Episode Report Card 21 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Choir Boy at Heart
By M. Giant | Season 23 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.03.2013
The racers take a train to Vienna, Austria, and though they don't all leave Gdansk at the same time, a long layover in Warsaw allows the trailing Afghanimals and blondes to catch up so that everyone arrives in Vienna at the same time. Their first stop is the Opera House, where a guy in a Rigoletto costume gives them their Detour clue. They can either put together a crystal chandelier (which nobody does) or search through a ballroom full of dancers to find exact matches for the masks they're currently wearing. Or, they can bag that entirely and go for a bungee-jumping Fast Forward. Jason & Amy race Nicole & Travis to that one until the ER docs give up the chase. Just as well for them, because Jason & Amy end up waiting in vain at the top of the tower for dangerous winds to die down. The Detour proves deceptively tricky for some teams, but they're all out of there by the time Jason & Amy give up on the Fast Forward and return, now in last place. Which I'm sure they think blows.
The other teams head to a Roadblock to sing Schubert's "Die Forelle" in German with the Vienna Boys Choir, which is not only outside almost everyone' s comfort zone, it takes almost everyone more than one attempt, allowing Jason & Amy to catch up. Each Roadblocker works individually with a singing instructor, most of them getting out of there after a couple of tries. On their way out, Nicky & Kim are briefly tempted to poach Jason & Amy's taxi but reconsider, and then Marie purposely steals Jason & Amy's cab and plans to pin it on the Afghanimals, screwing two teams in one stroke. Obviously Jason & Amy are pretty upset to find their cab gone when they come out of the Roadblock.
Then it's on to a palace where the teams have to negotiate a hedgerow maze to find the clue sending them to the Pit Stop. Nicky & Kim find that clue first, just ahead of the ER docs, but a long uphill footrace goes to Nicole & Travis. And Nicky & Kim come in second, just ahead of the Afghanimals, which for the baseball wives is like first. Marie & Tim are the fourth team at the mat, and Jason & Amy -- who by now know exactly what went down -- are right behind them, which leads to an ugly scene at the mat. Jason & Amy are mad, Marie is unrepentant and Tim looks like he'd rather be under the mat than on it.
Meanwhile, it's a lengthy toss-up as to whether Okie Tim or Ally is the worse singer, until the both get out of there after five tries. The blondes are in the lead all the way to the last clue, with the Okies closing in fast -- but it's not enough, and Tim & Danny end up Philiminated. I'm not sure if there's ever been a season that would have gone well for those two, but this one wasn't it.