Peter is an ass and so is Sarah. I still love the barbies. I dont get how other teams can band together or get pissed when someone doesn't want to share a bit of information!! It's a COMPETITION.. Not a lets hold hands and walk around the world game..

The Amazing Race 10, Episode 5 Insider: Meh by Heathyr Fields Ford -- 10/18/2006 Heathyr was less than enthralled with the episode this week, but there's still some good stuff in the Insider! Peter & Sarah use Sarah's handicap to their advantage, they dish on other teams with Dustin & Kandice, and we also find out more about Kimberly's father than we should! It's a click away! Meh. That’s sort of how I felt about this episode. There was a lot of running around and flights and stuff, but not the WOW factor like last week’s tasks incurred. Peter does still need to be beaten over the head with a very heavy prosthetic, and I’ve decided the Cho Bros get it as well. Never Stand Begging For That Which You Have the Power To Earn: If they recognize Cervantes, I’ll be shocked, but in this post-leg clip, Rob & Kimberly do appear humbled from experiences in begging. Kimberly admits it was embarrassing to beg for money in the airport. A group of ladies asked her why they were in this predicament, and she says it was so hard to answer. The ladies told her it looks like a tough situation, and then again wanted to know why she would allow it to happen, apparently. Heh. Rob chirps that they didn’t give them any money either. You’d think the TV cameras would be a screaming clue that it’s not all ordinary begging, ya know? Not that I believe you should give to everyone who asks you for money or anything, but you’d think they’d realize something was up. Anyway, Kimberly finds it hard not to get all proud because she talks about how she has it at home (money) and wants to tell them that, but doesn’t. Rob states he had no problem bringing himself to that level to beg, and trust me, with that 20 o’clock shadow, he looks the part. He says they got lucky, because they asked a New Yorker and she gave them 10,000 dong, which isn’t a lot. However, they kept talking with her on the plane, he says, and she went to the ATM upon arrival and gave them over thirty U.S. dollars. Rob realizes that people are generous and want to give, and he does too. He says that someone was asking for food, and they were trying to get some to them, because it was life for them, not just some bum wanting a Colt. Losing Is, In A Curious Way, Winning: Bet Bachman never played this game, but in the case of David & Mary, he’s more right than you think. Even if they had been booted, out of all the times I’ve ever watched, these two have won more than anyone. Post-race, David talks about how he is lost for words. He states he’s not a sore loser, but he “don’t like comin’ in last.” He wisely continues that everything is in your mind (well, not everything, but will power certainly is the biggest chunk of life, I agree). Mary smiles and nods in agreement occasionally. The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get: Quote that almost made it: “Some folks just want their luck buttered.” INDEED. And Lyn & Karlyn are apparently just those sorts. These two bitch and whine and bitch and whine about how people like Peter & Sarah have good luck, but they don’t, and when is it their turn. Gag. Seriously. While luck does have a factor, excellent racing will negate a lot of that. Of course, Lyn & Karlyn will have nothing about that. Instead, they get holier-than-thou and talk about how their “trophy” at the end of each leg is some how better than those in front of them that got there on alleged luck, because Lyn & Karlyn, you know, got there without luck. Right. But you’re still IN THE BACK. Just when I was starting to think I might enjoy them somewhat, they turned into idiots again. The Gods Too Are Fond of A Joke: But Erwin & Godwin don’t really know how to do one. Water guns in an airport? Duh. Fake cell phone on a train causing others to actually make a hold on flights? Duh. And now, this clip. Standing in line, at the airport, Godwin tells Peter, and all the other teams around them, that Peter & Sarah and Dustin & Kandice have managed to snag an earlier flight. Everyone’s all bummed. Godwin smirks and says he’s just joking. They all take it well. A few seconds later, the bros face the camera, and Godwin explains how he likes to keep things light. I adore their shirts, but their jokes? Need some work. Little do they know that the joke ain’t a joke. As we know, the other teams play it smart and hook up with some different flights once they’re in a normally functioning airport. Oh, and guys? You’re irritating me because you need to grow a set! Seriously. Say NOTHING. It’s a race. Don’t tell others about better flights. This is an “all shook up” sort of TAR, so don’t get complacent and do this “nice” thing. There’s no crying in baseball, and there’s no nice in reality TV! Cleanliness Is Next To Godwiness: Okay, so I had to tweak that quote a skosh. I couldn’t resist! And I can’t spell skosh. That’s the