Funmurphys: the Blog

Amazing Racery

Tuesday night I got back from working on the parade float (will Saturday ever come? -- and will there be pictures?) and flopped down too dazed to realize that The Amazing Race was on. Lucky for me, my wife was on top of things and we got to see the twins come in last and get booted off. Yeah! Now I'm only rooting against half a team -- Colin and Christie are the new Flo and Zach.

The most amazing thing this time around is how well the bowling moms are doing -- Go Linda and Karen! The middle-aged lady teams never make it this far. No surprise from Chip and Kim though, when they got to the detour Kim told Chip "you're doing it!" Come on Kim, do more than one thing the whole show. And what was this, Colin behaved himself? Colin was nice to Christie? No screaming fits, no stalking around glaring at people? The scenes from next week promise a big Colin meltdown, so there is that to look forward to.

And what was with the fast forward on last week's show? It just isn't right to have people cut off all their hair as part of the show. At least they had the decency to make it a non-elimination leg, but what were they thinking? It is nothing like the other stuff contestants have had to do in the past and just seemed gratuitously cruel. I'm also getting tired of having the female contestants getting groped on trains in India, but at least that's an unfortunate part of actual travel. Nobody's using the fast forwards this time, so why discourage it with a stupid requirement like that?

It's only a TV show. It's only a TV show. It's only a TV show. Yes, that helps.