TAR20, Recap Leg 3, 3/4/12

Welcome to Leg 3! Last time, on I Have the Math Skills of a Two Year Old, teams raced through Argentina and put together ovens and counted cattle. And an 18 hour bus ride put some teams behind the pack, causing the elimination of the Clowns, whose poor math skills finally got the better of them. Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)

Arrival at the pit stop last episode:
1st – Rachel/Dave , Team Free Ron Again!
2nd – Art/JJ, Team Patrulla Fronteriza
3rd – Bopper/Mark, The Kentucky Hillbillies
4th – Brendon/Rachel, Team Sparkles
5th – Kerri/Stacy, Team Double Bubble
6th – Nary/Jamie, The Fembots
7th – Vanessa/Ralph, The Dating Divorcees
8th – Joey “Fitness”/Danny, The Jersey Meatheads
9th – Elliot/Andrew, The Wondertwins

El Gomero, La Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

12:22 AM Rachel/Dave (1st)
Clue: Fly to Asunción, Paraguay! Once there, travel by taxi to Metalúrgica Punta de Rieles and search the equipment to find your next clue. You have $200 for this leg of the race.

(Toyouke: “Shouldn't they be leaving South America by now?”)

12:25 AM Art/JJ (2nd)
Bopper/Mark (3rd)
Brendon/Rachel (4th)
Kerri/Stacy (5th)
Nary/Jamie (6th)
Vanessa/Ralph (7th)
Joey “Fitness”/Danny (8th)
Elliot/Andrew (9th)

AND the Powers that Be decide that we don’t really need pit stop times because the more important thing is that everyone arrived at the airport to get flights in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Nary/Jamie
4- Bopper/Mark
5- Brendon/Rachel
6- Kerri/Stacy
7- Vanessa/Ralph
8- Joey “Fitness”/Danny
9- Elliot/Andrew

So, Rachel and Dave get to the counter and find an 8:45 AM direct flight to Asunción that leaves two hours earlier than the next flight, departing at 10:40 AM. Thus, they get standby tickets, as do all the other teams. (Toyouke: “This poor man at the check-in counter just had to deal with a dozen Americans making stupid jokes about booting people off flights.”) Only four sets miraculously open up, so the flights shake down as follows:

Flight 1, arrives at 8:45 AM
1) Rachel/Dave
2) Art/JJ
3) Nary/Jamie
4) Bopper/Mark

Flight 2, arrives at 10:40 AM
1) Brendon/Rachel
2) Kerri/Stacy
3) Vanessa/Ralph
4) Joey “Fitness”/Danny
5) Elliot/Andrew

The Amazing Red and Green lines now take us to Paraguay, and the teams arrive in the following order:

1- Art/JJ
2- Bopper/Mark
3- Nary/Jamie
4- Rachel/Dave
5- Brendon/Rachel
6- Kerri/Stacy
7- Elliot/Andrew
8- Vanessa/Ralph
9- Joey “Fitness”/Danny

Teams now travel by taxi to the Metalúrgica Punta de Rieles. (Toyouke: “This playground is insane. Why are there grills?“) Teams arrive and get their clue in the following order:

1- Art/JJ
2- Bopper/Mark
3- Nary/Jamie
4- Rachel/Dave
5- Brendon/Rachel
6- Kerri/Stacy
7- Elliot/Andrew
8- Joey “Fitness”/Danny
9- Vanessa/Ralph

And we get the Detour Clue.

DETOUR:
Stacked Up OR Strung Out
*Stacked Up: Teams take a taxi to the Deposito de Frutas La Estrella. Teams then find a loaded watermelon truck and unload it to form a 10 x 10 pyramid of watermelons. Once the pyramid is perfectly formed, teams will get their next clue. (Kmanpat: “Look, kids, a practical use for (n)(n + 1)(2n + 1) / 6.”)
*Strung Out: Teams take a taxi to Universidad National de Asunción and string a 36 string harp to prepare it for tuning in order to get their next clue.

(Toyouke: “Pyramid stacking = opportunity for hilarity. Also I would like to know why the harp is the national instrument of Paraguay. Just seems odd, is all.”)

