reality tv – Page 66

All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 9

Gary Busey’s team keeps winning in spite of him, so Trump is being given few opportunities to fire him, which he’s squandering anyway. In All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 8, Brande Roderick was the latest victim to fall to Penn’s winning streak.

It’s 3 against 3 now, which Lisa views as putting her team saddled with Gary at a disadvantage.

Ivanka and Joan Rivers (perhaps the worst winner ever) are the advisors for this week. The task is apparently to create a video for LG (electronics, mobile, and appliances). They will be judged on creativity, integration of product knowledge, and overall presentation. Lil Jon and Gary are the project managers.

Gary doesn’t understand any of what’s going on, and he doesn’t want to try either. When he goes to another planet, he usually takes instructions with him.

Penn and Lisa attempt to pitch some ideas, but Gary doesn’t want to hear any of it. Then he starts barking like a dog. This is a trainwreck waiting to happen.

While Gary talks about LG making mechanical dogs, Trace and Marilu propose a video that shows that the products are so easy to use that anybody can use them. The mom (Marilu) will be showing her college kids how to operate her new gadgets.

Joan criticizes Lil Jon for wasting time when he’s directing the video. She wants him to just get it done and stop worrying about quality.

Meanwhile, Gary is telling his actors (both wife and daughter are about the same age) about his out of body experiences. Then he says Lisa used to be as smart as a bag of hair.

Lisa reads what LG wants: a sense of warm optimism, confidence, and a sophisticated premium quality tone. No chance of that. They’ve made multiple attempts to talk to and help Gary, but he keeps snapping at them. The other team seems to be doing a really good job, but it doesn’t matter when they have no competition.

Regardless of the outcome of the task, each charity will be receiving a full suite of LG Smart products, for a total value of over $100,000.

Trace thought Lil Jon was great, but if they lose, it should be the project manager going home.

Gary felt abandoned, which he should have felt, and was pretty much by his design. He would fire Lisa because she yelled and was confrontational, which she dismisses as incorrect. Penn counters that Lisa was never allowed to give any input throughout the day.

Joan and Donald are both confused by Gary’s video. After seeing both videos, Gary says it looks even.

They’re not even going to bother drawing this out any further by telling us the pros and cons of both presentations because there is no contest. Lil Jon has won $40,000 for his charity, American Diabetes Association, plus up to an additional $35,000 at $1 per view of his team’s video.

Now we get to hear the positives and negatives about Gary’s team. The executive liked that they all seemed very authentic and that Penn said he’s an early adopter, their target demographic. The phone was prominently featured, but most of the other products were not. He also did not like or understand the mechanical dog.

Gary accepts responsibility for the dog, though he says the problem is that he did not have any support for the dog (because it as a dumb idea). He then proceeds to say Lisa yelled, but Lisa said she does not and did not yell. So then Gary starts yelling.

So now we’re just going to keep going around in circles for the next 10 minutes. Trump, just put Gary out of his misery already, which should have happened long ago or at the very least when Stephen Baldwin was dismissed.

After much needless discussion, Gary has finally been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 10, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 22 Episode 10

After getting lost and then falling victims to Anthony & Bates’ strategy to just follow them and then beat them in a footrace, Mona & Beth came in last place in The Amazing Race 22 Episode 9, but they were saved by non-elimination.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Max & Katie – 2:02AM
Second: Joey & Meghan – 2:49AM
Third: Caroline & Jennifer – 3:44AM
Fourth: Bates & Anthony – 4:20AM
Fifth: Mona & Beth – 4:21AM

Teams will now fly across the North Sea to Edinburgh, Scotland. The airport ticket counters don’t even open until 5AM, which should put all the teams together.

Max & Katie are the only ones smart enough to stop at a business center first before heading to the airport. Even though they are the first ones to arrive despite having departed 47 minutes later, Joey & Meghan don’t suspect anything.

Even worse news for some of the teams is that even the second flight only has a limited number of seats. Now it’s time to find out if anyone who did not get on that flight can scramble for better seats, or if they get stuck 3 hours behind.

