It’s time to go to India again, and you know what that means. Harrowing driving! A Roadblock of the needle-in-a-haystack variety requires patience and an orderly approach and, in Gretchen’s case, a lot of head-scratching and spinning around. Oh, and there’s a Yield, but no one uses it. The Detour entices all five teams to take on the task of serving tea to a collection of Indian bureaucrats (really!), and chaos ensues. Meredith and Gretchen fall behind by a large margin in a short time and trail all day, leaving us all to speculate about whether they’re about to lose the cute little backpack that Gretchen just bought. But, wonder of wonders, when Rob and Amber finish the leg first (again), they learn from Phil that there’s no greeter and no pit stop — they just get another clue and keep going. To Be Continued! Sigh.

Whoa – only a grade “B” episode according to the running poll. I’m still sort of irked at the incredible spoonfed flight to India. These people have never booked their own travel to date, except for that little flight between Mumbai (yes, that’s Bombay, Rob) and Lucknow. Jeez! These people would get their asses handed to them in an airsick bag if they ever went up against just about any well-regarded team from past seasons, and a couple of hated teams, too!

And also there’s a recap for the “clip” show, “They Saved The Eyeball.”

But thank goodness, the excellent folks at Tarflies.com saw fit to put the Amazing Double Browpop up as the image for this episode.