The four remaining teams head for Argentina to partake in a challenge filled with tango and rodeo. One team continues their nefarious ways in messing with another team in order to continue their winning ways, while one's continued attempt to be less aggressive is furthered along with another's encouragement. After going through too many trials of their own, someone finally confesses their love for another, but the final race to the finish leads to a problem caused by another to throw them off a mountain; forcing new lovers out of the race. Because it was meant to be a non-elimination round, two others are brought back in their place.
Plot
Buenos Aires is the next destination.
The final four receive their tips and head for their next destination: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Devin is convinced that nothing will go wrong, which causes Carrie to worry that he may have jinxed them. She does not have to wait long to get her answer, as an elephant, that has blocked the road, takes a seat on the taxi that the Best Friends are in. At the airport, Kitty sweet-talks the attendant into booking the Ice Dancers and the Cadets seats next to the restrooms. The two teams vow to have their revenge on the Sisters for making this move. Devin makes another attempt to confess his feelings for Carrie, but becomes nervous and accidentally spills his hot tea on himself. Kitty urges him to tell Carrie soon. Once in Buenos Aires, the teams must compete in an All-In. They have to perform the tango at a local dance academy in order to receive their next tip from the instructor. The Ice Dancers, due to being dancers by nature, pass the challenge on their first attempt. With this advantage, they take the lead. The other teams complain about how unfair this is to them. The instructor is appalled by the Police Cadets' freestyle dance choreography and does not give them his approval. This is also, in part, because they stumble and fall onto him at the end of their performance. Devin is fairly confident that he will lead his team to victory in the challenge, because of the dance lessons he took with his ex-girlfriend, Shelley. However, he ends up accidentally injuring Carrie during their dance. The Sisters are the second team to finish and head for the Don Box. The next challenge is a Botch or Watch in which one team member must ride a horse and use a boleadoras to tie up their team’s emu, and take it to the Chill Zone on Mt. Aconcagua.
Kitty and her emu slide down the mountain.
Back at the academy, the Cadets get the approval of the tango instructor and travel to the next destination. Carrie becomes upset at Devin for repeatedly injuring her. Devin starts to apologize but makes the mistake of mentioning Shelley, which causes Carrie to snap and take charge of the team. Under her leadership, the Best Friends manage to do the steps of the dance without any hiccups. The Ice Dancers try to sabotage the Sisters by coating their emu with vegetable oil. In doing so, however, Jacques ends up spilling some of the oil on himself too. Despite her best attempts at intimidation, MacArthur is unable to get her horse to cooperate. Sanders takes a gentler approach and tries to coax the horse into assisting the Cadets. The equine complies and gets on its feet. Following this, MacArthur is able to take down her team's emu after a short chase. After her bolas slip off the emu multiple times, Kitty becomes frustrated. She dismounts the horse, against Emma's advice, and tackles the emu, which sends them both sliding down the mountain. Elsewhere, Jacques has to take a pause on the challenge as his lubricated hands make it difficult for him to wield the bolas. He sees no other option but to lather the oil onto his hair. A concerned Emma follows Kitty down the mountain and crashes into their team's emu. Kitty asks her to help carry it but Emma refuses and instead insults the emu. This angers the bird and causes it to chase after them as they head up the mountain.
The Ice Dancers and Police Cadets have a footrace to the Chill Zone. To Don's delight, it is the Ice Dancers who are the first to step onto the mat. The two gloat over having beaten the Cadets. Back at the ranch, Carrie becomes worried about her and Devin's fate as she sees their elimination as likely. Shortly after, Devin captures the emu and it goes down in a puddle of mud, that splashes onto his partner, who is standing nearby. He asks about the whereabouts of the other teams and a dejected Carrie tells him that they are the last to finish this leg, at least to her knowledge. Devin stops her from carrying on and takes the moment to confess his feelings for her, which she reciprocates. The two embrace and have their first kiss, but are interrupted by the Sisters who pass them while being chased by their emu. Realizing they are still in the race, the Best Friends head for the Chill Zone. Kitty ties herself to her team's emu to give the Sisters a chance of catching up. In another close call, the Best Friends beat out the Sisters for third place. Emma trips on a rock and loses control of the Sisters' emu. Kitty is unable to steer it by herself and collides with Devin, sending him over the cliff’s edge. Emma tries to cheer up a guilt-ridden Kitty by telling her that it is a non-elimination round, meaning the Sisters are still in the Race.
