Well, at least evil didn't triumph.
As in Jaime & Cara.
After winning like five legs of the Race, overachieving siblings Tammy & Victor proved that being fit and smart and nice and mindful of bringing shame to your parents is the path to victory. So they're a little boring. When you win a million dollars (or whatever you get after taxes), being vanilla matters little.
Jen,
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
Your sister Kisha was awfully nice, but I hope at the viewing party with your friends and family last night you got not only seriously clowned, but I hope too that a long line was formed, that you were made to walk that line, and that each person on that line gave you a firm hard slap to the back of your head. You earned that.
Black athletic sisters Kisha & Jen have been pretty consistent during the Race.
While they haven't been winning all the legs, they've done what they needed to make it to the final four. And last week's foot race showed that they can best all the other teams when it's thatclose.
But this week, the Superwomen, particularly Jen, had to confront what could be considered the Kryptonite of African-American life: water.
That the cheating tiny stuntmen brothers Mark & Mike got eliminated is a surprise only to my colleague Robbi Pickeral, who actually bet me a quarter that they would catch up, despite the fact that they had received about a three-hour penalty last week.
The first team left Bangkok at 9:36 am; they left at 4 in the afternoon.
No, the action last night was about the Margie & Luke/Kisha & Jen situation. Which got crazy.
After our country music award sponsored break from 'Race', I have to momentarily delay us another week by jumping ahead to next week because of the preview, in which the first deaf contestant Luke goes at it with black athletic sister Jen, apparently signing the word for 'rhymes with witch'.
1. Oh snap. There's a sign for that?!
2. How did he KNOW she called him that?
If you've ever considered trying out for "The Amazing Race," you probably have a list of skills you need, a list of things you should bring, a list of things you'd get your partner to do, a list of things you absolutely wouldn't do, not even for a $1 million.
This week, with just one roadblock, the Race probably added to 3 of those lists.
After a rest in Salzburg, the next stop is Bucharest, Romania, where we
learned that the first clue will be found at the gymnastics center
where Nadia Comaneci trained.
The first to leave is the overachieving sibling team, Tammy and Victor. Tammy talks of Victor's intelligence; he has a fine mind, she admits. But she also notes his reluctance to admit he's wrong. Thus Tammy provides the narrative arc for this Tammy/Victor episode.
Mr. Fine Mind has a smart idea right away; he suggests they get their plane tickets before they get on the train.
Our Guy Luke, aka the show's first deaf contestant, says he doesn't want to rely on his mother Margie for communication. He wants to know what the other teams are saying. It makes me wonder why he never learned to lip read. Will this experience change that?
