Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Knight Of The Sausages
By Miss Alli | Season 11 | Episode 7 | Aired on 03.31.2007
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close. In this double episode, we start out by heading to Warsaw, Poland, where teams meet up with Chopin and take a shot at piano tuning or X-rays, as they prefer. There's more scrambling of the order than you'd expect in light of the extreme differences between teams' arrival times at the end of the last leg, both because travel from Mozambique to Warsaw isn't that easy and because sometimes Detour clues are hard. The first leg is non-elimination, and Team Guido winds up at the end of the pack, making them "marked" for elimination in the second hour. That hour takes the teams to Auschwitz, where everyone is moved and no one is happy. After that, they run into an Intersection, which requires teams to work in pairs. This works out well for Uchenna and Joyce and Danny and Oswald, who team up to take the Fast Forward and finish strong. It works out badly for Dustin and Kandice, who have run a really good leg and wind up just barely being the third team at the Intersection, which requires them to wait about four hours for another team they can work with. The BQs team up with Charla and Mirna, leaving Team Guido and Eric and Pink as the other team. This all culminates in a giant volume-eating competition, which is as exciting as those always are (which is to say: not very), and while Charla is weak at eating two feet of sausage, so are both Eric and Pink. In any event, the teams go from here to a Roadblock, where Charla puts on a suit of armor and keeps falling down. That's about the size of it. Team Guido does manage to finish ahead of Eric and Pink, but just barely, so the half-hour penalty they have to absorb completely finishes them off. In this episode, Eric uncorks maybe his funniest line ever, Mirna finally pays a price for the ridiculous asshole way she treats people, and Chopin looks surprisingly good for a dead guy. Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: Teams spread out by hours and hours, until Mirna and Charla had to wait for "the weather" to allow the other teams to catch up. A boat ride to Zanzibar had Charla horking up her guts over the rail, while Mirna just waved a flag for herself. Team Guido and Teri and Ian wound up getting stuck in a race for last place, in which Teri and Ian emerged victorious; that is to say, last. And they were eliminated, and they went home, and frankly, it was pretty annoying.
Credits. Oh, world. You're so big. And I really thank this show for letting me see so much of you as people run by you as quickly as possible while yelling.
Commercials. I don't care how many times Keckler says it's like apocalypse porn. I'm not watching Jericho. I saw the pilot, and it was like the Hallmark Hall of the Nuclear Holocaust. Actually, this had better be it for recapping the commercials, because this damn episode is going to be long enough as it is.
We are in Zanzibar, where this great big castle was the pit stop. Can Team Guido come back from almost a whole day behind? Are Charla and Mirna really Too Hot To Handle? And if they aren't, can we all still use "too hot" as an excuse not to handle them?
4:20 AM. Charla and Mirna. The clue sends them 5000 miles to Warsaw, Poland. Phil says that when they land, they'll head for Czapski Palace, childhood home of Frederic Chopin, where a dude dressed up like Chopin will be playing the piano right by their next clue. I like the implication that Chopin is sort of the Mickey Mouse of Poland, like you have to go get your picture taken with him and he's not allowed to talk out of character. Phil also exposits that because getting to Warsaw is difficult (as we will see), everyone has guaranteed tickets on a flight that will arrive at 11:25 AM the next day. Of course, you can do better than that if you can find better tickets. Mirna interviews that she and Charla love coming in first, but it's harder, because now they're seen as a threat. I love the idea that Mirna thinks she "flies under the radar." I guess the radar doesn't speak Pidgin English. They get into a cab and decide to wait for Danny and Oswald, who are next and are also probably the only people who would cab-share with them without carrying garlic and a cross.
4:28 AM. Danny and Oswald. Oswald says that they're "not stupid," and they're competing, and they don't believe in alliances. Except with fabulousness. That's the best alliance of all. When they run into Charla and Mirna, the girls ask if Danny and Oswald want to share the taxi, and the guys agree. For the moment, they've decided to head for their hotel.
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