Any time Snoopy and the Red Baron make an appearance, it’s a good episode. I don’t care if it’s Desperate Housewives or The Amazing Race, World War I flying aces make everything better.

I enjoyed last night’s episode, which brought us from the beer halls of Germany to the trenches of France. The whole World War I reenactment thing was genius, from the costumes to the barbed wire to the Morse code.

It was a good episode too because there was strategy (however misguided it may have been), mistakes, and a Speed Bump. And you know how I love it when Phil has to go into the Phield and Philiminate someone.

From the pit stop in Germany, the racers were put on a bus and driven all night to ... somewhere. In France. I love when they do that. First they had to find the bakery and break open the baguette for the clue (and then they all got to eat the baguette, and it was all very Les Miserable).

Then it was off to the trenches, to don WWI uniforms and belly crawl under barbed wire while bi-planes rained machine gun fire down on them and bombs blew dirt up their noses. It was all very Hurt Locker.

The Dumb Cops remained first throughout (despite the fact that Louie stuck with the whole 1914 theme and apparently contracted consumption on the battlefield. Gross). They had the opportunity to blind U-Turn a team, and here’s where the "dumb" part of their nickname kicked in. Let’s pretend we're Providence detectives, and break down this case:

1. Michael and Louie were first. The two teams right behind them were father-daughter Steve and Allie and husband-wife Joe and Heidi. So the whole blind part of the U-Turn was, well, not so much.

2. Joe’s knee is getting progressively worse as the race goes on. He was gimping his way down the street to the bakery pretty badly, after keeping ice on it for the whole overnight bus ride. So my guess is they would’ve crapped out of the competition sooner rather than later because of that. Nature would’ve taken care of Joe and Heidi, meaning it would’ve been a much smarter move to U-Turn Steve and Allie, who are a ridiculously strong (and silent, and screen-time-less) team. But Mike and Louie went with their hearts and not their minds on this one, and U-Turned Joe and Heidi because they did not like Joe.

Having started so far ahead, and having encountered no bad luck along the route, Mike and Louie belly-crawled and then bicycled their way to Phil on the mat (accompanied by the French version of the Westerly Band), followed by Steve and Allie.

Joe and Heidi were unable to overcome the U-Turn, being repeatedly stymied by the Morse code challenge (a challenge that everyone wisely avoided; I have to say I would’ve loved to have seen the complaining lesbian take on the Morse code and then have it completely whip her whiny butt), and so were gently eliminated by Phil in a trench in the dark. It was because of that, and not because of any skill on their part, that Jeff and Jordan remained in the race.

One side note: I loved the positivity absolutely radiating out of Miss Teen USA throughout the episode. She loved the ab work out that the belly crawl provided, she loved wearing the silly moustache while riding in Ye Olde Tour de France, and she did not even mind that they had to go back and find the clue that they had missed. Boyfriend, on the other hand, isn’t looking so good, and the preview for next week showed that he might be starting to crack.

What did you think? Farewell Joe and Heidi? Why can’t Steve and Allie catch any screen time? Can you tell which is Jordan and which is Dan?