Though they seemed to have briefly stopped arguing, Shelley & Nici were the last team to arrive in The Amazing Race 25 Episode 6 and were eliminated.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Misti & Jim – 9:44PM
Second: Adam & Bethany – 11:29PM
Third: Kym & Alli – 11:31PM
Fourth: Tim & Te Jay – 12:04AM
Fifth: Brooke & Robbie – 12:29AM
Sixth: Amy & Maya
Kym & Alli make it a point to keep going on about how much they hate the dentists. The feeling seems to be mutual.
Teams must now fly to Palermo, Sicily. I expected that there would be only one flight, but despite the lengthy airport delay, there are two with one arriving 40 minutes later. At that time of night, it probably doesn’t matter.
First flight (arrives 8PM): Misti & Jim, Kym & Alli
Second flight (arrives 8:40PM): Adam & Bethany, Tim & Te Jay, Brooke & Robbie, Amy & Maya
Upon arrival at their first destination, they choose times for their next destination before partying the night away.
6:30AM – Misti & Jim, Kym & Alli
6:40AM – Brooke & Robbie, Amy & Maya
6:50AM – Tim & Te Jay, Adam & Bethany
The troublesome part here is to get a taxi. The lead teams don’t seem to have a problem, but the others struggle. Two of the last two teams find the one street with a taxi stand, but it takes Brooke & Robbie to see a cab.
The road block requires teams to race in go karts, and they must cross the finish line in under 4 minutes and 7 seconds, which seems to be just enough time.
Road block (in order of arrival): Jim, Kym, Maya, Adam, Te Jay, Brooke
Maya is the first to fail the road block, going 25 seconds over the allotted time. The heats only run about every 20 minutes, so by the time she gets back up the hill, everybody else is there waiting. All the racers make it in time, leading to a four way tie for last.
The detour is a choice between painters or posers. In painters, teams must restore a painting on a ceiling while lying on their backs on high scaffolds. In posers, teams must listen to 10 opera singers then identify them by the costume they wore, name, and opera they sang.
Painters: Misti & Jim, Kym & Alli, Adam & Bethany, Tim & Te Jay
Posers: Brooke & Robbie, Amy & Maya (switched from painters)
Only four teams can paint at once. Knowing that, everybody but Brooke & Robbie go anyway, and Adam & Bethany and Tim & Te Jay win the foot race against Amy & Maya.
Brooke & Robbie want to go there, too. Then they realize that they don’t need to memorize the names or the songs, just the outfits (and what order they were standing on the stage), as the names and songs are given to them next to the outfits. This seems like the simpler task of the two now. Robbie wants to work together with the other team, but Brooke does not. She eventually changes her mind as both teams get down to 9 out of 10 correct. This a decision they later end up regretting because they let Amy & Maya cut in front of them at the judging station, giving them a lead of a couple of minutes that they end up retaining.
The pit stop for this leg of the race Villa Niscemi, an 18th century home.
First: Misti & Jim (win a trip to Ochos Rios)
Second: Kym & Alli
Third: Amy & Maya
Fourth: Brooke & Robbie
Fifth: Adam & Bethany
Non-eliminated: Tim & Te Jay
Tim & Te Jay have been saved by non-elimination. They fought so hard to get to that detour, and it turned out to be the wrong one.
Next week’s show will be preempted by The Hollywood Film Awards, whatever that is.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 25 Episode 8, which airs Friday at 8/7c on CBS.