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With 25 minutes left in the episode, Michael and Louie reach the Pitstop as team number one and are "treated" to the painful butchering of the Beatles by a cover/tribute band. Beer lover Steve is giddy like W.C. Fields at the sight of the boot of beer. Of course, he polishes it off with ease. Cord and Jet finish the soccer Detour and go barhopping. Meanwhile, Joe and Heidi do the sauerkraut polka on their first try.

Just a few minutes behind the married team, Brandy and Carol show up and finish easily. Dan and Jordan knock out the soccer challenge with just as much ease, thanks to Dan. We are now looking at four teams rushing to the bar and jockeying for third through sixth place with Joe and Heidi and Cord and Jet there first.

Embarrassingly for cowboys around the world, Joe and Heidi beat the brothers out of the bar. Big Brother sits down to dine on sauerkraut and Caite brags that she's been playing soccer since she was five and she is "reeeeaaaallllly good." Unfortunately, years of soccer experience can't prevent her from tweaking her leg. Honestly, I couldn't tell you where she hurt it. One shot shows her favoring her right knee and another looks like it was her left ankle. Regardless, this is a delay they don't need with last place in their grasp. If only they knew that Jeff and Jordan failed on the first try eating and wisely bailed. So they have not only wasted time due to bad taxi luck but are set back by having to switching tasks.

Jet and Cord are trying to finish their boot when Carol and Brandy show up. The cowboys head to the redlight district Pitstop and note we "are no longer in the Bible Belt." I halfway expected one of them to bust out with a Ned Flanders-worthy "The lights, the noise, the letter X." The boys make it as number four at the mat with the girls right behind them as number five.

Dan and Jordan make it to the bar in sixth place and finish before Brent and Caite get there. Luckily, they don't get lost wandering drunk around the redlight district, so sixth place is where they reach the Pitstop.

Jeff and Jordan complete the soccer task but are clearly and undeniably in last place. After the unnecessarily graphic sights and sounds of Brent vomiting beer on a Hamburg street corner, South Carolina heads to Phil. Short of a catastrophic accident, there is no way Big Brother won't be the last team, despite the producers trying to create suspense otherwise. The question then shifts to whether or not this is a nonelimination round. As expected Brent and Caite are in the seventh place for the third time but they are pleased because they believed they were in last place.

Jeff and Jordan show up last and Phil questions them about how hard the race has been. Jeff admits that he can't tell if it's the sauerkraut or being in last place that is making him sick to his stomach. That kidder Phil lets them know that this is the first nonelimination leg and they will have to step up because of the Speed Bump awaits them on the next leg.

I am relieved that Jeff and Jordan are still in it but in this episode the stress of the race overshadowed the lightheartedness they brought to previous episodes.

Next week the teams apparently face a new obstacle – a blind U-Turn. My best guess is that it's just like the usual U-Turn that allows one team to pick another team to complete both options on a Detour but that the picking team just draws a team picture from the box without knowing who it is. Just a guess but I think that would be a fun wrinkle in the race as long as someone opts to do it.

See you next week because it's time to recover from all the boot beer I vicariously consumed this episode to block out the horrible Beatles cover band.

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