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Colossal screw-up erased by Amazing Race, but U-turn and express pass twists fizzle

This season of The Amazing Race should have been called Incompetent Whiners, because there’s sure a lot of both this season. Calling this season all-stars definitely gives the teams too much credit, but at least last night’s episode—delayed by 20 minutes and thus cut off from my DVR because there was too much competition at 9 p.m. to record an extra hour or two—got rid of one of the more annoying teams. Although Kent and Vixsyn’s phenomenal series of massive screw-ups last week was entirely erased by an equalizer, I was okay with the results, because Jaime and Cara went home. Had a team I really like—pretty much only Jen and Kisha—been eliminated instead, I would have been apoplectic. Jaime pretty much gave up on the Roadblock, although despite being U-turned earlier, they were on a level playing field once she started assembling her dinosaur. “This team isn’t a quitting team,” Cara said, apparently unaware of who her partner actually is. Still, it is ridiculous that Kent and Vixsyn w...