After they failed to bring their map to the pit stop in The Amazing Race 16 Episode 7, Jet & Cord finished last but were non-eliminated.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Steve & Allie – 7:22PM
Second: Dan & Jordan – 7:36PM
Third: Brent & Caite – 9:15PM
Fourth: Louie & Michael – 9:16PM
Fifth: Carol & Brandy – 10:19PM
Sixth: Jet & Cord – 10:22PM
Without their backpacks, Steve & Allie are left only with the clothes on their backs. The scrambling starts right away.
Teams will now fly 5700 miles to Penang, Malaysia, where their first destination is the Snake Temple. Everybody will board the 2AM charter boat to the airport, where everybody will also get the same 21 hour flight via Dubai.
The detour is a choice between Buddhist tradition or Chinese custom. In Buddhist tradition, teams will lug a set 12 giant incense sticks up a steep incline of 150 steps. In Chinese custom, teams will choose a pair of 32 foot poles that they must balance on their foreheads and walk 120 feet.
Dan & Jordan get a lead thanks to an aggressive taxi driver, but they tell him to go away. The bad news is that either detour will require cab travel. They’re not alone in making this mistake, though. Of course, Jet & Cord told their driver to wait, and he left anyway, putting them in last place. Not wanting to sit in traffic, at the suggestion of their cab driver, Steve & Allie and Dan & Jordan decide to make a run for it. To make matters worse, they go to the wrong location. Steve & Allie get their cab driver back, but Dan & Jordan are now left to wander aimlessly on foot. They end up finding another cab driver. Steve & Allie, however, have a driver without a clue. He follows “I don’t know” with “No problem.” The first one turns out to be right, so they decide to go to the other detour instead. That decision lasts all of about three seconds before Allie says she can’t do that detour. Adding insult to injury, their cab driver who they told to wait has taken off. Not that he would have been able to find the place anyway.
Buddhist tradition: Dan & Jordan, Brent & Caite, Carol & Brandy, Louie & Michael, Steve & Allie (switched from Buddhist tradition to Chinese custom to Buddhist tradition)
Chinese custom: Jet & Cord
The teams with the incense sticks realize quickly they’ll probably have to make half a dozen trips up and down. This will prove much easier for the all male teams (though Louie sounds like he’s dying as usual), while Carol & Brandy struggle. Cord figures out the flag carrying almost immediately. Jet figures it out shortly thereafter, putting them in first.
The seaside village of Teluk Bahang is the next stop. It’s there that Jet & Cord see their speed bump, in which they must determine which tea is made from a bowl of crushed spice. They are wrong on their first attempt of three possible attempts. Their second guess is correct.
Returning back to the temple, Jet & Cord are first to the road block. The road block is to take part in two hindu rituals. They must smash coconuts to find one with a bright color, then they must build a traditional miniature offering known as a float to be set off to sea. It’s all dumb luck, but it all seems moot considering how far behind Steve & Allie are.
Road block (in order of arrival): Jet, Carol, Louie, Caite, Jordan, Allie
The pit stop for this leg of the race is the Pinang Peranakan Mansion, built 100 years ago by one of the island’s wealthiest residents.
First: Jet & Cord (win a trip to Maui)
Second: Carol & Brandy
Third: Louie & Michael
Fourth: Brent & Caite
Fifth: Dan & Jordan
Eliminated: Steve & Allie
The anticlimactic conclusion is that Steve & Allie have been eliminated.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 16 Episode 9 Dumb Did Us in (Singapore), which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.