Father/son duo Mel & Mike had a subpar race leg by their established standards but still did enough for a comfortable finish. Their major difficulty was getting wrapped up in the same nonsense with Mark & Michael over an inability to find a house sign on the Detour.
The fourth leg of "The Amazing Race 14" was otherwise unnoteworthy for Mel & Mike. The pair recovered from a falling log stack and switched to constructing wood shutters for their Detour task. Mel & Mike were briefly in danger of elimination before the U-turn to Amanda & Kris made the issue moot. Mel subsequently completed the word unscrambling Roadblock to leave the faltering brothers far behind them.
Mel and Mike are one of the few teams that has avoided making major mistakes, except on leg four when they seemed to be led astray by others. The father & son are clearly one of the smarter teams in the TAR14 field and would be wise not to be misdirected by wayward competitors.
I still get the read though that the weirdness of leg four was an exception, not the rule for the creative duo. Except in the event of a purely physical leg, it's hard to see Mel & Mike falling out of contention anytime soon.
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