Episode
4.12 - Spring Wipeout: The Wizard of Owws
April 14
There's an old Buddhist saying... "Winter
never fails to turn into spring." We had the winter of our discontent
for the last eight episodes... But today, here comes the sun! Get ready
for SPRING WIPEOUT!
THE QUALIFIER
Tonight, the Qualifier consists of...
- Bowled Over... Gordon's favorite
pastime comes to the Wipeout course!
- The Big Balls... Now with a new SPRING-ovator conveyor belt. No spring
there, though. Plenty of spring on the Balls, though.
- The Spring Fling... Giant swing going in the wrong direction.
- The Wipeout Kitchen... Pies and baked goods this week, followed by
rolling pin hurdles.
The 24 spring breakers will take on the course, and the
12 with the fastest times will advance to stage 2.
ADVANCING TO ROUND 2
- Roy "Crushing Cowboy" Hernandez
- Sarah "Team Taco Truck" Weeger
- Molly "Cheeseball" Sanborn
- Taylor Skinner
- Tommy Truong
- "Golden Girl" Leo Dunn
- "Mr. T" Erik Simmons
- Camille "Bucket List" Bulot
- Scott "Big Blue" Devine
- Ronald Coronado
- Ryan "Scarecrow" Krogstad
- Christina "B-Boy Lady" Powers
THE SCARE-OUSEL
What's a spring fling without a carnival
classic? Contestants will start on the red track, grab a red dangler,
and make it to a red spot that leads to a yellow dangler and do the same
thing with a yellow dangler. If they wipeout before the spot, they'll
have to go back to the start, but the first six to avoid the sweeper
arms and make it to the finish target move on to the next stage.
ADVANCING TO ROUND 3
- Roy "Crushing Cowboy" Hernandez
- Sarah "Team Taco Truck" Weeger
- "Golden Girl" Leo Dunn
- Camille "Bucket List" Bulot
- Ryan "Scarecrow" Krogstad
- Christina "B-Boy Lady" Powers
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS OASIS
The Colosseum was ransacked, and in its
place... an Arabian fantasy land. Each of
the three rounds will start with a spin around the Dizzy Dummy.
First up, players will have to dive off of the Springboards onto a
rotating platform and a bouncing box. Then it's onto the Crankshaft, the Knee Sweeper, and the
Spinning Platform onto the finish. Wipeout at the Crankshaft or the Knee
Sweeper, and you can start back there. And here to help out the wipeouts
are a swashbucking swordsman and his ever-so-servile genie.
ADVANCING TO THE WIPEOUT ZONE
- Roy "Crushing Cowboy" Hernandez
- "Golden Girl" Leo Dunn
- Camille "Bucket List" Bulot
THE SPRING WIPEOUT ZONE
Back and with a spring fresh smell, it's
the toughest of the courses, the Spring Wipeout Zone! Tonight's
lineup...
- The Spring Shot
- The Over and Out: two rotating cliffhangers with floors on both the
top and the bottom... but the bottom... or is it the top... has a hole.
- The Point Break: climb up one end, then time the slide down to the
other.
- The Coin Toss: heads or tails, it adds up to eight spinning platforms
on to the finish.
Fifty large goes to the quickest time.
First up, Roy Hernandez impresses Jill...
again... with a pot of tulips. He busts his two lips... and perhaps the
rest of his face... in the Over and Out. Five minutes in, and he times
his slide to bust whatever's left. He ends up with an unorthodox way of
getting past the Coin Toss for a time of 11:58.
Next up, Leo Dunn takes the course,
keeping pace with Roy's time and making some of the same errors he did,
especially in the Point Break. He slings it and has three minutes at the
Coin Toss... It only takes him two to get past for the lead with a time
of 10:16.
But will the youngest contestant today
cross Wipeout Champion off her bucket list? It's time for Camille Bulot
to see the Zone... and then take the Zone. She plays the Over and Out
fast and loose, but she's got life in her, passing Leo's pace and gets
slung AGAIN. She has six minutes to pass the Coin Toss. It only takes
one. WITH A TIME OF 5:44, NO ONE YOUNGER AND NO ONE BETTER THAN CAMILLE
BULOT!
We'll spring 24 more people onto the
course for $50,000 next time. Until then, good night... and big balls.
To view this episode in its entirety or to apply to be a contestant on
"Wipeout", go to abc.com/wipeout
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