At the four-star Ballynahinch Castle pet stop, most of the teams are sad to hear of the elimination of the gentle alpacas from Peru. That doesn’t stop Joey and Larry from jumping on Bela’s back as he floats in the pool. Bela, who doesn’t like the Madagascar clowns, dives under the water. Joey tries to hang on as Bela trots along the bottom.

Fermin snorts until the poolside disk jockey puts “I Like to Move it, Move it” on the sound system and the lemurs dance atop Victoria’s head. Celia joins in, doing the Cuban dance with her front paws.   Koko?

“Koko sad. Friendly white little horses gone. Koko love green green island. Koko love All Ball cat and All Ball dogs, Koko love tail monkeys. Koko love brown drink.”

While a Guinness representative calls to sign Koko to an endorsement deal, Burgess and Meredith, who were the first to arrive at the Pet Stop, are the first to leave. Their clue: Fly to London, England, and find the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace.

They take marked taxis back to Shannon, where they are followed by the other pairs. All ten pairs manage to get onto the same flight to London, even though Bella tried to sneak over and get a flight that stopped in the Isle of Man.

The Corgi pair, Monty and Holly, naturally know how to get to one of their homes, so the smart pairs follow them to the Mews where they receive this clue: Sign up for one of two double-decker buses to Derby, England, and find the Foal and Firkin Pub.

But what’s this? Bela and Victoria have decided to cool off in the Buckingham Palace fountain? And she wants to visit the Victoria Memorial?  And the lemurs are trying to make the famous Buckingham Palace Guards laugh? What’s going on here?

By the time Hercules and Maxx get all but the hippos back into line, the first bus is getting ready to leave. Bella and Douglas, Herc and Maxx, Monty and Holly, the bulls, and the donkeys are on the first bus, with Celia and Desi, the penguins, the Russian Blues, and the lemurs are on the second.

But wait a minute! The hippos are still in the fountain. They will have to charter a truck to take them to Derby. Bela bellows, and Victoria snaps.
 
The first bus has arrived at the Foal and Firkin (formerly known as the White Horse), and the teams receive a Road Block.

One team member must drink a cup (relatively sized) of the beverage of their choice. As local pub goers watch, Douglas happily drinks orange juice, Monty drinks some Beefeater gin, Maxx has some Samuel Adams, Fermin treats himself to some Red Bull and Ibrahim just has some water.

When they finish their drinks, they receive their next clues: Congratulations, lads and lassies! For the next stop on your pub crawl, take a marked taxi to Glasgow, Scotland, and go to the Horse Shoe Bar.

The police dogs get into the first car and try to stop their driver from speeding. Douglas, having had too much orange juice, throws up, and Fermin, hyped from drinking a 55-gallon drum of Red Bull, moos all the way to Scotland.

As the first group makes its way north, the second group arrives in Derby. Meredith has iced tea, Desi has some rum, Zhivago has some vodka as Stravinsky looks on, and the lemurs, already goofy enough, get hyped up on Madagascar Three Horses Beer and reprise the “I Like to Move It” dance on the bar.

While they’re dancing, the hippos arrive and Bela overdoes it, drinking an entire keg of Castle Lager from South Africa. He passes out and the bartender has to call a forklift operator to get him back on his feet.

Hercules and Maxx and Bella and a still-carsick Douglas have found the Horse Shoe Bar. Douglas looks upset, but their clue doesn’t make them drink anything. It tells them to take their marked taxis, and then a ferry boat to the Esplanade in Lerwick in the Scottish Shetland Islands, the Pet Stop for this leg of the Race.

Douglas perks up at this, and the taxis head off. Someone on the Lerwick ferry has given Douglas another Douglas plaid scarf. Bella and Douglas are the first to arrive by ferry in Lerwick, and they hear “There’s Dooglass! And he’s wearin’ his tartan scarf! There’s Bella!” as they run to the Pet Stop to find, of course, Sean Connery with a Shetland Pony.

“Bella, Dooglass, ye’re the first to arrive. You’ve won a lifetime supply of, oh no, does it have to be this? FANCY FEAST, which you can enjoy after the Race. And the police dogs, ye’re the second team, but look out for those bulls, who are Team Number Three.”

The second group arrives, but Bela and Victoria are three hours behind everyone else. Phil Kiwi comes over.

“Bela and Victoria, you’re the last team to arrive, and you didn’t complete the bus to Derby task correctly. I don’t have to give you a time penalty, but I’m sorry to tell you you’ve been eliminated from the Amanxing Race."  

WRITTEN BY BECKY BANFIELD
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVE HUNTER & BELLA T. MANX
Inspired by The Amazing Race on CBS