I Thought We Were Playing It Nice
Last week we said goodbye to Liz & Michael when they were U-Turned by Brooke & Scott - but Team Fun was able to survive the U-Turn and they have become Team Funstoppable!
This episode they begin still in Greece and the first clue sends them to the Corinth canal to recreate a Roadblock from Season 9 - where they have to bungee jump off a bridge at great heights (yuaaaah, no thanks.)
Tara & Joey are the first out and he is still pissed off at Brooke & Scott for being soulless schemers by U-Turning Mike & Liz when there was no reason to, they already had a speed bump, they were way in the back, "just heartless in his opinion."
There is really no urgency in this task because they are going to be heading to the airport right after and they will all be on the same flight to Hanoi, Vietnam. However, the story that is fit to print is that Scott has to do this Roadblock and all he kept praying for in the cab on the way there was that it not be bungee jumping - of course that's what it is, and he is NOT HAPPY, (really, when are those two ever happy?)
Joey did it with no problem, even joked with the guys, "Is my hair still good?"
Matt did it with gusto, he's an adrenaline junky after-all... and then it made me wonder, could Redmond have done this one? How would they hook up the bungee cord to a man with one leg? Can you do it with one leg? Alas, we don't find out because Matt also had to do this one.
Then we get to Scott and he's cursing "FOUR ROADBLOCKS AND THREE OF MINE ARE HEIGHTS! ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS? and shaking and crying... he won't let go, the guys running the thing were super patient with him, they've probably seen this before - but finally he goes, and screams the whole time - he tells us, "that was Horrible."
Logan and Becca also do the jump with no issues - a bunch of daredevils left except for the team we all love to hate.
Hanoi, Vietnam - once they land they have to make their way to a certain park and search for their next clue. The order got totally turned around once they landed in Vietnam with Tara & Joey being the last team, and we find out that Joey's not feeling very well, Tara's not either but that could be a combo of lack of sleep on the plane and the fact that it's super hot and humid in Vietnam (you know what that means? A lot of cranky racers.)
-Becca & Floyd are the first team to the park and they have to figure out that the clue is being held by one of the ladies doing the fan dance exercising in the park - a few of the red fans have a yellow marker on them - they find the clue and Scott asks if they found it and Floyd tells him to look for a fan with a yellow stick on it (really? Oh, I guess they did get a key from Scott in the locked boxes of horrors detour, okay I guess.)
-Brooke & Scott pay it forward a little bit at the park by telling London that the clue is on a person but not to look for the yellow stick (so magnanimous of her.)
-Becca & Floyd read the clue to make their way to the Buddhist temple, where they basically just have to pay their respects and get the clue to the DETOUR: Bamboo Climb or Window Design
In Bamboo Climb: teams must find one of three available marked ladders, then make their way through the busy streets to the designated apartment building. Once there they have to maneuver the ladder up a very narrow stairway and retrieve a birdcage from the roof. They then have to return the ladder and drop off the birdcage where they started (the trick here is the narrow stairway, think of Friends "Pivot", and how hot it is, running in the humidity, killer.)
In Window Design: teams have to pick up three mannequins, carry them through the streets to the designated store fronts, then dress them to match the reference picture. Here it's the attention to detail and the fact that lack of sleep and not feeling well, doesn't help you read the clue correctly.
Everyone chooses Bamboo Climb, but there are only three ladders available. Becca & Floyd grab the first one, Matt & Redmond next (though Scott did try and grab the ladder out of Matt's hands) and then Brooke & Scott get there but don't see the marked ladder (it was hanging above the rest so you had to climb up to get it) as they are bickering and milling about, London & Logan show up, she sees the ladder right away and starts climbing to get it - Scott yells at Brooke to climb up there and get it and they think that London & Logan should let them have it (Seriously? You snooze you lose.) So Scott is yelling at Brooke that it's all her fault they didn't get the ladder and since nothing is ever her fault, Brooke twists it so that she didn't get the ladder because Scott didn't hold the ladder for her to climb up (I hate them both - the rest of the episode, she is screeching at him about not holding the ladder.) Anyway, they can't do this detour because there were only three ladders and they have to go find the mannequins - meanwhile Tara & Joey run by them and they don't say anything about all the ladders being gone, just keep fighting and let them find out for themselves. (Tara & Joey already dislike them, this did not help.)
Bamboo Climb: Becca & Floyd risk life and limb running through the congested streets with a 15ft ladder - they get to the apartment building and actually figured out how to pivot the ladder up to the roof with a minimal amount of struggle.
Window Design: Brooke & Scott get to the mannequin shop and they are slick white mannequins that they have to carry through the streets as they fall apart and they are sweating like crazy - this would make anyone curse - so Brooke especially was insufferable. They have to pick up a man, woman and child mannequin, which Brooke & Scott do. Tara & Joey however, she misreads the clue and thinks they only need two mannequins so they grab the woman and child only (Nooooo!)
