The power couple started the race in first place and wearing identical smug grins but Rob and Amber got beaten out by crazy Mirna and and her dwarf cousin Charla after a mail sorting roadblock at the End of the World.
It should never have come down to that. The last-minute cliffhanger was the fault of Boston Rob who didn't known how to spell "P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E-S".
After leaving the last pit stop first, and stealing clues from Uchenna on the plane, and stealing the taxi that Mirna and Shmirnna had called for, and then taking too long at a detour figuring out where Magellan sailed around the world, Rob and Amber, the most famous celebrity reality show contestants were the 4th team eliminated from the Amazing Race All-Star edition.
At the same Detour, the late-arriving Charla and Mirna had yet ANOTHER meltdown (actually they are very frequent), just trying to carry a box of paint supplies and signs up some stairs. Charla was doing JUST FINE but it wasn't fast enough for the taller more athletic Mirna who kept screaming at her little cousin to hurry up. Even after the dwarf picks up a 70-pound pole and tosses it over her shoulder! A-freaking-mazing. But Mirna had a bug up her butt and just keep scream while Charla was chillin. Finally, in desperation, Charla screams back “What do you want me to do?”
Mirna, who thinks highly of herself (as most lawyers do), lamented “Charla obviously wants to contribute, but I do more than any one single person has probably ever had to do on the race…”
[rolls eyes]
A nice twist to this leg of the race was that the Roadblock forced one team member to search through 1,600 pieces of mail to find one of two letters addressed to them. The letter was written by a team the had competed against them in an earlier Amazing Race edition. Some letters were very nice while more controversial teams - such as Romber - got rude letters. Susan and Patrick (remember mom and son?) wrote to Rob and Amber: “Hopefully this letter finds you broke, lost, hungry, in last place.” Rob grinned and said “this is just insulting”.
In the end, it's all good. Rob and Amber are already millionaires and they ran the race too smoothly while Mirna and Shmirna - love them or hate them - make for better TV. With these two we get drama, wierd references to dead grandmothers, higher moral callings, Vesuvial explosions over the slightest dig or comment from another team, and the meltdowns at each and every roadblock and detour.
Ahhhhh, yes, let's keep the crazies around for another week.
