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"FacebookPinterest\n\nMoment When CBS&amp;amp;#x2019; Carbon Footprint Became Largest\n\n Our favorite challenges aren&amp;amp;#x2019;t the ridiculously complicated ones that keep teams working until after dark to figure out what the hell they&amp;amp;#x2019;re supposed to be doing. They&amp;amp;#x2019;re the ones that producers try to set up to be really ridiculously hard that end up being really, really easy. Take, for instance, the &amp;amp;#x201C;deceptively tricky&amp;amp;#x201D; Road Block from this episode. Teams had to successfully count the number of links on a giant ass chain at some Singaporean seaport. To make things harder, producers wasted valuable energy on a CURVE BALL! They had some goon yell out random numbers on a loudspeaker to trip the contestants up. Four out of four teams who attempted it got it right on the first try.\n\nSomething We Actually Learned This Week \n\n Playing the drums is harder than it looks! Teams were presented with two possible options\u2014to play some weird Malaysian drum pattern or sell 25 grody ice cream sandwiches consisting of what looked like sticks butter between slices of Wonder Bread. 100% of the folks thought beating the drums would be easier. And guess what? It wasn&amp;amp;#x2019;t!\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nAnother Thing We Learned\n\n The least best marketing strategy for selling already disgusting looking ice-cream sandwiches, as Carol and Brandy discovered, is &amp;amp;#x201C;Ice-Cream Sandwiches! These don&amp;amp;#x2019;t have swine flu!&amp;amp;#x201D; YUM!\n\nOne More Thing We Learned\n\n There&amp;amp;#x2019;s an Amazing Race Asia! And, like all Asian iterations of game shows, it looks WAY better than the U.S. edition! Our favorite part\u2014besides Ernie and Jeena at :18 in the below video\u2014is Jason Wu, who made a cameo in this episode and really just seems like a cool dude\u2026or at least a whole lot cooler than Phil what&amp;amp;#x2019;s-his-name.\n\nBiggest Step Backwards for South Carolinian Diplomacy\n\n Things just keep getting worse for South Carolina. Add to the already long list of inexcusable transgressions\u2014Mark Sanford, the infamous YouTube video, slavery\u2014Season 16, Episode 9 of The Amazing Race. This week, Caite brought some more hate to the game proudly U-Turning &amp;amp;#x201C;the Lesbians.&amp;amp;#x201D; You know just to handicap the most threatening the team that was in third place and had never finished a leg in first before. It wasn&amp;amp;#x2019;t because they wanted to make a statement on the injustice of affirmative action or something thought out in political. It was cause the gals gave her a dirty look or something we don&amp;amp;#x2019;t really remember.\n\nBut really it was because, as Michael and Louie pointed out, they were persuaded to believe all lesbians are sneaky well-traveled spies by Michael and Louie. Who would do such a thing? Guys whose signature one-liner is &amp;amp;#x201C;We&amp;amp;#x2019;re off like a prom dress!&amp;amp;#x201D;\n\nThe only thing more depressing than Carol and Brandy&amp;amp;#x2019;s eventual elimination was the way they handled the situation. There was lots of rage-induced bickering, a slew of flop Yo-Mama-type jokes, and a general aura of defeat, which really just made the whole event that much more depressing.\n\nOne Redeeming Thought that Came to Mind\n\n The only sorta funny part of it all is imagining the conversations that must have transpired between Caite and her publicist. Undoubtedly, the two must have thought the show would help cast a different light on the plight of beauty queens who dread the ole &amp;amp;#x201C;Recent polls have shown that a fifth of Americans can&amp;amp;#x2019;t locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is?&amp;amp;#x201D; question. While she may have convinced folks she knows where the US is on a map, she also became the second trending pageanter who doesn&amp;amp;#x2019;t like the gays. Way to fight back.\n\nWho&amp;amp;#x2019;s Out Next Week?\n\n Brent and Caite. We have no evidence this prediction is viable\u2014or track record to suggest you should believe us\u2014we&amp;amp;#x2019;re just convinced that some challenge requiring intellect is right around the bend."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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