Amazing Race Aside S22E3

Here's the problem for me when all the Sunday night TV shows start to run together:  once cancer dad's achilles burst, I was thinking they could simply chop off his leg like they did when Herschel was bitten, and he could be fitted for a prosthetic as some kind of justice for having sent Amy home so early in the race last season.  Anyway ...

PITHIEST COMMENT OF THE NIGHT:  "They're doing all the work -- we're just lying there." -- seems like the Hockey bros were speaking from some kind of personal experience.

HOW DO THEY DO THAT?  BEHIND-THE-SCENES REQUEST:  Come on producers, come clean -- the Shemozzle is real?  And what are the dogs for?  And how can you take the racers to New Zealand and not have everyone go to a picnic at Phil's house?

IMAGE I WON'T SOON FORGET:  Crutch-running.  At first I thought it was haphazard and he was bound to fall at any minute -- but damned if, by the end, I didn't think it was very elegant and poetic in a post-modern interpretative dance kind of way.

LET ME JUST SAY THIS:  Alliances have been around since Eve and the snake made a deal for that afternoon snack in the garden, so even though reality shows have thrown in a very modern twist to the construct, just know that it's probably not going to end well in a race where you must turn against those with whom you are allied.  Stop trying to turn this show in to Survivor!

[find Bible verses about alliances here:  http://www.openbible.info/topics/alliances]