Bamboo Climb: Becca & Floyd get the birdcage and are heading down the narrow stairwell when Matt & Redmond are wanting to go up, so they are lucky because Matt has had moving experience and he is able to get their ladder down the stairs quickly so he and Redmond can go up (Is there nothing they can't do? Answer, no. The ladder even shifted when he was up getting the birdcage and I was thinking, where is their fall protection - oh yeah, Vietnam - but it didn't phase him.) They are back down and leaving when London & Logan show up. Much to London & Logan misfortune, they didn't have anyone to help them or anyone they could copy to figure out how to get the ladder up the stairs and it took them a while.
-Becca & Floyd were the first team to get the clue to the Pit Stop: Thong Nhat Park.
Window Design: Scott & Brooke - bicker bicker, complain, whine, screech, Arrghh! Just make it stop! At one point Brooke cried, "I need this to be over." (My sentiments exactly.)
Tara & Joey have such a better attitude and they get to the storefront first (since they had an easier time only carrying the two mannequins) but they kind of shrug off the missing man until they don't pass their inspection and re-read the clue - they have to head back and pick up the male. (So heartbreaking.)
-Scott & Brooke were able to get all their figures there and get the clue to the Pit Stop ahead of Tara & Joey but then their cab driver took them to the wrong park, and they cut it so it looked like maybe...
Here's How They Finished:
1) Becca & Floyd - Team Funstoppable! Won a trip to the Galapagos Islands (That would be so cool)
2) Matt & Redmond - Always the bridesmaids - Becca coins them Team Unboyleivable.
3) London & Logan - I'm feeling the love between these two... hmmm.
4) Brooke & Scott (BOO!)
5) Tara & Joey - and he collapses to his knees on the mat - not feeling well and then pushing himself in the sweltering heat all day. Brooke seem genuinely concerned and Tara snaps at her, "oh, you care now?" Brooke is shocked, of course she cares about their physical health, (but, you are an insufferably horrible person) And Scott is incensed, this is a race for a million dollars, not a hundred dollars, of course they're going to be devious.
Oh, and it ends up being a NON-ELIMINATION leg so Mom & Dad are still in it, if Joey can get some hydration and sleep, they are very determined to not let Scott & Brooke beat them again.
Episode # 2 coming up.
Last week we said goodbye to Liz & Michael when they were U-Turned by Brooke & Scott - but Team Fun was able to survive the U-Turn and they have become Team Funstoppable!
This episode they begin still in Greece and the first clue sends them to the Corinth canal to recreate a Roadblock from Season 9 - where they have to bungee jump off a bridge at great heights (yuaaaah, no thanks.)
Tara & Joey are the first out and he is still pissed off at Brooke & Scott for being soulless schemers by U-Turning Mike & Liz when there was no reason to, they already had a speed bump, they were way in the back, "just heartless in his opinion."
There is really no urgency in this task because they are going to be heading to the airport right after and they will all be on the same flight to Hanoi, Vietnam. However, the story that is fit to print is that Scott has to do this Roadblock and all he kept praying for in the cab on the way there was that it not be bungee jumping - of course that's what it is, and he is NOT HAPPY, (really, when are those two ever happy?)
Joey did it with no problem, even joked with the guys, "Is my hair still good?"
Matt did it with gusto, he's an adrenaline junky after-all... and then it made me wonder, could Redmond have done this one? How would they hook up the bungee cord to a man with one leg? Can you do it with one leg? Alas, we don't find out because Matt also had to do this one.
Then we get to Scott and he's cursing "FOUR ROADBLOCKS AND THREE OF MINE ARE HEIGHTS! ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS? and shaking and crying... he won't let go, the guys running the thing were super patient with him, they've probably seen this before - but finally he goes, and screams the whole time - he tells us, "that was Horrible."
Logan and Becca also do the jump with no issues - a bunch of daredevils left except for the team we all love to hate.
Hanoi, Vietnam - once they land they have to make their way to a certain park and search for their next clue. The order got totally turned around once they landed in Vietnam with Tara & Joey being the last team, and we find out that Joey's not feeling very well, Tara's not either but that could be a combo of lack of sleep on the plane and the fact that it's super hot and humid in Vietnam (you know what that means? A lot of cranky racers.)
-Becca & Floyd are the first team to the park and they have to figure out that the clue is being held by one of the ladies doing the fan dance exercising in the park - a few of the red fans have a yellow marker on them - they find the clue and Scott asks if they found it and Floyd tells him to look for a fan with a yellow stick on it (really? Oh, I guess they did get a key from Scott in the locked boxes of horrors detour, okay I guess.)
