The Amazing Race - Aired Dec. 3 - Commentary

Sadness.

A void in our hearts,
Utter bleakness.

Darkness.

Where once shone sunshine,
Bright brilliance.

Painful.

You lit up our screens,
With your smiles.

Goodbye, sweet Team Miss America. We will miss you.

That's it. The best team of the season is gone. Is there any reason to go on? Any point in continuing?

Well, yeah. It's still The Amazing Race and it still rocks, even with the Miss Americas gone. If they can take any consolation from this, it's that wow, were the other teams scared of them. I don't think there was such a concerted effort even in the Boston Rob and Amber season.
Dustin and Kandice gave it a good go, and they have some nice prizes to show for their first place finishes, and they certainly have nothing to be ashamed of for their efforts in the race.
As it turned out, being marked for elimination had no effect at the end. If you believe in destiny, you can certainly say the Miss Americas were destined for a fourth place finish as they came in last anyway, and it's doubtful that it came from the other teams' gameplans at all. Usually you only want to take the search option in a Detour if you aren't particularly physically fit, but the two teams who picked the tomato search did better than the two who picked lugging around giant costumes. Maybe if they were able to get decent directions quickly it would have been different, but the Miss Americas still wouldn't have been able to build up a big enough lead to keep in the race.
I do have to give the Junkie Models credit. It does make more sense to go to the final three with the Single Moms instead of the Miss Americas, despite the recent resurgence of the sour Alabamans, and with the Pageanteers being marked for elimination, sticking close to them was a good idea. It's nice to see a little strategy come into play. Well done, Junkie Models. Well done.
So with the best team of the season gone, who else is there to cheer for in this final stretch? Let's take a look.

Junkie Models
Pro: The least offensive team left. They've done little to piss off the other players or audience. The above strategy was good too.
Con: They've done little to entertain the audience. Heck, they've done little to keep us away. Bland, boring, and completely indistinguishable from each other.

Single Moms
Pro: The first all-female team to make it to the final three, it would be nice to see an all-female team win. Since the departure of the Chos, they've also proven to be surprising competitors. They also seem to be the team with the most to gain from winning the money.
Con: Sour, hateful, spiteful, constantly bitching. We don't see everything that goes on behind the scenes, but it wouldn't be surprising if they were the instigators of the feud with the Miss Americas.

Rob and Kimberly
Pro: The only entertaining team left. They may have been surprisingly pissy towards the Miss Americas, they've saved most of their venom for each other and at least it gives us something to enjoy.
Con: I'll be nice and say they're likely more ignorant and xenophobic than they are racist. Some of the comments they have made while experiencing other countries and cultures have been jaw-droppingly horrible. Aside from this, despite how entertaining their fighting has been, that in conjunction with their whining and complaining has been pretty tiresome.

It's tough to decide on a team to give the Officially Endorsed by Realivision label to out of this collection of misfits. The pros I listed make it so that it won't be completely horrifying if any of the teams win, but heck, our Officially Endorsed by Realivision team is... The Junkie Models.
Of any of the final three, they would be the most tolerable to take a long car ride with because they'd make it very easy to sleep for the entire trip.