problem with these nonsense words you only hear growing up and never see written out. So, Erwin & Godwin are in a taxi talking about how their driver stopped to take a little “bird shower” and they are glad he decided to refresh himself rather than drive while too tired. Yeah, those rollovers put a hamper in things, ya know? Godwin wouldn’t get behind the wheel if he was tired, we learn, but both the boys can handle their own stench when a million dollars is on the line. Good racing strategy vocalized here: we won’t stop to shave or beautify ourselves because we’re racing. Wanna bet if someone else said “let’s do our nails” they’d feel like they had to because they just couldn’t say no? If Dirt Were Trumps What Hands Would You Hold!: God I love the Internet! All those great quotes and authors soaked up in school and forgotten as youth faded way into near-middle age (can you tell my birthday’s coming soon and I’m feeling OLD?), at my fingertips where I no longer have to remember them. On a bus, Rob pokes Kimberly relatively discreetly until she looks at the driver’s toes. She then whispers something about another guy with issues somewhere else on the bus. Then, she enters the realm of TMI on your family for public consumption. She tells Rob her father had really skeevy green and yellow toenails and finally had them all removed. Seriously. Yes, she seriously said that on national television. Damn, girl, what did your daddy do to you? Rob’s all like grinning and ‘no way’ and she’s all ‘yes way’. Something tells me Thanksgiving with the ‘rents is gonna be hell. Give To Everyone Who Begs From You: Thus spaketh the New Testament, but there’s nothing that doesn’t say you can’t moralize and inspire a bit before you give to a beggar, as James & Tyler learn. Tyler & James talk about being screwed yet again by a cab driver, so they have no money. They stop an Aussie and his wife and ask for money, explaining that they know they don’t look like they need it, but they do. They’re on their way to India and only have six bucks left. Well, guess who they stopped? A pastor. Yep, a man of God. A man of God who has just visited the only cancer ward in South Vietnam which has people dying on the streets and grounds because they are waiting for care they’ll never receive. He shares this all with them. Admonishing that it is hard to justify giving to those obviously not truly in the darkest depths of despair and need, when there are millions starving and dying the world over. He’s much less annoying about it than I, however, and James & Tyler seem very moved. While their “we’re recovering addicts” stuff might get old to hear sometimes, it’s very real stuff, and little does this gentleman know but that these two once were in those darkest depths of despair, shooting up in alleys and no future in sight. That all said, the pastor and his wife give the boys twenty U.S. dollars and wish them well. Tyler & James are sincerely touched as they tell the camera about it, recapping what the man said. I won’t recap the recap that I just recapped because I might go all insane. They seem to have taken it to heart. It Is A Preoccupation With Possession, More Than Anything Else, That Prevents Men From Living Freely And Nobly: Mary & David walk along a street as Mary rags at the camera that David won’t give up his hefty-sized sleeping bag, despite everyone else doing so. He counters with the names of all those who still have their sleeping bags, but then concedes that they have itty bitty travel sort of sleeping bags, but he has “a bigun.” Must. Not. Comment. They then mention that where they are from, there aren’t fancy schmancy stores that sell that sort of stuff. Mary says everyone bought lightweight, sweatproof stuff, but they’re wearing what they’d wear at home. I approve of the Cho Bros’ shirts with Phil on them. I am not, however, ever a fan of the “Mommy’s Little Angels” and “Daddy’s Little Devils” style of home-photog shirts. Ever. The Gods Help Them Who Help Themselves: Aesop wouldn’t enjoy Peter & Sarah then, because first you see a clip of Sarah being wheeled off the plane and then you see a very smug team in the back of a cab. Peter explains, while Sarah removes her sweatshirt, that they utilized her disability and got off-loaded from the back of the plane and wheeled straight to baggage claim and the cabs. They both exult over this. Peter brags it took about 5 minutes from plane to cab ride. Not bad at all, and again, it’s like flirting or bribing, if you have it, use it. Just don’t expect people to like you for it. You Know What I Feel Like Right Now? I Feel Like the Crud Is Winning: You said it, Cagney and Lacey. You said it. Speaking of crud, here’s Peter. Peter & Sarah and Dustin & Kandice sit in the airport and gossip about the other teams. Sarah wants Team Zoolander to go. Peter snipes about the models always being in first. He whines about there always being a guy-only team that’s always in first, always having fun and games, and at their prime. OH MY GOD THE HORROR! Stop the presses, folks, someone is having FUN