The Amazing Race 10: Episode 8

Twice this season, Kentuckians David & Mary were the last team to the Pit Stop. And twice, they'd been spared. This week, David & Mary actually beat a team to the finish. But a 30-minute penalty bumped them into last place -- and off of The Amazing Race.

The episode opened with teams leaving Mauritius for nearby Madagascar. Beauty Queens Dustin & Kandice started out in first place, and David & Mary were in last. The Kentuckians needed to finish in first place this week, or else they'd suffer the aforementioned 30-minute penalty for coming in last place during the previous episode's non-elimination leg.

All the teams caught the same 11 a.m. flight to Madagascar, where they arrived to find a new twist in the game: the Intersection. An Intersection forces two teams to work together until informed otherwise.

Models Tyler & James paired up with Dating couple Rob & Kimberly, forcing the distrusted Beauty Queens to work with one of the members of the 6-Pack: The Chos, the Alabama Moms, and David & Mary.

In this case, being despised by their competitors worked in Dustin & Kandice's favor. Lyn & Karlyn and David & Mary paired up, leaving the Beauty Queens to work with the younger, fitter Cho Brothers.

The clue at the Intersection contained two clues: a Detour and a Fast Forward, which could benefit (or not) the both teams attempting to complete it.

The Intersected squad of Tyler & James and Rob & Kimberly opted to go for the fast Forward. They rode to a market to discover they'd be dining on a local delicacy: cow lips. Kimberly pointed out that the cooked lips still had teeth and hair attached. Each person had to eat an entire plate full of lips, and it wasn't long before barfing ensued.

Because other teams had already undertaken the Fast Forward, Lyn & Karlyn convinced David & Mary to skip it and just go for the Detour.

Both Bama/Tucky and Cho/Queens chose to do the Detour task "Long Sleep," in which teams needed to cover eight large, foam mattresses in fabric and deliver them to house. No one chose the other task, which required teams to make 28 sheets of decorative paper, using traditional methods.

The Chos and the Beauty Queens had a relatively easy time carrying their large mattresses through the narrow streets and alleys of Madagascar's capital city, Antananarivo. David & Mary and Lyn & Karlyn tried to carry their mattresses in a single giant stack through traffic, succeeding only in dropping the mattresses on top of unsuspecting motorists.

Once the mattresses were delivered, teams received a clue freeing them from working with their partner team and directing them to a Roadblock. One team member needed to search through a market for four rubber stamps -- car, boat, plane, and train -- sold by four separate stamp dealers. The non-Roadblocking team member went ahead to the Pit Stop to wait.

As Dustin and Godwin began their stamp searches, Tyler & James and Rob & Kimberly were still munching on cow lips. James discovered an unknown gift: an astounding ability to eat large amounts of gross food quickly. He finished his lips well ahead of Rob, who was followed by Tyler.

A crowd of locals watched Kimberly throw up every few minutes, until she eventually ate the last of her lips. Task completed, the team partnership was dissolved, and both pairs drove to the Pit Stop in separate cabs.

But moments before Tyler & James reached the Pit Stop at Andohalo Cathedral, Dustin arrived and rejoined Kandice. They stepped on the mat in first place, for the second week in a row. For finishing in first place, they won a trip to Hawaii, complete with a helicopter tour over an active volcano.

Tyler & James finished in second place, followed by Rob & Kimberly in third. All those cow lips (and teeth and hair) couldn't have been worth it for second and third place.

Godwin arrived at the Pit Stop and met up with Erwin, giving the Chos a fourth place finish. That left David and Karlyn to wait to see which of their partners would arrive first.

Mary reached the Pit Stop, and their 30-minute penalty started when she and David stepped on the mat. With 20 minutes remaining on the penalty, Lyn arrived, so David & Mary were eliminated.

It was an emotional goodbye for the two sets of friends, but Mary stayed upbeat. She said she's proud to be from Kentucky, but she looked forward to showing her kids the wider world. "I don't want my kids to be like me," said Mary. "I want my kids to experience life."

Next week, Lyn & Karlyn get emotional after watching videos from their kids. And racers get stuck in a "muddy situation." Here's a hint: it involves mud.