When one team is playing very badly, I am usually ready to write them off — always underestimating other players' ability to mess up. …
So it was tonight, when I thought sure that Ericka and Brian were toast, based on her struggle to count bells. And, if that wasn't enough, there was the missing of the bicycles. Between those two gaffes, they should have gone home. And I would not have been sorry to see them go, since Ericka's whining is driving me up the wall.
But, as I said, there is always the chance that someone else will be even worse and on tonight's show that was Maria and Tiffany, the poker players. (On a side note, am I the only one wondering if M&T are a couple? Interesting the way the camera turned to them when Sam & Dan came out to the other players.)
They were not only bad, they were spectacularly bad. In the dance/golf challenge, they changed course three different times, starting with the striker & dance, then to golf, then back to the striker, then back to golf. No wonder they were exhausted. And, apparently, had no basic knowledge of things like leverage for hitting an object and aiming your golf ball AT THE HOLE. Pitiful. Haven't been thrilled with them, either, and their terrible play and indecision made me content to see them go. Well, almost content. A double elimination that also took out Brian & Ericka would have been even more satisfying.
On the other hand, we are getting down to an amiable group with four teams I wouldn't mind winning: Sam & Dan, the Globetrotters, the father and son, Meghan & Cheyne. And that's when I most like "The Amazing Race," when the villains and crybabies have been cast aside and you can feel good regardless of who crosses the finish line first.
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I don't think M&T are a couple. They made a pretty big deal out of them flirting with S&D at the start of the race – that probably explains the close-up. I couldn't believe that Brian reread the clue, saw that they needed bikes and DIDN'T GO BACK! Duh! Then they borrowed bikes from some random people (because that's what the producers had in mind). And, I know there were a lot of bells, but every other team got the correct number pretty quickly. The Globetrotters were cheerful and friendly as usual (did you notice how, when they were describing the trash talk from last week, that all of the other teams were laughing? I don't think there was any love loss when Mika and what's-his-name went home).
I agree with your assessment of this week's show. I really thought I would scream watching Ericka cry and count those bells. She was irritating and I thought this was it for them. I was surprised by Maria & Tiffany's meltdown and I have to agree, the way things played out, I thought maybe I'd missed something in previous episodes and that they were a couple. I know they thought the brothers were hot…but, the way things ended Sunday, I thought there was more to their relationship than friendship!