New at BOP: Review: Matrix Resurrections Movie Review: Moonfall Movie Reviews: Scream The #1 Movie in America November Forecast The Many Saints of Newark October Forecast New Trivia Question All site updates Share & Save   Tweet Print this column

Back at the Pony task, muscular Jim and surfing Adam are are each plowing through the peat while Team Candy Crush initially struggles. Amy, of shoe-giving fame, uses her noodle to determine that the digging tool is easier to use when you figure out the angles and "physics" of where to apply the pressure. Okay, whatever works for them, because they are now making up ground while digging in the ground. Super Fannies Shelley & Nici don't seem to be have an issue, though.

Team DDS has now loaded up their pony for the first time and it is helping to play nice...for now. On the second trip, the obstinate pony gets dubbed Satan by Jim, because it's done with this nonsense. It seems that Jim is about two seconds away from just scooping up his little pony and carrying it and the peat to the top to save time.

Checking in at the Viking-centric task, the teams have all gotten through the first step except Brooke & Robbie. Tag Team has once again hit a snag at a task, following last week's embarrassing marching display. While pretty lovable and fun, these dating grapplers don't quite have it together for physical and mental tasks that require any attention to detail - which we all know is about 90% of the Race challenges. Could be a short season for them.

Once again, Kym & Alli cruise through a task and bust out the door to the dock. Sadly, they are heading to the wrong dock. So a-wandering they will go.

Misti & Jim have finally led the horse to a farmer and gotten their next clue. It points to to a place called Berry Farm. Jim's extreme confidence is not on display as much after his pony struggles, but that's probably only short-lived since they are still in first place.

And then a two...three...four, the other teams at Pony Up finish and head to yet another farm task. It should be noted how you name your horse could determine demeanor. Team DDS labeled theirs Satan and we see how that worked out. Our food scientists Amy & Maya lovingly called theirs Cupcake with a much better result.

At the dock, self-proclaimed gift wrapping aficionados Tim & Te Jay have not only finished the steps but found the Vikings and gotten their clue first of this batch. It's a nice recovery for them. The firefighters are close behind and also heading to the Berry Farm.

Fortunately for their chances, the Psycho Cyclists got Keith & Whitney to follow them around searching for the Vikings, so they weren't the only ones lost.

Inside the warehouse, Tag Team has determined that they simply can't concentrate when all the other teams are adding to the noise. Once it is quiet and they figure out how to hammer a nail and then make it bend over, they proceed quickly through the steps. Yes, the universal screw-up of hammering a nail and it bending was intended to be one of the steps, and they couldn't understand how to achieve that effect.

Team DDS hits the farm and gets the clue. The teams have to guide eight sheep down the middle of a course (between three pairs of gates) to a pin. This seems easy except that notion of sheep jumping over a fence to help you sleep came from somewhere, and apparently it was Scotland because these wooly beasts are leaping fools and also unresponsive to the running, yelling and arm flailing techniques of the teams.

Continued:       1       2       3       4