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.

Survivor: Caramoan Episode 9

Corinne unnecessarily blew her plan in Survivor: Caramoan Episode 8 by telling it to one too many people, and the idiots playing with her finally woke up and stopped doing everything she wanted them to do, blindsiding her instead.

Reynold’s ally may have just been voted out, but he looks at it as a victory. A Favorite went home, and he did not go home.

As for Malcolm, he views himself as the rebel leader, not Corinne.

Phillip has decided that the newest member of his organization is Sherri. Of course, there’s only like three people not in this alliance.

For the reward challenge, they will divide into two teams of five. One member of each team will be the defender while the others leap off a platform and attempt to throw a ball past the defender into the net. Reward is rappelling down a waterfall for a picnic lunch.

After the schoolyard pick, the purple shooters are Erik, Reynold, Eddie, and Cochran, and in this seemingly most mismatched challenge ever they will square off against Dawn, Phillip, Andrea, and Brenda on the orange team. At least the orange team has a decent defender, Malcolm, against Michael for purple. Sherri was not picked by either team.

Brenda scores. Erik ties it 1-1. Andrea makes it 2-1. Cochran ties it at 2. Phillip retakes the lead 3-2. Eddie makes it 3-3, and the next point wins. Erik scores to win for purple. That was a lot closer than I expected.

While they’re at their reward, Reynold, Eddie, and Michael take the opportunity to try to pitch a bro’s alliance to Cochran. Did they just meet him? He has no interest in this sausagefest.

While at camp, Malcolm wants to scoop up the people on the bottom, Dawn and Sherri. Seeing as Sherri already called Phillip her new Shamar, this seems like a lost cause to me. Then he tells Dawn, who thinks he’s going to be a problem.

After getting wind of this, the Favorites decide to vote out another of their own, but they tell him they’re doing a split vote between Eddie and Reynold.

Since the other women who got close to them are gone, Eddie and Reynold are looking for a new victim. Andrea thinks Eddie’s really hot. She tries to pull it off like she’s playing him, but that’s not what I’m seeing. He tells her he won’t vote against Reynold, but he’ll vote out Malcolm if she wants.

The immunity challenge will test their ability to hold their breaths while partially underwater as they slide under a grate and wait for the tide to rise. After 1 hour, they’re about an inch away from being covered. Phillip is the first one out. Sherri is next, followed by Erik. Dawn is fourth, surprised she beat anybody. Malcolm is next. Then Michael. The water is now above the grate. Eddie’s out, and he is closely followed by the two remaining guys, Cochran and Eddie. Andrea drops after recovering a couple times, and Brenda wins immunity.

Malcolm wants to take out who he views as the real leader, Andrea, rather than prince Phillip.

Dawn, who can’t understand why Malcolm would trust her since she’s the reason Corinne went home, lyingly agrees to go along with him if Reynold shows her his idol. He does just this and tells her if she burns him, he’s going tonight, which she interprets as meaning there will be hell to pay. Is she listening to a different conversation than I am?

Andrea refuses to tell Eddie who to vote for. Does he want to be saved or not? As she stands there being difficult with her supposed new ally, she finds out that she’s the other target at tonight’s vote. So she suggests the safe vote, Michael, a plan that nobody likes, especially an emotional Dawn, who insists Malcolm does not have an idol.

During Tribal Council, while Michael is speaking, Erik starts playing with Andrea’s hair. It was a bug. Or was it a signal?

Phil warns against anybody making brave moves because they’re going to get flushed out and sent home. This speech sends a message to Malcolm, who says he now knows everybody voted for him. Reynold goes to play his idol, and Malcolm (who just voted Reynold) asks if he can give it to him instead. Very smart move. He keeps his own idol while getting the one everybody knows about out of play.

Votes
Andrea
Andrea
Andrea
Reynold
Michael
Michael
Michael
Michael
Michael
Michael

With 6 votes, Michael has been voted off the island. And here I was expecting something else. If she hadn’t changed things up, Andrea would be gone. As the person who just gave her the idea to go with the safe vote, Eddie ended up voting against her anyway.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Caramoan Episode 10, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 6

Following one disastrous week after another, Omarosa was finally fired in All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 5.

