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I am thinking that I liked Pam & Winnie more when they didn’t display any personality because the side they are showing now is kinda jerky. It’s cool with me to use the U-Turn because it is a tool of the game but being snotty and mocking the team you U-Turn is just ugly on any person.

Chuck & Wynona really are living up to John & Jessica’s legacy of flubbed tasks by asking a clueless driver to take them to a market for Meal supplies and he goes way off course. Cape Fear is finally done with rounding out their recipe list and heading back for approval to start cooking.

Bates & Anthony are the second team done with the Detour, followed by Joey & Meghan, but those of us sitting comfortably at home and not in the Vietnam sun know that Team YouTube’s Detour is far from over. Thanks, U-Turn. Max & Katie are right behind these two teams as they make a satisfactory bowl of soup. Or more than likely, a bowl of soup decent enough to get the obnoxious Americans off the street of Hanoi sooner.

No disaster occurs and Pam & Winnie are checked in as team number one. Blah blah blah, they won a trip to somewhere from some company that clearly owns a portion of The Amazing Race. Despite being done this leg, their presence lingers with the pained, U-Turned look on the faces of Joey & Meghan upon seeing they have to tackle Make Your Meal.

Left with no option other than self-preservation, Team YouTube slaps a U-Turn onto the Mullets. Meghan got it wrong about her and Joey not being able to catch a break this leg…the real Eeyores of this leg are Chuck & Wynona, who have yet to really start the Make Your Meal task.

You know who we haven’t heard from in a while? Mona & Beth and Caroline & Jen. Checking in with them, they are losing the mental chess game with the Detour. Neither team has figured about they are replicating a part of the chess board, which I think is blatantly stated in the clue, since no one else had an issue with it. The moms figure it out and head out but the blondes aren’t doing stereotypes any favors with this mental display. Cowboy Royalty frustratingly stares off in the distance and are no closer to completing this task than Chuck is to realizing that his achy breaky hairstyle is as outdated as acid-washed jeans and Hypercolor shirts.

Bates & Anthony are in disbelief that their pact held about U-Turning the alliance. It appears that they are only a part of that pact to deflect attention to their own physical ability on the race. If that’s the case, then these brothers are more strategic racers than anyone will give them credit for.

At long last, the blondes have deduced what the challenge actually is and have shuffled the players/pieces into the right spot to get the clue. At the memorial where they are headed, Cape Fear and Sock’er Moms are just happy to not be on the receiving end of a U-Turn and off to Phil they go.

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