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The Great American Road Trip: Episode 1 Recap

Posted on 07/07/2009 by Gina in The Great American Road trip

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The Great American Road Trip

 

by Gina Scarpa

 

Tonight, NBC unveiled their last reality show competition, The Great American Road Trip.  Families of four will travel along the legendary Route 66 and must stop to compete in challenges along the way.  It's not a race and not about how fast you get to a certain destination.  However, competitions will determine who stays on the road and who ends up going home.  The winning family will walk away with $100,000.  Among this season's crop of contestants is the Pollard family and mom Amie is a RealityWanted member.  We'll be pulling for her this season and hear from her throughout the season about her journey to get on the show and what the experience was like!

Things get started in Chicago at Wrigley Field and host Reno Collier meets up with the families to hook them up with decked out RVs that they'll use to make the trip.  It doesn't take long before some families begin arguing, like the DiSalvatores from New York.  They're so larger than life that they almost seem like they're actors.  The craziest is dad Silvio, who lives in a fantasy world, thinking that his hair is still cool and he's a badass.  I very much beg to differ.  After a night in an RV park, the families find out they'll be headed to Springield, IL which is the home of Abraham Lincoln.  It is there that they'll compete in their very first challenge.

One member of each family will race through a series of obstacles, holding as many votes as they can.  They'll have to get as many as they can in the ballot box before three minutes is up.  There's a catch, though.  They'll be wearing gigantic presidential bobbleheads.  As each one is revealed, the kids seem to recognize Bush and Obama but don't react at all to Kennedy or Nixon.  History lessons, anyone?  The Coote family, Chicago natives, have the best strategy, taking their time to pile up as many votes as possible while the Katzenbugs, representing my home state of CT, feel that their best shot at winning is to go the fastest.

At the end of the three minutes, Amy DiSavlatore steps forward and accuses the Cootes of cheating.  The rules stated that you could not put any votes in your pants.  They had to be on the outside of your body and the Cootes tucked theirs into their shirt.  Reno assured Amy that no cheating took place and the Cootes were allowed to carry the votes that way.  It's an awkward moment, in which the DiSalvatores aren't exactly making friends, but the Cootes quickly accept their apology just to shut them up.  The Cootes end up winning the challenge while the Katzenburgs, Montgomerys, and Favereys end up in the bottom three.

The elimination challenge looks like a ton of fun!  Families will have a certain amount of rope attached to a ball that they must push through a series of obstacles.  They will only be able to cross the finish line if they take the correct path.  One family member must be inside the ball like a little hamster.  If I wasn't so claustrophobic, I'd jump in there in a heartbeat.  The Favereys are up first, yelling and even swearing at each other at times.  They finish with a time of almost 16 minutes and are embarrassed at their performance and how they handled the pressure.  The Katzenburgs go next and once again, try to be the fastest... except they finish in over 40 minutes.  Finally, the Montgomerys, cool and collected, fly through the obstacles in just 2 minutes!  The Katzenburg family is eliminated from the competition and mom Hyleri says that maybe it's a sign that she should be planning her wedding to fiance Marc instead of running all over the country.  Maybe...


The Great American Road Trip airs Tuesday nights at 8pm ET on NBC.

(Image courtesy of NBC)

 

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