The Amazing Race: All-Stars - Aired February 25

Holy crap, that was an emotional roller coaster! I was laughing, cheering, and on the edge of my seat preparing for disaster!
Yet for such a great and scary episode, I'm not sure where to start writing. Hmmmm.
Okay, I didn't watch Charla and Mirna's original season, so I have to admit I'm a little surprised by how clearly insane they are, especially Mirna who freaked out over our beloved Beauty Queens following them when she and her cousin paid a cab driver to lead them to their next destination. It was going to take all their money! The Miss Americas should at least pay half!!! FINE! WE'LL JUST SIT HERE!!! Yes, this standard Amazing Race strategy of following someone else was so horrifying that Mirna and Charla were willing to throw the game in order to stop it from happening.
It didn't get any better for them after the Beauty Queens left them and the cabbie refused to take them any further. Do you blame him? How could he not be sure this crazy woman wasn't trying to get him to lead her somewhere secluded to murder him on camera? It didn't help when she started shouting and throwing her fanny pack with all the money at him.
If her Amazing Race experience doesn't end with Mirna getting an ambassador position somewhere, something is horribly wrong with the world.
The cherry on top of this whole insane sundae was Charla telling us how much more moral she and Mirna were than, that beauty is only skin deep and she made some snarky comment about plastic surgery.
I don't know what Kandice and Dustin are like at the pit stops, but this is now two races in a row they've managed to stir up a lot of antipathy from other teams. I always hate to accuse haters of jealousy (I got so sick of that in Big Brother 6), but I'm wondering if some of these teams might not be a little jealous that the Beauty Queens rock so much.
At least they're entertaining. I never watched Kevin and Drew's original season, but I have to think they were a whole heck of a lot better than they were this season. Either they were more fun in either a good or a bumbling way, or they were much, much better racers. This is All-Stars, and all I'm going to remember of them are two bald men who moved slowly and complained a lot. Hell, I can just look at my husband for that.
If I had a husband, but the concept amused me.
Now Drew, or Kevin (which was which?), did have some bad luck with his fall and never did seem to recover, but that doesn't excuse them taking a spot that could have gone to Lori and Bolo or, dare I say, Jonathan and Victoria.
I'm sure they have their fans, or they never would have been back, but I'm not going to miss them. I do hope that Kevin, or Drew (whichever one it was) is feeling better now.
Just as I won't miss Mary and David when their time comes. How was that for a segue, huh? Pretty smoooooth. And it helps to distract you from noticing that we're not finished this thing, yet I just gave away the ending. Anyway, Mary and David, or more specifically, Mary. She didn't take it too well when Mirna and Charla's car passed them late in the leg. She missed the Cho brothers from last season who would wait for her and even gave her team a Fast Forward. But these sanctimonious bitches zipped right past them, like this was a race or something! Well, that's the end of that alliance! We didn't even get a cool nickname for them like "the Back Pack".
Expecting people to let them stay in the race ahead of them was cutely naive for once season. Two in a row? Not so much. This is where All-Stars seasons or second chances can really come back to hurt what goodwill someone has built up with the audience in their first appearance on a show. I loved Stephenie on both seasons of Survivor, but she lost a lot of fans in Guatemala (strangely enough, it was completely the opposite with Janelle on Big Brother where I was one of the few fans she lost).
But all the last place teams aside, there was a lot of excitement this week between Rob and Amber, Oswald and Danny, and Kandice and Dustin.
My heart sank when Romber and Oswanny caught a flight ahead of everyone else. Oh no! But then their flight was horribly delayed and they arrived last! Oh yes! It's bound to happen sooner or later, and while flights have been delayed before on the show, it just doesn't happen nearly enough.
At the Road Block, Dustin pulled into the lead for Miss Realivision 2007 (coming this spring on Realivision, where Miss Realivision 2006 Melissa Witek will pass on the crown to Kandice or Dustin following a gala show sponsored by Motorola and Ask.com) when she kicked butt and got the answer for the next clue faster than anyone. Oh yes! In fact, some players were so bad at this task that Romber and Oswanny caught up to the pack! Oh no!
Then came the Detour, and things didn't get any better. Romber and Oswanny finished first and got to the Pit Stop in first and second place. Oh crap!
We got to see some teams make mistakes that held them back, but not the Beauty Queens, yet somehow they were one of the last teams finished. I don't know why they did so poorly here. They are capable of doing so much better.
If that wasn't bad enough, something horrible happened on the way to the Pit Stop. At one crucial fork in the road, instead of turning left, they turned right. Oooooh crap. Two episodes in, and we're going to see a repeat of last season where it was a missed turn that did them in.
Honestly, my heart had dropped so much by this point. I was cheering when that flight was delayed and when Kandice got that clue, but now the roller coaster was at the low point of the night. That was, until the other cars started turning the same way, following the Beauty Queens as they turned right, but not so quickly following them when they discovered they were going the wrong way around went back in the opposite direction.
And so for the second leg in a row, the Miss Realivision 2007 finalists finished sixth. That's okay. They made a mistake, but this time it didn't knock them out of the game. No, it was Kevin and Drew we said goodbye to. Goodbye, mighty bald men.