Somehow, Lake and Michelle have wound up behind BJ and Tyler, so these teams are right together approaching the pit stop. Michelle gets frustrated about trying to navigate, and Lake says, "Baby, zip the negativisim now. It's not positive; just don't say it." She shifts into exaggerated praise of him. BJ and Tyler run backwards to the mat for absolutely no reason whatsoever. BJ looks at the greeter, who happens to have a long, white beard, and says, "Santa." Which might be funny if there were a break from this, ever, but as it is, it just feels like an endless stream of being grabbed by the collar and instructed to laugh. "Laugh, dammit!" Also, I don't really appreciate the implication that Santa would lower himself to work as a greeter. Anyway, they are team number two. Lake and Michelle, you are team number three. They're happy, and they high-five.
Back at the dancing, Fran and Barry "complete" the Detour, by which I mean that they stand there while the music plays and the other people dance, and Barry does about three-quarters of the dance, and Fran does no more than half of it. It's completely absurd that this results in their getting the clue, because the entire point is learning all the steps. If you don't make them learn all the steps, then people aren't competing equally, because the rules aren't being applied the way they're explained in the clue. I hate it when this happens. It's locals trying to be nice, basically, but it makes things unfair. They're not feeble; it's not like you can't teach them the steps if you stay and make them learn. At any rate, Fran and Barry get the pit stop clue.
Joseph and Monica get to Bavaria Film just as Fran and Barry head to Munich. Joseph and Monica are doing the bottles as well. They laugh at the absurdity of the task. Ray and Yolanda arrive, as do Dave and Lori, but Dave and Lori are a little more clued in to where the entrance is, so they hit the clue box first. Both teams go with the bottles. Inside, Ray wonders whether the lederhosen he's trying to put on are giving him trouble because they're backwards. Yolanda doesn't think that's the issue. "Your butt's just big," she says. He laughs. Lori, meanwhile, has such trouble with her outfit that Ray and Yolanda get to the bottles before they do. So now, Ray and Yolanda are joining Joseph and Monica at the bottle option. Dave and Lori soon jump in. Just then, a large band led by tootling clarinetists comes tromping through, which is delightfully random. Bottles are broken, more bottles are broken, and Dave and Lori get a magic label first. Monica and Joseph, on the other hand, are starting to get irritated.













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