This Is More Important Than Your Pants Falling Down! is the eighth episode of The Amazing Race 3.
Story[]
Route Markers[]
The order of departure from Schloss Bullachberg are as follows:
- Flo & Zach (10:02 pm)
- Derek & Drew (12:44 am)
- John Vito & Jill (12:45 am)
- Teri & Ian (12:53 am)
- Ken & Gerard (2:42 am)
Teams must, using a provided map as reference, drive themselves to Augustinerhof Farm, where they must search through a large haystack for their next clue.
Teams must make their way to Friedrichshafen, where they must take a ferry across Lake Constance to Romanshorn, Switzerland. Once there, they must take a train to Schaffhausen, then search for the "thunder of the Rheinfall", leaving teams to figure out that they had to take a boat to an islet at the at the center of the Rheinfall, where they would find their next clue.
The Fast Forward instructions were given to teams at Augustinerhof Farm. Since no team chose to perform the Fast Forward, its instructions are neither elaborated nor aired.
Teams must take a train to Zurich, then make their way to the Lindenhof. There, they must search for a Swiss officer who would lead them to an underground vault, where they would find their next clue.
Choice A: Count the Money
Teams must count a bowl of Swiss francs inside the vault. Once they have correctly counted the total amount inside the bowl, they must use the resulting six-digit value to open a safe within the vault that contained their next clue.
None of the teams chose this task.
Choice B: Run the Numbers
Teams must search the area around the Lindenhof to find three numbers that, went put together, revealed the six-digit value to open a safe within the vault that contained their next clue. Teams had to search for:
- the number on the metal head statue at the intersection of Sihlstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse;
- the sum of the numbers on the north face of the clock on St. Peter’s Church; and
- the number of trees in the Lindenhof marked with red ribbons.
Teams must take a train to Grindelwald, then make their way to the marked field east of the Grindelwald Grund railway station, where they would find their next clue.
"That person should be ready to take a shot at success."
The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must relive the story of Swiss folk hero William Tell by using a crossbow to shoot an apple off a mannequin's head. Once they have successfully knocked off the apple, they would receive their next clue.
The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:
Teams must make their way to Chalet Arnika to check in.
For coming in first place, Derek & Drew won two Kodak EasyShare digital cameras.
Leaderboard[]
First Place • Eliminated • Last placer on a Non-Elimination Leg or continue racing on a No-Rest Leg • Season winner • Season 2nd place • Season 3rd place • ► Used the Fast Forward
Derek & Drew
Twins/Models |
Flo & Zach
Friends |
Teri & Ian
Married Parents |
Ken & Gerard
Brothers |
John Vito & Jill
Dating |
Trivia[]
- This episode won the 2003 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program".[2][3]
- This episode marks the first time that The Amazing Race visits the country of Switzerland.
- This episode's Roadblock would return as an unacknowledged Switchback in "You're the Apple in My Eye" in The Amazing Race 31.
- The episode title is said by Ian Pollack as Teri was trying to keep her pants up while they were going to the Pit Stop.
References[]
| The Amazing Race 3 Episodes |
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"What If Our Parachute Doesn't Open?" · "This Seems Like the Path Straight to Hell!" · "You Always Just Forget About Me!" · "Did You See How I Stopped It? With My Face" · "What Happens If I Slip? Am I Just Hanging Off a Cliff?" · "I'm a Much Better Liar Than You Are" · "I'm Supposed to Be Indebted to Her for the Rest of the Race?!" · "This Is More Important Than Your Pants Falling Down!" · "Why Did You Have to Take Your Pants Off?!" · "Don't Try to Play the Moralist Now!" · "They're Slithering to the Finish Line Like the Rest of Us!" |