Sunday night brought a very strong first episode of the new season of CBS's The Amazing Race, an intermittently great show that's been suffering from increasing staleness for the last several seasons.

Happily, the entire premiere is available on CBS.com here, now that the show has finally given up its position as a stubborn holdout against putting full episodes online. In this single hour, there are two excellent tasks, a bunch of potentially appealing teams, and substantially tightened editing. If you're one of those people who's tried the show only to find yourself saying, "Why would I want to watch people standing in line at the airport?", note that they've essentially done away with airport footage, at least in this episode, and it's a very good change.

In the clip above, a group of teams tries to carry large wheels of cheese down a very slippery hill in Switzerland, with legitimately hilarious results. Runaway cheese is a winner every time.