So, leaving off our racers in Stockholm, Matt and Gary were the last ones to hit the pit, so they will have to deal with a speed bump tonight.  While this alone may not ensure their demise, it sure was not going to be helping matters on this leg considering all they have to work with.  Tut tut tut…

Flight Time and Big Ez departing first (photo:CBS)

The first clue sends Flight Time and Big Ez racing off to Tallinn, Estonia.  The two were off like a couple of freaking banshees trying to put as much time between them and their competition as possible in order to utilize any and every edge they could.  Of course when the two arrived at the ferry to take them across the Baltic Sea, the first trip was not scheduled to depart for plenty of time to take a good 8 hour nap and allow the rest of the racers all to catch up and begin the leg on even footing once more.

The front door of Mustpaede (photo: Brotherhood of the Blackhead)

Once the teams arrived in Estonia, they were to hunt for a secret society’s, hideout Mustpaede.  The door to the Mustpaede would be locked and the teams would have to use the key rings provided to open up the door for entry into the Brotherhood of the Blackhead’s crib.  Cheyne, Meghan, Sam and Dan arrived at the doorway nearly the same time and began hunting through their keys for the one to gain access.  There were many keys to try out and fingers and keys were jangling around making for the most excitement of the episode.  Eventually they find the correct key and rush into the building as four mainly just attempting to get in and the door closed before the next couple arrived on scene.

What follows inside is pure idiotic racers simply attempting to hurry through the race while not considering what they were doing.  All racers wound up catching up here once again.  Even Matt and Gary who had to deal with their speed bump which turned out to be a nice relaxing swelter in a sauna bus with some locals.  Matt’s infatuation with one particular local was pretty funny but really the whole scene was filler.

The clue read by Cheyne (photo:CBS)

So, the deal with Mustpaede roadblock was simple, figure out a clue on a blank scroll and move on.  But first you had to find the scroll by finding a candelabra downstairs.  Finding the candelabra was nearly an impossible task for Matt who didn’t even know what one was…  I’m not lying!  But even for the rest of the racers once finding the scroll, in order to discover the secret clue, they had to hold the scroll up to the candle and the message would shine through.  Flight time wasted absolutely no time in taking a crayon and trying to do a gravestone rub on it.  Eventually everyone figured it out, Meghan and Cheyne first followed by Brian and Ericka, Dan and Sam, Flight Time and Big EZ, and a couple days latter, Matt and Gary.

What followed was madness, Meghan and Cheyne stole Brian’s cab and Ericka nearly strangled her man, Flight Time and Big EZ were about to throw down with Dan and Sam for a cab eventually sharing the cab while bad mouthing each other in the cab to the cameras.  Good stuff…

Matt trying to sneak a peek (Photo:CBS)

The teams were supposed to travel to their next detour which was either Sling or Serve.  Serve was playing some volleyball with the locals in a mud pit.  Sling was to take a slingshot and shoot veggies at a moose sign, a successful hit causing a table of cabbage to fall.  The three teams in first chose to play volleyball while Ericka and Brian having showed up late due to giving their cab away were kind of forced to play sling.  Let me tell you, this volleyball was nasty.  The pit was a pit and the mud was like quick mud.  The players would sink to their waste with every step and you could hear the sucking sounds when they would try to move around in it.  Meg said she didn’t know if it was even mud, eww, nasty!  Meg and Cheyne, being the California beach bums they are grew up playing volleyball on the beach so won quite handily struggling as they were with the mud.  Next up was the dash to the Pit Stop which was simply a tower, the Keava Raba overlook tower, nearby the playing field in viewing distance.

