TAR23, Recap Leg 4, 10/20/13

Welcome to Leg 4! Last time, on How Not To Fly To Portugal, teams from Santiago to Lisbon.  Nicole and Travis and Jason and Amy team up and breeze through the tasks in Portugal, while Tim and Marie barely make it onto the next leg due to an airline blunder by Chester and Ephraim, who don’t even get to run the leg, as they are eliminated in Lisbon Airport.  Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)

Arrival at the pit stop last episode:
1st – Nicole/Travis, Team Emergency
2nd – Jason/Amy, Einstein YDC
3rd – Nicky/Kim, MLB Wives
4th – Tim/Danny, Oklahoma Hicks

5th – Brandon/Adam, Naked Boys Unicycling
6th – Leo/Jamal, The Afghanimals

7th – Ally/Ashley, NHL Ice Girls

8th – Tim/Marie, Team Pinky and No Brain

Castelo dos Mouros, Sintra, Portugal

11:08 PM Nicole/Travis (1st)
Clue: Fly and Ferry over 2000 miles to Svolvær, Norway!  Once there, find your next clue at the ferry dock.

(Toyouke: “I love that the Amazing Cameramen are so Amazing they can snag a shot of a rainbow over the harbor.”)

11:14 PM Jason/Amy (2nd)

And then apparently we are not good enough to know when all the other teams left, so they just depart whenever.

Nicky/Kim (3rd)

Tim/Danny (4th)

Brandon/Adam (5th)

Leo/Jamal (6th)

Ally/Ashley (7th)

Tim/Marie (8th)

Teams go to the travel agent in the following order:

1- Nicole/Travis
2- Jason/Amy
3- Nicky/Kim  

4- Tim/Danny 

5- Brandon/Adam

6- Leo/Jamal

7- Ally/Ashley  

8- Tim/Marie

When Nicole and Travis arrive, they discover the earliest flight to Bodo, Norway is 8:55 am, and all the teams will have enough time to get there for the flight.  With that, the Amazing Green Line takes us to Bodo and teams arrive in the following order:

1- Leo/Jamal
2- Nicole/Travis
3- Ally/Ashley   

4- Nicky/Kim 

5- Jason/Amy

6- Brandon/Adam – who rig up fishing gear for the ferry ride.

7- Tim/Danny 

8- Tim/Marie

Teams take the ferry to Svolvær.  (Toyouke: “How do you manage to fuck up your Titanic reference? Being on the BACK of the boat. Dumbass.”)  Once there, teams get the clue on the dock in following order:

1- Jason/Amy
2- Brandon/Adam – Adam: “We used to be Boy Scouts, but now we’re Man Scouts.”  (Toyouke: “Shut up, "Man Scout".”)
3- Nicole/Travis 

4- Tim/Marie 

5- Ally/Ashley

6- Leo/Jamal

7- Nicky/Kim 

8- Tim/Danny

And we get the Detour Clue.

DETOUR:
Hang Your Heads OR Hammer of the Cods

All teams must travel to John Berg Svinøya AS fish processor to find the options.

*Hang Your Heads: Teams must enter the warehouse and string 6 bundles of 10 fish heads each and put them in a wheelbarrow.  Teams then travel with their wheelbarrow to the drying fields where they hang their bundles correctly on the marked poles.  The fish foreman will then give them their next clue.
*Hammer of the Cods: Teams travel on foot to the drying fields and collect 15 pairs of dried cod and carry them back to the warehouse.  Once the fish has been counted, they use a hammer to pound out 1 kilogram of fish jerky to get their next clue.

1- Tim/Marie choose Hang Your Heads – and in the process, manage to miscount the number of heads that they were supposed to string (Toyouke: “Did Pinky and No-Brain misread the clue?”)  and hang them on an unmarked pole.  (Toyouke: “OK, normally I hate Marie, but that "marked pole" is really tiny. I could easily see missing the flag.”)

