Welcome to Leg 5! Last time, on Your Homework Is to Go Home and Watch “Cocktail”, teams flew to Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. Teams jumped on wood, and mostly failed at trick pours. Jet
and Cord managed to actually win a leg, despite 47 attempts at the Roadblock. Brendon
and Rachel felt switching Detours was the same as quitting and wasted three
hours trying to get done, only to find out it was a non-elimination leg and
they’re still racing. Woo. Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)
Toyouke here, because Kmanpat is still gone. This time he’s in
Minnesota, though, so I’m sure it’s cold and unpleasant.
Arrival
at the pit stop last episode:
1st – Jet/Cord,
The Cowboys
2nd – Dave/Connor,
Team LIVESTRONG
3rd – Leo/Jamal,
The Afghanimals
4th – Caroline/Jennifer,
The Country Singers
5th – Jessica/John,
Cocky YDC
6th – Flight
Time/Big Easy, The Globetrotters
7th – Margie/Luke,
Team ASL Rainbow
8th – Brendon/Rachel,
Team Brenchel
Batu
Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2:26 PM Jet/Cord
(1st)
Clue: Fly to Colombo, Sri Lanka! After arriving, teams must find
Gangaramaya Temple. Once they’ve been blessed by the monk, teams will receive their
next clue.
3:13 PM Dave/Connor
(2nd) – This is the leg Dave and Connor left on last time.
3:40 PM Leo/Jamal
(3rd) – “The Twinnies’ motherland!” Then their cabbie tells them to go
right to the airport, 90 km away, instead of a travel agent like everyone else.
4:10 PM Caroline/Jennifer
(4th)
4:12 PM Jessica/John
(5th)
4:40 PM Flight
Time/Big Easy (6th)
5:12 PM Margie/Luke
(7th) – They’re going to try not to stress out. Good idea. Then the cabbie
gets lost going to the travel agency so they go to the airport instead.
6:08 PM Brendon/Rachel
(8th) – pretty far behind.
All teams find a direct flight that leaves at 11:05pm and gets in
at 12 midnight. However Margie/Luke and Brendon/Rachel are too late to get
tickets on that flight as it is full. The travel agent tells Brendon and Rachel
there is a flight through Singapore that gets in at the same time but the
connection is only 30 minutes. Rachel thinks they should take it because they
don’t have anything to lose. It’s true, you’d be hours if not a full day
behind, you might as well risk it. When Margie is at the airport counter trying
to buy tickets, a chyron says it’s 10:15pm. Huh? How did it take them 5 hours
to get there? Margie and Luke decide it’s too risky and they’re going to try
standby on the flight everyone else is on. They didn’t seem to be able to
confirm the Singapore-Colombo flight with the tight connection. The young man
you see with a laptop helping them out is a fan who knew (based on spoilers)
that the teams were in Kuala Lumpur and decided to hang out in the airport to
spy. I would totally do that also.
Flight 1
(Kuala Lumpur-Singapore-Colombo)
1) Brendon/Rachel
– sadly they make the connection.
Flight 2(direct
Kuala Lumpur-Colombo)
1)
Dave/Connor
2)
Leo/Jamal
3)
Jet/Cord
4) Caroline/Jennifer
5) Jessica/John
6)
Flight Time/Big Easy – They spend some time messing with everyone
about how Brendon and Rachel are still around.
Flight 3
(…Sometime the next day)
1)
Margie and Luke – as far as I know new rules state you can only purchase one
itinerary to your destination, so they couldn’t have bought both standby and
the route with the connection and then taken the better option. Everyone checked
in for the direct flight.
Teams arrive in Colombo and find the temple in the following
order:
1- Brendon/Rachel
2- Flight
Time/Big Easy
3- Caroline/Jennifer
4- Leo/Jamal
5- Dave/Connor
6- Jessica/John
7- Jet/Cord
8- Margie/Luke
– cue many interviews about how wonderful Sri Lanka is and how
much they love racing together.
Hours of Operation! Opening at 5:45am! Suckers! Once they are
allowed inside there is no running. Everyone takes off their shoes and puts on
special garments and pretends to be respectful.
Teams now travel by train to the city of Galle, then ride in a “three
wheeler” (aka a tuk-tuk) to find the marked King Coconut Stand. Everyone gets
on the same train. Well, everyone but Margie and Luke. Caroline says the
cowboys have “magical powers” that they want. Back off, girl. The tuk-tuk drivers
are completely insane. Keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times.
Once in Galle, teams find the coconut stand in the following
order:
1- Dave/Connor
2- Flight
Time/Big Easy
3- Jet/Cord
4- Leo/Jamal
5- Jessica/John
6- Brendon/Rachel
7- Caroline/Jennifer
8- Margie/Luke
And we get the Detour Clue.