Sam and Dan gettin dirty (photo:cbs)

Dan and Sam, OMG, these guys had to be cock blocked…  LOL, thats the only thing I can really say about that, the guys were wearing their underoos for this competition and needless to say the producers had fun making their mid sections blurry.  Glad I didn’t have to attend a live viewing of that comp!  Flight Time and Big EZ finish up this competition before Dan and Sam but dummies go the wrong way out of there allowing Dan and Sam to catch and pass them up.  Flight and Big Ez figured they could catch them with their superior globetrotting skills and started seriously trucking after Dan and Sam.  When Flight catches the two, they bumped and flight falls down.  Didn’t look pretty and Big Ez looked as if he was ready to throw down on them white boys, but hey it is what it is.  Its a game and really they were both just running to the end.

Meghan and Cheyne were first, done before any other teams arrived, Dan and Sam 2nd, FT and Big E 3rd, Brian and Ericka 4th after finally getting their table to fall and Matt and Gary kept pushing to finish their Amazing Race 5th on this leg.  Their trip was over coming in last to the pit stop.

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Leaving Groningen last night, the five teams remaining in season 15 of The Amazing Race were heading to Stockholm.  First to leave was Dan and Sam the gay brothers who came out to their families on national television.  The brothers wasted no time in starting up their bitching back and forth, the mood for tonight’s episode had been set early!  So the teams were to head to the Tivoli Grona Lund amusement park where they would encounter their first roadblock.

Managing to get to Stockholm would be fun as there was only enough seats on the flight which left in the morning for 3 of the teams.  Not to mention the ticket counters were all closed by the time the racers made it to the airport.  So the three teams on the first flight were Dan and Sam, Meghan and Cheyne, and finally Flight Time and Big Easy.  The remaining teams were forced to take the flight leaving 3 hours later.

It was Flight Time’s birthday tomorrow, so they wanted to make a quick stop at the red light district!  The guys just figured they would tell everyone they were going there to use the internet and make flight arrangements LOL.  Smooth…

Once the teams all made it to Sweden they had to take a train into Stockholm. Purchasing tickets turned out to be a little difficult for the teams, Flight Time and Big Easy couldn’t figure the ticket machines out in time to catch their train.  Once the final two teams arrived, Matt and Gary ran into the same problem 3 hours later.  Sam and Dan made some comments about the globetrotters recognizing their strong presence and thankful they missed the first train.  Brian and Ericka were just thankful someone was behind them.

The train trip takes the teams into Stockholm where they catch a ferry to the amusement park.  There the teams located the next clue at a ride called the, ‘Fritt Fall.’  One team member was required to take the ride and look for a hint as to the location of their next clue while they were going up the ride.  Sam and Cheyne both take the ride up together and search for the clue as a team.  They find the clue with relative ease and race to the next clue.  This next clue required a team member to play good ‘ol circus ring toss.  When a team would get their ring over a cone containing a Travelocity gnome under it, they would receive their next clue which was pasted to the bottom of the gnome.

The two leading teams were constantly pushing to keep ahead of those who had the misfortune of missing the early flight, the train, or both.  Dan made more then one reference to the globetrotters being the luckiest team in Amazing Race history, so why not give em reason to call them that!

Moving from the amusement park, teams were required to complete one of two detours.  The first was Nobel Dynamite which required teams to fill up sandbags making a wall to protect their gnome when they blew up a pile of dirt which would uncover their next clue in an ammo case.  The second choice was called Viking Alphabet and required teams to decode a viking statue’s symbols in order to retrieve their clue.  All teams chose to blow shit up.  En route to the detour, Flight Time and Big Easy were feeling good as they had been plowing through the rest of this leg with ease.  They were contemplating what Meghan and Cheyne would say when they caught up with them.  Which they did in the parking area for Nobel Dynamite!

Flight time and Big Easy did catch up at the dynamite detour, but still couldn’t pass anyone up just yet.  The three teams in front all finished up and headed out while the final two teams were just arriving to the Nobel Dynamite detour.  Gary and Matt catch Ericka and Brian here but are still behind the power curve and leave this detour in last place.  Turns out though, this is not going to be such a problem because the most difficult roadblock in Amazing Race was awaiting teams at Bogs Gard Farm!