First flight (arrives at 10:40): Max & Katie, Bates & Anthony, Caroline & Jennifer
Second flight (arrives at 1:00): Joey & Meghan, Mona & Beth

There’s all this talk about the U-turn, but I don’t think it matters any more. The two alliances are both on different flights.

At the road block, they will learn to play the bagpipes. This has great potential to sound really obnoxious.

Road block (in order of arrival): Max, Bates, Caroline, Mona, Meghan

The first two teams blow right through the task, but Caroline gets stuck for 7 tries, though still not enough for the others to catch up. In a battle for last, Meghan falls behind Mona, despite her trumpet experience.

The detour is a choice between tasty puddin’ or whisky rollin’. In tasty puddin’, teams will fill an ox’s intestines with assorted organs, seasonings, and oats. In whisky rollin’, they must deliver eight barrels uphill and then down the street.

Before they can proceed to the detour, Mona & Beth must play skittles, which is more or less bowling, until they get a strike.

Whisky rollin’: Bates & Anthony
Tasty puddin’: Max & Katie, Caroline & Jennifer, Joey & Meghan, Mona & Beth

The hockey players are the only ones really qualified to take advantage of the strength task, which it would seem extends their lead. That leaves the other teams to make and eat haggis.

Bates & Anthony U-turn Joey & Meghan. Then Max & Katie U-turn Mona & Beth. This seems somewhat pointless since both of these teams are hours behind. Based on the lead that Mona & Beth built up over the first detour, it doesn’t seem like Joey & Meghan have a chance, unless Mona & Beth get lost again.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Niddry Street South.

First: Max & Katie (win $10,000 each)
Second: Bates & Anthony
Third: Caroline & Jennifer
Fourth: Mona & Beth
Eliminated: Joey & Meghan

After falling behind on both detours, Joey & Meghan have been eliminated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 22 Episode 11, where we will find out who The Amazing Race 22 Season 22 winner is, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Survivor: Caramoan Episode 11

Falling victim to the fact that hidden immunity idols are now pretty much just falling out of trees, Phillip was voted out in Survivor: Caramoan Episode 10 after Malcolm burned both his idols to keep his alliance alive for one more week.

Now it’s time for Brenda to have her breakdown. She says she’s afraid they lost control of the game. Don’t you still have a 6-3 advantage?

It’s the Survivor auction. Reacting in about 1 second, Malcolm buys beer and nuts (plus a surprise of 2 more beers and pretzels) for $20. He immediately chugs his beer that he potentially just threw the game away for.

Multiple people are interested in the covered item, which Reynold wins for $180. He can trade it for one of two other covered items, but he keeps the one he bought originally, a slice of pizza. Better than the rotten coconut but not as good as the rest of the pizza he gave up. Sherri offers $500 for the rest of the pizza. Can she do that? Apparently she can.

Dawn opens the bidding for a roasted chicken at $500.

Malcolm bids $480 for information in the game, which luckily for him nobody else wants to top. He gets directions to a hidden idol, as if that’s really necessary.

Andrea really wants the next covered item, and she wins it for $280. Spaghetti, meatballs, bread, and wine. Plus a dilemma. Not a real hard decision, though. Either her meal or a sack of rice and beans for the tribe. She takes the rice and beans.

Cochran wins an advantage in the next immunity challenge for $340.

Brenda has been wondering whether she should take a risk this whole challenge. So she does it now with a $300 opening bid for a covered item: pig brain. She takes a bite then remembers she doesn’t eat pork.

Letters from loved ones are $20, which means Malcolm, Sherri, and Dawn are left out. Then they start crying. Surely anybody who watched and/or played this game before knows that letters from home are one of the prizes. If a letter is more important than food or safety, just don’t bid on anything else.

Eddie buys a covered item for $200, and the entire tribe will share a giant bowl of peanutbutter.

