THE PHRASE THAT PAYS: Look. If you're going to give me a leg of The Amazing Race with Clues That Actually Require Thinking, a missing passport, teams lying about who they are ("I protect people," as well as the Survivors) and others fretting about being underestimated, and then top it off with one of the more blatant Loser Edits in show history, I'm going to be happy.
No, I'm not quite sure what the first challenge was other than "pay attention to which umbrellas seem to work for the other teams," and I'm not thrilled with the ending, but hey: it's a show that started ten years ago with teams scrambling around Central Park looking for payphones, and a decade later it's still around and a team is aided because folks on Twitter spotted them being filmed. Welcome back, Phil's Eyebrow.
added, NYT: The backstory on the Twitter-save; more details via RealityBlurred.