Brande hopes to prove that her team didn’t really suck and that they could have won if not for the bad seed.

The Trump family parade continues, this time with Melania, who is promoting her skin care product. Teams will create a two page advertorial and product display. Dennis and Penn are the project managers.

When he meets with the execs, Dennis says he wants to go into Melania’s bathroom and see what she really uses. On the other team, Gary does his usual rambling, but at least he’s not in charge.

Lil Jon wants to buy everything gold from the prop shop. Dennis goes with him, but he’s pretty much just hanging out. The other team is focusing on caviar, the product brand.

When Eric Trump comes to visit, Penn makes all his people go back to work and stop talking to him so that he can get rid of him as quickly as possible.

Trace makes his presentation all about simplicity. He realizes that either they are going to love it or think he was lazy. Of course, that does not take into account one critical flaw. There were only two words in the slogan, and one of them (Melania’s name) is spelled wrong. The sad fact about this is that they have it written correctly elsewhere, and it is also on the product shots they are featuring, yet somehow they botched it in the slogan. Based on Melania’s reaction, I’d say this is game over right here because she ain’t happy. How dare someone spell her unusual name incorrectly?

Trace thinks Dennis was scattered as a project manager, and he’s not sure he actually delegated anybody to do anything. Brande says that he thinks outside the box, but he never thinks inside the box.

Penn says that Marilu and Lisa as a team are phenomenal. Gary thinks Penn is excellent. Stephen agrees.

The executives thought Penn did a fantastic job, and they loved the slogan “Let your skin taste luxury.” Melania, however, gave the same unhappy looks toward being called a spokesperson by Penn as she did when she spotted the other team’s spelling error. I’m not seeing the problem here. She may not “just” be the spokesperson, but nonetheless it is still an accurate descriptive term.

Melania appreciated that Dennis’ team understood that she spent years developing this formula, and she loved the display itself. But it doesn’t matter because of the spelling error, so they lose no matter what else happened, thereby making the entire first 45 minutes of the episode a complete pointless waste. Good thing this wasn’t a 2 hour episode. That really would have sucked.

Penn receives $40,000 for his charity, Opportunity Village.

Brande thinks Dennis should be fired as the project manager.

Dennis will be bringing Trace back with him because he was the one responsible for the ad layout. Trump asks him if he would just like to bring Trace back, an exception he has fired people over in the past, but apparently it’s okay if he suggests it.

Trace suggests Dennis should be fired because he doesn’t filter out what he’s saying, such as when he asked to look in Melania’s bathroom. Seeing as he’s been brought back to the boardroom about 10 times in a row across two seasons, Dennis Rodman has been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 7, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

Survivor: Caramoan Episode 8

In Survivor: Caramoan Episode 7, we found out there was somebody named Julia on the island. Then she was voted off it.

Phillip tells his challenge throwing story to Corinne and Dawn, who don’t buy it either.

They are told to gather up their things to head to a new home. I haven’t heard the word merge yet, but everyone assumes that’s what’s happening. They name themselves Enil Edam, which Malcolm doesn’t tell them is his mom’s name (Madeline) backwards.

Phillip and Corinne continue their battle against each other despite supposedly being on the same side. Phil goes to Andrea, while Corinne (who’s allied with Michael, who the others stupidly did not get rid of last time) goes to Malcolm (who has an alliance of sorts with Erik, Eddie, and Reynold).

The first individual immunity challenge is a gross eating challenge. They will race to get down local delicacies. The first group of six is live beetle larva. Andrea, Malcolm, and Eddie advance, while Sherri, Erik, and Corinne are eliminated. The next group eats the same thing. Cochran, Phillip, and Michael advance, while Reynold, Dawn, and Brenda are out. The remaining six will eat shipworms, the ocean’s equivalent of a termite. Malcolm, Eddie, and Cochran (beating Andrea by a second) move on to the next round, balut (duck embryos). Cochran and Malcolm move to the final round, pig brains. By about a second again, Cochran finishes first to win immunity.

