korey's part and them christening it "Bloody Thumbs 101" :-) as well as the obvious pun on how crazy the task is and the even more obvious double entendre about dipping their nuts (the hazelnuts, that is, into a glaze)... Burnie astutely observes that the last leg they learned how to make bread, so he quips that they might learn how to make a whole meal by the time the race is done :-) while Zach hilariously runs into a language barrier as he asks for tips from the local adjudicator... and gets them in Georgian and mistakes them as a name for the maneuver :-D
2. Team Alabama are the only team to immediately choose the wine task, which involves taking already fermented grapes out of the "barrel" and cleaning it with water, which takes surprisingly long for Cole to find ... Other teams only join in because the nut task only allows 4 teams at a time, or because they've pricked their fingers too much :-0 (And in dancers Dana/Matt's case, they're already coming back from their first attempt to find the vineyard when they see Tyler/Korey quitting candy and so double back to the wine...)
3. Roadblock at Rustaveli national theater: "Who's light on their feet?" Involves dancing, which pleases Dana ever so much :-) Surprisingly, Team Frisbee's Kurt turns out to also be a salsa lover, and he christens the dance he has to learn "Georgian salsa" :-) It's a complicated quickstep routine that also depends a lot on the hand gestures... First out of the theater are Burnie/Ashley, who however then end up at a different park from the pit stop and have to get directions, before ending up behind Zach/Rachel in a 4-team dog pile at the top, with Z/R getting a trip to the Turks and Caicos :-)
4. The real excitement comes when it's down to just Korey and Scott competing for their survival (and yes, there is a Korey/choreography pun :-D)... Might sound ridiculous for Scott, the father, to be doing this task but Blair notes that Scott can really groove at weddings, and surprisingly Scott is the first to finish, but we're not done yet...
5. Rushing out of the theater, Scott apparently takes one of T/K's bags by mistake (and it may have been caused by Blair taking both their bags in preparation for leaving :-/) and as they realize this, Korey has already finished and is frantically looking for the missing bag... Scott comes back to return it, so it essentially boils down to a cab/foot race... which T/K win and cry in relief at being safe, while just like in Leg 2, we swap one parent/child team with another for the boot... though before they go, Scott points out that Blair's had more success by age 15 than when he was 50...
Leg 8:
1. This week we're heading to Dubai, but first we get to see the other teams see T/K arrive at their waiting area, and then we have a confessional with Brodie talking about wanting to win another trip so he can take Blair along... And it's also one of those "take the gnome along" legs, as they have to pick theirs up at a Bedouin tent, and (for the guys) learn a traditional Bedouin greeting: nose snogging :-) before picking a Detour between racing camels (on bikes) and leading camels across a mile of desert :-0
2. Driving issues are plenty, as Alabama get confused by all those highway signs and end up missing their turn-on out of town before the Detour pick-up, while Z/R overshoot the entrance to the camel racetrack, and it's a long way to loop around, allowing Burnie/Ashley and Tyler/Korey to go first... which the camels beat them handily, but everyone gets a head start for their 2nd go, unless they choose to switch to the other camel task which both of these teams do... Frisbee edge out the camels on their first go (!) while Rachel turns out to have a fear of going fast on bikes (wha?) and Alabama (...when they eventually get there) comments that the racing camels have endurance like... racing camels :-D
3. At the other task, after teams lead their camels across the desert they get to have some flatbread and camel milk at an oasis, which the dancers comment they should have at the end of every Detour :-) No comments from Burnie/Ashley having to deal with food for a third leg in a row, tho :-/ Z/R manage to get a Star Wars reference in :-)
4. Next stop is Atlantis Aquaventure (site of Mika's meltdown back in season 15, which Tyler notes) for a Roadblock involving swimming with sharks to grab a puzzle and then solve it above the surface. Even though this is a Roadblock, both team members get to wear gaudy gold-colored swimming trunks or two-pieces (for which Dana apologizes to her mom :-)), for reasons that will become clear in a moment... Frisbee do the shark part of the task, but the puzzle proves beyond them (Frisbee being Frisbee, they compare it to throwing a disc to someone from a water slide :-) ) and so they decide to use their Express Pass... (And yet everyone else makes it look easy. HUH...) Meanwhile, after biking makes mom's butt ache and Cole does some beatboxing in the car :-D Alabama gets lost again (yawn) to the point that they're not even sure if they're still in Dubai and eventually stop at a grocery to get directions...
