LAST EDITED ON 03-16-10 AT 12:28 PM (EST)

Clap I guess moving Racers in the middle of the night is one way to save us from thrilling scenes of airports...

Clap Departure times! (How sad is it for this to earn a clap?) Not only were they helpful and initially informative, but it let us know approximately how long Jeff & Jordan were canjacked in Hamburg -- and how large a gap they had to close before meeting Joe & Heidi.

Slap The explosions at the battlefield, some of which seemed to go off very close to the teams. Sure, it adds something to the atmosphere. Something called 'a risk of injury'. All you need is one blast-propelled rock into the face for a special Roadblock: which eye do you want to lose? And how much would the show like to pay out for setting up the situation where it was taken away?

Clap But otherwise, it was a pretty decent recreation of trench warfare. (If only we'd had a few people who knew what was going on...)

Slap (Provisional) We'll need a few words from Joe & Heidi to confirm this one -- but in the same general category, you try making out Morse code with bombs going off in the background. Those headphones may have had some degree of soundproofing to let a team work, or they may not: we're waiting to find out. But the weaker the shielding, the worse the design on that Detour branch -- which helped to put a team out.

Clap Seasons upon seasons of Racers talking about how impossible it is to get any food while on the course, and you finally stooped to letting them have a little bread. What's next, water?

Clap No, Jordan is Barry White in August!

Slap Either the Roadblock was so minor as to be edited out in favor of all the mental errors or we're now on track for a very weird season. So which is it?