TAR - The Clues and the Clueless.

Some people need to "get a clue" and some are just plain clueless.

Nick and Starr leave first for Portaleza Brazil - Ken and Tina leave next and Terence and Sarah leave fighting.

Terrence and Sarah complain that Nick & Starr and Ken & Tina are in an alliance and didn't even say "Hi" to them at the airline counter when they arrived. Terrence and Sarah whine a lot. When they aren't whining about the other teams they are fighting with each other. They are newly dating and I doubt they will be dating long.

When they begin arriving at the ticket counter there is only one seat left on the plane. The agent suddenly gets word from somewhere that they have switched planes. Now it's a larger plane and there will be enough seats for everyone. Tina who is separated from Ken, the former NFL player who cheated on her, takes credit for getting a larger plane so everyone can get on the same plane. I'm beginning to get a clue about why he strayed.

She and Ken are indeed standing at the counter looking despondent, trying to get on the flight as others arrive when she is notified that they have switched planes to a larger plane. Now I don't know but since I've always thought they had to have at least 4 seats for every team (the camera guy and the sound guy or producer or something), perhaps the airline realized suddenly how many seats were about to be sold. However, it's hard for me to imagine there was simply a bigger plane in the hangar and they unloaded the people on the smaller one and said, come on over to this one instead. My guess is it was more like a mis-communication with the agent in the first place and the bigger plane had been arranged for this particular time and route by the TAR folks. It may not be the usual plane for this time and route and they did switch but I seriously doubt it was only when and because Tina convinced them to do it. Sorry Tina, I'm not buying it.


Tina is going around telling everyone that she got them to switch planes so everyone can make the flight, so "you owe me". Terrence decides to argue with her about it as they are standing in line to board the plane. Ken and Tina work their way to the front of the line when they get to the gate. They were not in a hurry to get to the gate because they knew they were first in line because they were the first to check in and after all they got the bigger plane for everyone. Tina keeps saying "what's fair is fair." Catty remarks between Ken and Terrence make everyone standing in line uncomfortable.

They decide to be civil and apologize to each other then Ken grabs Terrence around the neck and gives him a kiss telling him he's sorry. Terrence is forced to laugh. Ken manages to break the tension that Tina actually created. Ken and Tina do manage to get on the airplane first but as we all know that doesn't mean you get OFF of the airplane first or get to the taxi's first or get a good taxi driver or get to the next place first.

Get a cab to a sea side town where they take a dune buggie ride down the beach to where they get their next clue.

Stephanie and Anthony say the only thing missing in their life is financial stability so he thinks as the provider they need to win the race. They actually seem much less neurotic and needy than most of the other couples. As they ride in the cab thriough the seaside town they notice the poverty and talk about how lucky they are and begin to appreciate what they have. They realize they have complained about their apartment or their furniture when it's much better than what these people have. They seem to take this to heart as they go through the town.

Detour is called beach it or dock it.
Beach it - Teams must get the a 400 lb boat across beach by rolling it over two big logs to the water.

Dock it - teams search for container in a ship yard, looking for a unique serial number on computer, then locate it in the ship yard. Not physical, eye for detail required. Only Mark and Bill the long time friends who are geeks choose this task.

When they get their boat into the water the teams must follow a marker towards a taxi stand. Tina bitches at Ken and tells him he NEVER listens to her and he is NOT to tell her what to do as he has her walk through some watery reeds then up a hill towards the taxi stand sign.

Terrence chooses the long way around because it's flatter and he doesn't want to climb the hill. (big mistake)
Tina bitches at Ken some more Terrence is frustrated because they can't get a taxi from the place they are because he took the flatter route rather than climb the hill.

Kelly and Christy get hung up on misreading the clue, and look for a container after they did the beach it thing already. They spend a lot of time digging in the sand and watching others leave the beach area headed for the taxi stand when they finally decide that no one can find it and so they give up also. They didn't seem to notice none of the other teams were digging around looking for it either.

Road Block
One team member has to search for a clue hidden in plain sight.
Search a wall with ads for next destination then take the name of it to the guy standing there and when you are correct he'll give you the next clue.
Mark and Bill team arrive first. I'm not sure which is which but he figures out pretty quickly that he just needs to write down all of the destinations on the wall, then go to the guy and read them off until it's the right one. Tina gets a clue watching him do that and she does it too. She's not quite as clueless as I thought.

Mark and Bill racing Ken and Tina to the pit stop. Mark and Bill were ahead until the taxis pulled up side by side at a stop light. They had a friendly joking exchange (after rolling down the windows to see who was in the other taxi) then Ken and Tina's taxi speeds off at the light. Mark and Bill are not all bent out of shape about it. Tina says at the pit stop that she and Ken need to work on their communication but since they came in first she guesses they are doing something right. See, she is getting a clue.

Kelly and Christy announce "We have learned to read the clues." Then they don't read the one they are holding in their hands! It said, have your taxi wait during the "Roadblock" task, but Kelly and Christy let their taxi go. After completing the task they can't get a taxi. Finally they do and they promise they are going to read the clues much more carefully after today.

At the pit stop.....
First - Ken and Tina
Second - Mark and Bill

Then in a foot race with 3 teams arriving at almost the very same moment are ---
Third - Terrence and Sarah
Fourth - Aja and Ty
Fifth - Dallas and Toni
After that comes Nick and Starr in sixth, and miraculously the clueless Kelly and Christy seventh.

In another foot race at the end are eighth, Andrew and Dan and ninth Marisa and Brooke.

The last to arrive are Anthony and Stephanie
"You have been eliminated"
They say they are going to move forward and Anthony explains he knows he has a lot to be thankful for. He has Stephanie and he has his health and he has his good looks. ROFLMAO I think these two will be fine and much like the Beekeeping Hippies who were eliminated last week, they are truly thankful for what they got to see and do.

Next week we have some issues of altitude sickness. There is more info on the CBS site we are told so we will have to look there for clues or else we will be clueless.