and it’s not Peter, so it’s not allowed. Dustin & Kandice do that thing polite people do where they sort of agree, but you can tell they don’t entirely. Peter blathers that you can’t have all guy teams. I’ve got NO idea why. Sarah interrupts that no all female teams have one. Dustin & Kandice say you can see why. Uh, no, not really. Peter hits major sucking up mode. I think he’s enamored of one of them. He meanders on about how they could win it, and how the Cho Bros aren’t all that. Now this is true. Peter hits on some good points amidst his creepiness. Godwin is all weightlifting and that gives you very little physicality and endurance for these things. Peter raves that Sarah can outrun, outbike and outswim them. Yep, so if this were the Ironman, moron, she’d be great. Instead, perhaps YOU should climb rocks and she should do selling flower tasks. Anyway, I love when Peter tells Dustin & Kandice that they could be top 3 if Peter & Sarah weren’t around. Such ego. Sarah seems to feel that too, because she also qualifies that there is a lot of luck. They turn the conversation some to “the Muslims and the Indian couple” and how they didn’t know these teams well. Dustin says she called it from the beginning that those two teams would be the first two. Peter thinks the cheerleaders should have done well. Sarah can’t believe Alabama is still around. Peter launches into his icky impression of “Kentucky”. And voila. Let me end, therefore, with a quote: “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” the late, great Douglas Adams.

The Amazing Race 10: Thinking Smart in Episode 5 by Jeffrey Clinard -- 10/19/2006 Making the best airline connections is one of the most important thinking smart tips. However, even when using travel agents, teams still didn’t end up with the best flights available. How do smart teams make decisions in airports? Did David & Mary end up in last place because they were on the last flight, or were there other factors involved? Jeffrey has the answers. I’m always thrilled to see teams asking the right questions. Every single team asked the travel agents about the fastest way to Chennai and believed them when they got the answers. The small problem that no travel agent in Vietnam gave the teams the fastest connection was not the fault of the teams. There were three routes that were faster than the twelve noon destination time several teams obtained, and teams that got better routes from travel agents who extended their search to multiple connecting cities ended up on a faster flight (though the connection was tighter) to Chennai. However, several teams had the choice of taking a flight with confirmed seats or taking a chance on getting seated during the final leg of the flight. Thinking smart means knowing when the odds favor taking a chance, along with the downside risk of losing the bet if seats are not available. The vital elements are the connecting cities, the destination city, the tightness of the connections, and which city is the key. To that end, Delhi was the key city in the flight plan of many teams. Even without confirmed seating, it was worth the risk to take the route because Delhi is a huge city and the chances of getting seated on another flight with only a small delay was very high. The flight David & Mary took still arrived much earlier than their initial arrival time of twelve noon. They did lose about 30 minutes in the process, but they had a long way to go in the leg with a Detour and a Roadblock. Still, the last flight is the primary reason for their last place finish. The two teams that went through a single connecting city (Peter & Sarah and Dustin & Kandice) ended up with the best flight of all, obtaining tickets on an earlier flight to Chennai. That’s why it is always nice to get to a connecting city as quickly as possible. Indeed, Peter & Sarah and Dustin & Kandice both used the time in Bangkok to their advantage, finding and obtaining seats on an earlier flight which allowed them to jump to the front of the pack. They ended up being the only two teams at the Detour when it opened, and ended up in the first two positions in the leg. The Detour had a quick, if somewhat frightening option in moving the crocodile from one pit to another. The “Wild Rice” option was much more tedious and took quite a bit longer. The fact that it was only 200 yards from the clue box was not a good enough reason to pick it, though it didn’t hurt for teams to take a quick look. The Roadblock was actually more frightening than the crocodiles, if you ask me. Unclearly lined streets, children, cows, and crazy motorized rickshaw drivers made it something of a wild ride. Finally, I really like the new non-elimination penalty. Time is the most important resource in the race. Teams have usually gotten past the money problems fairly easily in past races; time problems are harder to fix. Given the time of day David & Mary checked in, they are substantially behind right now, though the teams might bottleneck at some point. From their perspective, the worst place for a bottleneck to