TV’s Moments of Joy – Smoke on That, Jerk!

So we’re sad, but we still found some joy this week…

Amazing Race – This week’s Hong Kong leg was an absolute masterpiece in sadistic task design.  We’ve got a soft spot for any task that involves people having to eat large amounts of food, and this Roadblock was a doozy.  On a restaurant table covered with sushi were five pieces of very realistic fake food.  Each participating team member had to find one of the fakes, but the catch was that if they picked up anything that wasn’t fake, they had to eat it.  These guys ended up eating a lot of sushi.  Our favorite was Claire, already famous for taking a watermelon to the face in the first leg.  She ate so much sushi that she had to throw up.  When she came back from the bathroom, the entire crowd was chanting her name in support – vomit made her a folk hero!  This task was followed up with a Detour in which teams could try to find three signs while on a speedy cable car, or look for the boat in Hong Kong Harbor adorned with a number that matched the number on a birdcage.  Both were really time-consuming, and probably extra difficult for those team members with a bowling ball-sized lump of sushi in their stomachs.  This season has brought some really hard tasks, but the sushi-gorging has to top the list.