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doodlebug
doodlebug

A US focused TAR with adult two person teams figuring out really tough clues and facing impressive challenges would be very welcome at this point, IMO.  With the current limitations on air travel, giv

pally
pally

Amazing Race returns Oct 14

lambertman
lambertman

Somehow, some way, TAR is back. Wednesday January 5 with a 2-hour premiere from 8-10, then 9-10 weekly after that.  (CBS press release just dropped.)

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Mrs. P.

Mrs. P.

This is going way, way back, but in 2006 a book was published called My Ox is Broken!: Roadblocks, Detours, Fast Forwards and Other Great Moments from TV's "The Amazing Race." I wanted to take a bath last night, so I grabbed that off our bookshelf. I haven't flipped through it in years. There aren't really any earth-shattering revelations in it and the author's personal bias is pretty evident (he hated Season 8 - the family edition), but it's an interesting analysis of the various teams. Plus, it's a good resource if you want to refresh your memory on particular teams, episodes and/or tasks. Unfortunately, it only covers Seasons 1 through 9. I wish the author would update it. Has anyone else read this book?

Mrs. P.

Mrs. P.

I read it several years ago and enjoyed it. The author chose to give every team a nickname, which I found a little disconcerting, but it's a good read for TAR fans.

He spends a good bit of time defending Jonathan from Season 6, which I found annoying. He also names Zach (of Flo and Zach - winners of Season 3) as the strongest racer in all seasons. I don't disagree, since he had to drag worthless Flo along for the entire race.

Lingo

Lingo

So would it surprise anyone to learn that Kym has her own YouTube channel?  It's called KymNonStop, it's been around for a couple of years, and mostly it's made up of instructional exercise videos as well as general health/fitness videos.  They are very well put together.  Alli features in several of them.  And they are also posting "recaps" of the TAR episodes giving "behind-the-scenes" information and that sort of thing.  Episode 4 discusses how they worked on snagging that early flight, for instance.  If you enjoy them on the show, they are just the same in the videos, but like pumped up to 11.  I enjoyed watching them.

 

I came across Kym's channel "by accident", more or less -- it popped up after I watched a completely unrelated sports video (though YouTube of course knows that I like TAR-related videos).  Just now I searched for videos of the other teams.  Only Tim and TeJay seem to have their own channel, though it's very new and doesn't seem to feature much TAR discussion (I haven't watched any of their videos though).  Brooke and Robbie don't have their own channel, but you can find a few videos of Brooke giving her own show recaps on the "TNT Impact Wrestling" YouTube channel (these I haven't watched yet either).  I spot a short video of Robbie too.

 

I also found a cute video of Amy and Maya on the local news talking about auditioning for the Race.  Maya is the big Race fan, as you might guess.

TheRabbi

TheRabbi

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This is mainly due to me having too much time on my hands to think of random stuff during my long commutes, but here goes:

 

Tonight is advertised as the 300th leg of the show (woohoo!!), but I just can't do the math right.

 

Seasons 1-11 had 13 legs.  11 times 13 equals 143.

Seasons 12-13 had 11 legs. 2 times 11 equals 22

Seasons 14-24 had 12 legs. 11 times 12 equals 132.

 

That's a total of 297 legs going into this season, which means Shetland Islands would have been the unofficial 300th leg.  That is a 4 episode difference, so is TPTB saying there were four technical "double legs" in the show's history?  Off the top of my head, I remember the season 8 finale was a double length leg with no NEL in the middle, and season 6 also had the Hungary leg with the back to back to back equalizing that caught Lori and Bolo up to the rest of the pack in the middle of the leg.  They can't be counting every To Be Continued episode, as there's far more than 4.  Totally meaningless discussion, but I'm clueless how they get to 300 tonight!

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merylinkid

merylinkid

I love how many of the former racers are doing charitable work post-race.   Still laughing at Brooke signing watermelons.   Poor girl.   She can become friends with Scott Norwood (wide right, wide right).   Whoa, Christina married Azaria.   Interesting.   Hope Grandpa Ron treats his grandchildren better than he treated his daughter.