-Brooke & Scott pay it forward a little bit at the park by telling London that the clue is on a person but not to look for the yellow stick (so magnanimous of her.)
-Becca & Floyd read the clue to make their way to the Buddhist temple, where they basically just have to pay their respects and get the clue to the DETOUR: Bamboo Climb or Window Design
In Bamboo Climb: teams must find one of three available marked ladders, then make their way through the busy streets to the designated apartment building. Once there they have to maneuver the ladder up a very narrow stairway and retrieve a birdcage from the roof. They then have to return the ladder and drop off the birdcage where they started (the trick here is the narrow stairway, think of Friends "Pivot", and how hot it is, running in the humidity, killer.)
In Window Design: teams have to pick up three mannequins, carry them through the streets to the designated store fronts, then dress them to match the reference picture. Here it's the attention to detail and the fact that lack of sleep and not feeling well, doesn't help you read the clue correctly.
Everyone chooses Bamboo Climb, but there are only three ladders available. Becca & Floyd grab the first one, Matt & Redmond next (though Scott did try and grab the ladder out of Matt's hands) and then Brooke & Scott get there but don't see the marked ladder (it was hanging above the rest so you had to climb up to get it) as they are bickering and milling about, London & Logan show up, she sees the ladder right away and starts climbing to get it - Scott yells at Brooke to climb up there and get it and they think that London & Logan should let them have it (Seriously? You snooze you lose.) So Scott is yelling at Brooke that it's all her fault they didn't get the ladder and since nothing is ever her fault, Brooke twists it so that she didn't get the ladder because Scott didn't hold the ladder for her to climb up (I hate them both - the rest of the episode, she is screeching at him about not holding the ladder.) Anyway, they can't do this detour because there were only three ladders and they have to go find the mannequins - meanwhile Tara & Joey run by them and they don't say anything about all the ladders being gone, just keep fighting and let them find out for themselves. (Tara & Joey already dislike them, this did not help.)
Bamboo Climb: Becca & Floyd risk life and limb running through the congested streets with a 15ft ladder - they get to the apartment building and actually figured out how to pivot the ladder up to the roof with a minimal amount of struggle.
Window Design: Brooke & Scott get to the mannequin shop and they are slick white mannequins that they have to carry through the streets as they fall apart and they are sweating like crazy - this would make anyone curse - so Brooke especially was insufferable. They have to pick up a man, woman and child mannequin, which Brooke & Scott do. Tara & Joey however, she misreads the clue and thinks they only need two mannequins so they grab the woman and child only (Nooooo!)
Bamboo Climb: Becca & Floyd get the birdcage and are heading down the narrow stairwell when Matt & Redmond are wanting to go up, so they are lucky because Matt has had moving experience and he is able to get their ladder down the stairs quickly so he and Redmond can go up (Is there nothing they can't do? Answer, no. The ladder even shifted when he was up getting the birdcage and I was thinking, where is their fall protection - oh yeah, Vietnam - but it didn't phase him.) They are back down and leaving when London & Logan show up. Much to London & Logan misfortune, they didn't have anyone to help them or anyone they could copy to figure out how to get the ladder up the stairs and it took them a while.
-Becca & Floyd were the first team to get the clue to the Pit Stop: Thong Nhat Park.
Window Design: Scott & Brooke - bicker bicker, complain, whine, screech, Arrghh! Just make it stop! At one point Brooke cried, "I need this to be over." (My sentiments exactly.)
Tara & Joey have such a better attitude and they get to the storefront first (since they had an easier time only carrying the two mannequins) but they kind of shrug off the missing man until they don't pass their inspection and re-read the clue - they have to head back and pick up the male. (So heartbreaking.)
-Scott & Brooke were able to get all their figures there and get the clue to the Pit Stop ahead of Tara & Joey but then their cab driver took them to the wrong park, and they cut it so it looked like maybe...
Here's How They Finished:
1) Becca & Floyd - Team Funstoppable! Won a trip to the Galapagos Islands (That would be so cool)
2) Matt & Redmond - Always the bridesmaids - Becca coins them Team Unboyleivable.
3) London & Logan - I'm feeling the love between these two... hmmm.
4) Brooke & Scott (BOO!)
5) Tara & Joey - and he collapses to his knees on the mat - not feeling well and then pushing himself in the sweltering heat all day. Brooke seem genuinely concerned and Tara snaps at her, "oh, you care now?" Brooke is shocked, of course she cares about their physical health, (but, you are an insufferably horrible person) And Scott is incensed, this is a race for a million dollars, not a hundred dollars, of course they're going to be devious.
Oh, and it ends up being a NON-ELIMINATION leg so Mom & Dad are still in it, if Joey can get some hydration and sleep, they are very determined to not let Scott & Brooke beat them again.
Episode # 2 coming up.
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