To catch
everyone from last week’s episode: the leg was not ended, no one was
eliminated, and teams had to continue to complete the leg. The first notable thing to mention is that
the father and son team decided to continue even with Dave’s injury (that supposedly
requires surgery). There must be a lot
of adrenaline pumping through his veins, because not once has he complained
about pain. He keeps hobbling along at a
steady pace, with no grimace in sight.
Chuck and Wynona were the last to leave for the continuation of the
leg.
Teams traveled
to Bali, Indonesia. The first flight,
which landed at 8:30 consisted of Dave and Conner, Pam and Winnie, Caroline and
Jen, and Mark and Katie. There were two
separate groups that arrived at 12:05.
The first of these two groups, the Youtubers and the surfers, switched
to a 10:35 arrival time flight. The rest
of the teams (roller derby moms, hockey players, and the Alabama couple)
arrived at 12:05.
They traveled by
taxi to their first stop. Since their
cab driver gave them each a flower, Caroline and Jen decide to sing one of their
horrifying questionable songs. They
arrived at the Sacred Monkey Forest, where they presente the monkeys with a
coconut in hopes that the monkeys would shred the fruit open to reveal the next
clue. With tourists running amuck and
Joey’s terrible British accent to distract them, the monkeys are not the
fastest at this task, even though they are equipped with humongous sets of canine
teeth. We are told by the country
singers that one of them had a flying squirrel that she kept in her bra. It was said to have died of loneliness, but
one would have to disagree. It probably
died of suffocation. Not sure what a flying squirrel had to do with monkeys. The
hockey players get to the monkeys last because their taxi driver did not know
where to go, but still assured them he did.
When they finally received their clue from a monkey, one of them had the
audacity to state, “Looks like lipstick.
Maybe the girls left it for us.”
Clearly they did not realize it was a bison tube, or that they are on
the Amazing Race, not the Bachelor.
For the detour,
teams had to pick “Sandy Bottom” or “Fruity Top.” In "Sandy Bottom", teams were to clamber down
an extremely steep hill to the water.
They had to place a large basket on their head and fill it with sand
from the bottom of the river. Then, they
had to go back up the monstrous hill and take the sand to the brick maker. It took two trips for each team to
complete. In "Fruity Top" teams had to
assemble an offering made of fruit to resemble the example. It was then carried on a woman’s head to the
priest for a blessing.
John and Jessica
go to the wrong house number and begin recreating some sort of envelope of flowers
with a Halls Fruit Breezer in it. The
locals even adorned them in traditional sarongs before they realized that they
were not at “fruity top.” Rule number
one in the Amazing Race: always look for red and yellow.
Most teams
picked “fruity top”. While everyone’s
counting skills seemed to be up to par, it was rather a challenge to put fruit
onto sticks for some. All in all, the
local women got some great entertainment out of it. The hockey players could only go to “fruity
top” because their cab driver shouldn’t quit his day job. Mona and Beth were the only team to choose “sandy
bottom”, until the surfers decided to switch tasks instead of just using their
express pass. Not sure what was going through John’s mind. Jessica asked him to use the express pass,
but backed down when he assured her that they would use it if they needed to.
The roadblock was
located at Uluwatu Surf Beach and seemed like a simple task. One team member had to go down to the surf
shop to find an image on the surf board that they had seen before. The correct boards pictured the Tahitian
priest who had blessed the teams in Bora Bora.
Teams then joined back up to race to the mat for the pit stop.
The Youtubers
ended up at Padang Padang, the wrong beach, so they ran on foot to Uluwatu on
what looked like a fairly busy road. The Asian
girl got lost again, even though there were clearly red and yellow arrows in
front of her. This has to make people
wonder if Asians really are bad drivers because they can’t drive or just
because they never know where they are going.
Relentless, I hope they have navigation systems of some sort for their
personal use at home. Dave and Conner
make it to the pit stop first, landing them the prize of $5,000 each. Conner had looked at Winnie’s board to figure
out which to choose, even though she was trying to conceal it. Pam and Winnie come in second place, and the
newlyweds were third. Chuck also got lost. Wynona noted, “Chuck’s lost. I saw his head.” And who could miss his head with that curly,
blond mullet?
Caroline decided
after her first two tries that she needed to sit down and “just cry for a
minute.” This is something I’m sure her
ancestor, Daniel Boone, would not condone.
The country girls came in fourth on their third try. Joey and Meghan placed on their first try and
they helped the roller derby moms by telling them the correct picture. Mona and Beth came in sixth on their second
try but would not give up the answer to non-alliance members, sending Chuck and
Wynona back for another guess. Anthony and
Bates placed seventh, and Wynona and Chuck were eighth on their second try.
Darkness began
to fall as John and Jessica realized they were the last team to check in, and
John had yet to try a single time. It
was too late to use the express pass, but John refused to give up. John’s first try was incorrect, and he asked
Phil to see the other team’s boards.
Phil, of course, refused. The
episode only shows a second try before John guesses correctly, but the team is
eliminated with express pass still in possession, a first in Amazing Race
history. The episode ends with Phil
saying, “Oy vey,” to the camera.
In the preview
for next week, Dave and Conner are jumping onto another mat. We are to believe that they have decided to
continue. Next week also brings the
double u-turn, which seems to affect Mona and Beth, Mark and Katie, Caroline
and Jen, or Joey and Meghan.
