The Best Show on Television

Is The Amazing Race.

What a finale! The final three teams were Rob & Amber, the jerky Survivor champs who everybody hated; Ron & Kelly, the combative POW/Beauty Queen couple that grew to despise each other over the trip; and Uchenna & Joyce, former Enron and Worldcom employees who also have had trouble having children. Obviously, everybody was rooting for Uchenna & Joyce. But it didn't look so good when they finished last in Jamaica due to an untimely flat tire and had to give up all their money.

It looked even worse the next morning when they went to the airport to beg for money and couldn't get any! But, after successfully locating the airport in Puerto Rico (Ron & Kelly got lost), getting an airplane to RETURN to the gate and reopen the door (which never, ever happens unless CBS management calls over to American Airlines management methinks), and not getting badly lost in Little Havana (unlike Rob & Amber), Joyce & Uchenna were at the finish line well ahead of everybody else.

One little problem: they didn't have enough money to pay the cab driver. Seeing as they were fifty feet from a million bucks, I would have stiffed the guy OR told him he'd get paid in ten minutes. But Uchenna & Joyce refused, and continued to beg money off of people until they could cover the $50 or so they owed the guy. (Begging for money is a lot easier when a camera crew is following you around.) Fortunately, the good guys still pulled it off and beat Rob & Amber into a bloody pulp.

Easily the best show on television. Can't wait for next season!