Doing well in the race right next to them!

Seriously, the nerve of some people.

LOVING this season of Survivor. Scheming and game-changing plays and interesting personalities.

Given the previews for next week, I am strongly suspecting that that the brothers are just assholes.

This cannot be said enough. On the whole, I thought both the Globetrotters and the Brothers acted poorly last night, as is often the case in these late leg dust ups where everyone is suffering from KF. But since I like the Globetrotters better and they have so far been purely delightful, I'm more inclined to cut them some slack and think about the long leg, how tired they must have been after playing volleyball in that sticky, nasty mud, how tired they must be generally from being so close to the end, the general attitude they've been getting from Sam and Dan (and even a little from anonymous blond couple) lately, etc. The brothers, on the other hand, have no such store of good will.

I'm so sad to see Pinky and the Brain go. They really had a chance to catch up this leg because that speed bump was the epitome of lame, but alas, they were unsuccessful. I feel like I still don't know anonymous blond couple despite the fact that they have been kicking ass almost the entire race. Miss America was better last night. I cringed when I saw her go in to take the road block, but she came out fine and she took her fair share of turns at the radish shooting. Of course, I'm rooting for a Globetrotters victory, but if one of the other teams won, it wouldn't be a Freddy/Kendra style disaster.

Is anyone watching "Chef Academy?"

I'm thinking that I might not last long...

Not all special tasks are that strenuous or complicated -- remember the "feed the orangutangs" task, for instance? I'm guessing that Speed Bumps are set up as alternate tasks for the entire field if one of the main venues falls through, which it well could when you schedule these things days/weeks in advance.

Matt and Gary should just be happy that their task didn't involve IKEA, which for my money is still one of the more fiendish choices EVER....

The Speed Bumps have never been difficult - they've always been kind of "take a break and enjoy local culture" type things.

The Speed Bumps have never been difficult - they've always been kind of "take a break and enjoy local culture" type things.

This is true, but it seemed that this one was particularly easy. I mean, the pho task that the poker players had to do for their speed bump wound up being super easy, but a lot of that was because one of the players already knew how to make pho. If that hadn't been the case, that task could've taken longer. And at least it required them to navigate the city a little bit more than this task seemed to - and with steaming bowls of food to boot. I'm just saying, "find this bus and sit in it for five minutes" is not that tough.

Yeah, that task was literally just time-consuming.

SYTYCD thoughts:

I don't understand why Paso Doble needs a "story." It has a story! It's a bullfight! I mean, right?

Wasn't that NappyTab piece a weak retread of Mark and Chelsie's businessman dance?

Crap, there was something else I was going to say, but now I forget.

I want a Travis Walls routine reel! I just want to watch his stuff over and over and over again!