This was the same farm, same roadblock, same everything that Lena in season 6 spent over 8 hours on before being eliminated from the race.  One player was required to roll out bales of hay looking for the clue inside the bale.  There were over 120 bales of hay with only 7 clues.

Sam took on the challenge for his team and was immediately thankful for his loving brother who would not shut the heck up explaining to him how to do things and more importantly hurry up!  Meghan took the lead for her team when Cheyne just stood there not knowing how to say I don’t want to piss you off any more then I already have today.  Flight Time and Big Easy show up and Flight Time goes for it.  Dan and Meghan had been struggling for a good while before Big Easy starts digging through the hay.

Of course the other two teams arrive as well before one clue has been found!  Meghan is on the verge of tears after 2 hours of no luck when Big Easy cemented his luckstar status by finding the first clue so Flight Time could have his birthday present on The Amazing Race winning this leg of the race and the accompanying Travelocity trip.

Meghan finally finds her clue shortly after Big Easy but hides it in her pocket.  She adds a few more tears to her face and cries to Cheyne that she cannot do it anymore almost cracking her skull open as she falls down running up to him.  When he hugs her she busts out the clue.  She got em.

3rd was Brian and Ericka!  Poor Sam is about ready to choke his brother when Dan finally shuts up after figuring out that it might not be helping Sam’s mental state of mind.  Finally Sam finds their clue leaving Gary and Matt as the last team still hunting for their clue.   Gary was a trooper though and kept at it, non stop, until he found their clue!  Upon racing to the pit stop knowing only a miracle would save them in the race Phil gave them the news.  This was not an elimination leg and they would be required at some point in the race to complete a speed bump that the rest of the teams would not have to worry about.

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Ericka cries to Brian about the difficulties of the roadblock (photo:CBS)

Brian Kleinschmidt and Ericka Dunlap of CBS’ Amazing Race 15 were down hard and sucking fumes from the rest of the competitors.  Ericka was in tears at times, they were both cold, both were making mistakes, yet neither of them were willing to give up.  Lesson number eleven seventy-seven in Tommy’s book of Amazing Race tactics.

So starting out in the episode, teams were to travel to Amsterdam.  Meghan and Cheyne left first and rushed to the airport only to find out that the first flight out was at midnight.Obviously this was to be an episode where each team would make the same fight and begin their race on equal footing.  Once the rest of the teams made it to the airport everyone sat down at a diner in the airport and just had a relaxing pow wow.

Roadblock: Counting Bells (photo: CBS)

The boys, Dan and Sam, for some reason spilled the beans that they were in fact the ‘token’ gay team.  Not really sure what the point was in them telling everyone unless perhaps to tell their family and friends back home the news.  Brian said, “oh that explains the matching swimsuits.”  Haha.  Once all the teams arrived in Amsterdam the teams head to the Afsluitdijk dam and find the Lely Monument for their next clue.  All teams made it here with no problems save Brian and Ericka.  Brian couldn’t seem to figure out how to put his ride into drive for the trip.  Once he enlisted some local aide, they were on their way not too far behind the pack.

Dan and Sam all dressed up and biking to next task (photo:CBS)

From Afsluitdijk, teams had to drive to Groningen and find the Martinitoren bell tower.  Once there the teams ran up against a roadblock, Counting Bells.  In this roadblock teams had to send one player up the bell tower counting each bell along the way to the top.  Once they were satisfied with the count, they were to show their number to the bell master atop the tower.  The interesting thing here is this, most teams blazed through this getting their count correct on the first attempt.  Once Ericka arrived she scored a massive fail, getting the count wrong 3 times.  This was not some easy task as the tower was tall, the passageways narrow, winding, musty, and Ericka arrived in time to see the contestants all leaving to the next stop quickly.  Ericka broke down into tears.  Brian stood strong though, comforting Ericka.  Even having her take a break and chill before taking on the task once more.  Meanwhile, the rest of the contestants keep sailing through the rest of the leg.  After the teams left the bell tower they had to head to a Vierhuizen de Marne and find a windmill.