DETOUR:
Fishing
Pole OR Spin Control
*Fishing
Pole: Teams must climb onto a pair of fishing stilts and each catch a fish.
Once they have both caught a fish, they must deliver them to a local fisherman
to receive their next clue. The clue doesn’t say so, but there are costumes.
*Spin
Control: Teams must learn and perform a traditional dance while spinning drum-like
instruments. Like spinning plates. Once they have turned in a good performance,
the dance leader will give them their next clue. The clue doesn’t say so, but
there are costumes.
Hey, the Detour choices rhyme for no reason! I like it.
1- Dave/Connor
choose Fishing Pole – Connor looks good shirtless.
2- Flight
Time/Big Easy choose Spin Control
3- Jet/Cord
choose Fishing Pole
4- Leo/Jamal
choose Spin Control
5- Jessica/John
choose Fishing Pole – John drops his first fish back in the water. They eventually Bald
Snark to Spin Control, where they keep the plates spinning but John fails at
the steps.
6- Brendon/Rachel
choose Spin Control
7- Caroline/Jennifer
choose Spin Control
8- Margie/Luke
choose NOT SHOWN – they just show them getting the clue to go to the Roadblock
location. They seem dry so maybe they picked Spin Control? This is the last we
see of them until the Pit Stop.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1- Dave/Connor
2- Flight
Time/Big Easy
3- Leo/Jamal
– after 2 attempts.
4- Jet/Cord
5- Caroline/Jennifer
– after 3 attempts.
6- Brendon/Rachel
– after 15 attempts. Rachel is really supportive and calm which is
weird.
7- Jessica/John
- after 2 attempts at dancing.
Teams must now travel to the Trendy Connections Garment Factory to
receive their next clue.
When they arrive, we find that Brendon and Rachel have their Speed
Bump.
SPEED
BUMP:
A Speed
Bump is a task that must be performed by the last place team on a
non-elimination leg. Once they complete this task, they may return to the place
where the Speed Bump occurred and continue the leg. In this speed bump, teams
must print 15 T-shirts with the Sri Lankan flag. Once teams have applied the
final layer of paint to complete the flag designs, they may continue racing.
Teams complete the Speed Bump in the following order:
1-
Brendon/Rachel
After much silk-screening, they continue with the rest of the teams
in getting the next clue in the following order:
1- Flight
Time/Big Easy
2- Dave/Connor
3- Caroline/Jennifer
4- Leo/Jamal
5- Jet/Cord
6- Brendon/Rachel
7- Jessica/John
And teams get the fifth roadblock clue.
ROADBLOCK:
Who
wants to put the treadle to the metal?
In this
roadblock, roadblockers must properly stitch together a shirt. One shirt. When the
floor manager approves, they will take it to a heat transfer machine, where
their next clue will be printed on the front.
The following teammates take the Roadblock:
1- Big
Easy – “I decided to do the Roadblock. Worst decision ever.” Flight Time
promises to wear whatever he makes. Then he gets bored and starts spinning a
basketball and bothering the workers.
2- Connor
3- Jennifer
– pretty sure. She and Connor help each other.
4- Leo – he is
exactly as annoying as you would expect. Those people are at work, leave them
alone.
5- Jet
6- Brendon
7- Jessica
– she’s not even really sure about if the pedal drives the sewing
machine. Luckily Brendon decides to start over (?) so they can do it
step-by-step together.
After much sewing, teams complete the Roadblock in the following
order:
1- Dave/Connor
2- Caroline/Jennifer
3- Jet/Cord
4- Leo/Jamal
5- Jessica/John
6- Brendon/Rachel
7- Flight
Time/Big Easy - they do try to put the shirt on with hilarious results.
Teams find now that they must travel to the Colombo Rowing Club,
the PIT STOP of the fifth leg of this racearoundtheworld. The last team to arrive WILL be eliminated! I
know I said WILL last time and it wasn’t true, but that was a mistake. They don’t
put two non-elimination legs in a row.
1- Dave/Connor
– who win $5000 each. Connor
is wearing the shirt he just made.
2- Caroline/Jennifer
3- Jet/Cord
4- Leo/Jamal
5- Jessica/John
6- Flight
Time/Big Easy – because they paid off the bus driver to take them straight to
the Rowing Club without making any other stops.
7- Brendon/Rachel
8- Margie/Luke
And Margie and Luke are eliminated. Luke says it’s cool he got to
do the race three times, and he thanks his mom for everything she does for him.
ORDER
NOW:
1st – Dave/Connor
2nd – Caroline/Jennifer
3rd – Jet/Cord
4th – Leo/Jamal
5th – Jessica/John
6th – Flight
Time/Big Easy
7th – Brendon/Rachel
Next week: Rachel freaks out and almost gets hit by a tuk-tuk. And
Kmanpat is back! Until next time!
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