Search Party

Search Party Marathon (Honolulu)

Search Party makes its bow with several back-to-back episodes featuring cast members from the syndicated series Baywatch Hawai'i. Two three-person teams, the Red and the Blue, compete against each other for prizes, yes (they're on the modest side), but mostly just for the fun of it. Initially the competition was in three rounds: the Surf & Turf, each portion worth 500 points; the Scavenger Hunt, either the Silver Screen or Sight-Seeing variety, where teams are usually awarded 300 points for each completed item or task (with bonus points often added); and the Search Party Scramble, a wild final competition which is always extremely silly and usually extremely messy. It's usually worth 2000 to 3000 points. Alert viewers with basic math skills will note that the points awarded for the Scramble are always sufficient to win the game, but somebody keeps score all the way through anyway. On later installments of the show, the Surf & Turf round is more or less combined with the Scavenger Hunt.

South Beach, Florida (1)

Surf and Turf round: Surf: Slap Happy Duck Paddle--In the pool, the object is to whack as many of the nine floating ducks as possible out of your end and into the opponent's, using ping-pong paddles. There is much illegal use of the hands and Scott Lasky resorts to tackling opponents. Referee Art Mann initially declares Red the winner, then reverses himself, saying Blue won by a 4-3 score. Turf: Ball & Chain Bowling Brawl--2 team members have a ball and chain attached to their legs and, playing tag-team style, alternately try to knock over martini glasses protected by a goalie, the third player on the team. Goalie Carol and Scott get into it: she pulls on his pants and he stomps her feet! Red wins. Silver Screen Scavenger Hunt: 1. Find a Fidel Castro lookalike. 2. Get a toddler to do an impression of a vicious dog--Unlike Blue, Red finds a real kid to do the task. 3. Convince a tourist to teach the team a jig a la Lord of the Dance. 4. Find someone with the most gold. 5.

Antigua (1)

Surf & Turf round: Surf: Duck Soup--In the pool, teams try to collect the most ducks using their mouths. Blue wins 6-5. Turf: Fruit Salad Friends--Payer 1 passes fruit to player 2 neck-to-neck, then 2 passes to player 3 mouth-to-mouth. The fruit is then scooped out and used for fruit salad. Red wins. Silver Screen Scavenger Hunt: 1. Play ping-pong with a champion. 2. Kiss a tourist who is wearing something yellow--A guy actually turns Carol Grow down! 3. Shake hands with someone who looks like an American president. 4. Find someone who has been to Vietnam. 5. Convince a local to make up a song about Art Mann. Movie reference: Forrest Gump. Both teams complete all tasks and both get bonus points for identifying film. Scramble: Lucy in the Sky with Pie--Player 1, blindfolded, collects whipped cream and takes it to player 2, the pie maker. He or she fills pie crusts with fruit and whipped cream, then throws the finished results to player 3, who must catch pies intact to

Jamaica (1)

Surf & Turf Round: Surf: Dog and Pony Pool Show--In the pool, player 1 must dive through a series of three hoops while carrying a ball. That ball is then given to player 2 who throws it to waiting player 3 on a bridge above. The balls get larger in size on each successive attempt, beginning with a tennis ball and ending with a large beach ball. Red has trouble shooting and catching. Blue wins 3-1. Turf: Fruit Flipper Flip Off--Using swim fins, player 1 flips fruit to player 2, who catches it in a bucket on his head. It's then put in a kiddie pool where player three mashes it with her feet to make juice, the most juice winning. Actually some pretty good catches are made here. Red makes substantially more juice for the win. Silver Screen Scavenger Hunt: 1. Locate someone or something that has been in outer space--Sets off a pretty lame search for tourist ""aliens."" 2. Get two famous people to argue--Red pits ""Greg Louganis"" against ""Steve Austin."" Blue finds a genuine ex-wrestler

Bahamas (1)

Jamaica (2)

Surf & Turf round: Surf: Poison Beach Ball Rampage--Teams in the pool must get rid of the ""poison"" beach balls on their side of a volleyball net by knocking them over to the other side using flippers on the hands. Red trounces Blue 14-6. Turf: Beach Ball Balancing Beach Hop--Two players from each team get into a hula-hoop together and carry a beach ball down a course without using their hands. The other players try to bombard the opposition with various objects. Meanwhile, the beach balls get progressively smaller each trip the teams make. Did we hear a bit of profanity from Natalia? Red wins 5-4. Sight-seeing scavenger hunt: 1. Perform a reggae song about the opposing team. 2. Find the person with the longest dreadlocks--Blue finds some artificial ones, but Red comes across a man with locks of almost knee-length! 3. Find people who have travelled the furthest--Red finds folks from Manchester, England, which is further away than Blue's tourists from Portugal. 4. Act out a s

South Beach, Florida (2)

Surf & Turf round: Surf: Florida Iceberg Express--Player 1 is on a float in the pool. He is pulled across the pool by player 2, who then loads as much ice as she can on player 1's lap. Player 3 pulls them back and collects the ice, the team having the most winning. Scott and Jacob get the big chill here. Red wins. Turf: Sand Sucking Semi--Players 1 and 2 each grab a leg and go with player 3 wheelbarrow style down a course full of objects that must be picked up and put on 3's body. When they reach an orange player 3 must take a bite; when they reach a (toy) alligator he must grab it with his mouth. Again Jacob and Scott do the dirty work as the wheelbarrows. Blue wins. Sight-seeing Scavenger Hunt: 1. Find the fountain of youth--Blue finds an older guy to spit out some water, then through the magic of television he's transformed into a child. Red gets a little boy and girl to strike a fountain pose, then spout some water. 2. Find someone with the darkest tan and write an ""E!"" on

Antigua (2)

Surf & Turf round: Surf: Dolphin vs. Whale--Players in the pool ride on inflatable dolphins and whales and try to bat large beach balls into goals. Red wins 3-0, with a hat trick scored by Alison! Turf: Skip to My Hula My Darling--Two players per team run down a course with hula hoops, using them jump-rope style, to meet player 3, who tries to hula with a hoop and toss the rings onto ""dolphins."" Blue wins 2-0. Sight-seeing scavenger hunt: 1. Find a couple to kiss the longest. 2. Choreograph and perform a water ballet. 3. Find a drink that Brooke Shields would like. 4. Find a celebrity lookalike couple. 5. Learn a funny joke. Red wins round on points 1500-900. Scramble: The Wrap-a-Roti Relay--Player 1 finds twelve potatoes in the sand, mashes them with the feet, then forms them into little balls and throws them to player 2, who catches and spreads them on six tortillas. Chicken tortillas are then made on player 3's stomach, who must walk crab-style across the finish li