Reynold starts talking to Sherri. Is she really going to join them? She never trusted them to begin with, and she clearly can’t beat them in challenges (not that she can beat anyone else).

Malcolm’s idol is actually hidden. This one is 6 inches deep. He heads to the well early in the morning, but it’s not early enough to prevent Andrea and Cochran from busting him digging. Cochran goes to the bathroom, but she’s going to just sit there and wait him out. As the sun comes up, he realizes she won’t be leaving him alone any time soon.

At the immunity challenge, they will hold on to a rope connected to a very heavy log (1/3 of the body weight they started the game with). Cochran’s advantage is moving the knot up two knots at any time. After 5 minutes, they move to the second knot, making things more difficult. Then the third, and Cochran uses his advantage. After half an hour, everybody (but Cochran) moves to the final knot. Brenda is out. Then Erik. The final position is no knot, except for Cochran, who will have a knot the whole time. Sherri is out. Then Malcolm somehow. And Andrea. Dawn puts up a strong effort, but she eventually slips. Reynold is next. Eddie drops. Thanks to his advantage, Cochran wins a strength challenge. He tells us this win that was handed to him (though in his defense, he earned it by buying something nobody else wanted) makes him the biggest challenge threat in the game.

Malcolm tells Sherri he has an idol, and he makes a final three deal with her. He wants to get rid of Andrea.

Erik also agrees to vote with them. They’re both wishy washy about which way they go, and they both fancy themselves all powerful.

Cochran doesn’t want to split the vote in order to avoid a disaster (Andrea being voted out and a 4-4 tribe split), but Andrea argues it’s safer to split. She asks how dumb Erik would have to be to flip right now. Did you see his first season? He is considered by many to have made the dumbest mistake in the history of Survivor.

Tonight the power begins to shift, as Tribal Council will be viewed by first jury member Phillip.

Despite putting fear into Malcolm that she’s going to haunt him if he goes looking, Andrea still says she’s 80% sure he has an idol.

As the voting begins, we can tell that they split the vote, banking on nobody flipping.

Votes
Reynold
Malcolm
Andrea
Reynold
Malcolm
Andrea
Reynold
Andrea
Malcolm

The three way tie proves that everybody kept their word, a lucky break I’d say, and now they can get rid of who they really want, Malcolm

Votes
Malcolm
Malcolm
Malcolm
Malcolm

With 4 votes, Malcolm has been voted off the island. He didn’t play a very good game, but he certainly kept things interesting.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Caramoan Episode 12, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 8

Stephen Baldwin was fired in All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 7 because, well, I’m not entirely sure why. In typical Trump logic, he latched on to one word that he said and wouldn’t let it go, despite the fact that it had nothing to do with anything.

Lisa and Penn aren’t happy to see Gary return. They’re outnumbered because everybody was moved to the other sucky team, and now they have to deal with him.

Bret Michaels, who is responsible for picking one of the worst teams ever assembled, is back, this time on the other side of the table along with George.

Their task is an interactive South Africa travel expo. Brande and Penn are the project managers. They will be judged on creativity, feedback from travel professionals, and overall presentation.

They can choose between romance or adventure, and both teams pick adventure. The decision comes down to a coin flip (not one of Penn’s coins), and Brande’s team wins the toss.

They’re happy. They figure they can focus on safari, and after all, who goes to South Africa for romance? What they find, though, is that the task has set limitations preventing them from promoting safaris because they want to promote things that people don’t know about. They realize they might have gotten the harder task, particularly considering that they need to do all this in a small room.

While meeting with the execs and discussing romance, Gary talks about his experience in South Africa. He heard people being murdered. So begins Penn’s and Lisa’s frustration with him. They’d be better off doing this on their own or at least with Stephen.

Penn wants to show he deserves to win this. He manages to get zulu dancers, Paul Simon’s drummer, and a 5 star South African chef.

The other team plans to get a guy in the shark suit and to push people around in a chair to simulate ziplining. Trace fears the juvenile direction they seem to be going.

When George comes, Gary again mentions murder in Johannesburg after discussing how killing a lion is his idea of romance.

