The Amazing, Amazing Race

I haven't had time to write about much (barely even about the most historic election in our nation's history) so it's no suprise I haven't commented on this season of The Amazing Race. But last night was great, as it always is when the 'evil' teams get their comeuppance.

EW's writeup says it better than I could, at least for the moment, so I'll just crib a particularly spot on piece:

It would have been enough to see Kelly repeatedly pelted in the face with paint, but the icing on the canvas was that she had completely misread the clue. Each player was supposed to thumb through a ring of hanging envelopes, all but six of which had the words "TRY AGAIN" written in big letters on them; to move on, you had to find the envelope marked "THE AMAZING RACE." The divorcées thought you had to yank down one envelope at a time, bring it back to your teammate, and then open it up. Even if you're prone to misinterpreting clues, as the divorcées are, wouldn't the fact that the envelope had the words "TRY AGAIN" in huge letters be a huge clue that perhaps it was a dead end? I've been racking my brains trying to think of anything that the producers could have written on the envelopes that could be more obvious, and I can't come up with anything. "YOU'RE AN IDIOT"? Nope, still not as clear as "TRY AGAIN."