DEBUT: "Spell-Mageddon"

Michael Canter's an EP, as is former "Dancing Fools" EP Sandy Varo Jarrell; Rob George's the director.

Buzzed In: Run on a slippery path & hit one of three buzzers to earn a chance to spell a word announced by a female proctor. There will be an obstacle added in each of the later heats, except for the final one (& in the last two heats, only one buzzer will be available):

#2: Ball blaster
#3: Swinging log
#4: Bigger ball launcher
#5: Goggles

Rachel: EXPLAIN (she's a retail sales associate)
Jonah: DEPUTY (HS graduate)
Bobo: AMONG (stay-at-home dad four days before this episode was taped; the girl born was named Prayer)
Albert: REPUBLICAN (computer software technician)
Kristina: INSTEAD (HS Health teacher)
Tasha: PROPERTY (opera singer)- KELLY FIRST SENT TO LOOZER'S LOUNGE

Zapped: One contestant at a time has to spell a word, or else have blue slush come down on their head. The 2nd mistake eliminates him/her; two will report to the LL after this rd.'s done w/. The distractions for this rd.:

#1: Electric shocks
#2: Water coming out of the microphone
#3: Smoke

Albert: RECLUSE
Tasha: SMARMEY (X/--)(similar to the strike graphics from "Bert's Family Feud")
Bobo: CARIBOU
Kristina: IDENTITY
Jonah: MEAGER
Rachel: EVIDENCE
A: PARTNERSHIP
T: OPPORTUNIST
B: APPARENT
K: FEDERATION
J: NECESSITY
R: PROBLEMATIC
A: SURROUND
T: INTUBILITY (X/X)(A: INDUBITABLY)
B: GEIYSER (X/--)
K: MINISTULE (X/--)(A: MINISCULE- the U was in red instead of the C by mistake, I think)
J: SHAREHOLDER
R: TWENTIENTH (X/--)
A: PUBLICLLY (X/--)
B: PSYGEADALIC (X/X)(A: PSYCHEDELIC)

Slam Dunk: One at a time, they sit on a chair & have a min. to spell as many words correctly as possible. For each word spelled wrong, slush will come down again. Also, balls will be fired towards a target; every time that's hit, that chair will be lowered closer to the water which has gotten colder because Alfonso has dumped a bucket of ice into the tank. The two players w/ the lower scores are subject to total elimination in the LL, but the audience will then vote one of the five losers back into the game.

K: NUMERAL, ANCIENT, EPISOTIC (EPISODIC- she mistakenly tried to misspell EPISONIC at first, so they gave her a 2nd chance for that word since she misinterpreted the proctor), OBCESSIVE (OBSESSIVE), CURESTACEAN (CRUSTACEAN), GARBANZO (not enough time for COMMUTATIVE)
J: BELIEVE, SCONCE, ECLECTIC, COMPARISON (he misinterpreted CLIMATOLOGY several times)
R: "GAMBIT", CONCENTRATE, OXYMORON, ENTHUSIASM, ANNIVERSARY (time ran out on LOQUACIOUS)
A: RESOLVE, DESIGNER, RHETORIC, BAILIFF, CONTEMPLATE, DISTRESSING, UPHOLSTERY (time ran out on CIRRHOSIS)

VOTED BACK IN- Bobo

Splash Chamber: That slush comes down after each wrong word & three strikes send a person home. No matter what, water & soap will be sprayed inside, & later, they'll be massaged & bathed from behind.

B: CONCUR
R: LENGTH
A: ABIDENCE (X/--/--)(A: ABIDANCE)
B: GLOSSLY (X/--/--)(A: GLOSSILY)
R: OPPOSUM (X/--/--)
A: INDIGENT
B: TENACITY
R: APHORISM
A: NOTORIETY
B: OLFACTORY
R: COAGULATE
A: COMPOSITED
B: COMPLACENT
R: POSTPARTEM (X/X/--)(A: POSTPARTUM)
A: PREMONITENT (X/X/--)(A: PREMONITION)
B: BEREAVEMENT
R: SCHREZOPHRENIC (X/X/X)(A: SCHIZOPHRENIC)

SENSORY OVERLOAD: Each finalist's trapped between two walls & have to spell as many words as they can in a min.; both will play the same words used for the round. The winner gets the Spell-Medallion & a check for $10K.

B: KINETIC, REQUIEM, TECHNIQUE, FICTITAOUS, JURISDICTION, CONSIDERABLE, PHENOMENON, INTERMINABLE, OSCILLATION, WHIPPERSNAPPER (no time for IRREPROACHABLE)
A: KINETIC, REQUIEM, TECHNICQUE, FICTIOUS, JURISDICTION, CONSIDERABLE, PHENOMENON, INTERMINABLE, OSCILATION, WHIPPERSNAPPER, IRREPROACHABLE, COPYWRIGHTABLE, SUBQUENTINIOUS (SUBCUTANEOUS)(no time for INSURMOUNTABLE)- L