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Monday, October 25, 2010

The Amazing Race 17: In Which Phil's Eyebrows Learn A New Trick

That was the hottest thing I have ever seen in my life.

Phil's eyebrow, I mean. That lift. That height. That dexterity. That ability to count. Holy smokes. I love that man. I love the Kentuckys, also, and their ability to speak Eyebrow fluently. They knew they came in second and they loved it.

Last night was actually a pretty mediocre episode, if not for the Eyebrow Olympics. That, and did you see how excited Phil got when the blonde MelonHead suffered an eyebrow injury herself? She smacked herself in the head with the car door (done that, actually) and was bleeding pretty good at the mat. Phil was all giant toothy grin about that.

But other than that - the Docs did the fast forward (so sick of the vegetarians and their retching on this show) and came in a billion hours ahead of everyone else. (There will be airport bunching in their future.) The Kentuckys stayed in second. The VBalls were very predictably out (we don't fall for that editing anymore, BVM).

The scenery was gorgeous, however, and there were lots of laughs as they carried dead fish (and a chain saw?) up a steep hill, rode bikes over slippery rocks, rappelled off a bridge, etc. etc. The Dumbs got slightly dumber but at least Mrs. Dumb got to show up her douchebag boyfriend - twice.

What did you think?

1 comment:

  1. Can you imagine how long the ep would be if Phil used only his eyebrow-lift to tell EACH team its ranking? Am getting very tired of Young Whotube denigrating his father - and it doesn't make it any better that the father agrees with the denigration!

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