Trace thinks Brande did pretty good under the challenging circumstances.

Lisa says Penn rocked it, but she declines to give a useful opinion about Gary. Penn provides a similarly pointless opinion about Gary, but he does later say he didn’t do everything he was asked.

The execs and travel experts felt transported back to South Africa by Penn’s team. But they did not offer specific locations for travel information.

They loved that they included the wine, tea, and spas, and thought the brocure was a really great take away to make people remember the big five experiences. However, they seriously lacked unique experiences, and their exhibit was juvenile.

It was pretty obvious where this was heading. Despite never having been to South Africa and not really knowing much about it, Penn through is connections managed to tap into a South African community in New York, creating an authentic experience that would have been tough to beat. Penn has won for his charity, Opportunity Village, and Gary survives yet again.

Brande can’t say who she thinks should be fired. She will let Lil Jon go free because she feels loyal to him, despite Trump making a big deal about how he wanted adventure (like everybody else on both teams). Trump gives her a second chance to change her mind, but she declines. That was a setup anyway, as one of Trump’s greatest pet peeves is disloyalty.

The thing the executives liked the most was the handout, which was designed based on the logo. Since this was Marilu’s idea, she should be safe.

Brande agrees she’s with two people who probably don’t deserve to be fired, and with that said, Brande is fired. Before she goes, Trace asks for her to be given some money for her charity, Promises to Kids. Trump agrees to give $20,000.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 9, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 22 Episode 9

Chuck & Wynona were finally put out of their misery in The Amazing Race 22 Episode 8 after incurring a 30 minute penalty.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Bates & Anthony – 2:50AM
Second: Mona & Beth – 2:57AM
Third: Max & Katie – 3:01AM
Fourth: Caroline & Jennifer – 3:28AM
Fifth: Joey & Meghan

Teams must now travel by train to Dresden, Germany. All teams are on the same train.

Caroline & Jennifer foolishly want to go to the final three with Bates & Anthony. It will help to ride their coattails for a while, but it won’t help so much when they stomp you in the end.

Bates put his bag on the seat across from him. It is now missing, but at least he was smart enough to keep his passport on him.

They must answer 3 multiple guess questions in their commercial for Ford leading up to a clue to their next destination, Brandenburg Gate, where Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

The country girls see the hockey players arrive, and rather than giving them the answers, they just drive off. As simple as this task is, though, it’s not long before the boys catch them on the Autobahn. Once in the city, the girls use the boys as their guide, which doesn’t work out too well for them when the get separated at a light.

They go to the top of the Park Inn Hotel. There are not very many reasons why you go to the top of a 37 story hotel, and all of them involve something scary. In this case, they are going to base jump face first off the hotel. Scary but simple enough if you can get over that. Though there is a fair share of screaming, nobody left seems terribly scared of heights.

The detour is a choice between train trials and font follies. In train trials, they must lay model train tracks on a platform and keep the train on track for one complete circuit. In font follies, they must transport two giant letters through the city streets to a museum.

Font follies: Max & Katie, Mona & Beth, Caroline & Jennifer
Train trials: Joey & Meghan, Bates & Anthony (switched from font follies)

The danger in the train building is getting it wrong and having to start over, which is not a problem with carrying the letters unless you break one. Joey & Meghan have repeated problems getting their train setup to work, but the bigger issue turns out to be when Bates & Anthony leave a letter sitting on its own, and it gets blown over by the wind. They opt to just switch detours at this point, and Caroline & Jennifer, who are travelling with them, wisely choose to just continue with what they are doing.

After 9 attempts and now finding themselves in dead last, Bates & Anthony just hope somebody screwed up. Mona & Beth driving around in circles provide them their only hope, and the two teams arrive at the club not far apart, ending up working together on the road block.

In the road block, they will crawl through a creepy haunted house maze underneath a dance club after first identifying that John F Kennedy said “Ich bin ein Berliner,” which somebody in the club will know the answer to if they don’t (I didn’t, nor did a couple of the teams).