SnideAsides

SnideAsides

This is mainly due to me having too much time on my hands to think of random stuff during my long commutes, but here goes:

 

Tonight is advertised as the 300th leg of the show (woohoo!!), but I just can't do the math right.

 

Seasons 1-11 had 13 legs.  11 times 13 equals 143.

Seasons 12-13 had 11 legs. 2 times 11 equals 22

Seasons 14-24 had 12 legs. 11 times 12 equals 132.

 

That's a total of 297 legs going into this season, which means Shetland Islands would have been the unofficial 300th leg.  That is a 4 episode difference, so is TPTB saying there were four technical "double legs" in the show's history?  Off the top of my head, I remember the season 8 finale was a double length leg with no NEL in the middle, and season 6 also had the Hungary leg with the back to back to back equalizing that caught Lori and Bolo up to the rest of the pack in the middle of the leg.  They can't be counting every To Be Continued episode, as there's far more than 4.  Totally meaningless discussion, but I'm clueless how they get to 300 tonight!

There was also the Finland-Ukraine double leg with no Pit Stop in the middle, but even then the 300th would only be last week's Morocco episode.

Lingo

Lingo

EW posted some "Where are they now?" couples news.  

 

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20302134_20869974,00.html

 

I may have written NOOOO!  upon learning Uchenna and Joyce are no longer married. 

 

Nice article but what's the point of doing a "Where Are They Now?" on racers we just saw last season?! *eyeroll*  And too much focus on Big Brother contestants and bland winners like Megan and Cheyne. I did like hearing about Uchenna and Joyce (nooo!), Ron and Christina, and Brooke and Claire though.  (Still hope to see B&C on a future all-stars!)

kassygreene

kassygreene

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If I remember correctly, Uchenna & Joyce were very nice, she was a good sport about the shaving the head fast forward (which still only put them seconds ahead of the other teams), and weren't they the couple where one had worked for MCI and the other for Worldcom, and both got clobbered in that debacle.  For that alone I was rooting for them to win.  Glad they are still friends, although with how I remember them, I don't think they could be anyone's enemy.

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auntlada

auntlada

If I remember correctly, Uchenna & Joyce were very nice, she was a good sport about the shaving the head fast forward (which still only put them seconds ahead of the other teams), and weren't they the couple where one had worked for MCI and the other for Worldcom, and both got clobbered in that debacle.  For that alone I was rooting for them to win.  Glad they are still friends, although with how I remember them, I don't think they could be anyone's enemy.

 

Uchenna worked for Enron.

Rusun

Rusun

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I can't believe that TAR has been preempted by some second-rate film awards show that has a judging process as mysterious as the Golden Globes, yet has somehow managed to exist for 17 years without breaking onto TV until this year.

 

From the CMAs to these HFAs, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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NurseGiGi

NurseGiGi

I can't believe that TAR has been preempted by some second-rate film awards show that has a judging process as mysterious as the Golden Globes, yet has somehow managed to exist for 17 years without breaking onto TV until this year.

 

 

From the CMAs to these HFAs, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

AND I forgot that TAR was being preempted so I hurried home from work (I work 7p-7a), got all situated in my recliner and then......no TAR!  Because of yet another stupid awards show.

ottoDbusdriver

ottoDbusdriver

AND I forgot that TAR was being preempted so I hurried home from work (I work 7p-7a), got all situated in my recliner and then......no TAR!  Because of yet another stupid awards show.

 

And to add insult to injury, the Hollywood Film Awards tanked in the ratings, dropping from TAR's 1.2 18-49 rating to 0.6, and losing nearly 2 million viewers from the previous Friday, coming in 4th in the 8pm timeslot behind a re-run of Masterchef on Fox.  Well done CBS.