The Best Friends leave the Race after Devin is too injured to continue.
In response to Don's inquiry, a critically injured Devin (in a full body cast) informs the host that he and Carrie will not be able to carry on with the race. He apologizes to Carrie but she tells him not to worry about it, as she is just happy that he is alive. Don tells them they must choose one team to return to the competition in their place. Carrie chooses the Surfer Dudes, as they intentionally fell behind back in Vietnam to save them from elimination. Devin is then wheeled away by a paramedic as the Best Friends depart. The producers call Brody and Geoff, who are hanging out at the beach, in order to inform them about the events of the day. They happily receive the news that they are to return. As the Best Friends leave via helicopter, Carrie reminisces over the good times they had during the race and reiterates her love for Devin. She hears Devin utter Shelley in a muffled voice and tells him to stop talking so that he can rest.
Cast
| Voice actor | Role(s) |
|---|---|
| Terry McGurrin | Don |
| Kristin Fairlie | Carrie |
| Jeff Geddis | Devin |
| Stacey DePass | Emma |
| Scott McCord | Jacques/Paramedic |
| Julie Lemieux | Josee |
| Stephanie Anne Mills | Kitty |
| Evany Rosen | MacArthur |
| Nicole Stamp | Sanders |
Leaderboard
First Place • Racing • Eliminated • Last placer on a non-elimination episode
Returns to the competition • Season winner • Season 2nd place
Trivia
General
- Those who compete in the Botch or Watch are Jacques, Kitty, MacArthur, and Devin.
- This episode was supposed to be a non-elimination episode, but since Devin sustained major injuries, he and Carrie were removed from the race. Don rectifies this by allowing the Best Friends to choose a previously eliminated team (the Surfer Dudes) to replace them.
- As of this episode, every team from the original final five has been saved by a non-elimination round at least once.
- Even if the Sisters had reached the Chill Zone before the Best Friends, they would have been penalized, as Emma helped Kitty in the Botch or Watch.
- Devin putting a jinx on his team foreshadowing their fate seemingly parallels what Dwayne did in Little Bull on the Prairie.
- Unlike Total Drama, there is no "three against one" pattern for Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race.
Continuity
- The Rob Ford look-alike from None Down, Eighteen to Go - Part 1 appears as a passenger walking out of the lavatory.
- When Don requests the Best Friends to choose one team to bring back, they pick the Surfer Dudes to repay them for sacrificing themselves to let them stay in the game in Ca-Noodling.
References
- The title is a reference to the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris.
Goofs
Emma's highlights in her hair are not fully drawn.
- When Emma screams in pain after Kitty has stepped on her foot, one of the highlights in her hair is not fully drawn.
- The cast on Sanders's left arm disappears several times in the episode.
- The Argentinian birds are incorrectly referred to as emus. They are actually called rheas, which are closely related, but still distinct from emus which are native to Australia, also they are incorrectly depicted as looking like emus, despite actual rheas looking closer to Ostriches.
- In several instances of the episode, Buenos Aires is shown to be situated by the Andes. In reality, the city is located in a geographic area known as the Pampas.
- When the helicopter is flying away, only Josee's hair is seen blowing, while the other contestants' hair remains still.
- The Ice Dancers are not penalized even though Jacques didn't catch his emu on horseback.
- In the beginning of the episode, Don says all three teams are headed to the airport for their tip, but there are four teams in play.
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