Amazing Race: Highlights & Best Lines from Episode 6 - Season 16

Detectives Louie and Michael kick off this episode as the first to depart on this champagne-themed leg of the race. Teams first head to Reims, France to find an outdoor statue of Joan of Arc outside Reims Cathedral where a street musician playing a "singing saw" provides them with their next clue.

Brothers Dan and Jordan continually provide us with some of the funniest (or strangest) one-liners. Part of the clue reads, 'Listen to what you saw' which of course we as viewers know refers to the street musician playing the saw. Dan speculates, "So maybe this Joan of Arc speaks. She goes, 'My name is Joan of Arc.'"

The brothers ask for directions to the Joan of Arc statue from a local woman who, first in a very thick accent says, "The Cathedral" but then repeats it very plainly and easy to understand...except the guys don't get it.

Jordan: Joan of Arc. It's a statue.
Woman: Ahh, the Cathedral
Brothers: (Blank looks)
Woman: Cathedral.
Brothers: Cathy Drone. Ok, Cathy Drone.

Dan eventually figures it out and later Jordan says, "People really do not speak good English here." Of course, he's in France and doesn't speak any French...but I'll leave that one alone.

With their clue from the saw player, teams head to Leclerk Briant Winery. On the way Dan voices the question, "How do you make champagne? Is it like wine and then you just add like Club Soda?"

While cowboys (and brothers) Jet and Cord have done well in the past, they now have some serious directional challenges that leave them wondering if they'll be eliminated. Most teams went to at least one wrong location during this episode. But the cowboys win the prize for the most attempts to arrive at the correct spot.

Dating couple Jeff and Jordan bring up the rear after a non-elimination round gave them a second chance two episodes ago. One of the funniest moments of this week came as they drove to Reims Cathedral to find the Joan of Arc statue.

Jordan: Joan of Arc. He carried the animals, right?
Jeff: She.
Jordan: Yeah, he carried all the animals.
Jeff: She! That was Noah!
(Laughter from both)
Jeff: I wonder why we're in last place.

Caite seemed to have the same problem Jordan had as far as the gender of Joan of Arc...

Brent: I think that's her on the left.
Caite: Joan of Arc is a guy.
Brent: Joan of Arc is a girl. Why do you think her name is Joan?
Caite: (mumbles) Ok, never mind. Just kidding. I'm thinking of somebody else.

At the winery a person from each team was to repel 100 feet down into the champagne caverns and search thousands of bottles for one specially marked. After slicing the cork off the bottle with a saber, their next clue shot out of the bottle along with the bubbling champagne. However, it seems teams were not allowed to drink the champagne, which stood out quite obviously after hearing so many teams say, "I hope we get to try some champagne." One reason could be because the teams were driving themselves to the next challenge. In the beer-drinking challenge during a recent episode the teams were not getting behind the wheel.

Dan and Jordan got directions from a nice lady at the Tourism Center. Dan thought she was cute and said, "I think if you find a good-looking person who can give you directions it just doesn't hurt." Except...they were the wrong directions. Later Dan revised his original statement and said, "The lesson in this leg of the race was 'don't always trust a pretty girl.'"

Father and daughter team Steve and Allison were doing alright until Steve crash into a curb and seriously messed up the front of the car. Part of the exterior was catching on the tire and a lot of time was lost trying to fix it. We know from past seasons that getting another car would have taken even longer. So Steve did a temporary fix with duct tape that his wife had thrown into his bag "just in case."

When teams arrived at the detour, they chose between two challenges: Building a tower of champagne glasses with a specific equation of levels or searching an entire square kilometer of land for a small cluster of grapes marked with a little flag. Successfully building the champagne tower involved pouring a huge bottle of champagne from the top of the tower to the bottom without breaking any of the glasses.

Michael and Louie decided to search instead of build the tower, explaining that they were, "Both like bulls in a china shop." With Michael's "eagle eye" they found the marked cluster of grapes quickly and were, yet again, first to arrive at the pit stop and won a trip to Cancun.

Dan and Jordan opted for the champagne tower stating that they always try to pick the skill challenge over the luck challenge. Impressively, their tower never fell, even with an extremely precarious top level.

As Steve and Allison searched for the marked grapes Steve said, "Hopefully these grapes pop out at me like that curb did."

Another funny moment came when Carol and Brandy found the grapes and headed to the pit stop. Brent and Caite, nearly in last place now, see them and, thinking they're going to the challenge, decide to follow them. They follow Carol and Brandy all the way up to the pit stop before realizing they've skipped an entire step! The detour! When they did arrive to search, they fought and bickered the ENTIRE time. The cowboys had a much better searching strategy than Brent and Caite and quickly raced ahead to the pit stop. Brent and Caite decided to try the tower challenge instead and, dripping with sarcasm, they fight the whole way through that as well.

Brent: I might as well let you build this yourself. You're Miss Perfect.
Caite: I know. That's why you date me.

Of course, the tower collapsed and they ended up going back to the vineyard.

Jordan and Katie arrive and see Brent and Caite still searching in the vineyard, so they decided to build the tower. But their glasses fell before they even completed it, so they too went to the vineyard. Brent and Caite found the marked grapes, leaving Jordan and Katie in last place still looking for the last marked cluster well after sundown. And of course, now that Brent and Caite know they're not out of the race, the nasty bickering stops and they say how much they love each other.

Jordan, after searching for the grapes even when they know they've lost: "What are we doing this for? To teach kids to stay in school?" They finally find it but of course this leg of the race is over. Six teams left now!

Sources: Amazing Race, CBS