We have entered into the Bizarro World, people. Rob and Amber's elimination last leg has thrown the entire race into chaos, and the unthinkable has occurred: Charla and Mirna came in first. I know! Insanity. Mind you, they can take almost zero credit for the win since it was secured by berating some poor man in Mozambique to lead them from task to task, even going so far as to browbeat him into paying them for a manicure. Yeah, I don't know. But Mirna assures us that their victory should signal to people all over the world that the underdog can come out on top. Or, alternately, that the determined little person and her shrieking howler monkey of a cousin can occassionally get lucky. One of the two.

The leg featured a lot of bunching and ultimately came down to what Detour you picked. Charla and Mirna picked doing manicures, as did the Beauty Queens and, due to a taxi error, Teri and Ian. Those three teams came in 1, 2, 3. (An aside: Is it weird that I'm rooting for Teri & Ian this season? I detested them the first time through, but they're actually quite sympathetic this time around.) That left the other four teams with a physically punishing task that involved scooping, bagging, and carrying charcoal. Uchenna and Joyce came in last but were spared elimination. I'm ambivalent. Now that Rob and Amber are gone my interest in U&J has dwindled considerably. Seeing those two teams rematched in the finale would have been dramatic. Now...they're already won a million. I'm totally cool with them getting the boot this time.

 Other things of note: Huge, mine-finding rats! That was actually pretty cool. And the rats were oddly cute. Danny and Oswald are starting to hit the Killer Fatigue, Danny in particular. This concerns me greatly. Team Guido started a fairly nasty rivalry with Eric and Danielle, or vice versa, and things gut ugly at the end, with Eric referring to them as "freaks," "weirdos," and "queens." Real classy, guy. Also classy? Cussing out your "girlfriend" for being beaten in a foot race. So you can add "jackass" to Eric's plate of "deeply closeted" and "not as attractive as he thinks."

Oh, and a coal-covered Oswald chasing Phil around the mat made my weekend.