After Chester & Ephraim had multiple flight delays, there was no amount of editing that could hide the fact that they were going to be eliminated in The Amaing Race 23 Episode 3.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Nicole & Travis – 11:08PM
Second: Jason & Amy – 11:14PM
Third: Nicky & Kim
Fourth: Tim & Danny
Fifth: Brandon & Adam
Sixth: Leo & Jamal
Seventh: Ally & Ashley
Eighth: Tim & Marie
Teams must now travel more than 2000 miles by train and ferry to Svolvaer, Norway. Unlike the drama of last week, there is only one flight, so everybody will be bunched together. They arrive at 11:05 the following night, and the sun still has not set, nor will it apparently. Unlike most locations, this allows them to participate in a challenge right away rather than spend the night waiting. Of course, the potential problem this is creates is that there are few cabs, and most of the teams don’t want to run 1 mile.
The detour is a choice between hang your heads or hammer of the cods. In hang your heads, they must tie fish heads together and hang them out to dry. In hammer of the cods, they must collect 15 pairs of cod then pound them with a giant hammer to make 1 kilo of fish jerky.
Hang your heads: Brandon & Adam, Tim & Marie, Jason & Amy, Nicole & Travis, Leo & Jamal, Ally & Ashley
Hammer of the cods: Tim & Danny, Nicky & Kim
These two very physical tasks leave the two all female teams bringing up the rear. But Leo & Jamal pick a wheelbarrow with a flat tire, pushing them back behind the ice girls. Ultimately, the hammer task, where they must carry their fish rather than having a wheelbarrow to push them in, is the deciding factor in position, and the two teams who chose that stumble into last.
Throughout the task, Marie is being her usual self to both her partner and the other teams. Her threats about having an express pass don’t encourage Brandon & Adam to help her since she’s promised it to every other team, too.
On the other hand, Amy keeps stopping to help everybody, including Marie.
The road block is to jump off a bridge on a rope then disconnect and take an arctic plunge.
Road block (in order of arrival): Brandon, Jason, Tim, Nicole, Ashley, Jamal, Tim, Nicky
Their next task is to do an advertisment for Ford trucks by using one to pull a boulder. Surprisingly, this task proves to be a problem for some of the teams. Tim & Marie just drive away, saying there is no clue for their next destination, even though they were told in the clue that there is one. Nicole offers to help them in exchange for the express pass, which Marie is reluctant to do. Then there’s Ally & Ashley, who can’t drive stick, which is just stupid on this race because it will be a requirement sooner or later. Lucky for them, Danny helps them out, despite being in second to last.
The pit stop for this leg of the race is Viking Longhouse.
First: Brandon & Adam (win $5,000 each)
Though the baseball wives are completely hopeless and Tim & Marie are wandering around aimlessly, none of that matters since it’s a to be continued leg.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 23 Episode 5, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.