Going through The Amazing Race, one misstep at a time.

One of our favorite shows to watch is The Amazing Race on CBS. Lisa started watching around Season 3, and I was hooked during Season 4. Over the years I have seen some teams that were very smart, athletic, but don’t catch any of the lucky breaks you need to win the race. And then there have been teams that would make Al Gore look like a genius and lose to a one legged man in a butt kicking contest. But for some reason have all the luck in the world, no matter how they Forrest Gump their way through things. For some strange reason, the latter team mentioned always seems to go far in the race. Do they win? Not a chance. Do they knock out teams that are far superior in athletic ability and brains? Yes they do. Which goes to show how much of the game is luck more than anything.

This year the team that falls under the latter category mentioned is a team of frat brothers from Arizona State. Officially they are Dan and Andrew, but they are known affectionately by the other race contestants as 'Dandrew.'

I prefer to call them by a different name. To me, instead of the frat boys, they are the fat boys. What is the reasoning behind this you may ask? It is because this team of nitwits has waddled their way through the entire race. It looks as if they are putting no effort into it at all. In fact, in one of the more recent episodes, Andrew (I think he is the one in the blue shirt.) was actually trying to run up a hill so they could get to their next clue. So what does the bumbling Dan do? He gets mad at his racing partner, telling him that he is going too fast, and he should be walking back with him because they are a team. What? Are you kidding me? You are racing for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!! Frickin Dr. Evil was willing to set off a nuclear weapon for that amount. But I guess to these brain stems it isn't all that big of a deal to win the money.

If you don't watch the show, all you need to see of these two fools is in the clip below. The assignment was to march across a field with some Russian Soldiers. Every other team had no problem doing the march. Just see what happens when Arizona State's finest take on the challenge.



Since the beginning of the season, I have been trying to figure out who these two Mensa's reminded me of. And then it came to me. I have seen these guys before. They were in a movie together! Hmm...lets see...one went by the name Arnold Poindexter, and the other was named Gilbert Lowell. Oh yes, that's it! They were in The Revenge of the Nerds!!

This all makes perfect sense. Dandrew were apart of a frat house at Arizona State. Poindexter and Gilbert were members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda, or Tri-Lambds, and in the movie, they were in Arizona. Dandrew believes that they are cool because they were in a frat house. Of course it might have been a frat house of misfits, but who is going to know?

So, mystery has been solved. I know fully understand the dynamic duo that is Dandrew. Now that I have outed their true identities, maybe their luck will run dry. That, or they will forget their shoes someplace again, and have to run in their socks...again.