I also appreciated that Eri(c)(k)a still thanked the person who handed them the clue, after freaking out and being last. Brian deserves to be called "the saint," like my mother said about my father last night: "And your father, the saint, drove all the way there in that terrible weather!"

He had much more patience with her than I ever would have. BUT, as some one mentioned above, I don't recall her harping on HIM, just harping in general.

Driving into work today I again passed the field that is full of hay rolls like from the famous challenge. But now they are covered in snow - big pile of hay with a snow sweater. Could you imagine doing that challenge in the snow? Still rolling out the bales one by one. Brrrrrrrrrrrr.

She yelled his name an awful lot, even if it wasn't because she was mad at him...

So I screwed up my DVR and only saw the last bit, starting with the chip counting. Any reason I should seek out the rest?

The only things that really stick out for me was Cheyne/Meghan and Sam/Dave's shock at seeing Erika and Brian at the airport (they didn't find out at the pitstop who came in third--they were both betting on the Globetrotters still being in), then Brian/Erika's good taxi luck in Vegas getting them to Mandalay Bay first, then Cheyne/Meghan taking forever to figure out that their next destination was the Monte Carlo, which is where they were counting chips.

So, no, I wouldn't bother seeking out the rest of it.

Are they not "mingling with other teams" at the pit stops anymore? Because I think last episode it was also clear that at least one team didn't know who had been eliminated.

I wonder if the time of day was a factor? They might have just gone to sleep before Brian and Erica got there.

There were a couple of other eps that made it seem like they're sequestering them now. I wonder why, and why they haven't said so outright.

I like the concept of sequestering cause, while teams will know their place in the pack, they won't know the time spreads. But the airport bunching defeats any advantage/disadvantage that would give.

As much as the blonds were bland, for the way they raced, they deserved to win. Shoot, in that last leg alone, being the last ones into the poker room and the first ones out was huge.

She yelled his name an awful lot, even if it wasn't because she was mad at him...

This about Erica/ka/cka(?). Not so much at the beginning but towards the end, she did start to take her frustrations out on him. I especially noticed it in the beer challenge and last night during the Cirque challenge. The way she was kicking her feet like a 2 year old having a tantrum, demanding that he get in the harness and get her down immediately and just overall refusing to display even a lick of good sense, just . . . ugh. No. I'm sure she's probably a lovely person in real life away from the stress of the game and killer fatigue. But on the show, she was a pill. I wouldn't have been Flo/Zach or Freddy/Kendra levels of upset had they won, but my annoyance would've maybe reached Eric and Pink winning TAR All Stars level.