*CLAP* Allowing Mallory to substitute for Bopper: knocking out the full team before the starting line would have been unfair and bringing in backup All-Stars... well, that can go into casting decisions and the subjective putridity therein, but Mark was still able to race and just needed someone to do it with. Giving him a new partner was fair.

(It does bring up the question of just where Mallory was when the call came in, not to mention how quickly she got packed and under contract...)

No Hand Movement Missed opportunity at the starting line, really. If you're racing around between band members like that, why not have them throw a few dozen laterals?

Slap You get one every time you leave from Los Angeles. You left from Los Angeles. Hold still.

Slap We get it. Ford is your primary sponsor. And they like to park at LAX. Did I say you could move?

Clap Good design on the wedding dress task. It was a basic searcher, but a fresh kind of confusion. Can't read the signs, too many of the same shop type in a small area, twisting alleys, even the natives get confused... the sort of task which requires tight focus to finish, and one where the teams couldn't just rely on getting outside help. The difficulty here was evident in the way it equalized the flight arrival times.

It would have been even more fun to have them try a few dresses on before getting the clue, just to see Rail & Noose combust. But you can't have everything.

Slap Pure luck at the ferris tower. When teams get held back or advance on a coin flip, you've done something wrong -- plus yes, heights, fine, now how about a little mine-diving to compensate?

Slap Inferior Roadblock. Again, the fascination with high places doesn't always work, and the flips were too easy to execute. There was no real chance to speed up or slow down here: you arrived, you waited for all the ascent equipment to do its work, you flipped, and you waited for the reverse. Funny outfits did not a challenge make.

Slap Once again, this is not Survivor. An Express Pass is fine. Two is a mistake. Of course, they're in the hands of a team which can't reliably count that high, so maybe we'll get lucky...

No Hand Movement Have you spotted the course element which teams are supposed to memorize for the final challenge?

Have they?