Guest recapper and Velcrometer blogger M. Giant does the honors for last week’s Ile de Goree-Berlin leg on The Amazing Race:
In a leg that takes the teams to Berlin (the German city, not the ’80s New Wave band), Kendra and Jonathan indulge in some gasp-inducingly poor behavior. Don and MJ must beg, steal, or borrow cash for the leg. Kris and Jon are confused by the metro. Jonathan has a brief masquerade as a bearable human being, but his treatment of Victoria when they come in second nearly causes Phil to have no more words. And Don and MJ breathe their last as Amazing Racers.
The hotly anticipated recap goes up on an episode that has quickly become notorious. Did he shove her, or her pack? The consensus seems to be “A shove is a shove.” The jury is still out, fan-forum-wise, on whether or not CBS should have issued a PSA warning of inappropriate violence against women, or if there should have been a penalty meted out after everyone checked in. As no one is expert in German domestic battery laws, or even if there is such a concept, everyone is just continuing to hash the issue over.
The recap is excellent, even taking time to crack a fine Snausages jest:
Cut to a few moments later, when Jonathan is yelling at Hornio. The episode title proper is not actually uttered, but it’s the gist of Jonathan’s message. Victoria tries to back him up, and he thanks her for her support by interrupting his tirade, whirling on her, snapping, “No, no!” and shooing her away. Prick. I bet he’s stingy with the Snausages, too.
No, he slathers them all over himself to get his dogs to lick him ecstatically in the credit sequence. However, he won’t have to do that now that he’s got essence of extruded bratwurst clinging to him.
The upshot of all the fan discussion at TWOP of this episode? It will forever be known in the history of this show as “Brandenberg Gate-gate,” and everyone is very depressed at the futility of calling it anything else.