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One-by-one the teams stop at the only gas station apparently open in Vienna at 6 a.m. and it’s a BP, I believe. It’s hard to tell with the blurred out sign. I guess they have hopefully been spending their money on other more ecologically responsible things than reality show product placement. The Globetrotters opt for a hotel concierge for directions and Jet & Cord approach the trucker outside the gas station for directions. There has to be a bad joke in there about two Oklahoma cowboys and an Austrian truck driver but I can’t come up with it.

First place Zev & Justin get to the castle and grab a large book/clue “from the chick from Harry Potter." They are now heading to the National Library. There is a steady caravan of teams directly behind them, but the last place cowboys know they need someone to mess up (other than them) to survive.

Zev & Justin get to the National Library and their next clue from a librarian/Sherpa. The Detour this time is between Long Hard Walk or Quick Easy Meal. For Walk, they have to go to Freud’s old office and carry a therapist’s couch one mile to the University of Vienna. For Meal, they have to pick up a dinner and take it to the Wiener Riesenrad. Then they have to finish their meals in 12 minutes or one rotation of the Ferris Wheel. Having watched enough of these seasons, I would probably have chosen the Walk because a food/drink task on the race is usually not simple. Heck, even this season had the ridiculous tea tasting challenge just two legs ago.

Zev & Justin defy my logic and go to Meal, as does Kisha & Jen and Gary & Mallory, who have made up some ground from their Focus misadventures. This Detour choice leads to the quote from Jen that would surely warrant a Phil-worthy eyebrow raising: “I bet that’ll be the biggest wiener I’ll ever eat.” Let’s just let that sink in for a minute. Okay, I hope you are done laughing.

The Globetrotters and Goths are searching the grounds of the library for the right place. Flight & Easy find it and in a race first, Flight answers the call of nature by peeing outside and I am pretty sure ON the wall of the Vienna National Library. Did he not think there was a restroom inside the place they just walked out of? Maybe it was...ummm...relieving his frustration with all German speaking countries because it was in Germany that they were eliminated last time. Regardless of his urination motivation, the Globetrotters go with Walk and the Goths are just a few steps behind them going to Walk also.

Kisha & Jen reach Meal first and realize that this may have been a mistake. They go ahead and attempt it and fail. Twelve minutes to finish that much food is just too demanding. Zev & Justin are two Ferris Wheel cars behind them with the same progress and realization. As they leave for the other Detour task Gary & Mallory arrive. They appear to make more progress than the previous two teams but not enough to be successful.

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