Road block (in order of arrival): Katie, Joey, Jennifer, Beth, Anthony

Bates & Anthony decide to follow Mona & Beth in an effort to just win a race at the end.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Kurfurstendamm, known as the 5th Avenue of Berlin.

First: Max & Katie (win a 2013 Ford Fusion each)
Second: Joey & Meghan
Third: Caroline & Jennifer
Fourth: Bates & Anthony
Non-eliminated: Mona & Beth

The strategy that Bates & Anthony employed worked out well, but in the end it is moot because it is a non-elimination leg.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 22 Episode 10, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Survivor: Caramoan Episode 10

The anticlimactic conclusion to a very eventful Survivor: Caramoan Episode 9 saw the Favorites choosing the safe vote, Michael, for elimination.

Everybody other than the two remaining outcasts from the other tribe plus Malcolm (who just dug himself in an even deeper hole, if that’s possible) heads off for a meeting immediately after Tribal Council.

The next morning, Dawn is having a breakdown. She lost her retainer that has some teeth in it, and she says she’ll pull herself from the game if she can’t find it. Brenda goes looking in the water for her, and seconds later she ends the drama by finding it.

For the challenge, they will be divided into two teams of five to run through an obstacle course, collect bags, and shoot the balls inside into a basket. Reward is a trip to a resort for some lunch. The purple team is Reynold, Erik, Dawn, Cochran, and Phillip; the orange team is Eddie, Malcolm, Sherri, Andrea, and Brenda.

Malcolm’s strategy is to find all his team’s bags so they don’t have to. This gives the purple team an early lead, but it may pay off later. The second person to run, Reynold, has decided to copy Malcolm’s strategy. Reynold has now found his team’s bags in addition to having a one lap advantage over Malcolm, who has a good strategy, but he’s just too slow to make it work. A very slow Sherri allows the purple team to extend their lead even further, now close to two full laps. Purple has all their balls in before orange can even start shooting.

Unlike the typical reward, we don’t see any strategizing this time. Instead, the focus is Dawn’s continuing paranoia. She says she needs a break. That can be arranged. The next morning, she wakes up and says she’s normal again. So now they can strategize. Reynold is the target.

At the immunity challenge, they will race across a platform, jump into the ocean, swim under the platform by pulling themselves along a rope, grab a ring, move it to the second post, and repeat.

Reynold takes a very large lead in the first heat, and Andrea gets the second spot in the finals. Phillip says he’s sitting out because he’s afraid of the water, giving the others 50/50 odds of advancing. You’d think this would come down to Eddie and Malcolm, and it does. Until Eddie somehow fails to put his second ring on the post, which allows Brenda to take the final spot. The final round consists of five rings instead of just two. It’s obviously going to be Malcolm against Reynold. Half way through, and Reynold overtakes Malcolm. Reynold wins immunity. Their plans just went all to hell.

The simple solution is to just replace Reynold’s name with Eddie with Malcolm still receiving the remainder of the split votes. The question is: who’s the target? Malcolm doesn’t seem overly concerned about that question, though, as he hopes to not play his idol tonight.

As multiple people sit around back at camp, the boys go hunting for an idol, and so do Andrea and Dawn. Unlike his other idol that nobody knows about, Malcolm now has a second one, which half the tribe sees.

They intend to continue their plan anyway. 4 for Malcolm, 3 for Eddie, then Eddie on the revote if Malcolm happens to play it.

If he’s willing to burn two idols here, Malcolm has the chance to make a huge move. He could send any Favorite of his choice packing. Of course, he’d still be hugely outnumbered in that case, but at least it’s something. Or he could be a complete dumbass and be dismissed with two idols in his pocket.

Before they even get to the vote, Malcolm gives his other idol to Eddie. I’d just go ahead and vote as if they weren’t going to play them because it’s not like it matters. If somebody else is going home anyway, the revote will seal their fate.

To give them some further incentive to switch, Malcolm says the three of them are voting for Phillip.

