The Buoy Club

The Amazing Race: Has Anyone Actually Watched This Show Before?!

I've been a fan of this show from the very first season. Every team, every leg, every stupid blunder: I've seen 'em all. And as much as some racers have frustrated me and had me saying, "Wow, that's dumb," there's been one team this season that's blown them all away. Like a hurricane moving through a cardboard city. That's right, Mark and Michael: I'm looking at you. The number of costly blunders who've made this season make me wonder if you ever watched the Amazing Race prior to coming on the show. In fact, if I ever teach a course on how NOT to run this race, it will feature a lot of...ok, all of the footage from your exquisite body of work. Apparently being in the stunt business reduces your ability to think.

I mean, let's just do a little recapping in case we've all forgotten how bright these two are. Last week, they finish getting their cart ready and decide it would be a brilliant move to waste more time hiding all the equipment in a box two feet away from its original place. If that wasn't enough, they're reading skills fail them as they forget the part where they can't follow a taxi for that task. Geniuses, these two! Luckily for them (not the poor audience), the time penalty they were dealt wasn't enough to send them packing.

This week, Kisha and Jen get in on the act by arriving at the Pit Stop without their passports. I literally wanted to reach through the TV and strangle them while yelling, "You idiots! How can you expect to go the next country without your passport?! You can't bum a free taxi ride across the ocean or into another country!" Fools. Thankfully for the girls, Mark and Michael decided to one-up themselves by incurring the biggest penalty in race history of 4 HOURS by using their possessions to settle debts. Wow. Just wow. I would almost be proud of my own stupidity at that point. With it being a non-elimination leg though, I know next week's episode won't be that good. Between the time penalty of 3 hrs 10 mins and the Speed Bump, these midgets are toast. Nothing short of a team falling into the Bermuda Triangle will save them now.

Overall, this episode was pretty intense and I can't wait to see Luke and the sistah girls throw down next week!

BUOY CLUB GRADE: 88 out of 100.