Ep. 58: Our Strategy is to Make it Pretty in Strasbourg

This was a tough episode of The Amazing Race for the contestants and us. The teams joust head-to-head, which brings up a lot of masc issues with the str8 guys, before consuming eight varieties of French soft, semi soft and hard cheeses on an empty stomach, followed by running up the stairs of a cathedral. Team Tragedy of Heterosexuality (Jonathan and Ana) are having a ROUGH leg, as Jonathan won't stop berating Ana for her every move, even though (maybe because?) he was bested at the joust by Carson. Team What About Bob (Han and Holden) give us Winnicottian lessons on what's "good enough" to stay in the race. The Gaymers (Jack and Carson) rightly proclaim "The race is not the place to work out your control issues." Sadly this leg ends with the saddest of outcomes, because our beautiful, handsome, shining knights of Las Vegas, Cirque du so Gay (Mark and Brett) meet their bitter end in the pinot gris fields of France.