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The Globetrotters are at the Detour as the cousins are leaving, so the situation is not as dire as you may assume. Flight Time & Big Easy have been MIA and non-factors this leg and they even admit that they should be doing more than just trying to beat the team in last place.

They opt for Run at first but the size of Big Easy may be a factor here. Flight is able to maneuver his donkey pretty well but Easy’s is immobile. Is it a size factor or just a stubborn donkey? Flight suggests they switch to test it. Surprisingly, it’s just the donkey but Flight is having even less luck than Easy. Flight is fruitlessly trying to get the beast to move while his partner suggests they switch to Build, which they do.

At the Roadblock, the bitter Murphy’s Law and singers have arrived and David refuses to accept Brendon’s not-really-sincere apology. Daddy Dave keeps asking, “Really, you U-Turn a 60-year-old man?” You know that would hold water if it was a different 60-year-old because David has proven that he can hang with any of these young people.

Brendon goes back to praying at the altar, literally, and seems to think that God has made them successful on the Race. It still and always will irk me when people arrogantly proclaim that God cares about their success on a TV game show.

The frustration has clearly gotten to David as he and his son openly argue who should take this task. David even digs in his heels and says that he will not do it because he is not crafty, which Connor claims also. Father knows best or at least, wins the debate and Connor and Caroline head into the Roadblock with Leo not trailing by much.

Rachel has finally passed the judgmental eye of the monk and gotten their clue. They are now heading to the town’s funicular with the Pitstop at the top at Piazza del Duomo. Jet didn’t even bother trying to get the monk to approve one that is clearly subpar and is just redoing it.

At the Build Detour, the Globetrotters have reached the same impasse as the others and are now staring blankly and at the wooden donkey. After wasting only a few minutes more on what could be the problem, they decide to try Run again but with different donkeys. At this point, a non-elimination is slim but is the only hope for the Globetrotters.

Brendon & Rachel have rushed to the funicular and gotten aboard before anyone else, which shouldn’t be a surprise since they were all still at the Roadblock when the newlyweds left. Phil checks them in at team number one and they win $15,000. Maybe someone should point out that $15k is not as much money as $1 million. They need to be starting racing smarter or it will bite them in the…donkey.

Jet’s craftiness may not be stellar but it is serviceable as the cowboys are the next ones out of the Roadblock and without much drama, they secure second place.

The fledging alliance and resulting teamwork of the Afghanimals, Team Murphy’s Law and the singers is solidified. Once again, Leo expresses deep respect for the moves David & Connor have made and how they treat people and Jamal suggests that they reciprocate the commitment. Even after Leo finishes his Roadblock, he sticks around to encourage and help Connor in any way possible. That puts all three teams leaving the Roadblock at the same time. The lack of a sense of urgency and foreboding elimination points to the fact that they know Flight & Easy are in last place. But teams made a similar flub last week about the singers and John & Jessica got knocked out.

They joke and mock Team Fetch on their funicular ride and hit the mat with the Afghanimals in third, David & Connor in fourth and Jennifer & Caroline in fifth.

The next few minutes are a clip show of the Globetrotters driving to the Roadblock and Flight Time completing it. They are reflective of their times on the Race as they ascend to the Pitstop and when Phil delivers the fateful news of their elimination, the look of surprise on their faces indicates they anticipated non-elimination.

I am sad to see them go but Flight Time & Big Easy are grateful for getting to complete 31 legs of the Amazing Race in all and had fun doing it. For this viewer, I always had fun watching them; so thanks.

Next week, the Team Fetch Haters Club of the cousins, father/son team and blondes set their sights on getting the professional reality show contestants eliminated. This is great for Jet & Cord, who inexplicably have not been targets for anyone this season.

Until then, have a great Earth Day and see you in a week.

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