EPISODE 3
Recap by Gordon Pepper
Original Airdate:  September 26, 2001

Last time we met - Kim and Leslie dumb themselves out of the competition, and another team gets to do the same and with these teams, there is plenty of dumbness to go around. Another team gets to go iloveyoubuhbye.

So the teams start at the Arc de Triomphe. Again, the teams stay for 12 hours before going on to their next journey - and the Fast Forward is still in play. Pat and Brenda start off first at 9:06 pm - they need to find La Grande Rue - French for the big ferris wheel. They get real lucky and get the first tourist to give them the right directions. Team Pink Triangle gets out second and with the knowledge of French, they get there. The lawyers and Frank and Margarita realize that they have to motor to get to the wheel - but they figure out where to go. The Lawyers and F and M have 13 minutes to get there. Pat and Brenda get there in time and hit a detour - which is a choice - either walk up a bunch of steps to ring a bell, or find a cat at the Pantheon - on the other side of town. Bill and Joe decide, since everything is closed, that they will walk to their own house. The Lawyers and Frank and Margarita also get to the Ferris Wheel, but Frank is getting second thoughts about the alliance. Meanwhile, the life partners realize that they need to get to the Pantheon and go there.

The Frat Pack leave at 12:27 am and get to the wheel too late - they decide to go after the Fast Forward - realizing that this is the only way to catch the rest of the pack - but they can only use it once for the series. The Frat Pack needs to go to the tea shop and ask for a certain type of tea - which they decide to do. Paul and Amy and Mom and Daughter both leave well after the wheel closes. The grandparents get penalized from last episode - since both people inadvertantly did the road block excercise (only one person can do it). Team Geritol plays the role of the dumb tourist. Lenny and Karen finally take off in the wee hours of the morning, leading up the rear. Paul and Amie get to the Ferris Wheel and sleep over in front of the wheel. The Greeks find the Tea Shop and sleep over in front of the store. Meanwhile, the husband and husband team go back home to their old haunts - awww....vive le France.

The grandparents and Lenny and Karen meet Paul and Amie and they all sleep together - when it starts to rain. The lawyers and F and M meet at the Pantheon and hang out there for the night. Pat and Brenda go to the National Conservatory where there are no teams - and make the dumbass move of the episode - because the reason that they are all alone is because all of the other teams have gotten to the right place - but they're at the WRONG place. D'oh!

Morning time - could we all complain about the rain a little bit more?? Meanwhile, Nancy and Emily stayed at the hotel and are shocked that the rest of the teams are out there. The fourpack decide to ring Quasimodo's bell at Notre Dame.  The Frat Pack get the right tea and Fast Forward to the Pit Stop - Cheteau Les Baux - the South of France. The wacky New Yorkers who have all of the graces of an uncarved block may wind up in first after this leg - yikes. Joe and Bill take the subway to get to the pendulum.

The Lawyers and Team F and M disguise themselves as students to get the discounted rate at the museum. Meanwhile, Pat and Brenda realize that they may have gone the wrong way. Joe and Bill meet Fand M and the lawyers - and neither team are very happy to see them - since Joe and Bill stabbed both teams in the back. Meanwhile, in Notre Dame, Paul and Amie start up the steps, and the dual husbands sneak past both teams to come in first, since the guide only allows one team to go in at the same time. Pat and Brenda
FINALLY realize they went the wrong way.

Meanwhile, Paul and Amie get to the top of the Cathedral, followed by the mom and daughter team, then Lenny and Karyn and then the Gramps. The working moms finally get to the Pantheon - where they get the next clue - Find the man in the blue suit. 'How did we know there was 2 (cats)' asks the mom. They failed
to live by the 6 Ps - Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance. So they get the other 6 Ps - Perplexed Planning Perpetuates Piss Poor Performance.

The man in the blue suit is standing across the Hotel D'eville.  Joe and Bill smugly think they are smugly ahead of everyone since everyone used the taxis - but there was no traffic and everyone in the taxis got there before them - and team pink triangle run into the gramps. who were trailing the pack. They run into a Road block - all they have to do is to get 2 blocks across the street - via the Paris sewer. The husband squared team puts on the suit backwards and is now relegated to last. Meanwhile everyone is having too much
fun in the sewers as we get to see images of mice running all over the place. Paul gets out of the sewer first and Amie finds him. Karen is next - they get the note to go to Les Baux. Pat and Brenda get there in dead last - and get there right when everyone left. A disgusted Joe and Bill see their first place dominance come to a crushing end. 'We lose this thing in Paris and we've been here for 2 years'.

Team Guido want to help the lesser teams - mainly because they want to knock off some of the stronger teams - but they send all of the teams to the wrong train - but the teams realized that and got themselves on the right team. The husband squared team is making a whole list of enemies. They think that everyone is on the train - but they're wrong.  Neither the gramps nor Pat and Brenda did not make the first train - these are your prime candidates for going iloveyoubuhbye.

The pit stop is high on top of the ruins. Team Greek gets there in first place, easily in front of everyone else. Team Geritol and the working moms get to the last train. There is a short cut from Avignon to the pit stop.
Team Guido gets off thinking that they will get a big lead ahead of everyone - meanwhile the lawyers find out that they can get a shortcut from Avignon and F and M , still in the alliance, follow them. Paul and Amie/mom and Daughter/and Karyn and Lenny form their own alliance. The teams have to hike uphill a half mile to get to the final pit stop. Frank and Margarita come in second and introduce themselves to the mayor. The lawyers come in third and an embarrassed husband and husband team come in fourth. The grandparents take the next train, but also take the Avignon short cut and come in fifth, and they embrace in a kiss (awwwww). The underdog alliance come in 6th (paul and Amie), 7th (Lenny and Karyn) and 8th (Nancy and Emily), respectively. The working moms make the dubious distinction of coming from first to worst in a single episoide and they get to go Iloveyoubuhbye.