It’s Trashy TAR Time! With so many young, attractive racetestants a showmance was bound to happen: seems Brodie has a little crush on Blair and they’re hoping to see each other this leg. Maybe if Daddy Daughter raced better they would see Frisbee more often.
Leg 3 mat arrival:
1. Frisbee (Brodie & Kurt) 6. Team Heartthrob (Cole & Sheri)
2. Tyler Seacrest (Tyler & Korey) 7. Maroon Crotch (Erin & Joslyn)
3. Burn Ash (Burnie Burns & Ashley) 8. Team Hair Daddy Daughter (Blair & Scott)
4. The Dueling Dancers (Dana & Silent Matt) 9. Magic Viner (Zach & Rachel)
5. The Models (Brittany & Jessica) Philiminated: The Brothers (Darius & Cameron)
Frisbee departs at 10:22 AM, with Tyler Seacrest 8 minutes behind them, though none of that matters as the teams are all on the same flight to Geneva, Switzerland. Everyone is psyched to get out of the heat and Brittany asks what country Switzerland is in.
It’s in gorgeous country
They arrive at night and find their clues at the huge jet stream on Lake Geneva, which instruct them to head on foot to Chocolate Rohr, a chocolatier that won’t be open until the morning. They will enter in the order they arrived, with Burn Ash in the #1 spot. I love when clues have an order to them. They sleep in a basement and Blair + Brodie sitting in a tree…
#Blodie
Tyler provides the episode’s title when he tells us to “get it trending”, so #Blodie is probably happening. The chocolatier provides the clue for the Detour: Work Bench or Bench Work. For Work Bench team will have to make Switzerland’s most famous item: the Swiss Army Knife. It has a ton of pieces and looks very detail-oriented. Tyler Seacrest, Magic and Daddy Daughter head over to do that one.
Pretty cool that they got to keep the knife they made
In Bench Work teams have to determine how many butts can fit on the world’s largest wooden bench, which is 240 years old with a gorgeous view. Since butt sizes vary, they will measure the bench by holding up newspapers to side-by-side as they alternate sitting on the bench. I assume they had to physically measure the entire bench, instead of measuring a section and using math to calculate the rest. If they guessed incorrectly (outside of 190-197) they had to redo the entire process, not just guess again.
Burn Ash is first to arrive but are incorrect on their 1st attempt (they brought a clicker with them which was smart). Maroon is way off with 240. Frisbee guesses correctly on their 1st attempt and tell the Dancers and Burn Ash the answer. Meanwhile, Heartthrob and the Models are looking for Victornox, the location of the knife detour, but come across the bench so decide to do that. Heartthrob gets it on their 1st attempt. The teams are on top of each other.
It’s ok, he’s 19
Tyler Seacrest is 1st out of the knife shop and head to the Broken Chair, a giant structure outside the United Nations. For the Road Block: Having a Banner Day, one teammate must identify the flags of the 10 founding UN nations. They have a book of flags and must present the proper pages to receive their next clue. Everyone knows a few countries, Cole from his FIFA video game. Seacrest figures out the map shows the order in which the countries are arranged. He tells Matt and they split the list and identify their flags then share their info. Finally teams work together properly! Sadly they are denied as one of the flags has an incorrect shade of blue. Burnie figures the map out and tells Kurt and Cole, though not Rachel. Teams are sharing info all over the place.
Burnie finishes first and is heading to the Pit Stop: Chamonix, France, home of the 1st winter Olympics. They board a train with Tyler Seacrest, Dancers, Magic, Maroon and “Brodie’s girlfriend”. Frisbee and Heartthrob are on another train.
The Models had to do the bench task 3 times so by the time Jessica arrives at the flags some teams are gone and the others are working together, excluding her. She is leisurely walking around pouting instead of figuring out what everyone else did about the map/poles. Blair seemed to be yelling it right in front of her so she should have watched the other teams to see what they were doing.
It’s an interesting route to the Pit Stop in the French Alps: all trains have a stopover so we have our second bunch of the leg as almost everyone gets on the same connecting train. The team that did not make it was the Models, whose initial train pulled into the station with like a minute to spare and, again, it looks like they were just walking. Run! The other teams are glad none of them will be Philiminated and realize it’s a race for first place.
The French Alps
Everyone runs to the mat and it is Team Frisbee who get there first, seconds before Tyler Seacrest with the remaining teams right on their heels. The next leg’s start times will all be minutes apart. The Models are out – they seemed nice enough but didn’t hustle or really seem to want it.
Mat Order:
1. Frisbee 6. Maroon Crotch
2. Tyler Seacrest 7. Team Heartthrob
3. Dueling Dancers 8. Team Daddy Daughter
4. Burn Ash Philiminated: The Models
5. Magic Viner
Nicest cast ever
This was a gorgeous race, location-wise. We have never had “famous” racers so it’s cool to see their fans at the airport. I know they’ve had Big Brother contestants and professional sports players but these guys get recognized a lot. Will they continue to be nice to each other? Will no one use a U-turn? Will #Blodie become a thing? Sound off in the comments below and thanks for reading.
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