That is Studly

The Amazing Race - Season 13, Episode 9

No, it isn't. But first thing's first. The teams leave Kazakhstan for Moscow, Russia, which I'm surprised to learn is one of the most expensive cities in the world. There's more pointless flirting between Dallas and Starr. The Fratties go to an airport store and spend a good chunk of their available money on new shoes to replace the ones they idiotically left behind at the last Detour.

Once in Moscow, teams have to find a monastery and light a candle. Bo-ring! From there, they have to go to a military camp and dress in fatigues for the Detour. The choice is between doing a simple, synchronized march (Bo-ring!) or filling 75 bowls with some very runny borscht (Extremely Bo-ring!). Toni and Dallas get a good jump, and although Nick and Starr have a string of unhelpful taxi drivers, their bad luck cannot hope to compete against the Fratties' sheer incompetence. They screw up (well, Dan screws up) one of the easiest Detour tasks in the history of the show, then mistakenly strip off their fatigues to go do the other one. Sigh. From there, it would take some real work to lose to them.

Dan finally doesn't suck at something; in this case, the Roadblock, which involves hauling sacks of flour (Bo-ring! Though somewhat made up for by an awesome clue wrangler who yells at the contestants) into a bakery. Toni and Dallas finally score a first-place win, and must figure out how to spend a romantic trip for two together. The money that the Fratties wasted on buying shoes makes them too broke to pay off their taxi, and by the time they finally trudge to the pitstop, they're in dead last. So of course it's a non-elimination leg, and they live to suck another day.

Overall Grade: C-