The Amazing Race 16--Episode 6--Cathy Drone?

I love the Amazing Race because you never know who will be on top from week to week. The order totally shuffled and yes the detectives remained on top, but Steve and Allie dropped to third from second, the lesbians moved up to second, and the gay/straight brothers were first for a little while, but they made a bad decision and dropped back down to fifth.

Stupid basketball delayed the episode for 51 minutes--WTF is March Madness anyway?-- plus the health care debate was raging on CNN and CSPAN. Budgeting continues with another car challenge rather than a plane trip and we're in France for the second week. Dan and Jordan displayed their lack of language skills by saying "Cathy Drone?" when a French citizen told them to go to the cathedral. Then Dan goes, "People don't know how to speak good English here." You're in France, genius, they don't have to speak English here! I thought that kind of comment was reserved for Team Big Brother and Team Such As.

Speaking of those two teams, Jeff and Jordan at least admit they're dumber than a bag of hammers. Leaving three hours after the first team, Jordan actually says, "Didn't Joan of Arc get all those animals on a boat?" "That's Noah's Ark," Jeff laughs, "No wonder we're in last place." That was cute and it redeemed them for me. I had this image of Joan of Arc on a boat herding animals on the ark and singing "Two by Two" from that Danny Kaye musical by Richard Rodgers. The other rock-stupid team Brent and Caite dropped in my estimation by arguing with each other, lacking a sense of humor, and --for the third time--screwing up the directions and having to double back.

Brent and Caite continued to self-destruct by quibbling over the champagne roadblock. I would have preferred Jeff and Jordan staying, but I think Team Such As will not last much longer. Other highlights include Jordan-brother (to distinguish him from Big Brother Jordan) squealing like a girl when he had to repel into the wine cellar; and Steve fixing the broken fender with duct tape.

Day 9--Drive from Vache Moulin to Reims for Joan of Arc clue; drive from Reims to Eperny for repel in wine cellar; drive from Eperny to Peirry for detour (three teams drive back to Reims when given wrong directions, then have to drive all the way to Peirry); Pierry to L'orrca.

Leaderboard
Louie and Michael--three wins, Loot: two Discover Cards worth $5,000 each, two 55-inch HD TVs, trip to Cancun
Jet and Cord--two wins, Loot: two sailboats, trip to Patagonia
Jeff and Jordan--one win, Loot: trip to Vancouver