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So here we go again with another
episode. Garth Brooks and Randy Travis are taking the plane to India,
while the Dixie Chicks...wait a sec.
After a week away from the action (thanks to those gosh darned country and
western folk), we are back on the race - and the race this time will take
us to the Temple of Dawn in Bangkok. Team Greek get out ahead, but before
they do, they tell Nancy and Emily that the Fast Forward is where the
buddha reclines, in Bangkok.
The reason why the Fast Forward is important is that in finding it, it
will give you the destination of the final spot for the leg (the pit
stop). it is even more important for Team Guido or Nancy and Emily to find
it, since those are the last 2 teams, and the last team in this leg gets
to watch the rest of it from their TV set, just like everyone else.
Frank and Margarita (Team FM) are out of the box second, with the lawyers
in hot pursuit. The teams can get to Bangkok via a slow but direct bus, or
a quicker train that does not go directly, so you have to wait to
transfer. Only the Greeks take the Bus, which happens to be faster than
the train and the Greeks increase their time lead.
Joe and Bill and Nancy and Emily both get out almost 3 hours after the
lawyers leave. They both decide to take the Fast Forward, realizing that
the team that doesn't win the Fast Forward is almost guaranteed to go bye
bye.
At the train station (about to get
their flights to Bangkok), the Greeks to get there first and take an 830
flight. Team Guido sneak on a 9 flight, and Frank and Margarita take a
10:35 flight. Nancy and Emily and the Lawyers take the 2pm flight, with
the lawyers complaining that they haven't gotten any breaks during the
game (poor baby - Nancy and Emily have bad luck too - they're stuck in the
same flight as you guys.)
The Greeks get there just in time - to see the Temple of Dawn closed. All
of the teams catch up, and once again, everyone is at an even start. But
both the mom/daughter team and husband and husband team decide to go for
the fast forward anyway. The rest of the teams stand by the temple -
waiting it to be open.
At the temple of the reclining Buddha, both teas have to pick a bowl of
pennies and put a penny in each of the 108 vases. They win if they have
enough pennies - if they dont have enough or too much, they have to try it
again. After a 10 minute montage of this competition, Team Guido does get
the win, and they get to see the final destination for this episode - the
Tiger Cave Temple in Krabi.
Meanwhile, the rest of the teams are at a detour - either take a public
bus or take a private car (that they have to find in the street) to get to
the next destination - Kanchanaburu. Team FM find their private car almost
immediately, followed by the Lawyers. The Greeks take over 2 hours to find
their provate car and are all by themselves in third.
Nancy and Emily get there while the Greeks are lookig for their car, but
can't take advantage as they too get stuck looking for their car for over
2 hours. Nancy then comes up with the dumbass move of the episode: since
they think that they are completely out of the race, instead of getting a
bus - they will do option C - hire a cab to take them to the next
destination. But this is not an option they are allowed to have and the
team has to take a penalty for their actions. This really comes into play
at the end of the episode.
In Kanchanaburu, the teams have to get the instructions to the final place
by getting past a piece of desert - no problem, right? The only problem is
that the urn with the directions in it is surrounded by TIGERS! (Where are
the lions and bears, oh my?) Frank, Drew, and Emily (dont they all look
like giant Lamb Chops when they are wearing their red clothing monk garb?)
all pass the tigers (amazing that when you get them into the same
shot with the contestants that the tigers look like they are little baby
tigers, eh?), get the final destination card and proceed to go to the
Tiger Cave.
Meanwhile, Team Guido are relaxing themselves by hanging out in their
hotel and waiting for the next direct bus to come - at 6pm. But aren't all
the teams done with the final challenge before 5? Team Guido doesn't
realize this. In the runner-up dumbass move of the episode, Team Guido
asume that the other teams will run into trouble and take their sweet time
on to getting the right bus to get there. Uh-oh.....
The greeks, Team FM, and Nancy and Emily all take the train to get down to
the cave, but lawyers Rob and Brennan hire a professional driver - and
that makes all of the difference as they wind up in first. Frank and
Margarita come in second, Team Greek come in third, and Nancy and Emily
arrive in fourth. That would bring Team Guido into fifth and last place,
which means that the overly smug team finally get their come-uppance,
right?
Wrong. Remember when Nancy and Emily
decided to take a taxi instead of taking a bus or finding their provate
car? Well that would be something called cheating, and therefore, they get
penalized a whopping 24 hours. With the penalty, that brings them into
last place, and they are the team that goes Iloveyoubuhbye. If they
completed the detour, they easily get to the end before Team Guido, and it
is the Husband and Husband team that gets to take the walk of shame.
Ironically, Team Guido consoles them - but they are now on the skillet -
since they are a bunch of hours behind all of the teams - and they have no
fast forward to save them.
Does the "annoying life
couple," as CBS called them in a promo, go home next week? Tune
in and find out!
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