Phillip proposes a split vote between Eddie and Reynold so that one of them goes home. He wants a big fish gone first. Corinne counters that they should just do an easy first vote and get rid of someone who nobody likes, Sherri. Phil completely disregards her. What would Boston Rob do? Cochran doesn’t understand why Corinne so vocally wants to keep Eddie and Reynold, but he’s willing to play along anyway. If he gets burned, he’ll deserve it because this would make two weeks in a row he just did as she said with no benefit to himself.

Corinne reveals her real plan to Dawn. She wants her to be the seventh member of their alliance and get rid of Phillip next, which I’m not sure I understand the need for since 6 out of 11 is already a majority. Afraid of repeating mistakes of the past, she Dawn shares this information with Cochran.

Their question now is whether they can get rid of Corinne instead. They should have 5 votes easily. Sherri and Erik are their hopes for a majority, a desperate player and a guy who doesn’t talk strategy and previously made one of the dumbest moves in Survivor history. This could go either way.

Despite the reserved optimism from the rest of the tribe, Sherri tells Probst she doesn’t think the fans have a shot.

Votes
Sherri
Sherri
Sherri
Sherri
Sherri
Corinne
Corinne
Corinne
Corinne
Corinne
Corinne
Corinne

With 7 votes, Corinne has been voted off the island. Confident until about 15 seconds ago, she sunk herself by unnecessarily revealing her plan to one too many people.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Caramoan Episode 9, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 5

For the third time in four weeks, Omarosa was saved in All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 4 because everybody knows Trump isn’t going to get rid of her right away in spite of (or perhaps because of) how incompetent she is. Following her lame choices of who to bring back in the boardroom, Claudia was fired.

I hope everyone is enjoying the complete overkill of singing shows. Seeing as American Idol is getting record low ratings (down more than 50% from its January premiere), I was hoping NBC (the network that brought us Deal or No Deal every single night until it died) would learn a lesson about oversaturation of the genre, but instead of a two hour of The Apprentice, we get a The Voice rerun followed by a one hour Apprentice. I admit the Omarosa show is growing tiresome, but I’d rather watch this than yet another singing show (so instead, I watched the 40 minute delayed Amazing Race). Meanwhile, The Biggest Loser, the only bright spot on this fourth (or is it fifth by now?) place network over the first three months of the year, has been relegated to half a season a year.

With Omarosa’s team having lost 3 of 4 tasks, they will be getting some added firepower, Trace Adkins. Just in time for a fundraising task.

Their task for this week is to make money by creating works of 3D art, loosely speaking.

Lil Jon and Lisa Rinna are the project managers. Piers Morgan is back for another showdown with Omraosa, and he’ll be joined in the boardroom by Eric Trump.

Lisa suspects that Stephen will be useless in their efforts to make money, but Gary is afraid he will be, too. On the other team, Omarosa thinks she will get something, but she will be toward the back of the pack like when she was keeping fake numbers during the first task. This time, Brande is the accountant.

Lil Jon is already telling Trace that he doesn’t have anything to worry about if they lose.

Penn has secured $50,000 from Teller and $15,000 (in 150 pounds of Jello) from Blue Man Group. Not to be outdone, project manager Lisa scores $80,000 from Chaz Dean, who buys 4 pieces, including one of Stephen’s that he claims he was expecting someone else to buy.

When she finds out that she is tied with Dennis, Omarosa gives $2,000 to one of her donors so that she can come out ahead of him in their battle for last.

Lisa says that Penn was her star. When asked how much Stephen brought in, her response of $5,000 receives laughs from the other team. He blames this on other team members selling his art. If they lose, she would be bringing back Gary as well, who did not raise anything, though he argues like Stephen that Marilu sold his piece for $25,000.

Trump pushes Trace into more or less saying he likes his old team better.

Lil Jon would be returning with Dennis and Omarosa for the same logic as Lisa used: they raised the least. In his favor, Dennis actually created something of value, including a signed Derek Jeter baseball bat as the centerpiece for his art.

Lil Jon’s team sold a total of $179,500. Lisa’s team sold a total of $225,000, as Penn and Lisa just about won this task single handedly. Lisa will receive over $400,000 for her charity, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Omarosa quickly responds that Lil Jon should be fired as the project manager because he didn’t raise enough money to win.

Piers argues that Dennis was let down by the others when it came to fundraising because he contributed a brilliant piece that was worth a lot more than the $5,000 that they sold it for.

