Slap Forget the gnome. This entire *#$%@$! @#$% of an episode was actually brought to you by Swiss Rail: We're Going Somewhere, But The Next Four Segments Aren't. Alfred Hitchcock presents: Teams On A Train. And then another train. Followed by yet another train. And then there may have been some more trains, but by that point, the only person still interested was Sheldon Cooper. So many shots of semi-lit tunnel interiors, you'll swear you're playing Half-Life and alien ambush? Would have been a mercy. Is this an hour of CBS airtime or a loading screen? Apparently it's both. Because thrilling scenes of being stuck in airports just weren't thrilling enough any more. Whoever laid out the course for this leg should be forced to travel it for the amount of real time it took in subjective. See you in thirteen years.

Slap The Switchback was mostly a failure. The snow arguably added too great a degree of ascent difficulty: teams shouldn't be at risk of injury just from approaching a task. And then it slowed everything up on the way back down. Losing the local audience took out the rest of the flavor, and all we had left was bland snow and chilled cheese.

Slap Um... Detour, anyone? Oh, wait: had to squeeze in another fifty-eight tunnel shots. Gee, someone's got a Freudian problem.

No Hand Movement There's a certain degree of accomplishment to a tunnel and observation port carved into a mountain, or would have been if we hadn't seen the first part fifty-seven times before getting there.

Clap Nothing can screw up the local scenery.

The local outdoor scenery.

No, this does not mean exterior shots of the train.