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Previously, on The Amazing Race, the worst team was not eliminated - again. Team Superbad has started to remind us of the 1983 North Carolina State basketball team, with only one key difference. That Wolfpack team was good.

The difference between the haves and the have-nots this season is remarkable. The haves are pretty much Nick & Starr. They've won four straight legs in a run of dominance we're not sure the show has ever seen before. In fact, the only other team that has won a leg of the race this season is the unhappily married tandem of Ken & Tina. As much as we pick at these dysfunctional, oftentimes hateful people, they have won three of the eight legs of the race, while Nick & Starr have won the remaining five. To emphasize how impressive this is, consider the fact that there were 11 teams at the start. It's mathematically improbable for a competition with this degree of luck as a factor to have had only two leaders to date. In fact, this run is so unlikely that we're going to predict that either Toni & Dallas or Andrew & Dan bungle into a win tonight. Alternately, at some point next year, Nick & Starr are going to have to take a vacation from all of the vacations they've won on the show.

Tonight's land begins in Borat-Land, aka Kazakhstan, where Nick & Starr are set to depart at 9:21 p.m. They must fly to Moscow, Russia and go to a Monastery, where they will light a candle to receive their next clue. A cleverly edited camera confessional shows that this is Nick's birthday, and also that the brother/sister tandem is worried about spending so much time in such close proximity to each other. They state that were they not winning, they would probably be fighting a lot. This is what is known as foreshadowing.

Toni & Dallas are an hour and a half behind Nick & Starr, who won the Fast Forward in the previous leg. Score one for meat-eaters. The mother/son team have been flying completely under the radar, and have finished no lower than fourth since the third leg of the race. They've also finished second in three of the last four legs. If Nick & Starr do slip up, Toni & Dallas seem like the most likely team to capitalize, rather than Ken & Tina. Theirs is an oddly drama-free relationship, which must be driving the producers of the show crazy. Mothers and sons are supposed to fight, you know.

Ken & Tina, the most combative couple since Randy "The Macho Man" Savage and Miss Elizabeth, depart at 11:17 p.m. Describing their relationship as turbulent would be underselling it. There have been times this season where we've liked each of them, and there have been other times when we've wished the show would just strand them in whatever country they're in - preferably in a cow costume. Right on cue, Tina starts barking at Ken about his inability to hail a taxi. We strongly suspect she made him get a tattoo that says, "emasculated".

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