occur would be very late in the leg, while the best place would be very early in the leg. They need to build up a lead on the travel segments of the next leg, or hope somebody picks a bad Detour option, breaks the rules, or gets lost. Nobody was eliminated, and some teams had more luck than others, but which teams were thinking smart in Episode 5? Peter & Sarah: They came in first place, largely because they had some breaks go their way. They left Vietnam on the slowest route of all the teams (except Dustin & Kandice), but did take the time in Bangkok to find a faster flight, which put them in the lead. They never looked back, retaining their lead for most of the rest of the leg. Peter is rather annoying with his micro management, but he was smart enough to borrow a cell phone when he was fooled into thinking the Cho brothers had obtained one and made reservations. Overall, they ran a good leg, which, combined with their luck, led to a first place finish. Dustin & Kandice: It’s pretty clear that the beauty queens only take information and give nothing back. That’s OK; it’s an individual race and teams should try to get an advantage when they can. Still, if they want to keep information private, Dustin should have concealed the new boarding passes from Peter after they got a better flight. They did put their hands over a cab driver’s mouth to keep him from helping Peter & Sarah’s cab driver, but karma caught up to them when another cab they took blew a tire. Overall, their flight put them in a solid position, and they ended the leg in second place. Rob & Kimberly: This team did the best of all the teams who arrived on the second flight and even seemed to stop bickering for most of the episode. Of course, Kimberly did manage to complain about not being in Europe and needs a crash course in Hinduism to explain the “homeless” cows, while Rob didn’t seem to realize that “don’t drink and drive” also applies to traffic laws in India. Still, they did not mess around with the “Wild Rice” option and pretty much ran another pretty much mistake-free leg to land in third place. Erwin & Godwin: I like the brothers and find their antics amusing, but most instances of a team trying to mess with the minds of another team have backfired. Their fake cell phone actually spurred Peter to borrow one and make a real call. In addition, while they have been working with some teams, they have been too free with their information. Better flights should be kept a secret; the time advantage can help a team avoid elimination or even come in first place during a leg. Still, the brothers abandoned the “Wild Rice” Detour choice fairly quickly and landed in the middle of the pack at the end of the leg. Lyn & Karlyn: The single moms impressed me in their ability to somehow get around local regulations in Vietnam to join up with the Cho brothers on the flights. They were able to get on what they thought would be the fastest route to Chennai (even with the informed risk of the seating out of Dehli), and with four good ankles between them were able to secure the last available seats on the final flight leg ahead of Mary & David. They did waste some time with the “Wild Rice” Detour, but quickly abandoned it and hauled a crocodile. They finished in the back of the pack, but they didn’t really make all that many mistakes during the leg. Tyler & James: The recovering addicts do not have the best luck in the world, as their cab driver in Chennai did not bring them to the bus station. Instead, he brought them to a bus stop. While they ended up getting to the next clue box, it was a dangerous move in more than one way. First, the bus depot would have more information about the buses, including if there were direct buses, as opposed to local buses that make lots of stops along the way. Second, the move had questionable conformity to the rules. They had to take a bus to Mamallapuram. They did, but their departure point was quite possibly closer to Mamallapuram than the depot. I suppose if the instructions said they had to take a bus from Chennai to Mamllapuram they technically complied, even if the point they boarded the bus was at the Chennai city limits. However, the picked a rotten Detour, somehow missed the instructions to wear local garb, and wasted a lot of time by completing the “Wild Rice” detour. Their position reflects their mistakes in the leg. David & Mary: The married couple had a lousy leg, starting with not getting good information from their travel agent. While I think their decision to make an informed risk on the air travel (and somehow convinced the airline to wink at the local regulations) was a good one, they ended up getting stung and lost a half hour over most of the teams (though they still thought they had two hours on two other teams). They compounded their problem by picking the “Wild Rice” option, even when they knew they were well behind Tyler & James when it came to that particular task. David & Mary have major problems going into the next leg, and will have to think smart to make up the time and their penalty.