Brande would prefer to move forward with Dennis and get rid of Omarosa.

As planned, Lil Jon will be returning to the boardroom with Omarosa and Dennis. Finally, there’s a project manager not afraid to bring Omarosa back into the boardroom. The only question is whether Trump’s ready to let her go. Not only does she go back with a project manager who just can’t be justifiably fired after raising $82,500, but she’s going back with Dennis Rodman, who is not afraid of a fight either.

Lil Jon respects that Dennis has turned himself around, and he would rather move forward with him than Omarosa. Dennis argues that this is about business, not who Trump has known for 10 years.

Trump loves Dennis’ story of redemption and his spirited battle with Omarosa. With that said, Omarosa has finally been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 6, which airs Sunday at 10/9c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 22 Episode 7

As the last team to wake up to the fact that they were not going to be able to make a fire using sticks, Max & Katie placed last in The Amazing Race 22 Episode 6, but they were saved by non-elimination.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Bates & Anthony – 5:39AM
Second: Pam & Winnie – 6:11AM
Third: Chuck & Wynona – 6:17AM
Fourth: Joey & Meghan – 6:23AM
Fifth: Caroline & Jennifer – 6:28AM
Sixth: Mona & Beth – 6:37AM
Seventh: Max & Katie – 6:49AM

Caroline & Jennifer have no idea what the speed limit is. It shows. They are pulled over doing 96kph in a 60. Being cute and blonde is no benefit here, and they get a ticket anyway. Their fine? 820 pula, roughly $100 US. Not the type of money you’d expect to shell out in Africa, but they will have to go pay it right now in the middle of what’s looking like a very quick leg with no airplane travel.

When they arrive at the police station, the cops will not accept dollars. Caroline is not allowed to leave the police station, so Jennifer gives her money to a guy to go exchange it for her because by race rules she cannot leave either because she has to stay with her partner. Luckily, that random strange guy does not just disappear, and he returns with their money.

They are not alone in getting hit by this speed trap. Max is pulled over doing 76. Seeing as they are already in last place and have a speed bump, things are not looking good for Max & Katie. Their only hope is that Joey & Meghan are clueless when it comes to navigation. On his way out of the parking lot after paying the fine, Max backs into a pole. Under normal circumstances, he would probably care, but so long as it’s operational, it doesn’t matter because it’s not like it’s his car. The good news for Joey & Meghan is they now have someone to follow, which will allow them to correctly find the task location that they have been driving around searching for this whole time.

Bates & Anthony, already with a half hour lead, opt to do the fast forward. Their task is to waterski 1 mile in potentially crocodile infested waters. A little scary but simple enough.

Before they can do the road block, Max & Katie must bead a skirt and do a ceremonial dance. This should give Joey & Meghan about a 10 minute lead over them.

The road block requires teams to deliver two goats upstream in a canoe.

Road block (in order of arrival): Winnie, Wynona, Beth, Caroline, Joey, Max

This proves to be a bigger test of patience than it looks. Both partners are on the canoes, which is leading to much tension between the person doing the task and the person sitting there in the cases of both Chuck & Wynona and Mona & Beth.

The detour is a choice between brains or brawn. In brains, teams will go on a horseback safari and search for 10 animal cut outs. In brawn, teams will stack firewood and haul it with donkeys.

Brawn: Caroline & Jennifer, Mona & Beth, Meghan & Joey, Max & Katie, Pam & Winnie (switched from brawn to brains to brawn)
Brains: Chuck & Wynona

The horses will do as they should, but there is every likelihood that the donkeys will be stubborn. The main advantage with the donkeys is that they won’t have to redo it if they get it wrong, which Pam & Winnie have to do, opening up new potential in the battle for last. When they are incorrect a second time, it’s pretty much over for them.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Royal Tree Lodge.

First: Bates & Anthony (win $7500 each)
Second: Mona & Beth
Third: Caroline & Jennifer
Fourth: Chuck & Wynona
Fifth: Joey & Meghan
Sixth: Max & Katie
Eliminated: Pam & Winnie

Following their detour woes, the otherwise strong Pam & Winnie have been eliminated.

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