I had to call this How Hot They Are because I couldn't get over that song those kids sang. The order of the words and the way they sang it just gave it something so excellently, indescribably Jamaican, like: "It's all cool, even if you're "cold" - at least you tried and we sing sweetly."
Also - how long must they have practiced to get it all right? They had to know to shift from "hot" to "warm" at a very particular yet hazy point and they knew exactly. I chortled away through it wondering what they'd all been talking about before the racers arrived and how they felt when they left.
Not so buddy-buddy with kiddies anymore are the racers though are they? There wasn't any cooing or oohing left in them as they raced through their school desks, thinking of one thing and one thing only - the million buuuuucks.
Often I forget that this is what the end the result is and that someone's going to actually end up millionaires. That's a lot of very life-changing mollah - seeing it so close and knowing you could have it if you don't stuff up and things go your way must be a very intense situation to be in.
The only two who don't have quite the same relationship to it are Kelly and Jon because at the moment they don't know if the whole millions their’s or just half. Kelly was hysterical at the airport - I mean, who in their right minds brings up serious, mega-marriage discussions when you're sitting at the airport in between flights to the second-last pit stop in the history of your only Amazing Race ever?
You know what annoyed me most about the way Kelly told Ron she loved him? The fact that it was the cherry on top of how desperate she makes herself. It just keeps giving Ron way to much status which his pink cheeks so clearly enjoy. The patronising way (I think I've worked out what this word means) he complimented her on handling that dance didn't impress me at all and confirmed how he sees every chick as being overly-emotional, only good to be used for certain fairly unimportant things.
Yet again though, none of their crisis affected them and they ended up coming terrifyingly first. I really don't understand how it happens because it makes logical sense that if they have huge cracks in their relationship they should have been whacked.
The only conclusion is that Ron's military training and Kelly’s stupid beauty queen pageants have instilled some kind of robotic discipline in them. Beauty queens are always fighting and they manage to get a pageant together - same thing with soldiers.
It would very horrible if it happens that something nasty doesn’t happen to them next week which means Rob and Amber and Joyce and Uchenna have to be as brutal as possible. My faves for the win remain Rob and Amber most definitely.
I've supported them from the very start and I’ll be loyal to them to the end. They've given the race such an added peeper-popping zing with their Survivor celebrity and tactics and they've brought the two shows together brilliantly.
I was just thinking the other day - imagine how it would suck if the two of them had been really disappointing and been eliminated at the beginning. They've given the other teams such juicy loathing and loving for them that them winning another million bucks for it would make me very happy.
Joyce and Uchenna on the other hand would be millionaires for the first time, they've worked together like a machine that's been oiled and sprung into life and Joyce cut all her hair off. This wasn't only a humdinger moment for the episode but for the entire series over all of them and worth a million bucks.
I've actually started pricing stuff like this which started with Fear Factor after I asked myself whether I'd eat a ‘roach for a million bucks and the answer was "Nooooo!" My trouble is I just don't think I could ever get my head around it and could end up institutionalized - which a million bucks just isn't worth.
Shaving off all your hair might not be quite the same thing, but it's definitely right up there and Joyce did it and if they won they'd have conqeured their penalty. In comparsion Kelly and Jon would have done absolutely nothing except fight more and show us exactly how self-involved a US prisoner of war is - as if we don't already see CNN.
Nope - if anyone deserves the money for whatever reason it's Uchenna and Joyce and Rob and Amber and I'll be pleased enough if it’s either of them but I’ll definitely be rooting for Rob and Amber – nothing would delight me more than hearing Rob get to say: "Sign the check.," again.
Whatever you get up to next week watching – enjoy! From the looks of the trailer it's gonna be very groovy. I’m thinking, pizza and cream soda. I don’t want to booze it in case I miss something.