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I know I am giving way too much thought to this but I feel I have to considering there will be people who blame producer-interference. But they do show the Twitter feed as he is telling the story. The timing between the first place Andy & Tommy and last place Kaylani & Lisa must have been only the amount of time it takes for the producers to get film consents filled out on this guy because his face was not blurred when helping the snowboarders. I will believe the story shown on this one. There is too much scrutiny and too much at risk for the show to gamble with credibility for a pair of dim bulb showgirls.

So, the last plane carries grandparents Bill & Cathi, Kaylani & Lisa and twins Liz & Marie.

As the first teams pile onto the first bus in Taipei heading to a commercial district, Ernie & Cindy ask Marcus if he’s a football player. He, of course, says "no" and then rationalizes that technically, he is not a football player. He’s a retired football player. Rightfully, he doesn’t want them to see him as a competitive person.

When the second plane arrives, the girl teams put a little distance between them and the gramps and grammy because the older couple is just not quick enough to catch the same bus.

The teams have only “look up for your next clue” to go on but viewers see that it is a huge electronic billboard with red and yellow circles and the clue written in Chinese. After a whole lot of wandering around, bickering siblings Justin & Jennifer take a stab at copying the characters on the sign and are joined by Amani & Marcus. A local translates it to: Taipei Confucius Temple.

Relationship test drivers Jeremy & Sandy get the same local to decipher for them and Ron & Bill are right behind them. Despite seven years of Chinese school, Cindy also has to find someone to translate for her team.

By now the second bus arrives and the Brunette Bimbos (Kaylani & Lisa) and Blond Bimbos (Liz & Marie) have joined forces in searching for the clue and inadvertently created the frighteningly ignorant Bimbo Brigade. Wherever logic and reason lives, they shall squash it without breaking a sweat. First on their hit list: the suggestion that the giant billboard with red and yellow circles on it may be the clue. One of the twits…er…I mean…twins deduces, “No, it will be more obvious than that.”

With that, they march on and Bill & Cathi arrive.

Ethan & Jenna get a passerby to translate the billboard with Team Dude next to them but the snowboarders are reluctant to accept that as the clue because the red and yellow are usually stripes only. Ethan & Jenna on the other hand bolt to the commercial district for the temple.

With the first five teams at the Confucius Temple, we get to our first Roadblock, which is a variation on the “Telephone Game.” A person has to dial a number, listen to a Confucius proverb and recite it back without taking notes. Seems simple. But probably is not so much.

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