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Last week on "The Amazing Race" Godwin and Erwin Cho were incredibly nice to Team Kentucky and helped them move from last to first place, while the Chos came in fifth. And, in other news, Creepy Peter and Sarah were eliminated.
The teams would be making their way to Mauritius (or Maur-i-titis, Mortious, and Maury Povitch. NO ONE could pronounce the country correctly). At the Kuwait airport each team realized that to get to Mauritius, they'd have to fly all the way up to London, and then all the way down to Mauritius. Team Bama wasn't making any friends when they argued with Team Pageant, Team (Former) Junkie Models, and some poor ticket agent caught in the middle.
Once in Mauritius, the teams had to find their cars and figure out that the model boat sitting inside meant they needed to find the real boat it was modeled on, which was anchored in Grand Baie, and swim out to it. The Chos were, once again, in fifth place as they hit the road, and eventually caught up with most of the other teams as they all hit the water together.
Back on shore, the clue revealed they'd need to drive 49 miles to a post office in Case Royale, where they'd get their next clue. The Cho Bros actually waited for the struggling Teams Bama and Kentucky to make it back to shore, while the (Former) Junkie Models theorized that the Chos were aligning with those weaker teams in an attempt to take the two weakest teams to the final three with them. The Chos insisted they felt aligning with those teams made them stronger than they'd be if they were a team only out for themselves. Hmmm.
The Chos (and their alliance) arrived in second place at the post office (amazingly, Team Pageant got their first, even though they had crashed into a bus on the way there!) and learned the details to the Detour, which was a choice between Salt--searching through three huge piles of sea salt and finding a salt shaker containing a clue, or Sea--having a sea captain take them and a small boat out to an island there they'd need to locate their boat's mast and sail, bring it back to the boat, attach it, and sail back to shore. The Chos, and therefore the rest of the "Six Pack," chose salt.
The salt digging proved harder than it looked since some of the salt shakers didn't actually contain clues, but pepper. PEPPER! After a lot of digging, the Chos and Team Bama decided to quit and do the Sea task instead. Eventually Team Kentucky followed suit.
Since the map they were giving was rudimentary at best, the Six Pack were soon wandering the island all at the same time, found the masts at the same time, and took off for land at the same time. Since they were all together, and all the other teams were ahead of them, it meant one of the Six Pack was going to come in last place...and it wasn't the Chos. *Phew!* Instead it was, once again, Team Kentucky, and once again, they were saved because it was a non-elimination leg. Them's some lucky hicks right there.
We're getting concerned about the Chos' choice of alliance. We think it's about time they drop the Four Pack and start racing for themselves. We don't want to spend anymore time yelling "GOOOOOO! DON'T WAIT FOR THEM!" at the TV.
This week on "America's Next Top Model": Clip show! It was a recap of the season so far, as well as some "never before seen" moments. Like Melrose explaining in the audition that her name is Melissa Rose, but she calls herself Melrose because she don't need that "issa." We also saw the show's fashion director and make-up artist trash the girls' clothes their first night in the house. Except for Melrose's, OF COURSE. Her wardrobe (a lot of which she designed) got an A+.
The Monique/Melrose feud got some more airtime, with footage of Monique imitating Melrose's bossy, opinionated ways behind her back. And it would have been kind of funny if Monique wasn't INSANE. Of course, she wasn't the only one who had problems with Melrose. It seems everyone in the house had something negative to say about her.
We also learned that A.J. was a huge, moody downer, and learned absolutely nothing about Megan. And that was about it!
Last week's "Survivor" was a clip show as well, but before that, you may recall that Cao Boi was voted out. Back at Aitu, Yul was beginning to question aligning with Jonathan, and pondered voting him out to avoid facing him in head-to-head challenges.
At both camps, the tribes looked through mock "catalogs" to vote on what they'd be fighting for at the next reward challenge. Choices included bags of potatoes, a sewing kit, and peanut butter. The challenge involved swimming out to a platform, retrieving a club, jumping off the platform and smashing a porcelain box that would release a key that would then need to retrieved out of the water. Six keys later, and a chest could be opened, where pieces to a puzzle could be found. Sheesh! It sounds more complicated than it was. Aitu chose to play for potatoes and peanut butter (delicious!) while Raro chose bread and peanut butter.
Aitu took an early lead and pretty much dominated the swim and smash portion of the race, with Ozzy even using his fists to break one of the porcelain boxes. Back on land, Jonathan and Becky solved the puzzle and won the challenge. They also voted to send Adam to Exile Island, where he could look in vain for the immunity idol.
Back at camp, Aitu gorged on their peanut butter and loved it. A little too much. Why are people on "Survivor" so obsessed with peanut butter? Remember when those two skanks women got naked for it during the Amazon season?
The next day, Aitu's war against birds continued as Ozzy came back to camp having captured some kind of bird while he was taking a crap. (Ozzy, not the bird. As far as we know). He asked his tribemates whether they should kill it for food, or let it go. They voted for food, and Yul was given the task of killing it. Yul recognized that Ozzy was an asset, what with the bird and fish catching and the challenge domination, but he also recognized that should a merge happen, Ozzy would become a big threat. Ozzy, meanwhile, tried to build his own alliance.
Immunity challenge! And Yul was wearing glasses! Did he run out of contact lens fluid? The challenge involved building a staircase with logs, swimming, and puzzle pieces (again). Boring! (Although we did enjoy this quote from Probst, "...the guys debate which is the longest log!") We won't detail the event, except to say that it was very close, and it gave us another chance to look at Yul shirtless and flexing. Oh, and Aitu lost.
At the Aitu camp, the biggest targets seemed to be Ozzy, as previously mentioned, Jonathan, because he was perceived as being scheming and untrustworthy, and Jessica, AKA "Flicka," because she's totally annoying. (Seriously, who lists their career as "Roller Girl"?)
Tribal Council! Seems annoying beat out scheming and threatening, as Jessica was voted out. The tribes are now even at six each. And Yul is sittin' pretty.
And finally, this week on "Check Please, Bay Area" SFist Jeremy kicked ass and took names as he dominated that table full of namby-pamby diners! Ah, we kid. But we had a great time watching one of our own on the boob tube. In case you missed it, you can see it again on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. on channel 9. And be sure to read Jeremy's review of his restaurant choice!