1- Art/JJ choose Stacked Up – (Toyouke: “I'm going to start saying "it's hotter than new love".”)
2- Rachel/Dave choose Stacked Up – and their watermelons fall, causing the first Bald Snark of the season. And then, they get to the other option, and decide to use the Express Pass. (Toyouke: “FREE RON! I don't know if that was relevant for that argument or not. I just felt like saying it.”)
3- Nary/Jamie choose Stacked Up – whose watermelons fall, and they Bald Snark to Strung Out.
4- Bopper/Mark choose Stacked Up – whose watermelons fall, and they Bald Snark to Strung Out. (Toyouke: “I love that Mark took a couple of seconds to eat some of the busted watermelon. I probably would do the same.”)
5- Joey “Fitness”/Danny choose Stacked Up
6- Brendon/Rachel choose Stacked Up – who get fed up by Vanessa’s taunting, and they Bald Snark to Strung Out.
7- Vanessa/Ralph choose Stacked Up – and battle through the falling watermelons to actually build the pyramid.
8- Elliot/Andrew choose Strung Out – and one would think a musician could handle this. (Auburnium0513: “I find it very interesting that everyone is saying "I'm good at this sort of thing" and yet only the twins picked this task first.”)
9- Kerri/Stacey choose Strung Out – after being told by Team Kentucky how long they spent on the watermelons. But not that Team Kentucky never finished the watermelons. (Toyouke: “I am entertained by Mark and Bopper screwing with those girls.”)

(Toyouke: “The guy checking the watermelon stacks is awesome. The pause before the thumbs up was fantastic. And I think, accounting for the travel time and the two hours you already spent there, a Bald Snark isn't really a good idea.”)

Teams complete the detour in the following order:

1- Art/JJ – Art: “Stacking watermelons in Paraguay was on my bucket list!”
2- Rachel/Dave
3- Brendon/Rachel
4- Bopper/Mark
5- Joey “Fitness”/Danny
6- Kerri/Stacy
7- Nary/Jamie
8- Elliot/Andrew
9- Vanessa/Ralph

Teams are now instructed to take a taxi to Plaza de la Democracia. Teams arrive in the following order:

1- Art/JJ
2- Rachel/Dave
3- Brendon/Rachel
4- Joey “Fitness”/Danny
5- Bopper/Mark
6- Nary/Jamie
7- Kerri/Stacy
8- Elliot/Andrew
9- Vanessa/Ralph

And once they arrive, teams get the third roadblock clue.

ROADBLOCK:

Who’s ready to use their head?

In this roadblock, one team member must learn a traditional bottle dance routine without dropping the bottle on the ground. Teams have a finite number of bottles, and if they drop all of them, they will incur a two hour penalty at the Pit Stop. Once the task is complete, teams get their next clue.

(Toyouke: “Where's Jet and Cord and their "We amuse ourselves by balancing brooms on our chins so we can totally balance a flag"!?! You know they balance bottles on their heads too. Wait, the bottles are full of liquid? That makes this better.”)

The following teammates take the Roadblock:

1- Art
2- Dave – who uses all his bottles. And is the only one.
3- Rachel R.
4- Joey “Fitness”
5- Mark
6- Nary
7- Kerri
8- Elliot
9- Ralph

After much bottle balancing, teams complete the Roadblock in the following order:

1- Art/JJ
2- Rachel/Dave
3- Brendon/Rachel
4- Joey “Fitness”/Danny
5- Bopper/Mark
6- Nary/Jamie
7- Kerri/Stacy
8- Vanessa/Ralph
9- Elliot/Andrew

Teams find now that they must travel by foot to Escalinata de Antequera, the PIT STOP of the third leg of this racearoundtheworld. The last team to arrive MAY be eliminated!

1- Art/JJ – who win a trip for 2 to the Bahamas.
2- Brendon/Rachel
3- Joey “Fitness”/Danny
4- Bopper/Mark
5- Nary/Jamie
6- Rachel/Dave – and Phil tells us that no other team has ever gotten a penalty on a task and survived to the next leg. (Toyouke: “No it's not! Rob and Amber quit their Roadblock and didn't get eliminated! Jesus, Phil!” Kmanpat: “And the three other teams that did it with them. . .”)
7- Kerri/Stacy
8- Vanessa/Ralph
9- Elliot/Andrew

And we bid goodbye to hot twins. They are sad. But any guitarist that cannot string a harp? Buh-bye.

ORDER NOW:
1st – Art/JJ
2nd – Brendon/Rachel
3rd – Joey “Fitness”/Danny
4th – Bopper/Mark
5th – Nary/Jamie
6th – Rachel/Dave
7th – Kerri/Stacy
8th – Vanessa/Ralph

Next week: Off to Italy we go! There are remote controlled helicopters and statues. And Rachel is being loud and screetchy. Until next time!