Moat CrossingFor the opening challenge, teams simply had to swing across the moat on a single rope, one player at a time. It was a very straightforward challenge, and none of the teams had any real trouble— fractions of a second separated each of the teams as the Blue Barracudas, Orange Iguanas, Green Monkeys and Silver Snakes won the four Steps of Knowledge positions in that order.
Steps of KnowledgeIn the early 1500's, the greatest artist of the Italian Renaissance was Michelangelo Buonarroti. He was so talented that at sixteen, Lorenzo de' Medici, the Prince of Florence, became his patron. Legend has it that one day, Lorenzo came to visit Michelangelo at his studio. "Listen, Michelangelo! You've been working on that statue of David for months!" "As a matter of fact," said the artist, "I just finished." And he pulled off the drapery covering it. There was a seven-foot-tall statue of young David, about to do battle with Goliath. "Magnificent!" exclaimed Lorenzo. "He looks alive! How did you do that?" "I pictured him inside the block of marble, and I chiseled away to free him." "He will be placed in the town square of Florence as a symbol of my power!" said the prince. Years later, during a rebellion, the statue was smashed and later restored, but legend has it that one eye vanished and had to be replaced.
Temple GamesThe Silver Snakes are Emily, who cheerleads, and Michael, who is into extreme activities. The Blue Barracudas are Tasha, who also cheerleads, and Matt, who plays basketball. Color Mixing (Tilt Swing)[]Every old master had his apprentices who mixed the paints for his palette. They had to know all about colors, of course. In front of each player was a bucket (one marked with purple and the other marked with green). Here, Emily had to remember that the two colors that make up purple are red and blue while Tasha had to remember that the two colors that make up green are blue and yellow. When Kirk gave the signal, each player had to run around to her palette, grab a primary colored ball that makes up her secondary color, and drop it in her bucket. The player with the most primary colored balls that make up her secondary color in her bucket in 60 seconds won. Emily won the game and the half pendant after dropping six balls in her bucket over Tasha, who only dropped four balls. Portrait of Olmec (Bungee Ceiling)[]Michelangelo painted beautiful pictures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. On the ceiling above each player was an equally impressive picture of Olmec. Here, Matt and Michael had to take it down for a cleaning piece by piece. When Kirk gave the signal, each player had to jump up, grab a piece of Olmec's portrait one piece at a time. For every piece removed, it had to be placed in each player's bucket. The first player to take down all eight pieces and put them in his bucket or the player further along in 60 seconds won. If either player missed his bucket, it did not count. Michael dropped his seventh piece, which cost his team big time. Matt however, got all eight pieces in his bucket, awarding him a half pendant of life. Chipping a Block of Marble (Giant Steps)[]Michelangelo once explained that he envisioned the figure inside the marble and chipped his way down to it. The teams here had to test that technique. Before both teams were three giant steps, at the top of which stands two blocks of marble. When Kirk gave the signal, one member from each team had to boost the other up to the top of the first step. Once he was up, he had to turn and pull his partner up to his step, then start again. Once both players on either team were on the top step, they had to break away their marble and reveal the sculpture within. The team to make it to the top and brake away the marble or the team furthest along in 60 seconds won. For an unknown reason, Kirk did the commentary for this game from a raised platform next to the giant steps— something he never did in any other episode even though this Temple Game would reappear several times. Michael smashed the marble and revealed the sculpture within, awarding him a full pendant of life and sending him and Emily to Olmec's Temple with 1½ pendants of life.
Temple RunMichael volunteered to go first and chose to start by going up into The Crypt. Moving at a fast pace, Michael made a great move by pulling two of the books from the skeletons at the same time, which then allowed him to access The Troubled Bridge. Running across the bridge, Michael progressed rapidly until The Observatory, where he had a little trouble with the top section of the stone column. After aligning the stone column, the only door that opened was Medusa's Lair, so Michael had to go down the ladder, clearly now set on a very long rounding path to get to the eye. But just as he was about to put on the first snake into Medusa's head, he was caught by the first Temple Guard and had to give up his pendant of life. After doing so, Michael was able to complete the objective very quickly, but none of the doors opened. Confused, Michael kept going back to the head and pushing in the snakes further, but nothing seemed to work. Because of this, Michael made a continuous loop, from pressing on the actuators for both the inactive door leading to The Rock Quarry and to The King's Storeroom, and then going back to push in the snakes. Finally, after a twenty-second delay, the door leading to The Laser Light Room had finally opened. Quickly climbing and jumping down into the room, Michael started to pull the blocks off the wall to reveal the white light. But the second Temple Guard quickly grabs him and literally picked him up before removing him out of the temple with 1:48 to go.
While both members did a great job in the temple with both speed wise and completing the objectives in a timely fashion. (Other than the incident in Medusa's Lair). And while it did seem that the two had a high chance in grabbing the missing eye on time. It was the layout, placement of the half pendant and the consecutive order of temple guards that led to their unfortunate fate within the temple. But at the same time, the delayed game over does make this run very memorable.
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