The Amazing Race 16--Episode 7--Case of the Missing Coconut

Boy do I hate Brent and Caite now. I thought we were really rid of them last week, but luck favors the drunk and the stupid. First all six teams have to take the same flight to the Seychelle Islands. Then for once in their stupid lives, Team Such As actually has a thought between them--"Let's try to get seats in the front of the plane." That just shows you, never eat lunch before getting your tickets like the cowboys and the cops did. And how long did it take them to go to the Paris airport? All of a sudden they were magically there. It must have been at least a three or four hour drive. The flight had to be eight or nine hours yet all the teams were miraclously rested.

Another mystery--how did the fruit vendor at the port know that Team Such As, the lesbians, and the cowboys did not have all their coconuts? Did a colleague call him via cell phone and say "Hey, the dumb ones, the guys with the John Wayne hats and the two women who look like Ellen DeGeneris forgot one coconut each"? But Brent and Caite showed their true colors when they found out they had to go back and get said coconut, "WAAAAH! I quit! I don't wanna play anymore! We were in first place! This is so unfair!" I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt before, but unlike the late lamented Jeff and Jordan, these guys aren't even funny when they're dumb--they just dumb!

I wondered about Steve and Allie losing their backpacks. As they raced to the finish line I thought, "Aha! We'll have another Zev and Justin moment. They don't have their passports so they have to go back and find them and then the gay-straight brothers will win." Then Steve goes, "We've got our money and our passports, but no clothes." WHAT? Did they stick their passports and money in their underwear and swim to shore with them? Something fishy is going on here. How did they know to save those items and forget everything else? Are they allowed to go back during the rest period and look for them? It was even weirder when Phil told them their prize--"All the seven-up you can drink!" Ugh! I hate that stuff!

And another thing--How come there was a seven theme running through the episode when there were only six teams? Couldn't Seven-up have counted and done the sponsoring last week? But then French champagne and Seven-Up don't really mix. That is, unless you're Brent and Caite. "It's anonymous. I mean unanimous."

Pluses did include beautiful scenery and since dumb stupid basketball ran overtime--again--I got some of 60 Minutes with Anderson Cutie-Pie Cooper getting into a wet suit.

Day 10--drive from wine country in France to Paris

Day 11--Flight from Paris to Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. It was probably a late afternoon flight and it had to be at least eight or nine hours

Day 12--Arrive Seychelles Islands, helicopter to La Digue, detour with ox or turtles, take boat to another island

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
Steve and Allie--one win, Loot: $7,000 each, relaxing dinner and massage on the beach and "all the 7-Up they can drink"