Fake Jan Brady

"To France, por favor". Jinder and Sukhi have made me facepalm so often this season I fear I may give myself concussion. I wish she'd said it was not at all comparable instead of "what we do does not even come close" which kind of infers there is still something slightly heroic about playing sports. Great episode. Entertaining and moving. I always worry when TAR has a stop and think segment, but this one was handled beautifully. Relieved Ryan & Rob survived (especially now that I know cutie Rob was a former Mr Gay Canada - my gaydar really needs to go in for a tune-up).

Wow, with all the biking, running, hiking and paddling Canada sure puts the race in The Amazing Race. I was out of breath just lying on my sofa. Oh Nicole; never give the editors so much ammunition in the first minutes of an episode. As soon as she spoke over Cormac's sensible goal of top three and insisted on being number one I figured they were doomed. She was just too intense for this world, as evidenced by Cormac's "OK Mom, that's too much" after their tent building success. But at least the Duuuudes thought she was hot. I'm beginning to think Sukhi and Jinder have wildly overprotective parents who've never allowed them out of the house before the race. I wish they'd continued on upstream and paddled their way out of the race; they're harshing my mellow. I'm not sure of the hockey players names yet, so I'm going with the nice one and the mean one. Still firmly on the Rob/Ryan train, followed by Sweeeet/Duuuude and Alain/Audrey (mainly for Alain's repeated Audrey calming refrain "we said we were going to have fun".) I'm glad they're back in Canada; such a pretty country.

What's the connection between Team Mascara and the Butcher Brothers? The women are clearly Olympic hockey players (can you believe I picked up on that when it's only been mentioned once or twice?) but the Butchers cited some athletic allegiance in an effort to get the Express Pass. Trivia: I only realised when they finished back to back but: Mickey and Pete/Michel and Pierre.