TAR17, Recap Leg 6, 10/31/10

Welcome to Leg 6! Last time, on Norway Am I Going to the Top of the Mountain!, teams hopped across the Sweden-Norway Border. The doctors conquered their fears of heights and eating meat and ended up in first place. The Volleyball players needed bunching, didn’t get it, and were eliminated. Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)

Arrival at the pit stop last episode:
1st – Nat/Kat, Team ER
2nd – Gary/Mallory, The Hillbillies
3rd – Jill/Thomas, Team Who?
4th – Michael/Kevin, Team Internet
5th – Brook/Claire, Team Infomercial
6th – Nick/Vicki, The Geniuses
7th – Chad/Stephanie, Team Neverland

Ankenes Marina, Narvik, Norway

8:26 PM Nat/Kat (1st)
Clue: Drive yourselves to Narvik Train Station. Take the train back to Stockholm, Sweden, and then catch a flight to St. Petersburg Russia! After travelling the 1200 miles, take a taxi to Vasilevsky Island and find the Rostral Columns to get your next clue.

Nat comments that they are competing against men all of the time in their jobs.

Gary/Mallory (2nd) – Mallory is grateful for the time with her father.
Jill/Thomas (3rd)
Michael/Kevin (4th)
Brook/Claire (5th)
Nick/Vicki (6th)
Chad/Stephanie (7th)

When Nat and Kat arrive at Narvik Station, they find that the train does not leave until 10:36 AM. (Toyouke: “Oo, the bunching that would have saved the volleyball players.” Auburnium0513: “That defeats the purpose of the Fast Forward last episode!”) So all of the teams find themselves on the same train to Stockholm. Aboard, the doctors and the HSN girls share a room and discuss how stinky they all are.

Teams arrive at Stockholm Central Station and get cabs to the airport in the following order:

1- Nat/Kat
2- Nick/Vicki
3- Jill/Thomas
4- Brook/Claire
5- Michael/Kevin
6- Gary/Mallory
7- Chad/Stephanie – (Toyouke: “I would expect more taxis near the train station.”)

Teams arrive at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, only to find that everyone will be able to catch the Amazing Red Line flight to St. Petersburg. So, teams fly to Russia and arrive at Pulkovo Airport in the following order:

1- Brook/Claire
2- Michael/Kevin
3- Chad/Stephanie
4- Gary/Mallory
5- Jill/Thomas
6- Nick/Vicki
7- Nat/Kat

Teams get in their cabs and take them to Vasilevsky Island and the Rostral Columns and arrive in the following order:

1- Brook/Claire – Claire: “We’re rushing through Russia!” (Auburnium0513: “HSN team, please stop.”)
2- Michael/Kevin – Michael: “Kevin, pay attention, this is historic.” Kevin: “I don’t care dad.” (Toyouke: “Michael in Dad Mode is hilarious.”)
3- Chad/Stephanie
4- Gary/Mallory
5- Jill/Thomas
6- Nick/Vicki – Nick: “I like how they keep buildings and don’t blow them up.”
7- Nat/Kat – Nat: “Just call us Natalia and Katja.”

And we get the Detour Clue.

DETOUR:
Classical Music OR Classic Cinema
*Classical Music: Teams travel by taxi to Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace. Once there, teams find three gramophones and listen to three different compositions: Mussorgsky's “Pictures at an Exhibition”, Rimsky-Korsakov's “Scheherazade”, and Tchaikovsky's “Troika”. Then teams make their way into a music hall full of pianists playing different compositions. Teams determine which pianists are playing the correct compositions and take a copy of the sheet music from the pianists playing each of them. Once teams find the compositions and put them in the right order, then they would receive their next clue from the maestro.
*Classic Cinema: Teams make their way to Lenfilm Studios. Once there, teams find sound stage four and search through a pile of film clips to find one that matches Sergei Eisenstein’s October, which was playing for reference. Once the correct clip was found, teams would show it to the director to get their next clue.

(Toyouke: “Classical Music FTW! We would be all over that. Plus you can use the sheet music as a check.”)