Erik would like to make a point. What if these idols don’t get played? At least somebody is considering that very real possibility. Phillip says they need to just vote how they planned.

Eddie plays his idol that he just received minutes ago. Malcolm pretends he’s not going to play his, but he does.

Votes
Malcolm (does not count)
Malcolm (does not count)
Eddie (does not count)
Eddie (does not count)
Eddie (does not count)
Eddie (does not count)
Phillip
Phillip
Phillip

With 3 votes (plus one from Erik), Phillip has been voted off the island. I don’t suspect anyone on the island will miss him, even if he would not have been their ideal target.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Caramoan Episode 11, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 7

If you missed All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 6, I can sum it up for you in one sentence. Dennis Rodman’s team spelled Melania Trump’s name wrong. The entire rest of the show was irrelevant, and the foregone conclusion was that Dennis was fired for being the leader of a team that had the audacity to misspell the name of Trump’s wife.

Their task is to make a 45-60 second silent movie promoting Australian Gold. The winner will be determined based on brand messaging, product integration, and creativity.

Since their team has been decimated because they suck, again it’s time to even the odds. Trace says he wants Penn. Lil Jon would like Marilu, and Trump agrees. Trace thinks Trump doesn’t want to stack the deck by giving him Penn.

Gary Busey is volunteered to be the project manager, while Trace steps forward for his team.

This could be the chance the other team was hoping for. Gary wants this to be in the 20s. How do you sell suntan lotion with people covering that much skin?

Trace has exactly the same idea that Lisa and Stephen had (that Gary shot down). He wants to show old timey bathing suits transformed into the modern era by this product. Plus he wants cavemen because they’re always funny.

This is not Lil Jon’s first rodeo with Australian Gold. In his previous season, his team lost this task, which he believes boils down to lack of use of their koala bear mascot and lack of different products. As a result, he steers the meeting in that direction. Trace considers the meeting with the executives to just be a waste of time, and he wants to proceed with what they came up with before the meeting.

Gary was on that season as well (on Lil Jon’s team), but it’s safe to say he did not learn any lessons from that loss. What Stephen hears is that bronzer is their biggest seller, so he wants to focus on that.

Gary doesn’t want to wear a bathing suit, Hawaiian shirt, or anything that might possibly fit into the scene. Rather, he wants to wear a suit. Lisa hears him, but she’s pretty sure she has figured out how to trick him into doing what she wants anyway. She is successful in getting him to wear her choice of shirt and shorts.

Don, Jr. thinks Plan B seems to have it all together, and they’re not that stressed. Once she’s done laughing at Trace in his caveman outfit, Ivanka decides Power has a very good concept, though she worries how well it will be executed.

Not wanting a scene that everybody directs as Gary suggested, Stephen takes over as the director for his team, and those he’s directing find out as they go what they’re supposed to be doing. Lil Jon’s directing his team, or at least he’s trying to. Marilu keeps coming up with ideas, and he’s not sure when she’s going to catch up to her brain.

Gary says everybody was his star. Everybody is equal. Nobody is the best; nobody is the worst. None of the rest of his team has anything negative to say about anybody either.

Trace doesn’t know who his star was. This is equally a lovefest.

The executives thought both teams did very well, but they have picked a winner.

They appreciated that Trace’s team showcased the whole product line, though they waited until the end to do so.

Gary’s team delivered a clean and clear message, and at his insistence, they included a koala bear, no matter how out of place it was. But they only focused on the bronzer, rather than the rest of the products.

Trace’s team won. He was right. They really didn’t need the meeting with the execs, just his story combined with Lil Jon’s prior loss at a task with this company. Trace wins $40,000 for his charity, American Red Cross.

Penn says that the project manager should be fired, though Gary did such a good job in that role. Stephen agrees, and this is the best Gary’s ever been, for whatever that’s worth.

Gary will be returning to the boardroom with Stephen and Penn. His target is clearly Stephen, the director. He doesn’t believe Penn should be there with them, and Trump agrees. He can head back to the suite.