The Amazing Race 10: The Finish Line, Episode 5 by Teeuwynn Woodruff -- 10/20/2006 Nobody was Philiminated in this week’s episode! What will Jon and Peggy do? Who will they chat with? Will any of them be somebody you know from this very website? What do they think about the new non-elimination penalty? Who gets verbally beaten up the most? Let’s see! Peggy Bunker says that Jon Weiss is back in the house this week! She asks for folks to call in to chat. Jon says there was a lot of bickering on the show this week and that Peter is really starting to get on his nerves. Jon has no idea why Peter didn’t bring a tool kit to work on Sarah’s knee. He says that maybe Peter wasn’t allowed to bring it, but he wants to know. We quickly go to Jon’s Ringmaster Recap of the episode. You know, the relentless pum-pum-pum-pum music in the background of his Recaps is getting pretty darn annoying. I want new background music! Peggy says she thinks a lot of people were glad last night wasn’t an elimination episode because so many people like David & Mary. Jon thinks the new thirty-minute penalty if the “marked” team doesn’t win the next leg is a good new twist. Peggy thinks David & Mary warm a lot of people’s hearts. Jon says they’re regular people and they really appreciate the experiences they’re having on the race. They’re fun-loving and really seem to appreciate each other’s company. Jon wants to see them go further. Peggy sarcastically says that she’d like to see Mary speak up a little more. She does a quick imitation of Mary yelling for David. Peggy finishes by saying that Mary has really won her over. Peggy now tells us that she and Jon are going to have a couple of internet bloggers who really know the race on the show to chat about it. Hey! They should ask some internet journalists who cover the race too! (Hint, hint) We now get to see the “scariest moment of the week.” We see the teams wrapping up and carrying the crocodiles. Peggy goes on a bit of a rant. She says that if there was ever an opportunity to see a team wrestle crocodiles, she wanted to see Tyler & James do it! Jon just thinks it was lame that they didn’t really have to wrestle crocodiles. But what Peggy really wanted to see was Tyler & James, shirtless, wrestling the crocs! She asks if we want to see them do some art piece or getting in there and wrestling crocodiles? Same for Erwin & Godwin! They started the art first. They’re made of muscle! Jon says that if you just looked at that pattern you should realize that the art would have taken too much time. The crocodiles were obviously the faster choice. It was the Moms that went for the crocodiles! We now get a call from Mark in Washington. He says that he also wants David & Mary to hang in the race. He thinks Mary’s a real fighter and they’re hungry to win the race. But his question is about Peter. Mark thinks he’s kind of a wimp of a man and wants to know if Peggy and Jon think Sarah is going to dump him at the end of the race. Peggy thinks everyone’s wondering about that. Or if Peter might dump Sarah? Jon wants to know why Peter doesn’t ever help her or carry her bag if it makes sense to do so. Peggy now takes us to a clip from this week’s episode showcasing Peter acting like an ass with Sarah in various ways. But at least he likes how he deals with things. So, I guess everything’s good. Yeesh. Peggy and Jon laugh over the couple’s bickering. Jon says that Sarah is right, you have to work as a team. Peggy just thinks Peter’s not really helping her. Jon brings up Sarah crawling on the rice paddy while Peter ran ahead. And the same sort of situation keeps coming up with this team. We now welcome Eric Goldman, an Amazing Race blogger, by phone. Eric notes that all teams have their moments, but he thinks this race might well end their relationship. Jon thinks it’s likely too. Eric doesn’t think there’s a current clear, front-running team right now. He thinks Dustin & Kandice have surprised people with how competitively they’re doing. Rob & Kimberly have a lot of dysfunction, but they’re running a solid race right now. Peggy says that on some races, a team with a bit of dysfunction can actually do very well. Jon brings up Jonathan & Victoria (who just had a baby) and Lake & Michelle. Jon says, in the studio, they seemed respectful and the couples blamed editing, but Jon’s not so sure. I think editing can emphasize aspects of your relationship and behavior, but it can’t force you to do too much – even with the “creative” editing some shows do. For example, no amount of editing could insert