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Next up is a high speed bullet train ride to Osaka, Japan, and a TV studio. Unloading from the bullet train, Big Brother and Army of Two opt for the subway to avoid traffic but Border Patrol and Anti-Big Brother go the cab route because of advice from locals. Who’s right? Border Patrol, who get to the studio first. It’s a Japanese game show Roadblock... “Who wants to bring home the chicken?” It’s Art’s turn, which means that I may be right about JJ doing the final Roadblock and screwing it up. My fingers are crossed.

It’s pretty straightforward: The person has to run on a treadmill-like floor, jump up and grab three chickens and jump to the end of the moving track to get their clue. If Vanessa and her sprained ankle choose this task, hers and Ralph’s elimination is all but guaranteed.

Apparently, every time the person running falls down they have to return to the beginning of the track. Art is able to get all the chickens easily but does his best belly flops on the track when trying to complete the task.

Even though they left at the same time in a cab, Anti-Big Brother get dropped at the wrong studio and are stuck flagging down another ride. Meanwhile, the teams with Rachels kind of pair up to find the studio. This is smart on both of their parts because they will know that there is at least one team in sight and in contention for last place. All three teams are now in cabs again and heading to the right place.

Art finally sprints out the Roadblock and he is sweaty and tired but still slapping the congratulatory hands of the audience. Their next clue points them to the Umeda Sky Building which will be the scene of the Detour.

The other three show up and because of the rules about keeping the Roadblocks evenly distributed, we have Brendon, Blonde Rachel and…uh oh…Vanessa taking it on. This will be bad for the divorcees. And Vanessa’s trepidation is confirmed with the fact that they have to wear knee pads, elbow pads and a helmet.

Vanessa’s inability to do the Roadblock is amplified by the fact that Brendon and Blonde Rachel breezed through it with only a single fall each. Vanessa is soldiering on but Ralph stops her and tells her that they should just take the penalty now, which would let them keep up with the other teams and see what happens. That to me is a sound strategy because the only way this ends is with her severely injuring herself.

Amazingly, she pushes herself to finish the task (through rage and adrenaline, I assume) and now just needs to do the final jump. The extent of her ankle injury will probably not be known until they get to sit down.

Border Patrol is first at the tower and a bit nervous about the size and height of it. The Detour gives them the choice between Bingo Shout-Out and Photo Cut-Out. For Bingo, they play Sushi Bingo. A caller gives the name of a fish and they have to correctly identify it on a conveyor, place it on their Bingo board until they have a bingo. Then they must eat all five of the winning sushi pieces to get their clue. For Photo, they have to get two Sumo wrestler cut-outs and convince ten sets of locals to allow them to take their picture in the cut-out. Because I hate seafood and wouldn't be able to identify the fish at all, I would be a Sumo photo-peddling fool out there. Border Patrol opts for Bingo.

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