At long last, I watched the second episode of The Amazing Race 18. (I spent the weekend with a former Survivor contestant for an upcoming story and have been playing catch-up ever since.) I wasn’t all that fond of the first episode and its momentum-destroying twists , including a cliffhanger ending. This episode had an ending, though it was predictable—Kris and Amanda’s U-Turn penalty made it pretty difficult for them to catch up, especially after a mid-episode equalizer that erased other teams’ errors—but managed to deliver a lot of good moments. Here were the highlights for me: When we saw Kent and Vixsyn at the faux pit stop, I thought we’d get to see him slap the hot surfer greeter’s ass again, but the editors left that out.Talking about their alliance with Cara and Jaime, Luke did air quotes and said, “both of them are my ‘Race girlfriends,’” emphasis on the scare quotes . Not that there’s anything wrong with that.Mike said, “physically, it sure feels like the race is more diffi...