I like the beauty queens. I'm rooting for them all the way. This is funny, too, coming from me, because I hated them in their original season. But this time around, I guess I have more respect for the way that they race. Usually it's really intelligently and they're pleasant, they don't yell at each other... but they manage to get into just enough of a rivalry with the other teams to make it interesting.

I thought it was actually quite impressive that they were able to get the travel agent to hang up on Uchenna and Joyce. They were customers sitting in the office, and Uchenna and Joyce were trying to take a short cut by calling over the phone. It made sense to me that the travel agent should help them first. And I didn't think they were rude to the travel agents at all... Charla and Mirna, on the other hand... it embarrasses me to watch them on this show.

Charla and Mirna (particularly Mirna) are so abrasive and rude, they give all Americans a bad name in other countries. I don't understand why Mirna constantly has to speak to people A) by yelling at them, B) RIGHT in their faces, and C) with some WEIRD accent and broken English. Ugh! I can't wait for these two to get kicked off.

I also thought the Auschwitz thing was handled very well. When the clue first came about telling them to go there, I couldn't imagine what challenge they could possibly do there that wasn't going to disrespect the tragedy that happened there. I was glad to see that it was really just a stop for a moment of reflection.

And for Judy, who is "fighting the incorrect view that concentration camps are polish"... I can't imagine that would be a difficult task. I mean, how many people out there DON'T know that Auschwitz was run by the Nazis? Give me a break.

This war it's called Gitmo.

True that ...

i think its worth noting that the guidos probably would not have been eliminated if the combined team of them and eric and danielle didnt try to do the bakery task (or if danielle had just been initially willing to do the eating task). always hard to know with the editing but seems like their inability to find the bakery and have to backtrack to the eating task was a half hours worth of time.

The Japanese internment camps were bad but don't compare them to the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. They aren't even close.

I guess other than when we talk about the concentration camps that we had here in the US ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

Only an idiot would not associate Auschwitz or any concentration camp with the Nazis.

I thought it was interesting to see the couples that have come from some sort of discrimination in their lives to be touched by Auschwitz, but Eric and Danielle, and Dustin and Kandice were not shown to be moved by it.

I don't know what this show is about, but "Poland" caught my eye since it is the country of half my ancestry and which I just visited last September. I noticed the mention of Auschwitz as well. It would be better if it had been called Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp. People too often forget that Poland was occupied by the German Nazis during World War II (I'm half German too). Along with thousands of other Americans of Polish descent, I am fighting the incorrect view that concentrations camps were Polish.

I realize that this might make me seem a little insensitive, but I don't think I've laughed this hard in quite a while. I kept rewinding and re-watching the scene with Charla leading the horse along in her mini-armor. On my TiVo, she must have fallen on her face forty times. TiVo ... $200, Tissues for wiping tears ... $0.50, Watching a three-foot tall bowlegged "knight" taking repeated face plants into the concrete ... priceless!