On "Amazing Race," Tempers Flare
Father-and-son team Matt and Gary were eliminated Sunday night in an episode of "The Amazing Race" that saw tempers flare as the field narrowed down to the final four teams.
Matt and Gary, who came in last in last week's non-elimination round, faced a speed bump - a task only their team had to perform - in this leg of the race. It involved taking a five-minute sauna in a Saunabuss but the two lost valuable time trying to track down the bus and dressing and undressing for the sauna.
They also were not, as they later admitted, at their sharpest in this race through Scandinavia. Matt didn't know what a candelabra was and lost valuable time searching for one. Once he finally located the scroll he was looking for with the candelabra, he failed to read the last word of the clue.
As a result, the duo lost more time searching for their next clue at the Pikk Hermann Tower instead of its adjacent garden.
Still left in the race are dating couple Meghan and Cheyne, who came in first (again!) and won a sauna; married couple Brian and Erika; brothers Sam and Dan and Harlem Globetrotters Flight Time and Big Easy.
Bad feelings between the brothers and the Globetrotters were brewing all during this leg of the race and erupted at the pit stop. The two teams started out fighting over transportation at the start of their journey, then they exchanged jibes as that played volleyball in knee-deep mud on adjacent courts.
In the race to the pit stop, the teams collided and two fell off the path into the swamp. The brothers outran the basketball players and came in second by a nose. Flight Time and Big easy told host Phil Keoghan that the brothers had elbowed them, causing the spill.
Meanwhile, the Harlem Globetrotters played such an error-filled game this episode that is amazing that they almost tied for second place.
In the candelabra task, teams were supposed to hold the clue over the flame to decipher the hidden message. The basketball players grabbed a red crayon and started to shade in the page, hoping a message would appear. When that didn't work, they tried the flame.
After finishing their muddy volleyball basketball game just before the brothers, they headed in the wrong direction for the pit stop, realized it and reversed course, trying to overtake the brothers before the finish line.
They should wish for better luck next week when "Amazing Race" takes them to Prague.