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Previously on The Amazing Race, the mother/daughter team of Shelley and Nici were eliminated from the race. And the regular recapper of this show happened to work in a Texas hospital right around the time Ebola became a thing in the United States.

We’re down to six teams, but realistically, there are three teams that matter more than the others thus far. Misti & Jim apparently took their life inspiration from Steve Martin’s character in Little Shop of Horrors. “You’ll be a dentist – and a success!” Jim is by all accounts a super genius with a million dollar smile, and he has about three percent body fat to boot.

Any mention of Jim naturally leads to discussion of Kym & Alli, the cyclists who are gunning for him. Kym relishes the competition, because she is someone who believes that to be the best you have to beat the best, Ric Flair style. She and Alli are a refreshing team for The Amazing Race in that they complement each other and get along swimmingly. They have calmly excelled in winning two of the last three challenges, but they will be especially driven today because the dentists usurped them once again to take the top spot.

Perhaps the best-positioned team is the duo of Adam & Bethany. The Soul Surfers have finished in second place in three of the last for legs as the other two teams have expanded their rivalry. With no one paying close attention to them, Adam & Bethany have flown under the radar a bit, but there are only three teams remaining who have won at least one leg this season. They are one of them.

Also still around are the wrestlers, the sweet scientists and Tim and Te Jay. If any of them wins The Amazing Race, we’ll be shocked. Then again, the Beekman Boys won, so anything is possible.

Today’s leg begins in Morocco, where the dentists are first to depart at 9:44 p.m. They have an hour and 45 minute lead over the teams in second and third place, and over two hours on everyone else. Obviously, there will be bunching.

The destination is Palermo, Sicily, where they will need to proceed to Teatro di Verdura. Misti & Jim talk about how much fun they’re having together, and the Soul Surfers echo that sentiment. Jim & Misti drive us crazy sometimes with their hyper-competitiveness, but they certainly make a great couple.

When Brooke & Robbie receive their instructions, they wonder where Sicily is. At least Robbie’s not a bad guesser as he thinks it may be Italy. They’re missing all the luxuries in life, like tanning and eyebrow threading and daily workouts. Robbie worries that he’s lost half an ab.

At the airport, Kym & Alli call the dentists Team No-Fun, and indeed we do seem to have bunching for the most part. Some teams will be arriving in Sicily at 8 p.m., while others will be about 45 minutes behind them. As one player notes, sometimes that can make a huge difference, while other times it’s nothing at all.

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