The Amazing Race Episode 4: Sand and Snow

It's a good thing I was home Sunday night. Damn stupid football was one hour and 15 minutes overtime. I always DVR Three Rivers right after the Amazing Race just in case it runs over, but I don't DVR Cold Case which follows. I would have missed the final 15 minutes and that would have made me furious.


The timing on this week's episode--once it finally started--also had me confused. In episode three, everybody got into Phnom Pehn sometime in the afternoon, they had left Ho Chi Minh City at about 12:30PM. So they must have finished their tasks by 5 or 6 at the latest. It was still light out. So why did they start episode 4 at 12:30PM? They're supposed to have 12 hours rest, not 24. So that would put them at Day 7. Well, at least they got out of Asia. The teams' first clue was to fly to the Persian Gulf and find the world's tallest building.

Sam and Dan are real cute, but are not the brightest crayons in the box. Last week they couldn't identify Jackie Kennedy, for which they should have turned in their gay cards. But this week took the cake. I can see not knowing where the world's tallest building is, but going up to an airline counter and asking for a ticket to the Persian Gulf is just plain dumb.

We discovered that Brian is way too nice, telling practically everybody where the water in the desert was. He figures karma will pay him back. The annoying poker chicks ran over a spike in the parking lot and ruined their car. But then Sam and Dan stayed with them til a new car arrived. Do they still not know the boys are gay?

It was great to see Lance and Kerry, the Fran Drescher sound-alike with the Boston accent, just wilt in the heat and get lost. It was as if they deflated. All the bragadoccio totally left Lance the lion and he was totally humbled. There was a little piece of asshole left in him when he asked if he could kick the snowman they had to build. "Do you want your clue?," the lady said like a school teacher to a naughty little boy. Excellent! I would have just built the snowman first because finding that tiny snowman in that huge ice mountain would have been pure luck.

Team Malibu Barbie and Ken took the fast forward and came in first, winning a trip to Jamaica. They're kinda boring. I hope they don't win. It's looking like either them or the Globetrotters. I'd rather see Team Zebra or the gay brothers or even Pinkie and the Brain (father and son) take it.

Summary: Day 7: 12:25 PM, leave Phnom Pehn, Cambodia-all teams on the flight to Dubai which stops in Bangkok.

Day 8--5:30 AM Desert challenge to find water, then back into Ski Dubai for snowman challenge. Meghan and Cheyne win trip to Jamaica. Lance and Kerry eliminated. Preview of next week: Team Nashville practically have a meltdown when Nashville girl will not go down steep water slide because of her fear of heights. It looked like he was actually going to push her down. I think that slide is still in Dubai. I remember it from an earlier season. I hope they're not going to be cheap and spend a whole other episode in the same city.