Dan and Sam killing it on the links

Finding the windmill brings the next part of this leg, a detour!  The teams could chose to complete one of two tasks, either Farmer’s game or Farmer’s dance.  Sam and Dan chose to go for Farmer’s game as did Meghan and Cheyne.  Ericka is counting bells.  Meghan and Cheyne started out in first but Sam and Dan were on fire here.  The detour required teams to dress in traditional dutch attire and ride bikes to a river crossing where they would strip down to long johns and swim across.  Once through the chilling water and on the other side, teams had to play a game reminiscent of putt putt golf on drugs.  Basically teams had to whack an over sized golf ball to a hole within 8 swings or start over.  They had to finish three wholes.  Meghan was upset to be doing this event because of her dislike for golf, but Cheyne’s positive energy and motivation kept them going until she caught on and they eventually got through it.  Dan and Sam were clearly the pro’s at this sport though and tore through with blazing speed.  Bells, bells, and more bells for Ericka.

Sam and Dan 1st to the Pit stop

Matt and Gary were the first to arrive at farmer’s dance.  Once there they had to ring a bell with a big sledge hammer like you’d see in a circus or carnival.  They did this with ease but once inside they quickly realized they could not handle the dancing and took off for farmer’s game.  The girls chose farmer’s dance as well thinking that either task sounded equally easy.  Once there, though, the bell proved to be too much for them and they chose to hit the links and try farmer’s game as well.

Flight Time struggles to keep the herring down (photo:CBS)

Meanwhile, Flight time and Big EZ roll up and hammer the bell first time of course.  Flight Time and Big EZ use their globe trotting skills of dance and crowd pleasing to complete this portion with ease!  The only sticky spot comes when they had to eat a raw salted herring with onion, Flight Time looked rough.  Heh, he didn’t want to talk about that portion afterwards.  They make it to the pit stop in 3rd after Dan, Sam, Meghan, and Cheyne.  Ericka still counts the bells and gets the number correct on her fourth go at it!

So Ericka and Brian are finally back in the race!  They quickly head to the windmill and get changed.  Brian tells Ericka, “We can catch em babe, c’mon!” They dash out of the windmill knowing they’ve got a lot of distance to cover but fail to read the part about riding a bike to the next event and start walking in their wooden clogs.  LOL, OMG, WTF! Can you mess anything else up today?

Hugglez for the girls... (Photo:CBS)

Matt and Gary, take to the links struggling to get their balls sunk eventually pushing past the event and taking 4th place at the pit stop leaving Maria and Tiffany in their dust. Tiffany and Maria throughout this episode went back and forth between theses two detours a few times.  They racked up at least 75 attempts on ringing the bell and were devastated.  They comforted each other but as the night wore on they were quickly losing strength and will.

Talk about some mental fortitude folks, though, Ericka and Brian as stupid as they were tonight would not give up and walked the entire way to farmer’s dance! Once there they truly back their footing, grounded themselves, and crushed this detour.

Ericka and Brian walking in their clogs (photo: CBS)

Ericka says she fell in love with Brian all over again, admittedly Brian was quite the charmer this episode never letting negativity get them down.  They found someone to lend them bikes after figuring out their mistake and raced to the pit stop to make it there in 5th!  This was all well and good, but Phil told them they’d have to wait an additional 30 minutes sitting out in the penalty box as the clue clearly stated they were to bike to their detour.  Ericka about broke down here, but when all was said and done, Tiffany and Maria gave up the ghost and quit the race giving Ericka and Brian a pass to the next leg! Congrats on a hard fought leg you two.  While I started out with little respect for your team, I must say that your never give up attitude has impressed me and I am certain many others tonight! Kudos!

So what do you think about Tiffany and Maria’s breakdown?  How bout Ericka and Brian, are they for real?  Who do you think will win this season?  How bout Flight Time holding in the herring?  Sound off and leave us a comment below!

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