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Hello again.

After making my predictions last week, I realized that I somewhat missed not participating in any of the reality show fantasy games this season. So I’ve decided to try to write a weekly column on my site dedicated to predicting the losing contestants each week for my favorite reality shows. The articles will go live on Wednesdays, before the American Idol results show airs on the east coast.

This means, of course, that if I want to make a prediction for next week’s Amazing Race, I should do it now. Last time, I did predict Rob and Amber to last past the first episode, but that was pretty easy to see. On that first episode, a lot of teams were making some pretty bad decisions, but a lot of them got away with it. So how do we go about picking the next team to be eliminated? Ron and Kelly, as the last team to check in, seem like the favorite to check out on Tuesday. However, they got some hype coming into the race, and they both seem athletic enough to make up a little ground.

According to previews, Megan and Heidi try to use their sex appeal to get help from one of the teams ahead of the pack. If that’s the case, they’ll get bunched up again (as usual–you should expect this by now). This would lead me to pick Meredith and Gretchen as the team that will be eliminated. Not only are they physically slow, but if they hadn’t lucked out with the flights and roping two very cooperative llamas, they would not have finished sixth.

By the way, if you’re tired of all of this reality TV nonsense, pick up a copy of Wonderfalls on DVD. This great dramatic comedy series got canned after only 4 episodes because the executives at FOX didn’t know how to market the quirky show. FOX completed the recipe for failure with two horrible attempted time slots–Friday at 9 PM, after that inane Bachelorette-style show where some of the men were gay, and Thursday at 9 PM, against the first season of The Apprentice. It’s a clever show about a 24-year-old underachiever who is content to waste her Ivy League degree by working in a Niagara Falls gift shop until inanimate objects begin talking to her.

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