2- Brandon/Adam choose Hang Your Heads – Brandon: “We’re pretty good at slamming heads on rods.”
3- Jason/Amy choose Hang Your Heads

4- Alley/Ashley choose Hang Your Heads

5- Leo/Jamal choose Hang Your Heads – who somehow got a wheelbarrow with a flat tire.  And then dump their fish in the road.

6- Nicole/Travis choose Hang Your Heads

7- Tim/Danny choose Hammer of the Cods – Danny: “Tim is a fantastic meat beater.”

8- Nicky/Kim choose Hammer of the Cods – (Toyouke: “I wonder if the fact that you have to climb to get the dried fish is an indicator of how hard this Detour option is. As in, if it was as hard as fish heads you wouldn't have to waste time climbing.”)

Teams complete the detour in the following order:

1- Jason/Amy
2- Brandon/Adam
3- Nicole/Travis 

4- Tim/Marie    

5- Ally/Ashley

6- Leo/Jamal

7- Tim/Danny 

8- Nicky/Kim

Teams are now instructed to travel by high speed RIB boat to Henningsvær, Norway to get their next clue.  Teams arrive at the Lofoten Explorer Boat dock in the following order:

1- Brandon/Adam
2- Jason/Amy
3- Tim/Marie 

4- Nicole/Travis    

5- Ally/Ashley

6- Leo/Jamal

7- Tim/Danny 

8- Nicky/Kim

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

ROADBLOCK:

Who’s the biggest Swinger?

In this roadblock, roadblockers must put on a wet suit and jump of the bridge tied to an 80 foot rope.  They must then unclip the rope and fall into the water below and swim to a buoy to get their next clue.

The following teammates take the Roadblock:

1- Brandon
2- Jason
3- Tim S.

4- Nicole

5- Ashley

6- Jamal

7- Tim W.

8- Nicky

After much jumping, teams complete the Roadblock in the following order:

1- Brandon/Adam
2- Jason/Amy
3- Tim/Marie 

4- Nicole/Travis    

5- Ally/Ashley

6- Leo/Jamal

7- Tim/Danny 

8- Nicky/Kim

Teams are now instructed to make their way back to the shore and choose a Ford Ranger to hook up to a sled loaded with a large boulder.  Teams are to pull the sled with the boulder in order to get a satchel of Viking coins and the clue to the Pit Stop underneath.

Teams find the Ford Rangers in the following order:

1- Brandon/Adam
2- Jason/Amy
3- Tim/Marie 

4- Nicole/Travis    

5- Ally/Ashley – who somehow forgot to learn how to drive a stick shift before they came on the race.  (Toyouke: “Somehow it's comforting that after 23 seasons there are still teams who don't learn stick before coming on this show.”)

6- Leo/Jamal

7- Tim/Danny 

8- Nicky/Kim

Teams move the boulder in the following order:

1- Brandon/Adam
2- Jason/Amy
3- Tim/Marie – who manage to grab the satchel of coins and not the clue.

4- Nicole/Travis – who try to barter the information to the pit stop with the Express Pass.

5- Leo/Jamal

6- Tim/Danny

7- Ally/Ashley 

8- Nicky/Kim

Teams find now that they must travel to Viking Longhouse, the PIT STOP of the fourth leg of this racearoundtheworld.  The last team to arrive MAY be eliminated!

1- Brandon/Adam – who win $5000 each.

Phil then informs Brandon and Adam that they are still racing and hands them their next clue. . .

ORDER NOW:
1st – Brandon/Adam
2nd – Jason/Amy
3rd – Tim/Marie
4th – Nicole/Travis
5th – Leo/Jamal
6th – Tim/Danny

7th – Ally/Ashley

8th – Nicky/Kim

(Toyouke: “HA. That was the weirdest bootleg version of "Fish Heads" by Barnes and Barnes I think I've ever heard. And that song is already weird.”)

Next week: Does Marie give Nicole the Express Pass?  Who gets burned by the Double U-Turn?  Where are the fancy touch screens?  And why is Danny in a dress?  Until next time!