the scene in which Jonathan shoved Victoria, earning him a Reality TV Hall of Shame Moment. Blaming the editing is an easy out. Peggy and Jon turn back to the subject of David & Mary. Jon was glad to see that they didn’t give up this episode. It was dark when they arrived at the Pit Stop, so they must have arrived pretty late. Peggy notes that when you see a team arrive at the Pit Stop in the dark, you know it’s a bad sign. Jon says the one thing you don’t want to see is a team give up – but it’s happened. On his season, Dave & Jeff never even made it to the final Pit Stop and they were one of the last three teams. Peggy asks Eric what he thinks of the new non-elimination penalty. Eric thinks it’s great. He correctly notes that when they took away the money and possessions from teams it really didn’t seem to make much of a difference (especially when they allowed teams to beg between legs). Eric notes he likes David & Mary, but this seems like a big and proper penalty for coming in last in a non-elimination leg. Peggy asks if David & Mary are one of Eric’s favorite teams? He says he’s rooting for them, but he likes Erwin & Godwin the most. Peggy asks how that can be! She says she can’t get a read on them. Peggy says they are probably great people, but… Jon says they are very nice and respectful, even though they’re a bit boring right now. Eric says they actually need to stop having so much fun on the race and get more competitive. They brought the toy cell phone and earlier they had the water guns. They’re likeable, but have to get more competitive. Peggy wants them to argue or arm wrestle, or something! Jon just thinks the stress increases and increases further on in the race as there are fewer teams on the race. We now get a call from Jeremy in Chicago. Jeremy says that Lyn & Karlyn seem to have it in for Peter & Sarah and some other teams. He wants to know if Peggy, Eric, and Jon think that they’ll be the first team Yielded or the next team out. Jeremy says Lyn & Karlyn are only in it for themselves and that they have a problem with people with disabilities. They’re not in it to have fun. Eric doesn’t think it goes to that much of an extreme, but he thinks they can get distracted by other teams – like in the first episode, when they got so disgruntled about Sarah using her leg to get on the plane. He notes that in past seasons, like with Rob & Amber, some teams get too obsessed with other teams. He doesn’t think it’s gotten that far with Lyn & Karlyn yet, but they do seem like a middle-of-the-pack team and he’s not sure they can go all the way. Jon says he likes them because they’re moms who have been devoted to their families and it gives them a chance to break away and be competitive in a tough field of racers. Jeremy ends his call by saying he liked Jon’s Ringmaster Recap today and thinks it was the best so far. Andrew from Rhode Island calls in now. He has some technical difficulties, but manages to comment that each of the first four, and six of the first seven Pit Stops, are elimination points. He also says that in Jon’s race, all of the first seven Pit Stops were elimination points. He asks if Jon agrees with this strategy or if it gives away too much. Jon says that on his race, he didn’t like that because you could figure out which legs had to be non-elimination ones. John & Kelly pretty much knew the leg they came last in was a non-elimination leg and didn’t push so hard because of it. There was also no penalty for coming in last back then. Jon notes that he and Al always pushed hard, and they’re glad to see that there’s now a penalty for coming in last. Eric agrees that the penalty is a good thing and it makes a team work hard to stay in the race. He then signs off. Peggy now takes us to the Detour challenge from this week: Wild Things or Wild Rice. We see the teams tackle the crocodiles and create art. We see James & Tyler make the puzzling choice to do the art and David & Mary do the same. Peggy laughs at Mary asking David why in the world he thinks she’d want to wrestle a crocodile. Jon notes that with how much time they spent on the art, they should have just gone and wrestled a crocodile. Peggy notes that it’s not always easy to tell how difficult a task will be. Jon says they didn’t know where several teams were at that point. Peggy asks if it was just her, or did the crocodile task look easy to Jon too. Jon says it looked too easy. Christie from New York calls in. Peggy asks what she thought of the crocodile task. Christie thought it was fun and that the task was far