¡°Teams travel to Naples, Italy, where they must perfect their pizza-making skills.
In tonight¡¯s The Amazing Race episode, the teams raced to Naples, Italy. They got to use Expedia. They didn¡¯t have to worry about travel agencies or a language barrier. They just had to worry about the other teams. Bulgaria humbled quite a few. Carson and Jack promised to be better at working together.
Hans and Holden began arguing more. The gamers may be like siblings, but actual siblings fought all the time. It¡¯s when the fighting stops that everyone knows that they no longer love the other. They may try to push that argumentativeness away. And it never lasts.
It also doesn¡¯t hurt them. Han and Holden don¡¯t fight until they get lost. Or in last place. Italy on the other hand brought up some ugly memories for the gamers.
Carson and Jack have been there before. It¡¯s where they had one of the few fights they¡¯ve ever had. They were arguing so much that Italian grandmothers told them off for being loud Americans. The guys have since worked on their communication. They tried to lower their fighting. They were even willing to go back to Italy because they¡¯ve come far in their relationship.
The teams all headed to Naples where they were told to catch a funicular. It¡¯s a train going up the hill. The view up there was amazing if not a little distracting.
People lost precious seconds because of that view. They go up the mountain. They get their next clue. The clue part was fine. It was getting back down that proved to be an issue because the funicular was always running. They also weren¡¯t the only ones catching the train in the city. There were some that caught the earlier train. There were others that caught the second train.
The great equalizer was in the fact that everyone struggled with directions. They tried asking people for directions on the train. They all got told something different.
By time they got the next clue at the Pulcinella Statue, they were given two options. They could put together a mandolin. The traditional Italian guitar. Or they could make mozzarella braids. There were four teams that chose cheese. The only ones to choose the mandolin was Ana and Jonathan. The two activities were both hard. The cheese sounded easy in theory while being hard.
They had to twist six different pieces of mozzarella. It had to be big. It couldn¡¯t be too big. It also had to be twisted a certain way. The expert showed the teams how to do it and it was up to them to figure out how to repeat it. Jack and Carson were the first to get it right. It took them multiple attempts.
One of them also happened to be ? Italian. The same for Brett and Mark. They had Italian heritage and it still took them about same amount of attempts as the best friends. And if Alyssa and Josiah had been quicker to the station, they could have easily been first.
They got in on their first attempt. They were off in third place. Ana and Jonathan also finished their mandolins. Hans and Holden were in last place. They were overthinking the challenge.
They finally went up for their first attempt after everyone else left the cheese station. They got four out of six. Knowing they weren¡¯t as bad as they thought helped return their confidence. They were able to get the rest on their second attempt. They were off to the next stop. The next stop for everyone was to an alley where they got a grocery list from Italian women.
The teams had to buy everything on the list using the money they got from the women. Then go back to the women with the groceries. The women checked and, if they got all of them, they got their next clue. Brett and Mark were the first to complete that task. Jonathan and Ana were second. Carson and Jack were third.
Alyssa and Josiah were fourth. Han and Holden were last. They didn¡¯t see anyone when they got their list. They also didn¡¯t know what most of the groceries were because the list was entirely in Italian.
Han and Holden tried asking someone nearby what they were looking for. He didn¡¯t understand them. They didn¡¯t understand him. They eventually got him to call a friend who helped. They were still at that stop when three teams made it to the pizza station. They couldn¡¯t come to Italy and not make pizza.
It turns out pizza was invented in Naples. Only one of them could make the pizza. It was an easy choice for Ana and Jonathan. Anna used to work at Domino¡¯s for two years. She¡¯s made thousands of pizzas.
Jack should have made the pizzas for his team, but he¡¯s done quite a few of the challenges. They wanted to save him for later and so Carson tried to make pizzas. He was really horrible at it. He did not know how to make one. Nor was he good at it. Not even after he watched the experts make one.
They showed everyone how to knead the dough, spread the sauce, and add on the cheese and basil. Carson just couldn¡¯t get it at first. It took Ana one try and she did it within minutes. They went from third to first. Brett and Mark came in second.
Everyone got to keep the pizzas they made. The partners that didn¡¯t make one also got to eat pizza while the others worked. Alyssa and Josiah were third.
They had the Express Pass that they refused to use because they wanted to hold onto it in case of an emergency. Carson was still figuring out pizzas when Han and Holden showed up. It gave Carson the kick he needed. He eventually got the pizza right. He and Jack were off to the final stop. The siblings still had a fighting chance even if they were in last.
It depended on who got to Castel Nuovo first. It was the last leg of the Italian journey. Ana and Jonathan got first. Brett and Mark got second. Alyssa and Josiah got third. And fourth place to Carson and Jack.
They beat Han and Holden by mere minutes, but it was a non-elimination leg and so the siblings got to stay on in the competition.
THE END!