Earlier, Stephen said Gary did an amazing job, and Trump and the other Trump keep harping on it. Because of that, Stephen has been fired. No idea how Gary escaped that bullet.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 8, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 22 Episode 8

Pam & Winnie chose the wrong detour in The Amazing Race 22 Episode 7 and were eliminated as a result.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived, probably.

Let’s go somewhere else already. Two straight legs where the teams barely move anywhere is lame.

Teams must now fly nearly 5000 miles to Zurich, Switzerland. Needless to say, everybody will be on the same flight, one that has them arriving about 30 hours later than the lead team’s departure from the pit start.

From the airport, teams will travel by train to Grindelwald. With a 6:39PM arrival, they are guaranteed an hours of operation and overnight delay. The only drama in the meantime is that Joey & Meghan and Mona & Beth miss the connecting train that everybody else is on, not that it ends up mattering since they have so much time to kill.

In the intro, Chuck & Wynona just got done saying how they are getting along a lot better (while we watched a montage of them arguing). The morning before the leg kicks off, they’re bickering again, as he thinks she’s slowing him down.

The clue that they waited all night for tells them they now have to travel by train to Kleine Scheidegg. Last week, they didn’t go anywhere. This week, they’re doing nothing but riding vehicles from one destination to another. At least they’re traveling through some of the most scenic areas possible.

When they arrive, teams pick up a Swiss rescue dog, which they must transport by train to Jungfraucjoch, Europe’s highest railway station at 11,333 feet above sea level. They drop off their dogs before heading to the road block and another train ride to Eigerwand.

The road block requires teams to climb out a window thousands of feet above the valley floor and retrieve a Travelocity roaming gnome.

Road block (in order of arrival): Bates, Beth, Katie, Meghan, Jennifer, Wynona

The road block is scary since they are hanging 6000 feet above the ground that’s straight down, but it’s a quick task that has no real trick to it.

Continuing their marathon trainfest, teams must now travel by train to the Grindelwald Grund Station. As Wynona struggles on the road block with Meghan behind her, the top four teams leave them behind when they take the first train. The problem Chuck & Wynona are having is that they did not plan to be in the race this long, so he did all his road blocks right away, leaving her stuck to do the rest no matter what they entailed. Not that this seems to be a particularly taxing challenge for any of them, but she does delay long enough to hold them up.

The switchback takes us back to a task from a previous season. This time, rather than running down hills with 50 pound wheels of cheese strapped to their backs, they will transporting four wheels of cheese on sleds. They’re already falling just trying to climb the hill, even with the assistance of a rope. The way down, however, looks a lot easier because the cheese weighs so much it’ll push them down the hill.

With their half an hour lead over the trailing teams, there’s no chance any of the top four will finish last. For that matter, factoring in the physicality of this task, it’s pretty obvious that Chuck & Wynona have no hope other than someone else making a major mistake. Even with Chuck carrying both sleds and pushing her, Wynona struggles her way up the hill. She can then only take one of the four wheels of cheese on the way down, but she does come up with the idea of just rolling them, an effective strategy.

Alas, despite their terrible and increasingly annoying performance, Chuck & Wynona do not struggle to find the pit stop, unlike Joey & Meghan, the only team to walk there rather than take a taxi. This allows Chuck & Wynona to leapfrog them, but Wynona’s cheese rolling strategy results in a 30 minute penalty.

The pit stop for the leg of the race is the Bodmi Snowboard & Ski School.

First: Bates & Anthony (win a trip to Bora Bora)
Second: Mona & Beth
Third: Max & Katie
Fourth: Caroline & Jennifer
Fifth: Joey & Meghan
Eliminated: Chuck & Wynona

The penalty is enough to save Joey & Meghan, and Chuck & Wynona have been eliminated. Good thing, too, since they have clearly overstayed their welcome. Their constant arguing about her being too slow and him not being supportive enough was particularly annoying this week.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 22 Episode 9, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.