"The Amazing Race" beds down in Malawi

(CBS) "The Amazing Race" took teams to Africa on Sunday night, where they lugged bales of tobacco, made children's toys, sewed mens' suits and hefted their own handmade beds to the pit stop. (SPOILER ALERT)

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Amani and Marcus, the NFL player and his wife, went from first to last place in this non-elimination leg of the race, partly because their cab broke down. That means that next week, they will have to perform an extra task to stay in the game.

The episode took teams to Malawi and the final challenge was to select hand-made beds from a roadside shop, haul them to a remote village by truck and the carry them to the pit stop after the road ended. Two teams - Georgia siblings Justin and Jennifer and grandparent-farmers Bill and Cathi - failed to pay their truck drivers and had to run back to the road to do so before host Phil Keoghan would check them in.

This was very bad news for the siblings, who arrived at the pit stop first but had to cede their standing (and the first-place prize) to snowboarders Andy and Tommy. The snowboarders won a five-day trip to the British Virgin Islands. (What do you think about all these first-place finishes for the snowboarders?).

Bill and Cathi would have been third, had they not made the mistake with the truck driver. As it was, they moved down to next-to-last.

Bill's farming background showed itself in the first task, in which one team member had to haul 10 bales of tobacco in a hand dolly from side of a warehouse to another. In the second task, teams could choose between making toy trucks for schoolchildren out of bottle caps and milk cartons or sewing the seams on a man's suit at a marketplace stall.

Three teams - Bill and Cathi , Amani and Marcus and engaged couple Ernie and Cindy - chose the sewing task and the rest made the toys. Cathi claimed to be a sewer but nevertheless managed to put a seam through the machine without thread in the needle.

Marcus also claimed some proficiency - his grandmother was a seamstress - and let out an endearing "Watch me, Granny!" before he attacked the task.

Laurence of the father-son sailing team may well have alienated every female audience member with his sexist comments about sewing, starting out by referring to it as a task "for the women."

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