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Last week's
highlight: People yell as they bungee jump, Amy yells at Paul,
Frank yells at Margarita and everyone else, and Matt and Ana yell at each
other as they go Iloveyoubuhbye. 10 teams are left, and after tonight,
there will be nine teams left.
We start where we left off last week - in Zambia. They have to solve clues
in order to get to the next marker. The first marker that they need is at
the Songwe Museum - and all of the natives know where the museum is. Of
course, the teams don't know where it is - though it is a mere 100 meters
away by foot.
The lawyers team up with the husband and husband team and Frank and
Margarita in a 3 team alliance and they all leave as a pack at 11:30 pm.
Meanwhile, Frank and Karen leave by themselves at 1:52 am. Pat and Brenda
also leave alone after 3:30 am. The teams can still use a driver, although
they are not from the area, so they have no clue where the place is
(Discuss: What is the point of having the drivers if they don't even know
where to go? Wha?)
The alliance was formed when Margarita thought she saw a sign signalling
where the museum was, so they're all relying on her - except she now has a
serious case of brain cramps and the 3 team alliance all realize that they
went 2 hours out of their way for an imaginary sign.
However, since they had a big lead on time, the 3 team alliance gets to
the museum first anyways - they need to make a choice - either go to a
local game reserve and get 3 pics of 3 hard to find animals, or take a pic
of elephants at a game reserve - located close to 100 miles away. The
alliance decide to stay local.
The fast forward (which allows you to go straight to the last leg of the
race without having to scramble against the other teams) is on the Zambezi
River - Pat and Brenda decide to go for it.
Meanwhile, Kim and Leslie leave at 5:30 am, then Paul and Amie at 5:50 am.
Team Geritol makes it out of the gates after 6 am, but they are the first
team to finally be smart enough to ask people on where to go. The Frat
Pack leave after 7am and stupidly go into the car without asking anyone
else, passing the gramps on the way. Nancy and Emily are the last group
out but they make good time and get ahead of 4 teams in the process.
Paul/Amie, Team Geritol, and Nancy/Emily get there at the same time - they
also all move ahead of the Greeks, who don't seem to realize what exactly
they should be taking a picture of since they decide that the elephant
statue (which is one of the animals they may need to take a picture of) is
a trinket.
The 3 team alliance get the pics, but the alliance may be short-lived as
the life couple are thinking about dropping Frank and Margarita and the
Lawyers and go out on their own. The lawyers also think about getting rid
of the volatile Frank and Margarita, while Frank and Margarita are
thinking about getting rid of each other.
The working moms get to the Bondu area - they seem to be unopposed -
and for good reason - you can only use the Fast Forward once during the
show - so once a team uses it, they can no longer go after a Fast Forward
for the rest of the series. The working moms get the location of the final
destination of this lap - the Arc De Triomphe in Paris, France.
Paul and Amie get 2 of the 3 animals immediately, while the Greeks don't
seem to know how to use a camera. The camera on the mom/daughter team
doesn't work, but the daughter is more concerned about mom turning into a
welcome mat by the local rhinoceros.
The 3 alliance teams trade the pics to the tribal chief near the game
reserve in for a statue of the Eiffel Tower. The Frat boys zoom to the
front of the rest of the pack and miraculously are in the top half of the
group. Meanwhile Paul and Amie continue their yelling spree as the rest of
the teams convene at the airport.
All of the teams scramble for flight tickets, and all of the sudden the
working moms get caught by the rest of the teams. The next 5-10 minutes is
a montage of teams trying to get tickets and yelling and bribing the
ticket sales people. Meanwhile, friction is starting to exist between some
of the teams who have started their own alliance, but the working moms
finally get out first, and the best friends follow in the rest of the pack
chase.
The husband and husband team, who lived in France for 2 years, speak
French and break up the 3 team alliance to jump ahead of the pack, leaving
the lawyers and team Dysfunction to figure out how to catch them.
The lawyers and Frank and Margarita stay in the alliance. Pat and Brenda,
who already know that they need to get to the Arc, make it first and are
waiting for everyone else. The husband squared team gets to the Eiffel
Tower first - there's a challenge that needs to be performed (it's called
a roadblock).
One team member and one member only has to do the challenge - which in
this case is to go to the second floor of the Tower and use a
telescope-like machine to find a monument with a yellow flag on it.
The Guido team finds the Arc De Triomphe first and moves on the way. Team
Dysfunction and the Lawyers, still in a team, figure it out next. The Frat
boys fnially figure it out while Lenny appears clueless and argues with
Karen. It seems like we have a new team dysfunction. In the dumb-ass move
of the episode, instead of actually doing the footwork, Lenny asks
tourists about a famous monument - they say Notre Dame and Lenny tells
Karen to go to Notre Dame. As of right now, there's a good shot that Lenny
and Karen will not be getting much air time after the first 30 seconds of
episode 3.
Meanwhile, Paul and Amie are outbid by Kim/Leslie for a cab, which starts
the first nasty cat fight between the teams. When they finally do get a
cab, Paul tries to convince Amie to go home - saying that if things get
any worse, he will quit. Things get worse. Paul gets frustrated on the
second floor of the Eiffel Tower, spins a telescope and kicks a wall, and
says that he quits.
The team of Kim/Leslie goes completely to the top of the tower - too bad
the flag is on the ground level - one teammate asks 'Am I that stupid?'
YES YOU ARE. Meanwhile, the husband and husband team come in second, the
lawyers come in 3rd, and Frank and Margarita surprisingly don't implode
and come in fourth. Meanwhile, Lenny and Karen are about to implode, as
they get to Notre Dame and realize that they went to the wrong place.
Lenny starts to tear with the 'I seriously screwed up' look on his face.
Karen is disappointed -
replies Lenny 'That ain't nothing new', and we start to get divorce court,
Paris-Style.
The culturally uncouth frat boys amazingly finish in 5th. The best friends
finally find the instructions on what to do at the Eiffel Tower.
Meanwhile, Lenny and Karen wind up back to the tower and the best friends
are there -
both teams find the flag. Paul stops moping and finds the Arch as well
while Team geritol come in 6th. The friends take the Taxi while Paul and
Amie take the Subway and come in 7th. Mom and Daughter finish in 8th while
the best friends are arguing with the Taxi guy for change. That winds up
to be the gaffe grande of the episode as Lenny and Karen take the ninth
and final place. The best friends reap what they sow as the alliance that
Kim and Leslie break up comes back to bite them in the fanny.
During the final run for the end, one of the women quip 'We're the dumbest
people in America'. Well, maybe not, but you're the worst finishing team
on this leg. And Kim and Leslie get to go Iloveyoubuhbye.
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