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Jet & Cord have reached the library and immediately go with Walk. I am proud to finally have chosen the more advantageous task for once. The Globetrotters and Goths are off to the university with the couch in tow. Each team begins employ different methods of transport. Most of them use the supplied furniture dolly at least some. Kisha & Jen decide to drag it much of the way through snow and water. Meanwhile, Kent & Vyxsin don’t even realize they have a dolly, so we get to hear Kent whine and complain the entire time. The longer he is on the race the less compelled I am to enjoy watching it.

Flight & Easy are the first to complete the task and get the clue pointing them to a restaurant in Salzburg. Of particular note on this task is that the cowboys not only pass slow pokes Gary & Mallory but also the lost Zev & Justin. That puts Jet & Cord in fourth behind the Goths and the sisters. More important for them, Cord explains that seeing Zev & Justin on the street was the first time they had seen any of the other teams since the Indian airport.

Now that Zev & Justin and Gary & Mallory have completed the Detour, all the teams are en route to Salzburg with various levels of success and teamwork. And living up to my very low expectations are Kent & Vyxsin, who threatens to never speak to him again if they are eliminated this leg. That seems like a way to reward herself honestly.

For the Roadblock, the teams get to channel their inner Bert from Mary Poppins. They have to use a weighted chimney sweep on three chimneys to get the clue. Big Easy gets decked out in chimney sweep gear and heads off with his guide. This appears to be one of the easier Roadblocks thrown at teams this season. Without much effort, Easy is done and is changing clothes when Zev arrives at the task for his team. When instructed to correct his rope by making it bigger, Zev gives the patented Michael Scott retort of “That’s what she said.” Based upon the bewildered look on his sweep guide’s face, whatever iteration of The Office there is in Austria doesn’t include that line.

The Globetrotters are now heading to the pitstop at the Villa Trapp, the real home of the Van Trapp family from the Sound of Music. Wow, two Julie Andrews’ movie connections in one leg. I will not complain about anything that harkens back to those days because I had a serious crush on her.

Zev’s chimney sweep proficiency and the Globetrotters’ inability to find the Pitstop means that Zev & Justin are the first team to arrive. They are shocked but justifiably excited to have both won the aforementioned Ford Focuses. They rebounded nicely from a fifth place slot after the Detour. The Globetrotters are checked in as second.

The difficulty of this Roadblock is consistently nonexistent as Vyxsin and Kisha finish the task simultaneously with Cord arriving shortly thereafter. As much as it pains me, the Goths hit the mat as number three. Let me repeat that phrase: As much as it truly pains me, Vyxsin notes that this is the leg they have fought the most and had their best finish, so they should fight more. Shudder at the idea of more bickering from these two.

Gary & Mallory get to the Roadblock as the cowboys are leaving and Gary quickly starts working on those chimneys. Kisha & Jen redeem themselves on the footrace as they beat the cowboys to the mat by three seconds as Phil points out. They are numbers four and five.

I should’ve known that since it’s been a foregone conclusion from the Detour that Gary & Mallory would be last; that this would be a non-elimination leg and that is exactly what Phil delivers. So, it makes me happy because a team that I thought would be there until the end still has a shot. Also there are still five other teams that could eliminate Kent & Vyxsin from the race.

Next week, the teams head to Switzerland and do some stuff but I couldn’t understand what was going on with the obvious non-Phil Keoghan preview voiceover. Some things shouldn’t be messed with. I guess I’ll have to be surprised.

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