Losing the balancing act at the road block, twins Elliott & Andrew found themselves eliminated in The Amazing Race 20 Episode 3.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Art & JJ – 5:10PM
Second: Brendon & Rachel – 9:59PM
Third: Joey & Danny – 10:00PM
Fourth: Bopper & Mark – 10:08PM
Fifth: Nary & Jamie – 10:09PM
Sixth: Rachel & Dave – 10:10PM
Seventh: Kerri & Stacy – 10:45PM
Eighth: Vanessa & Ralph – 12:15AM
Teams will now fly 6000 miles to Turin, Italy. With evening pit starts, all teams will have to wait until the next morning to leave the airport, erasing the 5 hour gap Art & JJ built up over the second place team.
Bopper & Mark are the lone team to disregard the instructions to go the travel agent and instead head straight to the airport, so they have to turn around and head back where they started, which puts them in last place and on a flight an hour and a 15 minutes behind all the other teams.
Not having learned her lesson from last week’s last place finish, Vanessa continues to focus her energy on picking on Rachel. Then we have Rachel & Dave, who pick up right where they left off with their bickering.
The fast forward requires teams to land a model helicopter on their partner’s head, which is harder than the road block but just requires some patience. Art & JJ arrive first and head there, so Brendon & Rachel let them have it. The sixth team to arrive, Rachel & Dave give it come consideration, or at least Dave does while Rachel uses the opportunity to improve her skills at sarcasm.
The road block requires them to rappel 120 feet down the inside of the Lingoto Building. They have 2 minutes to grab their clues, or they will have to go again. This looks like it will be a very quick road block, which is not good news for the team that’s behind by over an hour.
Road block (in order of arrival): Rachel, Danny, Vanessa, Jamie, Rachel, Stacy, Bopper
Vanessa is the first to fail at the task and be sent back to the top to start over. Jamie follows suit. Both are successful in their second try. The other teams all make it on their first attempt.
Their next stop is Museo Nazionale Dell’ Automobile, where they will find their next clue in a 1916 model T, but primarily this is an opportunity for a commercial for Ford’s Active Park feature. You would think the car would park itself simply, but not simply enough for Brendon and Rachel to not begin arguing.
They must figure out that the building on the 2 cent euro, Mole Antonelianna, is their next stop. Most teams get it right away. Still fighting, Rachel & Brendon struggle to figure out the clue and instead talk about quitting the race and life in general.
The detour is a choice between clean that statue and name that salami. In clean that that statue, they must use the equipment provided to clean statues. In name that salami, they must taste 14 types of salami, travel half a mile, and identify the salami by the correct name. Here come the really bad double entendres.
Statue: Joey & Danny, Rachel & Dave, Nary & Jamie, Vanessa & Ralph, Bopper & Mark
Salami: Brendon & Rachel, Kerri & Stacy
The statue task turns out to be easier since all they have to do is give it one try, whereas the salami task is going to take multiple attempts. As all the statue people complete their challenge, Rachel’s meltdown continues, and so does the discussion of quitting, before they finally kiss and make up. I’ve seen this story a dozen times before.
The pit stop for this leg of the race is Piazza Castello.
First: Art & JJ (win $5,000 each)
Second: Rachel & Dave
Third: Joey & Danny
Fourth: Vanessa & Ralph
Fifth: Nary & Jamie
Sixth: Brendon & Rachel
Seventh: Kerri & Stacy
Non-eliminated: Bopper & Mark
This leg was over with Bopper & Mark making their early mistake, but they have not been eliminated. Art & JJ have decided to split the money they won with Bopper, who is in the race for his daughter.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 20 Episode 5, which airs Sunday at 8/7cish on CBS.