This has been my favourite episode yet this season.

Indeed, the twelfth season in general has been full of the essential things that make TAR entertaining: racers having to deal with stubborn animals and embarrassing themselves in front of the locals.

When we last saw the racers, they were chilling in Bingo, population: not a damn lot. Azaria and Hendekea were the first to leave. Their mission was to find the village chief and receive a gift for harassing the village camels.

The big plotline for the siblings this episode was Azaria's frustration with Hendekea's slowness. He spoke of her having to overcome her limitations. She laughed and wondered why he was making her sound like she was a "retard" (bleeped out by the pearl-clutching editors). She was all "I don?t exactly have a gimp leg here". Somewhere, S10's Sarah was watching this with her bionic leg stretched out on the coffee table thinking "Damn straight, skippy. Don't steal my thunder."

The Goths interviewed that despite their? well, gothiness, they weren't sullen, emo wankers but instead they were happy, smurfy folk. Considering their fondness for pink, this doesn't exactly come as a shock. They're the cheeriest Goths I've ever seen. Someone should tell the Goth Union about this.

The chief had a very interesting present for all the teams ? a pet chicken. All of the teams would have to carry around the DIY Nando's with them for the rest of the leg, like a third team- member. I wonder if the chicken is allowed to do Roadblocks.

'Let's name our chicken Phil'

Nate and Jen's chicken immediately tried to escape at the sight of them. It knows! Shana and Jennifer named their chicken Phil on account of the close resemblance. Poor Phil, being compared to a chicken. It could have been worse though. Someone could have named a goat after him.

On the way to the next Route Marker, in a place called Bouda Pelewhatsit, Hendekea took a very inconvenient bathroom break. She shouldn't have had that fifth bowl of sorghum beer before she left the Pit Stop. Azaria fretted as a couple of teams passed them to arrive at the next Detour.

The choice was between panning for gold, and getting critically panned for bad dancing. The dancing choice meant teams had to perform a routine in front of some local celebrities. If they liked it, the team would get their clue. If they didn't, they'd suffer a ten-minute penalty before being sent on their way. Bah, I'd prefer it if they had to dance again until they pleased the judges.

The dancing was great fun to watch, mostly because of the crowd reaction. The actual village dancers were wearing these awesome fuzzy costumes which made them look like rainbow- coloured yetis. Sadly, the racers did not have to wear the fuzzy yeti outfits while wowing the judges.