Diaper wrestling! Joseph and Monica are about to get started. Once they start wrestling, Monica keeps kind of dabbling in helping to push the guy out of the circle, and then she keeps sort of prancing away, all, "Heeee heee hee, oh my goooood!" Finally, with no help from Monica, Joseph manages to shove the wrestler out of the circle. So they're done, and they get the clue that sends them to the pit stop. This is a 107-mile trip to the fortress. They get going, and she notes on the map how confusing the whole thing is.
Back at the Olympic stadium, Ray finally gets the javelin to cooperate. He and Yolanda choose a wrestler, and from the beginning, they are in the wrestling together. I also like the way they slap hands with the wrestler, like everybody understands that it won't be anything personal when Ray and Yolanda have to tag-team him in a way that would normally be considered bad sportsmanship. And they do fully cooperate in shoving the guy out of the circle, which seems not to take them all that long. They leave for the pit stop.
Meanwhile, Fran and Barry are finding the assembly of the letters into a city very difficult. "New York Times crossword puzzle? This may be harder," Barry observes. Lake and Michelle are still getting letters translated, and they're still bickering. She wants to double-check every letter, while Lake is sure that if they get eight out of nine, they'll get the right city. I tend to side with her. Over at their little outpost, Fran and Barry find the city of Dimitsana, which is the right one. They get their clue and leave in fourth place. Almost immediately, Lake and Michelle also get the right city and get their pit stop clue. So Fran and Barry and Lake and Michelle are peeling out of the Detour at the same time. In the car, Michelle says that the fortress isn't showing on their map. Their map which, you'll note, has a giant rip in it, which may well be the result of earlier bickering in which they were shoving the map back and forth at each other. Over in Fran and Barry's car, he backs the car into a tree as a result of completely not looking where he's going (the tree is not a secret hidden tree; it is a huge tree that is directly behind them when he hits it). (Miss Alli's Mom: "It wasn't there before! Just like the clue box!") Fran expresses some concern over the fact that he just smashed the back of the car, but he's very much unconcerned. You know, it occurs to me that he's like Inverse Grandpa. "Don't worry about stopping to fix your car!" "Give up immediately!" They stop for directions, and they're told to go toward Patra.













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