The Amazing Race 23: Episode 4
The Amazing Race 23: Episode 4
By Daron Aldridge
October 21, 2013
As they enjoy the three hour boat ride (which hopefully will not end like Titanic or even Gilligan's Island), the teams explain that since they are on the top of the Earth, the sun is completely out and it's 11 p.m. Poor Ice girl Ally just can't spit out the phrase "the sun doesn't set." Maybe I should retract my previous assessment of them not being "dumb blondes".
The second clue of this leg is the Detour: Hang your Heads or Hammer of the Cods. For Heads, each team has to use a spiked pole and line/rope to string together 6 sets of ten fish heads, then transport them in a wheelbarrow up a road to a place for them to be dried on a marked pole. For Hammer, the team has to locate a 30 foot tall structure with hundreds and hundreds of pairs of cod. They have to pull down 15 pairs of cod from the top rows and then walk them to a warehouse. In the warehouse, they must then use a hammer to pound out one kilogram of cod jerky, which I didn't even know was a foodstuff until now.
All the teams have opted for Hang your Heads, except two...team Okies and the baseball wives. Both tasks seem very physical but Hammer seems even more, so I am stunned the wives go with it.
This time of night (?) makes it difficult to get a cab but there are surprisingly a decent amount of people on streets. The first team to get a cab is the one team I wish had fallen off the ferry...Tim & Marie. With this fortunate taxi luck, they’re the first ones to the Detour.
Meanwhile, the other teams seem content with just listening to each other complain about the lack of cabs. For me, I am baffled that several of the teams balked at just walking to the Detour because it is 2 km up the road (or just a bit over a mile). Alas, here we are with team after team just choosing to wait for the previous teams’ cabs to return. Jason & Amy snag the exes' cab and then point him to return for Travis & Nicole.
While all that doing nothing but waiting is occurring, Brandon & Adam just hoof it to the Detour like a couple of hosses. As OK-Tim & Danny are also walking toward the Detour, they snag a cab of their own. Also, finally walking it out are the Ice girls and Afghanimals with the baseball wives securely in last at this point.
At Head, Marie is being her usual pleasant self and yelling at Tim to hurry since the other teams are showing up. Of course, when Team Beardo shows up in second, Marie "jokingly" prods Tim to hurry because Brandon & Adam are used to “doing disgusting things all the time.” Maybe someone could sneak a copy of How to Win Friends & Influence People into this woman’s backpack. Probably not good idea because she would likely just use it to hit Tim.
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