'The Amazing Race': Lance and Keri out of their minds, but not the race

Things still seemed different this week on "The Amazing Race." When the episode began, the Pitstop was moving. Oh sure, it was a boat, and it was better that it was moving after everyone was on it rather than it having been a moving target for them last week, but it was weird.

Once everyone got off the boat they had to head to Ho Chi Minh City, which is where they first arrived in Vietnam before heading to the village where the boat was. I'm hoping that the boat moving made it easier for the teams to get back to Ho Chi Minh, and the fact that it was only a two hour cab ride instead of what appeared to be a long bus ride seemed to indicate that it was closer. Of course, they didn't actually get off the boat in Ho Chi Minh, which some of the teams had a tough time believing (didn't their instructions say "take a cab...").

The Globetrotters, still my favorite team, reached the water puppet theater first - a place I just have to visit. I don't quite get what, if any, the cultural significance of the water puppets was, but they were awesome. And seeing the racers get soaking wet and begging the dragons to come close to them was great.

Also great - Lance & Keri got the clue, but couldn't work out that they did. Smaht lions, those people. I shudder to think what would happen if they were in charge of the pride. Even if they didn't have they accent they'd still rub me the wrong way with their stressed out yelling. At one point tonight it sounded like Lance said to Keri "I'm all done with you," because they couldn't figure out where they were going. I don't know about you, but I'm all done with them.

Flight Time & Big Easy were still in first place as they started the Detour, and they were not only smart enough to choose the easier one, it involved pulling a heavy animal statue through a park, but also chose what seemed to be the lightest of the heavy animals. Marcy & Ronald chose the Detour that required them to go hunt for a hotel, and then to find random letters on various vehicles down below in a traffic circle, and then to rely on the kindness of strangers to solve their word puzzle. That's how you get eliminated, people, especially when you skip that last part and try to spell words in a foreign language you don't know all by yourself. What were they thinking?

It is true that they could have been safe because you also get eliminated when your dolly breaks, which is what happened to Tiffany & Maria; and you also get eliminated when you break your giraffe, which is what happened to Zev & Justin, but Ronald & Marcy's odds still didn't look good after those things took place.

Was it just me or was the editing tonight a little schizophrenic? We were jumping back and forth between tons of teams for very brief periods, and by the time we got to the Roadblock, we actually hadn't seen the Globetrotters for quite a while. Magically, they were no longer as far in the lead as they last appeared to be, but they still finished destroying their VCRs first and made it to the Pitstop at the Reunification Palace first. Meghan and Cheyne were right behind them though, literally. There was a sprint to the finish and even though Cheyne came in first, Meghan came in fourth, allowing the Globetrotters to chalk up a "W."

Marcy & Ronald - all the "could have been safe" moments weren't enough to help them. They chose the wrong Detour, and I don't think they lost by much, but they did lose. And I so wanted Lance & Keri to go home.

Odds and ends:

• I can't believe they gave Lance credit for taking apart the VCRs. Wasn't the task to do it so that the pieces were reusable? His weren't.
• If I was a kid, I wouldn't accept the broken giraffe to play with in my park, but maybe that's just my Western Imperialist talking.
• You know which team I hate the most at this point, but I'd love to hear which ones are on your list (not that I'll waver in my convictions).

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