Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Istanbul, Not Constantinople
By M. Giant | Season 21 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.04.2012
Trey and Lexi, who is now out of her selling togs, read the clue telling them to take a taxi to the next Pit Stop. That would be a park along the shore of the Bosporus, where a yacht called Savarona is docked. Phil tells us that it was "originally purchased for the founder of the Republic of Turkey [even though it doesn't look centuries old], and is now the Pit Stop for this leg of the race. The last team to check in here may be eliminated." They may, or they may not. For once we have no idea.
The Chippendales make it to the Roadblock when Abba's down to his last four cups and Ryan's dispensing his last one, not forgetting to hug his sherbet-broker. And I was starting to worry he wasn't going to grab anyone at all this leg. As he rejoins Abbie and they run out of there in second place, Abbie tattles, "The Sri Lankans want Trey and Lexi to win first." "Why?" Ryan asks, as though anybody could find him anything other than charming, and Abbie explains how the twins don't want her and Ryan to win. "They're so juvenile. They can suck it," Ryan spits, displaying the kind of maturity we should all aspire to.
Abba's done selling, and Natalie seems to be making some progress at last. But James is too, for the Chippendales. Team Metal reads their Pit Stop clue in third place and they get out of there with James carrying both backpacks. What, is Abba's back coming apart now too?
Now Josh & Brent each have a tray on their heads as they make their way up a long, steep staircase to their last stop, Senkagit Pazari. They get their goods delivered and their papers stamped, and on the way out, Brent says, "We're old heads at this now." Josh just groans at that, along with the rest of the world. They pass the monster truckers on their way back to the bakery, where they return their trays, collect their clue, and get out of there in sixth place, having dropped from third leaving the Asian ferry terminal. They're really running this leg so poorly that the only way they'll survive is if someone else runs it worse.
Natalie counts her lira and finds that she's only three short, while James gratefully accepts some tips from a local on proper pot-carrying technique. Rob & Kelley get their clue to the Roadblock in last place, and Natalie sells her last cup of Turkish sherbet. Jaymes is hollering at James from the sidelines, "We gotta go! We gotta go! We're the only ones left!" Well, not exactly.
At the Pit Stop, Phil stands near the docked yacht in front of a loud marching band, whose red-clad, fabulously-mustached bandleader is serving as the greeter. "Merhaba (Hello.)," he says, in this week's first language lesson, and welcomes Trey and Lexi to Istanbul. Phil tells them they're team number one, and have won a trip to Australia. Lexi says they were due a first-place finish and that today was incredible. Trey ads that they've never been out of the country before, "but we proved a lot of people wrong, I think." Yes, we never thought you'd keep money that you knew belonged to someone else, but now we know better.