Missions:
10: Brown Water Rafting
11: Learn to Sail
What my sister Alex said:
The coolest thing about this mission was the pendulum jump to the water.
Jake won because of his superior design, and his cheating.
It was great of Jake to have Oscar as his dinner companion. It was a nice gesture that helped bring the group together.
The underwear skirmish was really funny, especially when Vince whined to be let in.
I didn’t like Vince and Erica’s superior attitudeduring this episode. They need to try harder to be part of the group.
What Bonnie had to say about the episode:
Original Air Date: Sept. 1, 1997
These segments each had their own titles shown during the show.
Segment #1 - All By Myself
The group drives the van and miss the coordinates of where they are supposed to be. They finally find that they need to be on the other side of a bridge. The group meets the people who are in charge of their next mission which involves individually making rafts and compete in a race. The winner gets a gourmet dinner.
Mission 10: Brown Water Raft Race
Oscar builds a kayak-like raft. Erika and Jake build triangle-shaped rafts.
Oscar thinks Erika is going to be tough competition. They get on their lifejackets and helmets.
Before they can start the raft race, they all have to bungie jump off the bridge.
After they jump, they run to their rafts. Jake cheats a bit by running with his raft instead of getting in his raft immediately. Vince makes fun of the girls' rafts which are sinking already.
Vince jokes around and starts sinking in deep sand on the bank. He laughs and says he's sinking in quicksand. The girls laugh.
Jake wins the race, and the rest of the group isn't even half-way done. Jake gets a bamboo trophy and is informed he'll have a gourmet dinner cooked for him. He says he hates being alone and that he's rather have lost and be with the group still.
Mission 10 completed.
Jake wants everyone to eat his dinner with him, but there's not enough food to go around. So he invites Oscar to eat with him. Erika doesn't understand why he chose to invite Oscar instead of Kalle. Vince thinks Jake invited Oscar to thank him for his family's hospitality while they were in Puerto Rico.
Jake is dressed up in a tuxedo for dinner. The rest of the group waits inside while Oscar and Jake have dinner out on the porch.
Segment #2 - Tempted by the Fruit of Another
They all go to the airport the next morning where they will get their tickets to somewhere they don't know yet. They find out they'll be going to Martinique. When they get there, the group immediately goes grocery shopping.
Kalle says she loves the French language. They all watch the sunset.
Erika says Vince was a no-nonsense guy and then turned into a goof on their travels. She tries to put makeup on him. Then Erika and Vince are seen wrestling.
While in Martinique, Erika says she and Vince like hanging out with each other, often without the other members of the group. Kalle looks annoyed that they are eating away from her, Jake and Oscar.
Erika says everyone in the group are always talking about themselves instead of politics or current events. But she and Vince can talk about these things.
Erika tells Vince it was hard to leave her boyfriend to take this trip, and Vince says the same thing about his girlfriend.
Erika and Vince are seen lying in bed (fully clothed), just relaxing. Then out of the blue, Vince pours the water from his water bottle on Erika. She shrieks and runs him out of the room. Then she locks him outside on the porch. After he whines and apologizes she lets him back in. But not before she dumps his underwear into the toilet. When he comes back in and he's brushing his teeth, she winds up a towel and snaps it against his butt. Oscar, who seems to be sharing the room with them, just reads a magazine on his bed and looks like them like they're little kids.
Oscar says that in the middle of the night, Erika and Vince were not sleeping, but they were making some noise. He says he doesn't know if they were pinching each other, wrestling or "getting their groove on." He says if they weren't getting it on, they should have a long time ago; he would have.
Segment #3 - Sea of Love
The group is in the van and find their next clue on a cassette in the tape deck. They are to find a man named Christian. They meet him and he tells them that he's the captain of a boat called the Lady Jane.
Mission 11 - Learn How to Sail
They'll be on a boat for two weeks. Erika's nervous about breaking something on this two-million-dollar boat.
Christian talks to Erika in what she calls "sailing speak." She doesn't understand what he's saying half the time.
Vince has already broken a sail. When he asks how he broke it so he won't do it again, Christian says it was because Vince wasn't paying attention.
Christian says the group has to pick a captain among themselves. No one wants to do it, so Jake volunteers. Vince says Jake's doing a good job. Christian gives them two new flags to fly on the boat. One has the Road Rules logo and another says the SS Winnie.
They find another clue on the boat which explains that when they arrive to the next destination, they will be planning someone's wedding.
Erika says she hopes it's calm seas the rest of the way, and just as she says that they see storm clouds. Now it's getting dark and everyone including Christian is nervous.
They find out that Jake forgot to lock down a certain rope and the sail is twisted up. So Christian climbs up the mast so he can cut the rope. He's bleeding. Lots of scenes of the gang ducking and screaming. The sail seems to be swinging out of control.
What MTV had to say about the episode:
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