 

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/11/15/tv-ratings-friday-last-man-standing-cristela-rise-100th-episode-of-shark-tank-grimm-constantine-down-hollywood-film-awards-tank/328032/

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Rusun

Rusun

RHAP a.k.a. Rob Has a Podcast - Cesternino, not Mariano - interviews the non-finalist teams elimination by elimination:

 

http://robhasawebsite.com/category/amazing-race-2/

 

The latest one elicited the following curious comment(ary):

 

I had no idea Jim & Misti could hand off the save to another team at any point they wanted. That is CRAZY! I also like that Kym/Ali referred to the save as "having immunity". I agree that it made the race predictable to some extent. At least the others didn't know what special powers Tony had in his "bag of tricks" on Survivor. The save is IMHO worse than the Tyler Perry Idol because Jim & Misti were untouchable unless they came in last twice. In addition, knowing the save could be transferred at any time, nobody wanted to flush it. They wanted to try and be the team that Jim/Misti handed the save over to.

 

 

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kassygreene

kassygreene

Even if the Save could be handed off, there is no way Jim would have done that.  Which means the Save was effectively a twelfth team.  Forcing the Dentists to last place and forcing them to use the Save would have leveled the field.  Being intimidated by the Save meant that opportunities to weaken a strong team were ignored.  And so what if Jim would have held a grudge?  They were playing to win anyway.  If they were good sports they would admire the game play (50-50 that would have happened, as they are so much more even-tempered then I think anyone expected).  If they were poor sports (like the wrestlers), again, so what?  It's a race!  Your competition is going to compete!

 

The AR blew it when the Save turned out to be unusable on a non-elimination leg.  If a Save can create an NEL, then why can't an NEL turn in to a Save?  That's as bad as building a badly-timed leg (Thailand, AR1).

Lantern7

Lantern7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJ_iJwDQNg

 

Word of warning about the commercial for the finale . . . there's a shot of sixteen people on the Big Mat with Phil, so it can be a bit of a spoiler if you squint hard enough.

 

ETA: This is "Reality Remix," where Jeff from TAR16 goes over moments from TAR and Survivor. I had to look up his name . . . I tend to black out on Big Brother alumni.
 

Lingo

Lingo

I've stumbled upon some articles about TAR25 from TV Guide.

 

This one is an article from the start of the race, giving behind-the-scenes video and information about that start in Times Square.  Other than that information, the most interesting bits is Phil's predictions about elimination order.  He predicted:

 

11th: Keith and Whitney
10th: Shelley and Nici
9th: Dennis and Isabelle
8th: Lisa and Michelle
7th: Adam and Bethany
6th: Amy and Maya
5th: Tim and Te Jay
4th: Brooke and Robbie
3rd: Misti and Jim
2nd: Kym and Alli
1st: Michael and Scott

 

Honestly, I thought his predictions were pretty good!  Of course he was way off about Michael and Scott, but if they hadn't rolled that ankle, then they might have survived that leg, and who knows how far they would have gone?  It's interesting he picked Keith and Whitney for last.  I picked them for the top half, maybe even final 3, but his prediction was closer than mine!  He was also way off about Amy and Maya, but I think it's safe to say that we all underestimated them. The other odd pick is Adam and Bethany for 7th place!  About that, here is a second TV Guide article previewing the final leg, in which Phil discusses those pre-season picks.  About Adam and Bethany, he said, "Yeah, I felt like they would've gotten more overwhelmed by the international travel, not from a physical standpoint, but from a cultural point of view. But I was wrong! And I'm happy to be wrong."  Interesting -- maybe the surfers are not well-traveled??

 

Here is a post-finale interview with Amy and Maya.  Maya says: "We were only about 20 minutes ahead of Misti and Jim, and about an hour and 20 ahead of the surfers."  Amy says: "I actually found out when I got home that I had stress fractures in my lower pelvis. I was in pretty severe pain most of the race, but that just shows you what adrenaline can do. I was actually suffering more from crashing the bike into the van last week than I was from heat exhaustion."

