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?
You know how when you get cut off in traffic, you hope the culprit's car gets a flat tire or a policeman is right there waiting or something
far more dire happens to them. You want immediate retribution. But it hardly ever happens.
Unless the culprit is the tiny stuntmen on The Amazing Race.
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.
In the past, the U-turn was an underused device on "The Amazing Race."
It was deemed too cruel, a thing used only under imminent threat.
But that barrier has been broken.
Margie & Luke aren't as sweet as they look. More on that later.
After
leaving the pitstop near Vlad the Impaler's house in Transylvania, the 8 teams are headed for Siberia by way of Moscow. They get a monetary note with the clue -- they are to head to a hydroelectric dam depicted on the note.
Mel & Mike, the gay dad and son, are the first to leave. Mike describes his dad as "part Woody Allen, part Billy Graham with a splash of Judy Garland," which he sees as a formula for success. I'm not sure how intimidating a neurotic Jewish evangelical druggie torch singer can be, but it's a great image, no?
