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Clue-eating goat more endearing than couple Amazing Race suddenly wants us to love

The Amazing Race teased a life-changing decision on last night’s episode, and that was a bit of a cheat. A decision is usually something that happens as part of the race, but last night’s episode had few decisions: teams had to follow directions, which didn’t work out well for some of them, and then perform two tasks. There wasn’t even a real Detour choice, because not a single team opted to do a task that sounded ridiculously complicated when Phil Keoghan described it. So the choice we were left with was whether Stephanie would accept Chad’s marriage proposal, and whether viewers would choose to continue watching after projectile vomiting all over the television set. The entire episode was a celebration of the two, from their come-from-behind finish—they overslept and were alone on a flight that was behind everyone else—but thanks to an equalizer, good navigation skills, and a team that broke the rules, Chad and Stephanie checked in first, won a prize, and had their awful history mag...