 

Here is an interview with Jim and Misti.  Jim says of the ending, "It wasn't as close as it appeared on TV. You kind of lose perspective of time. It was probably 30 minutes behind Amy and Maya, and Adam and Bethany were probably the same amount of time behind us."  Misti says the last task was probably like 2.5 hours.  Jim says, "When I said my goal was to beat to Dave and Rachel's record, it was. I didn't think it was a practical goal. I went in thinking we had a 50 percent chance of winning and a 10 percent chance of beating their record, but that doesn't mean that's still not our goal."

 

Here's Adam and Bethany.  B: "We didn't want the race to come between us. It actually made us more lovey-dovey than we are. [Laughs]"

 

Here's Kym and Alli. Kim about the FF: "I do feel a little better about it having seen the episode and knowing that everyone was planning to U-Turn us. Either way, it was a gamble. If we hadn't gone after it, what would've happened? With the tightrope-walking, only one person could go at a time. I fell twice. They didn't show it. I felt like the space between the ropes was really far and I was having a hard time reaching. ... It was nothing as spectacular as Jim's fall where he flipped around. I don't know if you got consecutive tries, but if I had fallen, they would've put the wrestlers up there and they got it on their first try and they would've been in first and gotten to the U-Turn and we would've been U-Turned."

 

OK, all of the interviews are here.

Shelley and Nici.  Shelley says: "We did ask for directions, but the directions we were getting from people were, in our minds, messing with directions we were given on the clue about how to get there. We were told to drive through the town, but the directions on the clue don't say drive through the town. It says you're supposed to make a turn. We just didn't listen to the people. I know! They live there! Why are we questioning people who live there and drive there every day? It was a horrible mistake." On Keith and Whitney: "they didn't get U-Turned because of [the fight]. .... We knew we needed to U-Turn someone because we didn't have our bags and we had to pay our cab. We didn't know we'd be in the square all day long. ... So we needed to get our bags after the Detour and we needed time. In the race, minutes were important. If we didn't U-Turn someone, in the time it took for us to leave the square, go all the way out where the taxis were, anything could've happened. So it was like, whoever's still down there twirling, we're U-Turning them. Keith is, like, six-foot-three, six-foot-four, wearing bright yellow. How hard do you think it was for me to see him? It's Big Bird! There he is! That's why we say it's karma because it turned out that Maya and Amy were down there too. I could've spotted them first ... but it was a 30-second decision. There he is."

 

Eh, you can read the rest yourselves. :)

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Chyna

Chyna

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TnT's latest videoblog includes cameos from a lot of the most recent Racers and a couple of past, some clips of TeJay's drag performance, and bits from the Race finale party. All the Racers (including Brooke) seem to get along swimmingly now that it's all over. (Brooke even greets Amy with an ass-grab. :) )

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ProfCrash

ProfCrash

Love this quote

 

"HitFix: What did you guys sort of get from the reactions of your fellow competitors as you had that last run to Phil? What was the energy of that moment like for you guys?

Amy DeJong: It was insane. I mean people seemed really happy for us. When we were talking to everybody at the mat, the other teams waiting, they were really glad to see us coming around the corner. Brooke and Rob I think wetr a little bit different because they had just been eliminated, but for those teams that had been out for a little bit they were glad to see a strong all-female team win. I mean we're not bimbos, we didn't trick our way through the race, we didn't rely on other people. We really ran our race; we were there based from we had done to get ourselves there and so they were happy for us. We were nice to other teams..."

 

Gee who might they be talking about? OK, so there could be more then one team that falls into that category.

 

One of the reasons that I love that they won is because they did run their race and they did not look for others to help them and save them and care for them. Amy was running on a freaking broken pelvis. They were physically and mentally tough and very much earned their win.

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Electruck

Electruck

includes cameos from a lot of the most recent Racers and a couple of past, some clips of TeJay's drag performance, and bits from the Race finale party. All the Racers (including Brooke) seem to get along swimmingly now that it's all over. (Brooke even greets Amy with an ass-grab. :) )

Near the end where they're headed off somewhere, Brooke says, "take a shot every time I complain!" -- Ha! At least she's self-aware.

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