Question:
Who's on the show?
Answer:
Season Two features eleven teams.
- Tara and Wil: They're separated, probably because they can't stand each other. They were married once, though, probably because nobody else would put up with either one of them. She looks like Woodstock Barbie, and he looks like the brother who was kicked out of the Baldwin family for being ugly and badly dressed.
- Chris and Alex: They're bouncers, and you can identify them by their syrup-thick Boston accents. Nice arms, though. Alex is the darker-haired one. Chris is the tall one.
- Shola and Doyin: Twins. If you're trying to tell them apart, Shola has the earring -- good luck and God bless. Early on, a crippling fear of heights has been a hindrance, but they're a physically strong and clearly intelligent team.
- Hope and Norm: A lovely couple who were eliminated at the end of the second episode. Thick, thick Tennessee accents. They loved each other. Awww, we hardly knew ye.
- Cyndi and Russell: Married pastors from Minnesota, they're very peppy and positive, and they see (unsurprisingly) the hand of God in lots of places where we might not.
- Peggy and Claire: They call themselves the "Gutsy Grannies," and I don't. You have to give them credit for taking on something like this in their sixties, but they don't seem to have quite the attitude necessary -- a statement their third-episode ouster seemed to bear out.
- Mary and Peach: Mary is an athletic go-getter who drags the reluctant Peach around like a little red wagon. Peach seems to be getting a little more game as she goes along, and if she doesn't get derailed by filing her nails and things of that sort, they'll be fine.
- Danny and Oswald: They are so not a couple. Really. They call themselves "absolutely fabulous," and I really can't argue with that description. Danny's the squattier one with the glasses, and Oswald is the tall one who looks sort of slick and eternally youthful, like the lost member of Menudo. (And aren't they all pretty much lost now, except Ricky Martin?)
- Deidre and Hillary: The mother-daughter team had a poor first leg and was eliminated, but they were fun while they lasted. Sigh.
- Blake and Paige: Brother and sister. I can never decide whether they're sort of squarely cool or whether they're just cheeseballs. They're fairly good competitors, though, and rebounded nicely from some early setbacks, including Blake losing their money. Do not look directly at Blake's teeth. If you want to view them, make a pinhole in a piece of black paper and look at them through that.
- Gary and Dave: Gary is the one who looks like Woody Allen and constantly tries to be funny. Dave is the bald one who tries slightly less strenuously, but is equally not funny. Feh.