Clueless, On Several Fronts
Updated 2007-03-09 16:00:00
In this compact, navigation-heavy leg, we start out with a little bit of airport work, in which Teri demonstrates that Mirna is absolutely no match for anyone who is unfazed by her spazzy freakouts. In the end, a small bunch of teams maneuvers its way onto an earlier flight, including Rob and Amber, Uchenna and Joyce, Bill and Joe, and Eric and Pink. The Roadblock involves plucking many, many flat fish out of a tank, and Pink proves that she is on the wrong show again, while Eric yells about her boobs in a way that Boston Rob finds inappropriately gauche. Think about that for a minute. The clue collected at the Roadblock proves vexing, and Team Guido gets good and lost, only to be saved by Charla and Mirna, of all the weird things. There is shuffling, and there are screw-ups, and Mary and Dave get really confused because she won't let him look at signs, while the BQs have a rare mental lapse and decide that maybe it's okay to go on a task they haven't been told to go on, just because they stumbled on it. Rob and Amber finish first, if you can believe that, and we wind up with a three-way race at the end between Guido, Mirna and Charla, and David and Mary. We come close to getting rid of Charla and Mirna (or my head believes we did), but in the end, David and Mary are sent home three legs too late. While the tasks were good and the teams did well, this leg featured a lot of mental errors of exactly the type you'd expect to see less of now that people are more experienced. It's an odd one, in that regard.