1-Michael/Kevin choose Classic Cinema
2-Jill/Thomas choose Classic Cinema
3-Chad/Stephanie choose Classical Music – and, as the only team to complete the task, Chad admitted that he had to shut up and let Stephanie lead. Only after he was an asshat. (Toyouke: “Chad, you are not helpful. The answer to "What do you want to do?" is not "I feel like we should have left a long time ago."”)
4-Gary/Mallory choose Classical Music – but Bald Snark to Classic Cinema after having issues. Mallory: “Dear God, please help.” God: “Eh, classic cinema isn’t my thing. Besides, I’m in the tub.”
5-Nick/Vicki choose Classical Music – but Bald Snark to Classic Cinema after having issues. (Toyouke: “Oh, the Bald Snark may not be a good idea.”) And then after everyone else finds film clips, they double Bald Snark back to Classical Music, and have a much easier time. (Toyouke: “Unless you Bald Snark AFTER other teams, then it is an even worse idea.”)
6-Nat/Kat choose Classical Music – but Bald Snark to Classic Cinema after having issues.
7-Brook/Claire choose Classic Cinema

(Toyouke: “Auburnium0513 points out that once you guess, you have sheet music with you by the gramaphones to double check. If you know sheet music.” Kmanpat: “And clearly, these people don’t.”)

Teams complete the detour in the following order:

1- Jill/Thomas
2- Brook/Claire
3- Michael/Kevin
4- Chad/Stephanie
5- Nat/Kat
6- Gary/Mallory
7- Nick/Vicki

At the end of the detour, teams are handed either a film canister or a record with the image of their next cluebox location on it: Palace Square. Teams arrive in the following order:

1- Jill/Thomas
2- Brook/Claire
3- Michael/Kevin
4- Chad/Stephanie
5- Nat/Kat
6- Gary/Mallory
7- Nick/Vicki

Teams are then directed to take their taxis to the town of Alexandrovskaya and find the neighbor hood store. Teams arrive in the following order:

1- Brook/Claire
2- Michael/Kevin
3- Jill/Thomas
4- Nat/Kat
5- Chad/Stephanie
6- Gary/Mallory
7- Nick/Vicki

And teams come to the sixth roadblock.

ROADBLOCK:
Who’s ready for a Russian Drag Race?

In this roadblock, one team member must get into babushka garb, find 50 potatoes, a wheelbarrow and fill it with cow manure. Then, the roadblocker finds the field to plant the 50 potatoes as instructed by the babushka matron. Once complete, teams get their next clue.

(Toyouke: “Why isn't PHIL dressed up?”)

The following team members complete the Roadblock.

1- Brook
2- Kevin – (Toyouke: “I want one of the babushkas to comment on how cute Kevin is.“) Babushka # 1: “I like him. He’s a hard worker.” Babushka # 2: “We should keep him. They don’t work that hard around here.” Kevin: “I’ve got your poop and potatoes here!”
3- Jill
4- Nat
5- Stephanie – who throws the shovel in the manure and then laughs at Mallory’s misfortune. (Toyouke: “Stephanie, Stephanie...You can't be mean to Mallory. It's like kicking a dog.”)
6- Mallory
7- Nick – Nick: “But I thought this was going to be drag racing. You know, less drag, more race.”

After much potato planting, teams complete the Roadblock in the following order:

1- Michael/Kevin
2- Brook/Claire
3- Jill/Thomas
4- Nat/Kat
5- Chad/Stephanie
6- Gary/Mallory
7- Nick/Vicki

Teams get their clue and find that they must take a taxi back to St. Petersburg and find St. Isaac’s Cathedral, the PIT STOP of the sixth leg of this racearoundtheworld. The last team to arrive MAY be eliminated!

1- Jill/Thomas – who win a trip for two to São Paulo, Brazil.
2- Brook/Claire
3- Michael/Kevin – who should have been first, if Kevin wasn’t so stubborn.
4- Nat/Kat
5- Chad/Stephanie
6- Gary/Mallory
7- Nick/Vicki

And Nick and Vicki are last. But this is the second of three non-elimination legs and they are still in the race! At least Nick has vowed not to break down again like he did in Ghana.

ORDER NOW:
1st – Jill/Thomas
2nd – Brook/Claire
3rd – Michael/Kevin
4th – Nat/Kat
5th – Chad/Stephanie
6th – Gary/Mallory
7th – Nick/Vicki

Next week: Clowns! Circus! Spinning Plates! And Michael breaking down at his inability to play children’s games again. (Toyouke: “Well...I guess the fact that Michael and Kevin are in the previews means nothing big happens.”) Until next time!