5. After the Roadblock is the reason both team members get to wear swimming gear: because they're riding a different and even faster water slide from that of Mika's meltdown :-) Unlike back then, nobody seems to have an issue with it :-)
6. Getting to the Pit Stop involves riding a local taxi boat, and it's a close race between Frisbee and Burnie/Ashley... And Frisbee takes the win, plus a trip to Helsinki :-) while T/K offer to show Phil their Bedouin greeting :-D
7. A good chunk of the final segment of the show revolves around Dana and Matt having a meltdown with Dana seemingly threatening to refuse to complete the leg over Matt's inability to listen to directions (!) It's night time by the time the dancers arrive at the pit stop and talk about their issues, but they're still ahead of one other team... as incredibly, Alabama lucks out into another non-elimination, and it's the standard kind with the Speed Bump and everything, and Sheri quips, "Please don't let me drive" :-D Cole tries to make an inspiring speech for the end of the episode... but just randomly trails off :-D
Leg 9:
1. After a quick plug by Team Frisbee for the Travelocity app while perusing the Helsinki trip they'll take after the race, the reveal that B/A are apparently the only other team to know that Frisbee's used their Express Pass, and an observation about Frisbee's inbalance on splitting the Roadblocks, they're heading to Bali, where the first task is to carry two offerings to two temples, with the 6 teams paired off in order of arrival at the temple at night... The first is a fruit basket, and both T/K and Alabama carry all the way to the nearby temple, until they're turned back and end up having to go back to the pickup, before finding out that the temple they're supposed to deliver the fruit to is right next to the pickup :-D and it takes so long for them to do this that the 2nd pair of teams (Frisbee, B/A) catch up (!)
2. Still not the worst part of the task, since the 2nd offering is a snake, and it's this one that teams have to carry (on their necks!) to the "nearby" temple, leading to a hilarious Britney Spears reference by Korey (accompanied with picture :-)), and a hilarious bit of the dancers and Zach/Rachel (the last pair) literally racing to the other temple with snakes on their neck :-D
3. Speed Bump for Alabama is at another temple, and calls for them to sell several bowls of spicy noodles, before gobbling down a bowl themselves (yum!), while the Roadblock asks: "Who's worth their salt?" It's a two part task involving taking water from the ocean by the "bucket"-ful and dumping it on to a given patch of sand, before then scooping up some prepared salt and putting it in small bags. Obviously a job for the guys... so it's a surprise for everyone (viewers and contestants alike) to see Rachel King take this task... and struggle hard with it :-\ (The clue pickup is right next to the setup for what turns out to be the 2nd half of the task, might have had something to do with it?) It's revealed that one half of team Frisbee is a cancer survivor... and it's Kurt, the guy who's done 5 Roadblocks and is doing this one (!)
4. Cole compares doing the 2nd half of the task to scooping up ice-cream at his old job, before quipping that he's never gone to a hospital for going crazy... but he'd go crazy over tying up the salt bags :-D T/K ask Frisbee why they're not using their Express Pass, and later in a cab (correctly) conclude that they must have used it in the previous leg...
5. B/A are in the lead heading to the next task, expecting to rock the Detour... except it's a 2nd Roadblock: "Who's ready to fly a kite?" Well, no reason to be cryptic when as usual for double Roadblocks, the partner has to do it, and it's also pointed out that Brodie has to do the all the remaining Roadblocks, and he's not exactly knocking this one out of the park... Task involves putting together a kite based on a sample (which the other contestants sit under to avoid the heat :-D), before flying the kite, which is awesome :-) Korey absolutely knocks the task out of the park HARD to take the lead :-D
6. Last part of the leg is rowing a catamaran to a boat waiting offshore, and T/K make pirate quips as they check in in 1st, and get themselves $5,000 each, while B/A are stuck in second for the 4th time in a row (!) It comes down to Z/R and Frisbee to avoid elimination, and even Phil notes the tight finish... Team Frisbee beats The Kings, and Z/R decide to "walk the plank" after their elimination... which since the boat doesn't actually have a plank, consists of them jumping over the railing :-)
