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Garrett thinks about marriage with Jessica because she is loyal, loving and caring. But you keep breaking up so there is something amiss there. Probably because later in the episode he says that she is very difficult to deal with and has a short fuse when it doesn't go her way.

Tiffany boasts that as poker players they pick up information about people and observe to get a read on them. How are those skills working with your race "boyfriends", ladies? The Mentalist and Psych's Shawn Spencer have nothing to worry about. Tiffany says they like Justin and Zev the least of all the teams because she hasn't gotten warm vibe from them.

Zev counters in his interview, "They told us they work with homeless kids but I don't see that being true at all. They don't give off that ‘loving, let you help you out' vibe". Touché.

Lance is the leading candidate for being the first to come down with Ugly Americanism this season. He complains about the rain and everything being wet. Then he proclaims that he doesn't want a vacation home here. I'm sure the Vietnamese people are grateful for this.

Tiffany and Maria continue to size up the other teams through their keen powers of observation and say they don't think that Lance is a lawyer. I guess figuring out information about people playing cards is their forte because they don't have a good batting average with their opponents here.

The dock is open and the teams rush to the clues that instruct them to take a boat to a farm with mud pits and cover a tree's roots with said mud to a set height. Tiffany and Maria (who has been pleasantly quiet this leg) will have to wait for their delta cruise because the Speed bump is here. And it is pretty lame and simple.

They are given five ingredients that must be mixed together to create a traditional Vietnamese soup. Maria excitedly admits that she loves this particular type of soup and makes it often. How convenient? Producer-tainted challenge, anyone?

On the way to the challenge via boat, Mika admits that she just recently started to learn to swim and is very nervous at that point in the middle of the delta. Given that water and swimming figure into multiple legs in every season, that ill-preparation would be like a person applying for America's Next Top Model and then deciding to learn to walk in high heels before the show starts.

It's time for a challenge that will involve many shots of locals laughing as the teams slip and fall. America's Funniest Home Videos, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton must be huge in Vietnam.

With no clear frontrunner, all the teams are there at the same time except the girls, who are blowing through the sad excuse for a Speedbump.

One by one the teams finish the challenge with Meghan and Cheyne still in first place like when they left Tokyo. The last three teams left at the challenge are Zev and Justin, Mika and Canaan and Tiffany and Maria. In the midst of the challenge, our quote dispenser Tiffany declares without much jest that "girls and mud are so sexy" as she is elbow deep in the stuff. Maybe she is deceitfully playing the hetero card too. Exhibit A, this comment and exhibit B: her admiration of Maria's endowments, which are honestly not necessarily in need of so much praise.

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