I like to think that even Paddy would've drawn the line at "if you're feelin' nuttin', hit that button." It's definitely no "no likey, no lighty".

From the sheer amount of time they spent on Mark & Bopper at the start of the episode, my boyfriend and I were terrified that meant Art & JJ were going to win and donate some/all of the winnings to them in some further display of staged magnanamity. I'm glad that particular premonition came to nothing.

Oh God, BJ & Tyler. I loathed them. Rachel seemed decent enough despite her questionable choice of husband, but both BJ and Tyler struck me as the most unlikeable, obnoxious team ever to win.

There was something along the lines of "you deserve to be in this race" in Ru's comment, which I loved. Not, crucially, "you deserve to be in the top three" but essentially "I don't regret casting you for the show."

Yeah, I was really disappointed by that too. I knew Sharon was just reacting to one of three different scenarios rather than an actual win. It was just a bit of a shame because she thoroughly deserved the win and I would've liked to have seen everyone's genuine responses to that moment.

She was serving Milan realness.

Sounds like it'll make one hell of a country album by the time he's finished, though.

I'm disappointed to see Colton go, if only because I agreed with Claire that he was taking tiny steps closer to coming out with each passing week, and I was kind of hoping it would end with him making out with Seacrest at the end of his coronation song or something.

Hollie's accent isn't exactly a Liverpool accent - it's Liverpool with a bit of Texas and apparently some Maryland mixed in there somewhere, somehow. If they ever let Hollie's mother talk on camera again, now THAT is a Liverpool accent.

I loved that Rachel/Brendon exchange. I don't particularly like either of them, but I'm really starting to enjoy them as a presence on the show. I feel slightly sorry for Brendon - being with Rachel 24/7 has to be far more draining than any amount of regular Race-induced exhaustion.

I look quite like Spam the canned-meat hybrid, if that counts? I did wonder if my username might just look like I was just posting here to offer people discount fashions or something, but it's just a reference to this:

Unless I'm mistaken (and I'm happy to be corrected, honestly I am), this episode is noteworthy for being the first leg since the U-turn was brought in as a race mechanic that its use did not lead to any of the U-turned teams being eliminated. At least in the US version, anyway - I haven't watched any of the…

At the end of the trailer, I thought "well, Vanessa and Ralph are out next week, then." As a rule I tend to assume that anyone shown as struggling in the trailer will miraculously recover about five seconds after that clip ends.

Colton had far more chemistry with Phillip's crotch than he's ever had with Skylar.

It was also pretty much the exact same set of facial expressions she used for the debate challenge, except she was dressed as a dog instead of as Sarah Palin. (Insert joke here.)

Oh, I agree - Jujubee wasn't a bitch either. It's not necessarily a trope specific to this show, it's just something I mainly recognise from ANTM (where they frequently drag the villain into the finale for maximum drama) that occasionally spills over into other shows. I kind of assumed that when they did it in the…

I figured Latrice might not be winning this thing when the numbers thinned out and she was always having to LSFYL, but I'm gutted she didn't at least make the final. I'm clinging to my belief that the only reason Phi2 made it is because someone needs to fill the Glasscock Memorial Bitch Who Sucks But Inexplicably…

As Jujubee might have put it, PhiPhi is just an "un".

I almost started to like Art & JJ this week, until they got to the pit stop and they were all "We will accept second place, with a fast-forward in play! That is the same as winning!" and then they lost me again.

The distinct voice of an angry flock of geese, perhaps.