A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

BEFORE THE NEXT CLUE STANDS A DOORKEEPER. TO THIS DOOR-KEEPER THERE COMES A MAN FROM THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS AND PRAYS FOR ADMITTANCE TO THE NEXT CLUE: We start at night in Prague and proceed immediately -- no travel, no bunching, no bullshit. And from there: a legitimately Kafkaesque task and a Golem? The return of the Rob and Amber rodizio penalty and Luke's frustration with de-anagramming "Chekhov," all at once? Legitimate (and well-timed) race treachery? Devout Christians downing absinthe before having to complete the Kafkaesque task and deal with drunken Czechs? Killer fatigue! In all, it places among the most entertaining, well-constructed legs I can remember in history of The Amazing Race -- certainly in terms of recent years.

As to that decision: there are 120 ways to arrange five letters. Assuming even two minutes per attempt, it's not worth the four hour penalty no matter how frustrated you are.

added: HitFix's Myles McNutt calls it "unquestionably the dumbest decision in Race history"; I'd put Heather and Eve's taxi ride ahead of it as well as Team Guido's "slow Forward," and expect to remember others sooner or later.

more! Flight Time and Big Easy speak with EW:

EW: Flight Time, no anger that Big Easy botched that task?
Flight Time: We had a plan going into the race that we would each do six of the road blocks. I had kept notes from the race because we thought the last challenge would be a memory thing. So we had each done 5 road blocks and I was planning to do the last one so he had to do this one. But there are no regrets.