away, so maybe that’s why people did the other one. She would have done the crocodile challenge, though. Christie also tells Jon that he and Al are her favorite Amazing Race team ever. Jon blushes and thanks her. Christie then brings up Peter & Sarah. She thinks he sounds like a jerk, but Christie wonders if any of it is the editing and that she’s telling Peter not to help her. Jon says that a little bit of it is always the editing, but come on. Jon says he doesn’t know them, but it would be nice to see Peter act a little more considerate with Sarah. Peggy says it could be editing, but teams are responsible for what they say and do, and to some extent, it is what it is. We’re now joined by Jenn Brasler of our very own RealityNewsOnline! Jenn does a great job describing what RealityNewsOnline is all about as a site. Go, Jenn! Jenn says that Peter should be punished this week, because he’s being condescending and not acting like he’s on a team. He tells Sarah to be quiet, but then jabbers at her when Sarah’s trying to concentrate. As we see a clip with Peter snacking again, Peggy notes that he seems very into his snacks. Peggy thinks that Sarah got in the middle of Peter’s snacking and he had trouble moving on with that. Everyone giggles. Peggy notes that Rob & Kimberly haven’t been sweet to each other either. Jenn agrees, but says that Rob & Kimberly seem more aware of their bickering and issues, whereas Peter seems pretty clueless about the problem. She thinks they know they need to communicate better – and seemed to do so this week. What Jon wants to know is where everyone’s excitement is when they get to the Pit Stop! He’s irritated because no one seems excited when they get there. Come on! You’re in a race! Jon says he and Al were always really excited when they got to the Pit Stop. Jenn asks if you have to give a prize to everyone who checks in to get some excitement going. Jon says the feeling of racing is the best thing ever – you can’t pay for that. Get excited, people! Peggy now asks Jenn what she thinks about the beauty queens, Dustin & Kandice. Jenn says that she thought they’d be just another pair of beauty queens to ogle, but they’ve been really impressive on the race. They’ve been pretty consistent and competitive. Peggy notes that Dustin & Kandice had some issues with Peter & Sarah this week too. She takes us to a clip of the two teams interacting with each other. Peter gives the girls information in a potentially sleazy manner and the girls try to hide information from Peter & Sarah. Peter berates Sarah for being slow. Again. We also see the Cho brothers’ cell phone ploy backfire on them. Peggy comes back and says she knows it’s “beat up on Peter day,” but did it seem like he was flirting with the beauty queens? Jon said it looked like that to him. Jenn says he might have been, but she thinks it was more about manipulation. Maybe Peter thought if he could turn on the charm it would help. Peggy and Jon chorus, “Charm??” Jenn concedes the point. Crystal from California calls in and says she wants to be the lone appreciator for Tyler & James and the Cho brothers. She likes their sense of sportsmanship and fair play. Peggy says that it’s true, but shouldn’t Tyler & James have gone for the crocodiles? Crystal says it surprised her too. She thought it was interesting to see them struggle this leg, coming in second-to-last. Jon thinks they’ll re-think their race after this leg. Peggy thinks it’s really funny that the four strongest guys on the race all went for the arts and crafts Detour option. Peggy now asks Jenn what her hopes are for some of the remaining racers. Jenn says she hopes David & Mary stick around for a long time because they’re getting the best experience out of the race. They are seeing and doing things they’ve never done before, and she hopes they can pull it out next leg and beat some of the teams that look stronger than them. Jon hopes there’s an equalizer on the next leg that gives David & Mary a chance. There’s always a chance for another team to get more than thirty minutes behind David & Mary. Peggy says it would be great to see the coalminer couple win a million bucks. Jon agrees that would be great. Peggy thanks Jenn for participating and she ably plugs RealityNewsOnline again. Way to go, Jenn! Peggy now takes us to a preview for next week’s episode, including Tyler & James doing what looks like camel racing with robotic jockeys. Should be interesting! And, of course, Peggy and Jon will have the next Philiminated team on The Finish Line with them. See you then!