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Amazing Race fans, watch for our quiz, How Well Do You Know: The Amazing Race 14, to be published the morning after the series finale!

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Previously on the Amazing Race, some country music awards show was on. God bless those hillbillies in their cowboy hats. And congratulations to Rascal Flatts!

Also, some short, angry men were penalized for trying to be jerks to other contestants, a rule that Boston Rob is glad wasn't enforced prior to this season. The biggest story, though, was not the elimination of Mel & Mike , but instead the fact that Luke's mother, Margie, suffered heat stroke and collapsed at the finish line. This is one of the scariest moments in the show's history to the point that even we won't joke about it. The preview for tonight's show promises more passport-losing goodness, and we are always all about that.

We start tonight's leg in Phuket, Thailand, which is sadly not pronounced like you might hope. Hey, we passed on making a Margie joke, but you have to give us some low-hanging fruit. The order for departure for this leg is Tammy & Victor at 9:27 p.m., Jaime & Cara at 12:30 a.m (that's right, Tammy & Victor have a three hour lead), Mark & Michael at 12:46 a.m., Margie & Luke at 12:53 a.m. and Kisha & Jen at 1:05 a.m. It would be grossly unfair if there were to be bunching this leg, but that's what we're expecting to happen.





The first bit of drama occurs when the cheerleaders grow suspicious about whether someone claiming to be a taxi driver is legitimate. Their cause for suspicion? He is driving a BMW. On the racism scale, that's about a Mark Fuhrman. Maybe even a David Duke. We should specify that Jaime is the one who loses her freaking mind at the drop of a hat. Her friend Cara generally seems every bit as mortified by her behavior as we do. We're just lucky enough to not have to be trapped in a car with her on a frequent basis. Not content to just demean the taxi driver, Jaime also berates a couple of law enforcement officials for not validating her xenophobia quickly enough. She's singlehandedly ruining North America's cheerleader fantasies.

Tammy & Victor race to the airport, but are informed that they will not be able to buy tickets to Bangkok until 6 a.m. when the ticketing center at the airport opens This means, of course, that all of the teams are bunched onto the same flight. The team that should have been in first place by three hours is rewarded with the rare opportunity to race to the airport, then wait there for nine hours. They like it better when first place comes with a trip for two to Hawaii.

Once the teams arrive in Bangkok, a bit of gamesmanship occurs as Margie & Luke and Kisha & Jen's cab drivers stop to get directions. Margie & Luke instruct their driver not to help the other one, and in fact, it appears that he might even have given the guy the wrong directions. Kisha & Jen certainly believe, so, anyway.

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