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Meanwhile, Mark is sicker than ever but there is no way Bopper’s knee would allow him to do the Roadblock; so the dance routine falls onto the quite recently nauseous one. Bopper laments his knee injury because apparently he is better dancer of the two but he supportively tells Brendon that Mark has plenty of heart (which probably won’t mean much or anything to the judge.)

JJ is the first one to take the stage for his routine run through. If you saw his dance moves during their rehearsal, you also wouldn’t be surprised to see JJ get the thumbs down on his routine.

Blonde Rachel is all smiles and energy as she takes the stage and hops, shakes and dances her way to completing the Roadblock with an enthusiastic “Perfect” from the judge/choreographer. The clue points them to the Indian Coffee House and Army of Two is officially in first place with one task behind them.

Vanessa gets her chance at center stage and apparently, there is less Puerto Rican in her than Ralph estimated because she gets the JJ treatment and is sent back to rehearse more. Her mistake apparently was left turn instead of a right turn. Bad Rachel has a similar fate as she jumps at the wrong time. So, as of now, teams are one-for-four on attempts. To add insult to injury for the others, Rachel & Dave are already at the next clue, which is a Detour. This time it’s between Cricket or Clutch It. For Cricket, they have to each hit a ball past a specific line to get their clue. For Clutch It, they have to learn to drive a motor rickshaw around a training course. Personally, I am on the fence with these. Both appear simple but are probably not so much.

For the Detour, Dave defers to Rachel to pick and she goes with Clutch It (even though he later says that he would’ve preferred Cricket). The Clutch It training course is ripe with arguing possibilities for these two as Rachel goes first and begins laughing each time she messes up. You guessed it... Dave isn’t exactly happy about that. So they switch seats and let Dave try it.

Speaking of retrying…JJ has failed his second Bollywood dance attempt, as does Bad Rachel, who jumps off the stage, when she is denied. As Art observes, “Rachel looked like the girl that didn’t make cheerleader but kept on trying.” For a guy who is at the mercy of his uncoordinated partner’s dance ability, I don’t know if he needs to be reveling in someone else’s failure.

At the Detour, Dave completes the course on his second run through and it’s now up to Blonde Rachel, who proclaims herself “the crazy one.”

An exhausted and possibly near-dehydrated Mark can’t quite get it right and fails his first dance attempt but Vanessa is officially the second one to complete it on her third go-round. Bad Rachel is just good enough on her third attempt as the charitable judge accepts her performance. From where I was sitting, though, she had way more mistakes than Blonde Rachel and Vanessa combined but I’m not the one handing out clues. So Anti-Big Brother and Big Brother are on the way to the coffee house.

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