would kerfuffle apply here?

Not really. The lawsuit's a bit too major for that, I think. All told, several million dollars on the line.

TC: so happy for Carla. I hope she takes it all.

I hope I'm not the only one to watch last night's TAR! It was most excellent. Lovely scenery wonderfully photographed and appreciated by the racers, great tasks (loved the pie fight) being laughed at by the locals, hard decisions being made by the racers (Mel's waiting for the wind to change really paid off, and we got his utter enjoyment of the trip down ), and some real dumb ideas by some racers (the flight attendents looking around for wood to chop themselves? Had to be fatigue kicking in, because I'd hate to think that they are that stupid all the time ).

I'm really liking the new editing style, with the split screen and stating how long it'd been since the leg began.

The local laughing this week seemed much more genial than the local laughing last week!

They were drunker this week--they had to be completely hammered by the time Steve and Linda showed up.

Gosh yes.

I couldn't believe that 14 hour plus timeframe it took for this week's leg to end.

I'm guessing that the directionally challenged teams will be next on the chopping block. (Seriously - the blondes have been incredibly lucky and the sisters and brothers also really need to sharpen their map reading skills.)

I loved the pie challenge. And I think that Tammy and Victor revealed an unexpected sense of humor in that challenge.

Oh, RS: INXS related - have you guys been reading about the current drama with JD?

He says he was fired and abandoned at an airport the former INXS manager/new INXS record label boss says that didn't happen.

What Chris Murphy said and JD's interview with ET Canada.

I loved the pie challenge. And I think that Tammy and Victor revealed an unexpected sense of humor in that challenge.

And the Mom and deaf son a suprising lack thereof. Well, the son, anyway.

I think Luke was coming from the angle of "don't go for the needle-in-a-haystack detour, because it could take forever to find it," like the pizza brother back in TAR5 who couldn't find the right chocolate filling and was stuck at the factory for hours.

The pie throwers, though, had a lot fewer pies to get through, so he was a bit off on that call, and Segways can be difficult to learn to ride properly.

That was a fun ep! Mel White always makes me happy -- and I loved how they were like, Segway! Totally our thing!

I was glad that couple was out, because she clearly couldn't take much more. I felt terrible for her that she was so scared of her husband's reaction to her getting lost, because he was really not mad. It did make me wonder about their relationship/her history.